Cinco de Mayo (5th of May) commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. However, the Mexican victory at Puebla only delayed the French invasion of Mexico City, and a year later, the French occupied Mexico. The French occupying forces placed Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico on the throne of Mexico. Maximillian and the French were eventually defeated and expelled in 1867, five years after the Battle of Puebla. A common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day; Mexico's Independence Day is September 16 (dieciséis de septiembre in Spanish).

Maddy, Brock, Dane celebrate Cinco de Maya at Nathaniel and Paula's house with a homemade piñata.