When he is informed that his long-thought-dead father is actually alive, George sets out to find him while Angie tries to nurse a sick dog back to health.
George is caught in a moral dilemma when his bosses ask him to assist on the assembly line while he weighs a competitor's job offer that may not be all its cracked up to be.
George reveals a secret about himself to Max to help him deal with his embarassment about his dyslexia.
George balances the stress of having to fire an employee plagued by bad luck by preparing for Halloween.
George desperatly tries to help Max improve his baseball game after he is booted from his team but realizes he has lost sight of what's truly important when he is "visited" by some famous baseball players.
George tries to help Max raise money to go to Cape Canaveral by selling chocolate bars and Carmen helps her grandmother look more attractive when she develops a crush on a co-worker.
George is in for a surprise when he uncharacteristically asks a drunk Angie to slow-dance at a wedding.
Upon the realization that Carmen is maturing, George and Angie decide to teach her "the facts of life" but their techiniques clash ending with mixed results.
After George discovers his mother had a fling with a man who looked a lot like him, he believes the man may be his real father an invites him to Thanksgiving dinner.
When Angie feels she has too much time on her hands she starts volunteering for charity but ends up taking on too much and needs the family's help to regain control.
When Angie's parents come to visit for Christmas from Cuba, George competes with her father to prove he is worthy of her.
In an effort to make his mother appreciate him more, George remodels his mother's bathroom, but his efforts do not produce the desired effects.
When George discovers his uncle is dying, he convinces his mom to reconcile their differences after a long running feud. Benny agrees, but her motives are to get his Superbowl tickets.
With Valentine's Day rolling around, Angie reminisces about a previous Valentine with George when he painted a mural of her in highschool. But reminiscing about the past brings the truth about the mural to bear and finds thatGeorge wasn't the artist after all.
Carmen's reputation at school is damaged by an angry ex-boyfriend who spreads a rumor prompting George and Angie to step in. But the guidance counselor at Carmen's school bullied George when he was a kid and doesn't help him out, making Carmen do the dirty work herself.
George and Angie decide to take a loan out to put Carmen into private school but George's is surprised by a bad credit report, which leads him to discover he has a half-brother from his father that he never knew about who is also named George Lopez.
As a birthday surprise for Gloria, George flies in her father and sister. But things go awry when Angie, Gloria's sister, kisses George.
In the hopes of getting a government contract, George's boss asks him to demote one of their employees because of his ethnic background.
George's job is put in jeapardy when Benny cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme.
Carmen gets into trouble when she retaliates against Max for peeping at her friend Marisol.
George is worried and concerned about Carmen's first day at her new school, which turns the family upside down. Also, Max develops a crush on Carmen's new high school friend.
When Ernie is made team leader at work, George has to hide his concern. Also, a cosmetics salesperson encourages Angie to lie to clients.
Financial hardship for George and Angie causes Benny to reach out to the second wife of George's estranged father.
George finally approaches his estranged father.