F.C. De Kampioenen

- Season 18

(2007)

Bieke is pregnant and Pascale finds out Maman (who has died) owned a castle.

The local middle classes union is looking for someone to play Santa Clause. He who gets the job, gets subsidy for his club. Meanwhile, Doortje wants to move.

After the Radio Hallo studio burns down because of birdbrain present Mark's candles for a romantic requests program, Boma buys new equipment but refuses to keep the incompetent idiot on. Alas, the girls he hired prove no broadcasting professionals but nymphomaniacs with hideous accents. Rating plummet, even among Bomas' staff, so he turns to godson Billie to target a juvenile audience, but his on air pranks advice also proves costly. Mark meanwhile naively postulates for inexistent jobs on national radio, but is hired by Boma's sworn rival Grootjans.

The eternal losers team is finally nominated for a prize: the municipal fair play award. Being a wellness weekend for two, it becomes the stake of a fierce competition, which will be settled by quiz, to be organized by Maurice. Many efforts are made, generally frustrated. Carmen meanwhile resolves to win a doggy dance prize herself, but lapdog Nero is utterly unsuited, so she jumps at an experienced dancer being disabled herself to train with her shepherd dog.

Billie desperately wants to move out into a student flat with his mate Jeroen. Father Pol and the team gang agree the knave should experience some independence, but Doortje uses his messy room as excuse t claim he's not ready. So the gang promises to help him 'prove' otherwise, with mark as ghost cook and the Waterslaeghers couple as cleaning detail. Fernand hopes fro a profit as intermediary in the flat rental, but Doortje and Pascal, who sympathizes as fellow overprotective parent, aren't easily fooled.

To win 5,000 Euro, Carmen, Pol (helped by Xavier) and Fernand want to pilfer from Marc what the sound is that has to be guessed in his radio show.

Pol has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: He can go to a top match in Spain for only 750 euros. But Doortje won't let him buy it from their savings.

Fernand realizes he can't beat smart Maurice or the municipality he works for and needs his help to solve his dove cot permit problem. So he hopes to make him into a friend, but finds him impossible to bribe, the only chance is a fancy dinner, which the ruffian's appalling table manners ruin. Given Bieke's pregnancy, utter klutz Mark is told to take a fathering course.

Xazvier is desperate to avoid early retirement from the army to worse drill instructor Carmen, but must prove himself as drill instructor under bully lieutenant De Decker. To Boma's horror, Carmen cancels her cleaning job and resolves to start a day car crèche. Mark believes a radio spot 'the fatherland needs you' a joins a three days recruit test crash course, alas in Xavier's section. Pregnancy hormones render Bieke utterly insufferable, to the point of impulsively canceling her job, while Pascale and other rival to become the baby's godmother, despite Pol's ...

Boma says he'll stop sponsoring the team. To everybody's surprise, Fernand offers to be the new sponsor.

Pregnant Bieke bitches clueless Mark until he moves out temporarily. Bopma's advice to make up with a sexy gift, lingerie, until yields a spicy modeling scene, as she feels ridiculed with her present hippo-size. Their incessant fights and the prospect of a noisy baby make Fernand hope for a better-off tenant, Fons, so he inspires Mark to divorce Bieke 'for both of their happiness'.

When she reads that one third of the men whose wife is pregnant is unfaithful, Carmen decides to expose Mark.

Mark is just surprised that Bieke's delivery isn't exactly after nine months, the gang keeps inquiring, Pascal bombards them with old wives 'remedies'. Jealous of pigeon race mate Fons's Hawaii trip, Fernand decides to scam the money by collecting for a birth present from the football club. Nothing goes as anyone planned.