She helped Carmen pay rent in the episode "Landlord Almighty". He was purchased from a homeless man who was unable to afford medical treatment for his pet, and was named by Max for the countless injections that the dog required in order to lessen the symptoms of its numerous illnesses. TV-14 Buy Assembly-line worker and family man George (comic George Lopez) is promoted to manage an airplane parts factory in Los Angeles. At first, she and Benny do not seem to get along, but then they realize that they have so much in common. . Whenever he torments his sister, George will usually enable and/or encourage his behavior. George Lopez: [looking at a picture of Manny] Who's that he's holding? Distractify is a registered trademark. But there seems to be little to no footage of the show on . When Angie's mother dies, George . She got George in trouble with the Powers Brothers for not responding to important calls. that Benny was in turn raised in an abusive environment. George's son Max is attracted to her, saying he loves her. Many episode plots were established through his stay in the Lopez household. He likes everyone in the family except for Benny, who sometimes barks at him due to his personality. But before he dies, he gives Benny the tickets. They broke up once because Randy wanted to take it to the next level but Benny didn't. He eventually accepts George as a good match for his daughter, as his son and other daughter's marriages ended in failure while Angie is still married. "; an example of what he thinks of her and her actions. This is incorrect he should have said that they are in Malibu when actually they are in Cuba. It is later revealed that the child belongs to someone else, and Ernie's fiance makes a swift and permanent exit. Throughout the series, this has been heavily implied but never implicitly said. Terms and Policies Benny likes the way Marisol treats people ("She's like you, Mom, but with estrogen."). On March 8, 2007, it was announced that George Lopez would join the Nick at Nite lineup. George gets a package with a gold watch and a letter from Manny asking him not to come to his funeral to avoid ruining his reputation. In the episode "George Discovers How Mescal-ed Up His Life Would Have Been Without the Benny-Fits", Angie sides with Benny when George prevented her from winning a contest at work. This is often demonstrated when a particularly challenging situation arises and rather than admit that he is in over his head, George will quote in a very high-pitched voice, "I got this! George runs into his aunt at the store and finds out that Benny has been lying to him for over 30 years and that his father is alive and is living in California. It first aired on Nick at Nite on September 10, 2007it was the most current non-original show to air on Nick at Nite[17] (until it was announced that Everybody Hates Chris would join the lineup, followed by The Goldbergs and Mom and currently Young Sheldon). Occasionally, Jack and Mel will make racial comments towards George such as calling him 'amigo' and 'Senor Pumpkin Head.' Jason came to live with the Lopez family briefly while he trying to earn a football scholarship. Who's Your Daddy? Vic despises Fidel Castro; in Carmen's Dating, when George tells him that Castro died, he is irrepressibly thrilled. Ah! All Rights Reserved. Eventually she admitted that her parents were right all along about Zach when she confessed that he had dumped and ditched her in a nightclub shortly after she refused to sleep with him at a hotel he had taken her to. Vic later became engaged to 27-year-old Lindsay Cafferty (Stacy Keibler), but later discovered she was cheating on him with a younger man. 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As a boy, George enjoyed playing guitar and baseball; in his teens he started a heavy-metal band with Ernie, and other friends called "Dos Bad Asses"; they won battle of the bands at school by lighting their instruments on fire, but only the first round and making the curtains in the auditorium fire-poof. I realized I wasn't the best dad, but when your kid's twerking upside-down, you've got some real f--king problems.. Though, the same cant be said for her father, who, at that time, recognized that the rift in their relationship was serious. According to Vibe, George's newfound realizations led him to take Mayan with him to trauma therapy. She has a daughter, Kimmy, who is also accident-prone. He is shown to be quite rebellious and never listening to his father. Furious and emotional, George destroys the watch, not knowing that it is worth a fortune until Benny tells him it must have been worth a lot more than when she was with Manny. George always gives Max advice on how to deal with hardships he himself dealt with when he was Max's age while Angie gives him sympathy and unsuccessful advice mainly because she never dealt with the kind of problems Max deals with. Benny often calls her "princess" sarcastically due to her being spoiled, and the two don't get along well. George found Manny in Phoenix, Arizona, punched him in the face for calling his mother a "cabrona" (Spanish for "Bitch") and was arrested for it a month later. It was found out that she and Randy McGee were dating before he started dating Benny. Vic does not care. George attempts to teach Veronica responsibility by helping her find a job in the factory, though his efforts are often thwarted when Veronica seduces the male workers (particularly Ernie and Mel Powers) into carrying out her duties for her. Vic makes his series debut in the Season Two episode "Meet the Cuban Parents", where he appears along with wife Emelina Palmero, his wife, who's played in the episode by model . Ernie agrees to foster Ricky- who is capable of managing multiple household tasks- out of necessity: his mother is usually too drunk to do anything. At one point, he was engaged to Ricky's mom Tammy because she was pregnant with another man's baby and he wanted a family. Unloving, cold, and uncaring, Benny had shown George no compassion or affection of any kind during his childhood, leading him to seemingly detest her for her utter lack of empathy. "[13], Lopez attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show was not produced directly by ABC Studios, but instead by Warner Bros. He is often at George's house conversing with the family and has very few other friends. The show entered syndication one month after the series finale on ABC, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution. Rather than being a complete dick, Manny has shown sympathetic moments who lived full of fear and guilt of leaving George behind with his ex-wife, Benny. [22] The sixth and final season was released on November 24, 2015. After Carmen's departure from the series, Angie's overindulged niece Veronica moved in, laden with a large trust fund that is entrusted to George's care. Many markets also moved the show from overnight timeslots to more desirable ones.[18]. 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. She and Vic shortly get together when Vic pays George $2,000 dollars to take to a party his workmates were having much to Angie's and George's disgust due to how she was one of the family basically. When individual episodes have scores, they will influence the final season score. George's relationship with his mom revolves around insulting each other, briefly complimenting each other, and insulting each other some more. At serious points in the series, he has tried to set Angie straight but she's always managed to either outsmart him or avoid the problem completely by pointing out some other problem. She took Carmen to a club past midnight and got her grounded, although she had good intentions and was only helping Carmen stand up to mean kids who were teasing her just like in her old school. This results in Carmen being devastated, as he left California to pursue his baseball career. On September 8, 2020, the show was removed from syndication on Nick at Nite, ending its almost 13-year run on the network. Carmen insults him about buying jerseys in her diary, saying because he doesn't play for them, George should stop buying the jerseys. This Is What the 'George Lopez' Cast Is Doing These Days, A Kidney Transplant Saved George Lopez's Life, and Years Later, He's Returning to Television, George Lopez's Ex-Wife Gave Him Her Kidney When He Was In Need. He has two daughters and one son. In the season 3 finale, he runs away with her and takes $5,000 with him. [13] Lopez stated that the explanation was "painful to hear," noting that the show had four different time slots in only five years and had to constantly compete against shows like American Idol, yet the final season of the show was still able to outperform a comedy series that was renewed by ABC: Notes from the Underbelly. 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. Privacy Policy Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The show moved to ION Television on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. 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. Heres what we know about his marriage to Ann Serrano. George Lopez currently stars in a multi-camera comedy series Lopez vs Lopez for NBC, featuring his real-life daughter Mayan Lopez, and is performing stand-up in arenas across the country on his OMG Hi!Comedy Tour. when Max's school called. Lopez explained that he "took the five years of good, and I did a lot with the good. The show's theme song "Low Rider" is intact in these releases. Marisol (Tonantzin Esparza) begins as an ex-gang member participating in one of Angie's gang rehab projects, which happens to be teaching dog grooming. Angie is considerably softer and more forgiving as a parent, unlike her husband who is quick to come down hard on their kids. His son, Max, also has dyslexia, but a more severe case than his father. He has a brother, Octavio Palmero. Her most famous line is, "I know, huh?" Amy states that her family has a slight depth perception problem. Max once ended up in the hospital for alcohol poisoning after drinking grain alcohol mixed with fruit punch at a party. In Season 2 she takes a job selling health and beauty products to help pay for Carmen's private school tuition. ABOUT GEORGE. He decided to return to Emilina, who had indicated that she wanted him back; unfortunately, she died before they could reunite. A family has been left heartbroken after a 'beautiful' young woman collapsed and died suddenly in her father's arms despite his best efforts to try and save her life. Originally, Vic strongly disapproved of Angie marrying George (In "A Kiss is Just a Kiss," it was revealed that as he walked Angie down the aisle on her wedding day he told her to leave George), even saying "when you make waffles, you always toss out the first one"; he later said he tailored his message to the moment as he told his other daughter "don't let this one go". Several times in the series George has had to prove to her that people were lying or being insincere. But what do we know about Mayan, as well as her relationship with her dad? When Manny sends George a check to help him out of financial trouble, George goes to see him in Phoenix, and ends up punching him in Benny's honor (the first gift Benny actually wanted from him). George warns him, "She's your first cousin; you have dyslexia. 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. At the end of the episode when George and Angie were at the restaurant Angie told George that her father does not want her to go to Cuba unless Castro is not in power anymore. George Edward Lopez (played by George Lopez) is the main protagonist of the series. Because he left Benny, she had to give Linda up for adoption. Born in 1996, Mayan is George's only child. 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. Per Variety, the two were estranged for about a decade before the pandemic brought them back together. In the episode "Girl Fight" Piper writes "Carmen Hopez" on the sliding door and also wrote "Carmen Cant Say No-pez" on her locker at school because Carmen's ex-boyfriend Adam spread a rumor that he had sex with Carmen. the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. Afterward, albeit Mr. Joe seemed to have a lot of money because of how Benny described him not sacrificing $20 for her. Ernie is depicted as silly, socially awkward, and very loyal to George. In the beginning, he was depicted as a patient man, devoted father and husband. She once even ordered George to put up a shelf in Max's room rather than sleep with him. Jack and Mel are usually looked down upon by most other aviation companies mostly because their father started the business and since they inherited it the company has gone down the tubes somewhat and they constantly prove they are simply not the men their father was. George stated Carmen and Taylor's friendship as "Carmen having her own Carmen." George finally gets to meet her for the first time at a Valley School district meeting in the episode "Feel the Burn". George! [20] The fourth season was released on June 23, 2015. Joe and Benny argue about how he owed her $20, while George subtly takes a $20 out of his pocket and drops it on the floor, exclaiming "Oh, look what fell out of Joe's pocket." Copyright 2023 Distractify. George and Angie agreed that he would not box anymore, and resolved to help him deal with his stress; George later implied he was lying and would make Angie handle it alone. Benny lied to George, telling him Manny had died in a car accident. 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. George Lopez Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. ", or when he thinks an idea is crazy or stupid, or when he clearly knows someone is joking about something, he will usually quote "Est loco!.. Benny constantly teases George about not being the man of the house, his big head, his failures as a child. For the late-night program hosted by the same comedian, see, (select episodes of seasons 26 seen in syndication), Due to a creative difference that she had with George Lopez, Masiela Lusha's character, Carmen was written out of the sixth season, only appearing in the premiere episode. George and Ernie worked at Mr. Carrillo's restaurant during high school. As soon as Manny insults Benny, George punches him in the face. Needles is the name of the Lopez family dog; mangy and sickly, having contracted a multitude of harsh, often fictional and disgusting, canine ailments. Angie on the other hand would much rather not and instead do some other activity. Joseph "Joe" Diaz (Ismael 'East' Carlo) is George's and Linda's deceased uncle, Angie's uncle-in-law, Carmen and Max's great-uncle, and Benny's big brother. This may be because she was pampered like a princess during her childhood. George was infuriated by his actions and Zach admitted his intentions to George during a confrontation. 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