Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Jurassic Park Movies Ranked By Tomatometer, The Mandalorian Creators Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni on Grogus Force Training and the Darksabers Significance. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! George, who's preparing to give a kidney to his father, is in trouble with Angie because he threw away a box of her family mementos, but both their priorities shift when Benny delivers bad news: Manny has died. This results in Carmen being devastated, as he left California to pursue his baseball career. Despite all this, Angie still loves him. Joe seemed to have a lot of money because of how Benny described him not sacrificing $20 for her. It has also been heavily implied that Angie's typical housewife status and inability to get a decent well-paying job is because George is the one who kept her from going to college and obtaining a degree. Ernie's inept social skills and inability to talk to women is obviously a result of the over sheltered childhood he had and his parents own problems rubbing off on him. Helford and Borden also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. Manny dies before this can happen. Read on for more. The part of Vic is played by Emiliano Diez. On September 8, 2020, the show was removed from syndication on Nick at Nite, ending its almost 13-year run on the network. Because he just sold your crib for weed. Throughout grade school, he and Ernie had the reputation of being outcasts or "unpopular". Dr. Victor "Vic" Garcia Lantigua Palmero (Emiliano Dez) is Angie's wealthy father, Emilina's ex-husband, George's father-in-law, and Carmen, Max, and Veronica's grandfather. George and Angie fix the problem and the principal revokes Carmen's suspension, suspending Piper. Although he doesn't have Carmen's low self-esteem, he succumbs to peer pressure, and does outlandish things such as dyeing his hair purple, telling Benny to "take her tired ass home" (and being slapped in the face), and giving his garage to a band. Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter In the series finale, Jack and Mel eventually end up being bought out for the factory and announce they are co-presidents at a similar airplane factory in Cancun, leaving the factory to George. Ah! A month later, the police show up at George's work, and arrest him. Another running gag is that whenever George is angry at her for something, such as a kept secret, she usually resorts to selling him her body in order to avoid consequence. She is popular, one of the stars of Carmen and Toby's school. At the 9th ALMA Awards in 2007, George Lopez called the song the "Chicano National Anthem". After one bad accident, Amy loses her vision; she also appears wearing glasses and thrusting her hands out trying to identify people who speak to her. After they tell Carmen she can go back to school now, she refuses, telling them that she's the school whore now after revealing a phone call from boys who were asking if they could leave a message for the school whore. George and Angie raise money to send Carmen to private school. To this date, it continues to be their highest-rated series and one of cable's best for an off-network sitcom. Manny dropped the charges and had George released. However, George frequently underestimates Carmen's intelligence and has little faith in her, sometimes apparently perceiving her as dim and airheaded (similar to how Benny sees Carmen as a future stripper). If you have kids with her, your mom and I will have to pay a dollar to visit our grandkids at the carnival.". Piper (Autumn Reeser) is Carmen's former friend turned nemesis. In her first appearance, however, she was shown to be average size and played by Lillian Hurst. The show moved to ION Television on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Manny also stole George's birth certificate when he left him and Benny and used it to legalize the second George, who was born in Mexico. [10][11] Lopez was given full starring, creator, producer and writer credits for the show. Breakin' bones and breakin' hearts." Benita "Benny" Diaz Lopez (Belita Moreno) is George and Linda's mother, Angie's mother-in-law, and Carmen and Max's paternal grandmother; a wise-cracking, outspoken, insensitive alcoholic who was responsible for George's frequently-mentioned traumatic childhood. and the Amaury Nolasco in "Long Time No See", both in Season 2. This eventually stops, and seems like Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, but considering he never showed up, he was actually probably fired. She soon says that George couldn't tell her whom to date but soon breaks up with Vic when she finds out how he kissed Benny, her mother, and gently tells him it'd be best if they just stayed friends. Vic does not care. By creating an account, you agree to the Just like her dad, the 26-year-old actress has also spent some time on the small screen. George warns him, "She's your first cousin; you have dyslexia. Meanwhile, George becomes fiercely competitive when New York Yankee KENNY LOFTON (himself) helps raise money for handicapped children. He was known for his on-again-off-again romance with Carmen. and the In one episode she was hired as a stripper as a gag during Randy's bachelor party, only for Amy to interfere with her performance in an attempt to win back Randy's affections. In the end, though, he always comes through with getting gifts. They got back together in the same episode, during which Randy proposes and Benny finally relents and says yes. Benny accepts, but later claims to leave Randy because he bored her. Like Angie, Carmen has unrivaled beauty. George is not publicly dating anybody new at this time. Seeks to establish a relationship with son George even after George punches him in the face for insulting ex-wife Benny when the family (except Carmen) travels to Phoenix after learning he's still alive, Construction company owner, Real Estate Investor. He easily gives in to peer pressure mainly because he got bullied in grade school (much like George used to) which prompted him to believe that he must follow the crowd in order to avoid being tormented. Carmen did not agree, and Piper made Carmen choose to be friends with her or with Toby. Needles's development of a deadly, life-threatening tumor that required surgical extraction in order for the dog to receive treatment, which the Lopez family refused in exchange for euthanasia of Mr. George adds to this by replying that Ernie's mother sneezed and he "popped out to her shoulders". Usually, whenever she sees a family member she held a grudge against, they usually greet her with, "Hello Benita." He actually appears in three episodes, and appears in a dream flashback of George's in one of the episodes. But what do we know about Mayan, as well as her relationship with her dad? In a later episode, Ernie becomes engaged to Ricky's mother, after she informs Ernie she is pregnant with his child. The show entered syndication one month after the series finale on ABC, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution. George finds out he has a half-brother, also named George, and hears that Manny and his son are poor but he later finds out that Manny owns Lopez Construction and is wealthy. For example, whenever they have the house to themselves, George usually recommends they go upstairs and have sex. That was until Mayan posted a viral video that saw her twerking while simultaneously doing a handstand, and it would've made Megan Thee Stallion proud. At one point, George finds out that Manny is alive from Manny's sister Cecelia Lopez. He claims to be jealous of George's life. He works on the assembly line at Power Bros. Aviation, he started as a regular worker who later on became the Assembly Line's Team Leader. In one episode, it is learned that Angie once fell in love with him because of a mural Angie that George claims to have made. The couple - who wed in July . Gina and Benny are frenemies, and at one point an implication was hinted that she may be bisexual. Lopez said that ABC "dealt with us from the bottom of the deck" and that it was "hard to take after what was a good run. Manny dies in Momentos, the next episode, before the surgery. Multiple storylines in the series are established through the unveiling of a secret guarded by Benny throughout George's whole childhood, most notably the discovery that his father Manny is still alive after Benny had convinced George that he died. However, she is most frequently depicted as being cynical and cold-hearted; she taunted her little son for his undiagnosed dyslexia and showed him no encouragement of any kind at all, exposing him to criminal activity, gang disputes, and riots during his very earliest years of life. Carmen often shows a liberal bent to political issues (even more than others in her household) and has an affinity for social justice causes. Benny calls it a neck wallet. Whenever he torments his sister, George will usually enable and/or encourage his behavior. Conceiving him in the back of a car wash after engaging in premarital sexual relations with Manny Lopez, Benny wed her lover shortly afterward, only for Manny to divorce her during George's infanthood. He is also an avid sports fan of teams such as the Oakland Raiders, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The comedy revolves around a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez who works at the Powers Brothers aviation factory. Manny left Benny when George was only two years old, as he was cheating on Benny. Whenever Amy shows up, Ernie says "Hey look, it's Accident Amy! As Max grew into a teenager, a number of problems made George begin to seriously doubt his son's capability, intelligence and overall future after leaving education. Jason was abandoned by his parents, so George and Angie took him in. [8] Lopez was only willing to do a show if it meant that the roles were not demeaning to Latinos, vowing never to play a murderer, drug dealer or gang member. Per Variety, the two were estranged for about a decade before the pandemic brought them back together. He had a better attitude!" Carmen and Toby don't go to the party and Carmen and Toby remain best friends. Veronica's trust fund is jeopardized by her self-serving, cold-hearted, manipulative father in an attempt to rob his daughter of her inherited wealth, resulting in the freezing of her account. When Angie calls George's phone at the beginning of the episode only for Max to pick it up, Constance Marie (Angie's actress) clearly isn't moving her mouth when she is yelling. Carmen has dated a multitude of boys, most notably Zach Powers, and a member of the high school football and baseball teams, Jason McNamara. She rebelliously fled to San Francisco with him against George and Angie's wishes in one episode. Though George may be aware of this, he still prefers to accuse Jason possibly because he can't accept the fact that it's his daughter that's lustful for Jason. Angie gets mad at him because it was all she had left to remember her grandmother by. : Directed by Lee Shallat Chemel. Meanwhile, Carmen gets a job working at the restaurant that George worked at as a teenager. He starts to say all those words and dropping dollar bills everywhere, before he says "what-cha" (George's catchphrase) to George in his own house. During the show's fifth season, Aimee Garcia was cast as George's niece, Veronica. Benny: Do you know why he's holding you? George later revealed that he needed a kidney transplant, as George, after much thought, and much to the chagrin of Benny, planned to donate his father a kidney, but Manny wound up dying before he had a chance to go through with the transplant. It's also been revealed that George got Angie pregnant before they got married, meaning that their first-born Carmen was conceived outside of marriage. Ernie is depicted as silly, socially awkward, and very loyal to George. In the pilot episode, "Prototype," George gets promoted to manager of Powers & Sons Aviation (usually seen as Powers Bros.), an airplane parts factory. George Lopez: [looking at a picture of Manny] Who's that he's holding? When George and Angie work at the dunk tank for a school fund-raiser, a student's prank puts Angie in a very embarrassing position. Max also shares George's sense of humor and will make decisions based on his father's actions. When Manny sends George $20,000 to pay off his debt, he decides to go to Phoenix and meet his long-lost father, with his family tagging along for the ride. Needles is the name of the Lopez family dog; mangy and sickly, having contracted a multitude of harsh, often fictional and disgusting, canine ailments. Written by Dailyn Rodriguez, the episode, which was written by John Pasquin, originally aired on ABC-TV on November 28, 2003. He speaks with a thick Cuban accent which George often mocks; George has stated that Vic's heavy Cuban accent makes every sign sound angry. George also accidentally saw Sylvie naked as a child. George's employee. Last edited on 18 February 2023, at 03:52, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_George_Lopez_characters&oldid=1140043299, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 03:52. (He clearly thinks Benny is going to hell when she dies.). Manny comes to George in jail, and tells him he only got him arrested to talk to him, as he admits that he thought that he would be bettor off without Benny and George, and that it was a "terrible thing" to think about his son. Throughout the series, George demonstrates several times how self-righteous and uncaring he is of Angie, such as in "George's Extreme Makeover: Holmes Edition", where George promises to renovate the garage into an office space for Angie, but resorts to paying a couple of his old friends to do it with "a couple of cases of beer". The percentage of approved Tomatometer critics who have given this title a positive review. Carmen goes to private school after people keep harassing her, including a guy pulling her shirt up in the hall, and another who follows her into the bathroom and asks her if she wants to have sex with him. All Rights Reserved. Veronica's charms often play a key role in earning her what she wants, enticing men into filling out her wishes, much to the jealousy of her aging aunt in one episode, fearing for her reputation as the family's main beauty. When George finally decides to approach his estranged father, Manny Lopez (guest star William Marquez), his solitary journey is transformed into a family vacation and a day of reckoning for Benny. Television. Angie is also not above bullying George around with his power around the house. The show's theme song is "Low Rider", performed by War. Because he left Benny, she had to give Linda up for adoption. In response to years of the abuse that George has put up with her, a common theme throughout the series is George referring to Benny in some demonic shape or form or when he won the award for manager of the year, he proudly stated, "And to my mother, I wish she'd lived to see this day but I know she's down there looking up at me and she's saying "Oh my flesh is burning! 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