History Series / TheGeorgeLopezShow

* AnAesop:
** "Girl Fight": Sometimes the best solution to bullying is to run away from the problem, which doubles as a HardTruthAesop, because your actions have zero effect on [[KidsAreCruel mean kids who won't change]]. Even though George and Angie get the leader of Carmen's tormentors suspended for bullying, have her ex-boyfriend admit she never slept with him, ''and'' the school agrees to make an effort to prevent future bullying - it's AllForNothing. Her reputation is [[DefiledForever permanently ruined]] as her classmates ''still'' see her as a whore, are mad at her for wronging the popular girls, and simply [[KickTheDog enjoy bullying her]]. Their only solution is to send her to a private school for a fresh start. Per this trope, it's TruthInTelevision for many kids when their bullies ''just '''won't''' stop''.
** One episode has the moral that positive discrimination is bad and it's wrong to profit off of it. George is offered a major position at a big company... but only because he's Latino. Where the anvil dropping really comes into play is that the man offering him the position is black and talks about the process with a great deal of familiarity, suggesting he built his career from being a minority and competent at best - ''not'' actually being the most qualified for the job. George realizes they don't actually need him and could replace him with any Latino they wanted.
** Another episode has George calling out those who commit injustices against Middle Eastern people in America. A Middle Eastern coworker is seen by his other employees as suspicious and untrustworthy simply because of his ethnicity, even by people who have endured prejudice. And then Powers decides that he should do office work instead of plane construction out of fear of losing business because of the prejudice of Middle Eastern people being involved with planes. George tries his best to save the man's job but is ultimately unable to do anything other than let the poor guy down gently.
** In one episode, Angie works a booth for Carmen's school fair as a last-minute fill-in at a dunk tank. After doing the tank, a photo spreads at Camen's school of her getting out of the tank in a wet, see-through t-shirt, having been anonymously sent. When the person turns out to be Jason's younger and wheelchair-bound brother, Angie initially pretends to forgive him because he's in a wheelchair. Jason tells her that just because he can't walk, it doesn't give him a free pass - especially since his actions publicly humiliated her.

''George Lopez'', also known as ''The George Lopez Show'',[[note]]Officially, the title is the former, but we call it the latter to avoid confusion with the comedian himself.[[/note]] is a sitcom that aired on ABC from 2002 to 2007 starring stand-up comedian Creator/GeorgeLopez, not to be confused with ''Lopez Tonight''. Noteworthy for being the first American {{sitcom}} with a ''mostly'' Hispanic cast, and, in the final season, an ''all''-Hispanic cast. Also the second longest running show with said cast.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Used in-universe for laughs in one of the Christmas specials. George takes his family to a rendition of ''A Christmas Carol''... except it turns out to be a {{Grimdark}}, urban version of the story. Scrooge is a drug-dealing pimp and Tiny Tim (other) is killed off in a drive-by shooting ''two minutes in''. We don't see much else but according to Angie and Carmen, Santa Claus gets killed for wearing the wrong colors and a pitbull mauling is also somehow involved in the play.

* TraumaCongaLine: George once told Max that one time Benny got in trouble at Catholic school and was beaten with a ruler by the nuns, who told her mother, who then beat Benny at home so long she forgot to cook dinner, then [[DomesticAbuse Benny's father beat her mother]] out of anger for not preparing dinner. When Max exclaims "That's terrible! Didn't anyone beat him?" George replied that Benny's Dad later got hit by a car while he was drunk.

* AmbiguousSituation: The Season 2 episode "Girl Fight" sees George confront his old childhood bully Tommy "Rango" Durango, who is now working as one of the counselors at Carmen's high school, in order to stop Carmen being bullied (after her ex-boyfriend starts a rumor that they had sex, leading to her classmates labeling her the school whore), but Rango refuses to immediately punish the girls tormenting Carmen, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. In a flashback, we see that an incident where Rango beat up George and Ernie lead to him being expelled, and George suspects that his inaction towards Carmen's tormentors was his way of getting back at him, particularly when he suspends Carmen for supposedly instigating a fight with another girl (when actually it was the other girl who started the fight.) While it ''is'' implied somewhat that Rango might still be bitter towards George, it's never made particularly clear if that's indeed what he was doing, or if he was simply doing his job by trying to see both sides of the situation, because when he finally hears credible evidence that Carmen was indeed the victim, not only does he sincerely apologize for not taking action sooner, but also reverses Carmen's suspension and suspends the girl who started the fight in the first place.

* AmbiguousSituation: The Season 2 episode "Girl Fight" sees George confront his old childhood bully Tommy "Rango" Durango, who is now working as one of the counselors at Carmen's high school, in order to stop Carmen being bullied (after her ex-boyfriend starts a rumor that they had sex, leading to her classmates labeling her the school whore), but Rango refuses to immediately punish the girls tormenting Carmen, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. In a flashback, we see that an incident where Rango beat up George and Ernie lead to him being expelled, and George suspects that his inaction towards Carmen's tormentors was his way of getting back at him, particularly when he suspends Carmen for supposedly instigating a fight with another girl (when actually it was the other girl who started the fight.) While it ''is'' implied somewhat that Rango might still be bitter towards George, it's never made particularly clear if that's indeed what he was doing, or if he was simply doing his job by trying to see both sides of the situation, because when he finally hears credible evidence that Carmen was the victim and the other girl did in fact start the fight, not only does he sincerely apologize for not taking action sooner, but also reverses Carmen's suspension and suspends the girl who started the fight in the first place.

* AmbiguousSituation: The Season 2 episode "Girl Fight" sees George confront his old childhood bully Tommy "Rango" Durango, who is now working as one of the counselors at Carmen's high school, in order to stop Carmen being bullied (after her ex-boyfriend starts a rumor that they had sex, leading to her classmates labeling her the school whore), but Rango refuses to immediately punish the girls tormenting Carmen, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. In a flashback, we see that an incident where Rango beat up George and Ernie lead to him being expelled, and George suspects that his inaction towards Carmen's tormentors was his way of getting back at him, particularly when he suspends Carmen for supposedly instigating a fight with another girl (when actually it was the other girl who started the fight.) While it ''is'' implied somewhat that Rango might still be bitter towards George, it's never made particularly clear if that's indeed what he was doing, or if he was simply doing his job by trying to see both sides of the situation, because when he finally hears credible evidence that Carmen was the victim and the other girl did in fact start the fight, not only does he sincerely apologize for not taking action sooner, but also reverses Carmen's suspension.

* AmbiguousSituation: The Season 2 episode "Girl Fight" sees George confront his old childhood bully Tommy "Rango" Durango, who is now working as one of the counselors at Carmen's high school, in order to stop Carmen being bullied (after her ex-boyfriend starts a rumor that they had sex, leading to her classmates labeling her the school whore), but Rango refuses to immediately punish the girls tormenting Carmen, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. In a flashback, we see that an incident where Rango beat up George and Ernie lead to him being expelled, and George suspects that his inaction towards Carmen's tormentors was his way of getting back at him, particularly when he suspends Carmen for supposedly instigating a fight with another girl (when actually it was the other girl who started the fight.) While it ''is'' implied somewhat that Rango might still be bitter towards George, it's never made particularly clear if that's indeed what he was doing, or if he was simply doing his job by trying to see both sides of the situation, because when he finally hears credible evidence that Carmen was the victim and the other girl did in fact start the fight, not only does he sincerely apologize for not taking action sooner, but also gets Carmen's suspension reversed.

* AmbiguousSituation: The Season 2 episode "Girl Fight" sees George confront his old childhood bully Tommy "Rango" Durango, who is now working as one of the counselors at Carmen's high school, in order to stop Carmen being bullied (after her ex-boyfriend starts a rumor that they had sex, leading to her classmates believing that she's the school whore), but Rango refuses to immediately punish the girls tormenting Carmen, believing that everything will blow over in a few days. In a flashback, we see that an incident where Rango beat up George and Ernie lead to him being expelled, and George suspects that his inaction towards Carmen's tormentors was his way of getting back at him, particularly when he suspends Carmen for supposedly instigating a fight with another girl (when actually it was the other girl who started the fight.) While it ''is'' implied somewhat that Rango might still be bitter towards George, it's never made particularly clear if that's indeed what he was doing, or if he was simply doing his job by trying to see both sides of the situation, because when he finally hears credible evidence that Carmen was the victim and the other girl did in fact start the fight, not only does he sincerely apologize for not taking action sooner, but promises to reverse Carmen's suspension.

* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: In the episode "Girl Fight", Tommy "Rango" Durango (played by guest star Creator/SteveSchirripa), the conflict resolution manager at Carmen's high school, is revealed to have been George's grade school bully and ended up getting expelled after beating up George and Ernie when they were kids. It's implied (but never outright stated) that he's still bitter at George over the incident and was deliberately looking the other way when Carmen endures bullying from a group of girls.

* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: In the episode "Girl Fight", Tommy "Rango" Durango (played by guest star Creator/SteveSchirrpa), the conflict resolution manager at Carmen's high school, is revealed to have been George's grade school bully and ended up getting expelled after beating up George and Ernie when they were kids. It's implied (but never outright stated) that he's still bitter at George over the incident and was deliberately looking the other way when Carmen endures bullying from a group of girls.

* AmbiguouslyBi: After her breakup with Randy in Season 3, Benny tells Gina that she's done with men for good, but after mentioning that she'd miss the sex, Gina says, "You don't need a man to have sex.", before giving her a suggestive look.

*** Lampshaded by George, who ''also'' grew up with an [[DisappearedFather absent father]] and [[TheAlcoholic bitter alcoholic mother]], but chose to get his act together.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In ''George to the Third Power'', George went behind his bosses' backs in order to get better health care so Max can get a better dentist. When it fails because Max lied about his dental problems, The Powers Brothers are obviously pissed. However, they were touched that George was willing to go that far for his son that they played along with George's ploy to teach Max a lesson. However, Jack and Mel both tell George that some sort of punishment was necessary, and force George to work Weekends and the night shift for half a year. Not only that, he has to apologize to the Dentist he got into an argument with over his presumed bad work.