De kotmadam

- Season 9

(1999)

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...