Mon, Nov 1, 2004
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.
Mon, Nov 8, 2004
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...
Mon, Nov 15, 2004
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...
Mon, Nov 22, 2004
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...
Mon, Nov 29, 2004
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...
Mon, Dec 6, 2004
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...
Mon, Dec 13, 2004
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...
Mon, Dec 20, 2004
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...
Mon, Dec 27, 2004
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.
Mon, Jan 3, 2005
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...
Mon, Jan 10, 2005
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...
Mon, Jan 17, 2005
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...
Mon, Jan 24, 2005
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...