Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses (1981)

3 corrected entries in season 4

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Sleeping Dogs Lie - S4-E5

Corrected entry: Duke never ate the pork, rendering the whole episode pointless. All he'd been eating was tins of dog food, as Rodney was about to tell the Vet when Del interrupted him.

gazz007

Correction: Del lies about what Duke was eating to the vet in case it got back to Boycie. And later in the episode it's revealed that Rodney had given Duke Albert's sleeping pills.

Ssiscool

Correction: Earlier in the vets while they were watching the receptionist, Del and Rodney mentioned Duke still had the 'warmed up leftovers' of the pork, so he did eat it.

To Hull and Back - S4-E8

Corrected entry: When Abdul worries that Del, Rodney and Albert have sunk, Boycie says, "Don't worry, they've got their uncle Albert with them". How does Boycie know this? Del said in the back of Denzel's lorry that it was just him and Rodney and that they were going by plane and that was the last time they spoke to each other, so there was no other way of knowing.

Joe Mc

Correction: The events after the meeting are not shown in real time. There is ample time for Del to call Boycie and tell him the plan. They must have had some further contact after that meeting to set up all the arrangements for Amsterdam.

SoylentPurple

Correction: Boycey mentions speaking to Del since the collection.

To Hull and Back - S4-E8

Corrected entry: Albert says that the navy never taught him navigation because he was a boiler maintenance man. But, on other occasions, he has reminisced about times when he was at the wheel, which seems like an odd position for a boiler maintenance man.

Correction: It's not really a plot hole, just all part of the comedy. If Albert was not taught navigation then that is probably why all the ships he sailed on sank! We don't ask why he was at the wheel.

James Ransford

The Jolly Boys' Outing - S6-E7

Continuity mistake: In 'The Unlucky Winner Is' (which is set before Rodney and Cassandra marry) Del changes Rodney's date of birth to 2nd November 1974 in order to make him appear 14, meaning this episode is set sometime between November 1988 and November 1989. However, in this episode, which takes place after Rodney and Cassandra have been married a whole year, a sign in the window of the coach (which can be seen just as the coach is leaving the police station) states that this episode takes place in 1989, and it is on a Bank Holiday weekend, thus can be no later than August 1989.

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Modern Men - S8-E2

Mike: Well?
Trigger: Well what?
Mike: What are they naming the baby?
Trigger: If it's a girl, they're calling her Sigourney, after an actress. And if it's a boy, they're calling him Rodney, after Dave.

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Trivia: The story behind why Trigger calls Rodney Dave is that apparently Roger Lloyd Pack kept getting names mixed up during rehearsals early on in the show's history. "Dave" came from David Jason when he was actually with Nicholas Lyndhurst [Rodney]. It stuck and quickly became part of the show's immense appeal.

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Chosen answer: An apparent long string of illnesses.

Answer: Joan Mavis Trotter (Nee Hollins) was an unseen character in Only Fools And Horses, having died in 1964, 17 years before the series began. She died of an alcohol related illness due to both her sham marriage to Reg Trotter and being hit hard by the death of her secret lover Freddie "The Frog" Robdal.

Ssiscool

Her maiden name was not 'Hollins'; that is the name of somebody "Auntie Rose" mentioned when the Trotters believed they were staying with their auntie, but it turned out she was completely unknown to them.

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