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- If a picture is worth a thousand words,

then a painting must be worth a million.

Life happened in what seemed like an instant.

My Tía Lorena, Tíos Larry and George,

and my dad Carlos all grew up

and added lots of new colors and brushstrokes

to the masterpiece we continue to call "The Garcias."

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- [clears throat] Victoria?

- Am I in trouble? - I said one word.

- And that one word was "Victoria," not "mija."

Definitely in trouble.

- Okay, well, what's with the megaphone, mija--

- Climate change rally today!

- Yep, that's loud. All right.

Why don't we sit down? Ooh.

- Dad, the world's not gonna save itself.

- Well, I just wanna say, you crushed it in school this year.

Straight A's and honor roll. I'm so proud--

- Dad, don't say things like "crushed it."

It makes you sound old.

- Okay, ouch.

Well, does this make me sound old?

- Oh, my God!

That's an iPhone! You're the best dad ever.

- I wasn't the best before you got the phone?

- Best-ish. But now, definitely.

I'm gonna have to get TikTok and IG and Snap--

Whoa. Wait a second.

What is this?

- Oh, well, this is a tracking app.

All the cool kids have them,

especially those with parents who care about them.

- You're back to -ish.

- I think you meant to say was,

"Thank you for the cool new phone, Dad."

You know what, you can text it. Right there.

Just doot-doo-doot-doot-doot. You got it.

Right there. - Sorry, thank you, Dad.

Thank you for a total invasion of my privacy.

Do you know how invasive this is--

- Mija-- - What's going on, George?

- Dad bought me a new cell phone.

And guess what? He put a tracking app on it.

- Oh, how nice of him.

What would have been nicer is if he had discussed

such a big decision with me first.

[speaking in Spanish] - Mi amor--

- Am I in trouble?

'Cause usually when you talk to me like that in Spanish,

it means that I'm in trouble.

- [speaking Spanish]

Let's save the world.

- Birthdays in Casa Garcia are always a big deal.

The day starts out by being surprised

with balloons and cake.

[balloon pops] - Ah!

- You would be such a lousy burglar.

- Are they still asleep?

- Did you get what I asked you to?

- Yes.

Most of it.

Not exactly.

I got Andrea the science stuff that she wanted.

But they were sold out

of the art stuff that Alexa wanted.

Don't worry. I got Alexa the same gifts as Andrea.

- Brilliant.

Except for one small thing, Carlos.

Alexa hates science.

- She likes it. She just doesn't know it yet.

- Well, did you at least remember

to get me my wheat grass juice?

- Yes, yes, of course.

It surprisingly wasn't sold out.

And, uh, it's here somewhere.

I don't know how you drink that stuff.

It's disgusting.

- Oh, no, you like it.

You just don't know it yet.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

both: Happy birthday, girls!

- [gasps] - Oh, my God!

[both squealing]

- Did you make a wish?

- Yay!

I love you, Dada. - I love you, Mom.

- I love you too. - Mommy, I love you so much.

- Happy birthday, sweetie. - Thanks, Mama.

- Ready?

When I say, we're on the tornado.

When this airs, my Peabody is going right there.

- I don't think they give Peabodys for the weather.

- I think they'll make an exception.

- All of her life, my Tía Lorena

wanted to be a novela star.

When that didn't work out,

she brought her dramatic abilities to her job

as the local San Antonio weatherperson.

- You do realize, you weren't there when the tornado hit?

- It's not about the tornado.

It's about the drama that people want to feel.

- Lorena, it's your lucky day.

You get to do the weather with

Conner Roscon.

- You know, you don't have to roll the R in "Conner."

- You do in my world, sweetheart.

- Is that spray tan?

- For my Latinx demographic.

See, I'm down with my homies.

So I need my weathergirl

to get me some footage of this heatwave.

I need people with enormous sweat rings.

Small animals exploding.

An egg. An egg frying on a sidewalk.

You get it.

Oh, and, uh,

you keep it simple. Okay?

I don't want you trying to upstage

Conner Roscon.

The news you deserve.

[speaking Spanish]

All right, I'm late for a wax appointment.

- God, I "rreally" hate him.

- Mmm, I love this cake.

- And, just like you girls wanted,

we're gonna go shopping and get smoothies

and mani-pedis. - Don't forget the art show!

- And the art show.

- The only thing that would make it better

is if Abuelita and Abuelo were here to celebrate.

- Why do we have to spend two months in Mexico?

- Sweetie, we went over this.

It's because your Tía Ana and her brother

have a family business and she needs to help him.

Besides, it's only fair that she spend some time

in Mexico where she grew up.

- What does that have to do with us?

- Your Uncle George and I are also business partners.

Just wanna get some work done out here.

- Plus, we're gonna be Zooming with Abuelo and Abuelita later.

- It's not the same.

- As long as we're getting the gifts we want, I'm good.

- I'm good if we can do mordida.

[all chanting]

- Oh, my God!

[all laughing]

- I already made the drizzle. All right, well.

Almost done.

Girls, I got Max guiding me on how to make

his Nutella pancakes.

He's a little bossy.

- [giggles]

- Less talking, more flipping.

- I'm flipping, I'm flipping.

- Uncle George, make sure the pancakes rest for a minute

before you plate them.

- Got it, okay. Girls.

This is just the beginning. There--

- That way, the Nutella doesn't totally melt.

- Got it, got it. Uh, anyways.

Girls, I just-- - It's melting.

Focus.

- All I'm trying to say is

we have a huge surprise for dinner!

[chuckles] Yeah, doing great.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Oh, oh, oh, oh! - [speaking Spanish]

- Completely ruined.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Abuelita wants to wish the girls happy birthday.

- Happy birthday! Oh, I miss you.

- We miss you, Abuelita.

- We wanna go back to Texas.

- Oh, you're kidding.

No, enjoy Mexico.

It's a perfect opportunity for you to explore your roots.

- Uh, hello?

- Okay, half your roots.

- Is that the girls? I wanna say hi.

Hey, girls!

Isn't it amazing what technology--

oh, great, it froze.

- I'll try to get them back.

- Sonia, I got this.

You guys have to get going

if you wanna have time to say goodbye to Lorena.

Ray, isn't she supposed to be retired?

- Mi amor, this is bad for your blood pressure.

- Oops. - Oops?

- Don't make me call Dr. Corrine again.

Come on, come on. - I can fix it.

- Yeah, yeah, Kim, we'll see you in three days.

- Bangs! - No bangs, mira, oye.

[speaking Spanish]

- Don't worry, you won't have to pay full price.

- Everything okay? I was gonna go see my girls.

- Yeah, good news.

I just closed another round of funding.

- That's awesome.

Dude, we are crushing it.

- Yeah.

Anything we are crushing on your side of the business?

- Now that you mention it,

there is this killer new translation app

that I think we should invest in.

- Carlos, our company is called It's a Gas for a reason.

We have made a lot of dinero off of bodily function apps.

Translation, it comes out of a body,

it goes straight into our bank accounts.

- Bro, we can't live off farts and burps forever, okay?

We need to diversify.

- Fine. I'm listening.

- Okay, so all the translation apps suck, right?

But with this one, as soon as you activate it,

a live native speaker links directly to your phone

and helps you translate.

Kinda like you did for me at the beach in Cancun

when we were kids.

- Let me think about it.

- Yeah. I know what that means.

It means no.

Do you know why I never bring you anything?

Because when I do, you just shoot it down anyway.

Do you know what? I've had it, I'm done.

- Carlos--

What?

Brother.

You okay?

- Yeah, I'm sorry I overreacted, I--

just got a lot on my mind right now.

- Tell me what's up.

- Well...

I sorta told Yunjin that they were sold out

of the gift that Alexa wanted.

But they weren't.

- Oh, no. Wow.

Yeah, I'll say something nice at your funeral.

[notification chimes]

Unbelievable.

Victoria's tracking app is offline.

I gotta go find her.

- George, you're tracking your daughter?

- Yeah.

- That's a great idea. - See, that's what I said.

- I'll come with.

- [speaking Spanish]

- Let's try another exit.

- Gordito, what happened with Victoria?

- How did she do that? - I have no idea.

- Ay, George, you're not that hard to figure out.

Hmm? [phone buzzing]

Hola.

- Oh, it's Victoria.

Oh, there's nothing to worry about.

Nothing at all.

- Well, maybe you should answer that.

- Right.

- Dad, is there a reason you called me, like, eight times?

- Why isn't your tracking app online?

- Why are you asking me?

You're the one who installed it.

- [speaking Spanish] You didn't finish the install.

[speaking Spanish]

[app chimes] - It's working now.

- Right, no, no, no, no. [speaking Spanish]

- Well, after you come to my funeral,

I'll get to come to yours. I'm out.

- Today, Tío George officially became a helicopter dad.

But there are two more helicopter dads

also waiting to get their ways.

- Conner, the temperatures continue to rise.

It's like this heat has heat.

Stay inside, people, I am begging you.

This takes a toll not only on the body,

but the soul. The soul!

- I said keep it simple.

You are stealing my thunder, sweetheart.

- Oh, this heat. It's sweltering.

I can feel my bones. - Oh, there she is.

- I think she's on--

live TV.

- This is not for faint of-- - Are you all right, mija?

- Uh, you should not be in the heat, sir.

- You're not looking so good, mija.

- And we're out of the shot.

- Papi, I was live on TV.

- Oh, thank God you're okay.

- It's fine. I was doing it for the effect.

- I'm gonna miss you, Mom.

- I'm gonna miss you too.

But you'll be back in three days,

and we'll Zoom every single day.

Behave and listen to your Abuelita.

Him, not so much.

- I thought she was dying. - Ray.

- Is the camera still rolling?

["Grateful" by 13 Crowns playing]

- ♪ Like watching sunshine through the rain ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Like finding joy in the midst of pain ♪

♪ Like wearing my heart proud even though it's stained... ♪

- Gotta keep your thumbs straight.

- Yeah, but her thumb is bigger--

- [gasps]

Yay! - Perfect.

- That's definitely not mine. - That's yours.

- This one. - Oh, yeah, I actually think--

- Happy birthday, girls.

all: Cheers!

both: Whoo!

- Thank you. - Mmm.

[gentle acoustic music]

♪ ♪

- Victoria, you can call me any time.

That's what tías are for.

Dads are just always overly protective.

- I can't believe he's tracking me.

He doesn't think I'm mature enough to take care of myself.

I'm almost 13 in two years.

- Sometimes to get through dads,

you have to use a little thing I like to call "male logic."

How do you think I survived that house full of boys

all those years?

Wait a minute. I think I have a solution.

Okay, so hear me out. This is what we're gonna do.

[phone buzzing]

- Hola, mija.

- Now that I'm being tracked like a shark

on Discovery Channel, I wanted to let you know

I'm taking a golf cart to another rally.

- Please be careful.

- I just wanted to warn you so you don't freak out

when you see my dot moving, Daddy Deep State.

[hangs up] - Love you too.

Glad you're enjoying the new phone.

- Mija. - Sir?

- You don't look good, mija.

- Sir? [all laughing]

- Mija, mija, mija. - Look at that, it's a classic!

- Sir? - Not looking good, mija.

- It's going on my Instagram.

- Sir? - Not looking good, mija.

Mija, mija. - Sir?

- Not looking good, mija, mija, mi--

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- While we've been laying here,

I figured out what I want to paint next.

I can actually see all the colors

and shapes with my eyes closed.

It's so cool.

- I'm glad you love your hobby.

- It's not a hobby, Papi.

Someday, I want to be a famous painter.

Like María Izquierdo.

Did you know she was the first woman

to go to the Mexican Academy of Fine Arts?

- Some more art trivia.

Did you know that Van Gogh died penniless?

- Are you trying to tell me something, Papi?

- I'm--

Just that these cucumbers are delicious.

Mmm, so crispy. Try it.

- Sometimes you are so weird.

- Keep walking. The step is coming up.

- There's a step--step down. - Now step, step.

- Step?

- There's a step? Okay. - I've got you.

- Okay, okay. - No peeking.

[all speaking at once]

- Turn. - Ready?

both: One, two, three!

all: Surprise!

- Oh, my gosh, Abuelita, Abuelo!

- Max!

- I told you girls I had a big birthday surprise for you.

- Where's Tía Lorena?

- She couldn't get off work.

We brought Max with us for a long weekend.

- Yay! - Max.

- Yay! - Happy birthday, girls.

- Did you have fun today?

- Yes, and the best part of the day was the art show.

[phone buzzing]

- Ooh, mija. We all made it safe and sound.

Everyone's here, and Max is fine.

all: Hi, Lorena!

- I miss you. - We miss you.

- I love you, Maxito.

Happy birthday, girls.

- We miss you!

- Look, about today. I'm sorry that--

- Let me talk to Mom.

- I thought she was dying.

- Lorena, are you okay?

- I'm so angry at Dad.

He totally humiliated me today.

Conner made an embarrassing video of me at work

and posted it on his Instagram.

I'm a laughing stock.

- We taught you never to worry about what other people think.

Not even that guy.

Lorena, you're going to be mija to your father

until you're a hundred years old.

I'll talk to him.

I'll tell him to have more respect for you

when you're on the job.

Ray!

- Yes, mi amor? I'll be right there.

- Thanks, Mami. I love you.

- Love you, honey. [hangs up]

- Am I in trouble?

- Yes, birthday presents!

- Do you wanna open your presents?

Go ahead. - Oh, my gosh.

- Go for it.

- Go, go, go.

- Oh, my gosh, wow! This is so cool!

It's a model rocket kit.

Thanks, Mom and Dad, I can't wait to tell Tío Larry.

- You're welcome.

- Oh, my God, look at this. all: Oh, my God.

- Oh, my gosh.

- Are we gonna launch that on the beach outside?

- Mom, Dad, I'm so excited.

- Now, Alexa, just remember that if--

if this, uh--

Isn't, um-- - [gasps]

This is exactly what I wanted.

[all gasping] - It is?

I mean, it is. - Thanks.

You're the best dad ever.

- Okay.

- I'm glad you like it, sweetheart.

- Guys, look! - Yeah, it's--

- What just happened?

- Remember when you insisted we add

"I will always have your back"

to our wedding vows?

That just happened.

[upbeat music]

- Who tried my quesadillas? - I did, I did.

It was so good; I loved it. - Of course.

- We just finished our family Zoom time,

and someone wanted to say hi.

- Hi, everybody! - Hola, mi familia!

- Oh, my God. Hello.

- Hey, what's up, man?

- Hey, happy birthday, girls.

both: Thanks, Tío Julian.

- How's it going over there, Dr. Ramirez?

- Well, it's only 103, so believe it or not,

it's actually cooling down.

- Wow. -I miss you guys.

all: We miss you too.

- Oh, I'm just happy I could be here

for Victoria's big moment.

[mischievous music]

- What? - What?

- What is it, Victoria?

- Hi, Larry.

all: Tío Larry!

- Hey, bro, what's up?

- Happy birthday, girls. Hey, everyone.

- Uncle Larry achieved his dreams

of becoming an astronaut,

and is now living on the International Space Station.

His family always knew he would move up in the world,

just not out of it.

- Tío Larry, I got a rocket set!

- Oh, that's so cool.

Victoria, did I miss it?

- Miss what?

- Abuelo,

I'm ready. - Ready for what?

[dramatic music]

- No, no, no. No. - Not a good idea, mija.

- Is it because I'm a girl?

- No, it's because if you eat your Abuelo's atomic salsa,

you will die.

You can't eat it. I can't even eat it.

- I got this.

- You are ready for this, mi amor.

[all speaking at once]

Do it.

- Victoria, stop! - No--Papi, do something.

- No! - Not tonight, mija.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[all screaming] - Oh, my God!

- No! Why would you do that?

[tense music]

- Mmm, that was good.

I might have another. - No!

- How did you do that? - Good job, girlfriend.

- Wow. - You okay?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

- I am so confused and proud.

- That's amazing.

- Victoria, impressive.

- [sighs] Your Tía Lorena is a genius.

I promise your dad will see you differently now.

[speaking Spanish]

- Uh-huh.

- And he does.

Because Victoria has bravely accomplished

something that Tío George failed at

when he was her age.

- I was so scared. I kept thinking,

"What if you didn't put the tomato sauce on the top layer?"

I would have exploded.

- Even if it's all fake.

- You know what you did was wrong.

[music stops]

- Are you gonna tell them, Abuelita?

- Not a chance. That was priceless.

[all laughing]

Oh, I really missed this.

- Hey, bro. So...

you never told me who developed that app.

- Well, I thought you hated it.

- No, I said I had to think about it.

Sometimes when I say that,

I actually have to think about it.

And I did.

Plus, it turns out it was a really good idea.

So who developed it?

- It was me.

I developed it.

- Really? Well, why didn't you say that?

- I don't know. I was afraid

you'd lie to me if you knew.

- Truth is,

it's genius.

- Really?

- I don't lie, man.

Come here. Come here.

I got you, bro. - Thanks, brother.

Yeah, I still don't know how she did that though.

- Maybe it's not as spicy as we remember it.

[mischievous music]

- One way to find out.

Ugh.

One...two...three.

[both screaming]

- No, no, no! - Bad!

- Tío George has started giving Victoria more freedoms.

My dad is trying to take little steps

to be more supportive of my dream to be a painter.

Abuelo Ray still treats Lorena like his mija,

just never in a professional setting.

Todo para la familia.

Everything for the family.

- We even got a mani-pedi. - So--so...

Ray and I have been thinking.

Maybe we should extend our stay.

[all gasping]

If it's all right with Ana and George.

- Ay, Sonia, of course.

We love having the family together.

- What a great idea.

- This reminds me of what we used to have

before we were empty nesters.

Maybe we could have it just a little while longer here.

We can enjoy some sunsets. You can finish your book.

I already talked to Lorena.

She says it's okay if Max wants to stay

with his cousins a little longer.

- Oh, my God, Max, you gotta stay!

- Stay, Max! - Please?

- Please. - If you put it that way.

Why not?

[cheering]

- But, Mom, what about Sonia's Casa of Beauty?

- It's like your dad says.

Kim can easily handle it.

And besides, maybe it's time I actually retired.

You're always saying I need to relax more.

It's exactly what I could do here.

And I could spend time with my grandkids.

- I'm so happy to hear you say that.

George, Ana, you sure it's okay?

- Ay, claro que si.

As we say in Mexico,

this is your home, okay?

- Mi casa es su casa. - [speaking Spanish]

- Then let's do it.

- Great.

- It's gonna be a terrific two months.

all: Two months?

- What? - Whoo!

[all talking excitedly]

- Two months?

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ The clean water is all I see ♪

♪ The sun reflecting all this light on me ♪

♪ The timeless tide and the deep blue sea ♪

♪ So drop all your worries, get up and hurry ♪

♪ Sing it with me ♪

♪ Say whoa and yay ♪

♪ This is a party, this is a party paradise ♪

♪ Say whoa and yay ♪

♪ This is a party, this is a party paradise ♪

- ♪ Say whoa and yay ♪

♪ This is a party ♪