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.

A multi-millionaire Mr. Vega buys Powers Brothers Aviation and asks George to stay on board if he's willing to consider making some life-altering changes.

Since her mother and lawyer have turned on her, at her trial Benny must rely on George's testimony.

A sexual predator moves into the neighborhood and George and Angie decide its time to finally have the talk with Max.

George and Angie hire a maid (Barbara Eden) who quickly cooks and cleans her way into his heart.

Angie maintains her story that shes pregnant to keep George from missing Carmen. Meanwhile Vic introduces his young and beautiful but not too bright fiancé to the family.

The Lopez home and George's new media room suddenly become a bit more full when their niece, Veronica, and her freeloading boyfriend move in.

George seeks help from a popular reality TV game show in order to expose Vics cheating, gold-digging fiance.

When the love of Benny's life Wayne returns to town, George builds a web of lies to keep them from reuniting.

George and Angie bet over who can live more frugally

George's poor memory comes back to haunt him when Angie's mother passes away.

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

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

Max goes to work with his dad to learn how important an education is.

George, upset about being publicly humiliated at work, downs a shot of liquor along with the worm in it and hallucinates that he and Ernie are gay and about to be married to each other.

When Angie gets concerned about losing her looks, George asks his gorgeous young niece to tone down her sex appeal.

The family's new neighbor decorates his front lawn with an offensive art display; an old friend takes an interest in George and Angie's niece.

George tries to relive his high-school days by teaching Max to play the guitar. But George wishes he could take it all back when Max moves on without him and joins a rock band.

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.

George worries about Carmen when she brings a boy home for the first time. He persuades Max to spy on them, but despite finding no impropriety, George threatens Duncan, embarrassing Carmen. Later, George replies to instant messages on Carmen's computer, pretending to be her. Although this infuriates both Carmen and Angie when they find out, George then goes to a party and further humiliates Carmen with his overprotectiveness. Finally, Carmen sadly ends the relationship with Duncan, not because of her father, but because Duncan tried to pressure her into having sex too soon. Carmen forgives George, who realizes that she is more responsible than he thought.

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.

Benny and George find themselves holding open auditions for workers to replace Jim's position at the factory due to a bar fight, while George decides to prove something to Max when Max insists on George letting him walk to school on his own.

George bumps into his long lost Aunt Cecilia who informs him that his father, who his mom has always insisted was dead, is still alive. After drawing the truth from Benny, George conjures up images of his fantasy dad, played by guest star Esai Morales, and sets out on a mission to find the real Manny Lopez. Meanwhile, Angie buys a sickly dog from a homeless man and vows to return him to health and adopt him as the family pet.

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.