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Eigen Kweeknote Flemish for "Home Grown" is a Belgian crime comedy series that aired on Eén from 2013 until 2019. The series centers around (the misadventures of) a family of potato farmers, who start growing weed to recover a significant financial loss.Jos Welvaert, a stoic and down-to-earth farmer, has spent most of the last four decades running a potato farm with the help of his doting wife, Ria, and his two sons, Frank and Steven, in the west of Flanders. On the day of his fortieth wedding anniversary, Jos has a conversation with his wife's cousin (and investment banker) Geoffrey, who tells him about an interesting investment opportunity that could have him set for life. He decides to invest most of his life savings and manages to convince Frank to invest his savings as well. Meanwhile, Frank (who has been unlucky with women until now) meets Nenita, the Filipino Mail-Order Bride of his neighbour Lucien, at the party. She shows him a picture of her sister, Julita, with whom he is immediately smitten.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fast forward 8 months: Geoffrey has been sent to jail for running a Ponzi, where he confesses to Jos that he never invested any of Jos' and Frank's money (which instead went into feeding his sex addiction). Jos, who sees all of his life savings and pension evaporate into thin air, tries to recuperate whatever he can. Things, however, only go from bad to worse when the latest potato harvest fails due to crop plague, leaving Jos (extremely) strapped for cash. At the risk of losing his farm to the bank, Jos decides to make a drastic (and life-altering) choice: he's going to grow weed in the old hangar on his land to recuperate the financial loss. Upon hearing that Steven's local hangout is a bustling center for local weed trade, Jos decides to enlist Steven's help with his special harvest, on condition that neither Ria nor Frank ever hear anything about this. Steven, in turn, reveals that he has been growing (rather bad) weed there for while with one of his friends. Hilarity Ensues as Jos and Steven work together to hide their weed harvest from not only Ria and Frank, but also local police officer (and dear friend), Chantal, who visits the farm (nearly) on a daily basis.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, Frank has decided to fly Julita over from the Philippines to make her his wife. However, their relation is off to a rough start, mainly due to poor English communication skills on both sides, as well as some general awkwardness from the rest of the family. Furthermore, Julita assumes that Frank brought her to Belgium primarily for sex and, encouraged by both Nenita and Ria (who really wants grandchildren), she tries to be as seductive as possible. Frank, on the other hand, wants to take it slow and (out of sheer awkwardness) rejects Julita's advances. Nevertheless, the two become closer over time, despite the frequent miscommunications (and conversations about sex with Ria). However, the both of them (and Ria) also get dragged into the drug-related shennanigans of Jos and Steven, when Nenita, who's severely mistreated by Lucien, decides to disappear with his ill-gotten gains, resulting in Julita's kidnapping by "Den Hollander", a tough (but extremely cheap) crook.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Subsequent seasons saw the introduction of the (identical) brother of "Den Hollander", who visits the Welvaert's to get the money they (still) owed his (then-deceased) brother, as well as the introduction of a greater crime syndicate, who see the family as the perfect scapegoats for their misdeeds, when the police starts getting to close to them. Their introduction, as most things in the series, is played for laughs more often than not, as most of their more lethal plans usually fail quite spectacularly. It also sees Chantal getting in on the secret (and responding quite poorly at first), while Frank, in turn, briefly ends up in jail for a crime he didn't commit.The series ran for three seasons and was a (surprise) hit in Flanders. While the show shares quite a few similarities with Breaking Bad, it's mostly light-hearted and gains most of its humor from its (extensive) use of Poirot Speak and Blunt Metaphors Trauma, as well as the brass, straightforward and, often, tactless responses of the characters to the (absurd) situations they end up in. The fact that the series was highly quotable also added to its general popularity. It also saw its fair share of (often hammy) side characters, who quickly became even more popular than the main cast. While the series ended its run in 2019, a spin-off series called Chantal has been in the works and will be broadcasted in the first half of 2022. The series, furthermore, still occasionally gets re-ran on Eén.
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Anger Montage: Lucien goes through one in his prison cell, after receiving a letter from Nenita, telling him that she ran off with all his money. He even ends up spending a week in isolation.
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Dropping the Bombshell
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Dropping the Bombshell: The conversation between Bernard and Julita, when they both find out that Julita's pregnant with Frank's child, can be considered this.
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Pregnant Hostage
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Pregnant Hostage: Julita turns out to be this, after "Den Hollander" and Bernard kidnap her for ransom money. Ironically, not even Julita was aware of her pregnancy until after the kidnapping.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: Lucien reinforces this trope to the point that Nenita thinks all Flemish men are like this.
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Drunk Driver
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Drunk Driver: The priest of the local church turns out to be this, according to Julita's stories.
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I Will Show You X!
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I Will Show You X!: After Frank's car gets blown up, he demands that Chantal and commissioner Vanderlinden arrest the magistrate straight away, as he's to blame as well. When Vanderlinden tells him that they need concrete evidence against the magistrate, Frank responds with this trope. Commissioner Vanderlinden also uses this trope, when Chantal remarks that the intercourse they just had was a bit on the short side.
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Instantly Proven Wrong
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Instantly Proven Wrong: Near the end of season three, Frank and Julita invite Jos and Ria over for dinner, so Frank can convince them to leave the farm to him. He even tells them that Franky wants to be a farmer when he grows up, only for Franky to prove him wrong seconds later.
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Conflicting Loyalty
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Conflicting Loyalty: Happens to Griet's father, Piet, in season three, when his future in-laws (the Welvaert's) become suspects in a case of weed growing, which he's treating as magistrate. Things get even more complicated, when Ria tries to arrange a meeting between the families to talk about the wedding (and even brings this up when she, together with Steven and Jos, is brought in for witness tampering). then again, Piet was the one who framed the Welvaert's in the first place, so things were already quite complicated.
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Misplaced a Decimal Point: The series has a spectacular example of this, where a miscalculation of an explosives expert ends with the brother of "Den Hollander" blowing up an armoured truck, driver included. They even literally cite this trope as the cause of the unfortunate explosion.
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Poirot Speak
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Poirot Speak: The entire Welvaert family (as well as most of their friends) end up becoming this when they speak to Julita. Julita, in turn, mainly has trouble with English grammar, but doesn't use any Filipino saying in her phrases. She eventually does learn some West-Flemish, bringing her up to par with the rest.
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Failsafe Failure
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Failsafe Failure: After he decides to grow weed in the hangar, Jos puts up a sensor at the front entrance of the hangar as a warning mechanism against the police. Unfortunately, the sensor picks up even the most minute activity, including the occasional bunny hopping by.
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Stripperiffic: Discussed in universe by Frank and Fluppe, when they argue about Julita's waitress outfit (which was still relatively tame). The girls in Maurice de Moco's "massage parlor" dress this way. This is intended, of course, as it's actually a whore house.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Frank and Steven end up drinking together, after the former was sent away by Julita because of the way he smelled and the latter was forced into marriage by his pregnant ex-grilfriend, Griet.
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Failed a Spot Check: The gynaecologist of Frank and Julita did this between season two and season three, as she "missed" a heartbeat on the previous echo of Julita and, hence, mistook their triplets for twins before the start of the season. Apparently, this happens quite often (according to the gynaecologist) and she's quick to rectify it, to Frank's chagrin.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: At the start of the second episode, Steven has a hot date with Griet, which ends with them making love inside his (father's) car. In aniticipation, Steven even bought a can of lubricant / massage oil. The following day, Jos and Steven take the car to a growth shop in the Netherlands to buy some seeds for their special harvest. On the way back, they run into a local police inspector at the gas station, who asks to search their car after Steven tries (rather conspicuously) to hide the seeds. Instead of the seeds, however, the inspector finds the can of lubricant and assumes that Steven was enbarrassed for needing it during love making.
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Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
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Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: The henchmen of Maurice use not-so-fake replica's of WWI weapons to assassinate Piet during a war reenactment, who was leading said reenactment dressed as General Plummer. They end up failing due to the interference of the Welvaerts
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Rampage from a Nail
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Rampage from a Nail: While he doesn't go on a rampage, Frank does (unintentionally) cause havoc at a WWI reenactment, because he has a pebble in his shoe, which is driving him up the wall. He eventually manages to get rid of it by the end of the episode.
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Frame-Up: Frank is framed for growing marihuana in season three and even ends up in jail because of it. He gets released shortly after due to lack of evidence, nevertheless. In the end, it turns out to be an elaborate plan from a criminal gang of weed growers to sideline Chantal, who had been a thron in their side.
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Mistaken for Cheating: When Julita and Pepita discover that Frank is hiding some of his dirty laundry, Pepita initially thinks Frank is cheating on Julita. The truth, however, is that Frank bought his old car back from Jerry and is repairing it in secret. This causes a major fight between Frank and Julita, as Frank used the money they saved for a second child to buy back the car.
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Misplaced Retribution: Frank does this, when he gets angry at Vanderlinden (who he suspects of being the mole), only to later find out that the magistrate, Piet Despriet, is the mole instead.
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: Frank and Chantal discuss this trope, when Chantal meets Julita's aunt, Pepita.
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Phallic Weapon: An inverted version of this trope happens, where Steven mistakes a black dildo he found in one of Chantal's drawers for a nightstick.
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Previously on…: Chantal gives a recount of the events of season two at the start of season three, which serves as this.
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Embarrassing Nickname: "Den Hollander" ("The Dutchman") turns out to be this for Klaas Museeuw, as he's called that for being extremely cheap (like the Dutch). It even gets him arrested and sent to jail, as he refused to fill up a getaway car he stole with gas, resulting in the car shutting down in the middle of a chase.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: In the second to last episode of season three, two henchmen of Maurice are ordered to blow up Frank's car with him in it. They prepare a (single) bomb, but when they go to place it, they find two cars (the rally car and the Evasion). Upon deciding which car the bomb should be placed under, one of the criminals convinces the other to spare Frank's rally car, as it would be a true crime to blow up such a cool car. This ends up saving Frank in the end, as the delay on the power up for the Evasion gives him time to (inadvertently) escape the car, before it blows up.
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Shotgun Wedding: Steven is initially forced into this by his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Griet, after they both discover she's pregnant, but they call it off shortly after in favor of a different settlement. They end up getting married later on, nevertheless, but out of love this time. Ironically, Griet's parent's (her mother in particular) were opposed to this (in contrast with how the trope usually works.
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Thwarted Escape: Frank tries to run from the police, after they try to falsely arrest him for growing weed in season three. It goes about as well as you would expect it to go...
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Minion with an F in Evil: Bernard, who is far to kind and caring to be a career ciminal. He even tells Julita that he has a degree in history, but had to take up a life of crime due to a lack of jobs in his research field. After the death of "Den Hollander", he even ends up becoming a tour guide using the profit he made from selling all the weed. That is, until the brother of "Den Hollander" shows up.
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Traumatic Haircut: After they get into a relationship in season two, Griet gives Steven a new haircut (she's a hairdresser). Judging by the response of Steven, however, the haircut largely fell under this trope.
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Pistol-Whipping: "Den Hollander" does this to Frank, when the latter tries to save Julita from being abducted by the former. His brother also uses this on Chantal to knock her out, after she discovers the hangar they used to grow weed.
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War Reenactors: The series' final season ends with a war reenactment of "De Mijnenslag" and Steven, Frank, Jos and Piet end up portraying British soldiers. The reenactment quickly (and comically) goes off-script, as explosives prematurely detonate and Maurice's henchmen show up with the intend to assassinate Piet. The British end up winning regardless.
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Skewed Priorities: After Frank gets released from jail, he's more worried about the cars than about proving his own innocence.
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Accidental Kidnapping: Julita becomes a victim of this near the end of the first season, when she gets kidnapped by "Den Hollander" and his henchman, Bernard.
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Mistaken for Flirting: When Steven tells Griet that the wedding's off, Griet starts lashing into him. Her parents, watching through the window, mistake this for them playfighting with eachother.
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Stage Whisper: While they're at the police station to inquire about Frank's arrest, Jos and Ria have to resort to this with Chantal to not get her in trouble.
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Lint Value
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Lint Value: After Chantal discovers the hangar in season two (and subsequently gets knocked out), Bernard discovers that Chantal's daughter, Emma, is sleeping in the back seat of Chantal's cop car. When Emma wakes up later on, a panicked Bernard does the first thing he can think of and disguises himself as "Pegasus", the mythological creature, using a latex unicorn mask. When Emma asks him why Pegasus came to visit her, Bernard makes up a story about a mystical treasure Emma has to keep safe, using whatever spare change he has in his pockets as the treasure. Emma's response to this meager treasure is hilarious.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: The brother of "Den Hollander" fits this trope, as he threatened to run over Frank's son, Franky, if Jos didn't grow weed for him. A conversation with Bernard after the threat was made, furthermore, shows that he wasn't merely bluffing about doing it, either.
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Mood-Swinger: Julita turns into this after she gets pregnant with triplets, due to her hormones playing up. In particular, she develops a Hair-Trigger Temper, which (usually) only lasts several seconds.
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I Have This Friend: Jos uses this in season two to ask Chantal legal advice about the situation he's in, as he has to grow weed against his will. Chantal takes his words at face value and soon word gets back to Ria about Jos' friend. Jos then has to improvise and lies about one of the other farmers (Norbert) getting threatened by the hormone maffia, which eventually starts to lead a life of it's own.
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Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: This is essentially Julita response, when she finds out that Frank (initially) doesn't want to have sex with her, as she thinks something's wrong with her. This is before she knew that Frank was actually trying to take things slow.
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Not Distracted by the Sexy: When Jos runs into the "massage parlor" to warn Steven and Frank that they should leave, one of the girls tries it on with him, only for Jos to dismiss her after a couple of seconds.
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Prefer Jail to the Protagonist: The brother of "Den Hollander" says something to this effect about the hospitality he received of the Welvaert's, after breaking free from the pole he was confined to in the hangar.
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That Liar Lies: After Frank gets framed for running a weed plantation, he is confronted with a (false) witness, who claims that Frank rented his hangar. In response, Frank essentially employs this trope to prove him wrong (without much success).
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And I'm the Queen of Sheba: When the family visits Frank in prison, Ria mentions to the guard that Frank is innocently imprisoned, leading to this response.
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Lima Syndrome: Bernard, the henchman of "Den Hollander", develops this for Julita as they bond over their respective families. He eventually ends up romantically involved with Julita's sister, Nenita. "Den hollander" and Bernard even discuss it as they keep Julita captive.
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British Brevity: Every season only had six episodes and the series lasted for three season and a Christmas special, for a total of 19 episodes.
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Idiotic Partner Confession: Frank ends up doing this to commissioner Vanderlinden, after losing his temper, while Steven and Jos urge him to shut up. Frank does it again several episodes later, when he tells the bribed magistrate that he (and the police) are on to everything.
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That Poor Plant: When Julita and Fluppe discuss her job as a waitress, Fluppe encourages Julita to accept the drinks the patrons buy for her, but immediately states that she shouldn't drink all of them, using this trope as a means of disposal.
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You No Take Candle
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You No Take Candle: The series is full of this, as everyone speaks "Stonecoal English". Julita, however, does this the most, as her sentences are usually (only) grammatically incorrect (instead of straight up Poirot Speak).
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: This happens to the brother of "Den Hollander", who constantly is reminded by everyone around him (in particular the police) that he once blew up an armored car, including the driver, after a miscalculation from an explosives expert. Furthermore, season three shows us the "alleged" expert, who has received approximately as much flak for his miscalculation as the borther of "Den Hollander" did.
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Here We Go Again!: The second season of the show is essentially this, as Jos is forced by the brother of "Den Hollander" to grow another special harvest to pay back the money he owed him.
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Amusing Injuries: This is done with Griet's father, Piet Despriet, whose unfortunate encounter with WWI bombshell in his youth (which made him lose his left arm) is played entirely for laughs throughout the show (usually by Piet himself).
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Mr. Vice Guy: René Vanderlinden turns out to be this. Throughout season three, he's suspected by Chantal to be a Detective Mole, until she finds out he's a genuine by-the-book cop, who happens to (frequently) visit prostitutes in his spare time.
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Every Man Has His Price: Piet Despriet was bribed by Maurice de Moco to frame Frank for weed harvesting with WWI paraphernalia. They even argue about this, after Frank gets released from prison.
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Pun: Commissioner Vanderlinden made a rather creative one about eating pastries at the crime scene.
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Cool Car: Frank's racecar would fall into this category, as it somewhat resembles the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard. It also overlaps with The Alleged Car, as it keeps on breaking down.
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Lies to Children: When Frank goes to prison, he tells Julita to lie to Franky and tell him that Frank is participating in the Dakar rally. This lie quickly gets out of hand, with Frank lying about being in first place, before Emma tells Franky the truth regardless.
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I'm Your Biggest Fan: The brother of "Den Hollander" is this of Will Tura, to the point that the combination to his safe was the number on his Will Tura Fan Club membership card. He also has all of Will Tura's records at his place, as well as a discman with a CD of Will Tura's greatest hits.
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The Show Must Go On: This is Piet Despriet's response, after he (dressed as General Plummer) is shot at with live ammo by henchmen of Maurice, who are trying to assassinate him.
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Hand-or-Object Underwear: Frank does this with a rubber duck, when his mother walks in on him taking a bath.
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Da Chief
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Christianity Is Catholic: As the show takes place in the west of Flanders, this trope is in full swing, with crucifixes being present in nearly every house. Furthermore, Ria is a devout Catholic, who strives (rather unsuccesfully) to uphold Christian in her household. Catholicism is also one of the things she bonds over with Julita.
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Shell-Shock Silence: Frank suffers from this, after he gets deafened by the explosion of the Evasion. He even mentions it to everyone in sight.
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Disappointed in You: This is Julita's (and Pepita's) reaction, when they discover that Frank used the family's savings to buy back his old car.
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Impressive Pyrotechnics: The reenactment of "De Mijnenslag" held in the final episode had this, as the eponymous mines had caused a boom that could be heard in London and felt in Paris. Too bad a clumsy action on Frank's behalf caused all of the pryotechnics to go off prematurely, somewhat undermining this point.
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Collector of the Strange: Griet's father, Piet, collects mementos of the first world war (and quite a lot of them, as well). This is made somewhat ironic by the fact that he lost his arm to a WWI bombshell as a kid.
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Raging Stiffie: While it wasn't shown, Lucien (most likely) ended up with one of these after dinner with Frank and Julita, because he took viagra in anticipation of a partner swap with Frank (which never happened).
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Spy Cam: Chantal has hidden one in one of the teddy bears of her daughter, in order to monitor her movements at night. Unfortunately, it ends up in Chantal's bedroom just as Steven and Griet are planning on having sex there, catching the whole thing on tape.
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My Beloved Smother: Ria can be this to both her children, but in particular to Frank, who's a bit more shy than Steven. She only does it because she cares about their well-being, though.
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Hypocritical Humor: In the third episode, Chantal arrest Steven and his mates during a drug deal. At the station, she eventually lets Steven off with a warning, as she doesn't want to put Ria through the shame of having a drug-dealing son. Later on in the episode, when the feds arrest Lucien without warning the local police, Chantal criticizes the feds for not having any trust in the local police (as the feds think they would tip off the locals), resulting in this claim: There's also René Vanderlinden, who prohibits his team from talking West-Flemish (or any other dialect) during work hours, while he talks in a strong Antwerp dialect himself.
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I Shall Taunt You: After being tied to a pole for nearly a day, the brother of "Den Hollander" uses this technique to provoke Jos into a blind rage against him, so he could overpower him. It ends up working as well.
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Berserk Button: Whatever you do, don't threathen Frank's family (Julita and Franky in particular).
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The main reason why Nenita told the cops about Lucien's illegal dealing and betrayed him, was because Lucien was a terrible husband to her. Another reason was the fact that she found Lucien's secret stash of cash. In season two, Jos and Julita manage to convince Bernard to betray the brother of "Den Hollander", mainly because he forced Bernard to quit his job as a tour guide to grow weed and because he treated everyone involved rather poorly.
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: In season two, Chantal and her partner are investigating who has been stealing sour cherries of one of the locals. During this investigation, Chantal stumbles upon a weed-filled hangar, which she eventually manages to link to the Welvaert's by the end of the season.
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Happily Married: Jos and Ria are probably the best example of this, as they have been married for over 45 years by the end of the show, despite Jos growing weed in secret. Frank and Julita also end up as this, after they get comfortable with eachother.
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Lost Pet Grievance: Frank goes through a bit of this, after the death of his dog. It doesn't help that it was ran over by a drunk priest.
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I Lied: The brother of "Den Hollander" (Patrick Museeuw) pulls one of these on Jos, Steven and Bernard, when he demands that they continue to grow weed for him.
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Exiled to the Couch: Frank exiles himself to the couch, after a night time argument with Julita about her new job as a waitress. He, unfortunately, has to share the couch with his dog.
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Ponzi: The main reason the Welvaert family loses all of their savings, is because Jos fell for one of these ran by his (wife's) cousin, Geoffrey.
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Shout-Out: Fluppe makes a neat shout out to "Vanilla Ice", when he promotes his new workplace, "Ice Mountain". Frank's ringtone is the horn of the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard, which is appropraite, as he drives a car very similar to the General Lee. The series also made a reference to the Flemish soap opera Thuis in season two, even discussing the plethora of affairs the Frank of that series (Frank Bomans) had. Ironically, Julita and Pepita also expected Julita's Frank of having an affair that episode, even going so far as to make an analogy.
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Rage Breaking Point: Episode 4 of the first season had two of these occuring: The first one was near the beginning of the episode, when Jos blew his lid over Ria leaving him. The second happened after Frank lost his job. It didn't help that his mother, Ria, and his sister in law were living with him at the time.
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Chatty Hairdresser: Griet is an excellent example of this, as she's (probably) the only hairdresser in Wijtschate. This is furthermore mentioned by Frank, after Griet discovers Chantal String Theory board on the Welvaert's
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Funny Phone Misunderstanding: After Julita gets kidnapped by "Den Hollander", the Welvaert family arranges to trade her for the weed they've been growing over the phone. They have to do this, however, without Chantal finding out, so when she suddenly shows up at the house, Frank has to improvise, much to the confusion of "Den Hollander".
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Low-Speed Chase: When the feds come to arrest Lucien for running a weed plantation in one of his hangars, he decides to flee from the police in Jos' harvester (which he used as collateral for Jos' loan). He eventually gets caught after running out of gas.
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Dude, Not Funny!: Steven gets this response when he jokingly tells his dad (who was quite wound up at the time) that he should smoke some of their own weed.
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Cassandra Truth: This happens to Emma, after she gives a description of Bernard wearing a unicorn mask to Stefaan, Chantal's partner on the force. Even Chantal has some difficulties believing her story. Also happens to the brother of "Den Hollander", when he tries to convince the police that the Welvaert's helped him (and his brother) grow a large batch of weed. They don't believe him, as the Welvaert's (and Bernard, unwittingly) removed all of the evidence before the police could find it. In season three, this happens to Chantal, when she tries to tell commissioner Vanderlinden that their magistrate, Piet Despriet, is in cahoots with Maurice.
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: The brother of "Den Hollander", who looks exactly like "Den Hollander" (but isn't introduced as his twin). He's (obviously) played by the same actor.
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Mail-Order Bride: Both Julita and Nenita were this upon arrival in Belgium. While Julita eventually became Happily Married to Frank, Nenita quickly left her husband, Lucien, in favor of Bernard.
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Denied Food as Punishment: After the Welvaert family overpower the brother of "Den Hollander" and chain him to a pole, Jos uses (the promise of) food to get him to tell them where he's hidden the evidence of their weed growing operation. The brother of "Den Hollander" is not impressed and refuses to say anything, resulting in Jos denying him food for most of the day.
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Shower of Awkward: Frank becomes the victim of this trope when his mother (and subsequently Julita) walk in on him when he's taking a bath.
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Unusual Euphemism: When Jos and Ria confess their weed related practices to Chantal, Jos insist that Ria avoids using the terms weed and hangar, instead naming them "sunflowers" and "garage". Chantal, subsequently, doesn't know what they're talking about, despite the fact that she knew they had been growing weed.
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Happy Ending Massage: Maurice de Moco runs a massage parlor specialized in this. Steven and Frank even visit it once to gain information about Chantal's new commissioner. Neither of them go so far as to get a happy end, however, although Steven did get close.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Maurice's henchmen do this, after they fail to kill Frank in a car bombing.
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Surprise Pregnancy: Both Julita and Chantal end up becoming pregnant of their first child by accident, after a night of passion with Frank and Geoffrey respectively. Chantla even calls the (unborn) baby "Geoffrey's surprise gift" at Frank and Julita's wedding. Griet also goes through this in season three, as she only discovers that she's pregnant during her sixteenth week of pregnancy.
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I Was Never Here: After Geoffrey steals Chantal's cop car, he breaks into the hangar to retrieve a stash of stolen cash he hid away there and discovers the weed Jos and Steven have been growing. When Jos and Steven (who were awoken by the (silent) alarm system arrive there and confront him, Geoffrey convinces them to let him walk away using this trope, as he knows their secret now.
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Ear Worm: When Chantal discovers the weed-filled hangar in season two, she's knocked out by the brother of "Den Hollander" and tied down. In order to make sure that Chantal doesn't hear their voices, the brother of "Den Hollander" plays Will Tura's greatest hits to Chantal at maximum volume through a pair of headphones he connected to his discman. In the subsequent episodes, after Chantal is freed from her restraints, she complains that she can't get the songs of Will Tura out of her head, blaming this trope.
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: When Julita visits Lucien to invite him and Nenita over for dinner, he thinks she and Frank have accepted his proposal to swap partners for the night. This leads to an "Are you asking me what I think you're asking me?" moment on Lucien's end, to which Julita merely nods, as she doesn't have a clue what he's saying. Later that night, Lucien is not amused, when it turns out he won't be swinging.
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Ignore the Fanservice: Frank desperately tries to do this, when he's forced to visit a "massage parlor" to garner information, only to be beset by the girls there, as he promised Julita not to get too involved with the ladies there. He ends up getting saved by the bell, when Jos comes to warn him (and Steven) that the commissioner was on his way over.
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Cigarette of Anxiety
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Cigarette of Anxiety: After Julita gets pregnant with triplets, Frank starts smoking due to the stress. The best example of this is the scene right after he hears that Julita is pregnant with triplets (instead of twins), where Frank (eventually) ends up smoking three cigarettes simultaneously.
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All Women Are Lustful
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All Women Are Lustful: Lucien sees all Filipino women like this, which he gleefully tells to Frank in the first episode. Then again, Lucien is an excellent example of All Men Are Perverts.
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Jaw Drop: This is Frank's response, when he realizes Chantal asked him to infiltrate a whore house to garner information.
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NEET
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NEET: Steven is a good example of this, as he has no idea what he wants to do with his life (and still lives with his parents) at the age of 34.
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Stereo Fibbing
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Stereo Fibbing: Frank and Bernard do this, when they try to hide the real reason why Bernard is staying over with Frank and Julita.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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OOC Is Serious Business: One of the first clues the Welvaert's get that Chantal is onto something (aside from the String Theory board) is the fact that she's extraordinarily cold and aloof towards Jos and Ria, to the point of being passive-agressive to them.
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Angry Collar Grab: Frank does this Lucien, when he and Chantal visit him in prison after Julita's kidnapping, as Frank suspects Lucien of said kidnapping. He turns out to only be indirectly involved with it.
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Bound and Gagged: Chantal ends up bound and gagged (naked, no less) after a passionate night with Geoffrey, who did so to steal her cop car to flee the country with a hidden stash of cash. She ends up bound and gagged once more, after she's knocked out by the brother of "Den Hollander".
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Lucien is considered to be this by most of the other people in Wijtschate. None of them, therefore, feel particularly bad when Lucien ends up in jail on drug charges.
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Disco Dan
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Disco Dan: Patrick Museeuw, the brother of "Den Hollander", is a somewhat special case of this, as he spent the last 15 years in jail and, hence, hasn't caught up with this century's technology. This is best seen by the fact that he still prefers to use a polaroid camera (instead of a camera phone), as well as a tape recorder (instead of an app). He also enjoys the music of Will Tura, which was considered dated even back in the 90's.
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Spotting the Thread: Chantal spots the thread about the Welvaert's involvement at the end of season two, after she finds out that Bernard (an accomplice of "Den Hollander" and his brother) was on the same flight as Pepita, Julita's aunt. The first part of season three, subsequently, deals with Chantal trying to deal with this shocking discovery (and eventually swearing secrecy).
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The Alleged Car
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The Alleged Car: Frank's racecar becomes this in season two, as it constantly breaks down. Frank and Julita eventually end up getting a new (and far more spacious) car instead.
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Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Wijtschate is considered so boring by it's residents, that it's often called "Het hol van Pluto".note The middle of nowhere Then again, they're (mostly) unaware of the drug-related dealings going on in the area.
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Got Volunteered: When Jos decides to grow weed for the brother of "Den Hollander", he doesn't want to involve Steven in the process, as he's wants to protect his future. The brother of "Den Hollander", however, protests and asks Jos how he'll manage growing all of the weed by himself. Jos, in turn, volunteers Bernard to help him with the growth and harvest, much to Bernard's chagrin. While the brother of "Den Hollander" is initially opposed to this, he eventually gives in after Steven gets arrested and order Bernard to help with the weed.
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Easily Forgiven: Geoffrey is easily forgiven by his aunt, Ria, after he gets out of jail, despite bringing financial ruin to her family. The rest of the Welvaert family is (far) less keen to forgive him.
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Law of Inverse Fertility
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Happens to Steven and Griet (and to Chantal, to a minor extend) as neither of them wanted a child, but ended getting pregnant after one try regardless.
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External Combustion: The henchmen of Maurice de Moco try to kill Frank by placing a bomb under his car. They manage to blow up the Evasion, but fail to kill Frank, as he got out of the car in the nick of time (due to the start-up delay of the Evasion).
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Don't Explain the Joke: Griet does this in season two, when, while the both are scraping carrots for dinner, she makes a joke about Steven's "carrot" to Ria and immediately asks her if she gets it, leading to this reaction from Ria.
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Comically Missing the Point: The series has several of these, often related to linguistic misunderstanding in English. In the first episode, Lucien asks Frank whether he and Julita are swingers or not, as he'd like to have sex with Julita as well. Frank's response: When Frank teaches Julita how to drive a car, he tells her to treat the car like a woman and to treat manual shifting as "making love". Julita doesn't entirely get it. Then there the moment Ria sees the drawing Emma made of one of Chantal's attackers (Bernard wearing a unicorn mask) and takes it at face value. Then there's Stefaan's response to the moment when René Vanderlinden, the new commissioner, forbids eating at the crime scene. When the Welvaert family finds out that Griet is pregnant with Steven's child (as well), we get this exchange between Steven and Ria. When Jos and Ria are at the police station after Frank's arrest, they run into Ludwina, who heard about Frank and Julita having triplets. When Ludwina asks about the triplets, Ria (in her haste to defend Frank) gets both things mixed up, leading to this exchange. In the same episode, there's also the confusion surrounding Frank's smoking. Before his arrest, Julita caught Frank smoking again and got angry at him. However, when she tells Ria over the phone that she isn't angry about the smoking anymore, Ria (and everyone else) gets confused, as a "smoking" is also the Flemish name for a tuxedo. this becomes a bit of a running gag throughout the episode. This exchange between Frank and Chantal, when the latter tells Frank that her boss is frequenting a "massage parlor".
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Detective Mole
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Detective Mole: Piet Despriet, Griet's father, is this, as he's responsible for framing the Welvaert's for weed growing on behalf of a crime syndicate (to sideline Chantal, who's close with the Welvaert's), while also being the magistrate tasked with the investigation of the case. In the end, he has a change of heart and helps out the family (by taking the blame).
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Accidental Murder
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Accidental Murder: This trope is the reason the brother of "Den Hollander" spent 15 years in jail. He asked an explosives expert to calculate the amount of SEMTEX needed to blow up the locks on an armored car, but the expert put a decimal in the wrong place, causing him to blow up the armored car in its entirety, driver included.
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Hide the Evidence
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Hide the Evidence: The brother of "Den Hollander" does this to the tapes and photographs he uses to blackmail Jos. It becomes an important plot point near the end of season two, as the Welvaert family needs to get their hands on the evidence to get rid of the brother of "Den Hollander" without getting caught themselves.
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