Tue, Jan 8, 2002
After Filip insulted Hugos intelligence too grossly, Lucas advices him not to use his fists but to prove he can scam Filip; well, if Lucas thinks of something- he supposedly became highly intelligent by a microchip implant, to be proved be solving cryptograms and crosswords (by using the solutions in the next editions). Jeff doesn't dare tell Jeanne he's going to a fishing tournament, so he pretends his friend Oscar needs help with his vegetable garden; Jeanne sees an opportunity to sell his biological produce in her sweets shop, while Jef just gets them from the supermarket...
Tue, Jan 15, 2002
The students bicker about how bad Dutch and Flemish words are understood by the other party; Tineke cheats by submitting piercing terms she got from the Internet, but slips out she has one, making it Hugo's next goal in life to see it, but where on her body? Jeanne wants to lose weight, but liposuction is expensive, dieting too hard; when Odilon overhears Tineke about a piercing but confounds the two, they think she can get a cheap operation at home from a specific piercing artist whom they pass on to Jef as a chiropractor...
Tue, Jan 22, 2002
Filip is furious when Lucas blabs to everyone he had a girlfriend, but there really is a female friend Colette, a dentistry student- Hugo met her at a party where he accidentally dumped a beer in her cleavage; in order for Hugo to give them space alone, Filip must get the lout several porn magazines- Odilon is subcontracted, but gets much more from prisoners then anyone bargained for. Jef has unwisely 'invested' all their savings on the stock exchange, but Jeanne thinks only half as she demanded, so now he must find another way to finance roof repairs- Odilon suggests the burglars Danny and Ivan he knows from prison, so they pass them for jailers; when Jeanne hears the legit prices from Mimi, she doesn't mind about their criminal record any more; the porn keeps getting moved...
Tue, Jan 29, 2002
Since Hugo failed to bring the two male poker partners he promised Lucas, cards virgins Tineke and Brigitte have a go but don't win a single hand; after bragging and nagging from the victors, the girls want a rematch, but Filip threatens to tell Jeanne they broke the rule not to play for money; they strip him and play strip poker instead. When they notice a leak in the roof, Odilon wants to repair it speedily, but Jef is too lazy; when Jeanne hears it from Odilon, he pretends Odilon has a dangerous neck injury, but Jeanne sees trough it and pretends a lumbago, so Jef must do all domestic chores- when Tineke talks, he retorts with fake broken arms. Mimi, who has a real cold, needs help for the Chiro (Catholic youth movement) benefit but volunteers to nurse the (fake) sick trio.
Tue, Feb 5, 2002
Jeanne looses all patience with Jefs priorities such as his plants and clubs, and is livid he also messes up the half house. Lucas suggests he finds her a suitable hobby of her own. Hugo realizes his efforts to win Tineke only scare her off, so he decides to ignore her and make her jealous by turning all his attention to Brigitte. Mimi has a murderous row with her husband Jos, so she's stuck with tickets for a Latin dance demonstration- Jef insists Jeanne goes with her, even if he must do the household meanwhile. She returns elated, and has signed her and Jef up for a tango course, but he fears for his toes, back and, in reality, billiards evenings; so Jeanne tries to get one of the boys to stand in, to no avail- Brigitte has a feminist alternative: a female dance couple. Lucas suggests Mimi and Jeanne to get their husbands to participate by pretending the first prize is a holiday where they want to go.
Tue, Feb 12, 2002
When Jeanne has a nasty dream, she asks Tineke for a dream analysis - the absurd answer is Jef must have an illegitimate son; Jeanne is fed up with Jef's incompetent 'repairs', so she insists on a real electrician, but Jef argues passing him over will break Odilon's heart; so the men pass Odilon's new prison colleague Armand for a professional. Brigitte ignores Tineke4s advice to dump her boyfriend Evert who criticizes her cloths. After a mad bump and blowing off dust seemed to repair his radio, Hugo is convinced he'll make a fortune if he picks up all dumped electrical equipment and sells it after the same 'repairs'; his first sales, a lady-shave and a mini-solarium, both give Brigitte more sorrow then satisfaction. After another row with Jef, Filip talks Jeanne into believing Armand is Jef's bastard, but instead of throwing them out she welcomes the new son...
Tue, Feb 19, 2002
Filip is furious Hugo takes an eternity in bath; as a revenge, he plants an engraved golden fountain pen Tineke lost in Hugo's room, so he can show Jeanne his 'theft'. After another good laugh at the Dumbo's expense, the others help him to an alibi: pretending he has got kleptomania. Lucas advises Filip to commit a more serious theft, from a public works site, and blame Hugo for it, otherwise Jeanne may remain protective of Hugo; in fact he's setting up Filip... Hugo enjoys his part too much, stealing from everybody. Jef wants a new angling rod, but Jeanne feels they have spend enough on his hobbies for months; Lucas suggests he pretends his old rod was accidentally broken, and puts in a claim with the insurance company, but that requires a gullible stooge to declare having damaged the thing- only Odilon is good-hearted and dumb enough, but not exactly a born lier, so Jef must try to make him break it for real 'by accident'; the insurance inspector turns up before they can made up their minds how exactly, but buys the whole story; yet Odilon feels guilty, so when ...
Tue, Feb 26, 2002
Jef is furious because Odilon stands against him as candidate-president of the billiards club. His bitching makes 'traitor' Odilon refuse to continue repairing his TV set, but Jeanne refuses to let him go out till it is repaired. Hugo reneges on his promise to help Lucas and Brigitte moving in a friend of her's baby shop, because he prefers a date with Tineke, invoking the memory loss caused by 'post-traumatic stress syndrome' they read about in a trial report in the paper. As revenge they steal his boxers while he's sleeping off his hangover and make him believe he did it with Brigitte; he begs Lucas to stop him 'sleepwalking' again, so is locked up, but now they also leave a rope dangling from his opened window- his boxers are not with Brigitte, Filip hides them in Jeanne and Jef's bed. Jef asks his mate Roger to pretend he also knows how to repair TVs and occupy Jeanne; he ask her along to the movies, but his taste for horror makes her go visit her hypochondriac mother instead; Tineke convinces her to make him jealous anyhow; when he finds out, she fears her marriage is ruined...
Tue, Mar 5, 2002
Jef won the billiards clubs sweep-stake, but is determined not to tell Jeanne so he can squander his winnings on a long fishing trip on a rented boat, but Odilon was with him, and Jeanne hears from Mimi, so she expects a grand 'secret' gift; Brigitte finds her in tears as he seems bend not to spoil her, so they decide to 'inspire' him the spa visit she craves by planting a magazine with an article on one. When Odilon suggests it could be something else in the rag, Jef decides to pretend it could be horse riding lessons, as she's afraid of horses; of course Odilon gives that game away too, so now she pretends to be eager for the lessons... After he was called unsociable because he never goes drinking with the others, Filips dares Lucas for a popularity poll; he tells Jeanne the others want a curfew and tells them she imposed one at 10PM, next that he got her to cancel it; next Tineke is bribed with exclusive perfume, Hugo with champagne, but one quote tips the balance again...
Tue, Mar 12, 2002
Odilon is heartbroken after the death of his goldfish Gaston; for once Jef and Jeanne agree: to take his mind off his sorrow, he needs more repair works. When the Holy Ghost 'peda' burns down, Filip is the only one who seems to approve of such old-fashioned disciplined Catholic student homes. Hugo thinks it's a girls-only dorm, so he convinces Jeanne to take in three of its homeless students. To Jefs horror, Jeanne concludes that Odilon is now more needed for domestic chores and tending to the shop, so Jef is left doing his own chalk work again, so he sabotages the laundry by putting his red socks with the whites and badly arranging the dishwasher; even on his own Odilon allows the kids to taste without buying or even interpreting discount rules down to paying nil. After a padre inspects his room, Hugo gets a big disillusion: all three 'refugees' are boys, who turn the room in a pigsty, even by his standards.
Tue, Mar 19, 2002
Jeanne is furious about the beer consumption, but none of the boys confesses drinking a lot. Hugo even gave up alcohol, hoping without a beer breath he has a shot at Tineke 'because she didn't scold him for days'. Alas Brigitte tells Hugo she has a relational therapist -in fact Tineke's boyfriend Piet, a political science student- who also wants to talk to him, puts him trough (fake) hypnotic regression and gets him depressed believing he was starved in his former life as a rabbit, and is incompatible with Tineke. Brigitte is worried Hugo is seriously depressed and calls the 'therapist'; Lucas recognizes him, and they decide to let him hypnotize Jef, who supposedly drowned in water in a previous life, to cause a water-aversion they hope gets the beer back, but Jeanne sees trough his story and puts on her own show at Jef's expense...