F.C. De Kampioenen (1990)
F.C. De Kampioenen, was a long-running Flemish sitcom chronicling the adventures of a fictional local football team. It aired on the Belgian-Flemish channel één between 1990 and 2011, for 21 seasons with 273 half-hour long episodes, making it one of the most successful comedy programs ever on Belgian television. In 2009 a film had been planned, but has since been cancelled following complaints by the actors about the script. In 2012 the crew announced a new script was written and a movie will be produced. The movie is to be released in December 2013. The series relies heavily on stereotypical characters and farce for its humour. The story is mainly set around a few members of the football club who regularly visit the club canteen before or after a soccer training or match. The canteen is run by Pascale, who is in a relationship with Maurice. The football club is sponsored by the owner of a sausage factory, Balthazar Boma. Next to the field is an antiques shop, owned by the fraudulent Fernand. Most of the episodes are based on misunderstandings or dirty tricks from Fernand.
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Episode 1 - Home sweet home
Release Date: 2009-12-19Pol and Doortje have bought a new house. Boma's girlfriend Goedele meets 'de Kampioenen'.
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Episode 2 - Kop van jut
Release Date: 2009-12-26Pol gets fired and Maurice becomes the new trainer.
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Episode 3 - Ronaldinho en de Rode Duivels
Release Date: 2010-01-02Boma meets Goedele's son Ronald. De Kampioenen are preparing to play a charity match against the national team.
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Episode 4 - Rode kaart
Release Date: 2010-01-09Doortje breaks up with Pol. She becomes fascinated by choir singer Nicolas.
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Episode 5 - Het volkstuintje
Release Date: 2010-01-16In order to impress Goedele, Boma wants to learn more about the Homo Erectus. De Kampioenen think he has become gay.
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Episode 6 - Eén kaarsje
Release Date: 2010-01-23Carmen's foppish tendency to buy things needlessly, often useless junk, breaks the Waterslaghers family finances and drives whipped husband Xavier to uncharacteristic measures. Beacuse Marc's rich ma keeps showering baby Pauline with gifts, Bieke's less affluent ma feels she must follow to prove equal love. Bieke tries to forbid both to bury their tiny home under presents, but the kid's birthday is coming up, and neither grandpa manages to control his wife any better then Xavier his.
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Episode 7 - Bella Africa
Release Date: 2010-01-30To 'step-dad' Boma's secret pride, Ronaldinho is such a success with girls that he can't remember his dates when his agenda gets lost. Alas, when Caro, Tessa and Fien all turn up at the soccer canteen, expecting a romantic date, only Mark is available to give him dubious help. Meanwhile Pol gets a visit from uncle Mathieu to invite him to the 25th anniversary of the school they founded in Ouagadougou (Sahel country Burkina Faso's capital) and temporarily put up two black Africans. Fernand asks Nicolas lots of cash to help him convince Doortje 'abusive husband' Pol wants to sell their home to move to Africa, so she'll dump Pol for Nicolas.
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Episode 8 - Allo allo
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Episode 9 - De valse noot
Release Date: 2010-02-13Doortje gets the soprano soloist post at the church choir without following Pol's tips to play inti the old director Wolfgang's known taste for flirtatious women. Carmen is jealous of the attention and proves that a howling hyena's highlighted physical profile seduces an old goat far better. Bieke finds a magazine test about the ideal women and assumes Mark wants an easier, servile partner, almost her opposite. Hearing that, ma enlists 'therapist' Helga Botermans again, who meanwhile abandoned her own laughing therapy. None of her 'strategies' work, whether Bieke actually cooperates or not. Yet there's another reason.
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Episode 10 - De Bomabio
Release Date: 2010-02-20Jealous of Goedele's book's good reception, Boma decides to publish something himself, about the only subject he knows: an auto-biography. Soon realizing he can't write either, he enlist ghost-writer Marc, who alas unearths mostly facts Boma finds too embarrassing. Carmen is so furious she won't be mentioned that she decides to write an alternative 'gutter press' biography. Fernand enlists a greenhorn lawyer to sue Boma for slander, although no manuscript exists yet.
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Episode 11 - Ronaldinho en Julia
Release Date: 2010-02-27For once, Ronaldinho is struck by Cupid's arrow hard enough to forget all about soccer having eyes only for fair Julie. When the team learns she's the daughter of rival Schellekens team's president Jean-Luc Grootjans, he's told by the mates to chose and retires to his dorm room. Bieke is enchanted by her new boss Alex, who fire 15 colleagues but promoted her his assistant. Alas, he expects her to share his suite at a conference. Ronaldinho also hits on incompatible expectations.
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Episode 12 - Noblesse oblige
Release Date: 2010-03-13A comedy of errors starts when Maurice decides to put up his ancestral castle for sale. Boma accepts to give an interview to a female reporter. Fernand has a bone to pick with Boma, so he sends his man-eating niece to seduce him for his money, exaggerating his villa is a castle. Xavier hears of the plan, which would allow the niece to make Boma sell the soccer-field, and enlists mark to sabotage it. As nobody saw any of the three women, they get confused repeatedly and treated unintentionally, as happens to Boma and Maurice.
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Episode 13 - DDT ontsnapt
Release Date: 2010-03-20DDT escapes out of prison and wants to take revenge on 'de Kampioenen'.