The WORST episodes of George Lopez

Every episode of George Lopez ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of George Lopez!

George Lopez is a guy who has made lemonade from lemons at every turn. Since he became the plant manager at an L.A. airplane parts factory, George has handled a complicated and tumultuous job including mergers, vandals and even a Presidential visit -- with his sense of humor intact. Though his affable and loyal friend and leader, Ernie (Valente Rodriguez), and former compadres on the floor consider him a buddy, they continue to rib him and have their fun with his new found position of power. Dealing with his tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny (Belita Moreno), while sifting through her vast assortment of lies about his childhood, and maintaining a civil relationship presents a constant challenge, both at work and at home. Fortunately George's devoted wife, Angie (Constance Marie), possesses the patience of a saint and copes surprisingly well with Benny's questionable behavior and insensitive wisecracks, and with George's freewheeling approach to parenthood. Her recent suc

Last Updated: 2/16/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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George Discovers How Mescal-ed Up His Life Would Have Been Without the Benny-Fits
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6.89
53 votes

#1 - George Discovers How Mescal-ed Up His Life Would Have Been Without the Benny-Fits

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/2006

Benny is gets really mad when she discovers that George has rigged the results of a productivity contest at the factory against her favor, but gets the ultimate revenge when George can't sleep at night without dreaming of his dysfunctional childhood.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
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Jason Tutors Max
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7.17
30 votes

#2 - Jason Tutors Max

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/2004

Max gets an incredibly sexy new tutor and Carmen has dating troubles with Jason, subsequently resulting in the house turning into a teenage angst.

Directors: Stacey Pulwer
Watch Now:Apple TV
George Vows to Make Some Matri-Money
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7.22
23 votes

#3 - George Vows to Make Some Matri-Money

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/2006

"100th Episode" George takes over planning a wedding for one of Angie's rich clients (Eva Longoria) in order to prove he can do her job better than she can.

Directors: Katy Garretson
Writer: George Lopez
Watch Now:Apple TV
George's Mom Faces Hard Tambien
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7.28
68 votes

#4 - George's Mom Faces Hard Tambien

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/2007

Just as Carmen prepares to go off to college and George and Angie begins looking forward to being empty nesters, Angie discovers that the Lopez family could be growing. Meanwhile, George's job is in jeopardy, Benny faces jail time for a crime from days gone by and Vic contemplates engagement to a much younger woman, in the season premiere broadcast.

Watch Now:Apple TV
George Gets Caught in a Powers Play
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7.35
31 votes

#5 - George Gets Caught in a Powers Play

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2006

George tries to teach his niece the meaning of a dollar by making her work at the factory.

Directors: Bob Koherr
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Angie Gets Tanked
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7.39
31 votes

#6 - Angie Gets Tanked

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/19/2004

When George and Angie fill in at the dunk tank for a school fundraiser, a student's prank puts Angie in a very embarrassing position. Meanwhile, George becomes fiercely competitive when N.Y. Yankee Kenny Lofton pitches in to raise money for handicapped children.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
George of the Rings
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7.43
37 votes

#7 - George of the Rings

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2004

After George forgets he and Angie's anniversary, he goes to drastic measures to make it up to her. He takes her to a jewelry store, but the ring she picks is far out of George's price range and he must find a way to pay for it - or feel Angie's wrath.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
Weekend at Benny's
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7.43
37 votes

#8 - Weekend at Benny's

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/2004

When Angie goes away on a business trip, George sends the kids to Benny's house for the weekend, to teach them tough love.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
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George Says I Do ... More in This Marriage
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7.44
27 votes

#9 - George Says I Do ... More in This Marriage

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2005

George and Angie compete to see who does more work in their marriage and at home.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
George is Being Elfish and Christ-misses His Family
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7.45
22 votes

#10 - George is Being Elfish and Christ-misses His Family

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2005

George ends up spending Christmas all by himself after he gets caught telling a lie to get out of spending the holiday with Angie's family.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
George Discovers Benny's Sili-Con Job
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7.52
33 votes

#11 - George Discovers Benny's Sili-Con Job

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2005

George's wisecracks about Benny's age finally get to her, so she decides to enhance her chest to create a youthful appearance.

Directors: George Lopez
Watch Now:Apple TV
George Gets Smoking Mad at Benny and Develops an Orale Fixation
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7.53
59 votes

#12 - George Gets Smoking Mad at Benny and Develops an Orale Fixation

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/2007

When Powers Aviation institutes a smoking ban, Benny's nicotine withdrawals drive George to self destructive behavior back.

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George's Bogey-ous Relationship with Vic Is Putt to the Test
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7.54
28 votes

#13 - George's Bogey-ous Relationship with Vic Is Putt to the Test

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/1/2007

Vic reigns fatherly love so George will play in a father-son golf tournament against his long time rival and his son, Tony.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Happy Birthdays
star
7.54
67 votes

#14 - Happy Birthdays

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/10/2002

Much to George's unpleasant surprise, Angie and his family throw him a very belated surprise birthday party, while a new worker, accident-prone Amy, threatens the pride George takes in his workplace's safety record.

Watch Now:Apple TV
God Needles George
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7.58
31 votes

#15 - God Needles George

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/2004

George is reluctant to keep his promise to Max when a miracle seems to save the family dog from being put to sleep.

Directors: John Pasquin
Watch Now:Apple TV
Benny and Randy
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7.60
35 votes

#16 - Benny and Randy

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/2004

George interferes with Benny and Randy's relationship, causing Randy to break up with Benny. Benny starts to mope around so George goes to have a talk with Randy. George sees that Randy really does love his mother, so he tricks Benny into admitting she cares about Randy, but is just afraid he'll run off like George's father. Randy proposes and Benny accepts.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
E.I.? E.I. OH (aka Cold Opening)
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7.65
37 votes

#17 - E.I.? E.I. OH (aka Cold Opening)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2004

When George mistakenly thinks he is going to be named VP of Powers Brothers, he whips out his "VP Dance", only to find the company has merged with another corporation and jobs such as Benny's and Ernie's need to be cut. Plus, George is appointed a new co-manager, a beautiful and cunning woman who George fears will take his job.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
Bringing Home the Bacon
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7.67
39 votes

#18 - Bringing Home the Bacon

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2003

With his job in jeopardy, George tries to cancel Carmen's expensive quinceañera (15th birthday party). But since Angie is successful with her cosmetics business, she gets to make the financial decisions in the family now-to George's chagrin. Meanwhile, Carmen agonizes over how to tell her boyfriend Jason that she loves him without scaring him away.

Directors: John Pasquin
Watch Now:Apple TV
Home Sweet Homeschool
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7.68
41 votes

#19 - Home Sweet Homeschool

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2004

When Carmen's school refuses to let her back in, the recently laid-off Angie agrees to home school her. But the money cut also forces a postponement of George and Angie's wedding.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
It's a Cliffhanger, By George
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7.69
52 votes

#20 - It's a Cliffhanger, By George

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/12/2006

"Season Finale"- Everything hangs in the balance for the entire Lopez family: Ernie tells George that the factory is moving to Mexico and they'll both be out of jobs; the police want to question Benny for her part in an old robbery, so she flees; Angie has been feeling sick for days and awaits the results of a home pregnancy test; Carmen is afraid to open her final college letter after being rejected by her first three choices; Max has swiped a forbidden beer and is about to sample his first alcohol; and Vic prepares to propose marriage to younger woman he barely knows.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:Apple TV
Split Decision
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7.70
44 votes

#21 - Split Decision

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2003

Powers Brothers Aviation lands a huge government project and decides to let everyone have the day off and party at a bar. But George gets in trouble when he lets slip that Mel went to Vegas with Jack's ex-wife -- while they were still married! Geroge fears his firing, but is surprised to find out that Powers is splitting in two! Problems ensue when Mel offers George a job at the new design plant.

Directors: John Pasquin
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Prototype
star
7.72
108 votes

#22 - Prototype

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/27/2002

When well-liked George becomes the first guy to be promoted from the assembly line to plant manager at a Los Angeles airplane parts factory, his life becomes a little more complicated. His pal Ernie and former compadres on the plant floor tease him about joining management. George's first test in the new position is to terminate one employee. He must choose either his acerbic line-inspector mother, Benny, or Ernie. George's hardworking and patient wife, Angie, copes with Benny's constant wisecracks and cares for the couple's kids, precocious 9-year-old Max and 13-year-old Carmen, who is dealing with the traumas of being a teenager.

Directors: Barnet Kellman
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Dance Fever
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7.72
29 votes

#23 - Dance Fever

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/9/2004

After receiving an award for excellence in business management, George humiliates himself dancing at a congratulatory party in front of his entire staff in order to gain approval from his mom. Meanwhile, Carmen tries to protect the baked goods she's prepared for the Great American Bake Sale from Max, but neglects to protect them from George.

Directors: Joe Regalbuto
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Halloween Cheer
star
7.72
58 votes

#24 - Halloween Cheer

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2002

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

Writer: Jim Hope
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
George Buys a Vow
star
7.73
26 votes

#25 - George Buys a Vow

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/2005

George uses a fake wedding for his boss as a cover to renew his vows with Angie, but with Angie planning the fake wedding, she begins to ask too many details.

Directors: Bob Koherr
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV