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- Ria is furious when her mother sends a boy from their neighborhood 'because it's about time she got dating' and gets rid of him mercilessly. Jo needs a volunteer to practice for his dentists exams, but the only willing mouth is Ria's, which he prefers to see closed. When Jef receives instructions from Jeanne to spend his whole day off cleaning, while Odilon goes trough advertisements from cleaning ladies, he hopes to solve both problems by having his candidates do 'test cleaning' in his house, without telling any there are other applicants.
- Jeanne is terrible at keeping her shop's accounts, and the tax official Mr. (no other form of address allowed) De Stipperaere is as good at spotting every error as he's bad at tolerating any, nor even formal amateurism- she gets one week to present to him fully updated accounts. That calls for a computer; Charles-Victor has the only PC, but says Koen must do the coaching, who alas barely manages to teach Jeanne the easiest computer game. Then Betty's lover of the day offers to help out so he can get in freely. Jeanne was finally making serious progress, but one wrong manipulation and it's all gone- total panic in a lake of tears. Desperate to get rid of the endless nagging and nocturnal computer-use in his room, C-V accepts to do it himself, by hand. When the tax man arrives the next day, it's another one: De Stipperaere has been committed with a nervous breakdown, so the rules change...
- Jef just raided the moved-out neighbors' abandoned wine cellar, but must cede bottles to hush student witnesses. Jeanne is initially pleased to hear a lady is starting a new business next door, but pretends the place is already taken -by a non-existent dentist- when she learns it's to be an erotica shop, and even decides to buy it herself and convert it into extra student rooms, to Jef's horror, while Odilon even looks forward to all the work. Jef pretends to applaud the 'pension plan' but promised his mate Sander an expensive bottle to make a terrifyingly expensive estimate, shoves him off when he hears Filip and Odilon's estimate scared Jeanne off, then must promise two bottles as Filip suggests boarding Jeanne's mother. When Odilon, left alone to pay Sander, ignorantly gives him two worthless rosé bottles instead of a good one, the crook pretends their own home has a concrete affectation; Jeanne soon finds out, when a professional explains, neither of the old houses contains concrete... Arnold is hyper-nervous as he must part-take at a professor's home in a discussion in German on the Kyoto norms, so Saskia orders a friend to give him a relaxing massage; Stef pretend it's a fat monster and has Arnold pay him to be massaged by the nice girl in his place; Lies and Saskia find out and announce a 'sensual massage', which Filips steals this time, ignoring it's actually a giant male chiropractor.
- Jeanne wants a new mattress, so her old one (double bed) would be a good catch for a student who wants 'company', but Jef is against as it undermines an excuse to take days off because of his 'bad back'. Mimi has failed her drivers test for the n-th time, so she persuades student Lucas to give her paid lessons, and does him some domestic favors, such as mending his pants and teaching him how, which makes Jeanne feel passed by as 'maternal' figure; Gentil takes it they have an unnatural intimate relationship and even informs her jealous husband Jos, who bursts in but actually surprises and beats up Hugo with his girlfriend Nicole and even Gentil.
- It's nearly Christmas time, but Filip only thinks about cramming, so he tries to enforce brutal silence-rules on the other students. Stef gets scared when Lies presents him to her high-pregnant friend Myriam. Jef never liked their annual tame, mushy Christmas parties with Odilon and The Sound of Music, but when he hears Jeanne probably will invite her mother, anything else will do, so he volunteers his wife to replace a sick actress in the Nativity play Saskia helps organizing; to Jef's horror, the ladies volunteer him when an actor also gets the flue, actually voluntarily joined by Odilon, who keeps tinkering with the text and thus messes up the Biblical story, which didn't get young customer Vic's approval anyway. Arnold wrongly overhears future father Seppe would have beaten Myriam black and blue, but he is still just in time to witness the slightly premature birth at Jeanne's place...
- Jef and Jeanne have a wedding to attend next Saturday, so Odilon must fit her potential new dresses. Billy is used to waking up with a hangover, but this time it's a live sheep. Jeanne, who always opposed pets, starts mothering it despite everyone else's practical objections and alternatives, but it keeps breaking loose and causing expensive damage, and a notice 'free sheep' in the shop's window finds no takers, at least none to Jeanne's taste- till it eats Jeanne's new party dress. When old organ grinder Piere's tame monkey runs away, he is persuaded to try it with a sheep. Only then Billy finds out it's called Stella (a Belgian lager brand) and was only on loan from equally drunk 'friend' Patrick who desperately wants it back. Fortunately Piere returns it as it ate children's sweets.
- Brigitte is confused and sends even more contradictory signals to her lover Evert about the part of sex in their relationship, which Hugo's and Lies's advice to the lovebirds makes even worse. Jef wants to attend a billiards tournament in Liège instead of qualified club-mate Robert. That leads to weirdly convoluted babysitting intrigues which get completely out of control for him, Jeanne and several babies' parents.
- Lus accepts to mind a friend's pet- an adult boa constrictor! Dieter expects an unwanted female visitor, Daisy, but makes Jo believe he only pretends not to be interested, so he will take her off his hands. Jeanne hears a rumor -from Mimi- that her hypochondriac ma has a gigolo, but in fact it's the kind mister Martin Molenaers who brought her to hospital after swallowing a fish-bone, who she mistrusts however; searching what she thinks to be his loot from ma's flat, she frees the boa...
- Jeff has taken a day off on his birthday. Jeanne pretends she forget it, as he frequently did with hers and their anniversary, while a new fishing rod is to be delivered in the evening- just what he wants, and desperately tries to drop hints about with Odilon's clumsy help, which seems to get him stuck with a second-hand one. Stef offers sneaky, mischievous help which goes wrong... Hugo may figure as candidate on the TV show "Blind date", but Filip and Jeanne fear he'll make a laughing stock of himself and indirectly embarrass them, so he gets coaching from Stef and Lies, but doesn't take that seriously, so all the students play their mock version, which 'gnome Plop' Filip sarcastically sabotages, so...
- Jef and Odilon lie to Jeanne they'll put up wallpaper at Odilon's so they can go to a snooker match. Jeanne's complaints about the many white lies leads to a kitty which gets 100 Belgian francs (2.5 Euro) per lie- a costly arrangement, and not just for the students, while the truth can hurt more then lies... Flowers from a secret admirer are delivered daily for Betty by a cheerful kid who thinks Jeanne is the recipient, but there's a twist. Odilon surprises everyone by solving crosswords definitions even beyond Charles-Victor. Pranks escalate.
- Jeanne joins Mimi's clay modeling class, which has already started. Tineke asks the boys to help her think up an original exclusive mothers day gift, but is out of the big money for once; failing ideas, she sells her chic scarf cheap to Mimi and plans to raise a lot more by a major clothes sale. Jef decides Jeannes going to class twice a week means he can also go to the billiards club a day a week more often by joining the clubs board as treasurer. When the students make fun of her first clay model, Jeanne considers stopping, but Jef needs her to continue; so he makes Tineke offer to keep the shop some hours so Jeanne can practice to catch up, while she can add her marked-down clothes to the sweets on sale; Gentil decides he can then also sell CDs there. After her first modeling after a model proves disastrous, Jef gets his club president to play an art critic to praise her back to self-confidence, but of course Odilon lets the cat out of the bag, so she plans a revenge with Lucas' help which costs Jef his ambition and a small fortune.
- Jo has an eye on Veronique and asks her for dinner, Koen has just a crush, both feel insulted when she refuses, so consider helping jealous Ria's plan to put the 'snake' rival in her place, but desert it as soon as Veronique invites Jo instead, but later Koen, in the end even Jef and Odilon. Jeanne and Jef are startled when Odilon announces he's planning to get married, without a lover. Jef finds out it's just for conversation, so offers Jeanne without the pains and perils of married life. The students encourage him to respond to a contact ad from widow seeking a handyman, Ria convinces Jeanne it must be a sordid date instigated by vile Veronique.
- Hugo is elated his girl-friend Sylvie accepts to coach him with a course at her home, Saturday morning, but Filip refuses to lend him a 'foulard' (tie); Lies advises him to learn about plumbing, Sylvie's dad's job, but his lack of talent is as great as his IQ is low. Jeanne hears a sweets firm is looking for an executive, and she would fit the profile according to a salesman. Jef pretended to be exhausted after a fishing 'accident', but when he hears Jeanne could earn thrice his pay, promises to take care of both household and students if she takes the job, believing that would still leave him most of the day off as he would give up his city job. For the shop, they need a salesperson- Odilon brings an ex-con, but Jeanne fears the girls would find him too sexy, so Jos pretends to be gay; furthermore, he takes charges of stopping Jef and Odilon from deserting domestic duties to go fishing...
- When the postman refuses to hand the water bill to Jeanne because it's in Jef's name, she's furious her husband has time for everybody and the Internet but not for her and the post. Arnold believes Filip's claim his ruthless marketing techniques can catch any girl in no time; he must pretend to be studying veterinary science as his desired Joke is with Greenpeace- she dumps her pet dog Pluisje on Arnold, next even an aunt's cat, and ... Stef has volunteered to cast a last-minute replacement for the sick lead in his professor's movie; Odilon fits except that he can neither memorize nor properly read his lines, so Stef asks candidates via Internet. Lies convinces Jeanne to try chatting herself, which instantly creates a nocturnal surf-monster, oblivious of the household; Jef and Saskia set her up with a fake sex maniac and Stef's audition candidates...
- One of Odilon's friendliest prisoners, master burglar Celle [short for Marcel in Dutch], is being released after ten years. Princess of naiveté Sam gets Jeanne to offer him temporary lodging in her room, yet everybody freakishly hides and locks everything of value away, even though Jef correctly points out a professional finds and cracks everything anyway. Jeanne has a small fortune in cash from the shop in a small metal box. Charles-Victor, who is most suspicious of all, barricades his room with triple padlocks, but ends up locking himself out just when he's in a big hurry to get to class to present his economics dissertation, which is thus about to become part of the course.
- After an article in the paper about a fire in another private students' home, Jeanne realizes it's time to invest in legally required fire-extinguishers etcetera. After a hefty quote from a professional Jef decides he needs to save enough to buy a humidifier for his plants hothouse, by doing the job with Odilon, who also agrees to send a colleague as fake fire inspector so Jeanne will buy their story, while Jeanne asked someone else to scare Jef into hiring a professional firm, and a real one responds to Ria's notification, but who is which one? Meanwhile Jo and Betty exchange fire - and water pranks.
- After Filip complains about Stef going to the shower 'bare-arse' (in fact boxer shorts only), the students come up with a series of plans to switch rooms for various reasons, such as a peephole to lure Arnold so he'll leave his comfy room for Filip. Meanwhile Jef, having exhausted his medical excuses not to help out repairing the fishing clubhouse, pretends he has to catch a mole in this backyard urgently. Misunderstandings lead to people believing Jef's accidental black-eye is proof Jeanne beats him.
- The girls eagerly expect Polish exchange student Olga Kornatowski, the boys can't spare a moment for the presumed 'backward wart hog', so Odilon is assigned volunteer to pick her up- till she arrives on her own, and proves an economics major looking as good as Betty: now Jo and Charles-Victor rival for her company, even spending money on her, only to be disappointed in the end. Jeanne looks forward to arousing envy on the annual party of her supermarket cash register ex-colleagues, but that requires an expensive new dress, for which Jef believes he's entitled to take some compensation by cooking his mother's normally banned favorite recipe, pig's brains, disgusting to the others except Olga...
- Jeanne was deeply disappointed by the city's annual carnival sales, but then the Viennese circus's director turns up, whose dromedary has eaten all its famous Viennese sweats, so he's about to place a humongous order in an old-fashioned shop just like hers. Sam drops in a surprise, which elates the girls as much as it fails to appeal to Jef and Charles-Victor: Jos, despite the boys name the baby daughter of her vague friend Willemeyn who is moving, which they 'may' babysit till evening, or as C-V predicts much longer so the irresponsible mother can be young again. He's certainly right about that evening...
- Odilon's diagnosis is inescapable: Jef's motorbike is beyond repair; now he refuses to go to work at all as long as Jeanne, who wants 'bargain' carpet first, refuses to buy a new one. Hugo's clarion playing is not only utterly unmusical, it's also so loud that Gentil can't stand it- when he tries to record it, Dieter and Hugo find his mike and blow straight into it, resulting in deafness and possible thrombosis- it soon turns out he pretends it to be far worse hen it is, so he can finally get Hugo's larger room. Odilon gets free use of one of his detainees' chopper, so now Jef needs another excuse to hide he can't ride such a machine, notably 'needing' a leather suit which he presumes too expensive; when Jeanne whips up two suits on free loan, his last chance are driving lessons- from little Pieter!
- Stef enthusiastically tells Jeanne his professor chose her 'old-fashioned' sweets shop as location for a movie, but that adjective causes a firm no. For once, Hugo is smarter about handling Jeanne, telling her it could be great publicity and promising her a small part; as Stef can't get anyone in this late, they hand her a fake script-version to scare her off, making her character a transsexual; that fails to daunt her, until young customer Jonas tells her it's probably a nude part. Filip wants Lies to join his family on their new yacht; alas she says an invitation must be extended to the other students as well, so he tries to scare them off individually, but when she insists he must get them back on board- Hugo simply is paid twice. When Stef's professor turns up to muster the store Jeanne objects to any damages, till she learns a soap star is in the movie; new Stef tells Jeanne to get a costume in Brussels 'while Stef tends the shop' so she would be out the entire shooting day, but she decides to make sure she's back early. Meanwhile Jef and Odilon test new, disgusting fisherman's lure feed.
- Odilon is excited about a letter announcing his former flame Astrid is finally coming all the way from Congo (Africa). Charles-Victor is entering a photographic portrait-contest, the winner of which will be published in Vogue- Betty accepts to model at his terms, Billy is convinced it's all just a pick-up ploy. Odilon asks C-V to photograph him, to send his picture to Astrid before she flies to Belgium; C-V makes the grave error to recruit clumsy Odilon as assistant in charge of the steam machine, so everything goes wrong. Once he has his photo, it gets lost...
- Now the students are stuck with lots of alcohol from the party, they intend to sell it in Jeanne's sweets shop after hours, as -illegal- night shop; Gentil is determined to stop this 'immoral' business. Tineke doubts Dieter's advice not to be too direct with Flemish lovers, such as her Johan. Lus' first contacts with customers as (day) salesgirl are disastrous: her honesty puts them off sweets altogether! Jef has bought new club vests at half price, and hopes this will give him enough popularity to unseat the club president, so Jeanne won't be able to refuse him attending every meeting and stay last to close up.
- Plucking a daisy makes Betty believe Jo is smitten on her, just doesn't know it himself; Sam is a bit more skeptical, obviously the man-eater is the one on the prowl, and without boundaries or effect. Jeanne's mother forgets her hypochondria instantly because of a lover who takes her on a first love night to Paris; even Jeanne wasn't prepared to listen to her endless ranting and leaves the phone off the hook, till Charles-Victor points out she keeps mentioning jewels and disinheriting, enough to make the heiress listen and rush to collect the jewels for safekeeping during the Paris trip, escorted by bodyguard Odilon, whose 'cool' shades make him about as blind as a bat. Odilon's friend Fons lends them a safe, but he told reputed ex-con safe-cracker Stanley about the jewels and the key gets painfully mislaid...
- After the weekend Saskia shows pictures of her new measly rich husband and a hunky lover, Bobbie- in a play that is, yet enough to make Arnold jealous. Jeanne gets a client from her distant past, Bernadette, who stole her best friend in class when they were six, André, now a lawyer. To keep up, Jeanne pretends Jef is her gardener and passes Bobbie's picture for her absent husband, the start of another comedy of errors, especially as Bobbie is coming to rehears for the play. Now Lies won't sleep with Stef, allegedly because he snores, Filip is hell-bent to prove the love-affair is over.
- 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...
- Brigit is worried seeing Filip neglects his paper, trusting his girl friend is the heiress to the bus firm Van Hool, but indignant when he brutally dumps the silly girl as he hears her dialect pronunciation did not mess up her name, it's van Gool, her dad is just a poor bus driver. Kind Bas is brutally commandeered to get the tearful scornee out of the way, even though the Dutch exchange student finds her dialect as hard to understand as Filip's logic and lies, to which Lies ends up adding Filip is gone to a Tibet monastery for five years... When Jef cries out he's fed up Jeanne never believes him -actually he was fibbing again, but she couldn't now that- and always puts the students before him, Odilon points out he can't talk given the endless time he spends on his plants. Jef decides to make up by selling the rare seed of the galliconda plant he nicked from the city greens department where he works and spending the proceeds on a romantic weekend with Jeanne. When Odilon bursts out, refusing to fence the nicked seed, and Stef is eager to approach his female seed-taker, Jeanne hears only half the story and believes it's sperm donations; then Madam Versmissen appears in person to receive 'Jef's seed', while rascal Vic affirms if anyone is knowledgeable about seed, it's Jef...
- When Stef lands the part of a security-guard who catches criminals with his guard dog, only Bas believes he actually grew up among police dogs, his pretense on the set. As the guard dog young Vic brings turns out Idefix-size, Evert generously offers his parents' Zorba, but even the gentle Alsatian is too much for Stef to handle. Jeanne presumes the two tickets for an Erotica fair she found are Jef's and Odilon's, as they pretended to have been playing billiards (as their angling club bought sweets from the competition), asks the students 'for a friend' what it's about and gets more blunt comments from Dutch freshman Bas -who visited one with his mother- then an old-fashioned Flemish housewife can bear to contemplate; she gives Jef foreplay by massage with baby-oil. When Bas, who ignored the owners, brings the mesh-bikini Evert and Brigitte sneaked in to Jeanne, she thinks its Jef's too and gets Lies' advice to use it for striptease while Stef is on the film-set. She does so in the living-room when Jef returns, but neither knew the other's plans, so Odilon brought all the club members to apologize to her...
- It's pruning time, so Jef needs an excuse to dodge the hard work; when Stef brags how he 'negotiates grades' with a professor whose mistress is a friend of his, Jef takes his cue and blackmails colleague Joris Vandam, who gives their foreman Frans' wife Ria "yoga lessons". When Mimi boasts about the relaxing effect of yoga, Jeanne insists to take lessons too. It's exam time, so Filip is even more picky about every preparation for his brilliant exams, such as ironing, but freaks when his rabbit's foot goes missing, even puts a 'bomb' under Arnold's bed...
- When Jef and Odilon disagree with their fishing mate Gerard about the chances of the national soccer team, they end up betting for serious money, knowing Jeanne disapproves of all forms of gambling- just then she walks out, giving Jef kitchen instructions while she's off to Blankenberge (a coastal resort), at the- casino! (actually it has many non-gambling visitors for various other entertainment). Ria finds Jo and Koen slaving over a list of most occurring winning numbers in the lotto, but unable to say whether those are to be used or avoided now the stakes are exceptionally high. Sam announces she's transferring to Ghent university and hence moving, but finds the barely lukewarm response depressing. Jeanne returns tipsy (not used to drinking port) but with a fine profit, so everyone believes she has a 'golden hand' (hence the episode title) or Midas-touch: when she wakes up with a hangover they beleaguer her to make lucky draws...
- Jef heard the noble-born relative of city alderman Baldewijns -very influential in his greens department- is looking for a student room, and said he is welcome next week, even though they have no free one; so Jeanne and he desperately hope to get someone to move out, probably dumb Hugo. Gentil figures Montignac made a fortune with his ridiculous diet, so he can do the same, enlisting Brigitte to help him devise recipes to fit his far too complex color-coded 'Gentilian' combination rules (which allow to fit anything in) and Odilon as taster and to pretend he lost 21 kilos trying it. Lucas, Tineke, Hugo and Brigitte call squire Henri de Bevekom d'Autriche he can come early, and set him up in Jeanne&Jef's bedroom; in stead of throwing him out as the students hoped, the couple moves into Hugo's room, but in the long run...
- Jeanne has strained her ankle, just when Jef's plants have a root disease which is quite laborious to cure. When Lies, who helps in the housekeeping meanwhile, suggests Jef can take compassionate leave, he tells his supervisor Jeanne needs to change her (fictituous) artificial leg once a year. Odilon overhears the call, believes it's true and even convinces Mimi. Stef has a shameless scam, selling fake celebrity memorabilia to more gullible colleagues then Filip: Paul McCartney's wife's artificial leg to Bas, Brad Pitt's watch from "Seven Years in Tibet" for "Brigitte's niece". Filip sees trough it, finds proof and demands half of the profit. Then the scam victims, including Jef's supervisor Fernand, find out the truth...
- It's exams time, so every student has a weird thing- Lus wears PJs, Tineke a bikini, Hugo tries to play the didgeridoo, while Gentil is irritated by all of them. After years of hopeless quiz defeats teaming up with Odilon, Jef has decided to switch to a certain Jos- Jeanne is furious about his disloyalty, and enlists the help of the students to train Odilon studying for their own simulated version of the quiz, which is based on recent newspapers. Tineke gets Gentil to bet he'll take off an item of clothing for each question -selected by him- Odilon gets right, and Dieter for every wrong answer- as nobody believes Odilon can ever remember anything, they need to cheat using a miniature speaker...
- Jef has used up his last spare days angling, fearing Jeanne would only put him to work in the house, but forgot they'll be married 25 years next week. Odilon tells him he heard from Mimi Jeanne has planned a romantic excursion, actually three days Rhine cruising; his only way out is to ask three days off for his 'wedding', supposedly with Jeanne. Stef bought Lies sexy lingerie, but fears she'll dislike it or blame him for crazy expenses, so he takes Arnold's advice to pretend she won it, but trough a misunderstanding believes it landed with Saskia, who starts believing Stef fell for her. When Jeanne learns the truth, she throws Jef out, but regrets it as soon as she learns he's not at Odilon's place...
- Filip expected his friend Tanya to help washing-up at his philosophy professor Landuyt's garden party where he is MC, but that is beneath her self-esteem; he convinces Brigitte by pretending the job includes singing, as she is keen after a dispute with Jeanne who sings on-key, so the old landlady is determined to convince him with her ancient repertoire- failing this, she tries to lure her competitor away with a free ticket, but gets the wrong one from sweets salesman Pieter, and signs blindly for it- an absurdly large order. When Lies finds out the party job is not vocal but manual, Brigitte 'asks' still ignorant and hence eager Jeanne; the would be-diva enlists amateur flautist Bas to accompany her urgent rehearsals. Meanwhile Jef is desperate to get a new fishing rod too after seeing the steal Odilon got at a bust shop: professional quality at half price; as Jeanne refuses to lie because his supervisor Fernand has warned them a next AWOL would mean a suspension, Jef promises Stef 'all his pocket-money' for a fake doctors slip. As he only pays pittance, Stef takes revenge but making Odilon spread the rumor Jef has rabies. When 'professor doctor' Landuyt arrives to check if Filips has everything ready, Odilon thinks it's a medical inspector, and Jeanne demonstrates her off-key singing in a loud frock.
- Hugo is envious to hear Dieter has a girlfriend for the week in Leuven and another one for his weekends home, Lus point out two-timing games sooner or later come crashing down, and indeed both turns up at the same time, so he tells each one the other is his pestering little cousin... When another postcard from her ever boasting 'friend' Gonda, who also announces she'll visit soon to show another load of Benidorm holidays photos, gets Jeanne envious, she asks Tineke what's the most fashionable places to be, and decides to pretend she and Jef have just returned from Honolulu- which implies they must urgently produce photos, or even better a video, from their imaginary Hawaian hotel...
- Gentil is sure he knows the right pharmaceutical stock to invest in- but Brigitte, Lucas, Tineke and Hugo only make fun and fight at his presentation for the other students, none is willing to input any capital, let alone pay him part of the profit, and Odilon can't even understand the concept of shares. Jeanne is as enthusiastic -seconded by Brigitte- as Jef is opposed when he gets a letter that his distant cousin Honoré, a businessman from Canada, is coming to Belgium and paying them a visit. When he arrives, he promises Gentil to invest heavy and split the profit, but that was too good to be true...
- Stef and Lies want to share an apartment together; Jeanne is heartbroken to hear they will leave, until Filip presents to her rich young viscount Jean-François who is looking for a student room, and would pay for two adjacent rooms after knocking down a wall. Odilon finds the use of a bowling-ball to stretch his new jailer's kepi painful. Saskia tries to trick Jeanne using a photo of a relative who's the king's double to pretend a royal prince is interested in the room, but Filip proves H.H. is becoming a cadet in another city...
- When Jeanne hears from Mimi singer Isabella A has rented an apartment across her street and would be separating, she spies the room but blames the ignorant students. After Jeanne lectured her for being a troublemaker, Ria manipulates Jo to get a fight over his girlfriend Annick with Dieter and Betty with Lus over a letter from a common acquaintance. Once they realize her game, the four make up and concoct a vengeance using the bunny-cake Jeff had his gullible friend Odilon bring over, neither understanding what it is nor that it's for his own birthday.
- Lies had it badly for a hot Italian, even the frivolous Dutchman Bas is shocked they took a hotel room the very first evening. Jeanne didn't want to, but after Bas' suggestion the police would be very interested in case it's a white slaver, she opens Marcello's letter, only neither understands Italian. Despite Odilon's warning, Jef said he was the only candidate to become the billiards club's treasurer, but actually put Odilon to the vote while he was in the lavatory. He knows the jailer is hopeless at accounting, but plans to do it himself so he can get a commission fro the billiard table supplier; as his accounting also prove inadequate, he must concede 20% to Stef, and even half to Filip. The girls find out Jeanne has been opening private mail, so Brigitte makes Lies write a letter in English 'from Marcello' to make her believe he has got AIDS, then asks her Flemish friend Frederik play Marcello and rush to her room... Odilon isn't comfortable keeping the money and feels it only causes trouble in his friendship with Jef...
- Arnold feels stalked by Saskia badly enough to physically hide. Jeanne has volunteered herself, ever-ready Odilon and unwilling Jef for a historical costume procession about Jeanne D'Arc's life directed by student Stef because of the mayor's niece, Julienne Tobback who plays a nun like Mimi. After reading a reader's letter in a woman's magazine signed J.T., Jeanne believes that woman (who in fact only digs Odilon) is a lesbian after her, so she insists Mimi plays Jeanne D'Arc instead. The other students try to cure Saskia's infatuation for Arnold by hiring a stripper for her, but she sends him to the rehearsal, where Jeanne literally grabs her chance to demonstrate she's into men...
- In an icy winter month, the central heating breaks down, so everyone is shivering. The repair man comes, but seems to prefer chatting to working, and finally finds there's just a screw loose- alas a new one is impossible to get till the next day. Betty has found a cute white male puppy-dog and would love to keep it, but as Sam points out Jeanne may prove less pet-friendly then she pretends, judging by her tirade against Odilon when he accidentally brings in some dog marks on his shoes, so 'Jommeke' (named after a Flemish white-haired cartoon boy hero) is hidden from her sight...
- When Jeanne hears Mme. Hulpiau has been asked to find a classy student's room for a notary's son, she manages to get an appointment. Law student Ria wrote a poisonous reply in the newspaper to an article, but regrets it when she finds out the author's pa is her criminology professor. Since Odilon has to play billiards in his prisons team, he found Jeff a less competent partner, but didn't tell it's the chief of the tax service, so now they fear a murderous control, and Jeanne has only filed two of her five students! Their solution is to have the others play really shady, even criminal foster kids, but then...
- When Odilon surprises Jeanne with 'pas de guimauve' from a posh sweetshop and goes on how much fancier and more expensive everything is there, she despairs with a husband without ambition like Jef she'll never get on in life.
- Jeanne's ex-colleagues, the supermarket cash register ladies, invite her for four days in the Ardennes. To Jef's fury and despair she not only wants him to accompany her, but already registered him for the blabbermouth convention; ever helpful Odilon ruins his sick plant-excuse. The students except Charles-Victor finally see a chance to organize a party in the student house ('kotfuif' in Dutch), but then Chantal briefs over the nasty rumors about Jeanne's shop, so it takes some more lies to get her to stay with her hypochondriac mother. The costume party gets surprising mystery guests...
- Madame Hulpiau finds a whole bunch of Jeanne's Belgian waffles are past their expiration date, and announces she'll inform the health department, so they can only be used as breakfast for the students. Despite Odilon and Jeanne's fears, Jeff has gathered wild mushrooms. Shortly after, everybody seems to have cramps or diarrhea, but it later turns out neither suspicious food was eaten by everyone... Meanwhile Betty is furious when she finds out Jo has sneakily used her luxury car for a ride to impress a girlfriend, so she decides to make him believe he has caused it to be stolen...
- His supplier had no faith in him, but Jef has decided behind Jeanne's back to convert the sweats shop, which recently had a turnover crash, into a fishermen apparel shop he would call 'De Kromme Haak' (hence the title, Dutch for 'the Curbed Hook'), but Jeanne explains the slump was short-term and even mentions fishing rods as a terrible product choice; Jef first lies there's a mini-mart about to be opened nearby which would sell very cheap sweats, so Jeanne will at least be open to other products; Filip however suggests another strategy: collaborating with her rival "De Lekkerbek"; another lie Jef inspires Odilon makes that deal fall trough, but the note he had to make about what to tell either lady and what not falls in Jeanne's hands... Stef uses Hugo in various disguises to record various fictitious 'professional' clients of his new dating service database. Meanwhile Hugo hastily fakes a probably contagious disease to keep his prudish aunt Madeleine away. After a friend of Brigitte's is disgusted by Hugo's bad disguise, both girls set him up for an even more disastrous date ...
- When Jef is to play the billiards club's final against the far stringer Jos, he hopes to win by forfeit by making his wife Mimi (his own Jeanne's gossip mate) believe her Jos is unfaithful, but things don't go according to his plan.
- Betty if furious to have seen her blond, blue-eyed boyfriend Stijn kiss another, behind her back- even though she has another, Theo, since longer herself. Jo is preparing an exhibition of student objects. Koen's mother has a row with her husband, and takes scorned Betty's 'man-rearing' advice to wait till he makes the first move, so she stays at Jeanne's, eager to do her bit as experienced housemother, but soon gets at everybody's nerves...
- Jef bets for two kegs against Gérard he'll win the next angling competition because of his new bait, Bulgarian mosquito larvae, but Jeanne took them out of the refrigeration so the mosquitoes came out; Lies shows him how to order new ones by Internet, behind Jeanne's back: in Odilon's name; as he doesn't really have the money for a courier, he cancels the air-co installer, and fails to do the job with Odilon: the shop's sweets stock spoils for a fortune. Stef asks money from both Filip, who is tired of his room being used as hiding place by Arnold when Saskia comes looking for him, and Arnold who isn't' interested in her, to solve both their problems by finding Arnold a girl-friend; since that actually fails, Stef switches to cross-dressing to make Saskia believe there is a 'Stephie'. One of Odilon's inmates sends his girl-friend Zizi, who is wanted by the police herself, with a cake for him to deliver in jail, and fits Stephie's description...
- When schoolboy Bas tells Jeanne how easy he handles his 11-year old girlfriend by playing the 'new man', she decides Jef must become one too; he won't have a bar of it, but Odilon is determined to save their marriage, so cooks a feast etcetera... After Filip spoke out in favor of the social division in working and ruling class, even stating his family pays their house staff, without respecting them, the other students decide to mess up his room to put him to menial work; he gets an adult to play hid dad, telling the others 'in confidence' he is so happy Filip is no longer bullied as happened in primary - and high school...
- The students are fascinated, well the boys, by Russian exchange student Natasha, whom the girls rather see an an 'unworthy' threat. But she gets confused with a fictitious mistress of Jef's city greens boss, Gerard Willems, when Odilon is short of an excuse to cover up for the hidden presence of Willems's pedigree feline Nikita, actually a gift for is wife, as Jeanne bans cats which she fears to be allergic to. Thus she compromises her own ambition for Jef to be promoted.
- Jefs new foreperson in Leuven's city greens department is, a first ever, a woman, Susanne Wouters. After his initial disgust he believes Dieter who tells him to turn that to his advantage and coaches him inventing excuses which a woman will endorse because they suggest his motive is to be an exemplary husband and (imaginary) father, bur they don't tell Jeanne. After Hugo and Lus pulled a few very childish word puns on Gnetil, he decides to take sweet revenge by making the dumbo believe he can stimulate his inferior brain by alternating freezing and hot baths and emptying his mind in a ridiculous position. When Jeannes hears how the new boss favors Jef, she fears he has an affair with her...
- At the election for the local small businesses society's president, Jeanne decides to stand; the girls, Hugo and Dieter support her, and Jef taught it would get her out of his way in the evening, but when his city foreman Firmin tells Jef his future labor comfort and several days off depend on his wife Pauline winning instead, he changes side, and together with pure anti-feminist Gentil spikes the sweets boxes she hands out as campaign gift. Meanwhile Hugo hopes to make a dime as sandwich-man; when the ladies find out about Jef's treason.
- As soon as he hears Jeanne asks about Jef's promotion opportunity to foreman, Odilon makes a run for it, but is trapped into betraying Jef won't do it, claiming the job only gives ulcers. Someone has placed an ad to sell the house, so the students think the couple is broke, and decide to scare off 'potential buyers'. After Odilon said a public servant can get a promotion easiest after his wife entertained the director, Jeanne asks Jef's, Van Der Veken, although the men despise each-other. After Charles-Victor had a row with the girls over the use of the bathroom, he gets a chain-letter and they fake the bad luck it states will befall anyone who doesn't pass it on. When Jef hears his boss is in the house, he panics his stolen plants will get noticed.
- Jo is making a video about life in a real 'kot', but asking everybody to act naturally is not enough. Jeanne is furious to read her competitor 'De Lekkerbek' placed a newspaper ad, offering 20% off for a month while stating her sweets are the best in and around Leuven, and shocked to find even Odilon believes it. While the others concentrate on Jeanne's rage at the old babe who only told the truth, economics student Charles-Victor suggests a solution for her real problem: a professional publicity campaign. So Betty brings in the supposedly reputed Jacques Peul, but he proves a pompous ass who boasts a lot and requires absolute quiet in her kitchen to think, but produces little else then empty whiskey bottles. After Peul only came up with absurdly expensive ideas, Jef and Sam make sure he overhears and steals their completely absurd one, to open Jeanne's eyes; after she threw him out, he sends a bill as she has signed a contract, but Jo way out using Betty.
- Jo and Koen decide it's time to put haughty Ria in her place, with a fake diagnosis condemning her to a mental asylum. Jef duly dreaded being dragged to Jeanne's class reunion, as she passed him off as wealthy garden designer, yet refuses to retract a lucrative commission offered by posh notary Van Steenbergen, with Odilon playing his even less competent assistant.
- Odilon makes a trip to Amsterdam, and leaves his beloved saxophone in Jef's care. His warning nobody should touch it gets broken, even by everyone- well, Charles-Victor only because he is tricked into it so he should chip in too when Jef drops it himself, as it must be repaired before Odilon's return... Meanwhile Jeanne has lots of work cleaning up behind the street-workers, who keep popping in to use her toilet. Betty assumes, when the youngest one whistles after her, he's just another flirting admirer, but in fact...
- Jef has bought a second hand antique oak cupboard for the stockroom, and gets Odilon and Arnold to do all the work, talking it apart, carrying it and putting it together, but still gets all the bruises. Because Filip insists to inform Stef's and Lies's parents the two are too intimate -and make too much noise on the crammer's floor- Stef gets publican Fred, who wouldn't refuse such a good customer, to play Lies' dad and Fred's girl-friend Chantal to play Stef's ma; the two can't help playing footsie under the table so they are seen by Filip, who informs Jeanne. When Lies's real ma -as Filip called the lovers' parental homes for a pretended social occasion- arrives, and next Stef's pa, Jeanne and the cheaters try to prevent them finding their spouses unfaithful...
- When Jeanne hears from ex-colleague Mimy that competing candy shop, De Lekkerbek ('The Epicure'), will be the first in town, the day after tomorrow, to host children visiting the throne of Saint-Nicholas (who in Europe brings them gifts on December 6), she blurts out he's coming at her shop Het Snoephuisje ('The Candyhouse') just tomorrow. In no time several pairs of a Saint and his helper, Zwarte Piet ('Black Pete'), prepare and order costumes independently: Ria who has started a 'young ambitious intellectuals club for the advancement of the economy' and needs Jeanne's permission to host the founding session in the living-room, with Koen who wants to join it; Jo commandeered by childish Sam; Odilon who scolded Jef for refusing and Betty who plans a modern, 'fashionable' version. The next day the costumes in identical boxes get mixed up, including one pair for Father Christmas and his reindeer, and when Jeff fears to be reproached Odilon did it in his place decides to jump in as well. The resulting multiple protagonists-show is not exactly orthodox but entertaining...
- Jeanne is pleased Lies and Saskia have a small gift for her birthday, but blissfully surprised when Jef gives her a precious ring Arnold's Uncle sold at a 25% discount. Mimi can't believe it's real, but a retired jeweler she knows confirms, and indeed Jef learns the same: he ordered an amount thinking it was a bit over 5,000 Belgian Francs (years ago abolished) but must pay as many Euros, over 40 times as much, way above his means. When Odilon reports a row caused by the wives made the billiards club officials step down, leaving it unworkable, Jef decides to get the 1000 Euro funds left 'donated to Arnold's Uncle in the missions', actually his down-payment for the ring, and sends Odilon to get it at night and hide the cash in his sock, but he breaks his foot... When Stef bets with the other students for a dinner that Lies going out with another boy can't make him jealous, as she only was to catch a movie with his nerdy mate Jelle, Saskia tells Lies and together they arrange for hot Yuri to take her instead and pretends to phone Steph from his room...
- When Mimi proudly announces she's taking an option on an apartment a sea, claiming saving up isn't too difficult for DINKs, childless Jeanne is envious, enough to get really stingy on the students, who protest by eating out. Jef is so eager to go fishing the next day that he doesn't want Odilon to 'waste their time' fixing a stinking drain which pit the students and Jeanne complain about since weeks whenever it has rained. Odilon is told to distract Jeanne with a story about a convict's crimes, but picks the name of Verstappen, who sold Jef the house, as supposed dangerous thief of buried gold- Jeanne and Filip think he hid it inside and get gold-fever...
- The students have been bickering for hours about Filip's obsession to make and enforce detailed rules, but agree on Lies' suggestion to make up during a weekend together. After freshman Arnold stupidly asked Jeanne to join them as cook and chaperon, they need a plan to dump the pair of spoilsports, so they pretend it's to be a survival trip while actually planning a city trip in another region. Even young Vic's stories about his burly brother' exhausting and debauched mixed group survival trips fail to dissuade Jeanne, while Jef is determined to encourage her so he can meanwhile sneak out to Odilon's friend Marcel, who is in a pairs club and invited them angling at sea. Stef invites Marcel for a 'revealing' lecture. As the student budget doesn't suffice for any other destination, they must gratefully accept to stay in Filip's dad's coastal apartment.
- Flu makes Jeanne mute, for once, or according to the doctor it may be long-term if caused by a trauma, probably because honor student Charles-Victor moved out after another bad row with Jef. The doc sends his own cousin Karel, who has lots of attitude but no matching brains; he wrongly assumes to guess who everybody is 'at first sight' to fit his Uncle's descriptions, which quickly gets him enemies, not friends, and tells everybody what thy others don't tell them in their face, which starts several fights. The girls just wondered why they sort of missed the hated Charles-Victor when he sneaks in, hiding for Jef, who is doing all domestic chores (only Karel, who confuses him with Odilon, won't spare him some) while Odilon minds the sweets shop. Passively standing by while everybody fights is beyond Jeanne, so her voice returns...
- Jef is going to a colleague's bachelor party, but Jeanne doesn't trust him in case there's a stripper, so he asks Odilon as chaperon and Lucas makes a potion supposedly suppressing his libido. Hugo was enthusiastic to hear Tineke was dumped by her lover Bjorn, but then Gentil sets him worrying she may have gone off boys altogether and turned lesbian; as she asks Brigite to spend the night together consoling her and scaring Hugo off, the boys think they both became dikes. Jef returns from the party with a strippers bra in his pocket, so he must hide it and Lucas' hasty excuse makes everything worse for everyone...
- Turkish freshman Bülent visiting Billy and Oxford professor Teddy Philipps calling upon Betty get a very different reception, despite denials of racism.
- Filip invites only Lies 'the only sensitive one' to the opera La Traviata in Brussels. The others make fun of them, eager to enjoy Stef's backstage-passes for the pop group Red Hot Chillie Peppers- even Lies uses a lame excuse to join them instead. Jef tells Jeanne he will be feeding his mate Cois's domestic pig during his holiday. When Jeanne says aunt Alice comes visit several days, he rages she's even worse then his mother in law- and wheels in the unappetizing pet, hoping it will scare aunt Alice away; when Jeanne cheerfully says the farmers daughter will enjoy a yard animal, he and Odilon paint green dots on it and claim it has porcine pest. However Jeanne saw that and makes Odilon believe the old bag is about to give her fat inheritance away. Bas brought a Dutch party ingredient, space-cake, and Brigitte accidentally demonstrates it's strong. When Filips shows Jeanne a recording of the pop group stark naked on stage, she joins his action committee against it, and hosts its first meeting with Marie-Louise, the mayor's abstention-prone niece, but they unwittingly also ate some cake before auntie arrives...
- Jef has a choice who to disappoint: Gerard who needs help painting the clubhouse, which he leaves to Odilon, or Jeanne who invited her mother the same day. When Bas suggest to book instead a day bus trip to Lier with Jeanne, Jef convinces his hated mother-in-law to take the trip, pretending the price is just the driver's tip. Filip pretends just to go play sports, badly, but Odilon saw him enter professor Croes's house, where expensive tutoring is given. Bas even thinks to have recognized Filip in Swedish porn; now Filip tries everything to make Odilon sign a declaration not to have seen him because his eye-sight is supposedly too bad, but the other students decide to look for another witness. When Jeanne finds her ma not home, she immediately starts a search with Mimi and Madame Hulpiau; Jef sanctimoniously promises 1000 Euro to whoever finds her 'alive'. The students bring in witnessing neighbor Mrs. Lemmens just when Gerard arrives, next Jeanne too, so Jef must think fast, and weaves a web of lies which entangles both him and Filip...
- Jef is furious he keeps loosing at billiards from Odilon, so he wants to buy a new stick, but the savings he taught to have stashed away are claimed by Jeanne for a VCR; Odilon promises a cheap VCR, but didn't understand it's contraband. Jo accepts a commission to paint a Monet reproduction, but Koen suggests it may be meant to be sold as real. When the young man Betty thought to be a suitor only wants to make her testify on his behalf in a traffic matter, she calls the police; when a cop comes serve a summons, everybody panic thinking it's for the painting or the VCR.
- Since Jo told Ria she's getting fat, she smuggles in an old gym device, which causes power breakdowns. Pim has invited Patrice, a black student from Suriname (a former Dutch colony in South America) who suddenly became homeless for the night, but is was too late to inform Jeanne, so when she throws Jeff out of the bedroom for refusal to go change her mothers wall-paper he arranges him to scare her out of her wits; since Odilon is even more scared, he launches the theory it's a voodoo problem, which Jeff wants to use to scam his way out of his mother-in-law and Pim to scam Patrice back in.
- While Jef is away on a botanical garden visit in Kent with the city greens department, Mimi helps Odilon hang new wallpaper. She's shocked to hear Jeanne laugh with slightly naughty junior customer Vic's innocent 'dirty' word pun joke, but it gets much worse when Filip asks Saskia, who only agrees because she needs 50 Euro, to help him scare off Inge, the daughter of his hometown Westvleteren's notary which his mother always dreamed of coupling him with, by pretending to be his lover, and when that doesn't do the trick to be pregnant. Soon various futilities are misread, so the ladies see imaginary pregnancies all over the place, till the students catch on and play along...
- Arnold wants to give up his studies and join the army, or even the Foreign Legion. Stef wants to save his future and enlists Filip's help to discourage him by a taste of grueling boot-camp, but Arnold's superior condition and marksmanship amaze them. Jeff promises bait-shop owner Modest he can get Jeanne to model for him as mermaid, for a life-long discount. His plan to create jealousy with Mimi works, but Odilon's big mouth messes up here exit, so an audition becomes inevitable.
- Jef charges Flor, the anglers club president, a small fortune for algae-treatment allegedly by the royal ponds' supplier, but actually sends Odilon to nick some as well as lawn treatment he also nicked from the city greens department where he works, but they got mixed-up, which causes the fish in the club's pond to die, and getting rid of them isn't safe... When Mimi boasts she just can't say no when asked again as bride's maid and godmother, Jeanne pretends to be asked for Stef and Lies' wedding, although neither of the 'happy couple' knows where that 'news' comes from, however it's just the nudge they needed for a real wedding proposal; yet they soon doubt again if the time is ripe. Jeanne finds she's less gifted for speech writing then for lies and bragging, while Saskia and Arnold are confident they are more likely then Jeanne and Flip to be asked as witnesses...
- Odilon brings along ex-con Gilbert, who expresses an interest in an abstract heirloom painting made for Jeanne's pa, which expert Janssens estimates at 12,000 Euros. Jef orders a fake trough Filip, who demands 35%. Saskia reacts rudely and even with vandalism at Arnold's romantic gestures, so Stef suggests a remarkable cure, sort of a cruel treat.
- After Mimi complains about vandals, Jeane boast her kids are almost angelic. As even Filip wants a cooler image, he devises a bet who can steal the most daring public property. Jeanne ends up finding all their contraband. Odilon is 'secretly' testing a convict-ankle-device. Jeff has taken in some cacti which the owner dumped after his wife was stung and poisoned, but his assurance that's nonsense soon seems contradicted by painful practice.
- Jeanne was looking forward to meeting the rich-born med student Jef signed up, but when Billy makes his entry she panics, he's not posh but a party-loving slob. Despite Jeanne and Odilon's best efforts, mother Maertens isn't quite impressed with the cleaning of Koen's room, and Charles-Victor Blomme, who got no help from Jef carrying his luggage, is furious to be send to the attic, which still looks like a construction site without a contractor. Sam is early and impresses Jef pleasantly with her back massage technique, Betty even comes with her first lover, who is as scantily dressed as Billy and Jef when the Maertens family asks to see the other students's rooms- they want to redraw Koen, but Billy shows his acting talent, and then father hears C-V studies economics...
- City greens laborer Jef Liefooghe and his bossy wife, Jeanne Piens, are moving into a large home in Leuven (Louvain in English), a Flemish city dominated by its medieval Catholic university. They are helped by his best friend Odilon Bonheur, a jailer in the city's national prison, Leuven Centraal, who is stupid but very helpful and handy. Jeanne is a former cash register clerk who is starting a sweets shop. To make the move worthwhile, they need to rent rooms to students, but Jeanne is determine to take only boys, no mixing of the genders; Jef claims that means loosing out on half the market. Jef scares off their first candidate, posh third year economics student Charles-Victor Blomme, but is caught in his own bragging to renting a room to a naive girl, phys ed student Sam Detaye. Jeanne is tickled pink when she gets Koentje, a timid freshman economics, or actually the deal is handled by the boy's father, a cattle trader, and domineering domestic mother.
- Betty changes boyfriends like most people change shirts. Presently she's with the poetry-writing student Herman, hunky and too slick for Jeanne's taste, but suddenly Giovanni, an Italian holiday-lover, turns up and drags Betty into her room while Herman is in Koen's, waiting for her to get ready for dancing. Betty pretends she must visit a relative (a different one and a different medical problem in every version told) in hospital and dumps Giovanni on Charles-Victor by pretending it's an ambassador's son, but a naked Italian in Betty's bed just doesn't fit his expectation pattern; Billy takes emotionally shattered Giovanni drinking if off, but he gets so drunk he'd even jump Billy, so he's put to sleep in Betty's room- where Jeanne lands after an absurd row over Jef's conquests before he even met her...
- When Billy returns very late from an endless drinking night, he finds Betty studying anatomy, panicking she'll fail her partial exams again, in which case even her generous dad may cut off her obviously pointless study allowance. Charles-Victor is highly amused her loitering is finally getting punished, the others try to help her. Koen inspires Billy to pretend she suffers from agoraphobia- the ploy is believed, but works no wonders: an assistant will take the exam in her room. Jef fears Jeanne no longer loves him, making him jealous of his best friend, highly appreciated handyman Odilon. Billy has another bright idea: now Betty's exam is in the house, they can fit her with an earpiece. However, not all is as it appears...
- It's a hot week, partial exam time; mother-hen Jeanne burns candles for freshman Koen and feeds him cod-liver-oil and some local potion. Odilon is also preparing for a promotion exam in the federal prison service; as he has neither brains nor memory capacity, none of the students sees any point in teaching him a study technique, but even after an initial failure, Jef is convinced to give it another go when Jeanne tells him he makes a highly attractive school-teacher. Billy and the others blow off steam playing with water-guns.
- Freshman Koen has crammed too hard, he's trough in tears. Billy thought to take him out drinking, but when he discovers last drunk night made him the owner of a mangy mini-car in tatters, Koen begs 'permission' to try and repair it, he has one at home too. Meanwhile an even less assertive girl-student in Koen's economics class drops a love letter returning his borrowed notes; Jeanne thinks when he talks about the car it's the girl, as both are in Heverlee, a small town near Leuven. Jeff's roses have lice. Betty wants to choose her lovers and tests a home-made love potion, based on nettles, on utterly unromantic Charles-Victor, but looses control of the supply which gets mixed up and served to others...
- Jo helps Jef prepare for his art school exam, in secret as Jeanne thinks his only subjects are plants, while in fact it's female nudes, which is about to become very public when Jeanne offers some -unseen- for a charity auction, even calling them 'naturist' as she ignores the real meaning of the term. Charles-Victor hoped to trick newcomer Jo into changing rooms, as he got the luxurious attic, but Jo outsmarts him. When Odilon tells disputes between prisoners are settled by vote among their peers, Jeanne decides to hold one for all residents, and C-V puts his trust in bribery.
- Charles-Victor tricks Koen into lending manual assistance to his campaign for president of the student body, promising intellectual enlightenment instead of mindless drinking and fun- a perfect recipe for defeat. A stench in the house makes Jeanne and Jef get Odilon to dig up the plumbing, and find a 'blindganger', i.e. an unexploded German World War I grenade, which they try to keep secret for the students by pretending it's rats while they wait for the Rijkswacht (gendarmerie, Belgian paramilitary police then) which alerted a military bob squad, but nobody told stupid Sam, who just saw a pretty shiny thing...
- The students weren't too eager to help Odilon with such tasks as filing his taxes, writing a letter to the queen and shopping, till he tells he won a trip for two to Rimini; their zeal ceases when Jeanne proclaims herself travel companion and starts bragging to her former cash register colleague Chantalle, but Jef learns from Odilon the trip's winner hasn't even been drawn; next morning he actually wins, so he's back in favor with candidate-companions, and this time willingly plays them against each-other... Koen has the hots for biker chick Manu(ella), so he dresses in black leather and starts smoking, which soon gets on his bowls and Jeanne's nerves...
- Odilon has great trouble deciding which lollipop to buy for giant knife-murderer Johny Machete, one of his jailbirds. Naiver then ever, Sam presents a detailed plan for ecological measures; Charles-Victor is grossly amused, the others pro in principle, but expect the dufus to do all the work and refuse to make any effort or sacrifice. Jef is in awe for Jo's painter's privilege, the boy gets two women posing that day, first a gracious model who wants to surprise her husband with a nude portrait. Then Odilon learns, being asked to mind the shop, the second is- Jeanne planning to surprise Jeanne. Sam's last stupidity is the size of a mountain, even many mounts...
- Stupid Sam has bought a cheap bike at a police auction of unclaimed stolen goods, only to have it stolen the same day; tired of her noisy wining, Charles-Victor brings it back- or thought so, Sam has found the real one, that is what's left of it... Jeanne hosts former supermarket colleagues, who convince her the house has earth-rays, so she enlists 'clairvoyant' Maya, a blatant fraud who also practices parapsychology, tarot etcetera. Billy doesn't believe in such nonsense, but finds the girl too attractive to miss her séance...
- Naive Sam has volunteered for the student organization of the annual quistax (a pedaling two-seater cart race). Because he bragged to a boy customer about his alleged 'athletic record', Jef is volunteered as her partner by Jeanne, Odilon constructs a home trainer for them and Sam teaches the couple gym exercises. None of the students is interested, until Jo and Koen find out the sun-bed spoiled brat Betty assumed her father sent to make up for forgetting her birthday is from the race's sponsor, so they need to win it to continue their lucrative business of renting it, preferably to attractive and obviously scantily dressed girl students...
- When Jeanne finds 3000 Belgian francs (nearly 75 Euro) is missing from her cash till, Ria insists to use her criminal studies skills to conduct a thorough investigation against everyone in the house, the ideal excuse to snoop around. Only dead-honest Odilon is excused by Jeanne, and brings along some detective equipment he once got from a retiring judicial official. Each student is suspect for some reason, but even the lie-detector made with the oscilloscope Koen just bought doesn't solve the mystery, until it's broken in a hot way by prankster Jo...
- Charles-Victor has followed Olga to Poland, and now Summer is over he's the only student who doesn't return. Jef is vexed Jeanne chose and bought new furniture for a fortune without even telling him, Odilon fed up to be taken for granted while lazy Jef takes most credit for his hard work, but is tricked into believing Jeanne's dream is Jef as ideal, handy husband. The students celebrate C-V's departure, but rush out to look for a replacement once they realize Jeanne won't leave the room unoccupied for long, she even consents to leave that to them. Jo turns up with Roberta and Betty with Dirk, the each gender's taste, but Odilon brings a vague acquaintance's acquaintance: Ria Vranckx, an utterly unattractive law student, in Jef's words Dracula's sister, who immediately appeals to Jeanne when she resolutely resolves the problem of the wrong furniture being delivered and paid for by Jef. The students' votes are stalemates, but the candidates come up with a painfully surprising way out...
- Jo is amused to hear Ria is hunting unwilling 'lover' Koen who physically hides for her, the others enjoy his predicament and get her usual nasty treatment about shower privileges. When the girls' prank goes wrong, poor Jo, for once completely innocent, is the victim of both the prank and, after he helps cure Ria's crush for Koen, her alternative...
- Hardly anyone wants to attend a Tupperware sales night with Jeanne, who is after networking as it's organized by senior alderman de Berrekens's haughty wife. Yet Jef is ordered to put on his best suit, and can't escape as Jeanne agreed the very day to host it, with the hag barging in to instruct Odilon how to rearrange the whole sitting room. Law student Ria reconsiders her refusing to come in Veronique's stead, even decides to delay a Dutch lesson she promised the Oxford chancellor's son and his buddy for a scholarship shot, in order to meet the lady's 'justice contact', which is just the courthouse cook. Two Mormons are confused for the Brits and sent to Ria, who rudely evicts them repeatedly. On Tupperware evening, finally even Jeanne tires of the busybody and unleashes Sam's eco-activist friend Rik, campaigning against plastics.
- After another summer spoiled by make up exams, Jo intends to follow model nerd Ria's example and asks her to coach his timely study during the year, but from day one distractions abound. First naive Sam wanted a goose suit to demonstrate against animal abuse in fois gras production, Tineke got her a Donald Duck suit and insists to have handyman Koen install a fan inside, like in Disneyland, but Sam mistrusts it, Ria volunteers to test it to stop the noise and- her hair bun gets caught, nobody helps her out of it as the second distraction strikes. Jeanne has used slippery soap, causing little Yvan to fall -the poor boy has to take his soiled jeans off for cleaning in front of three females- and adult client Emile, who returns in a wheelchair, and Jeanne's shop has no applicable accident insurance...
- Because everyone complains Jeanne's cleaning disturbs their study and recreational activities, she hires professional cleaning help Julia, with surprising effects. Meanwhile Véronique and Sam conduct a sexuological opinion poll, which makes Jef worry if Jeanne would start cheating on him. Julia proves a terrible gossiper, which stirs between Jeanne and her former supermarket colleagues. Julia also seems a serious contender for the heart of bachelor Odilon, who used to rely an Jeanne for kitchen and domestic matters, but he accidentally uses the sex poll questions instead of his own checklist...
- Jo and Koen plan to exchange their rooms for a week with two Amsterdam students' apartment. The hesitate to tell landlady Jeanne, who is all tears when it seems atypical firmness on her part chases the girls, or all 'her kids'. In fact only Veronique accepted to accompany her hunky lover Jean-Luc on a six month African expedition. Ria plots to get her room, but Jef to get rid if her, while Betty return early from Australia.
- The mail causes excitement. Jeanne can't wait, but insists to wait to make the fun last, to open the annual tax notice. The sum is even larger then last year, over 32,000 Belgian francs (about 800 Euros), yet she takes Sam's wicked feminist advice to spend the whole rebate on clothes for herself, while Jef plans to buy a small boat from a friend to go angling. Their fun turns into panic when Ria notices that sum is the arrear they owe the treasury! Jeanne decides to redeem their wallet by making flags for Odilon's prison, Jef pretends a friend in trouble needs a loan but refuses on principle, but Odilon and dangerous do-good-idiot Sam mount a charitable fund-raising he can't afford to get know. Hearing how she and Sam are excited by the tattoo of Veronique's uncle, an ocean captain, first Koen and after Vero shows them hers -actually fake- even Jo consider to get a real one, despite Ria's effort to discourage defiling cutie Jo's skin, he rather slaves over a symbolic design. When tattoo artist Boris arrives, ordered by Vero, he is surprised in both story lines...
- Jo helps lazy Jef to trick his city gardening colleagues into illegally striking 'on principle' for a trifle, and out of it after Jeanne declares her own strike. Koen volunteered as economics frat president candidate's 'PR manager', forcing him to assist loyally but be ignored when warning against the cocky womanizing heartthrob promising first Sam, then Betty, semi-accidentally even Ria, to be his Sonny's Cher at the inter-faculty playback show.
- Jo and Koen hope to join the dentistry faculty team on match trip to Rome as coaches of the cheerleaders, if their girls win the audition, but Bettie and Sam meanly betray them doubly while persuading stuck-up Ria, who has the hots for uninterested Jo, to offer herself based on irrelevant majorette experience she never even admits so. Jeanne is excited when she hears Ria's father Omer may finally drop by, as the snob let her believe it's a big wig with driver and limousine. In fact he's a jovial mason, who insists helping Odilon repair a drain while Ria tries to hide his visit delivering her old uniform.
- Odilon's flue inspires Jef to pretend the same to take a sick day and collect bee keeping equipment from mate Gerard whose wife is tired of bugs all around, but the city's medical inspector duly suspects a serial malinger. Jo and Koen spare no trouble to convince Ria she was infected, Betty goes even further to seek contamination so she can delay her utterly unprepared midterm, but the inspector also works for the university.
- The landlady & sweets shop keeper Madam Jeanne shows her customary nearly blind confidence in an apparently affluent, charming regular customer, but is soon to find out, as Mr. Krueger is watched by the BOB (hence the title- a Dutch abbreviation for a former Belgian paramilitary police detective branch), he's not in regular business as he made her believe, but stealing diamonds (from the villas of clients who pay him to watch their villas) which he leaves in one of her chocolate boxes, just when the student-tenants were grumbling the boarding diet has been set on rabbit food out of 'solidarity' with eternally fat handyman Odilon...
- When Jef's motorcycle breaks down, he frantically urges his cahoot Odilon to repair it by yesterday as his bossy wife Jeanne will otherwise grab her change to buy them a car, but to his despair there is a spare part left over. Meanwhile the students are divided whether to laugh off horoscopes (hence the title) but several sort of change their mind as it fits their purposes; especially Jo, a non-believer who stops at nothing to force a date, goes as far as to start writing horoscopes in the local newspaper instead of a sick friend when he hears a hot chick is nuts about astrology.
- After a few burglaries, the city borough's most arrogant busybody Mrs. Hulpiau, whose mailbox was vandalized, gets landlady Jeanne to "volunteer" everybody for a neighborhood watch (hence the Dutch title). They all think it's absurd, but once found out to have committed minor nightly vandalism as a prank they don't dare refuse since Jeff and Odilon, being in the civil service, could loose their jobs. So patrol duos are formed, only too eager to concentrate on anything but crime: playing with the walkie-talkies, hiding to duck patrol duty. The only exception are Jeanne and Ria, the students' own busybody, but when man-eater Betty throws her older lovers cloths out of the window for spending too little time on her, the reported 'naked man on the roof' sends them panicking and calling the police, which by now is no longer amused after several false alerts.
- When burglaries are reported in the neighborhood, an alarm system is required- to keep it cheap, student Koen and handyman Odilon create, install and test one themselves. Now her latest flame teaches classes in first aid (EHBO is the Dutch abbreviation, hence he title) Betty suddenly develops a 'social conscience' that dictates they must have one in the house. But when he cancels, the others don't tell about that call so they can turn the whole thing into a farce of excessive bandaging and CPR.
- Futile idealist Sam just volunteered for the Red Cross, so she promotes blood donations. Jeff laughs at the idea, until Odilon points out that as civil servant that entitles him to a day off, just now he needs one to go fishing with a mate who rented a boat; being scared of needles, he convinces Odilon to give blood under his name, but the lab reports serious anemia- even better, now his wife Jeanne will spoil him instead of calling him lazy? Alas, Jo is out for vengeance since he failed to pay up for his dentistry advice, so now he gets a disastrous medical bulletin until he pays double. Meanwhile Ria panics that Betty has lost a college library book -actually forgot she left it with Jeff- on erotic massage -perverse horror in Ria's eyes!- she loaned on Ria's card, to the point of ransacking everybody's rooms, so Betty buys a new one and Jo forges a card. Finally everything goes even more wrong...
- Since Jeanne won't allow Jef to go fishing until his door fixing chore is done, but his dogsbody Odilon is unavailable, they hire Odilon's cousin Eugene, who proves eager but disastrously clumsy and dumb, even compared to Odilon. Meanwhile Sam receives a letter that her official scholarship will be suspended, but is too proud to ask Jeanne for a month rent delay; big spender Betty shamelessly asks an extension for the same good reason, even though her father is too rich to qualify for one...
- When a student who's going to Tibet distributes all his worldly goods among his friends, Jo becomes one just in time to get his laptop. Nozy Ria finds a manuscript on it for a passionate novel entitled "Blind love" (also the episode's title), which she sends to a publishing firm which is even prepared to pay a retainer, believing the protagonist William the blind painter ad his flame Victoria are based on them two; only Jo has never written a paragraph, and the last chapter is missing, and there's worse... Meanwhile Odilon is determined to learn a magic trick for a party, despite his total lack of talent or flair.
- Jeanne is furious that all aunt Odette left her Jeff in her last will is a measly 'organ' (actually an expensive harmonium), and even considers having the will contested in court by Ria, who needs the money to pay Jo for a portrait in legal toga at the law firm where she's starting a cadet-ship. Augustine 'Gust' Vleerackers, Koen's granddad ('Opa' in Dutch, hence the title), was put on the bus on senior pilgrimage to Lourdes, but jumped off in Leuven, and now wants to sleep a few nights with his grandson, without Jeanne knowing as she would inform his daughter. Yet his nightly wondering makes Jeanne believe maybe Odette is haunting the house but may be appeased...
- Naive Sam's next way to save the world is a campaign against fur coats; her most eager fellow -and amorous admirer- Joerie decides to 'kidnap' a mink coat to demand the release of all minks in Belgium, and brings it over for Sam to hide, which she finds really scary after asking law student Ria 'for a friend' about fencing. Jeff lied to Jeanne again about his last days off to secretly take part in a fishing tournament with Odilon, and ends up promising her a week in the Black Forrest (Germany). When she finds the coat by accident, he lets her believe it's an alternative gift...
- Odilin leaves his sick canary (in colloquial Dutch 'kanariepiet', hence the title) at Jeffs. Since Ria considers birds unhygienic, especially in a cage in the kitchen, she cries allergy as soon as Jeff sneezes, but neither knows it's his allergy for cats, as Koen's girlfriend has left her pussy with him in a basket he kept hidden in his room helped by Jo. Impulsive Sam takes the canary out of its cage to keep her awake while working on a paper, but tells nobody, so they think it's lost, which starts a regular comedy of errors. Meanwhile Betty, who was just surprised with a lover, takes various noises and excuses to mean the other students have lovers over too.
- When the royal couple comes to visit the university town, Jeff chooses not to attend at city hall but take a day off in stead, to Jeanne's horror. Koen is late for a paper, so Jo decides to ask for an extension in his place, pretending the royal heir is coming incognito, but of course his insisting not to tell anybody works inverse: in no time about all their acquaintances are beleaguering the place, and the regulars prepare 'acting normal' with more style, and even inform the press. Sam however prepares a protest against the use of lab animals by releasing frogs...
- Jo gives 'tutoring' to schoolboy Pieter, but the subject is academic and yet all but intellectual: cheating at tests! Now Sam is gone, a new girl moves in, Pim Davignon, a railroad-worker's daughter who studies Press & information at a college without university status, but there's initial confusion she might be a daughter of tycoon Etienne Davignon. Odilon wins a trip to a bungalow park, but may only be accompanied by relatives- so Jeanne decides to pretend she's his wife and the students are their five kids; when the firm announces to send a photographer for publicity shots, they have to play the childish ages she invented at the telephone!
- When mysterious vandals spray Jeanne's sweets shop red with hearts two nights in a row, Jef and Odilon must keep watch, but the only thing they notice all night while using their sleeping bags all to literally is Herman, allegedly Ria's first-ever lover, whose romantic influence has changed her unrecognizable into a cheerful girl. However when the young man reappears in daylight, the other students quickly find out his interest in Ria is actually limited to getting his hands on her reputedly unsurpassed notes in law courses.
- When Koen repairs a baby-phone for sweetshop-customer Pieter's ma, it soon becomes a weapon in Jo's efforts to discredit Ria, who unlike him is allowed to receive partners of the other gender in her room. Its main use however is by Jeanne herself, to spy on the secret meetings concerning the annual top-secret matter of her up-coming birthday-gift, which she is most eager to steer by means of tips, aided clumsily as ever by Odilon, who was excluded from the committee because he can't keep anything silent.
- When Jeanne's hairdresser raises his prices, and her friend Mimi tells her about an expensive 'must-have' beautician, she decides to take Odilon's accidental advice: balance her budget by raising the rent. The students, who were already malcontent about worn-out furniture, are furious - after a war by attempted starvation, cutting of amenities, barricade... they find another approach: accept the rent rise but scam it out of her again...
- When the new academical year is about to start, several of the students suddenly phone to tell they won't return: Koen, Betty and Ria. Landlady Jeanne is worried about them, Jef about the loss of rent revenue unless they find new tenants urgently. When Odilon hears him boast he would be mad not to sell the house, he invites potential buyers. Meanwhile Jeff and Jo are busy looking for suitable new tenants, especially the floozy Bibby viz. agricultural engineering student Lus and future pharmacist Dieter, but then two regulars cancel their cancellations...
- When Mimi tells her drugs are spreading like fire amongst all youngsters and suggests how to read the symptoms, Jeanne fears she sees signs with most of the students. Jo just returned from Amsterdam with a gin hangover; Dieter and most other students act sneaky with the contraband they stole all over town, as Lus insists giving these to Ria might turn her into a more regular, sociable student. Ironically the only foreign substance in the house in the 'sugar' Jeanne took from a carton of sweets Odilon was supposed to hand to one of his prisoners and serves with the waffles to the 'drugs emergency committee' she holds with Mimi and Ria....
- Confident Jo and careful Dieter make a double blind date- it turns out to be twins, and Kathleen is rather into shy gentleman Dieter, but Marleen sees nothing in cocky Jo and soon people start confusing the sisters. Jeff is furious that Odilon who misunderstood him released his whole catch at an angling competition; when the best friends seem to stay estranged over such a futility, Jeanne is determined to reconcile them, even if neither wants to. Man-eater Betty has dumped another lover and juggles her agenda to have two new ones simultaneously.
- When Jeanne sees the homeless Louis scavenging in her garbage, she invites him in, but systematically 'delegates' all the work involved till the others are sick of both of them, except Lus, who tries to collect donations and dares Jo and Dieter who boasted about their superior skills after winning a monopoly game to play for real money so she can donate her winnings. Not knowing Louis has meanwhile got a room from a local social service, Jeff invites a bunch of acquaintances to play other homeless he invites to make her life hell; of course the secret isn't kept very long...
- When Jeanne thinks her husband Jeff has lost all marital interest in her as he seems to drop everything for his latest floral project, orchids, she 'returns to her mother'. When the students notice their row, the boys take his side and the girls champion her feminist cause, both encouraging a hard line instead of giving in to their real desire for reconciliation despite the utter collapse of the housekeeping; meanwhile Jeanne sneaks back in on a girl's room. Still the opportunity for a party is too good to miss for the students...
- Odilon asks Jo to help him prepare a comical act, but doesn't even understand ventriloquism isn't actually done by the doll so they prepare a tape. Jeanne has won a weekend for two in London, but Jeff doesn't want to go as it coincides with his billiards club's annual dinner, so he's tempted when Lus says friends of hers want to buy it; since he lacks the courage to face Jeanne, they come up with a staged radio message. Jeanne's urgent course English for absolute beginners improves only the student's happiness. When Odilon mixes up both tape recordings, a marital confrontation seems inevitable; however since Dieter invited an English student, Mike...
- When Jeanne hears about Mimi's new sauna and Jef's claims the price is ten times what it costs making one, she orders him to prove so. However when Odilon takes over the carpentry, he thinks it's for the pigeon-house Jef refused to host on that spot for the price-birds he can get cheap, so he alters the plans; but at the sale he can only buy eggs, which need to be hatched- a job for couch-potato Jef. Meanwhile Lus takes offense at a jocular remark by Jo about her cup size, leading to arbitration by Ria and then a fistfight.
- To Jo's fury, Betty and Lus have made and posted photocopies of a rather soggy love letter by his hand. When Jef and Odilon bring home a load of fresh-caught eel, Jo and Dieter spread them in the girls rooms, but without effect, so he plans a confetti-revenge. Meanwhile Jeanne, who heard from her accountant and Betty she needs more expenses to reduces taxes, decides to buy a fax machine, neither needing one nor knowing how to work it, worse- leaving Odilon near it, to start a messy chain of misunderstandings, just as a real coincidental mix-up thus.
- When Jef needs an excuse to explain he lost the ridiculous helmet his mother-in-law gave him, and on her birthday, he can't think up anything more plausible then Odilon's rumor about alien abduction. Jeanne, whose sales are down dramatically since her competitor introduced a volume rebate, suddenly warms to the story when she notices it brings in customers; so does Jo when his latest flame proves to be a firm believer. Meanwhile Betty, who is tired being told she has it too easy with her generous wealthy parents, is determined to prove she can earn her own- as a make up sales lady on commission, but the harsh mathematics escape her.
- Ria sneezes at Betty for taking part in a silly radio quiz- until she hears the prize is a restaurant date with sexy pop star and TV presenter Koen Wauters. Jef has a shot at a fine second hand billiards table, but doesn't want to tell Jeanne in advance about the second veranda he'll have to build in their tiny garden. Odilon has a black eye from Franske, one of his 'good' prisoners who was just released, so when he and some friends turn up, Jeanne fears for worse violence.
- Jef just said to Odilon all he needed after 'their' work on the rooms to get back in Jeanne's good books is another male boarding student, and there comes Billy, a dentistry student from a wealthy family, who loves the sweets shop and has a room too far from his faculty; seeing how easily Odilon is (ab)used makes him decide to move in. Jeanne is even more delighted to find economics student Charles-Victor is back, having found nothing better near his campus, but before she can tell him, Jef rents the same room to Peter, lawyer Deprez's son. Jef is furious, but Jeanne and Odilon go ahead with a long-term profitable solution: an extra room in the attic; once it's ready, Peter asks his advance back, due to failed make-up exams. Now Jef has an extra room to flog, and there comes foxy biology student Betty Billen, exactly what he craves, Jeanne fears most...
- Jef bets against his friendly rival Gerard about the angling competition, so he makes pharmacology student Dieter look for illicit substances in Gerard's fish food, and when that passes muster supply something he can spike it with so it will turn blue- an ideal tool to play pranks on the other students, but Jeanne mixes up the boxes... Betty's latest lover Louis-Philippe is a baron, which makes Jeanne's head spin enough to make the other students have a snack out of the baronial sight, and insists in vain she should keep his blue blood a secret; jealous Ria is determined to turn him off Betty, but ends up with blue 'egg' on her face too.
- There have been some outdoors recordings for the Flemish soaps "Familie" in the park, so city groundsman Jef was accidentally shot there; Betty is determined to get casted as an extra- a nun, if anyone believes it! Jef has a plant louse plague, so to distract himself he plays cards against the feared team of the sanitation service, and gets creamed for a small fortune, as even Odilon expected. To deceive Jeanne, he pretends to have played against a TV crew, but when his real 'mates' call she invites them... Meanwhile Lus claims to have found a cure against the lice, but Jo and Dieter deliberately ruin her test plant so they can add water and pretend to have made it work and call the regional broadcast.
- Lus want to put up her Rumanian pen-friend Ilya for the duration of a course he takes in Leuven, and Jo his female friend Nadia who just broke up with her big-spending boy-friend Stanny, but Jeanne doesn't allow guests off the opposite gender, so they decide to exchange visitors, passing Nadia for "Ilya's sister" Ilona and Ilya for Jo's nephew Jan. Since Jef desperately seeks a secret weapon (hence the Dutch title) having bet on his billiards club's annual soccer match against Gerard's anglers club, Jo -who misunderstood Lus calling him a Bucarest international, he's actually in table tennis- agrees a price to supply him to Jefs club, which he spends on Nadia's expensive taste in restaurants...
- Tamara, the butcher's daughter, is pregnant, and rumor has it that someone at Jeanne's is the father.
- When Jef says Jeanne must choose between him and boarding student Gentil, Odilon suggests to call in a psychiatrist.
- Odilon advertises a free dog while Jef dreads to tell Jeanne he will be out even more often now the billiards club has elected him president.
- When Madame Hulpiau announces there are two parts left in an amateur play- the lead, a seductive countess, and the 'pleasant to play' maid- Jeanne and Mimi immediately turn from best friends to rivals for the former part. Lus bought fake antique and a water-pipe, but had no idea that it's used these days for marijuana, so Dieter, Hugo and Tineke enlist an outsider, Dimitri, to make her believe they have filled it with that illegal drug, but it ends up hurting nearly everybody but Lus. Meanwhile Jeff is furious at Gerard for finding a sponsor who will reward the winner of the angling competition with his weight in beer since he is barely a bantam.
- Hugo wants Tineke to pose for a contest lookalike of a computer game character, but she thinks he only wants to get her cloths of as he neglects to tell about the prize, a cruise, and knocks him a black eye, so he turns to Lus; Gentil steals the idea. Jef is happy at the start of his week off work, till Jeanne tells him his mother in law will visit the whole week; by the time she calls having found a better plant, he won't hear a bar and is thus left pointlessly fabricating excuses, notably the 'builders work' at the neighbors he and Odilon actually simulate ...
- Jef is left to do urgent repairs in the shop during a long school holiday, and for once Odilon won't lift a finger since he believes a dream that this is the day he has a fatal accident; Jefs efforts to convince him otherwise only coast him more time. When Lus asks for a rent rebate because she eats less, Gentil demands a tariff recalculation per square meter as his room is the smallest, starting a whole series of selfish proposals and -especially from Hugo- attempts to dodge their financial drain.
- Dieter and Hugo return from a hell night as dirty as the pledge next door. Mrs. Hulpiau announces she's founding a committee against such 'debasing' practices; Jeanne feels that's excessive, but once offered the post of spokesperson embraces the program, and lays that law down in her student home-which all the students, except Gentil, consider a declaration of war, and mount an counteroffensive. Jef is practicing billiards behind Odilons back- international champion Raymond Ceulemans will play against him. Tineke is totally unprepared for her partial exams since she didn't even now the term (which is unknown in her native Holland), so Dieter gives her pills to stay up and study and then sleeping pills; when Jeanne is nervous for a press interview the next day, she recommends her to use some, but doesn't explain which...
- When Dieter and Hugo dump a girl in Gentils room and find he pays her suspiciously little attention, but boasts about a perfect girl friend who studies abroad, Lus and Tineke make them bet to prove he has none, otherwise they must sleep together for a week. When Mrs. Hulpiau tells Jeanne she needs a gardener, she volunteers Jef- who hates the idea, but needs an assertivity course more then Odilon, who is taking one as prison officer, to refuse. Jeanne plans to hire someone illegally as shop sales assistant a few hours a week.
- The ultimate soccer Interland in the Benelux countries is the Belgian-Dutch Derby; now there is one, Dieter wins two tickets in a radio quiz, for which Gentil provided the correct answer, so each feels entitled to the valuable prize. Odilon offers Jeff to share two tickets he got for some cigarettes- from an inmate convicted for forgery! Jeff intends to switch the tickets, but just that night Dutch student Tineke's rich parents will visit, and Jeanne is preparing a diner 'at their level'- he still intends to sneak out, leaving Dillon to play him while dining with 'the enemy'.
- The university asks everyone in the neighborhood to participate in a bacteriological study on the presence of staphylococci in Flemish kitchens. Originally Jeanne pretended Jeff was very sick to avoid it, but after Mimi said anyone not taking part will have a dirty reputation for life she makes med student Gentil, who was looking for an excuse to lock up Hugo during his bad cold, get her in. On her hypochondriac mothers advice, the house becomes practically quarantined, with an OR dress code. After Dieter tells Jef and Odilon that ninefold angling club champion Gerard's secret ingredient is just cough syrup, they make him invent a triple mix, but totally mess up the proportions, and mingle it with the cough syrup- just on the morning of the scientific scan, the brew fumes...
- When Gentil gets a phone call from home, he suddenly is dead-set to stay the weekend at Jeanne's, just when Jef was 'desperate for rest' by the sea; when he pretends to be afraid of his abusive father, she gets all protective, while Jef intends to sort of kill him with kindness. Meanwhile Odilon wants one of the students to give maths tutoring to his niece; when they see an attractive photograph, Dieter and Hugo both want the job, so Tineke advises Odilon to hold a solicitation interview; till she turns up. Another unexpected arrival is Gentil's mother...
- Now Christmas is approaching, Jeanne and Lus decide to organize a seasonal party for everybody before the students return home for the holidays. A misunderstanding causes Dieter and Hugo to suspect Gentil, who is rehearsing for his vocal Holy Night recital, and vice versa. Jeff has invited Gust, the pyrotechnician who will illuminate the billiards club's Christmas party, but passes him for a homeless so Jeanne will welcome him and tricks dumb Hugo into handing over his room, so the fireworks can be prepared. Lies and misunderstandings keep piling up as the party approaches, especially when Odilon slips Gust has caused several fires so she thinks he's a pyromaniac, and just when Gentil starts singing things explode...
- Jeff is excited to hear his mate Staf is selling his fishing pond; Jeanne didn't realize he was planning to buy it, 50-50 with Odilon, when she bragged they can afford more then the seller's wife who's an even worse bragger. When a pair of sect con-men -they even call themselves a firm- demands 5,000 BEF 'for expenses' to save people from the apocalyptic angel of vengeance, she throws them out, but Odilon barges in not content having paid them, he wants to repay everyone in the house he ever insulted, however innocently; only Hugo manages not to get his 100 francs. Jeanne sees her chance to convince Odilon there's no point in buying anything anymore. The girls are so fed-up with Hugo's endless dumb blond-jokes that they spend Odilon's pay-off on two stale cakes, but end up throwing them at Gentil and Dieter. Now Jeanne can't deny the world is about to end, they can't be stopped either to have the party to end all parties, and send her a hefty luxury catering bill.
- Hugo desperately wants to take in a girlfriend Veerle, who is getting evicted from her home; Dieter offers to help him make room for her the only way they consider acceptable: getting rid of Gentil; to that end a friend forges a letter from the European Union promising subsidies for homes with at least two foreign students: Tineke and Veerle, which they pretend to be Swedish. Meanwhile Jef decides to scam weeks of time off work by pretending to have burnout syndrome, which is said to be common with civil servants; when med student Gentil sees right trough his malingering, that first makes Jef his greatest enemy, but in order to avoid eviction he pretends to be the nephew of the city's official controlling physician...
- Jeanne has absentmindedly sat on her pincushion while trying to simultaneously burn candles for the students' exams and mend Odilon's socks; when Mimi hears her scream as Jeff pulls them out, she and Mrs. Hulpiau spread the wrong conclusion that he is an abusive husband; a black eye from a collision with a door provides apparent evidence, and when she forces Jef to go cut a pear tree in her ma's garden, his ax is taken by Lus as proof he even uses weapons; now the police is called... When Dieter makes Tineke realize she is out of time to cram for her exams, she takes a remark by Gentil the wrong way and decides to scam the questions out of her professor's assistant; Dieter now tells Hugo she'll by extremely grateful if he gets them for her...
- The kids decide to party all night, except nerdy Filip, who deliberately monopolizes the bathroom for an hour, so Stef locks him in all night. Filip threatens with a lawsuit for giving him claustrophobia, which gets others waiting on him. Jef scolds Jeanne an viciously incurable meddler for telling his supervisor Frans he's interested in a promotion, so she claims she won't bother at all, he vows to prove she can't stop. Odilon has acquired a bunny, Paula, which Jef expects her to be nosy about, but she misunderstands it's a person. Jef even pretends he'll resign, but Odilon tells Frans.
- Hugo has bought second-hand DJ equipment; while the others students only worry about the LP collection which probably dates from their parents' student days, Gentil considers it a study - and medical hazard. When the local supermarket owner, who once had an eye on her, offers Jeanne the post of manager, Jef initially refuses saying that isn't compatible with their student home, but hearing he could chuck in his job to run that, he embraces the idea and cunningly advises the students to 'do like him' and treat Jeanne coldly for days so she'll cave in and allow the DJ equipment, hoping she will accept the job. After they did a damned good job giving her the cold shoulder, she tells Mimi she'll accept, but Odilon thinks her marriage is going on the rocks, so they give her the royal treatment as consolation...
- Jeanne and Mimi look down on some punk kids in the street they presume to be responsible for the recent series of thefts, but actually Mimi's 'sweet, well-bread' small niece Julie is the one who loves coming to the sweet shop because the little minx 'helps herself' while the pair is wagging their tongues; Odilon is recruited as shop detective. When Mimi tells her about a reception in city hall for all civil servants, attended by a minister, Jeanne is determined to go, even though she can't find a hairdresser in time, but Lus claims that's up her alley- well, if you like punker colors. Jef looks for excuses not to go, because absentees get half a day off work. Meanwhile dumb Hugo was tricked by Gentil to vacate the bathroom for a fake phone call two days in a row, and takes the girls' advice to start copying Gentil, exterior and grumpiness; Gentil ends up retorting.
- When Mimi tells a German Eurocrat is asking 'all the important people in the street' for supper, Jeanne is livid not to get an invitation, but then Frau Müller passes by in the shop, is touched by pralines offered as welcome gift and invites her. Jef hates it coinciding with a billiard friend's celebration, and Jeanne still has to learn German... Odilon spills Jefs beans again, so Jeanne bates a trap. Now Hugo's girlfriend has dumped the Dumbo, the girls want to console him; when Gentil just has a go at him they want to get to him, but how? Lus suggests killing him with kindness should completely disorient him, but he puts up a good fight.
- Gentil asks Dieter to receive in his place the highly prized notes of the unsightly Therèse, who he believes to have an eye on him, but Dieter makes her believe he's head over heals in love with her, too much even to accept her notes. When Odilon is put on a severe diet, excluding beer, Jef is most concerned- to miss out on their billiard evenings. Jeanne is angry Tineke spends lots of money but seems deliberately to ignore her hefty phone bill, and yet won't ask openly. Actually Tineke is getting a Dutch friend's wedding dress, but it gets taken away by Thérèse when Gentil promises to marry her, be it in many years...
- As Tineke realizes she'll never get her medical exams studied in time, and Gentil brags he still remembers the entire course, she decides he should take the written exam in her place- even if she must promise to make it worth his while, and convincing him to go travesty means she must get Dieter and Hugo to do the same. Meanwhile Jeanne really wants Jef to spend some evenings together with her; first she tries to make him and Odilon to stay watching TV instead of going to the billiards; when that fails she decides to join them at the billiards pub- Jef tries to make it sound dreary, but Odilon tells about one other wife and a TV there, so she goes- which proves even less pleasant for the men, so Jef promises to stay home just when she had decided against going any more.
- Mimi rats on Jeanne she saw Jef with the students in a badly reputed bar- so he's grounded for the month; Dieter and Hugo make fun of his misery, Tineke believes she can help. To that end she lures Jeanne into accompanying her to a 'ballet'- the Chippendales, and Mimi saw someone exactly like her there! Her only solution is to dress up as a 'double' Francine the man-eater. Meanwhile Odilon takes Dieters advice to advertise for a woman for the household- not noticing the prankster doctored the abbreviated text so it calls for wedding-candidates. Meanwhile Lus is on the warpath against Gentil who orders lab animals for vivisection.
- Jef thinks he can please Jeanne and himself by offering her the foreign holiday she wants since years- as long as she chooses from the collected European fishermen holidays, but she doesn't fall for it, worse: after a visit to her hypochondriac, now 'incurable' mother she decrees they're going to Lourdes with her; his only hope of escape is convincing her Odilon would be too lonely. When Tineke tells about a party to schmooze on the university staff, where even a Health ministry chief of staff will be, Gentil suddenly decides to go with her- and asks Jeanne for turbo-dance lessons. Lus makes Dieter loose a chess game on purpose to convince Hugo of the magical powers of rocks, but even he sees that's just a fake business, and tries to sell some himself. Jef sees another way out, but Odilon has relevant information too...
- Lus is gone for a world tour, so Jeanne takes a new boarder, nerdy pedagogy and philosophy student Brigitte. Now someone is selling a billiard table, Jef enlists Odilon to keep the room free, and Brigitte out, but Tineke assures here his horror stories -like rats- are just a prank on newbies- so she makes Jeanne believe she must be knowledgeable in philosophy, as here previous landlady supposedly did. Gentil has a new computer, but doesn't trust Hugo near it. Dieter calls: he has a foreign scholarship for the whole academic year, so Jef hopes to take his room, but the lout has send his own successor, party animal Lucas, and Jeanne gets Odilon to admit Dieter isn't gone for a mere month but a whole year in the USA.
- Jef wants to buy a professional race bicycle, but realizes Jeanne won't easily agree with such a budget drain; he thinks he must play the domestic husband, but just then Mimi says she envies Jeanne for having a sweet man rather then a macho, while she calls him (closer to the truth) a spineless good-for-nothing couch-potato. Penniless Dumbo Hugo's latest plan to earn some dough is to become a dancing bouncer, so Lucas and Tineke help him train for the part after he refuses to accept their warning he's likely to cop a beating; when he 'practices' by manhandling Gentil, Jeanne complains Jef isn't even man enough for the students to turn to him to maintain order- seeing Hugo has a black eye, Jef decides to put on a whole macho show, overdone so Gentil, Jeanne and Brigitte think he turned into an uncontrollable brute...
- The angling club is completely broke, so Odilon tries to raise money in a fish suit- but 7 Euro in a whole day is peanuts, so Jef decides to sell calenders instead. When he asks Stef to help him finishing the photos, which Jeanne and Mimi agree won't fetch a dime, the temptation to 'work in' some naked women (at least as a private experiment) proves irresistible; alas Odilon's clumsy disposing of the proof make it fall in Jeanne's hands. Saskia loudly proclaimed hazing is beneath her, while the seniors are eager to have their way with her, even Filip; the offer to haze her at home is also refused- until Lies lays better bait: the 'scandalous' idea to make her change cloths and underwear in a sleeping bag with Arnold even makes Saskia eager...
- After Jeanne refused point blank to allow the students to hold a pasta party, Jef boasts he could handle her better- Lucas makes him bet to do so by tomorrow evening, the loser has to paint his hair blond; he doesn't make any progress, nor with getting Jeanne out to the movies as alternative. When nerdy Brigitte, who is still embarrassed to be the last virgin in her year even after Jeanne says that's just a good choice, hears the others plan a party night in a club, she makes dufus Hugo invite her too- and gets drunk as a skunk; since the men still didn't pay her any attention, she accepts Tinekes offer to restyle her look. Gentil is furiously jealous when he overhears Jeanne call fellow-nerd Brigitte her best-behaved student but Jeanne never believes his true fibbing. Jef's time is up...
- The ever kind and humane Odilon tries with Hugos help to fill an organ donor codicil; they are overheard by Gentil, who now believes and spreads the rumor Odilon is dying. The vultures start circling the bachelor for the inheritance as he hardly spends a dime; Gentil goes as far as strongly suggesting to be adopted. Meanwhile Lucas dares Tineke to prove she can camp in a tent in the garden before she does it for real with a certain Jan, who unfortunately for her already has a girlfriend as she learns too late; Hugo secretly helps her.
- Jef pretends to have a bad hernia to avoid having to clean up the attic, so he and Odilon pretend to go playing billiards so Jeanne won't know he accepted to be paid by Gérard as partial arbiter at the soccer match. Jeanne impresses Mimi with her new client De Borrekes, the wife of the new Interbrew CEO, and twists the lady's arm to have lunch at Jeanne's the next noon; Filip convinces Jeanne he is needed to help and coach her in entertaining upper class guests. Stef wants to offer Lies a weekend in Paris, but is skinned and nobody will lend him 250 Euro, so he accepts Arnold's suggestion to earn the money at a soccer match as living billboard for the pub Revue- in big letters on his bare butt! After the newspaper prints a photo of the streaker's backside, Jeanne thinks it's Jef, having seen money delivered for his services...
- Sam's insomnia causes her to discover Koen's amorous despair- now his only girlfriend ever, Annemie, sits next to another boy in class, he considers to become a bridge bum, later to join the Foreign Legion. An emergency meeting in Betty's room first finds she has smuggled in her present lover, Roland, whose presence in underwear is explained to Jeanne by Billy as sleepwalking, then they start planning how to make Koen return to his studies. Jeanne is livid to be kept out of things "Me, a busybody? Where do they get it?", and her spy Odilon passes on the wrong end of the stick. Meanwhile Koen is cured by house medicines: not Charles-Victor's brutally honest truth, but a foxy dose of Betty and a night out with Billy- until Annemie stops by...
- Jef invites Jeanne's ex-cashier colleagues to her anger, as they are preying and jealous. This turns to panic when a mouse is found in the kitchen, hiding the corps for the students fails and they even spot others; Koen is near tears at so much cruelty to animals, but a premium per dead rodent makes the others eager to place mouse-traps and poison. When Billy buys a trap which catches them alive, Koen eagerly grabs his chance and hides the rescued rodent to pet it in his room, while the others hunt determinedly, in C-V's case because of a phobia the senior can't admit, in Betty's case so delighted with the money that she even imports dead white lab mice from the faculty...
- The students appreciate Jeanne's welcoming reception with wine, except C-V who has better taste and Koenje who dozes off after two glasses and must be put in bed, and first undressed, a job craved by every female in the house. They all are moody in the morning and frankly fight who gets to use the bathroom, in the girls' case far too long, which leads to door-slamming and even Koen gets a black eye when he sees Betty showering in the bare. Despite Jef and -in reality- Odilon working hard on the luxury attic apartment destined for Charles-Victor, he still sees just a mess without running water or electricity, and decides enough is enough: he demands another room, which means someone else must move, and makes his tour even offering extra favors; at first Billy throws him out, but when Odilon explains it even will get its own shower, Billy seizes the opportunity to make C-V agree in writing to do all the moving for him, pay a crate of abbey beer and allow Koen an hour a day on his PC...
- Jef is tickled pink angling club colleague Artur has a medical problem so he may take his place in the provincial championships, but it's on the same Saturday when Odilon and he would put new wallpaper in the student rooms, so he's happy to hear Jeanne wants that job deferred. As excuse to leave the house, he makes Arnold (for money) make a fake invitation for a nostalgic youth club reunion, supposedly a roller skates party so Jeanne won't actually go... As Odilon says the mayor could attend, Jeanne is determined to learn skating from Saskia. Stef needs money, so when he hears Filip convince Jeanne tab water contains an unhealthy and fattening amount of natrium, he decides to sell her 'clean pit water' supposedly from an 80-year lean Uncle's home in the country, but is caught by Filip bottling it in the bathroom, so they split the scam 50-50. Filips sees it big and even convinces her to sell it in the shop, Mimi bites, but observant kid customer Vic sees him carrying in empty jerry cans...
- Worried about her mother's latest health problem, the pancreas, Jeanne asks Billy to explain medically. Jef and the students help Odilon rehearse the part of Dingemans the Strangler for the annual play in jail, a hopeless task for them and painful for him as the result of various misunderstandings and Sam's self-defense lessons to Betty. Billy is furious that his latest conquest Agnes learned what a party animal and lady killer he is from from fellow economics student Charles-Victor, so he seeks a sneaky revenge using Joop, a Dutch friend, to lure him to Amsterdam.
- Behind his back, Jeanne has entered Jef for the TV game show Rad van Fortuin (Flemish version of Wheel of Fortune), which he usually aces in his armchair, but he's afraid to look a fool on national TV; Sam's plan to go play but flunk the preliminaries fails as he gets carried away. Now everybody trains him, in Charles-Victor's case most of all in making the best of the free publicity, by buying first the 'S of Snoephuisje' (Jeanne's sweets shop). Jeanne is excited and spends money as if Jef had already won a fortune..
- Hugo has a hot girlfriend, Lieve, who wants to go to bed with him, but he doesn't dare bring her in. So Lucas and Tineke advise him to play the gay guy, Jeanne may then be so relieved when he invites a girl that she lets them in. Gentil is terrified when he seems to be the object of gay love; Jeanne, who had been bragging to Mimi -it's Mothers day- she mothers her students at least as good as a real mother, feels a failure once Lucas claims homosexuality is the result of an all to domineering mother figure; Brigitte tells Jeanne his 'denial of his nature' can cause permanent psychological damage; as this is the inverse effect, Hugo wants to come clean, but the ladies don't believe him. Jef and Odilon don't know how to make Jeanne concede them playing yet another billiards tournament, so they pretend he's taking an evening course in view of a promotion.
- Jef wants to go angling on the day when Jeanne expects them to paint the windows, asks Odilon to lie, but he and Arnold stupidly blurt out the truth; Jef sneers the pair of idiots could be father and son, but Odilon, who knows the boy's mother well but never that intimately, starts believing so; since he hands out a welcome allowance and valuable gifts, Arnold willingly plays the part of his 'lost son' (hence the title), as long as it doesn't become generally known. Lies invites Saskia to help her choose a present for Stef, so they uses various tricks to keep him at arms-length, while Filip insists Stef must firmly stand his ground or be domineered for life. When Jeanne tells him Lies is a good catch, good-tempered like her, Stef fears she'll become such a bossy dragon. Jeanne and Mimi think Jef is Arnolds illegitimate father; Odilon calls Arnold's real dad saying the man he is...
- Jef and Jeanne give each-other the silent treatment because she wants his lice-infested plants removed; Odilon and the students try to mediate. Billy has an Adalucian girl-friend, so he learns Spanish instead of studying for his exams. To Charles-Victor's horror, Koen finds head-lice in his hair, which they try to kill with Jef's defective plant lice-insecticide, and soon the others find out. Billy panics when he finds he now has pubic lice- the stronger chemical Xylol which Betty brought from the college lab for C-V is now in multiple secretive demand and her use-instructions prove painfully incomplete...
- Jeanne has another business ambition, making sweets cakes, but apparently no talent to match. When Hugo uses a drill on his room, he accidentally makes a hole looking straight into Brigitte's room- to his delight, so he tries to guess where he could drill above Tineke- wrong, it's Lucas's; another attempt above Gentil's is also noticed. When Jef wants to go fishing, he tells Odilon to make a fish carrying chest but doesn't dare ask Jeanne again, he pretends to help a friend, Miel, moving- she is touched but offers to help, so he tries to keep her busy with fake cake orders, but Brigitte is quite good at helping her. The holes get more users and uses...
- Brigitte returns from a weekend retreat completely under the influence of an obscure oriental swami. Jef was looking forward to two days off and a surprise from Jeanne- his mood will darken when he finds out she wants him to hang up new wall paper, the surprise is just a not even defined reward; Lucas suggests he wriggles out of it by pretending to be converted by swami too. Tineke surprises Gentil with a Playboy he 'lend' from Hugo and blackmails him with it to get his pharmacology notes, and they both play it hard, he even uses high tension on his door.
- Odilon gets scented letters from Amsterdam, actually from convict Edward's girlfriend Truus Bakker who thinks he's the prison guard and has agreed on his first day out ever, meant for his mothers funeral, to accompany him to Truus; however Jef thinks he's secretly taking snooker lessons, Jeanne that he has the girlfriend who's a gold-digger, so she and Brigitte decide to 'save' him... Bragging makes Hugo and Gentil hold a contest who could survive longest on a raft on the ocean just on water; Hugo cheats with Lucas' help...
- Tineke is in utter panic to have lost her study notes shortly before partial exams; Gentil refuses to lend her his old notes 'she'ld better become a toilet lady'; Hugo gets him to explain his study method and even gets his notes for her- from the wrong course; when she offers to pay 500 francs for the right ones, he first copies these just for sale. When Jef returns home wet after a drunk jump into the river Dijle, he and Odilon pretend he saved a lonely old man's pet dog, but panic when Jeanne and Brigitte insist to inform the press, so now he lies on it was actually the mayor -his employer- who may not be compromised by publicity, but it's already on local radio; Lucas, who only knew the first version, arranged someone to thank Jef for saving his dog, and the fire department which saved him turns up. Gentil finds Hugo out, confiscates all copies, refuses any notes and even throws them in the Dijle, with nasty consequences...
- Tineke is convinced she can easily find a 'dumb Belgian' to shout her in a restaurant, so she bets for a dinner against Lucas, but even sucking up to Gentil fails, so her last resort is sending Odilon an anonymous free invitation for two; alas, Lucas talks him into asking Jeanne, so Tineke convinces her Odilons boorish manners will embarrass them, but Lucas and Hugo counter by offering a course in table manners... Meanwhile Jef has his eye cast on a magazine contest to win fishery equipment, so he uses the intelligence rivalry between Gentil and Brigitte to make them solve his 'IQ test' (from the magazine) but is found out...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Tineke sneaks in the older Mr. Paul Verschaven, who just needed a place to crash after missing his last train and offers her a fancy dinner, but Hugo sees them, so she passes him for a tutor. Because she believes to be the victim of thieves, Jeanne installs a security camera, but tells only Brigitte; she's actually disappointed to see none of her customers stealing, just Hugo and Tineke, so she installs the camera in Tineke's room- now Brigitte refuses to collaborate any further. Jef hopes to win at billiards against Odilon by exhausting him working in the garden, but the klutz manages to get hurt worse himself. Paul pretends a sudden wheezy feeling makes him unable to dine out, and gets back into Tineke's room, where Jeanne is stuck under the bed: fascinating images for the students, but Odilon gets her out; now Paul worries his wife may find out, so Tineke throws his cloths out of the window. Meanwhile the thieves have completely plundered absent Jeanne's shop.
- When law student Sabine refuses to date dumb diet student Hugo, he is quite relieved to hear she prefers a silver spoon civil engineering student, and hopes to get her anyway by buying and getting Stef to help install -even if they have to take down the stairs banister- a Jacuzzi. The common bathroom is a mess because the old plumbing has broken down, but Jef won't work on it on his day off for the annual medical, so he pretends to Jeanne the doctor found him a near-terminal heart patient, so she'll spare and spoil him, at least until Odilon gives the game away as usual. Filip is furious, so he decides to give Hugo a lesson, pretending Sabine is most interested. Jeanne reconsiders when rascal customer Vic explains one can get women to do anything by working on their emotions, and pretends their regular physician prescribes for Jeff's survival lots of labor, rabbit food, no alcohol or games.
- Stef hopes to earn spending money by sending in real life blooper videos starring the other students in embarrassing situations for the TV program Videodinges, simple to stage with simpleton Hugo... Jef encourages Odilon to join a jailers strike, so he'll be available to help him with domestic chores, notably painting, but Jeanne convinces him strikers may do no work, just demonstrate. Filip's rich dad has cut his generous allowance, so he hopes to be paid for Dutch classes for kids of European Union officials. In order not to be out-staged by Mimi's public spirit volunteer work, Jeanne decides to teach Filip's brand new class, although she knows neither teaching nor elementary grammar; once she's desperate, Jef has a sneaky suggestion, but gets found out, so three graffiti rascals... After Lies makes Hugo realize he's being set up by Stef, revenge is radical...
- Hugo is desperate enough about his Dumbo-grades to resort to asking his mate Gerry, a gifted hacker, to doctor them- in exchange for a date with Lies, who is livid to be 'horse-traded'. Jeanne is jealous when she hears Mrs. Renard is admitted to a service club, asks Stef what they look for, and hence decides to pretend she's a member of a prestigious golf club- the solution is Gerry again. Just for fun, Gerry and Hugo change a newspaper article to say Jeanne sponsors the local soccer club for a fortune. Mimi is impressed, but the students are livid she's that rich and so stingy on them, so everyone decides to milk her while she and Jef must mind their supposed status, which can't end well...
- Jef is furious when he thinks to overhear Jeanne's ma is visiting, delighted when his firm refusal is accepted instantly, furious again when he finds out it's mother-in-law's parrot Cri-cri, who has a whole repertoire of insults for him just like the old bag, which he takes to be a ploy to prepare her moving in at their place. Stef tries to record fights between Filip, Hugo, Brigitte and Lies, even if he has to instigate them himself. When Jef thinks Jeanne's ma is coming too, he sends Hugo to get a nasty pet supposedly to mind for a friend of his, alas he brings chickens, and instead of throwing Cri-cri out too, Jeanne decides to keep all birds, which drives Jef so desperate...
- Young Bas tricked Jeanne for a free candy bar, but Jef confiscates his fake flipping coins. To Jef's fury, the billiards club has asked Odilon to referee an exhibition match with former world champion Ceulemans. Mimi convinces Jeanne skiing is a must; grudgingly Jef concedes, but to his horror she already booked the next week, coinciding with of the billiards event; Jeanne eagerly starts practicing inside. Hugo is afraid of a Hells angels type after making a move on his girl-fiend he believed the "Johnny"'s daughter, so he colors his hair black; with Stef's jacket he looks like him, so the Dumbo accepts to moon 'as him' in the auditorium where Lies also attends classes, but accidentally does it at former French president Giscard d'Estaign's honorary doctorate attended by the press- now Stef is afraid and colors his hair blond. Jef pretends to have an injured foot and makes Odilon accept to go skiing in his place, but Jeanne sees trough his game and pretends Ceulemans canceled.
- When Jef is out of inspiration how to trick Jeanne into letting him go fishing a whole week at sea for a bargain price as his mate Fernand can't go because of an arm injury, Stef thinks up a daring scam: he pretends to be an Army Colonel who wants veteran Jef for the Belgian contingent to an Africa Peace-keeping Corps. When Brigitte's lover Evert stays the night, blatantly against house rule, witness Filip is not believed; Lies thinks he's only so unsociable because of an unhappy youth. Jeanne brags to Mimi, whose husband Jos never served, her Jef is a 'real' man; Odilon is worried about African dangers. Filips installs a clumsily hidden video camera to prove to Jeanne Evert's presence, but even Hugo spots it, so they get a girl to pretend to be Filip's non-existent floozy. Meanwhile Ferndand gets Odilon -who wasn't told- to bid 100 Euro more for the trip Jef supposedly didn't buy so he would safely stay at home; Jeanne learns Jef's game and tells Odilon to give him old-fashioned boot-camp training...
- Ten-year old rascal Bas tricks Lies into guarding his beetles, but Brigitte is afraid of all bugs. When Filip smirks at Jef about his poor fishing catch, he's cheated into a bet about Odilon 'bringing in' a salmon- from the fish shop; as revenge Filip sets up Odilon to cause a laundry accident he denies, leading to a firm refusal to help Jef and Jeanne with anything else. Jef tries to reconcile them to get his side-kick back, even make him help his mother-in-law in his place 'to make up', but Filip makes Jeanne believe Odilon belittled all she does for him. Stef needs an obsessive movie subject, so ho stirs up Hugo preying on the girls' bug-fear, buying more beetles and pretending they are extremely poisonous...
- Odilon shows Jeanne his pictures of Paris- the Eifel tower, almost on every on. New Dutch student Bas gets Jef's blessing to throw a party to get his flame Anja in - but he admits Jeanne is in charge, so they suggest her to take a mini-trip on her own; when Mimi calls her Spanish Costa plan ridiculous for a married woman with a flying-phobia, she pretends to have booked last-minute and tries to hide a whole week- in her bedroom! Jef is persuaded by the prospect of liberty to enjoy his hobbies while the students 'mind the household', so they insist on a party; Filips demands Jef stops the others. Odilon minds the shop- even the smallest kids scam him effortless; when he bumps into Jeanne who just slipped in after 'leaving for the airport', she pretends in a Dutch accent to be Bas' mother. After Brigitte bitched to Lies who last borrowed her missing cellular, she sneakily plants it in the living room to avoid admitting, so Jef uses this to stir a fight between them and sets Bas up about his girl Anja against Stef, so the party is canceled, but after Jef leaves angling Stef and Lies decide to have it without even inviting 'party-poopers' Bas and Brigitte, who had the same idea, separately- when they finds out Jef's lies, only Brigitte refuses to make up, the others clean all living room furniture safely of- to Jeannes bedroom, so she flees to the living, but Mimi's arrival forces her to hide in the dryer...
- Jef wants Jeanne to concede him buying a motorbike, so for once he is friendly to his hated mother-in-law. Stef and Dutch freshman Bas wake up Lies at night drunk, to let them in trough her window, both having lost their keys. When Filip complains again and Jeanne replies he would be happier taking an example from the others, he shows her their drunk vomit. She declares a pub-interdiction, hypocritically supported by Jef, who also pretends to join Odilon visiting his Uncle in a resting home; Odilon returns, reporting it's a great place so he put himself, Jef and Jeanne on the waiting list; Jef wants him to keep quiet, so Jeanne misunderstands her ma is about to be entered there, while she would rather take her in herself, Jef's utter nightmare... Stef didn't realizes how far his appointment with a director was, so Bas drives him on Jef's motorbike, which nearly lands them in hospital; when the freshman learns he was only given non-alcoholic beer, he's livid and decides to drink an assortment of heavy Belgian beers, so Stef who wants at least to try the Westmalle (a dark abbey beer) tricks him into 'starting' with Duvel (very heavy blond) trough a reed, in fact a sure way to get drunk as a skunk very fast.
- Stef tells Brigitte he's late with a translation for a paper and is too bad at English to do it himself to make her 'help him', but it's something Bas downloaded for him from the web. Hearing Bas is skinned, Stef asks Odilon to join them bowling. Jeanne is jealous because Mimi was accidentally on local TV, so she lies not to have seen her; then Jeanne pretends to be one of her students -fictitious Mieke- phoning a how on the regional station about her 'superb land lady' so they'll come hand her flowers on screen; when a journalist turns up, she must play the part herself- and simultaneously appear as herself? Hoping for a triumph, Jeanne invites Mimi and Madam Hulpiau, but takes to long as Mieke... Meanwhile a series of bets between arrogant Filip and shameless cheater Jef culminates in a bowling duel between duos...
- To Jef's horror, Jeanne not only bought him a fancy new leather bag, but expects him to put his overall in it to go to work 'in style', which actually makes him a laughing stock with his blue-collar colleagues of the city's greens department. Filip eagerly tells Jeanne that Stef has a girl-friend in his room. Lies could have imagined a better excuse then pretending the Asian is her sister, but when told her father is the Chinese ambassador, Jeanne changes her mind from 'out!' to a standing invitation. Mimi claims such a high-placed man is too busy to consider Jeanne's invitation to diner. Filip tells Jef 'The ambassador' is not her father's job, but his Chinese restaurant's name, and convinces Jeanne to try learning Chinese and read up on China. When Odilon mutters he might chuck in his job now a prisoner knocked him a black eye, Bas suggests a therapist, but Lies insists to give him karate lessons; unfortunately poor gentle Bas, who declined joining such a rough discipline, gets the hard knocks. Several disappointments are waiting to happen...
- Lies is courted by a new admirer, Walter, who is as cool as a volcano but makes wonderful college notes; when Bas suggests to him she loves him, he puts her to the test. Mimi and Jeanne expected Jef to get 'very sick' as every pruning season, but he seems in a great mood. Odilon gets a letter he's being transferred from Leuven Centraal (Louvain) to Antwerp prison, too far to drop by in time for Jeanne's hot meals; actually the letter is a fake by Jef, who wants him to take a week off and be inconsolable so Jeanne will call in his best friend sick. Brigitte wants to throw a farewell-party, only Jeanne is prepared to chip in. When Odilon blurts out the truth, Jeanne retorts, but too obviously, Jef would be transferred to the Antwerp Zoo. Brigitte's party, now for Jef, gets a surprise guest...
- Brigitte volunteers to raise funds for the heart operation of Benny, the koala at Plankendael, the Antwerp Zoo's countryside satellite. The only generous contribution is from Jef, who urges Odilon not to tell Jeanne he won much more in a lottery, and didn't realize Benny is an animal. Stef has spend the night in jail for possession of drugs- which were hastily planted by his mate Jurgen, who would definitely go to jail if caught a second time. Brigitte's boyfriend Evert raised a lot more in a koala suit at the supermarket, and takes both their takings to the bank; she didn't know and cries theft- Filip blames Stef, who can't afford a lawyer, and meanwhile spies on him- when he, Bas and Lies notice the listening device, they pretend Stef was arrested for possession of explosives and plans with his mate a murder attempt on the royal heir, prince Filip; the police passes by but waves Filip's story as another student prank. Jef told Odilon to change subject to he weather to avoid spilling the beans to Jeanne, but with his rhetorical talent that's suspicious too, so she ends up finding Jef's winnings but thinks he stole the koala gifts...
- Sam complains a professor even demands his students practice massage an hour a day; Billy, who wants her to take a hostess job at a medical convention, tries to get her out of it by a fake doctor's note, but after Jeanne confiscates that and tears it up gets an even more devious idea: a fake, removable plaster, for an imaginary injury which Odilon baptizes 'strain-fracture' as it supposedly may come off after the three days the convention lasts. Jef has fungus-affected plants he must isolate from the healthy ones in the veranda, but when he puts them in the kitchen, Jeanne confuses them with kitchen-herbs. After Jeanne forces everyone to 'gallantly' help 'poor, brave' Sam, she enjoys the lazy life with personal servants -even C-V who never bought the story shines her shoes- too much; Koen finds her fake cask, yet she announces it must stay on a week longer ...
- When spoiled Betty rants against an article in the paper that students nowadays are self-centered without a social conscience, Billy sees his chance to enlist the bunch for a demonstration against pollution in the Dijle, the city's river. Only Charles-Victor declines, explaining the downsides of demonstrations for authorities and participants. Jef and Odilon (who doesn't get is, as usual) only pretend to participate, but eagerly accept to take effective charge of distributing posters over each café, after all not having a drink in each would be rude. The preparations keep going wrong, and on the day itself, rainy weather is far from the worst danger, and there's another surprise...
- Comparison is the name of the game. When spoiled Betty flaunts another load of ridiculously expensive new cloths, even poor jill Sam and parents-generation Jeanne can't resist trying them on for size and dreaming; Odilon soon makes clear Jeanne thus looks Rubensian, so now she feels too fat and starts dieting. Charles-Victor has an ordinary portion of French fries (in Belgium considered a national dish, the 'French' is nonsense) but Jeff 'patriotically' insists to test them, and bickers with equal 'expert' Billy why they aren't perfect; by the time Koen and Odilon have been 'consulted', C-V is left with the stench and empty carton. The boasting about their superior frying skills makes Jef and Billy bet and hold a frying contest...
- Koen must prepare a poetry declamation for his mother's farmers wives union benefit; Betty coaches him in passion, Billy is inspired to demonstrate comical rhyme. Jeanne is startled to get the unexpected visit in the sweets shop of Gabriel, her first-ever lover, who just left hospital after a serious operation and sort of courts her, innocently but the others all suspect a danger for her fidelity to Jef, who first lays it cool but after valuable presents are given turns ruthlessly jealous.
- As her competitor sells home-made chocolate truffles, Jeanne decides to try to bake some herself, without a recipe. Jeanne commiserated with Jef's bad back after a long day of pruning, but not enough no spare him heavy lifting and carrying at home. Billy happily carries and sells their old table for a small price, but Charles-Victor says it was probably a Chippendale, worth more then tenfold. This starts the students on a treasure hunt among people's trash on the street, with C-V demonstrating his annoying but unfaltering antiques expertise, which costs Betty dearly, but also gets a nasty twist for him.
- Jeanne's dinner was generally enjoyed, until Odilon walks in, smelling heavily after the prison's garlic lunch. Completely out of character, Charles-Victor has fallen in love with the 'riper' librarian Annie. Having no experience in courting, he meticulously tries his hand at love letter-writing, and so accidentally gives poor freshman Koen the false impression that he is the object of domineering C-V's unwelcome affection. C-V takes man-eater Betty's cue to say it with flowers, but Jeanne thinks the plant -from Jef's greenhouse- he was preparing to offer Anie was for her, and a love-runner is hard to find. Jeanne decides to cure Odilon's unpopularity by garlic soup; when Betty arranges for Annie to drop by...
- Charles-Victor told his mother he's far too adult for a childish birthday party among family, but when he hears one is being prepared at Jeanne's, assuming it's for him, he's elated. In fact Jeanne, Betty and Sam plan a surprise party for Odilon's fiftieth birthday, but their obsessive secrecy leads to Billy believing it's for him (although not on his birth date), Jef believing Jeanne forgot about Odilon and planning one with Koen, and a further comedy of errors till the twist at the end.
- After a month of exams, everyone is stressed out, not in the least 'mother-hen' Jeanne, worst Betty, who gets regular hallucinations of naked professors. The only one who thrives and laughs is Charles-Victor. Alas, when Sam is looking for 'patients' to try massage techniques on for her physiotherapy practice exam, no less then three boys, including C-V's younger brother Jean-François, who only came to drop off laundry, wander trough the house in divested state...
- Jeanne was preparing a welcome back-dinner for her students now the new college year starts, but the first to arrive is the small but enterprising dental student Jo, who has been send as replacement by Billy, who has accepted a scholarship in the United States. As always Jeanne is shattered to loose a student, while Jef worries she won't immediately consent to rent his room, especially once he finds out Jo is an amateur painter who uses live models. Jef and Odilon get caught pretending to be working on Betty's room. Charles-Victor, who spent his summer on more economics, is delighted to be rid of Billy, Koen glad he now knows someone there, the girls hardly notice while exchanging holiday conquest stories. Just when Jeanne is about to explode, Jo turns the tide.
- 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...
- Jef is furious to hear Jeanne believes nothing gets done in the house without Odilon, so he is dead-set to prove himself just as handy by repairing a drawer in the counter, even making his own wood-glue, but thereby gradually turns the shop into a disaster area. Sam thinks she's pregnant; Betty says she's too tame for that, except that one time the students all had a long night drinking together; to shut him up, she makes Charles-Victor, who also got drunk then, believe he would be the father; later a misunderstanding convinces everybody of a pregnancy, in Jeanne's case ignoring whose...
- 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.
- Koen's mother feels he should have more social contact, conversing with the likes of Jef doesn't count, and become more independent- by listening to Jeanne advice. Charles-Victor proudly announces to be invited to the service club Blauwe Schild (blue shield), at his professor's recommendation, and wisely refuses to take simpleton Koen along. When Jo returns happily from his folk dance group's latest three days Finland trip, Jeanne asks him to sell that hobby to Koen- easy, girls are in the majority, ripe for the picking, the only downside are the dances! Jef and Odilon are painting the staircase, so nobody is supposed to pass trough; of course Jef and C-V get trapped upstairs. C-V's attempt to jump down has nasty consequences...
- 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...
- Jeanne has a nightmare about dying in a car, burned by diabolic fireman Jef. Odilon has cut himself shaving by hand. Both panic realizing it's Friday the 13th, even worse when a rascal customer brings in a stray black kitten. Jef eagerly takes a day off to baby-sit the superstitious pair which puts its hope on 'remedies' such as throwing rice and burning candles for a St. Christopher statuette; Jo, who spent all night drinking with a mate anyway, decides to stay in bed. At the university's request, Jef and Odilon prepare the home's first-ever fire drill. After Koen's parents phoned to congratulate him with his birthday, the students decide to bake him a cake, ignoring the parents are bringing one, but leave the crummy oven, which catches fire during the 'fake' drill...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- When Jo finds CV is studying the market for Trappist beers, he offers his expertise to test quality, orally. A crush on hunky idealist student Erwin made Betty join his campaign to collect clothes for poor kids in Albania, which Sam joins sincerely and soon interest him more. While Jef sleeps downstairs with a foot in plaster, everybody is bothered by the boxes full of donations Jeanne allowed storing before realizing it's so much and not a few hours. Rascal client Bertje hates spending a night with his bossy aunt, so gets permission to sleep in Jeanne's bed, but the handful keeps sneaking out to cause trouble and ends up in a box fill of clothes. Next morning, the truck Odilon borrowed from a friend left before anyone is up, the boy seems missing.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- After Sam imagines to be stalked, the girls shamelessly pretend women are always the victims, all men sex-obsessed scum, even their harmless horny house-mates. So ruthless Ria gives a course of 'self-defense', for which naive Koen is recruited as pretend-attacker, in practice poor victim of systematical, painful physical abuse -even in the crotch- by the bitch trio. Jeanne however fears her husband Jef has lost al healthy sexual interest when he spends hours watching his rare plant seed grow, even Odilon deserts him to go angling alone... Jo's claim only girls who practically ask for it get bothered leads to a dare: spend an evening cross-dressed, and when the mate he secretly enlisted to be his de facto safe date calls...
- The students all over Leuven (Louvain) are obsessed by a game, each hunting a secret target which must be hit with a plastic dart gun. Jeanne isn't amused by all the lies, pretense and panic, but a remark someone else's landlady is young enough to play along makes her turn helpful, except for Jo whose dart accidentally hits her porcelain statuettes. Even Ria is in the game, but pretends not to... Meanwhile Jef dares not tell Jeanne a certain vamp Charlotte mistakes him for her naughty bachelors dating club date Hugo who promised her a week on Tenerife, and sends compromising pictures of her with the lookalike which even Odilon confuses with Jef...
- Jef is determined to win the next angling competition, by drugging the carps. Only his logic is faulty, Odilon witlessly gives the game away to the raining champion and Victor wants revenge when he finds out Jef pretended to receive an upper pills order 'for Victor' from pharmaceutical student Joeri. Arnold calls a video vixen and asks Saskia for 'normal' dating coaching, but Jill suspects a dirty plan. Mimi tempts Jeanne to train for a quarter marathon benefit run as princess Astrid will award the medals, but its' too soon to get ready in time.
- As the exams end, Arnold, who did well, wants to celebrate with the girls. Victor however still demands quiet, as he already toils on an extra credit paper. A war of petty pestering ensues, which makes Victor consider moving to Antwerp. Jef is found out at one lie too many in his endless pursuit of fishing. After a tedious show of boundless contrition to wear her down, he convinces Jeanne to have seen the light and volunteered to accompany a handicapped parishioner on a pilgrimage, but the jolly cahoot falls out of his wheelchair character.
- Hearing Mimi's husband gave up his hobby and promised to spend time with her, Jeanne wants the same from Jef, who replies he'll only consider it at a height. So she plots with Saskia to make him win the billiards tournament, assuming all that takes is for Odilon to loose. Alas that's only the qualification for the final against the daunting, undefeated reigning champion, so the plotters lure him in for a handyman job to get him drunk. Meanwhile the students get into a row over stolen pep pills and an allegedly vicious supplier.
- Jef counted on making a profit from taking over the fishing club presidency, up for (re)election, but didn't count on several mates being otherwise engaged that day. So he must quickly enlist Jill and Saskia as bogus members, if they even pass the test, and first bribe them by promising a solarium.
- Victor bought a man purse, believing it fashionable, until Saskia explains it's ridiculous, so he sells it to gullible Odilon with a profit. After she buys it, Arnold helps 'setting that straight' by pretending the manufacturer offers free pant trips in Hong Kong to owners whose purse has a number inside. Jeanne is jealous of Mimi's husband's cool leather motor-biker outfit and demands Jef takes cycling lessons. He pretends to as a billiards excuse, asking mate Piet to play him on a motorcycle, but Jeanne demands a spin.
- Koen recommended shares to Jef, who told him to invest his holiday savings in those, but they are down badly and Jeanne already booked a luxury hotel. Jo and co concoct insurance fraud for a fake-accidentally broken 'valuable' vase. Nobody but Jeanne was interested in the lottery for Sam's umpteenth charity, until Jef learns Jeanne won the first prize, a vase the donating shop called very valuable, so he tries to flog it to an antiques dealer. Everyone is in for surprises.
- Jo obtained a formula from a chemistry student for what he and Koen hope be a lucrative cleaning panacea, but despite clumsy tests they sold some to Jeanne, only to find it soils everything. Jef first helps them cover up, then blackmails them into slavish chores, notably the punitive ones Jeanne imposed on him for trying to hide the city is about to formally decorate him for a quarter of a century (albeit lazy) service of greens department service, and she wants the pomp he hates. Meanwhile Odilon seeks help to write a speech honoring his buddy.
- The students are terrified, some trying to hide so, by the live tarantula spider Betty sneaked in from a university lab, as the scary creeper escapes in Ria's room, so she hides downstairs. Jeanne assumes it's another hoax as Jef and Odilon made several attempts to make her call of hosting a fancy protest committee meeting set up by stuck-up Mrs. Hulpiau, who expects the mayor and luxury catering.
- With several lottery tickets around in the house, both Koen and Jeanne believe to have the one that won five million BEF (1.2 million Euros). While Koen wrestles with his consciences and who should get the winnings, while Jeanne must be told she didn't win, she already plans spending quite a bit on an interior decorator to modernize the candy shop. Lady luck proves surprisingly capricious, just like the subjective effects, given a crucial detail.
- Jo enjoys playing into Jeanne's obviously absurd fear that Odilon, who only wants someone to proofread a convict's love letter, wants an affair with her and renders Jef jealously suspicious. Ria laughs at Sam being inspired by a circus act to try learning hypnosis, which fails on Koen but works on Odilon by accident, but is set-up, blinded by the hope to seduce Jo.
- The gang worries about sullen, who is totally depressed since the girl he secretly adores in classes prefers sitting next to a more outspoken lover. Koen considers becoming a bum or joining the Foreign Legion, so the mates resolve to let him taste the good student life instead, notably willing girls and a drinking and courting course form Billy. Meanwhile Betty's latest lover Roland, seen wondering about boxers-only, must be past off for a sleepwalker, yet arouses Jeanne's curiosity. When she finds out, Kone has to deal with more 'well-meant' meddling, which even changes course diametrically.
- A call from Koen's mother starts the rumor he finally has a girlfriend and a hot one, which makes Jo proud, almost jealous. In fact he confides to his mate it's a lie to keep kin off his back at a wedding. Nevertheless, there is a fellow nerd who just might fit the shy knave.
- Koen won a trip to Italy, but his fear of flying only increases after Jo and Sam attempt to give him immersion therapy, so he hands Jo the ticket. Bertje hopes to pursue his crush on Veronique by hiring her as French tutor, but she first delegates to Ria, then is found in bed with his primary school teacher. Odilon seeks to look for a dream woman at a classical dance course, while Jef refuses to go with Jeanne, so they end up klutzing together while all three pretend to have had a great evening. Ria got all dressed up to ask Jo along, ignoring he's off to Rome.
- Odilon got Jeanne to take on his even dumber niece Anja as temporary apprentice salesperson in a school program. The airhead tries to write every advice down, parrot-style, but gets nothing, so after Jeanne gave Sam a box full of sweats for a Bosnia charity, every other student gets the same, till Koen saves her bacon when Jeanne finds out. Meanwhile Jef tries to hide his plan to go fishing the weekend by encouraging Jeanne to spend it with her mother, but she thinks he's no longer sexually interested. An ideal case for Veronique to gather problems to send to a newspaper which pays when they publish the letter.
- The other students hate Ria's eternal polka noise since she started learning folk-dancing from Eric, but when they 'turn loose' Jeanne, the busybody proves to be a devoted polka fan herself. Jo finds it hard to find dental care 'victims', with painful consequences. In order to increase income, Jef and Odilon have prepared a new room on the attic. A hated in-laws ruse should motivate Jef to sign on a student soon, although the year already started. Ria wants it to be Eric, Sam her friend Leo, but those plans go wrong. Little imp Bertje found a third candidate, psychologist Vernoqie, who started a post graduate specialization in sexology.