My Family and I - Season 1

First aired: 11/27/2000 33 episodes
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Episodes

1. Episode 1

Aired: 11/27/2000

When Laila tells Olfat that she saw her husband Mouti with the secretary and the lawyer, she thinks that he had married the secretary over her, then she discovers that he took her gold, and that he did not marry but is bankrupt.

2. Episode 2

Aired: 11/28/2000

Mouti tells Olfat that after he imported meat, a decision was made not to import meat because of mad cow disease. Olfat refuses to sell the real estate in her name, then tells him that she sold it after she discovered that Ramy, Fadwa, and Talal have been failing school.

3. Episode 3

Aired: 11/29/2000

Mouti fails to borrow money from his friends and relatives, then the misfortunes follow with the coming of the high electricity and supermarket bills. Mouti starts to economize with electricity, phone and food. Things get even worse, when Fadwa's fiancé is invited to dinner with his family.

4. Episode 4

Aired: 11/30/2000

Mouti is upset that Fadwa's fiancé and his family invited themselves; he asks Olfat not to spend too much money on the dinner but she doesn't listen. After they arrange everything, Sou'ad apologizes for not coming.

5. Episode 5

Aired: 12/1/2000

When Adiba advises Olfat to enlist Umm Bassam's help after she told her that what is happening to them could be related to black magic, Mouti advises Olfat not to waste their money on this nonsense, then he discovers that Umm Bassam burned his shirt with his money in it.

6. Episode 6

Aired: 12/2/2000

When Mouti refuses to let Ramy and Fadwa go to a party, because he doubts that they are not invited and have money, Ramy resorts to putting sleeping pills in the coffee to Mouti, Olfat, and Adiba. When they all fall asleep, Ramy and Fadwa go the party.

7. Episode 7

Aired: 12/3/2000

Mouti is upset when Khalil pays the utility bills; Adiba buys fruit for Mouti and his family. He agrees to let her work at home to pluck off mulukhiyah for a vendor in exchange for money; Mouti asks her that his family work with her.

8. Episode 8

Aired: 12/4/2000

Adiba brings many kinds of vegetables to work on with Mouti's family and they earn money. But when their neighbors complain that there is a leak coming from Mouti's kitchen, they had to throw the vegetables from the window so that the neighbors would not know about what they do.

9. Episode 9

Aired: 12/5/2000

The vegetable seller takes Mouti's bedroom in exchange for the vegetables that Olfat threw. Mouti learns of Ramy's plan to make his friend pose as a thief to rob them. But when a real thief comes, Mouti confronts him and thinks that the gun he has in not real, until he gets shot in the foot.

10. Episode 10

Aired: 12/6/2000

When Mouti asks Adiba to sell the chocolate that people brought during their visit, she decides to wrap sweets at home. When Farida's husband comes to reprimand Olfat for causing his divorce with his wife, Fadwa accidentally spoils the sweets with water because it was in the bathroom.

11. Episode 11

Aired: 12/7/2000

Mouti asks his family to monitor the neighbors and collect information about them. He begins to put a stethoscope on the walls to listen to the neighbors. After he collects many secrets about them, he delivers it to the security services, only to discover that all the neighbors are working for them.

12. Episode 12

Aired: 12/8/2000

When Mouti learns about the total eclipse, he and his family start making glasses so that people could see the eclipse. He makes Khalil sell the glasses to stores, but the police arrests him and Khalil.

13. Episode 13

Aired: 12/9/2000

Ramy convinces his mother that she needs a weight loss operation because of her weight gain, so she sells some of her gold for the operation and buys a cell phone. After Ramy and Fadwa go out, Mouti comes back and discoveres the mobile phone.

14. Episode 14

Aired: 12/10/2000

Adiba tells Mouti that the neighbors want her to babysit their children while they travel to France, so when Adiba and his family look after the children, Ramy steals the gold of a child, which made the neighbors not ask her to babysit ever again.

15. Episode 15

Aired: 12/11/2000

Khalil and Adiba bring the boxes as Olfat instructed, as if it's a bedroom from Italy, but it turns out to be garbage. After finding out that garbage can be profitable, Mouti starts looking through it with Ramy while putting on a niqab. After he returns, he finds Farida and Umm Nabil.

16. Episode 16

Aired: 12/12/2000

Adiba tells Olfat that she convinced her neighbors that the veiled woman was her mother, while she borrowed a bedroom from Khalil from one of the apartments and made Farida see her. When Mouti wears a policeman's uniform and starts collecting money from people, the police chase him.

17. Episode 17

Aired: 12/13/2000

Mouti tells his family how he escaped from the police; Olfat continues to sign promissory notes for Khalil. When Mouti knows about Abu Khaled's series, he, Ramy and Fawda begin to write their own series. Mouti takes the series to production companies.

18. Episode 18

Aired: 12/14/2000

Mouti recounts to Olfat being beaten by Salloum Haddad after working as a stunt man for a production company. Adiba returns home after being held in police custody for robbing the sweets seller, after someone said he married her.

19. Episode 19

Aired: 12/15/2000

When Adiba recounts stories of the women who were with her in prison, Mouti has an idea to bring eggs and sit on them until they hatch. But when the eggs begin to hatch, Ramy starts acting like a chicken.

20. Episode 20

Aired: 12/16/2000

The doctor says that Ramy has a psychological complex because of the chickens. When Mouti and Khalil agree to bring the carpets from the neighboring buildings to wash them, they start earning money, until Ramy cuts two of them with a knife.

21. Episode 21

Aired: 12/17/2000

Mouti sells the washing machine and the microwave to pay for the ruined carpets. He begins to give private lessons with Olfat, but the kids' parents scold him after their children get low grades because Adiba makes them cook and wash dishes.

22. Episode 22

Aired: 12/18/2000

Mouti decides to disguise himself as a woman who reads the cup and make witchcraft to the women after he finds them anxious for that. All the women of the building ask for his services, even his wife. But when the husbands of the women come to expel this impostor, Olfat finds out that it's Mouti.

23. Episode 23

Aired: 12/19/2000

Mouti tells his family about what he told the women after he read the book of black magic. Khalil brings tourists to Mouti and asks him to accompany them for money. After he earns a lot from them, he is surprised that they left the building after borrowing a large sum from him without signing anything.

24. Episode 24

Aired: 12/20/2000

Mouti reports to the police what happened and it turns out that the tourists were frauds. Mouti holds a fake funeral for his uncle, who lives in Brazil, in order to ditch the dinner for Fadwa's fiancé and his family, but at the end of the funeral, some men tell Mouti that his uncle owed them money.

25. Episode 25

Aired: 12/21/2000

When Ramy returns home after a long delay with a man named Abu Shankal, he asks his family to let him stay because the police are looking for him. Mouti befriends Abu Shankal, and decides to rob an apartment to help him out, until the police catch Mouti and Olfat with the stolen items.

26. Episode 26

Aired: 12/22/2000

Adiba refuses to go to work at Farida, because she insulted Olfat and her husband. Ramy wants to sell something from the house, but Fadwa ties him up with Adiba, and sells his bedroom and buys clothes for herself. Abu Shankal confesses to the police that he's the thief.

27. Episode 27

Aired: 12/23/2000

After Mouti and Olfat are released from prison, Abu Salem files a report against Mouti for being injured. Mouti decides to sell something from the house to pay for the examination expenses, while Olfat slaughters two sheep to cover up for going to jail.

28. Episode 28

Aired: 12/24/2000

Mouti sells the dining room; Adiba gets divorced from the sweets dealer after Abu Yamen intervenes. Mouti asks Khalil to intercede for him with Abu Yamen on the issue of the meat he imported. Mouti, his family, and Adiba embroider dresses, for Khalil's wife, but they mess things up.

29. Episode 29

Aired: 12/25/2000

When Umm Nabil gives her birds to Olfat to look after them while she's away, Mouti buys many birds to trade in. Olfat gets annoyed by the sound of birds chirping, Ramy gets sick of sneezing, so Olfat gives all the birds to Umm Nabil.

30. Episode 30

Aired: 12/26/2000

Mouti and Olfat have a big fight following the birds incident. A friendship develops between Olfat and Umm Yamen; Olfat begins to get commissions by helping facilitate requests that are submitted to Abu Yamen. Olfat asks for a commission from Mouti to help him release the meat.

31. Episode 31

Aired: 12/27/2000

Olfat asks Mouti to sign a bond with 10 million pounds to give him the meat document that she has; she takes money from the meat merchants and buys real estate with them. Mouti finds out that the meat had spoiled.

32. Episode 32

Aired: 12/28/2000

Due to Olfat's preoccupation, Farida develops a friendship with Umm Yamen who meditated for her husband to get out of prison. The meat merchants demand their money back from Olfat, then Khalil comes with 7 million pounds to buy half of the apartment.

33. Episode 33

Aired: 12/29/2000

Khalil asks Mouti to take another room for Adiba and his kids, since he now owns half the apartment. Mouti makes Olfat write him a procuration for everything. He persuades Khalil to write half of the apartment to Adiba, then he marries Adiba.