Benidorm - Episode Guide

Gaston's job as lush businessman Karel's car and parking attendant barely makes ends meet, so he considers the annual Blankenberge (home coast) holiday expensive enough, but his wife Angèle is jealous of her 'friends' bragging about travels abroad, so she is dead-set on the most popular beach destination: Benidorm, Spain. Gaston isn't easily persuaded, until his greater fear, mother-in-law, invites them for a Blankenberge holiday and a friend offers them free house-sitting in Benidorm.

Gaston's holiday mood, despite the feared alternative destination Benidorm, Spain, lasts until Angèle starts messing up packing. Next everything goes wrong all the way to Spain, a hellish bus-ride. That however proves only foretaste of the constant misery in Benidorm, where they discover knowing no Spanish is just one of many recurring or surprising problems.

Gaston's holiday turns miserable again after carrying their heavy luggage six floors up. Janitor Pedro does his best explaining how everything works or doesn't (no water before breakfast!), despite a bit of a language barrier, but the tourists prove terribly bad at guessing Spanish, yet suspicious when some German is used. The couch-bed proves to complicated, even after a demonstration.

Gaston's holiday misery continue as two apartment neighbors turn out to be fellow Antwerp natives, retired and talkative regulars. Anegle is delighted with a female chatter companion, less amused Gaston keeps calling her gullible husband Leo in stead of Theo, but at least he knows enough Spanish to translate with janitor Pedro.

While Theo accompanies their wives and carries their shopping loot, Gaston is dead-set on taking a bath, although the apartment's erratic new plumbing proves a tough nut to crack. Gaston even resorts to 'finding' a tube to transfer water from the tap.

Gaston finally manages to transfer water from the tap to take a bath, albeit in dirty water. He allows a Dutch girl from the neighboring apartment to clean up in his bathroom, which her Hulk-size partner Kees misreads and 'rewards' knocking out one of Gaston's teeth with his mighty fist. Meanwhile lazy Angele fell asleep and suffers major sunburn. Gaston must explain to Pedro, get her to hospital and phone her wickedly mistrusting mother at home.

While sunburned Angele, just released from hospital, is bandaged with cucumber compresses, Gaston follows her insincere advice by going shopping, hoping the loot will cheer her up. Instead she got all worked up over a theory Gaston is 'picking up young girls' packages' and suspicious what happened with Kees and his fiancée. The process to explain costs some more black-eyes.

Gaston hosts a party on his last day in Benidorm, or at least that's what everybody else believes. mainly due to language problems, Pedro's culinary instructions are badly followed. The paella is saved in time, but the sangria gets spiked to atomic strength. Gaston also invited the Dutch couple to make up, but Theo experiences the dangers of peacemaking and the girls cause another scanty cloths drama.

On the long bus voyage home, Gaston starts dreaming and recalling happy beach (girl) memories, but Angele keeps nagging, wining, punching his arm and even makes an embarrassing scene. She forgets her purse with the house keys in the taxi, so they must try to break-in at home and seek help from neighbor Tuur in the pouring rain. Gaston ends up breaking his foot.

Gaston bravely bits his broken foot-pain while cleaning up the basement mess and doing some repairs with Tuur. They exchanges views and advice on (their) women, work, customers, bosses, health worries etcetera. Sneeky booze brings some comfort.

Initially unsuspecting Gaston and 'whipped' Tuur grudgingly try cleaning up the basement, which their ever-nagging wives want transformed into a sauna and other wellness room. However when Gaston's boss Karel, the banker, drops by, he proves most interested in the many empty bottles of exclusive French wine lying around. Tuur overcomes Gaston's doubts and conscience hiccups against filling them up with Tuur's home-brewed junk to sell as the expensive real deal since Karel accidentally tasted and loved it.

Gaston keeps doubting Tuur's plan, but gullible Karel proves it's likely to pay off well. Even Gaston's anger the women make them slave on sauna and other expensive nonsense is overcome when Karel proves prepared to pay extra just to speed things up. Anyhow, the wives starved them sexually while dropping food to keep them hungry, so once the promise of of profit swings their mood it's kiss-up and bed party time again.

Gaston and Tuur delight their wives when the recreation basement is finished. They also want them occupied so they can pull off the wine scam. Banker Karel falls for it, but also gets drunk and touches Angele, so Gaston spills the beans and offers to return his check, but he prefers to go along with what still constitutes a mighty prank to pull on socialite friends. Grandma sends news from Spain: she managed to buy Gaston's Benidorm apartment for him, but also bought the neighboring one for herself.

Gaston and Tuur reconsider the effects of owing a one-room Benidorm apartment and consider converting it more luxuriously. The mentally instable gynecologist sides with a female conspiracy to spoil expectant Angela rotten entirely at Gaston's expense. Meanwhile mother in law has a blast house-warming her acquisition in Benidorm with Theo, Pedro, Kees and lover-nearly-her-age Jesus.

Gaston is getting desperate, flat-out trying to do his lazy pregnant wife's housework without any appreciation. Gaston takes Mr. Karel fishing to tell him he's on paternity leave. He gets too gloomy to pursue the Benidorm remodeling project, but Tuur promises he can sell it to their wives. The boys decide to get the in the mood by offering a paella dinner. It seems to go wrong, as Gaston is even told he's less helpful then bothersome, so he should ask his mother-in-law to return from Spain and move in.

Gaston and Tuur get their ride to Spain from gay hairdresser Jean. Instead of enjoying the trip trough France, they take offense at their host's inseparable dog. Tuur even convinces Gaston they might be invited as cannibalistic kibble. They end up declining to join Jean in the restaurant, eating stale sandwiches in canine company.

Still afraid of barber Jean's harmless dog, Gaston and Tuur decide to sleep outside the mobilehome, even if the wives only packed half of their tent, no sleeping bag. So when Jean returns, too drunk to remember his passengers, he sleeps off his hangover and starts the vehicle in the morning, ignoring that leaves them outside without most of their luggage, so they helplessly roam the French countryside, ignoring where exactly.

Gaston and Tuur get a ride to the Spanish border from Gretchen, a huge female German trucker. Her gross attitude at a road café makes them worry about the frogs' reaction, but it turns out the real problem is her getting drunk. Barber jean thinks the boys stole his bike, but still has their luggage. Back home, the lazy wives meanly scare visiting Mr. Karel, who mistakes the maternity practice doll for a real baby. In Spain, ma-in-law mistakes womanizer Jesus for his brother, janitor Pedro.

Gaston and Tuur have reached the Spanish border but took too long to take a leak by Gretchen's taste, so she dumps most of their stuff and takes off without them. After perilous lifting they reach Benidorm. Gaston is relieved to meet Pedro and hear the hotel is nearly finished. But in ma-in-law's three day absence to visit Granada, upside-down apartment numbers caused workmen to clean out Gaston's by mistake. Pedro's twin Jesus ends up scaring Gaston and Tuur.

Gaston and Tuur now fear and hide for Pedro and his twin Jesus, whom they believe to be thieves. Gaston up scaring Gaston and Tuur. Gaston even cross-dresses to sneak out and report them to the police, but messes up explaining in Spanish so he's nearly arrested. He also calls home, where the lazy wives even go to the funfair, only to be scared by Theo, whom Gaston pretended to be in Benidorm with him.

Robbed, penniless after their last cash is snatched by scooter bitches, without ID or a place to sleep, Gaston and Tuur are miserable in Benidorm, reduced to busking. Pedro sneakily reports to ma-in-law that's mission accomplished. Home in Antwerp, the lazy wives get a visit from lonely Mr. Karel who wouldn't celebrate his birthday alone. A visit from Theo, whom Gaston pretends to be with in Spain, again when he finally calls home, starts wild speculations.

Gaston and Tuur are determined to continue the apartment renovation, even if they have no tools, cash or place to sleep. They look ID to get help from police or bank. Gaston thinks up a dodgy way to raise cash. Pedro hears ma-in-law is return to enjoy their misery. Home in Antwerp, Germaine tries to prevent Angela committing irreversible mistakes.

Gaston and Tuur's plan to earn cash in a restaurant doesn't work out, but they meet Kees's wife and her colleague, who work as customer lures and let them sleep in their apartment during their night shift. Jealous Kees's early arrival nearly means another rounds of beatings and blue eyes, but then mother-in-law's return distracts him. Home in Antwerp, attempts to dissuade Angèle from checking up on Gaston are ceased and Mr. Karel offers to take her entire gang to Benidorm by private airplane.

Gaston and Tuur explain why they are found with Kees's wife and her colleague, who later get locked up in the bathroom. Jean arrives with their lost luggage, but is furious to hear Tuur wrecked his brand new bicycle. Mr. Karel's private airplane pilot makes an eventful flight to Benidorm via Germany.

Gaston and Tuur's story has won over Kees to their desperate case. To help them out financially, they are made the stars of the Dutch trio's latest video production, as Benirdorm gangsters. The smoke machine and some unexpected arrivals still cause of lot of misery, but at least Gaston ends up reunited with his wife, who starts labor early due to all the excitement.

Gaston and his wife are reunited and reconciled by the birth of their baby. Mr. Karel treats the whole bunch to a champagne dinner in a Chinese restaurant. Tuur and the others finally managed to renovate the apartment, just in time for Gaston's newly extended family.