Popular comedian George Lopez makes his television series debut in this family comedy as an assembly line worker who's been promoted to manage a Los Angeles airplane parts factory, and whose job and busy family life are complicated by the presence of his stubborn, insensitive mother. In the premiere, George's management skills are put to severe test when his boss, Jack, asks him to choose between firing his overbearing mother or his best friend. Meanwhile, George's daughter, Carmen, discovers the hard way that going through puberty is a royal pain, literally.
George's relentless mother, Benny, convinces him to spy on his daughter when Carmen brings a boy home for the first time.
Much to George's dislike, Angie plans a long-overdue surprise birthday party for George. Meanwhile, when an accident prone worker, Amy — played by guest star Sandra Bullock — returns to the factory after a medical leave of absence, her clumsiness threatens George's coveted safety record.
When factory employee Jim is arrested for his involvement in a bar fight, George and Benny have an open audition to fill his spot in the carpool. Meanwhile, George puts Max's street smarts to the test with some devious tricks and sets himself up for a fall.
In the premiere, George bumps into his long lost Aunt Cecilia who informs him that his father, who his mom has always insisted was dead, is still alive. After drawing the truth from Benny, George conjures up images of his fantasy dad, played by guest star Esai Morales, and sets out on a mission to find the real Manny Lopez. Meanwhile, Angie buys a sickly dog from a homeless man and vows to return him to health and adopt him as the family pet.
George quickly learns the meaning of company loyalty when his bosses ask him to pitch in on the assembly line and he's offered a job by a competitor with ulterior motives. Meanwhile, Carmen has to choose whether she wants to keep her best friend or be part of the in-crowd.
George is forced to admit something embarrassing about himself in order to help Max overcome a learning disability.
George prepares the house for his favorite spooky holiday while dealing with the stress of hiring a line worker whose life is a complete disaster. Meanwhile, after Carmen loses her best friend, Angie encourages her to become someone she's not so she'll be more popular at school.
When Max is asked not to play in an upcoming Little League game because he can't hit the ball, George works tirelessly on improving his son's game. But it takes a "special" visit from some of baseball's premiere players to teach George that there's more to playing well than meets the eye.
Selling chocolate bars for Max's school trip to Florida's Cape Canaveral doesn't quite go according to plan, and Carmen gives Benny a fashion makeover when her grandmother has a crush on a fellow employee. Guest starring Sandra Bullock as Accident Amy!
George asks a very tipsy Angie to slow dance for the first time in their sixteen-year marriage -- much to her surprise and delight -- but he gets more than he bargained for.
With Carmen growing up physically, George and Angie have to re-teach the birds and the bees — with hilarious results.
After learning Benny had a one-night fling with a co-worker 35 years ago, George believes he has finally found his father. He meets Lalo - whose picture bears a striking resemblance to George -- and invites him over for Thanksgiving dinner. But George's bond is tested when he learns the truth.
When Angie finds she has more free time around the house, she volunteers with a variety of charities. Feeling invincible, she soon finds herself joining more organizations than she can handle, and it's up to George and the family to help her get back on track.
When Angie's parents, Vic and Emilina, come to visit the family for Christmas, George thinks they still believe he's not good enough for their daughter. But George shows he can take care of his family without their help and battles it out with Vic for the best Christmas.
George is sick of being unappreciated by Benny, so with the urging of Angie, he decides to remodel his mother's run-down bathroom. Hoping for a simple thank you, George's plan backfires and Benny continues to be her ungrateful self. But after a much needed heart-to-heart, George and Benny realize their significance in each other's lives, and in turn express their gratitude.
The family finds out that Benny's estranged brother, Joe, is dying. George and Angie talk her into making up with him for closure, while Benny decides to do it for the possibility of getting his Super Bowl tickets. Meanwhile, Benny never taught George how to deal with death when he was younger and so he has a hard time attending the funeral.
When George gives Angie a disappointing gift for Valentine's Day, Angie has a flashback to high school in the '80s, when George painted a great mural of her for the holiday. But when Angie takes the entire family to look at the mural — only to find out it will soon be torn down — the truth comes out about the origins of the mural.
After Carmen breaks up with her boyfriend Adam, he spreads nasty rumors about her around school. With Carmen's reputation jeopardized, George and Angie step in to repair the damage. But the school counselor (Steven R. Schirripa) is a haunting figure from George's past who will not right the wrong — prompting Carmen to takes matters into her own hands.
When Carmen gets into private school, George and Angie decide to take out a loan to pay for the tuition. But a bad credit report reveals a bit more of the history of George's dad when George learns he has a half-brother — also named George.
As a surprise to Angie on her birthday, George flies in Angie's dad, Vic, and her sister, Gloria, for the celebration. Upset about her upcoming divorce, and jealous of her sister's marriage to a good man, Gloria makes an inappropriate move on George — which his son, Max, sees.
With George's airplane parts company in the running for business from the federal government, the boss asks George to demote one of the employees because of his ethnic background — afraid that will hinder their getting the contract. It's a dilemma for George — should he do the right thing and potentially jeopardize his career?
When Benny finds out that George's father is wealthy, she cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme of her own that could harm George's company.
Carmen takes ex-gang member Marisol as a role model and gets into some trouble when George and Angie invite her to stay with them.
Carmen's first day at her new school turns the family upside-down when George misdirects his worry and concern for Carmen's safety and it's taken as distrust. Meanwhile, Max develops his first crush on a much older woman — Carmen's new high school friend.
George has to hide his concern and disapproval when Ernie is made team leader at work. Meanwhile, a cosmetics saleswoman (Hilary Duff) encourages Angie to lie to her clients.
When George and Angie run into some financial hot water, Benny reaches out to George's estranged father's second wife, Lydia (guest starring Cristina), to help them out.
On the season finale, when George finally decides to approach his estranged father, Manny Lopez, his solitary journey turns into a family vacation and a day of reckoning for Benny.
In the two-part season premiere, George prepares the crew for a visit from the President of the United States. But he becomes so wrapped up in the thrill of the day's events and the horror of Carmen's unexpected political outbursts, he commits a crime without being aware of it. When the police knock on his door, he's arrested for something entirely unexpected and is forced to meet his estranged father face-to-face. In the meantime, Benny drops a bomb on George about the new man in her life.
In the two-part season premiere, George prepares the crew for a visit from the President of the United States. But he becomes so wrapped up in the thrill of the day's events and the horror of Carmen's unexpected political outbursts, he commits a crime without being aware of it. When the police knock on his door, he's arrested for something entirely unexpected and is forced to meet his estranged father face-to-face. In the meantime, Benny drops a bomb on George about the new man in her life.
Angie discovers her parents are getting divorced, and George gets nervous about his marriage when Angie's income and social life pick up.
When George accompanies Benny to the doctor, he discovers that he has a long-lost sister (guest starring Lisa Guerrero), and Benny finds out she's received an embarrassing and uncomfortable little gift from her boyfriend, Randy.
Carmen begins seeing the most popular boy in school, but when he won't be seen in public with her, George and Angie intervene to set him straight.
George is forced to put things in perspective when the future of Powers Aviation and his career are jeopardized by a tragic accident.
The Lopez family turns their home into a haunted house in order to raise money for the factory workers who have lost their salaries as a result of a plane crash investigation.
George tries to put his foot down about Carmen's expensive quincenera (fifteenth birthday party) — unsuccessfully, since Angie has begun making major financial decisions and party plans for the family.
George, Ernie and Vic set out to sea to rescue Angie's uncle, who has escaped by raft from Cuba. Meanwhile Max throws himself an unsanctioned birthday party.
When George invites his extended family, including his estranged father, his stepmother Lydia (Cristina Saralegui) and stepbrother — also named George (Lou Diamond Phillips) — to Thanksgiving dinner, he discovers that his father needs a new kidney. Meanwhile, Benny returns to work at the factory with great reservation.
George gets rid of some of Angie's cherished mementos as he prepares to give his ailing father one of his kidneys. But when he gets wind of Manny's death, he learns the hard way that the things left behind can be important — albeit painful — reminders of someone's life.
At Christmastime George will stop at nothing, including fighting his son's grade school battles — to convince Max to continue believing in Santa Claus.
George and Angie react with rage after Benny disciplines Max for talking back and acting out at school.
When George discovers that Max's friend, Ricky, has a very rough home life, Ernie offers to lend a hand.
George makes a regrettable deal with God if Max's dog, Mr. Needles, is healed.
When Randy begins getting much more serious about love, neither Benny nor George are quite ready to take things to the next level.
When Angie goes away on a business trip, George sends the kids to Benny's house for the weekend to teach them a lesson about tough love.
When George and Angie hire a beautiful tutor (Paris Hilton) for Max, he becomes too distracted to learn. Carmen's boyfriend, Jason, volunteers for the job, but when the young couple breaks up, the house becomes a powderkeg of teenage angst.
When George and Angie fill in at the dunk tank for a school fundraiser, a student's prank puts Angie in a very embarrassing position. Meanwhile, George becomes fiercely competitive when N.Y. Yankee Kenny Lofton pitches in to raise money for handicapped children.
Unbeknownst to his mom, Max takes up boxing at a local ring owned by Laila Ali (guest starring as herself) in order to relieve stress and insomnia. George and Benny run in circles trying to keep Max's new pastime a secret from Angie, which gets more difficult when Max is knocked out in a match.
George invites Angie's newly divorced dad to join a poker game. But when George wins fifty dollars in a hand and Angie's dad refuses to pay him out of principle, a simple game threatens to tear down the foundation of the entire family.
After receiving an award for excellence in business management, George humiliates himself dancing at a congratulatory party in front of his entire staff in order to gain approval from his mom. Meanwhile, Carmen tries to protect the baked goods she's prepared for the Great American Bake Sale from Max, but neglects to protect them from George.
Though concerned about his daughter's maturity and readiness to be out on her own, George teaches Carmen to drive. But when Carmen and Jason break up just before the prom, Carmen's grace proves that she is much more grown up than her parents had expected. Meanwhile Benny has a run-in with the law.
George reluctantly agrees to reward Max with a trip to Disneyland for improving his grades, but makes up an excuse to get out of going to the park with his family. When guilt finally gets the best of him and he asks Benny for a ride, he finally, for the first time in his life, spends a day at the happiest place on earth — alone with his mom.
As wedding plans progress between Benny and Randy, clutsy factory worker Amy (Sandra Bullock, reprising her guest starring role), returns from six months in the hospital and tries to win Randy back.
Still furious about her break-up with Randy, Benny takes a golf club to the hood of her boss' car. So when the Powers Aviation factory is vandalized, Benny gets the blame for this too - but it's a crime she didn't commit.
Carmen's friend, Noah, goes to great extremes to help Carmen keep her relationship with Zack a secret from her parents, in the first of a two-part season finale. In the second part, George and Angie confront Carmen and Zack about their secret romance, and risk pushing Carmen away forever when they forbid the relationship. Meanwhile, Randy returns to the factory and brings some very special musical guests (The Commodores, guest starring as themselves) in the hope of winning Benny back
Carmen's friend, Noah, goes to great extremes to help Carmen keep her relationship with Zack a secret from her parents, in the first of a two-part season finale. In the second part, George and Angie confront Carmen and Zack about their secret romance, and risk pushing Carmen away forever when they forbid the relationship. Meanwhile, Randy returns to the factory and brings some very special musical guests (The Commodores, guest starring as themselves) in the hope of winning Benny back
The Lopez family is worried sick about Carmen, who has left home after an argument with her father. George and Angie's dad, Vic, set out to the Haight-Ashbury to look for her. When they find her, they learn that, after two weeks on her own, Carmen has already become a groupie for rap artist Chingy, and is now much more grown up and independent. Meanwhile, George has nightmares in which Carmen is carrying Carrot Top's baby.
When Carmen grows tired of the house rules and remodels her room without her parents' consent, George grants her request for independence and charges her for living expenses.
When George forgets his wedding anniversary, he promises Angie to renew their wedding vows.
Looking for something more fulfilling to do, Angie decides to home school Carmen, but when their mother-daughter relationship becomes strained, George suggests a much better career option for his wife.
Feeling guilty about his failure to buy life insurance, George's new obsession with death surfaces in nightmares of a nostalgic kind as he envisions his family as members of The Munsters, The Jetsons and Leave It to Beaver, in a special Halloween-themed episode.
Max gets in trouble with the law when he starts hanging out with a gang of skateboarders in order to make a few friends.
When George gets a job opportunity in a small Colorado town, he and Angie consider moving there to provide a better life for the kids, in the first of a two-part Thanksgiving-themed story.
When Carmen and Max manage to get in to more trouble visiting a small Colorado town than in L.A., George and Angie realize that there's no place like home, in the second of a two-part Thanksgiving-themed story arc.
George pulls out all the stops when a young upstart, guest starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, is brought in to co-manage and shake things up after Powers Aviation undergoes a merger.
George may have to eat some humble holiday pie when he accuses his mother of being a scrooge, on a Christmas-themed episode.
When Carmen wants to begin using birth control, George and Angie contemplate making her a deal in order to keep her from taking the next step with her boyfriend.
When Ernie considers marrying a troubled woman, George risks their friendship to keep him from making the biggest mistake of his life.
George is very unhappy with Max's less than compassionate dentist -- guest star Michael Clarke Duncan ("The Green Mile") -- so he reluctantly appeals to his bosses and their drunk older brother to change the company dental plan.
In a plea to help Max get additional help in school, George breaks the news to his long lost sister, Linda (guest starring "All My Children's" Eva La Rue) -- who happens to be Superintendent of Schools -- that she was given up for adoption at birth, and worse, that Benny is her real mother.
When a major earthquake hits, George's deep-seated childhood fears really hit home. Guest starring Ron Pearson as the inspector and Luis Garcia as little George.
When Benny demands cash for a box of George's childhood memorabilia, George gets to the bottom of some painful moments and truths from his boyhood.
A host of wedding singers audition -- guest starring Robert Rodriguez and band and William Hung ("American Idol") -- as George hatches a plan for Angie's dream wedding.
When the parents of Carmen's boyfriend, Jason, move away, jeopardizing his plans to finish the baseball season, George agrees to let him stay at the Lopez residence.
George would seem to be playing favorites between Carmen and her boyfriend and new housemate, Jason, when he really just lacks faith in his daughter's potential. So when Carmen enters a poetry slam with a feminist rhymester, guest starring Hilary Duff ("Lizzie McGuire," "A Cinderella Story") as Kenzie, George is called on the carpet about the way he's treating Carmen.
When Angie meets an old flame who's now a news anchor for lunch, George becomes concerned she might be having an affair.
George considers taking bribes from his father-in-law and his best friend in exchange for granting permission to date his long lost sister, Linda (guest starring All My Children's Eva La Rue).
When George reaches out to some old high school flunkies -- Victor and Bobby -- for help in building an office in the garage for Angie's wedding planning business, the construction doesn't pass muster with Angie or the city inspector.
When George and Angie find out that Carmen and her boyfriend, Jason, have become more intimate under their roof, they think about asking Jason to move out. But when they discovers that Jason has been using steroids provided by none other than the boy's own father (guest starring Stacy Keach), their concern for his health causes them to reconsider.
George steps in to be Jason's sports agent when NFL Quarterbacks Daunte Culpepper and Donovan McNabb (guest starring as themselves) pay a visit to the Lopez household to draft Jason for their alma maters and a minor league baseball recruiter approaches him for a contract. Meanwhile, Carmen and Los Lobos guitarist Cesar Rosas stir things up at George's family birthday bash.
The Lopez household suddenly becomes very crowded when George's mother, Benny, forgets about a burning cigarette and causes a family disaster of huge proportions. Meanwhile George and Angie are pushed to the brink when Carmen insists that she and her boyfriend, Jason, get married and have a baby so they can be together.
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pays a personal visit to the Lopez family when he hears that George has been imitating him in order to bully a menacing biker (guest starring Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman) into releasing a stray dog that his depressed mom has grown to love.
Rather than give in to Benny's incessant pleas to buy her a new car, George and Angie agree to drive her around town just to get her out of the house. So, when George picks Benny and her friends up after a wild night on the town, her insensitive wisecracks and his temper gets him into a bit of trouble of his own.
George and Angie's practical jokes are funnier and scarier than ever as Halloween approaches, but as Benny's abusive comments and behavior grow worse, George finds it impossible to laugh things off and threatens make some big changes.
George still refuses to return home until his mother leaves, but when he realizes how difficult it is to live with Ernie and his parents, he convinces Ernie to get his own place.
When Max begins having nightmares after witnessing a traumatic incident at school, George reluctantly agrees to take him to a counselor, guest starring actor/comedian Richard Lewis. So, when the good doctor discovers that the real reason for Max's nightmares is his father's absence, George is forced to confront his feelings about his childhood.
When George takes a sneak peek at a ten-year-old unopened letter from Angie, he discovers some dirty secrets that they both may wish were never revealed.
Benny takes George’s wisecracks about her age to heart and decides to get ridiculously large breast implants to make herself look younger.
George and Angie enter a fierce competition to determine who does more work in their marriage and around the house.
George has second thoughts about spending Christmas alone after he lies to get out of a holiday reunion with Angie's family.
George catches Max skipping school so he enrolls in college to set a positive example. But George has difficulty getting anyone to take him seriously when even his Professor laughs his questions off as jokes.
When the going gets tough, George drops out of school. But his attempt to hide his truancy from Angie and the kids becomes the worst-kept secret around when his professor stops by the house to check in.
In this special episode loosely based on George Lopez’s real-life battle with kidney disease, Max starts wetting the bed and George laughs it off as childish. But as Max’s symptoms worsen and his grandfather, Vic, suggests that it may mean Max is sexually active, George and Angie take him to the doctor, played by actor Ken Howard -- himself a real-life kidney transplant recipient. He breaks the news that Max needs surgery, but that it will help him avoid kidney disease in the future.
George and Angie’s ex-sister-in-law passes away, leaving George in charge of her 20-year-old daughter and her very large inheritance.
George tries to teach his niece, whose multi-million dollar inheritance he controls, a lesson in the value of hard work by putting her to work at the factory.
Angie’s scam artist brother, Ray, reappears after a long absence looking to make amends with his estranged daughter, Veronica, and the Lopez family. But George is the first to see through Ray’s transparent scheme when Ray asks Veronica to tap into her inheritance to invest in a new company.
George helps Ernie lose weight before Mel Powers fires him.
George discovers that Max has begun an online romance with a teenage girl from Chicago. When he assumes his son’s identity to protect him from what he suspects is an internet predator, George comes face to face offline with Zoey’s uncle, Freddie.
George takes over planning a wedding for one of Angie’s very high maintenance clients in order to prove he can do her job better than she can.
Benny is furious when she discovers that George has rigged the results of a productivity contest at the factory against her favor, but gets the ultimate revenge when George can’t sleep at night without dreaming of his dysfunctional childhood.
Everything hangs in the balance for the entire Lopez family: Ernie tells George that the factory is moving to Mexico and they’ll both be out of jobs; the police want to question Benny for her part in an old robbery, so she flees; Angie has been nauseated for days and awaits the results of a home pregnancy test; Carmen is afraid to open her final college letter after being rejected by her first three choices; Max has swiped a forbidden beer and is about to sample his first alcohol; and Vic prepares to propose marriage to younger woman he barely knows.
Angie tells George she's pregnant, and Benny's off to jail after she's arrested as an accessory to the convenience-store robbery. So George has to find a lawyer (Adam West). And that won't be his only expense: Carmen got accepted into college. Meanwhile, Vic announces that he's getting married again, to a 27-year-old.
Angie maintains her story that she's pregnant to keep George from missing Carmen. Meanwhile Vic introduces his young and beautiful but not too bright fiancée to the family.
When George gets a new Media Room, George's room is suddenly full when niece Veronica, and her boyfriend need a new freeloading pad.
At her trial, Benny must rely on George's testimony since her lawyer and even her mother have all turned on her.
George, upset about being publicly humiliated at work, downs a shot of liquor along with the worm in it and hallucinates that he and Ernie are gay and about to be married to each other.
George seeks help from a popular reality TV game show in order to expose Vic's cheating, gold-digging fiancée.
When Angie gets concerned about losing her looks, George asks his gorgeous young niece to tone down her sex appeal.
George's poor memory comes back to haunt him when Angie's mother passes away.
When a sexual predator moves into the neighborhood, George and Angie decide it's time to finally have "the talk" with Max.
Much to Benny's dismay, George and Angie hire a maid who quickly cooks and cleans her way into George's heart.
When the love of Benny's life returns to town, George builds a web of lies to keep them from reuniting.
George and Angie make a bet to determine who can live the most frugally.
George tries to relive his high school days by teaching Max to play the guitar. But when Max moves on without his dad and joins a rock band, George wishes he could take it all back.
When Powers Aviation institutes a smoking ban, Benny's nicotine withdrawals drive George to self-destructive behavior.
The Lopez family strikes out against a new neighbor who's decorated his front lawn with an offensive art display. Meanwhile, George and Angie run into an old friend who takes an interest in their niece.
Vic feigns fatherly love so George will play in a father-son golf tournament against his long time rival and his son, Tony.
George puts Max to work at the factory to emphasize the importance of education.
A multi-millionaire buys Powers Aviation and asks George to stay on board if he's willing to consider making some major life changes.