History Fridge / TheGeorgeLopezShow

*** Ernie's mom is big enough that she's too lazy to pick something off the ground she dropped and needs help getting into the tub. It's possible she doesn't leave the house anymore and that those pants don't fit her anymore.

** Vic was the polar opposite of Benny: he spoiled his children to overcompensate for his poverty-stricken childhood in Cuba and often behaved in an arrogant manner toward others, especially George. Angie herself can be incredibly permissive to her two children, and other obnoxious people like Benny and Marisol, and can even go behind George's back many times, and once wasted money on a stupid massage.
** However, while both Angie and George share the flaws of their parents, they aren't ''defined'' by them. George can learn to be more sensitive and understanding, and Angie can put her foot down when her children act out of line, and seems much more humble and kind compared to her own overpriveleged family.

** A lot of Claudia's other relatives seem to be awful snobs: one of them openly wishes Angie divorced George, and one of them condescendingly assumed George was too poor to fly. One of them sued Veronica for her trustee money.

** I'm assuming you mean "has a mustache" when you say Vic and other men Benny has dated actually resemble Creator/TomSelleck?

* In the episode "George Helps Ernie See The Cellulight"" Ernie becomes too fat to do his job, and George realizes his overeating is due to anxiety about dating after he got his own place. There are a couple events that could've triggered it. In the episode where he moves out, he's waving to a girl outside and George calls him a creepy guy upstairs. In the Christmas episode that same season, George and Angie become marriage counselors at church and Ernie asks for help with dating. George says it'd take a miracle to help him. Ernie's sensitive as it is, so George's comments were more than likely nails in the coffin.

* Emilina, Angie's mother and Vic's ex-wife, passed away in the last season. She cheated on and later divorced Vic, who is a cardiologist. What did Emilina die of? A heart atrack. Karma, perhaps?

* In one episode Benny says she drinks to the point where the man she's interested in looks like TomSelleck. She drunkenly makes out with Angie's dad in one episode, and he kinda resembles him, as well as other men she's dated on the show.
** I'm assuming you mean "has a mustache" when you say Vic and other men Benny has dated actually resemble TomSelleck?

** He could fit in her pants so wasn't very far off.

** He could fit in her pants so wasn't very far off.

* Discussed in "George Helps Ernie See The Cellu-Light." If Ernie didn't lose weight, he could end up as big as his mom. She's morbidly obese, and except from the waist down she isn't seen. Her size is FridgeHorror in itself.

* In "Sabes Gay, It's George's Fantasy Episode," where George imagines himself and Ernie as a gay couple, we don't see Benny at all in his dream. Benny's pretty conservative and not very open minded, so it's possible she disowned him for being gay.

* In "Sabes Gay, It's George's Fantasy Episode," where George imagines himself and Ernie as a gay couple, we don't see Bennie at all in his dream. Bennie's pretty conservative and not very open minded, so it's possible she disowned him for being gay.

* When Max has his birthday party, George says he never had one and ends up meeting HRPufnstuf, one of his favorite shows as a child. Since George had a crappy childhood, it makes sense he'd like a show where a child lives in a fantasy world.

** Ernie does start gaining weight after he gets his own place, but it's established as a FreudianExcuse so women will reject him before he makes the first move. His mother is a BigEater, who is seen eating an entire box of sugary cereal in one sitting before passing out. Now that he has his one place, he doesn't have to compete with his mother over food anymore. He can now eat all he wants.

* Discussed in "George Helps Ernie See The Cellu-Light." If Ernie didn't lose weight, he could end up as big as his mom. She's morbidly obese, and except from the waist down. Her size is FridgeHorror in itself.

* Discussed in "George Helps Ernie See The Cellu-Light." If Ernie didn't lose weight, he could end up as big as his mom. She's morbidly obese, and we never see her on screen. Her size is FridgeHorror in itself.

* In the episode "George Helps Ernie See The Cellulight"" Ernie becomes too fat to do his job, and George realizes his overeating is due to anxiety about dating after he got his own place. There are a couple events that could've triggered it. In the episode where he moves out, he's waving to a girl outside and George calls him a creepy guy upstairs. In the Christmas episode that same season, George and Angie become marriage counselors at church and Ernie asks for help with dating. George says it'd take a miracle to help him. Ernie's sensitive as it is, so George's comments were more than likely nails in the coffin.

* In the pilot episode George makes jokes that Carmen's adopted. While this his way to tell her to be truthful, it has some RealitySubtext since Carmen's actress is the only main cast member who's not Hispanic. (She's Albanian)

* When Max has his birthday party, George says he never had one and ends up meeting HRPufnstuf, one of his favorite shows as a child. Since George had a crappy childhood, it makes sense he'd like a show where a child lives in a fantasy world.

* In one episode Benny says she drinks to the point where the man she's interested in looks like TomSelleck. She drunkenly makes out with Angie's dad in one episode, and he kinda resembles him, as well as other men she's dated on the show.