8.5/1077 votes#1 - George Searches For A Needle In A Haight-Stack
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2004
With Carmen still gone, George goes on a hunt for her and eventually finds her in San Francisco with rapper Chingy. He finally gets her to return home, but the problems aren't over yet...
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1073 votes
#2 - Landlord Almighty
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2004
When Carmen crazily redecorates her room, George snaps. When Carmen claims she should be able to do to her room what she wants, since she is an adult, George concocts a plan to get her to give up that thought. If Carmen wants to be an adult, she will act like one. She'll pay rent, bills and get her own food. But his plan soon backfires when Carmen doesn't relent and even resorts to getting a roommate who is a little over the edge.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1068 votes
#3 - 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.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1069 votes
#4 - 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.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1079 votes
#5 - Leave It To Lopez
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2004
When a janitor with no life insurance dies at work, Angie finds out that George has been lying and does not have life insurance either. As Angie hounds him, he dozes off to classic TV which leads to a spoof of such classics as The Munsters, The Jetsons and Leave It To Beaver.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1073 votes
#6 - Sk8r Boyz
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2004
When Max starts hanging out with a new group of friends, everything looks like it is going up for the socially plagued boy. But the friends prove to be a little bit darker than Max, and it ends up getting him in trouble.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1074 votes
#7 - The Simple Life
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2004
When George decides a new job opportunity may be for him, he takes the family to a little town in Colorado on "vacation". But when he gets the job, resistance from Angie as well as springing the news on the kids makes George reconsider his idea. And in a moment of romance, Benny and Vic kiss, to the horror of Ernie.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1085 votes
#8 - Trouble in Paradise
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2004
A horrible dinner that features a drunk Carmen and dirty secrets about the town, convinces the Lopez's that L.A. is till the place for them.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1073 votes
#9 - 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.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
- 8.0/1061 votes
#10 - A Clear and Presentless Danger
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2004
When George thinks back to the lousy Christmas presents from his mother, he gets worried since she drew Max for the family's "Secret Santa" presents. So as a backup, George buys Max a great present, only to find after he gives it to him that Benny has finally come through with a great present.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1065 votes
#11 - Prescription For Trouble
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/2005
When Carmen asks for birth control, George is immediately angry with her reunited boyfriend Jason. But when Jason informs him it was Carmen's idea, George goes on a search to find out the real story, where the birth control seems to be everyone BUT Jason's idea.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1063 votes
#12 - Friends Don't Let Friends Marry Drunks
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2005
George is nervous to tell Ernie that his new pregnant girlfriend may not have been faithful to him.
Director: Gerry Cohen
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1065 votes
#13 - George to the Third Power
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/2005
When George becomes frustrated with Max's dentist, he lobbies to have the company's dental plan changed.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Lopez
- 7.9/1072 votes
#14 - George Gets Assisterance
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2005
When George finds out money cuts are forcing Max back into normal classes, he goes to a PTA meeting to voice his opinion, but accidentally spills the beans to his unknowing sister about their family connections.
Director: N/A
Writer: Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
- 8.3/1069 votes
#15 - Sabes Quake
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2005
An earthquake unearthes some childhood fears in George that shake the rest of the family.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1065 votes
#16 - George Takes a Stroll Down Memory Pain
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/2005
When Benny demands money for a box of George's old things, he is shocked to learn Benny (unbeknownst to him) helped he and Angie start up a life, but she also owes George money from a source he never knew about.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1068 votes
#17 - 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.
Director: Bob Koherr
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1065 votes
#18 - George Watcha's Out For Jason
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/1/2005
When Angie and George discover Carmen has been going to Jason's unsupervised for the past month, they confront the couple, only to find Jason's parents are out of the country - because they've moved. When Jason goes to jail for throwing a party where drugs were brought, the police have to send him out of town, thus ruining his possible chance at a pro baseball career. Much to George's chagrin, he allows Jason to stay with the Lopez's -- as long as he and Carmen can keep their hands off each other.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1082 votes
#19 - George's Grand Slam
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/2005
With Carmen and Jason grounded for throwing a party at Jason's and getting arrested, neither is able to do much. But George does allow for some bending when it comes to Jason's baseball career which upsets Carmen and her feminist poet friend who is inspiring her anger. When Carmen questions George about going to college, George makes a big mistake in telling Carmen she has no potential.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1059 votes
#20 - George Needs Anchor Management
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/2005
When an old flame of Angie's moves back to town to become a news anchor, George becomes jealous with her giddy excitement over him. But George comes to find out that Angie has not told him the whole story about this former boyfriend.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1064 votes
#21 - George's Relatively Bad Idea
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/12/2005
George gets caught up in some bad family ties when he lets Vic give him money to go out on a date with his sister.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1085 votes
#22 - George's Extreme Makeover: Holmes Edition
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/2005
George turns the garage into a business place for Angie.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1070 votes
#23 - George Stare-oids Down Jason
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/2005
When George and Angie find out that Carmen and her boyfriend, Jason, have become more intimate under their roof, they think about asking Jason to move out. But when they discovers that Jason has been using steroids provided by none other than the boy's own father (guest starring Stacy Keach), their concern for his health causes them to reconsider.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1065 votes
#24 - George Negoti-ate It
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2005
George steps in to be Jason's sports agent when NFL Quarterbacks Daunte Culpepper and Donovan McNabb (guest starring as themselves) pay a visit to the Lopez household to draft Jason for their alma maters and a minor league baseball recruiter approaches him for a contract. Meanwhile, Carmen and Los Lobos guitarist Cesar Rosas stir things up at George's family birthday bash.
Director: Joe Regalbuto
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of George Lopez Season 4
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George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"George Searches For A Needle In A Haight-Stack" is the best rated episode of "George Lopez" season 4. It scored 8.5/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by Joe Regalbuto and written by N/A, it aired on 9/28/2004. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Landlord Almighty".