In the "fantasy dream flashbacks", in which George supposedly has when he's trying to describe to his son Max what his dad Manny, whom he's not seen since he was two, and doesn't remember how he looked, might look and act like, Manny's played first by Esai Morales in "Who's Your Daddy?" All rights reserved. The series is produced by Fortis Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Manny's personality was commonly depicted as being abusive toward his son and former wife in his few appearances before he dies of kidney disease. Other characters include Angie's indulgent father, wealthy doctor Vic Palmero, who is not very fond of George; and George's best childhood friend Ernie Cardenas, noted for his socially-awkward behavior and unsuccessful attempts at dating. Gina and Benny are frenemies, and at one point an implication was hinted that she may be bisexual. If you have kids with her, your mom and I will have to pay a dollar to visit our grandkids at the carnival.". In the pilot episode, "Prototype," George gets promoted to manager of Powers & Sons Aviation (usually seen as Powers Bros.), an airplane parts factory. At one point, George learned Angie's ex-boyfriend dumped her before meeting him, making him think she "dropped a level" so she wouldn't get dumped again. How can I help your ass?" When they meet again, Joe only gives Benny a $10. He is also an avid sports fan of teams such as the Oakland Raiders, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ernie is somewhat envious of George because although they grew up together, George's life led to a beautiful wife with two children and him being manager, while Ernie gained no such thing and has been on the manufacturing floor for almost 30 years. Afterward, albeit Mr. 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. Stubborn, Benny often hates to admit her mistakes, accept apologies, or reconcile with others, and her relentless alcoholism and strong addiction to smoking is frequently poked fun at by her disrespectful son. Esai Morales who plays Manny Lopez, George's father, is actually two years younger than George Lopez. At the start of the series, he and Angie were very much in love. George's son Max is attracted to her, saying he loves her. She disapproves of the constant fighting between George and Benny and consistently tries to mend fences between them. Privacy Policy Or in "George Nieces a New Video Room", where Veronica's ex-boyfriend leaves her a giant stuffed animal in the backyard and George says that he will use it as Angie's anniversary gift and then says ("Now that doesn't mean you won't get that set of diamond earrings you asked for - but you're not"). However, her judgment of right and wrong is not always the best, and she has performed daring acts of defiance against her parents' wishes if she feels the urge to protest against supposed injustices in her parents' orders or security in a certain environment. More than a decade after the George Lopez show went off-air, the comedian has returned to the small screen with another family-friendly sitcom series. Manuel "Manny" Lopez (played by William Marquez and portrayed as younger by Amaury Nolasco and Esai Morales) is George, Linda and George II's father, Angie's father-in-law, Benny's ex-husband, Lydia's husband, and Carmen and Max's paternal grandfather. This made her a source of jealousy among other girls her age and leaves her with few friends, thus leaving her with extremely low self-esteem. George finally gets to meet her for the first time at a Valley School district meeting in the episode "Feel the Burn". Later, George learns from the other George that Manny lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his construction buisness and is now rich. Max and George had a close relationship together as father and son at the beginning of the series but as the series progressed and Max became a teenager, their relationship together became more estranged. Comedian George Lopez had been performing standup throughout the early 1990s, expressing interest in having his own comedy television show like Seinfeld. All Rights Reserved. Per Variety, the two were estranged for . At another time, when Benny said she would never see George again after an argument, George said he would (when he's called to identify Benny's dead body)- "That's her. George often backs down from his wife, which prompts Benny to tease him on the inevitable fact she's actually the "man" in their marriage. Born in 1996, Mayan is George's only child. Manny, wishing to estabish a relationship with George, drops charges on George, and he is released, as George invites him to have dinner over at his house, so that Manny could meet Angie and the kids. 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T. R. S. Ranking Report: 01 Thru 210", "Getting Funny, Not Angry: Comedy: George Lopez deals with the stereotyping of Latinos by using humor to help fight the slights. George [to Benny after Manny dies]: You know, I used to feel sorry he walked out on you, now I'm sorry he didn't take me with him. George married Angie Palmero right out of high school and had two children, Carmen and Max. Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter [10] The George Lopez Show was seen as an attempt from ABC to diversify their programming, while still appealing to the widest possible audience. [22] The sixth and final season was released on November 24, 2015. But George and Angie learn that he is enduring a childhood similar to and even somewhat worse than George's: a missing father and a drunken mother. Carmen gets suspended from school when she gets in a fight with Piper. Angie responds by pulling away and giving him a disgusted look. When Manny left, he took George's birth certificate, later used to legalize his 2nd son, George Lopez, George's half brother, with the same name. George often buys expensive jerseys of the teams and wears them on his days off. After taking Carmen out to a club, she is kicked out and ends up with Benny. 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". 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. Angie could not choose between the first three names while George wanted their son named after someone famous. But as the series progresses, their marriage becomes more and more competitive, disputing on issues such as who's a better parent or who does more work in the house. Aggravated by her parents' limits, Carmen often performs acts of rebellion against them as a means of proving her maturity and independence, albeit her father often fears for her virginity. His wife, Angie's mother Emilina, cheated on him by having a prolonged affair and they divorced early in season 3. This eventually stops, and seems like Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, but considering he never showed up, he was actually probably fired. The couple - who wed in July . He is an incompetent, big-eared, clumsy, dim-witted, but loyal and lovable character. Angie was most upset, though, in the season 3 episode "Mementos", where George proves he has failed to listen to her and throws an irreplaceable box of her grandmother's mementos away while spring cleaning, and this spawns an entire list of occasions in which his failure to listen to Angie at an earlier time (usually not seen by the viewers) comes back to haunt him in one of the episodes. He was known for his on-again-off-again romance with Carmen. He is the son of Manny and Benny Lopez. On September 8, 2020, the show was removed from syndication on Nick at Nite, ending its almost 13-year run on the network. "Outstanding Cinematography For A Multi Camera Series Nominees / Winners 2004", "Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi Camera Series Nominees / Winners 2005", US ABC network to offer more shows dubbed in Spanish, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Lopez_(TV_series)&oldid=1142208394, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 02:51. At Thanksgiving dinner later that year, Manny is revealed to need a kidney transplant, so George offers to donate his kidney. (He clearly thinks Benny is going to hell when she dies.). He claimed he "saw one boob through one window and the other boob through the other window." George was infuriated by his actions and Zach admitted his intentions to George during a confrontation. Taylor is the backup dancer for Chingy. In her first appearance, however, she was shown to be average size and played by Lillian Hurst. 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. Comedian Gabriel Iglesias, whose work is uncredited, used his imitation of his mother's voice. 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. Though when Carmen was no longer affected by this, it's left questionable as to why she was not put back in public school. Jack and Mel Powers (Jack Blessing and Mark Tymchyshyn) are the co-presidents of Powers Brothers Aviation, the airplane manufacturing factory that employs George, Benny, and Ernie. Bullock executive produced the show; normally a film actress, Bullock's three episodes as Amy are her only television acting credits in the twenty-first century. Like his father, Max suffers from dyslexia, which is a lot more severe than George's dyslexia. At some point during the second George's childhood, Manny, his second son, and wife, Lydia, had a dog whom Manny named "Benny" after his ex-wife. Jason was abandoned by his parents, so George and Angie took him in. 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". And what happens?"[13]. Television. In the episode where Carmen wants to get birth-control pills for safe sex, Vic says that he lost his virginity in a field "with the sound of revolution in the background." He has two daughters and one son. She usually has been misled through someone else's deception or by her own desires (such as when she ran away from home with the womanizing Zach Powers and later insisted upon re-decorating her bedroom symbolically in order to match with her supposed maturity). EPISODE 48. Despite this, Angie was extremely whip-smart. Towards the conclusion of the series, Carmen left for college and the role filled by her character was replaced through the addition of her snobbish, overindulged, wealthy cousin Veronica, whose trust fund has been left in George's care after the death of her mother and who debuted shortly before Carmen's departure. Piper (Autumn Reeser) is Carmen's former friend turned nemesis. Throughout the series, this has been heavily implied but never implicitly said. George Lopez, commonly referred to as The George Lopez Show,[1] is an American sitcom created by George Lopez, Bruce Helford and Robert Borden, which originally aired for six seasons, consisting of 120 episodes, on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007. Another notable fact about her marriage with George is their infatuation with each other. George Lopez Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. 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. 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. "Amazon.com: George Lopez: The Complete First and Second Seasons (HD)" Retrieved on June 24, 2014. Benny lied to George, telling him Manny had died in a car accident. Throughout grade school, he and Ernie had the reputation of being outcasts or "unpopular". George tracks down Manny, and talked to him. He is a Cuban immigrant who became rich as a cardiac surgeon when he arrived in America. Despite all this, Angie still loves him. Never a major hit in primetime, the show became an unexpected success in syndication. The part of Vic is played by Emiliano Diez. scaring the living daylights out of Vic and Octavio, who angrily pursue him. Many episode plots were established through his stay in the Lopez household. The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth: Season 8, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1, Link to Marvel Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. There is no Audience Score because there are not enough user ratings at this time. She got George in trouble with the Powers Brothers for not responding to important calls. One of his catchphrases is "Ay Dios Mio" meaning "Oh My God" in Spanish. George!'") But before he dies, he gives Benny the tickets. . 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). 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. He is also dyslexic, which often comes into play on the show. He actually appears in three episodes, and appears in a dream flashback of George's in one of the episodes. And I walked in on her checking a man for moles in a place where sun damage is not a possibility!"). This may be because she was pampered like a princess during her childhood. [9] Bullock had been interested in developing a TV show with a Latino storyline, being concerned about the lack of visibility for Latinos on American television. to which Joe replies, "Who told you?" 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