The 15 times I had to laugh out loud at De Luizenmoeder
What must teacher Ank have been pleased to look at her (viewing figures) report this morning. Four million people crawled onto the couch for the second season of De Luizenmoeder. FOUR MILLION. Let's see who among the 3,999,999 also had to laugh out loud at these 15 situations in De Luizenmoeder. ACHMED.
1. Anton spent the vacation with his mother in England productively. This year, the ‘unique selling points’ of primary school De Klimop are focused on ‘Safety First’. Including the VOG mentality, and that includes a fire drill.
2. That face of teacher Ank when asked if she can take Isa into account, who just returned from vacation yesterday. ‘Heavy, six weeks on vacation far away to an expensive, warm, and exotic country and the next day you suddenly find yourself back among all your best friends. That must be tough.’
3. Curling parents, as far as I'm concerned, the word of 2019.
4. Teacher Helma is back this season too. Smoking a cigarette out of the window. Because the kids aged 12 will also start doing that themselves from now on. Gold.
5. ESHma and ACHmed. Breaking down. ‘I've been hammering the throat sound for six weeks, so I need to switch gears.’
6. Nancy. A statue for Nancy and for that hippie feather extension. She has grown enormously after a beautiful trip through Soest (because it's not about the destination but about the journey itself). And then Anton: ‘Yeah, I could tell just by looking at you. You've just let it all hang out nicely for a while.’
7. Well, Nancy can let the alarm go off at 11:00 because that fire drill is going to happen. Concierge Volkert explains it briefly. But not too forcefully, please.
8. ‘You take the key, plug a green plug into a blue hole, then press one button and after five seconds the other button too, then you take the key again and turn it a quarter turn to the left. But only if it feels right, okay, Nancy. Namasté.’
9. That fire alarm never went off, of course. So then Nancy gets to do something I would like to do every day: play the fire alarm herself.
10. And this season again the delightful songs from teacher Ank: ‘Fire, fire, fire, nothing wrong.’
11. Or that moment when Achmed from group four knows what simulation means.
12. Two minutes to three, Volkert finally sets off the fire alarm and Karel, still recovering from the bomb threat in Dresden, jumps on Amir. Something with a never-unlearned primal reflex.
13. ‘WE GOT HIM.’
14. And then Kim criticizing Amir's djellaba while she herself is sitting next to him in exactly the same liver-colored tunic.
15. ‘Ah, no, is it already over?’ four million people said in chorus last night. Episode two. I can't wait.
