George Lopez - Episode Guide

It falls to newly promoted manager George to decide who's going to be laid off: his best friend or his mother, which would require her to move in with him and his family. Benny: Benita Moreno. Carmen: Masiela Lusha. Powers: Jack Blessing.

Benny urges George to spy on Carmen when she brings a boy home for the first time.

Co-executive producer Sandra Bullock plays an accident-prone worker in an episode about George's distaste for birthday parties.

George pulls tricks on Max to test his "street smarts"; George and Benny hold auditions for a spot in their carpool.

George learns the father who abandoned him is alive, contrary to what his mother had told him. Also, Angie brings home a sick dog.

The "cool" girls court Carmen, but not her best friend; George is tempted by another firm after he's dissed by his bosses.

George goes into denial when Max is thought to have dyslexia, and things only get worse when Angie suggests he may have it, too.

Carmen goes into a funk after her best friend moves away; George is ordered to fire a worker with calamities in his personal life.

Max's coach asks George to have him sit out the next game. Rod Carew, Steve Garvey, Joe Morgan and Jim Palmer have cameos.

Sandra Bullock reprises her role as "Accident Amy," a worker who competes with George as both try to sell their kids' fund-raising candy bars.

Angie doesn't mind when George offers their backyard for a friend's wedding reception. But his refusal to dance there is another story.

After George's warning about the evils of boys, Carmen comes home with a hickey; Ernie uses Max to meet single moms.

George's search for his father may end when he meets a former plant worker (Cheech Marin) who had a drunken fling with Benny.

Angie's charity work includes badgering George into taking on an intern (Tonantzin Esparza), who is more hindrance than help in his office.

George can do little right when Angie's parents come to spend Christmas in the Lopez home.

Hoping to hear the words "thank you," George surprises Benny by remodeling her bathroom. But her response is hardly a surprise. Benny: Belita Moreno. Angie: Constance Marie. Ernie: Valente Rodriguez.

Benny refuses to see her dying brother, until it appears that she can get his Super Bowl tickets.

Ernie tries to help when Angie learns the big romantic gesture that made her fall for George was a lie.

A slander of Carmen sends George to her school's conflict manager---the bully who beat him up 30 years earlier.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays George Lopez, a man the Lopezes encounter via a credit snag. And there's another link between the two Georges: their father.

George's birthday surprise for Angie is a visit from her dad and her sister, who surprises George with a clandestine kiss.

Fearing they'll lose a Government contract, George's bosses tell him to demote an Arabian inspector who knows how to fly. Hosni: Jason Antoon.

Benny decides to milk a spill at work into a disability claim, despite not being injured and being drunk at the time.

Angie wants to take in George's homeless assistant, who takes Carmen under her wing by dressing her older and taking her to a club.

Though Carmen catches Max peeping at her friend (Ashley Tisdale), she's the one who's punished, for her retaliation, which she takes a step further.

Hilary Duff plays a cosmetics saleswoman who trains Angie; George's generous review nets Ernie a promotion to a post George feels is beyond his capability.

An accident puts the family in financial jeopardy, so George visits a loan shark. But Benny has a better idea.

In the second-season finale, George comes face-to-face with his father after Benny gives him a long-lost note from the man.

The president visits George's plant, inspiring Carmen to protest his appearance and George to steal his speech. Part 1 of two.

Conclusion. George's father wants to make amends, but Benny vehemently opposes.

Troubles in his father-in-law's marriage prompt George to suspect problems in his own when Angie goes out with a girlfriend.

Benny's symptoms suggesting menopause turn out to be something entirely different, and George gets a surprise as well. Linda: Lisa Guerrero. Randy: Nick Offerman. Vic: Emiliano Diez. Nurse: Indira Gibson.

Carmen receives permission to date a boy who meets George's criteria, but raises other questions when he doesn't actually take her anywhere.

George's innocent remark sparks sibling warfare between his bosses, who both court him when they split the company in two.

With the plant closed temporarily, workers help turn the Lopez abode into a haunted house to raise money for an expectant father.

Laid-off George wants to cancel Carmen's costly coming-of-age party, but breadwinner Angie says party on.

George and Ernie accompany Vic to rescue his Cuban-refugee brother off the Florida coast; Benny helps Max throw a fake birthday party to get gifts George can't afford.

News of his father's illness prompts George to invite him for Thanksgiving, where an update from his step-brother puts George in a bind.

Plans for George's gift to his father are halted; George accidentally tosses Angie's mementos of her grandmother; Carmen starts working at the burrito place where George did as a boy.

Although warned that his eavesdropping might get him in trouble with Santa, Max does it again, hearing a conversation that shakes his belief.

After Benny slaps Max for insolence, Angie and George learn he forged a signature on a note from his teacher warning that he's failing.

Trouble at home causes Max's best friend Ricky to stay with the Lopezes, bringing trouble there as well.

George reluctantly joins Max in prayerful bargains with God to save the family's ailing dog, but reneges when the pooch survives.

Benny's boyfriend, Randy, breaks up with her after she disdains his desire for a more serious involvement.

Fed up with the kids' spoiled behavior, George sentences them to spend a week at Benny's, living the way he was brought up.

When Max's tutor proves too distracting, Carmen's boyfriend offers to fill in, though he barely has enough time for Carmen.

Manning the dunk tank at a school fair, George offends a patron, whose payback involves a revealing picture of a freshly dunked Angie. Baseball's Kenny Lofton has a cameo.

Laila Ali has a cameo as George and Vic hope to alleviate Max's stress by starting him boxing, but they tell Angie he's taking art classes.

George won't forgive Vic's $50 poker debt, despite owing the man thousands for the loan that rebuilt their fire-damaged garage.

George is honored with a local business award, but Benny gives him no congratulations, though she's quick to praise Randy's video-game win.

George has little patience in teaching Carmen to drive, but he's better help than Benny, who's caught with a beer while riding with her.

George refuses to join the family at Disneyland until he clears the air with Benny about why he's never been there.

Sandra Bullock returns as "Accident" Amy, who used to go with Benny's fiancé, Randy --- and wants to again.

After a tantrum at work and a slug at a teasing co-worker, the recently dumped Benny is the top suspect when the factory is vandalized.

After dumping bad-boy Zack, Carmen quickly finds a new boyfriend, but George just as quickly finds a problem with the boy.

George gives Carmen an ultimatum regarding Zack; Randy tries to win back Benny with help from the Commodores.

Chingy and Carrot Top appear as George gets a lead on Carmen's location from the guy who took her there.

Carmen's insistence on being treated like an adult prompts George to charge her rent. So she takes in a roommate.

After forgetting their anniversary, George wants to buy Angie a ring he couldn't afford before, but the one she chooses is still beyond his means.

Angie decides to home school Carmen after her private school rejects her and Angie's employer goes under. Janet: Kaitlin Olson.

George dreams of his family as "The Munsters," "The Jetsons" and the "Leave It to Beaver" Cleavers, who all urge him to get life insurance.

Popularity issues plague both Carmen and Max, but in their efforts to improve, only one gets arrested.

George interviews for a job in Colorado, but lies that it's just a vacation to the kids, who find their new environment not so different from L.A.

In Colorado, George pushes the kids to enjoy their new freedom, but their old activities set town tongues wagging.

A merger saddles George with a co-manager, whom he not-so-subtly tries to investigate when she dines at the Lopezes'.

To counter the kids' Christmas greed, George decrees a one-gift-only policy, then worries that Max will suffer with Benny as his secret Santa. BMX bicycle racing champ Dave Mirra appears.

Carmen wants birth-control pills for her 16th birthday, and Angie and George blame her boyfriend Jason, prompting a talk with him.

Ernie dates his foster son's mom, a recovering alcoholic with other problems that don't endear her to George.

George goes behind his bosses' backs to their retired partner/brother to try to get a better dental plan. Dr. Holland: Michael Clarke Duncan.

George has another encounter with his sister, who wants to meet the mother who gave her up for adoption.

After an earthquake, Carmen and George are afraid to reenter the house, so they set up camp in the backyard.

Flashbacks show how newlyweds George and Angie lived with Benny, until an incident George hasn't known the entire truth about, until now.

George plans to surprise Angie with a renewal of their vows by luring her to a fake wedding for his boss. Cameos include William Hung and Rip Taylor.

George and Angie catch Carmen and her boyfriend Jason in a lie about his parents, who recently moved out of the country.

Hilary Duff plays a feminist poet who inspires Carmen to enter a poetry slam, casting her in a new light for George.

George's imagination runs wild when Angie has lunch with an old boyfriend, who's now a local anchorman.

George objects when Vic dates his sister --- who has a few choice words of her own for George.

To build Angie's garage-office, George hires two old pals, who keep costs low --- and permits invisible. Jim Belushi appears as an inspector. Bobby: Danny Trejo. Victor: Ricardo Antonio Chavira.

Stacy Keach plays Jason's father, whose financial aid can't cover misjudgments in Jason's behavior.

In the fourth-season finale, George blows Jason's shot at a football scholarship. Daunte Culpepper and Donovan McNabb have cameos.

Angie and George react to Carmen's determination to marry Jason. Also, misfortune befalls Benny, affecting the whole family.

George wants to help Benny get an apartment, until he learns where her money goes; and Carmen is in denial about Jason breaking up with her.

Benny shows all the signs of clinical depression, and may lose her job for taking so much time off. L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a cameo. Biker: Duane "Dog" Chapman.

Benny's lack of a car wears on the family as George, Angie and Carmen are called on as chauffeurs.

With Benny increasingly getting on George's nerves, Vic suggests killing her with kindness---but she proves indestructible.

After staying a few days with Ernie---and his parents---to escape his own mother, George encourages Ernie to get his own place.

Richard Lewis plays the therapist Max sees after a school shooting, which doesn't affect him as much as the battle between George and Benny.

On their anniversary, Angie and George plan to read long-lost letters they exchanged before they married. But at least one should stay lost.

After George embarrasses Benny at work, she takes some time off, but not for the reason he thinks.

Angie and George's premarital advice for a couple prompts a competition to see who does more work in their marriage.

George has second thoughts about spending Christmas alone after he lies to get out of a holiday reunion with Angie's family.

A college-educated consultant with a similar background inspires George to take classes and set an example for Max.

George drops his community-college course because it's too hard, but he can't tell the family because he doesn't want to set a bad example for Max, who has finally begun to study in school.

Angie doesn't like how George instructs Max about having a girlfriend. But Max's bed-wetting is indicative of a further problem. Dr. Woodson: Ken Howard. Kristi: Ashly Holloway.

Angie's rich former sister-in-law dies and leaves everything to her spoiled 20-year-old daughter, Veronica (Aimee Garcia). But she can't get her money until George---who's the trustee of the will---decides she's mature enough to handle it.

George decides to teach his rich niece Veronica a lesson in the value of honest labor by getting her a job at the factory. Trouble is, the men want to do all of her work, and the boss wants to do something else with her.

Andy Garcia guest stars as Angie's brother Ray, a con artist who reappears after five years. Could it have something to do with the fact that his daughter, Veronica, inherited millions? As it happens, Ray wants to help his daughter with her business venture.

Ernie needs to lose weight or else Mel will fire him, so George plays diet guru. But first he must play psychologist, because Ernie won't admit that he has a problem.

In a crossover episode with "Freddie," Max has struck up an online friendship with Freddie's niece Zoey (Chloe Suazo). George finds out and assumes that "Zoey" is really a pervert. In Chicago, Freddie assumes the same thing about Max.

After belittling Angie's job as a wedding planner, George becomes one himself---taking on an impossibly demanding client whom Angie dumped to show that anything she can do he can do better.

After Benny berates him for not giving her a work prize she thinks she deserved, George dreams (with the aid of a spiked drink) that she's really a warm and caring mother---and that he's a mama's boy. It's anything but a wonderful life.

Ernie tells George that the factory is moving to Mexico and that they'll both be out of jobs; Benny flees when she learns that the police want to question her about a robbery; a nauseated Angie awaits the results of a home-pregnancy test; Carmen is afraid to open her final college letter after three rejections; Max is tempted by beer; and Vic prepares to propose to a young woman he barely knows.

Angie tells George she's pregnant, and Benny's off to jail after she's arrested as an accessory to the convenience-store robbery. So George has to find a lawyer (Adam West). And that won't be his only expense: Carmen got accepted into college. Meanwhile, Vic announces that he's getting married again, to a 27-year-old.

Angie claims that she's pregnant to keep George from missing Carmen, and Vic introduces his not-too-bright young fiancée to the family.

The Lopez house becomes too crowded for comfort when niece Veronica and her boyfriend, Mike, move in.

At her trial, Benny must rely on George's testimony since her lawyer and even her mother have all turned on her.

George hallucinates that he and Ernie are gay and about to be married after downing a worm along with his drink at Thirsty's Bar, where he has gone to drown his sorrows after a humiliating day at work. Making matters worse, he and Angie are fighting because of his reluctance to open up about his problems.

George seeks help from a popular reality-TV show in order to expose Vic's cheating, gold-digging fiancée (Stacy Keibler).

When Angie becomes concerned about losing her looks, George asks his gorgeous niece Veronica to tone down her sex appeal.

George's lousy memory gets him into trouble when Angie's mother dies.

When a sexual predator moves into the neighborhood, George and Angie decide it's time to finally have "the talk" about sex with Max.

George and Angie hire a maid (Barbara Eden) who cooks and cleans her way into George's heart, and this doesn't sit well with Benny.

The love of Benny's life (Jerry Springer) is back in town, and George builds a web of lies to keep the two from reuniting.

George and Angie bet over who can live more frugally.

George tries to relive his high-school days by teaching Max to play the guitar. But George wishes he could take it all back when Max moves on without him and joins a rock band. George Lopez's daughter, Mayan, plays Jackie; Andy Garcia directed.

When Powers Aviation institutes a smoking ban, Benny's nicotine withdrawal drives George to self-destructive behavior.

The Lopezes strike out against a new neighbor, who has put offensive decorations on his front lawn. Meanwhile, George and Angie run into an old friend, who takes an interest in Veronica.

Vic feigns fatherly affection to get George to play in a father-son golf tournament against his longtime rival and his son, Tony.

George puts Max to work at the factory to make him realize that the way to a better job is to go to school first.

Powers Aviation is sold, and the new owner asks George to make major life changes if he wants to stay on. And Benny's long-lost love finally gives her a chance at living happily ever after.