All stars: De serie

- Season 2

(2000)

It's that time of the year when captain Bram must call everyone to 'remind' them of paying for membership, while they wine about receiving the club newsletter. When the chairman insists to get the whole arrear paid before the Swiftboys are allowed to play, just now they have their first chance ever to win a season against their arch-rivals the Poldervogels, Peter is prepared to advance the small fortune. Willem has a weekend from hell: his wife Anja hounds him not just in their garden center as usual but insists he keeps his promise to drive her and their offspring to...

Willem's death leaves the Swift Boys depressed. Bram insists they should play a prominent part in the funeral, but no-one has practical ideas or dares speech. So the club president is bribed with 'backward' member contributions, but gets drunk practicing an anyway impersonal eulogy. Bram is puzzled about Willems' last will mentioning 'best friend Bullie', but recalls after a most embarrassing service, where a speaker from the bitter rival team Poldervogels saves the day.

Now Willem died between the goal posts, Peter and Mark interview potential new keepers, without much luck, so Peter invests in professional equipment- alas he proves even less gifted then Willem... Meanwhile gay Bram tries to keep Willem's garden center running, with rather inept help from friendly philosopher Hero -who feels too tenderly for the 'sensitive' plants- and Paul -who gives Dutch arithmetics an even worse name- but also discovers he's the unexpected ideal surrogate for Willem's offspring and even for widow Anja, which Mark soon guesses. Anja considers ...

Hid widow Anja tells Willem's last wish is to have his ashes distributed over the 'holy grass' at Duch premier league club PSV, so the Swift Boys head for Eindhoven, in the southern province Northern Brabant. They manage to get in masquerading as some of PSV's newly recruited foreign players, but first get lost in the huge stadium, then can't get Willem's urn open and when they finally have a tool... Back home, Nemo manages in one day to loose the ball, forget about the gas so his home burns down and cause the glass cups display window to fall to pieces; ruffian Johny...

Playing a single good game, relatively talented Swift Boys star Mark gets attention from international talent scout De Korver, who proposes a contract in Abu Dhabi. The conditions sound generous, but can the agent be trusted or is he scamming Mark by asking a small fortune for a promotion real and a 'semi-legal' manufactured FIFA pro license? The only proof is a Phone call from national soccer legend Johan Cruyf, yet mark raids his son's study fund and takes the plane to the UAE, where things go wrong in a surprising way.

Shy Peter has trouble urinating and dreads first the medical examination, then the results. His psychosomatic condition keeps worsening, so Mark convinces the teammates to help him with all chores and even shave themselves intimately in the shower, like Pater was for the diagnosis. Paul, desperate for extra cash, sells a bronzing cream, but fails to pass on due instructions, so the whole team gets incapacitated by itch during their next game from it. Peter's good news has an all-but-silver lining.

The soccer team needs a substitute referee but can't find anyone, so drawing lots decides on ruffian Johnny, who proves extremely tough on his bumbling mates, who are unamused- until he brutally punishes opponent Van Lieshout's insult 'blind queer' by KO head-but. Van Lieshout brings his injury and concussion in court. Bram accepts to defend the power-abusing hooligan. Paul has started a career as party clown- alas amusing no children, and arrives as 'crown witness' in costume after proceedings which mainly accumulated anger with the presiding judge over Bram's ...

Bram is startled his ma wants to hire his legal services- to divorce his dear dad, which she says 'came out of the closet' after 35 years of respectable marriage, yet Bram counsels not to rush things. The soccer boys wouldn't listen to chairman Joop Van Riethoven, but the hormones-held hounds sit up when he makes parole-con Nadja order them to turn up Sunday looking their best for a potential new sponsor- Mr. Van Zon, who runs a solarium. Johnny and Nemo eagerly go claim free tan-treatments, but refusing to let really rude bitch Nadja go first proves a peculiarly ...

The club locker-room isn't just site for Nemo to sell the mates his 'found' counterfeit spots shoes, it also falls prey to a thief, despite the absence of keys in hands beyond doubt. Ex-con canteen keeper Nadja violently rejects any suspicion, but has coached a penniless boy. Paul's white adoptive mother, now suffering from Alzheimer, embarrasses him and the team by intruding the showers without any regard, yet shows a keen eye for criminal opportunities.

The therapist Roos is seeing because she feels neglected by Mark wants to observe the Swift Boys.

Gentleman Peter made the fatal mistake to live together with overbearing hag Maartje, who just threw another tantrum over a futility and literally trashed his compulsively neat apartment, yet when she apologizes he offers her a lift to her mother's. Snooping in his car she finds out a packet containing a beauty-case, which Bram made him buy on sale as birthday gift for ex-con Nadja, who meanwhile pretty literally throws the other mates' flirtatious gifts back in their faces, gross as always- then locks them out in their underwear and takes off by motorbike, soon ...

The girls and Bram's gay partner Ben prepare an original, major celebration as the swift Boys are finally about to play champion, unless they lose badly in the last game- alas against the ruffian Poldervogels, who recur to giant Henk again as secret weapon. So sweet but utterly inept Nemo is lied to it's a home-game, yet by the time he finds the out-field is hoped for as mates were carried off injured massively. Meanwhile the chairman has heard he may be personally held liable for damages caused by the club, and decides to sell it, so he shows off the 'future ...