George Lopez (season 2)
| George Lopez (season 2) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 2, 2002 – May 14, 2003 |
This is a list of episodes from the second season of George Lopez.
Broadcast history
The second season of George Lopez originally aired Wednesdays at 8:30-9:00 pm (EST) on ABC.
DVD release
Season 2 of George Lopez was released on DVD along with Season 1 by Warner Home Video.
Episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | "Who's Your Daddy?" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Rachel Sweet | October 2, 2002 | 109 |
| Angie chastises George for telling Max fabricated stories about his deceased father, Manny (Esai Morales). Later, while shopping with Benny, George meets his aunt Cecelia (Olga Merediz) who tells him his father is in fact alive and living in northern California. When George attempts to find his father, Benny lies to him saying Manny never held him as a baby. Cecelia later visits the Lopez residence and gives George a picture of Manny holding him. Meanwhile, Angie buys a dog off a homeless man because the dog needs veterinary help. | ||||||
| 6 | 2 | "Token of Unappreciation" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Rick Nyholm | October 9, 2002 | 112 |
| The "cool" girls court Carmen, but not her best friend, Toby. Meanwhile, George is tempted to accept a job offer from another factory after he is disrespected by his bosses at Powers Aviation. | ||||||
| 7 | 3 | "Show Dyslexic The" | Philip Charles MacKenzie | Robert Borden | October 16, 2002 | 110 |
| 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, since it can be genetic. Max is told to take special education classes, but George refuses because he doesn't want Max to get beaten up or teased. In the end, Max goes to the special education classes, against his wishes. Meanwhile, Ernie has a girlfriend that forces him to watch her kids while she has to do "errands." | ||||||
| 8 | 4 | "Halloween Cheer" | Philip Charles MacKenzie | Jim Hope | October 23, 2002 | 117 |
| Carmen becomes depressed after her best friend Toby moves away, and she becomes a troublemaker when George, Angie, and Benny catch her smoking a cigarette. Angie suggests Pep Squad, but when the cheerleaders tease her, she blames Angie by telling her to stay out of her life. Meanwhile, the Powers brothers want George to fire Reggie. But he has a hard time doing it. | ||||||
| 9 | 5 | "The Unnatural" | Joe Regalbuto | Teleplay: Mike Upchurch Story: Frank Pace | October 30, 2002 | 107 |
| When Max's baseball coach asks George to have Max sit out the next game because he does not think Max is good enough for the team, George tries to help Max get better at baseball, but fails to as he is no better at baseball either. Then Max accidentally lets Mr. Needles get hold of George's autographed baseball and he chews it up. George gets really mad at Max for this, but Angie tells him he is being too hard on Max. George then has a dream that his bobbleheads tell him he is being too hard on Max and that Max might not like baseball. Then Max decides to quit baseball completely. | ||||||
| 10 | 6 | "No Free Launch" | Gerry Cohen | Luisa Leschin | November 6, 2002 | 108 |
| 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 because the PTA called him poor. 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, until she finds out he is married. | ||||||
| 11 | 7 | "The Wedding Dance" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Dailyn Rodriguez | November 13, 2002 | 112 |
| Angie does not mind when George offers their backyard for Frank's (Mel Rodriguez) wedding reception, but his refusal to dance causes problems, especially after Angie starts drinking. George continues the search for his father, as well. | ||||||
| 12 | 8 | "Love Bites" | Gerry Cohen | John R. Morey & Allen Jay Zipper | November 20, 2002 | 111 |
| After George's warning about how boys are evil, when Carmen comes home with a hickey given to her by her boyfriend, Angie and George go after him. After accidentally meeting a single mother who believes that Max is her son, Ernie decides to use Max to meet women. | ||||||
| 13 | 9 | "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Honey" | Barnet Kellman | John R. Morey | November 27, 2002 | 113 |
| 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 (John Michael Higgins), and invites him over for Thanksgiving dinner. However, Benny tells George that they never had sex, and that he is not 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. | ||||||
| 14 | 10 | "Charity" | Barnet Kellman | Dailyn Rodriguez & Jim Hope | December 4, 2002 | 114 |
| When Angie finds she has more free time around the house, she volunteers for a variety of charities. Feeling invincible, she soon finds herself joining more organizations than she can handle, and George and the family must help her to keep her from being overwhelmed. She also brings a worker named Marisol to Power Brothers, and her disrespectful, slacking attitude provides hard work for everyone. Angie's charity work proves to be too much when Max fakes vomit in school to not do his Special Ed test. Max felt that he wasn't ready because Angie couldn't help him study. In the end, Angie drops her charity work. | ||||||
| 15 | 11 | "Meet the Cuban Parents" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Michele Serros | December 11, 2002 | 115 |
| 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. | ||||||
| 16 | 12 | "This Old Casa" | Lee Shallat-Chemel | Rick Nyholm | January 8, 2003 | 122 |
| George is tired of being unappreciated by Benny, so with the urging of Angie, he decides to remodel his mother's badly deteriorated bathroom. Hoping for a simple thank you, George's plan backfires, and Benny continues to be entirely ungrateful. After a talk, George and Benny realize their significance in each other's life and in turn express their gratitude. | ||||||
| 17 | 13 | "Super Bowl" | Amanda Bearse | Teleplay: Rachel Sweet Story: George Lopez & Bruce Helford | January 15, 2003 | 117 |
| The Lopez family finds out that Benny's estranged older brother, Joe, is dying. However, Benny refuses to speak to him due to her losing a bet with him. However, George and Angie convince Benny to reconcile with Joe, and Benny agrees to, but to try to get his Super Bowl tickets. However, she changes her mind when she sees him. Meanwhile, because Benny never taught George how to cope with death when he was younger, he has difficulty attending the funeral. | ||||||
| 18 | 14 | "The Valentine's Day Massacre" | John Pasquin | Robert Borden | February 5, 2003 | 118 |
| When George gives Angie a hat as a disappointing gift for Valentine's Day, Angie has a flashback to high school in the 1980s when George painted a great mural of her for the holiday. When Angie takes the entire family to look at the mural, only to find out it will soon be torn down, its true origin becomes known. It is revealed that the construction worker told Angie that the mural was actually painted by an artist named Chanto Perez, not George. George wrote his signature on the mural using spray paint as graffiti to make Angie believe he painted it. After finding out the truth Angie feels disappointed and starts arguing with George, which makes her think that George has been lying to her since then. The next day, Angie still feels disappointed with George. Next, Ernie arrives at the Lopez house and shows them another mural on the garage. Ernie tells Angie that George painted it and George wants Angie to forgive him; however, Marisol shows up and tells Ernie about the deal they'd made. Angie then realizes that Marisol painted the mural on the garage and not George again. This makes George lie to Angie again. While Angie is in the house, George feels terrible that he's been lying, but he is not the only one. It turns out that Angie told a lie way back before when she and a friend went out with George and Ernie as a joke, and the lie caused their marriage. In the end, all is forgiven. | ||||||
| 19 | 15 | "Girl Fight" | Gerry Cohen | Luisa Leschin & Michele Serros | February 12, 2003 | 119 |
| 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 known as the school whore. This is only made worse when Carmen's enemy (and former friend) Piper Morey (Autumn Reeser), writes "Carmen Hopez" on the back sliding door of the Lopez house. George and Angie want to repair the damage, but school counselor Tommy "Rango" Durango (Steve Schirripa), 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 ends up getting 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. | ||||||
| 20 | 16 | "George vs. George" | John Pasquin | Jim Hope & John R. Morey | February 26, 2003 | 120 |
| 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 (Lou Diamond Phillips) 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. | ||||||
| 21 | 17 | "A Kiss is Just a Kiss" | Barnet Kellman | Teleplay: Jay Kogen Story: Ann Serano Lopez | March 5, 2003 | 121 |
| As a birthday surprise for Angie, George arranges for her father Vic and sister Gloria (Jacqueline Obradors) 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. | ||||||
| 22 | 18 | "Profiles in Courage" | Andrew Tsao | George Lopez | March 12, 2003 | 116 |
| Powers Bros. Aviation is under consideration by the federal government for more business. Worried that an employee named Hosni (Jason Antoon) with a Middle Eastern ethnic background will hinder the company's chances of getting the contract, George's boss orders him to demote Hosni, which leaves George to decide whether or not to jeopardize his career by being ethical. Max "marries" a classmate, but soon divorces her After she gets mad about Max giving her gum as an Anniversary Present. | ||||||
| 23 | 19 | "Secrets and Lies" | Joe Regalbuto | David Grubstick | March 26, 2003 | 123 |
| When Benny learns that George's father, who left her years ago to care for George alone, is now wealthy, she decides that she deserves to get rich herself. After she gets drunk on her lunch hour, she falls down on work premises, pretends to be hurt and plans to get a huge workman's compensation. When she finds out she will get a mere $375, she plans to sue for one million dollars. | ||||||
| 24 | 20 | "Girls Night Out" | Barnet Kellman | Teleplay: Luisa Leschin & Dailyn Rodriguez Story: Allen Jay Zipper | April 2, 2003 | 124 |
| After giving a young ex-gang member, Marisol, a job at the factory and a chance for a new life, George is shocked when Angie takes further pity on Marisol and allows her to live in the Lopez home instead of with her abusive boyfriend. After impressionable Carmen becomes intrigued with Marisol's lifestyle, Angie admits that she may have made a mistake. Meanwhile, Max joins a scouting troop and develops some disturbing new habits from a conservative counselor. | ||||||
| 25 | 21 | "I Only Have Eyes For You" | Joe Regalbuto | Jim Hope & Rick Nyholm | April 23, 2003 | 125 |
| When Max is caught peeking on Carmen's friend Olivia (Ashley Tisdale) changing from a hole between his and Carmen's room, Carmen sprays him in the eye with perfume. Instead of George punishing Max for peeking, he punishes Carmen for spraying Max's eye. Carmen decides to get revenge on Max by taking a picture of him sleeping in his underwear while hugging a stuffed pink rabbit and posting the photo around his school. Max is then beaten up and Carmen is punished again, making George realize that he is showing preference for one child over the other. Out of guilt, he buys Carmen a cell phone. | ||||||
| 26 | 22 | "Team Leader" | Joe Regalbuto | Spiro Skentzos | April 30, 2003 | 127 |
| George has to fill out employee evaluations, but does not 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 cannot handle it, but does not 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. | ||||||
| 27 | 23 | "George Has Two Mommies" | Joe Regalbuto | Rachel Sweet & Robert Borden | May 7, 2003 | 128 |
| 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 (J. B. Gaynor) 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 (Cristina Saralegui), to help George. | ||||||
| 28 | 24 | "Long Time No See" | John Pasquin | Teleplay: John R. Morey & Luisa Leschin Story: Dailyn Rodriguez | May 14, 2003 | 129 |
| 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 (William Marquez), George gives him back the check. When Manny makes an insulting comment 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. | ||||||
References
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