De kotmadam

- Season 14

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...