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- The folksy Jeanne tries to take good care of the students who rent a room above her little candy store.
- Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S.
- Wandering the Brussels streets at night, two bums encounter an intriguing figure that will inspire their night out - and perhaps their lives.
- Ria is furious when her mother sends a boy from their neighborhood 'because it's about time she got dating' and gets rid of him mercilessly. Jo needs a volunteer to practice for his dentists exams, but the only willing mouth is Ria's, which he prefers to see closed. When Jef receives instructions from Jeanne to spend his whole day off cleaning, while Odilon goes trough advertisements from cleaning ladies, he hopes to solve both problems by having his candidates do 'test cleaning' in his house, without telling any there are other applicants.
- Jeanne is terrible at keeping her shop's accounts, and the tax official Mr. (no other form of address allowed) De Stipperaere is as good at spotting every error as he's bad at tolerating any, nor even formal amateurism- she gets one week to present to him fully updated accounts. That calls for a computer; Charles-Victor has the only PC, but says Koen must do the coaching, who alas barely manages to teach Jeanne the easiest computer game. Then Betty's lover of the day offers to help out so he can get in freely. Jeanne was finally making serious progress, but one wrong manipulation and it's all gone- total panic in a lake of tears. Desperate to get rid of the endless nagging and nocturnal computer-use in his room, C-V accepts to do it himself, by hand. When the tax man arrives the next day, it's another one: De Stipperaere has been committed with a nervous breakdown, so the rules change...
- Jef just raided the moved-out neighbors' abandoned wine cellar, but must cede bottles to hush student witnesses. Jeanne is initially pleased to hear a lady is starting a new business next door, but pretends the place is already taken -by a non-existent dentist- when she learns it's to be an erotica shop, and even decides to buy it herself and convert it into extra student rooms, to Jef's horror, while Odilon even looks forward to all the work. Jef pretends to applaud the 'pension plan' but promised his mate Sander an expensive bottle to make a terrifyingly expensive estimate, shoves him off when he hears Filip and Odilon's estimate scared Jeanne off, then must promise two bottles as Filip suggests boarding Jeanne's mother. When Odilon, left alone to pay Sander, ignorantly gives him two worthless rosé bottles instead of a good one, the crook pretends their own home has a concrete affectation; Jeanne soon finds out, when a professional explains, neither of the old houses contains concrete... Arnold is hyper-nervous as he must part-take at a professor's home in a discussion in German on the Kyoto norms, so Saskia orders a friend to give him a relaxing massage; Stef pretend it's a fat monster and has Arnold pay him to be massaged by the nice girl in his place; Lies and Saskia find out and announce a 'sensual massage', which Filips steals this time, ignoring it's actually a giant male chiropractor.
- Jeanne wants a new mattress, so her old one (double bed) would be a good catch for a student who wants 'company', but Jef is against as it undermines an excuse to take days off because of his 'bad back'. Mimi has failed her drivers test for the n-th time, so she persuades student Lucas to give her paid lessons, and does him some domestic favors, such as mending his pants and teaching him how, which makes Jeanne feel passed by as 'maternal' figure; Gentil takes it they have an unnatural intimate relationship and even informs her jealous husband Jos, who bursts in but actually surprises and beats up Hugo with his girlfriend Nicole and even Gentil.
- 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 voluntarily joined by Odilon, who keeps tinkering with the text and thus messes up the Biblical story, which didn't get young customer Vic's approval anyway. Arnold wrongly overhears future father Seppe would have beaten Myriam black and blue, but he is still just in time to witness the slightly premature birth at Jeanne's place...
- Jef and Jeanne have a wedding to attend next Saturday, so Odilon must fit her potential new dresses. Billy is used to waking up with a hangover, but this time it's a live sheep. Jeanne, who always opposed pets, starts mothering it despite everyone else's practical objections and alternatives, but it keeps breaking loose and causing expensive damage, and a notice 'free sheep' in the shop's window finds no takers, at least none to Jeanne's taste- till it eats Jeanne's new party dress. When old organ grinder Piere's tame monkey runs away, he is persuaded to try it with a sheep. Only then Billy finds out it's called Stella (a Belgian lager brand) and was only on loan from equally drunk 'friend' Patrick who desperately wants it back. Fortunately Piere returns it as it ate children's sweets.
- Brigitte is confused and sends even more contradictory signals to her lover Evert about the part of sex in their relationship, which Hugo's and Lies's advice to the lovebirds makes even worse. Jef wants to attend a billiards tournament in Liège instead of qualified club-mate Robert. That leads to weirdly convoluted babysitting intrigues which get completely out of control for him, Jeanne and several babies' parents.
- Lus accepts to mind a friend's pet- an adult boa constrictor! Dieter expects an unwanted female visitor, Daisy, but makes Jo believe he only pretends not to be interested, so he will take her off his hands. Jeanne hears a rumor -from Mimi- that her hypochondriac ma has a gigolo, but in fact it's the kind mister Martin Molenaers who brought her to hospital after swallowing a fish-bone, who she mistrusts however; searching what she thinks to be his loot from ma's flat, she frees the boa...
- Jeff has taken a day off on his birthday. Jeanne pretends she forget it, as he frequently did with hers and their anniversary, while a new fishing rod is to be delivered in the evening- just what he wants, and desperately tries to drop hints about with Odilon's clumsy help, which seems to get him stuck with a second-hand one. Stef offers sneaky, mischievous help which goes wrong... Hugo may figure as candidate on the TV show "Blind date", but Filip and Jeanne fear he'll make a laughing stock of himself and indirectly embarrass them, so he gets coaching from Stef and Lies, but doesn't take that seriously, so all the students play their mock version, which 'gnome Plop' Filip sarcastically sabotages, so...
- Jef and Odilon lie to Jeanne they'll put up wallpaper at Odilon's so they can go to a snooker match. Jeanne's complaints about the many white lies leads to a kitty which gets 100 Belgian francs (2.5 Euro) per lie- a costly arrangement, and not just for the students, while the truth can hurt more then lies... Flowers from a secret admirer are delivered daily for Betty by a cheerful kid who thinks Jeanne is the recipient, but there's a twist. Odilon surprises everyone by solving crosswords definitions even beyond Charles-Victor. Pranks escalate.
- Jeanne joins Mimi's clay modeling class, which has already started. Tineke asks the boys to help her think up an original exclusive mothers day gift, but is out of the big money for once; failing ideas, she sells her chic scarf cheap to Mimi and plans to raise a lot more by a major clothes sale. Jef decides Jeannes going to class twice a week means he can also go to the billiards club a day a week more often by joining the clubs board as treasurer. When the students make fun of her first clay model, Jeanne considers stopping, but Jef needs her to continue; so he makes Tineke offer to keep the shop some hours so Jeanne can practice to catch up, while she can add her marked-down clothes to the sweets on sale; Gentil decides he can then also sell CDs there. After her first modeling after a model proves disastrous, Jef gets his club president to play an art critic to praise her back to self-confidence, but of course Odilon lets the cat out of the bag, so she plans a revenge with Lucas' help which costs Jef his ambition and a small fortune.
- Jo has an eye on Veronique and asks her for dinner, Koen has just a crush, both feel insulted when she refuses, so consider helping jealous Ria's plan to put the 'snake' rival in her place, but desert it as soon as Veronique invites Jo instead, but later Koen, in the end even Jef and Odilon. Jeanne and Jef are startled when Odilon announces he's planning to get married, without a lover. Jef finds out it's just for conversation, so offers Jeanne without the pains and perils of married life. The students encourage him to respond to a contact ad from widow seeking a handyman, Ria convinces Jeanne it must be a sordid date instigated by vile Veronique.
- Hugo is elated his girl-friend Sylvie accepts to coach him with a course at her home, Saturday morning, but Filip refuses to lend him a 'foulard' (tie); Lies advises him to learn about plumbing, Sylvie's dad's job, but his lack of talent is as great as his IQ is low. Jeanne hears a sweets firm is looking for an executive, and she would fit the profile according to a salesman. Jef pretended to be exhausted after a fishing 'accident', but when he hears Jeanne could earn thrice his pay, promises to take care of both household and students if she takes the job, believing that would still leave him most of the day off as he would give up his city job. For the shop, they need a salesperson- Odilon brings an ex-con, but Jeanne fears the girls would find him too sexy, so Jos pretends to be gay; furthermore, he takes charges of stopping Jef and Odilon from deserting domestic duties to go fishing...
- 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 neither memorize nor properly read his lines, so Stef asks candidates via Internet. Lies convinces Jeanne to try chatting herself, which instantly creates a nocturnal surf-monster, oblivious of the household; Jef and Saskia set her up with a fake sex maniac and Stef's audition candidates...
- One of Odilon's friendliest prisoners, master burglar Celle [short for Marcel in Dutch], is being released after ten years. Princess of naiveté Sam gets Jeanne to offer him temporary lodging in her room, yet everybody freakishly hides and locks everything of value away, even though Jef correctly points out a professional finds and cracks everything anyway. Jeanne has a small fortune in cash from the shop in a small metal box. Charles-Victor, who is most suspicious of all, barricades his room with triple padlocks, but ends up locking himself out just when he's in a big hurry to get to class to present his economics dissertation, which is thus about to become part of the course.
- After an article in the paper about a fire in another private students' home, Jeanne realizes it's time to invest in legally required fire-extinguishers etcetera. After a hefty quote from a professional Jef decides he needs to save enough to buy a humidifier for his plants hothouse, by doing the job with Odilon, who also agrees to send a colleague as fake fire inspector so Jeanne will buy their story, while Jeanne asked someone else to scare Jef into hiring a professional firm, and a real one responds to Ria's notification, but who is which one? Meanwhile Jo and Betty exchange fire - and water pranks.
- After Filip complains about Stef going to the shower 'bare-arse' (in fact boxer shorts only), the students come up with a series of plans to switch rooms for various reasons, such as a peephole to lure Arnold so he'll leave his comfy room for Filip. Meanwhile Jef, having exhausted his medical excuses not to help out repairing the fishing clubhouse, pretends he has to catch a mole in this backyard urgently. Misunderstandings lead to people believing Jef's accidental black-eye is proof Jeanne beats him.
- The girls eagerly expect Polish exchange student Olga Kornatowski, the boys can't spare a moment for the presumed 'backward wart hog', so Odilon is assigned volunteer to pick her up- till she arrives on her own, and proves an economics major looking as good as Betty: now Jo and Charles-Victor rival for her company, even spending money on her, only to be disappointed in the end. Jeanne looks forward to arousing envy on the annual party of her supermarket cash register ex-colleagues, but that requires an expensive new dress, for which Jef believes he's entitled to take some compensation by cooking his mother's normally banned favorite recipe, pig's brains, disgusting to the others except Olga...
- Jeanne was deeply disappointed by the city's annual carnival sales, but then the Viennese circus's director turns up, whose dromedary has eaten all its famous Viennese sweats, so he's about to place a humongous order in an old-fashioned shop just like hers. Sam drops in a surprise, which elates the girls as much as it fails to appeal to Jef and Charles-Victor: Jos, despite the boys name the baby daughter of her vague friend Willemeyn who is moving, which they 'may' babysit till evening, or as C-V predicts much longer so the irresponsible mother can be young again. He's certainly right about that evening...
- Odilon's diagnosis is inescapable: Jef's motorbike is beyond repair; now he refuses to go to work at all as long as Jeanne, who wants 'bargain' carpet first, refuses to buy a new one. Hugo's clarion playing is not only utterly unmusical, it's also so loud that Gentil can't stand it- when he tries to record it, Dieter and Hugo find his mike and blow straight into it, resulting in deafness and possible thrombosis- it soon turns out he pretends it to be far worse hen it is, so he can finally get Hugo's larger room. Odilon gets free use of one of his detainees' chopper, so now Jef needs another excuse to hide he can't ride such a machine, notably 'needing' a leather suit which he presumes too expensive; when Jeanne whips up two suits on free loan, his last chance are driving lessons- from little Pieter!
- Stef enthusiastically tells Jeanne his professor chose her 'old-fashioned' sweets shop as location for a movie, but that adjective causes a firm no. For once, Hugo is smarter about handling Jeanne, telling her it could be great publicity and promising her a small part; as Stef can't get anyone in this late, they hand her a fake script-version to scare her off, making her character a transsexual; that fails to daunt her, until young customer Jonas tells her it's probably a nude part. Filip wants Lies to join his family on their new yacht; alas she says an invitation must be extended to the other students as well, so he tries to scare them off individually, but when she insists he must get them back on board- Hugo simply is paid twice. When Stef's professor turns up to muster the store Jeanne objects to any damages, till she learns a soap star is in the movie; new Stef tells Jeanne to get a costume in Brussels 'while Stef tends the shop' so she would be out the entire shooting day, but she decides to make sure she's back early. Meanwhile Jef and Odilon test new, disgusting fisherman's lure feed.
- Odilon is excited about a letter announcing his former flame Astrid is finally coming all the way from Congo (Africa). Charles-Victor is entering a photographic portrait-contest, the winner of which will be published in Vogue- Betty accepts to model at his terms, Billy is convinced it's all just a pick-up ploy. Odilon asks C-V to photograph him, to send his picture to Astrid before she flies to Belgium; C-V makes the grave error to recruit clumsy Odilon as assistant in charge of the steam machine, so everything goes wrong. Once he has his photo, it gets lost...
- Now the students are stuck with lots of alcohol from the party, they intend to sell it in Jeanne's sweets shop after hours, as -illegal- night shop; Gentil is determined to stop this 'immoral' business. Tineke doubts Dieter's advice not to be too direct with Flemish lovers, such as her Johan. Lus' first contacts with customers as (day) salesgirl are disastrous: her honesty puts them off sweets altogether! Jef has bought new club vests at half price, and hopes this will give him enough popularity to unseat the club president, so Jeanne won't be able to refuse him attending every meeting and stay last to close up.
- Plucking a daisy makes Betty believe Jo is smitten on her, just doesn't know it himself; Sam is a bit more skeptical, obviously the man-eater is the one on the prowl, and without boundaries or effect. Jeanne's mother forgets her hypochondria instantly because of a lover who takes her on a first love night to Paris; even Jeanne wasn't prepared to listen to her endless ranting and leaves the phone off the hook, till Charles-Victor points out she keeps mentioning jewels and disinheriting, enough to make the heiress listen and rush to collect the jewels for safekeeping during the Paris trip, escorted by bodyguard Odilon, whose 'cool' shades make him about as blind as a bat. Odilon's friend Fons lends them a safe, but he told reputed ex-con safe-cracker Stanley about the jewels and the key gets painfully mislaid...
- After the weekend Saskia shows pictures of her new measly rich husband and a hunky lover, Bobbie- in a play that is, yet enough to make Arnold jealous. Jeanne gets a client from her distant past, Bernadette, who stole her best friend in class when they were six, André, now a lawyer. To keep up, Jeanne pretends Jef is her gardener and passes Bobbie's picture for her absent husband, the start of another comedy of errors, especially as Bobbie is coming to rehears for the play. Now Lies won't sleep with Stef, allegedly because he snores, Filip is hell-bent to prove the love-affair is over.
- When Jeanne has a nasty dream, she asks Tineke for a dream analysis - the absurd answer is Jef must have an illegitimate son; Jeanne is fed up with Jef's incompetent 'repairs', so she insists on a real electrician, but Jef argues passing him over will break Odilon's heart; so the men pass Odilon's new prison colleague Armand for a professional. Brigitte ignores Tineke4s advice to dump her boyfriend Evert who criticizes her cloths. After a mad bump and blowing off dust seemed to repair his radio, Hugo is convinced he'll make a fortune if he picks up all dumped electrical equipment and sells it after the same 'repairs'; his first sales, a lady-shave and a mini-solarium, both give Brigitte more sorrow then satisfaction. After another row with Jef, Filip talks Jeanne into believing Armand is Jef's bastard, but instead of throwing them out she welcomes the new son...
- 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 fed up Jeanne never believes him -actually he was fibbing again, but she couldn't now that- and always puts the students before him, Odilon points out he can't talk given the endless time he spends on his plants. Jef decides to make up by selling the rare seed of the galliconda plant he nicked from the city greens department where he works and spending the proceeds on a romantic weekend with Jeanne. When Odilon bursts out, refusing to fence the nicked seed, and Stef is eager to approach his female seed-taker, Jeanne hears only half the story and believes it's sperm donations; then Madam Versmissen appears in person to receive 'Jef's seed', while rascal Vic affirms if anyone is knowledgeable about seed, it's Jef...
- 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 and gets more blunt comments from Dutch freshman Bas -who visited one with his mother- then an old-fashioned Flemish housewife can bear to contemplate; she gives Jef foreplay by massage with baby-oil. When Bas, who ignored the owners, brings the mesh-bikini Evert and Brigitte sneaked in to Jeanne, she thinks its Jef's too and gets Lies' advice to use it for striptease while Stef is on the film-set. She does so in the living-room when Jef returns, but neither knew the other's plans, so Odilon brought all the club members to apologize to her...
- It's pruning time, so Jef needs an excuse to dodge the hard work; when Stef brags how he 'negotiates grades' with a professor whose mistress is a friend of his, Jef takes his cue and blackmails colleague Joris Vandam, who gives their foreman Frans' wife Ria "yoga lessons". When Mimi boasts about the relaxing effect of yoga, Jeanne insists to take lessons too. It's exam time, so Filip is even more picky about every preparation for his brilliant exams, such as ironing, but freaks when his rabbit's foot goes missing, even puts a 'bomb' under Arnold's bed...
- When Jef and Odilon disagree with their fishing mate Gerard about the chances of the national soccer team, they end up betting for serious money, knowing Jeanne disapproves of all forms of gambling- just then she walks out, giving Jef kitchen instructions while she's off to Blankenberge (a coastal resort), at the- casino! (actually it has many non-gambling visitors for various other entertainment). Ria finds Jo and Koen slaving over a list of most occurring winning numbers in the lotto, but unable to say whether those are to be used or avoided now the stakes are exceptionally high. Sam announces she's transferring to Ghent university and hence moving, but finds the barely lukewarm response depressing. Jeanne returns tipsy (not used to drinking port) but with a fine profit, so everyone believes she has a 'golden hand' (hence the episode title) or Midas-touch: when she wakes up with a hangover they beleaguer her to make lucky draws...
- Jef heard the noble-born relative of city alderman Baldewijns -very influential in his greens department- is looking for a student room, and said he is welcome next week, even though they have no free one; so Jeanne and he desperately hope to get someone to move out, probably dumb Hugo. Gentil figures Montignac made a fortune with his ridiculous diet, so he can do the same, enlisting Brigitte to help him devise recipes to fit his far too complex color-coded 'Gentilian' combination rules (which allow to fit anything in) and Odilon as taster and to pretend he lost 21 kilos trying it. Lucas, Tineke, Hugo and Brigitte call squire Henri de Bevekom d'Autriche he can come early, and set him up in Jeanne&Jef's bedroom; in stead of throwing him out as the students hoped, the couple moves into Hugo's room, but in the long run...
- 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 "Brigitte's niece". Filip sees trough it, finds proof and demands half of the profit. Then the scam victims, including Jef's supervisor Fernand, find out the truth...
- It's exams time, so every student has a weird thing- Lus wears PJs, Tineke a bikini, Hugo tries to play the didgeridoo, while Gentil is irritated by all of them. After years of hopeless quiz defeats teaming up with Odilon, Jef has decided to switch to a certain Jos- Jeanne is furious about his disloyalty, and enlists the help of the students to train Odilon studying for their own simulated version of the quiz, which is based on recent newspapers. Tineke gets Gentil to bet he'll take off an item of clothing for each question -selected by him- Odilon gets right, and Dieter for every wrong answer- as nobody believes Odilon can ever remember anything, they need to cheat using a miniature speaker...
- 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 believing Stef fell for her. When Jeanne learns the truth, she throws Jef out, but regrets it as soon as she learns he's not at Odilon's place...
- 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 vocal but manual, Brigitte 'asks' still ignorant and hence eager Jeanne; the would be-diva enlists amateur flautist Bas to accompany her urgent rehearsals. Meanwhile Jef is desperate to get a new fishing rod too after seeing the steal Odilon got at a bust shop: professional quality at half price; as Jeanne refuses to lie because his supervisor Fernand has warned them a next AWOL would mean a suspension, Jef promises Stef 'all his pocket-money' for a fake doctors slip. As he only pays pittance, Stef takes revenge but making Odilon spread the rumor Jef has rabies. When 'professor doctor' Landuyt arrives to check if Filips has everything ready, Odilon thinks it's a medical inspector, and Jeanne demonstrates her off-key singing in a loud frock.
- 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 Honolulu- which implies they must urgently produce photos, or even better a video, from their imaginary Hawaian hotel...
- Gentil is sure he knows the right pharmaceutical stock to invest in- but Brigitte, Lucas, Tineke and Hugo only make fun and fight at his presentation for the other students, none is willing to input any capital, let alone pay him part of the profit, and Odilon can't even understand the concept of shares. Jeanne is as enthusiastic -seconded by Brigitte- as Jef is opposed when he gets a letter that his distant cousin Honoré, a businessman from Canada, is coming to Belgium and paying them a visit. When he arrives, he promises Gentil to invest heavy and split the profit, but that was too good to be true...
- 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...
- When Jeanne hears from Mimi singer Isabella A has rented an apartment across her street and would be separating, she spies the room but blames the ignorant students. After Jeanne lectured her for being a troublemaker, Ria manipulates Jo to get a fight over his girlfriend Annick with Dieter and Betty with Lus over a letter from a common acquaintance. Once they realize her game, the four make up and concoct a vengeance using the bunny-cake Jeff had his gullible friend Odilon bring over, neither understanding what it is nor that it's for his own birthday.
- 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 fro the billiard table supplier; as his accounting also prove inadequate, he must concede 20% to Stef, and even half to Filip. The girls find out Jeanne has been opening private mail, so Brigitte makes Lies write a letter in English 'from Marcello' to make her believe he has got AIDS, then asks her Flemish friend Frederik play Marcello and rush to her room... Odilon isn't comfortable keeping the money and feels it only causes trouble in his friendship with Jef...
- 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 for her, but she sends him to the rehearsal, where Jeanne literally grabs her chance to demonstrate she's into men...
- In an icy winter month, the central heating breaks down, so everyone is shivering. The repair man comes, but seems to prefer chatting to working, and finally finds there's just a screw loose- alas a new one is impossible to get till the next day. Betty has found a cute white male puppy-dog and would love to keep it, but as Sam points out Jeanne may prove less pet-friendly then she pretends, judging by her tirade against Odilon when he accidentally brings in some dog marks on his shoes, so 'Jommeke' (named after a Flemish white-haired cartoon boy hero) is hidden from her sight...
- When Jeanne hears Mme. Hulpiau has been asked to find a classy student's room for a notary's son, she manages to get an appointment. Law student Ria wrote a poisonous reply in the newspaper to an article, but regrets it when she finds out the author's pa is her criminology professor. Since Odilon has to play billiards in his prisons team, he found Jeff a less competent partner, but didn't tell it's the chief of the tax service, so now they fear a murderous control, and Jeanne has only filed two of her five students! Their solution is to have the others play really shady, even criminal foster kids, but then...
- When Odilon surprises Jeanne with 'pas de guimauve' from a posh sweetshop and goes on how much fancier and more expensive everything is there, she despairs with a husband without ambition like Jef she'll never get on in life.
- Jeanne's ex-colleagues, the supermarket cash register ladies, invite her for four days in the Ardennes. To Jef's fury and despair she not only wants him to accompany her, but already registered him for the blabbermouth convention; ever helpful Odilon ruins his sick plant-excuse. The students except Charles-Victor finally see a chance to organize a party in the student house ('kotfuif' in Dutch), but then Chantal briefs over the nasty rumors about Jeanne's shop, so it takes some more lies to get her to stay with her hypochondriac mother. The costume party gets surprising mystery guests...
- Madame Hulpiau finds a whole bunch of Jeanne's Belgian waffles are past their expiration date, and announces she'll inform the health department, so they can only be used as breakfast for the students. Despite Odilon and Jeanne's fears, Jeff has gathered wild mushrooms. Shortly after, everybody seems to have cramps or diarrhea, but it later turns out neither suspicious food was eaten by everyone... Meanwhile Betty is furious when she finds out Jo has sneakily used her luxury car for a ride to impress a girlfriend, so she decides to make him believe he has caused it to be stolen...
- His supplier had no faith in him, but Jef has decided behind Jeanne's back to convert the sweats shop, which recently had a turnover crash, into a fishermen apparel shop he would call 'De Kromme Haak' (hence the title, Dutch for 'the Curbed Hook'), but Jeanne explains the slump was short-term and even mentions fishing rods as a terrible product choice; Jef first lies there's a mini-mart about to be opened nearby which would sell very cheap sweats, so Jeanne will at least be open to other products; Filip however suggests another strategy: collaborating with her rival "De Lekkerbek"; another lie Jef inspires Odilon makes that deal fall trough, but the note he had to make about what to tell either lady and what not falls in Jeanne's hands... Stef uses Hugo in various disguises to record various fictitious 'professional' clients of his new dating service database. Meanwhile Hugo hastily fakes a probably contagious disease to keep his prudish aunt Madeleine away. After a friend of Brigitte's is disgusted by Hugo's bad disguise, both girls set him up for an even more disastrous date ...