Overview: Take a working-class guy in a working-class job with working-class friends and what you get is comedy that really works. The talented comic plays assembly-line worker George Lopez, who brings a blue-collar outlook (and laughs) to a white-collar job when he's promoted to managament.

DVD Verdict: Before it was George Lopez entertaining the Latino troops there was I Love Lucy, where Desi Arnaz broke barriers of Latino Entertainment. Therein, I cannot tell you how much I love this show. It's so funny and under-rated. George's humour is so dry and quick and he pulls it off amazingly. I love the banter between him and his mother, and how he talks about his kids to his wife.

It's about time that this finally came to DVD. I simply couldn't wait to get my hands on it and now that I have, and have the chance to review it here and now, let's chat more about it, shall we :-) For 8 episodes one of the executive producers was Sandra Bullock and she's indeed responsible for this fantastic show getting off the ground.

The series just finshed its fifth season, is from Bruce Helford, Deborah Oppenheimer and Robert Borden – all from ABC’s long-running hit comedy series, “The Drew Carey Show” – and stars George Lopez as a guy who has made lemonade from lemons at every turn. Since he became plant manager at an L.A. airplane parts factory, he has handled a complicated and tumultuous job, a strong but challenging marriage, two rebellious children and a mother who can’t keep track of her own lies about his childhood -- all with his sense of humor intact.

His affable compadre, Ernie (Valente Rodriguez, “Erin Brokovich”), still ribs George about his high-powered management position at the plant, but always lends a hand when George needs him. Ernie, who still lives with his mother and father, has learned some fathering skills of his own after foster-parenting a troubled twelve-year-old boy.

Though their marriage has had some close calls, George and his devoted wife, Angie (Constance Marie), still chose to renew their vows recently. Angie deals with his questionable decisions and freewheeling approach to parenthood and his mother’s insensitive wisecracks with the patience of a saint -- and some guidance from her father, Vic (Emiliano Díez) -- but her drive to build a still unprofitable wedding-planning business has nearly driven their family to the poor house.

George’s biggest test, both at work and home, is dealing with his tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny (Belita Moreno, “Perfect Strangers”), while sifting through her vast assortment of lies about his family and childhood. After rediscovering and losing his father to kidney disease and learning of a long lost sister, George constantly wonders what, or who, is around the next corner.

After running away from home, being expelled from school and falling in love with a handsome jock, sixteen year-old Carmen’s (Masiela Lusha) free-spirited, teenage rebellion has left her parents at a total loss about what to do next. Always the practical joker, thirteen-year-old Max clearly maintains the sense of humor he inherited from his father, but continues to struggle with dyslexia and constantly tests his parents’ limits by being drawn toward the wrong crowd. So, do yourself a favour and pick this up when it's released. It's so funny and enjoyable, you're bound to love it as much as I do. This is a Full Screen Presentation (4:3) and comes with the Special Features of:
Inside the Comic Mind: What Shapes George's Comic Outlook, According to George, His Castmates and the Show's Creative Personnel
Gag Reel