F.C. De Kampioenen

- Season 16

(2005)

Tired of having his girlfriends chased by his mother, juvenile womanizer Billie takes uncle Boma's advice and pretends to have turned gay, even cross-dressing queer, with mate Steven playing his boyfriend. Doortje initially is in denial, then shocked, but due to tolerant Pol gradually comes to accept his new preference. Xavier's snoring is no longer tolerable for Carmen, but the remedies according to Mark's handbook insufferable for Xavier.

Mark and Bieke have a marital row, atypically landing them in different bedrooms, over her meanly bossy refusal to find a way to repair or replace his beloved beetle car Bolleke ('little round one'). As that's also a vernacular term for a baby, mother in law Pascale thinks he finally wants to give her a grandchild and spares no effort to champion his presumed cause. Meanwhile Fernand smells a profit from selling the dufus an overpriced second-rate 'second hand' motor, but Pol and Fernand genuinely seek a fair solution.

Although buddy Steven wouldn't dream of sacrificing nearly as much for a girlfriend, Billie goes along with hippie flame Moonbeam's vegan obsession. When Doortje 'finds', searching his school bag, unidentified mushrooms the girl gave him, she convinces herself, against Pol's advice, that the knave must have been dragged along in drug abuse. After the vet diagnoses Xavier's parakeet suffers from asthma and points out Carmen's cigars as the cause, she refuses to give up smoking, until bar boasting about character turns that into a matter of dared honor, but her flesh ...

After another abysmal 0-6 defeat, the soccer boys bicker what could boast their poor performances and, at least, dwindling supporter attendance, and agree the derelict grandstand should be renovated. President-sponsor Boma refuses to pay for it, so the players want to spend the club reserves, but the wives, whose own attendance slips, stick by an old promise to use those for a 'team building' trip to Venice. Bieke drags Mark to the clinic for fertility tests, which he fails.

Carmen and Xavier breathe new life into their love life. Xavier is about to play his 500th match for De Kampioenen. There's a big party for Xavier. For the occasion, De Kampioenen will play a football game against an all-star team.

Billie isn't inclined to join the boring church choir as petty mother Doortje wants, until she promises him a motorbike as reward, just what he wants to impress girls. Her real intent is that he should finally meet a decent girl there, but in fact the only one his age is sanctimonious Elizabeth 'Elsie', who only joined to appease mother Coninx, and calls on Billie in her true slutty appearance, so he can demand a macho motorcycle, instead of the lame thing Doortje originally got him, to quit the choir. Fernand hopes to upgrade his junkyard to antiques firm but can't ...

To win the heart of Pascale (and a prize of 10,000 euro) Boma organizes a charity event.

Tired of the team's abysmal scores, president Boma hires a mental coach, Frank Casteleyns. He promises to make them all winners in sports and life, but also takes over everyone's lives and spares nobody, a sure recipe for wholesale social disaster. Impressed by the initial results, Fernand actually hires him to become a successful antiques dealer, but is the first to realize his gross attitude-building doesn't actually work on customers except those dumb enough to trust Frank.

Billie's latest flame, vet student Leentje, spends her spare time at the nearest petting zoo, so the womanizer volunteers there, but his best manure shuffling efforts won't do the trick as a muscled farm-boy physically dwarfs him. The football field lawn mower has outlived itself, but Boma refuses to pay for a new one. When he wins a cow in a charitable competition, he decides to donate the beast as living mower.

Boma is furious to see that Carmen replaced his sausages with competitor Grootjans's produce in the 'frituur' (fries-speciliazed snack stand) he owns and lets her lease. After a visiting match, many of Grootjans's visiting football team suffer food poisoning. Federal Health ministry Food agency official Kimpe starts his meticulous investigation in Boma's meat factory, but finds nothing. Boma eagerly suggests Cramen's food stand as next suspect, only to regret so when reminded he's responsible as owner. So he decides to transfer ownership to her before she smells a rat...

Boma is out of cleaner as Carman cancels after their row resulted in her receiving the friend snacks stand. He treats himself to a 'Valentine present' by hiring Dutch-ignorant Polish applicant Barbara. Alas she turns out a lazy lush and so incompetent that she ends up sabotaging a major meat deal with fellow sleaze Nico De Roo. Now also unemployed, Carmen's former assistant Marc seeks a job to afford a present for Bieke, but looses track.

The gang wonders what Carmen who refuses to spend on 'follies', destines the price of the fried snacks stands for, and get wind it's plastic surgery, only she means for unwilling Xavier. Tired of Maurice's devotion to his elderly relatives ruining her plans, Pascale lets Bieke persuade her to make him jealous by canceling a date on account of her family. When he insists to meet 'uncle Gilbert', she must hire an actor trough Fernand.

Pol tries to sabotage the relationship between Pascale and Maurice because a drunk Boma said he'll otherwise end the team. Mark has lost his wedding ring.