Wed, Jan 10, 1996
After reading about hospital staff reductions, the family considers taking a First Aid course. Trust granny to be ahead and see the big picture: she starts running her own ambulance. Alas she recruits her patients by wounding and kidnapping them on the street. She shouldn't have bothered: the girls' version of Antonio's guacamole is just as unhealthy.
Wed, Jan 17, 1996
Granny dances whole days with her mate Renaat. Their dogs are expecting puppies, a triplet. Sabrina's idiocy causes the family to believe it's Franky and Jeanine's pregnancy. François invites her parents Louis and Gerda, to tell them over dinner, but it looks like others will spill the beans before they can break it easily and make them split the wedding bill.
Wed, Feb 14, 1996
After the women get emotional about Blacky's dog wedding, the family agrees François is a 'beastly pig' for not knowing his anniversary date and giving selfish presents for his mother's birthday. The women strike for a day and beat up innocent men. François decides to better his life as her birthday is coming up and plans a great surprise with Franky. However the gift for Blacky crosses that.
Wed, Feb 21, 1996
While François gets depressed by lousy TV programs, especially on shopping -and illegal channels, in his own home granny starts her own illegal shopping channel to promote her own 'wonder oil'. When ma finds out Franky and Lionel are granny's helpers, she volunteers her 'services' as couch potato, or 'media expert'.
Top-rated
Wed, Feb 28, 1996
Shortly before St. Nicholas Day (when European children get presents from father Christmas) the family discovers little cousin Lionel wants a video-game, too violent to ask for at his posh home. They also hoped to book a St. Nicholas and his helper Black Pete, but are too late. So dad and Franky dress up themselves, but aren't the only ones and Lionel isn't easily fooled.
Wed, Mar 13, 1996
The family should have known that granny staying on her room for a week wouldn't mean she'd stay out of trouble: she used a PC on trial to hack the NASA computer. She's jailed for tapping into the neighbor's phone line, but soon released on bail. This time the home becomes the scene of a virtual, as well as a neighbors, war.
Wed, Mar 27, 1996
The family is most enthusiastically spying on their Dutch new neighbors, painter Aad and Truus, who are all but prudish. However they offer quite a spectacle with all their friends, practicing for the brand new local championship pole throwing. Fear strikes when they learn the friendly couple is from Amsterdam in Holland, the feared and hated race of Orange supporters which speaks a very different dialect of Dutch.
Wed, Apr 3, 1996
Franky tries to stop the family car making a funny noise. Sabrina has been training for the neighborhood beauty contest, Miss Luchtbal. Her coach, granny, gets so exasperated by the airhead's inability to learn anything in three weeks that she starts coaching Franky's fiancée Jeanine. Sabrina's mother takes over coaching Sabrina and Franky helps them get out of the contract granny made Sabrina sign.
Wed, Apr 10, 1996
After an article in the paper and an essay and some explanation about the essentials by little Lionel on environmental problems, even Francky and Sabrina realize it's time for action and decide to switch to vegetarianism like the Dutchmen across the street; when they invite these, they get dragged into a committee to save a basketball court, and granny does a damned good job. Then it appears the project is executed by dad's employer De Vis' firm, so he family income is at stake; when the entrepreneur visits their home...