George Lopez, the hilarious family comedy starring popular standup comedian George Lopez, kicks off ABC's TGIF lineup. The series is from Bruce Helford, Deborah Oppenheimer and Robert Borden — all from the long-running hit comedy series, The Drew Carey Show — and actress/producer Sandra Bullock.

George Lopez is a guy whose life has become much more complicated since he became the first assembly line worker to be promoted to plant manager at a L.A. airplane parts factory. Though his affable friend, Ernie (Valente Rodriguez) and former compadres rib him about becoming "Mr. Clipboard," they still like him — they just have to have their fun behind his back now. Managing his tough and acerbic but loving mother, Benny (Belita Moreno), while sifting through her vast assortment of lies about his childhood, and maintaining a civil relationship presents a whole new kind of challenge, both at work and at home.

Fortunately George's devoted wife, Angie (Constance Marie), possesses the patience of a saint and copes surprisingly well with Benny's questionable past and insensitive wisecracks, and with George's freewheeling approach to parenthood. Her newfound success as a cosmetics salesperson and her passion for lost causes tries George's patience, but in the end makes him love and rely upon her that much more. George and Angie's nine-year-old son, Max (Luis Armand Garcia), is a dyslexic, sports-loving, constantly curious ball of energy, while their bright 15-year-old daughter, Carmen (Masiela Lusha), struggles with self esteem problems as well as the trials, tribulations and peer pressure of being a teenage high school girl.

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