Yeah, the dialog between George’s character and his mother was beyond dysfunctional. I’m all for less unrealistic Father Knows Best type family interactions but I found their interactions just plain disturbing.
I’m amazed it lasted 5 years.
What is even more surprising is that he didn’t think at all before shooting his mouth off. Since it’s not an ABC owned show, he might have been able to be picked up on another network…I’m thinking not so much now.
I watch the show on and off. More off than on…perhaps a couple of dozen episodes total. I did find the one where they bribed their daughter with a car if she stayed a virgin until 18 to be funny. I’m holding that in reserve for my own daughter 
The episode (It may have been the last one of this season) showing the neighborhood’s about-face re: a registered sex offender living in their neighborhood who turns out to be a pretty blonde who seduced a 14-year old was a funny show. Good points were made about the different societal standards for male and female victims.
Had most of the series been of this caliber, this show wouldn’t have been cancelled.
Was George Lopez the comedian who joked when his show was first picked up that he decided to go to ABC since it was the American Broadcasting Company, as opposed to NBC (National- but which one?) or CBS (Colombians)?
They wouldn’t have been Latino back then. To be Latino they have to be of Latinate descent, or more specifically Iberian. Cavemen from the Iberian peninsula did not have hegemony over Latin America until the 16th century.
“Knocking George Lopez off the air…so easy even a Caveman can do it…”
Christ, I’d be much happier if Carlos Mencia was off the air. I actually watch Comedy Cental shows which butt up against Carlos Mencia and I have been inadvertently exposed to the Carlos Mencia cancer. However, I actually had to google George Lopez to see who he was. I’ve never seen his show, although I believe I’ve seen some commercials. No one even talks about him, so I guess he is not as mindbendingly awful as Carlos, only that he is not worth acknowledgment of any kind.
Carlos Mencia is fucking hysterical. One of the funniest shows on television. You keep your hands to yourself buddy.
I remember at some point about a year ago I started hearing people talk about George Lopez as some kind of star. I remembered him only as some bit filler comedian. Now I see his show was on the air for 5 years. Shows how little I pay attention to Network TV. Until Lost, I just assumed that if it was on Network TV it couldn’t possibly be good. Though I hear 24 is awesome, but I saw the first episode of the first season and decided it was god awful so I haven’t watched since.
David Spade’s joke on the issue (not up to his usual standard), alluding to the show being too expensive to keep on the air, which is funny since its filmed on an already exisiting set, the main expense is George’s salary I’m sure- did he refuse a pay cut to keep it on the air? :
‘How far america has come where a white show replaces a Latin show becasue the whites will work for less pay.’
This must really pain George, as his feud with Mencia stems from Mencia supposedly stealing George’s jokes- looks like he could stolen funnier ones.
Oh, God, it looks absolutely dreadful.
Thanks for the link, it removes any possibility I’ll accidentally watch that show. It looks so bad they could have used Lopez for a writer.
Not if he stole them from George Lopez.
It’ll never cease to amaze me how the egoes of these jackasses can be so all-pervasive that they will pick a hot-button social issue as the cause rather than accept that some people think that they suck. It makes them look so much worse. Isn’t it generally a major blow to a career to cry racism when your show is cancelled because you are a talentless hack?
Won’t somebody please think about the Cavechildren?
One of the things that killed Lopez was the woman who played his mother. Lopez as the lovable loser was OK, but you need someone to balance that, Everybody Loves Raymond found an actress that could pull it off, but Lopez didn’t. She read lines after a fashion, but little more than that. An audience must invest in a character and they could not in that character and she was pivotal in the show.
I think Lopez is a talented, articulate comedian, but like Jeff Foxworthy his talents don’t really seem to work within the sitcom format.
Regarding Mancia, I think he is one of the most innovative minds in comedy today. There is very little derivative in what he does, unlike most other people who do comedy. That being said, however, like Dave Chappell, he is doing it all himself and in about three years it is going to catch up with him.
It’s almost as funny as Laura Dern complaining that no one gave her a job because she kissed Ellen deGeneres on her ill-fated sitcom. Um, Laura, sorry but you’re an okay actress who is just not beautiful enough for Hollywood. Neither Jennifer Aniston nor Lisa Kudrow had trouble finding work after their famous lesbian kiss. Do the math.
Oh please. :rolleyes: First of all, Ellen’s kiss was 4 years before the Friends kiss. That may not seem like a long time, but within those 4 years, Will & Grace and Queer as Folk premiered, Willow came out on Buffy, and Ally McBeal had a lesbian kiss on her own, so the television landscape was dramatically different.
Second, Ellen’s kiss was an actual lesbian kiss–you know, like between 2 homosexuals. Aniston’s kiss wasn’t. Kudrow’s wasn’t either. They were playing straight girls “experimenting” or “getting caught up in the moment” or whatever.
Did Dern make too much about the blowback from her single ep appearance? Maybe. But your analogy is ridiculous.
Creo que Paul Rodríguez ya había hecho eso en los ochentas – I think Paul Rodríguez had already done that in the eighties. No, wait, that’s unfair to Paul – HIS show was mercifully pulled before he even made it to a half season so we could not get tired of it…
But really, in a world where Betty la Fea spawns clones not just in Hollywood but in Bollywood, and Eva Longoria is the suburban housewife everyone wants to dop in on for a cup of sugar, it sounds like George has one seriously inflated notion of his place in Latinodom.
That “Cavemen” show isn’t going to generate enough episodes to be syndicated, unless they keep it on only for that reason, which I don’t expect from ABC. But it may be cheaper to blow half a season’s producation on that than to pay the cast of a reasonably successful 5-year-old show. The actors on the George Lopez show could ask a lot given how desirable some of them are to other productions.
But the “Cavemen”? They’re unrecognizable in their makeup! Their own real faces will gain no marketability from the exposure the show gives them. Somewhere in the halls of ABC, this is some idiot executive’s dream.