De kotmadam

- Season 13

(2004)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 "...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...