List of George Lopez episodes

George worries about Carmen when she brings a boy home for the first time. He persuades Max to spy on them, but despite finding no impropriety, George threatens Duncan, embarrassing Carmen. Later, George replies to instant messages on Carmen's computer, pretending to be her. Although this infuriates both Carmen and Angie when they find out, George goes to a party and further humiliates Carmen with his over-protectiveness. Finally, Carmen sadly ends the relationship with Duncan, not because of her father, but because Duncan tries to pressure her into having sex too soon. Carmen forgives George, who realizes that she is more responsible than he thought.

George meets his aunt Cecilia at a superstore with Benny and finds out his father isn't dead and lives in northern California. When George attempts to find his father Benny lies to him saying he never held him, but then his aunt came to his house with a picture of him holding him in his house smiling. Meanwhile, Angie buys a dog off a homeless man because the dog needs veterinary help. Note: This is the only episode where you get to see Ernie's mother's face. In a later episode she becomes bigger.

The "cool" girls court Carmen, but not her best friend, Toby. Meanwhile, George is tempted to join another firm after he is disrespected by his bosses at Powers Aviation.

Guest Starring: Brenda Song, Carly Schroeder, and Autumn Reeser as the "cool" girls, Rachel Snow as Toby

Absent: Luis Armand Garcia as Max Lopez

George goes into denial when Max is thought to have dyslexia, and Angie makes things worse when she suggests that George may have it, too. Max is told to take special help classes, but George refuses because he doesn't want Max to get beat up. In the end, Max goes to the special ed classes.

Carmen becomes depressed after her best friend Toby moves away, and she becomes a troublemaker when George, Angie, and Benny catch her about to smoke. Angie suggests Pep Squad But when the cheerleaders tease her, she blames Angie by telling her to stay out of her life. George Has a hard time firing a worker named Reggie.

At a PTA meeting, Accident Amy (Sandra Bullock) becomes secretary and is in charge of candy sales for a trip to the Space Shuttle launch, who reveals that her daughter is in Max's class. When George, Angie, and Max fail to make the quota of $480, the PTA moms demand that they write a check, but George refuses, partly because George doesn't believe they need to go to the Space Shuttle launch and partly because George has little spending money. In the end, Max doesn't go on the trip when George burns the check. However, George and Max watch the launch at home on TV, but much to their joy the launch is canceled and they instead watch wrestling. Elsewhere, Benny seeks a makeover from Carmen because of a guy she has met.

Angie doesn't mind when George offers their backyard for a friend's wedding reception, but his refusal to dance causes problems (especially when Angie starts drinking). George continues the search for his father, as well.

After learning Benny had a one-night stand with a co-worker, Lalo (Cheech Marin), 35 years ago, George believes him to his real father. He meets the man (whose picture bears a striking resemblance to George) who turns out to be gay with his partner Charles, and invites him over for Thanksgiving dinner. However, Benny tells George that they never had sex, and that he isn't the real father. After questioning Lalo, he tells George that he only took care of Benny when she got drunk on tequila and passed out.

When Angie's parents, Victor Palmero (Emiliano Diez) and Emilina (Sonia Braga), come to visit the family for Christmas, George thinks they still believe that he is not good enough for their daughter, so he decides to show that he can take care of his family without their help and challenges Victor to a contest to see who can have the best Christmas.

The Lopez family finds out that Benny's estranged brother, Joe, is dying. However, Benny refuses to speak to him due to to her losing a bet with him. However, George and Angie convince Benny to reconcile with Joe, and Benny agrees to, but to try and get his Super Bowl tickets. However, she changes her mind when she sees him. Meanwhile, since Benny never taught George how to cope with death when he was younger, he has difficulty attending the funeral.

After Carmen ends her relationship with her classmate Adam, he tries to ruin her reputation at school out of spite by saying that she had sex with him, leading her to be called a whore. This is only made worse when Carmen's enemy (and former friend) Piper, writes "Carmen Hopez" on the sliding door of the house. George and Angie want to repair the damage, but school counselor Rango Durango, who had known George when they were kids, refuses to right the wrong( until they convince him), prompting Carmen to take action in her own defense-by fighting, but Carmen is suspended. In the end, after Carmen reveals that a boy snuck up on her in the girl's bathroom that he wanted to have sex, and another boy pulling up her shirt, George and Angie agree to withdraw her from public school.

George and Angie apply for a loan for Carmen's private school, they discover that they have bad credit. George believes this is a mistake, but finds out that it actually is another George Lopez who owns a skateboard shop. When he finds him, he is shocked to find they have the same birthday, social security number, and father. He then realizes that they are half brothers. He says that he came from a poor family, has no money, and had dropped out of high school. The bank calls and says Arizona State University needs him to pay back his student loan. When he confronts the other George, he finds that his father, Manny, is actually rich and that he just needed money, causing George to disown him and kick him out of his house. Guest Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips. Note: It is revealed that Manny named their dog after Benny.

As a birthday surprise for Angie, George arranges for her father Vic and sister Gloria to visit for the celebration. Upset about her upcoming divorce and jealous of her sister's marriage to a good man, Gloria makes an inappropriate advance towards George - which Max witnesses.

George has to fill out employee evaluations, but doesn't know what to put for Ernie. He puts all 9's when his mom tells him it is because they are trying to figure out who to lay off. It turns out they were making the top 4 team leaders, which includes Ernie. George wants to take the job because he knows Ernie can't handle it, but doesn't know if he can do it, but Ernie tells him how much he really wants the job, ends up finishing early, to take his team out to go to the zoo. Meanwhile, Angie learns how to sell make-up products. Absent: Carmen Lopez

After seeing all of the bills from Allendale Prep, George and Angie believe that all of the problems will be solved by Angie's new cosmetics. But when Max's troublemaking friend Ricky gives Max a bottle rocket that lands on the garage. That causes it to catch on fire. George and Angie fall into some serious burden when the LaMarie cosmetics are destroyed. Now, when George and Angie are seeking $17,000, Benny goes to Phoenix to meet Manny's new wife and George II's mother, Lydia, to help George.

Special Guest Star: Cristina Saralegui as Lydia Lopez

After George's estranged father give him a check for $20,000 to save the family from financial ruin, George vows to visit him in Phoenix. George's difficult personal journey becomes a family vacation when Angie, Benny and Max all decide to go. Along the way, George reminisces about his upbringing. When he meets Manny, George gives him back the check. When Manny insults Benny, George punches him in the face (which the police arrest him for in the next episode). Back at home, Ernie is starting to get more success with meeting women. Guest starring: Amaury Nolasco

President George W. Bush comes to speak at Powers Brothers Aviation and everything becomes a mess. Jack wants George to cut his hair but George likes his hair the way it is, but he cuts it anyway. Benny has started dating a 42 year old man named Randy without telling George. During the president's speech, Carmen comes to the factory and disrupts it. After the speech, George steals it from his desk. This results in the Secret Service coming to George's house to ask about the President's speech, but George doesn't admit to stealing it. George then returns to the factory, and the police arrest him for punching Manny.

Note: This is based on a true story, George Lopez really did steal the president's speech when he was asked to perform at the White House.

First Appearance of Randy

Benny feels sick, so George takes her to the hospital, and they find out she has the clap. George then finds out he has a sister that his mom gave away at birth. George then wants to meet the sister but Benny doesn't want him to. He ends up meeting her, but he doesn't tell her she is adopted. Lisa Guerrero guest stars as George's sister Linda.

Carmen brings home a boy named Jason for the first time and George and Angie don't want her to date. They then give Jason an interview and decide to let Carmen and Jason date. Then Carmen and Jason go to homecoming and George finds out that Jason will not be seen in public with her. George will not let Jason see Carmen anymore. After a week, Jason comes back and the two are back together.

George II tells George that Manny is in need of a kidney. George then invites Manny, Lydia, and George II for thanksgiving. George II was going to donate a kidney, but they found out that his kidney doesn't match so now it is up to George to donate the kidney. Manny and Lydia both want him to donate the kidney, but Angie, Benny, and Max don't, and George doesn't know what to do.

The family dog Mr. Needles is sick, so the family takes him to the vet, and they find out he has a tumor. The family plans to put him to sleep but George promises God he would crawl on his knees up the cobblestone path to the Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico, if Mr. Needles gets better. Surprisingly, Mr. Needles' tumor is removed. George then tries to get out of going to Mexico, but the pastor he ends up going anyway.

Max wins an award at school for being the most improved special ed kid. Angie rewards him by taking him to Disneyland. George doesn't want to go because he doesn't want to see what he missed as a child. Then he changes his mind and he goes with Benny and looks for the rest of the group. They meet at the tea cup ride. Meanwhile, Mel's son Zack falls for Carmen and follows her to Disneyland. George doesn't want the two to see each other. At first, Carmen doesn't like Zack because of what George said about him, but he buys her jewelry and she falls for him. At the end of the episode George goes to Disneyland again by himself.

First appearance of Zack Powers

Benny and Randy are about to get married, they are planning their wedding and bachelor party. Accident Amy returns from the hospital and tries to win Randy back. George then catches them kissing and gets mad at Randy, but he refuses to tell Benny. Benny finds out about the kiss through Angie. Randy then has to choose between Benny and Amy and Benny and Randy break up.

George and Angie find Carmen's diary and read that she's been dating Zack for quite a while. When Carmen arrives home from school she tells them she is maturing and she can do whatever she wants. George snaps and tells her that if she can't live by their rules, she should just leave. The next morning Carmen tells George that she's sorry and that she'll stop seeing Zack. At Max's 5th grade graduation, Angie gets a call from Carmen and she tells them that she's leaving with Zack and she isn't coming back. Meanwhile, Randy trys to get back together with Benny, and suceeds in the end.

Carmen is calling George and Angie on Zack's cell phone, but, upon reaching a verbal argument with her father, Carmen hangs up. Cutting to Carmen, Zack emerges from a nearby beer store, with a vodka bottle in his hand. He wants to have sex with Carmen drunk. With Carmen still gone, George goes on a hunt for her and eventually finds her in San Francisco with rapper Chingy. He finally gets her to return home, but the problems aren't over yet. Carmen declares that she is a woman due to her recent experiences and she can do whatever she wants. Guest Starring: Carrot Top and Chingy.

When George mistakenly thinks he is going to be named VP of Powers Brothers, he whips out his "VP Dance", only to find the company has merged with another corporation and jobs such as Benny's and Ernie's need to be cut. Plus, George is appointed a new co-manager, Vanessa Brooks (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) a beautiful and cunning woman who George fears will take his job. His fears are confirmed when she tricks George into believing she'll help and presenting George to be a sentimental fool not worthy of the job of manager. But George is able to save his job by showing the Powers Brothers the power of family and also, in a twist, is forced to take a pay cut and promote his co-manager to VP.

George becomes frustrated with Max' dentist when he accuses Max of being a wimp for getting his braces loosened. George then lobbies to have the company's dental plan changed, by sneaking behind Jack and Mel's backs. Eventually, it turns out Max only wanted to get his braces so loosened they would be taken off, all because of a girl he likes, so George has Jack and Mel pretend to fire him to teach Max a lesson.

George uses a fake wedding for his boss as a cover to renew his vows with Angie, but with Angie planning the fake wedding, she begins to ask too many details. Jack buys a woman named "Dell" as a fake wife so on the day of the real wedding, George can tell the truth.

With guest star Robert Rodriguez and his band Chingon.

When Benny's house burns down along with her living savings due to a lit cigarette near her flammable drapes, she expects George and Angie to take her into their home which George is against at first, but in the end takes her in. Carmen is determined to marry her boyfriend Jason and have a baby with him, much to George and Angie's dismay. The next morning, Jason and his belongings are gone because he did not want to have a baby, and Carmen pressured sex all the time.

After refusing Benny's pleas for a new car, and when Benny bribes Carmen to bring her to a bar, George and Angie are forced to drive Benny around. Angie quits after being invited to a make-out between Benny and her guest. George then brings the ten friends to Circus Burger, but the ten friends started screaming all over the place when George asked them to be quiet. After a while George parked in front of a young man that wanted to race him, George eventually had a problem with the law.

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.

George has to go to a school assembly but finds out it is only for parents who didn't go to college; but George doesn't want to go because he thinks college is a waste of time. After a consultant who went to college is hired to help, George finds out that college isn't a waste of time and goes himself. However, he struggles with his microeconomics class, and is known as a class clown in school. The professor tries to help him, but George refuses.

When things get tough for George, he drops out of school. He tries to keep it a secret from his wife and kids but his professor drops by for an unexpected visit to give Angie food because George lied to her and said that he was joining the Army, and that Lim's husband was also an Army who was killed in battle. When George tells the truth, Tracy gets mad, and leaves.

Angie's sister-in-law passes away, and during the funeral, George surprises the entire Palmero family when Angie's aunt picks him as the trustee of his niece's multi-million dollar inheritance. However, George is strict with Veronica, and refuses to give her the money unless she is mature enough, and only gives her a $40-a-week allowance. Max develops a crush on Veronica, and helps her shoplift pretty clothes. The next day, Veronica gets a job at the mall, but she quits and goes to the bar, where she gets high on marijuana. George forces Veronica to enroll in college.

Guest Stars: Aimee Garcia as Veronica and Maria Canals Barrera as Aunt.

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 Freddie when he and Chris take a business trip to Los Angeles. Ernie tries to get along with Chris. They all realize that Max and Zoey were really chatting and become friends.

Special Guest Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr. as Freddie Moreno, Brian Austin Green as Chris and Chloe Suazo as Zoey Moreno

George takes over planning a wedding for one of Angie's rich clients (special guest star Eva Longoria) in order to prove he can do her job better than she can. This episodes ends of George spending his commission on a picture of him holding a cigar that appears in "George Nieces a New Media Room".

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; after Benny reunites with her ex, Ernie tells George that Benny's ex robbed a convenience store and calls the cops, though it is for a past crime Benny committed; Angie has been feeling sick for a few days and awaits the results of a home pregnancy test; Carmen is afraid to open her final college letter after being rejected by Northwestern, Iowa and Columbia; Max has swiped a forbidden beer and is about to sample his first alcohol; and Vic prepares to propose marriage to a 27-year-old woman he barely knows.

Just as Carmen prepares to go off to her college in Vermont and George and Angie begin looking forward to being empty nesters, Angie discovers that the Lopez family could be growing due to Angie's pregnancy. Meanwhile, there is much going on in the Lopez house. George's job is in jeopardy, Benny faces jail time for a crime from 30 years ago, Max has a hangover and Vic contemplates engagement to a 27 year old. Angie finds out she isn't really pregnant, but keeps it from George.

Angie maintains her story that she's pregnant to keep George from missing Carmen, even though she finds out the test was wrong. Vic introduces George and Angie to his 27-year-old fiance Lindsay, who loves Vic only for his money, and uses him to get expensive items. Note: From this episode onward, Aimee Garcia is featured in the opening credits.

George has just finished remodeling Carmen's room into a new entertainment room, watching Clint Eastwood movies with surround sound, but Veronica returns, announcing her trust fund has been frozen by a relative, threatening her with bankruptcy. Angie forces George to allow Veronica to stay in the new room, and Veronica brings her new boyfriend, her college professor who has a trust issue with his wife. The professor dumps his wife, and annoys George so much that during a birthday bash for Benny, George calls her a "rostitude" (prostitute). After she dumps him, he begins to stalk her, which ends with George punching him in the face, getting the professor arrested and George's TV being destroyed. After that, the cops told Veronica she can put a restraining order against the teacher.

When Luisa Diaz, Benny's estranged mother, turns on her daughter during trial, Benny must rely on George's testimony, which helps her by getting her out of jail and she has to do several hundred hours of community service. Guest Starring: Rita Moreno

Following being humiliated at work, George drinks some tequila (with the worm), and hallucinates that he and Ernie are gay sweethearts who are soon to be united as life partners. Ernie gives up on meeting women for good.

When Angie gets concerned about losing her sexy looks while trying to get free satellite from the installer, George asks his niece, Veronica, to tone her sexuality down who was successful with the cable man. Angie continues to compare herself to Veronica, who is 10-20 years younger. George and Angie get invited to a party, but Angie dresses nearly nude in a nurse outfit in a desperate attempt to be sexy.

An ex-sexual predator moves into the neighborhood so George warns Max not to go to her house. Nevertheless, one of George's neighbors (Tommy Chong) alerts George that Max has gone over there, but before anything happens George and Angie come to the molester's find a shirtless Max with a condom; after a talk they realize it was Max's idea to come to the house to have sex with the beautiful sex offender. George and Angie decide it's time to have "the talk" with Max. Final mention of Carmen.

When the love of Benny's life, Wayne returns to town, George builds a web of lies to keep them from reuniting, which includes death.

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 as part of a new health plan, Benny's nicotine withdrawals drive George to being forced away from her, because he makes Benny smoke. In the end, Benny quits working at the factory because George was going crazy knowing he's the reason she smokes.

The Lopez family strikes out against a new neighbor who's decorated his front lawn with an offensive art display (e.g. a statue of a sleeping Mexican).

Guest Star: Mario Lopez

Vic feigns fatherly love so George will play in a father-son golf tournament against his longtime rival and his son, (played by Oscar De La Hoya). But George gets angry after discovering Vic's true intentions and throws the game.

Final mention of Mr. Needles

George puts Max to work at the factory to emphasize the importance of education and to pay for a new computer, but Max soon wants to stay at the factory forever. Powers Aviation's workers are worried when a rumor spreads that the new owner of the factory is moving it to Mexico and everyone loses their jobs.

Absent: Aimee Garcia as Veronica

In the series finale, a multimillionaire (played by special guest star Edward James Olmos) buys Powers Aviation and asks George to stay on board if he's willing to consider making some major life changes (e.g. moving to Phoenix, Arizona; ironically, or coincidentally, the same city his father lived in, but this is not said in the episode). George almost agrees, but soon agrees to a factory boycott when everyone comes and tells him how much they'll miss him, including Benny (which she admits she wouldn't really miss him). The owner agrees to keep the original workers and George ends up running the factory on his own, due to the departure of Jack and Mel. Also, the multimillionaire found out he would be able to get some tax credits by keeping the factory with the original workers.