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Sat, Dec 10, 1994
François soon overcomes his grudge that he was the last to find out about the family's plans to start a French cheeses campaign when told it earns them 4,000,000 Euro. Frankie enrolls in night courses to learn French, and the school arranges a student exchange. However, practicing speaking French and cleaning up their Antwerp dialect for Renée proves a testing combination.
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Sat, Dec 17, 1994
The postman is happy to deliver a package for the crazy neighbor Marcel De Neut to the Bakeljaus. Franky opens it, granny takes some of the 'candy', which turns out to be amphetamines for Marcel's race pigeons. It gives her abnormal strength and an even crazier mood. Sabrina has applied for the SWAT team, so she is getting used to handling a machine-gun. The gullible police are easy to abuse.
Sat, Dec 24, 1994
After hearing how well two-bit local singer Eddy Lombroso is paid, çois decides to manage Franky as the next star. Writing his own text is beyond the son, but this comes naturally to young godson Lionel. Antonio gets a dream job at his uncle Emilio's Florida plant. However, çois refuses to let Sabrina join him unless he pays for it, which he can't afford. The family jointly directs the waterworks. Franky's showbiz dream turns nightmarish when a sponsor is found but poses elaborate demands.
Sat, Dec 31, 1994
Franky's first singing gig may have been his last, making him and 'manager' dad the neighborhood's laughing stock. Franky's lover Jeanine is thrown out at home after a row. Alas Cois won't let her sleep with him, nor her burly biker brothers. Lionel's mother still insists on a fun park weekend with him but Franky messed up the oil-change in the commotion and is punished elaborately.
Top-rated
Sat, Jan 7, 1995
Because of a construction error in Francois's building firm, his capable foreman Jean is fired, so he gets promoted. However Jean starts in his brother's extremely ill-reputed firm, and insists on installing a new staircase at the Backeljau home. So he pretends it's ordered with a reputable firm. Franky is commandeered to draw the blueprints -more imagination then sense- and prepare the site. When Jean arrives, only granny is home, so they don't even get the dubious instructions right.
Sat, Jan 14, 1995
Now the rest of the house is made-over, the boys dig a new cesspit, while the girls only complain and blame them for the temporary discomfort. Things change when granny discovers in the pit a runes stone, the only ever found south of Denmark. The family now hopes to make a fortune by turning their home into a Viking theme park. The start is ruined by an error.
Sat, Jan 21, 1995
The family suddenly suffers from excessive insecurity attacks. Grannie uses her pistol to scare a woman from the cash dispenser (who is actually neighbor Marcel's nearly deaf mother Magda De Neut), and accidentally steals her identical handbag. Franky designs an alarm system which makes enough noise to knock dad unconscious. The girls enjoy elaborating the ridiculous rumors for the gullible uniformed cops, but a detective inspector follows this time.
Sat, Jan 28, 1995
François isn't amused that biker Jean returns the bricks granny throws through their business's window. It landed in his soup. After her rock band beats them they asks her to be their new gang leader. She makes them push her rock record, albeit violently, and Franky's romantic one. Established singer Eddie Lombroso is interested and coaches Franky. Hard choices are made and success follows, but it's hard to square with family bliss.
Sat, Feb 18, 1995
François must return to hospital to have his concrete-filled ears operated. It's a horrible experience, especially for his roommate who has a professionally opposite taste in TV stations. At home everyone enjoys what dad normally objects to, such as ma dancing lessons from a hunk, Franky and Jeanne playing table tennis, grandma sculpting from a near-nude model.
Sat, Feb 25, 1995
The family receives a chain letter. All except dad pretend not to believe in that nonsense, but all four secretly copy it 50 times anyhow, alas sending them to the same people. Meanwhile granny's contact ad is replied to by her dream-date Renaat. Antonio isn't amused his airhead girlfriend Sabrina spent dollars like Belgian Francs (about 40 to $1) for gifts, yet she's the one to indignantly return from Florida when duly scolded an airhead squanderer.
Sat, Mar 4, 1995
François fears the annual local rock festival will be troublesome and noisy, but the others enjoy it. Grannie's band is rehearsing hard, or alas too hard after some dispute. Franky now works in Jeanine's dad's fried chicken chain, which is awarded the catering. Daughter Sabrina, the cop, and Antonio are back, just in time to deal with the neighbors viz. the bill for her stupidity.