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This work investigates how Latino/a family relations and immigrant Latino/a identities are constructed in selected examples of U.S. popular culture. The primary goal is to highlight how Latino/a identities are represented in satirical audiovisual material by the YouTubers LeJuan James and Jenny Lorenzo, as well as in the bilingual TV sitcom ¿Qué pasa, U.S.A.?. The most relevant definitions regarding immigrant Latino/a identities in the U.S. and their respective media representation are clarified in the theoretical part of the work. The connection between language and identity, Latino/a family relations and parenting, as well as different degrees of immigrant assimilation within intergenerational Latino/a families are going to be focused on. Consequently, the analysis aims to underline the most salient aspects of Latino/a identities that enable this particular media construction, namely language use, parenting and intergenerational family relations, traditions and values, and attitudes and behavior. By examining said themes in the humorous media sources, popular stereotypes that are used to portray Latinos/as in popular culture are stressed and dismantled.