Maximilian Victor Roberto Magic Johnson "Max" Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia) is George and Angie's second-born child and only son, Carmen's younger brother and Vic, Benny, Emelina and Manny's grandson. In Lopez vs. Lopez, George and his daughter discover that theyre not that different after all which is also true IRL. How can I help your ass?" She rebelliously fled to San Francisco with him against George and Angie's wishes in one episode. When individual episodes have scores, they will influence the final season score. Vic does not care. 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. The series finale aired on May 8, 2007, after the show was canceled by ABC. Privacy Policy 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. During the show's fifth season, Aimee Garcia was cast as George's niece, Veronica. 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. George! I shared all of that with Americaevery secret I had Every emotion. Carmen Consuela Lopez (Masiela Lusha) is the daughter of the Lopez family; Max's older sister; granddaughter of Vic, Benny, Emelina and Manny. Ricky (J.B. Gaynor) is Max's closest friend. 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. Though aside from all this, they both truly love each other. George eventually and successfully negotiated Jason's pro baseball contract with the Washington Nationals farm team, the Savannah Sand Gnats. Benny: Do you know why he's holding you? Dr. Victor "Vic" Garcia Lantigua Palmero (Born August 26, 1942) is a recurring character who later becomes a main character on the ABC-TV series George Lopez in Season Six. By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and But Angie eventually finds out that George didn't really paint it. 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. And what happens?"[13]. Randy (Nick Offerman) used to date Benny. After convincing George that his father had died, Benny showed her son an abusive, dysfunctional home life and childhood, desensitizing him to her constant criminal actions as if they were any normal occurrences, guarding numerous other secrets from her son as well that were unveiled during his adulthood. Veronica is a talented poker player; in Season 6 she beats Ernie, George, and Vic in a game. that Benny was in turn raised in an abusive environment. In reality, Zach was only trying to lure her into having sexual intercourse before dumping her. On April 17, 2007, Warner Home Video released seasons 1 and 2 on DVD in Region 1. 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. She is known for having an attitude problem and for being very rude to people. 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. He also suffered from insomnia at one point due to the stress of having to work harder than anyone due to his dyslexia, so Vic suggested he take up boxing to help him cope with anxiety. 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. In a later episode, Ernie becomes engaged to Ricky's mother, after she informs Ernie she is pregnant with his child. 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 . In the episode "Mementos", George gets a posthumous letter from Manny, telling him his dying wish was that neither George nor Benny attend his funeral, as he had a reputation he wanted to protect, as his friends and associates would not look favorably upon a man who abandoned a wife and young child, as he did Benny and George many years earlier. 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. A prime example is when George believed his mom died in a house fire and was genuinely anxious. At the start of the series, he and Angie were very much in love. This is a list of characters from George Lopez. 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. Carmen doesn't exactly have good taste in men; she often falls for the handsome popular jock with a sob story. She told Max "What we called discipline is now called child abuse". Whenever he torments his sister, George will usually enable and/or encourage his behavior. At Thanksgiving dinner later that year, Manny is revealed to need a kidney transplant, so George offers to donate his kidney. The series was also shown on Paramount Global sister networks MTV Tres and TV Land. After confessing to leaving Carmen at a nightclub, he runs outside where Benny hits him with a wrench. Much to George's fury, Manny has prohibited his son's family from attending his funeral in protection of his reputation. 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. Along with her role in Mr. Troop Mom, shes also appeared in Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie, TMI Hollywood, and Celebrity Family Feud. In the three episodes which he actually appears, Manny is played by William Marquez. Despite his usually good-natured personality, he had been known to cheat on her and break up with her constantly in exchange for different and more experienced girls. 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. Carmen loves poetry and romance. 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. On Lopez Tonight, the real George Lopez stated that he had a best friend named Ernie in real life who he based the character off of. Piper (Autumn Reeser) is Carmen's former friend turned nemesis. He ran away from Carmen to pursue a baseball career after she tried to pressure him into having a baby so they could get married. Born in 1996, Mayan is George's only child. Like Angie, Carmen has unrivaled beauty. Manny dies in Momentos, the next episode, before the surgery. Gina and Benny are frenemies, and at one point an implication was hinted that she may be bisexual. 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. ABOUT GEORGE. George and Ernie worked at Mr. Carrillo's restaurant during high school. Manny wrote a letter to George before he died and requested that neither George or Benny attend his funeral, not wanting to draw negative attention and risk his reputation. 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". Per Variety, the two were estranged for about a decade before the pandemic brought them back together. After taking Carmen out to a club, she is kicked out and ends up with Benny. 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. One episode focused on Mr. It's possible that he died because of this because it is mentioned to be serious. 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. ", 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!.. George's relationship with his mom revolves around insulting each other, briefly complimenting each other, and insulting each other some more. Max had a crush on Taylor. : Directed by Lee Shallat Chemel. Like his father, Max suffers from dyslexia, which is a lot more severe than George's dyslexia. 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. The percentage of approved Tomatometer critics who have given this title a positive review. George is about to donate a kidney to Manny, but Manny dies before he can donate the kidney. [10] ABC executives were hopeful that Lopez's humor and relatability would draw a large family audience, focusing on marketing the series as much as possible. Television. She was a cheerleader in high school and was very popular. George warns him, "She's your first cousin; you have dyslexia. and the [11] Bullock, Helford, and two of the show's other executive producers met with ABC executives later that month, and the network tested the show with 4 episodes, before committing to 13 episodes the following fall and eventually adding an additional 9. Comedian Gabriel Iglesias, whose work is uncredited, used his imitation of his mother's voice. She disapproves of the constant fighting between George and Benny and consistently tries to mend fences between them. and "George's Relatively Bad Idea") is George's successful, long-lost sister who he never knew about until the episode "Feel the Burn", Benny and Manny's daughter, Angie's sister-in-law, Oscar Lopez's niece and Carmen and Max's Aunt. As soon as Manny insults Benny, George punches him in the face. Becomes a Brick Joke in 'George Drives the Batmobile', where the . Helford and Borden also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. 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. [13] Lopez also criticized ABC's decision to approve the show Cavemen, being perplexed at the circumstances: "So a Chicano can't be on TV, but a caveman can?" Meanwhile, Carmen gets a job working at the restaurant that George worked at as a teenager. Director John Pasquin Writers Bruce Helford George Lopez Robert Borden Stars George Lopez Constance Marie Masiela Lusha George and Angie raise money to send Carmen to private school. 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. His mother, Benny was neglectful and verbally abusive, which took a toll on George's childhood. He had a better attitude!" Many episode plots had often been established through George's discovery of a protected secret, such as the revelation of his having a sister named Linda (who had enjoyed a far more loving childhood after Benny had given her up for adoption), and many jokes had been brought up referencing one of Benny's numerous acts of child abuse directed toward George and mistreatment of him. George is of Mexican descent and proudly boasts about it several times throughout the series, though he occasionally makes jokes about it as well. She has told Ernie directly on the first encounter that he has big ears, told George that he has a big head, and she answered the office telephone "Hello, Powers Brothers Aviation. He has a brother, Octavio Palmero. When he first started dating Carmen, she was new at school and the two of them agreed not to show their relationship publicly to avoid the popular girls picking on Carmen. 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. 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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). [21] The fifth season was released on August 18, 2015. At the 9th ALMA Awards in 2007, George Lopez called the song the "Chicano National Anthem". George's character also goes through a big change over the course of the series. Joe picks up George's $20, disagrees with him about the money being his, and walks out. . Est loco! The series is produced by Fortis Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Amy's first appearance occurs at the plant when she returns from breaking her arm. 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. Benny often calls her "princess" sarcastically due to her being spoiled, and the two don't get along well. Ernesto "Ernie" Cardenas (Valente Rodriguez) has been George's best friend since the second grade. Randy leaves Benny at the altar to be with Amy, his former love interest, but returns and begs her to take him back. When he realizes Carmen was not going to give in and sleep with him, he breaks up with her and leaves her in San Francisco at a club before going back home. Everything was open to the show. Episodes from the first four seasons of George Lopez do not use those respective seasons' opening titles, the season five version is used instead (this is evident as Emiliano Diez is credited in the sequence, which is slightly longer than how they were originally broadcast on ABC, though there is also a short version also used in syndication that also differs from the original short opening credits that does not credit him for seasons 13, even though Diez did not make his first guest appearance until season two and did not become a cast regular until season four); the final two seasons use those seasons' appropriate versions of the opening credits. 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. Lopez drew much of the material for the show from his own life experiences, especially his upbringing in the San Fernando Valley. George's dad, Manny Lopez, died in this episode right before George donates a kidney to him. Mr. Piper and her other cool friends go on a website to post insulting comments; in the episode "Token of Unappreciation", they target Toby. 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. [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. When Angie's mother dies, George . So let's wrap her around the keg and start this party!" It is likely Manny named his second son George after his guilt of leaving his first son George. 'I enjoyed meeting your mother'."). 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. George Lopez Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. "; an example of what he thinks of her and her actions. She got George in trouble with the Powers Brothers for not responding to important calls. George!'") They broke up once because Randy wanted to take it to the next level but Benny didn't. 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"). 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