 This caused many misadventures for the entire Peña family as they get pulled in all directions in their attempt to preserve their heritage.The series was bilingual, reflecting the code-switching from Spanish use in the home and English at the supermarket ("Spanglish") predominant in Cuban-American households in the generation following the Cuban exodus of the 1960s.The use of language in the show also paralleled the real-life generational differences in many Cuban-American families of the era.