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.
