Fri, Aug 31, 2007
New students Victor and Jill wager 100 Euro which of them will do best in Leuven's half marathon; Saskia and Arnold coach them. Jef's friend Piet invites him to become his 'vogelpik' (darts) partner at the title tournament now his co-champion Jeremy is in hospital for livers cirrhosis, but that requires daily training in the pub; since Piet is prepared to pay for the drinks, Jef pretends to Jeanne to be asked for a tennis club, too fancy for her to knock. To fit the part, they pretend Piet is a surgeon, just now Jeanne is considering whether she should get some plastic surgery job done- she now considers joining tennis herself. 'Doctor' Piet is also consulted about Victor's fake broken leg...
Fri, Sep 7, 2007
Jef asks female help to get Jeanne a nice gift for Valenine's day, but Saskia thinks he's having a affair with her best friend Mimi. After Jef put salt in Victor's coffee, he makes Jeanne believe the fire department rules demand they get a fire escape, an urgent job for Odilon, but Jef and Jeanne give contradictory instructions. Arnold is participating in a gaming marathon, and when he says the best 10 win a Smart car but he only wants the honor, Jill decides to assist and massage him, coveting the prize, which yet turns out less valuable then she thought.
Fri, Sep 14, 2007
Jeanne's ma is spending money like water, and not just on a PC and a first lesson by Arnold: she intends to dodge succession taxes by donating a fine part of her inheritance alive; suddenly even son-in-law Jef is eager to please the hated, hateful old hag. Saskia and Jill prepare a rap act for an Internet commercial, but when Viktor learns there is money involved he makes sure the cameraman is cared away, determined to make them sign him as manager. Furthermore, Viktor mounts a web-cam -however not connected- to make Jef believe his mother-in-law can see everything in the living-room...
Fri, Sep 21, 2007
Odilon tells Jeanne he overheard Jef dreaming with a colleague about exciting ladies, while in fact it's just the species names of the baroness's collection of roses, which Jef hopes to get as she's about to donate them, so he calls as a fictitious charity for mental patients' chairwoman Jozefa, and must cross-dress for that part to receive the aristocrat. Psychology student Saskia's bad advice makes Jeanne reach even dafter conclusions about 'transvestite' Jef... A misunderstanding by Viktor makes him, Jeanne and Arnold believe Jill is a nymphomaniac even onto Odilon...
Fri, Sep 28, 2007
When Odilon tells a certain Bernard is sick now his angling club is going o here days of North Sea fishing, Jef pretends to club president Isidoor he is Bernard's former classmate to take his spot, while pretending at home to go finish Bernard's big lumberjack harvest job, which inspires the home front to get a 'cozy' wood stove expecting him to get cheep wood. Viktor helps Arnold entice the girls to come to his folk dance club party, by pretending their favorite DJ Frankie is his relative and will be there, which makes them eager and viciously jealous of each-other's appearance. With father's day approaching, the students convince Jeanne their childless 'second father' Jef deserves a treat for once, so Odilon's desire is taken as reliable measure a day of sea-angling would be ideal. Mimi knows too much and tells Jeanne...
Fri, Oct 5, 2007
When Jill's chat-room mate Leo unexpectedly turns up on her door, surprisingly hunky, she gets Saskia to take her depressed regular, sweet but less beefy lover Kevin off her hands till she makes up her mind, but actually fools around with each in turn behind their backs. Jef is in the doghouse for going out playing pool twice a week but dodging dance class with Jeanne, who is furious her alternative partner Mimi constantly danced with their teacher. Arnold takes her to his folk dance group, where she meets and hires the expensive TV choreographer Jean-Luc, who coaches her on the attic while she pretends to be with Mimi in order to surprise Jef, who gets very suspicious when she only has got a cellphone. Viktor makes sure all the schemers are confronted...
Fri, Oct 12, 2007
When his window doesn't close properly, Viktor isn't satisfied with Odilon oiling it as every year, so he sabotages it himself, demands a 'real' carpenter and when Jef refuses buys an electrical fire, for which the bill is refused, so he decides to take revenge by making Jeanne believe Jef is neglecting and damaging (which he really does) the house because he wants to move to a small one with a garden and sabotages the central heating. Odilon is down because he feels everyone considers him just stupid, so Jef tries to restore his confidence by having him do repairs, which backfires. Jill viciously tries to discourage her romantic 'stalker' Joris, so Arnold is commandeered to pretend being her lover, yet not allowed to enjoy it properly.
Fri, Oct 19, 2007
Jeanne is pleased to be asked by the Rotary as Clini-clown, Viktor decides to direct her. Jef tried to scam a day compassionate leave for 'dementing Jeanne', but his boss, foreman Marcel, actually sends over social services; when they offer Jef two days social leave a week, he's tempted enough to try it with a fake Jeanne. However the real one finds out, and Viktor invents a suitable revenge...
Fri, Nov 2, 2007
The girls refuse, unlike softy Arnold, to contribute trough Victor to a charitable second hand gifts collection organized by Sam, a professor's son. That changes when they see handsome Sam, yet only until he gets out of the picture. Jeff manipulates two colleagues to sabotage their chances to be promoted by supervisor Victor to a cushy social mediator job and one of them retorts, but Odilon unwittingly makes each ploy explode in their own faces.
Fri, Nov 9, 2007
When neighbor Mimi boasts her repeated participation in a host family program for destitute families earns her an annual invitation to a charity reception at the royal palace, Jeanne suddenly changes her mind to volunteering, despite Jef's objection the house is fully occupied. Jill has the hots for 'cool' motor-biker Luigi, so she gets him and his two biker gang to pose as such a single-parent family. Jef is desperate to find out his late's secret fish-bait recipe, Arnold helps him, Luigi's 'father' abuses that to freeload spirits. Jill changes her jealous mind when she realizes that Maria is actually Luigi's lover, but is laughed away as petty jealous cow.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007
Jeanne panics because for days all her customers have deserted to her sweets shop's competitor De Lekkerbek, who has been renovating, so she decides to do the same, as she wanted for long. Odilon would volunteer to help, but Jef won't allow it, and decides this is a time to go working. Jeanne thought Mimi was a traitor too, but she actually reports the competitor's prices, which aren't viable, but Jeanne blindly signed a petition against the city greens department's inefficiency- that's Jef's employer! Alas Jef and she already went too far in the battle to keep him out or in. Arnold has a ticket for two to the university's gala, so Viktor and Jill rival to oblige him to be taken, the key seems to be cleaning up his extremely messy room, or that's just the most honest part...
Fri, Nov 23, 2007
In order to win a 'free holiday', Arnold and Saskia prepare to apply as couple for the Flemish-Dutch reality series Temptation Island, but 'coach' Jill finds their mutual aversion seriously problematic, and critical Victor has a secret agenda. Jef's opposition to Jeanne's idea, inspired by Odilon, to buy life insurance from a dodgy ex-colleague of Jef's turns around when he hears the man needs only a few clients to become a full-time agent, needing to clear his attic as office and hence donating his billiards table, which Jef wants at any price.