All language subtitles for Only Fools and Horses s01e04

Stick a pony in me pocket.

I'll fetch the suitcase from the bank.

Cause if you are the bestest, but you
don't ask questions, then brother, I'm

your man.

Cause where it all comes from is a
mystery.

It's like the changing of the seasons
and the tides of the sea. But here's the

one who's driving me berserk.

Why do...

You're always watching, eh?

Only Fools and Horses is one of
Britain's most loved shows on TV.

Lovely jubbly. 64 episodes were made
between 1981 and 2003, and it's still

watched and laughed at by millions of us
every week. What are you doing?

I'm trying to get the Dukes of Hazzard.

With every line written by just one man.

The success of Fools and Horses can be
summed up with two words, and it's John

Sullivan. The story of Derek Trotter's
life is the story of John Sullivan's

creative genius.

I don't think anybody really touches
John, but being able to make you laugh.

And being able to make you cry.

The time next year.

I'll be a millionaire.

Celebrating the wonderful comedy world
of John Sullivan.

We'll be getting the inside story on the
Trotters from the hoarders now.

I was nearly fired because of that
scene.

Oi! I said to John, you can't use this.

Come on, get him off!

We've also recreated some of the fest,
reunited cast members, and have talked

some of the show's most famous fans.

One of the incredible things about Fools
and Horses is that you could grow up

watching it. I can't remember a time
before I watched Only Fools and Horses.

It's really, really, really the best.

Over the next hour, we'll be taking a
tour around Peckham. All right, Dave?

And beyond.

Let's pretend we're Dutchmen, all right?

Hiya!

We'll also find out what happens when
some classic Only Fools moments are

overseas.

So sit back and enjoy the definitive
story of Only Fools and Horses, the show

which has given us some of the most
memorable moments in British comedy.

Of course, that's just comedy. I mean,
it doesn't really happen in real life.

It's not supposed to happen in real
life.

Grandad?

Still hasn't got it right.

We live in London, one of the better
parts of London.

Yeah, Peckham.

First off, Peckham is a funny word to
say, Peckham. Peckham.

Peckham is just, it's easy to remember.

Peckham? I've never been to Peckham in
my life.

That's all I really know about Peckham
is that it's a great name.

Peckham for this group of people is
intrinsic to the whole thing because of

market stalls, because of the high -rise
flats.

You know, Peckham summed up a level of
people who are trying to improve their

lot. We live half a mile up in the sky
in this Lego set built by the council.

We run a three -wheel van with a bald
tyre. We drink in wine bars. The only

thing that's got a vintage is the
governor's wife.

That's why I want to grab this
opportunity with both hands, Rodney. I

Dagenham, which isn't a million miles
away from Peckham. It totally seemed

Oi, you little git!

It was exactly what my life and how I'd
known life up until that point was like.

The old Kemp Road, the cheapest in the
Monopoly board, divides where I grew up,

Bermondsey and Deptford, from Peckham,
over here.

And we used to... We had nothing in
South London. It was as working -class

area as you can imagine.

But we used to make jokes about Peckham
then. No, if you don't have a girl from

Peckham, yeah, she must be nice.

Girl, look at the state of her, eh? Eh?
What?

I think P .O. wrinkles from here.

All right, all right.

Got a face like a bulldog chewing a
wasp, doesn't she?

All right, go on.

You're going to have the best one. That
is the best one.

John Sullivan grew up in Ballam, South
London, a living inspiration for the

characters and storylines he created.

The street I live in is one of those
streets filled with characters.

I think anywhere you go in the country,
when you castle Liverpool, when you get

this kind of ghetto...

..type streets, you do get these
wonderful characters and incidents that

fill you. You don't realise quite how
colourful they are.

I had a fight with five blokes last
night.

What was it, a pillow fight?

I was out in the real pubs, the South
London pubs, and the kind of discos and

things that were all around then in, you
know, in the 70s, 75s.

I just wanted to try and bring in the
real characters that were actually

out there in the pubs and streets now,
at this particular time.

Inevitable, then, that the Nagthead
would become the heart of activity for

Trotters' friends and family.

In every community, the pub where
everybody goes is, yeah, key, key,

think. Congratulations,

Albert. You're reminding me of the theme
track from Noddy the Movie.

I don't know how much pubs are still the
centre of a community in the way that

the Nags Head is in Only Fools and
Horses. I guess they are still to an

but when it started, I think that was
still very much true.

Oh, there's certificates for my beer.
Yeah, I've had a few days off work with

and all.

And they're all very disparate people.

That's the other great thing about pubs,
and still is, I suppose, there's

something of a leveller.

I reckon he can pick up BBC Two on that
air.

John wanted as big an ethnic mix as
possible.

He said, this is the melting pot. The
South London pubs, you'll get every

nationality and religion.

He's a nice bloke, you know that, Ranji.

He took me and Rodney over to Southall
last week. That was holding this Asian

song contest.

Was that right?

Yeah. A bloke called Sing won it.

Real London life wasn't really being
addressed, not in comedies at all. It

still kind of an old -fashioned London.

And there didn't seem to be no kind of
black people in there or anything. If

there were, they'd just summon the
background.

It was the focal point of the show, the
nag said, yes, and of course the device

that a lot of TV shows use to get all
the characters into one place.

One of the jolliest ones I remember was
after Marlene had got her beloved baby

and she's sitting there with all the
photographs of the baby, sewing them

Del does this terrible thing that
anybody could have been the father.

Oh, look at that, I never noticed that.
Mikey's got your mouth, look.

Jack's got your mouth.

That is Rodney's nose, if ever I've seen
that. That's where the series lived, to

me.

Wave goodbye to your daddy.

Creator John Sullivan was insistent that
only fools were set in a real London

borough. with real London characters
talking like real London people.

Say you take your overcoat off and you
put it up on the rack in a pub and you

say, look after my smother for me, Fred,
where's your overcoat? You know what I

mean? And you might have your twirls in
your pocket.

What's that?

A bunch of peas.

I know people that are talking cockney
rhyming slang. Not ironically, not as a

joke.

It's just how they talk.

Well, I thought I might go down and have
a couple of light alts down the nag's

head and then go on to the star of
Bengal for a Ruby Murray.

The fact that language can sort of
connect with you in such a way, I think

just brilliant. And, yeah, you know,
John Sullivan was a master of it, and I

think David Jason's delivery of it was
equally really authentic.

Where do you get this thing?

Well, all over, really. I mean, this
morning I got it in the lift. No, no.

Where? On your body. Oh, right. Get it
in the old New Delhi, don't I?

New Delhi?

Yeah, the belly.

You're not from round these parts, are
you?

There was a lot of rhyming playing which
I didn't get.

He had a line, something along the lines
of, my April would be going like a

moped. Of course, me old April was going
like a moped.

What, what, what? No.

April? April in Paris, Aris, Aristotle,
bottle, bottle and glass.

If a wild lion were to come in here now,
my old April would be pouting like a

good 'un, but I'd stand me ground.

It was John Sullivan Jr.

who put words in that have since become
only called in horses' words.

Lovely jubbly.

Pucker thing, you know, no mucking
about.

Oh, kushti.

They were certainly in the language of
South London.

Kushti was certainly a word in my school
playground.

Oh, don't worry about it. Everything was
going to be kushti. Never heard it on

television. And the first time I heard
that, I thought, hello, this is written

by one of the chaps. This isn't by
committee. This fellow knows what he's

talking about.

And inventing his own version of Cockney
slang meant John Sullivan was able to

slip a few near -the -knuckle phrases
under the BBC censorship radar.

Oh, what a plonker!

Some of those expressions seem innocent
enough, but they did have a much

deeper meaning for us working -class
lads.

Dozy little twunk, Rodney Quinn. I first
saw in the script, Rodney, you are a

plonker. I said to John, you can't use
this.

And he said, well, they passed it.

I said, who? He said, you know, the
powers that be upstairs.

I said, but did they say they knew what
it meant? He said, I don't think they

did. And anyway, I'm not going to tell
them. Are you?

What a 42 -carat plonker you really are.

Coming up, we see that worse things
actually do happen at sea.

Oh, God.

And how the Portuguese Del Boy Trotter
handles the legendary falling through

bar scene.

Oh, no.

Del and Rodney Trotter lived in Peckham
all their lives.

Genuine Italian sonnet.

But every now and again, writer John
Sullivan allowed them to escape rainy

London. Sonnet.

I've booked our olivy.

Here you are, my boy. That's it. There
it is, all in there.

We're going somewhere different. We are
away from the tourists.

Yeah? Where?

Benidorm.

Oh, we thought, great, wonderful.

Well, we're going to get a free trip to
the sunshine.

No,

we're not. We're going to Studland Bay.

We're just outside Poole.

In the early days of Poole's, the
budgets, because it was early days and

weren't necessarily the show that it
was, if John wrote a scene in Spain, he

didn't go to Spain.

I know exactly when it was because it
was the day before my 21st birthday, so

was... April the 19th.

Which is not, you know, balmy by any
means.

There you go, though.

Oh, cheers.

This is the life, eh, Roddy?

We spent our day on the beach trying not
to look too goose -bumpy.

Whilst everybody's there, you see, all
in their great big, you know, jackets

furry boots and gloves and all of that,
and there's me lying on the beach with

nothing on, practically.

Here, Roddy.

Put someone out all on my back, will
you?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry, I thought it
was oil.

Saving the television licence payers
money, which to me was more important

going to Benidorm.

Regardless of it being the breathy
British coast or a beach bar in

Del was always ready to show off his
grasp of exotic languages.

He comes out with these French phrases
with such confidence

and he just makes himself look like a
complete wally.

Bonsoir. Bonjour, monsieur.

Vous restez à l 'hôtel?

De fonce de fumée.

Avec vous, de bonnet?

Del's use of French was typical of the
era where

If you didn't learn a language, didn't
know how to speak the language, you just

pretend. Oh, you speak a bit of French,
don't you?

Well, potage bon fin.

He's trying to impress people that they
won't know what it means either, but

it sounds really cool to speak French.

Garçon, la petit pois.

Oh, parlez -vous français?

Jawohl. Yes.

Well, you can't speak French.

You're still struggling with English.

I remember reading the first script, I
think it said, Del gets his French

phrases from a Renault manual.

I'll get the money off him and give it
to Rodney, and they'll all be res de

chassé, as they say in the Doudouin.

What a stroke of genius to have someone
getting all the French words wrong.

Listen, Trotter, you're not cheating me.

Crue the tail of Platt.

It's so funny, and it continually gets
funny, you know, and then he'll

introduce, John will bring a different
French word in for the next series, and

you think, it's just really clever.

Well, goodbye.

No, no, not goodbye, Margaret.

No, just bonjour.

Pauperie! Pauperie!

Remarkably, John Sullivan wrote all 64
episodes of Only Fools and Horses single

-handedly. And his original scripts are
precious collector's items.

Chairman of the Only Fools Appreciation
Society, Perry Agajanov, has been

collecting material from the show for
nearly 30 years.

And David Jason has joined him to look
through some of the scripts that were

used by the cast and crew.

Well, we've got a little collection of
scripts here. Losing Streak script

Is this an original script?

Yeah, that's John Sullivan's copy,
actually.

Because I've got here some edits
already.

So what they never saw was social
security. Don't you go using words like

to me, Trig.

It's cruel. It's like saying Paxo to a
turkey.

Yeah, some lovely stuff.

This is lovely. Look, Ray, John would
like this back afterwards.

Yeah. John always kept the original,
because anything that was cut, he might

able to rebuild into another script.

Looking at these scripts and the
thickness of them, and then one day,

on your doormat.

Oh. Hull them back.

And the sheer depth of the script, how
did it feel at that time to be taking it

from a 30 -minute slot to, what, an hour
and a half? Yeah.

It was what John and I had been...

angling for for some time because we
were throwing more stuff away than other

good comedies had got in their entire
episode.

They kept saying, no, it's 30 minutes,
it's 30 minutes. Every sitcom is 30

minutes. I had a long discussion with
John Sullivan and we decided that we'd

and put a gun to the head of the light
entertainment department and said that

either they give us more time or...

Basically, John would withdraw his
writing talents.

So, this was it that arrived at last,
something this size, and it was a joy to

behold because we knew that now John was
writing with much more

elbow room.

What a bloody L .M., eh?

How?

How?!

with a plot to rival any Hollywood heist
movie to Hull and Back saw the Trotters

diversify from market trading to diamond
smuggling as they set sail to Amsterdam

for their highest stakes deal to date.
It's such a funny idea and it's so in

character of Uncle Albert with all his
tales, seafaring tales, he's finally

tested. Right!

Quite a bit. You mean Starboard. I mean
right. Don't start all that Captain

Bird's eye, bloody cobblers.

We had to go out to the gas rigs, and
after about four hours, there were

two actors and the make -up department
left who weren't seasick.

They're sick now.

What? I'll leave without you, tart.

We've only just started.

You could not believe what was coming
off the side of this boat.

Oh, God.

Buster, I'm afraid, played a very good
filthy sea dog, but unfortunately in

life, it wasn't the case at all.

Oi!

Oi! John!

Holland!

What? Which way to Holland?

Holland?

It's over there!

Cheers, pal!

The day before, we flew out to the rig.

to have a look at the shots and what we
could use.

And somebody on the rig said, so what
are you doing?

And we told them, the gag is that we go
out to the rig and say, well, you're

right for Holland.

So that's funny, isn't it?

And this guy went, well, that happens
quite often, actually.

Rodney, see?

Don't know the way, you just got asked
someone, ain't you?

Bye.

Coming up, we discover how a shoot
across the pond put the frightness up

cast and crew.

Stick up its mouth and see what it does.

And why John Chalice was left on his own
to entertain the Serbian nation live on

television. That was a moment.

In the 64 episodes of Only Fools and
Horses, we get to see a variety of

Peckham's glamorous hotspots.

The waste disposal plant.

Oh, you said it was open 24 hours a day?

Yeah, but not at night.

The graveyard.

Oh, it's gone quick, Rodney, dead after
eight. Even the local supermarket.

John Sullivan would grab every
opportunity to get the Trotters out of

and into the real world.

Whenever you see them step outside, you
know, Nelson Mandela House, or they're

not in the nag's head, as you watch it,
you're going, yes!

You're going, this is going to be great!

You can

imagine the suits at the BBC saying,

so sorry, what, there's a gunman and a
hostage and it's a sitcom.

Really?

Ain't I seen you somewhere before? No,
no, no, no, no, no. I ain't been

before, have I, Rodney?

No, no, no. You spoke at home all the
time.

Before I did the show, it was one of my
favourite comedy shows.

And I knew it could grab, like, a 17
million audience.

And I knew I had a job on my hands.

Do you remember the Scarlet Pimpernel?

It weren't you, is it?

But I'm like him. That was a real onion
of an episode, I thought, because the

three main characters, for want of a
better expression, are very neatly

sidelined just to be part of the device
of an overall plan of someone else's.

They seek him out.

They seek him there.

Those policemen seek him everywhere.

Is he in heaven or is he in hell?

That damn elusive shadow.

It was Nicholas Lindhurst who said to
me, why don't you say sha -a -do?

Do it like that. Sha -a -do.

So thanks, Nick.

After a stressful night, and with the
sha -a -do asleep, it was time for

to take matters into his own hands.

I call it the Sullivan rug pull.

Just when you think you know exactly
what's going to happen, he just goes,

wrong, I'm going to do this instead.

You palonka!

Besides the nagged head, one of Del and
Rodney's other regular haunts was Sid's

calf, though with its deplorable hygiene
standards.

brusque service and questionable grub,
viewers may have wondered why they even

went there in the first place.

What are you talking about?

Why did they go to Sid's Calf?

Well, it's close.

It's close by and it's run by a mate.

Every workman in the entire country has
got a Sid's Calf.

There's a hare in this.

Is there?

There's another one.

That's disgusting, that is, Sid. If the
health authorities saw this, they'd

close you down.

I've been closed down for a lot worse
than that, Denzel.

I think that's politically correct,
people. Yeah.

What do you have, Intrigue?

I'll try some of that porridge.

That was the fun of it. Taking every
classic greasy spoon that you'd ever had

your life and putting it all together in
Sid's calf.

Thank you, Sid. That was...

Horrible, as usual.

Cheers, Dale.

While only fools and horses brought
Peckham into the national consciousness,

was in fact filmed primarily in Acton,
West London.

I'm going to make you a rich dental!

12 miles from Peckham, but on the
doorstep of BBC Television Centre.

Sorry, Dewey, the Lord's work's called.

Filming in London.

They just took no prisoners. They would
just stop the shoot.

People would come by and go, I was
actually convinced

that these people were going home and
going back into the house and say,

darling. Do you know what?

I saw Dallin Rodney down the market this
morning.

Not I saw David Jason and Nick Lenders
filming.

Fools and horses.

No, I saw Dell and Rodney down the
market.

Yeah, we were now so embedded in the
psyche of everybody that we were real.

Yeah, exactly.

Away you go, everyone, everyone, go on
before you get your collars felt. Go on,

away you go. We were getting more and
more popular as the series went on.

And with that popularity, filming was
becoming more and more difficult.

The press were getting more and more
interested in what we were doing. So we

were always on the lookout for
paparazzi.

So it was decided we should try to get
out of London, and I went around looking

for somewhere to go and landed on
Bristol.

But such was the popularity of the show
when production moved to Bristol, so did

the press. And in 1996, when filming the
Christmas Day special, the paparazzi

were there en masse to get the scoop on
the show's big comedy reveal.

I'm not getting out dressed like this.
And they sent a trainload of press

people. And what they wanted was
obviously the shot of you as Batman and

Yes. And it was just such a spoiler.

Yeah. So when they were filming, David
and Nick were kept hidden to the very

last minute and then some of the lights
were turned on photographers because

there were photographers there and to
stop them getting the images.

We had this sort of like sweet spot.

When the pub shut and before the club
turfed out at about four o 'clock in the

morning, that was the time where we
could shoot.

Said, right, David, Nick, out the
camera, run!

Back in the thing. Doubles.

So nobody could take the photograph. And
they never, ever got the photograph.

You tart, Rodney.

We cut to a foot coming out.

And it was either with the blue boots.
That's it. And we came off.

And then...

Nick Lidger's coming out like, the
thinnest Robin you've ever seen in your

And the whole place went bonkers.

Will you get back inside the van?

I don't want people seeing you dressed
like that.

I like volley.

I don't know if you remember it, but
every time Nick started to speak, I

to laugh.

And then when I started to speak, Nick
would start laughing.

Do you know, we could be there in five
minutes, if we ran.

We'll be seen.

But when you look at someone dressed
like a loony trying to be serious, we

couldn't, we kept breaking up and it
took you ages to get it. I'm sure, I'm

sure. What's happening?

I just died here.

You're watching two of your friendly,
lovable rogues doing something even more

ridiculous than you'd ever imagined.

You may remember me. I wrote to you some
time ago about... Bill!

Let's go!

Sorry, my stack.

Harry died yesterday.

Harry died.

The only Fools and Horses feature
-length episodes had bigger

storylines with bigger budgets to match,
often allowing John Sullivan to get the

Trotters out of Peckham and into the
wider world.

Look out, Margate, and look up your
daughters, eh?

All right, Ellen?

I always felt when they went away, I was
always on the end of the telephone.

Oh, was I?

So I'd just be brought in for a day to
go, oh, good, I'm glad you're having a

good time. Put the phone down.

Unfortunately for Gwyneth and Tessa,
Cassandra and Raquel were also left at

when John Sullivan came up with a
storyline in one of the most glamorous

locations you'd ever expect to see a BBC
comedy.

Miami.

Miami. It was fantastic because none of
us were known in America at all. So we

had a fine time. We could go out to
restaurants together and not have the

traffic stopping in the street and all
the pictures and all that sort of thing.

That was lovely.

This feature -length episode had David
Jason playing Del Boy Trotter and his

mafia Don Doppelganger, Vincenzo
Occhetti.

Somewhere out there lies the answer to
my problem.

When the mob realise Del is a perfect
lookalike, They try to kill him off in

front of witnesses so that the FBI think
it's the Don who is sleeping with the

fishes. People always seem to like me
and I just don't know why.

Well, maybe we all didn't know.

When we went to Miami, we had a lot of
American actors who didn't know the

Oh, my God.

Somebody call an ambulance.

Is he dead?

No, but it was bloody close, Rico.

They watched the show and they could not
understand why the show had not gone to

America. They used to wander around the
set going, lovely jubbly.

Joe Boy got himself in and out of a
number of scrapes in Miami, including

escaping from a first -story window and
a ride on a high -powered jet ski.

But unlike Don Vincenzo Occhetti, David
Jason had no double to do the stunts for

him. And this is the throttle.

You said, just keep going, and I'll tell
you when we cut.

What you didn't realise was when you're
sitting on a jet ski

with the water and it going full power,
there's an awful lot of noise.

And he there, he goes, and cut.

And cut!

Hey, cut!

He shouted. I couldn't hear him at all.
I'm still going.

And the support boat, which we had to
keep up with, couldn't keep up with him.

David was literally halfway to Cuba.

And it wasn't only Dale who had to do
his own stunts. Well, when I first read

the script...

and they said Dell and Rodney are
sitting on a log and an alligator comes

between them.

My first reaction was, well, it won't be
real, because the BBC wouldn't do that.

Yeah, yeah, they would.

Down on the ground looking up was John
Rhodes with a camera, and eventually the

handler took a stick and went straight
up the backside of his alligator.

The alligator turns and goes...

Like that.

John Rhodes ended 100 metres down the
road.

God, Andy.

He left the camera running, thank God.

I want a crocodile.

I know a crocodile and I can't face to
face with one. I've seen enough Tarzan

films.

Some of the stuff that the actors have
to put up with, honestly, real live

alligators ready to eat them.

Oh, but you producers and directors are
saying, stick up its bum, see what it

does. It'll be all right. We're insured.

And the local wildlife weren't the only
predators to watch out for. A few days

into filming... Producer Gareth
Gwendolyn found himself in a row with

unions off -screen in a plot similar to
what was happening on -screen.

We are in deep, deep shtook.

This is mafia country.

We'd never heard of the Teamsters. We
were so naive, you know. And, of course,

they came along one day and said, you
can't do this, you've got to have some

more of our staff.

And Gareth said, excuse me, we're the
BBC.

And Gareth ended up in this team's
office with a 20 -stone guy with a cigar

a leopard -skinned armchair sitting
there. And Gareth went in and said, you

know, normal thing, excuse me, I don't
care what you say. And this guy just

looked at him and said, I tell you what,
I don't give a... You can just go home

if you don't want to go and do this.

And Gareth decided that the BBC...

way of doing things possibly wasn't
going to work at this game. So he came

very sheepish, going, don't worry, I
think I've sorted it. Just get a few

staff.

You palonka!

After the break, we'll see how Boise
danced for the Serbian nation and how

Trotters were lost in translation.

Only Fools and Horses is the most
watched show in British TV history.

But it isn't just British viewers who
have laughed and cried at the exploits

Dale and Co.

I am constantly surprised at how far
this comedy show has reached.

I walked into a pub once and this guy
said, you Mickey, Mickey Pierce.

He said, we Sarajevo.

Bombs, mortars come in the basement.

Looking fools and horses laughing.

I did a show many years ago about
chimpanzees and we were hacking through

jungle somewhere in northern Uganda and
we heard pangas and machetes coming the

other way and one of them just hacked
past me and didn't even...

Bat an eyelid and went, all right, Dave,
and just hacked on in the opposite

direction.

The only full stars are known all over
the world and have appeared in the

unlikeliest of places.

John Chalice even had this memorable
encounter with Serbia's answer to Graham

Norton. My whole life story for two and
a half thousand dinars.

That is a very good deal. What started
off as a personal appearance to plug

of his autobiographies soon took a turn
for the surreal. The presenter suddenly

had some sort of heart flutter or
something and suddenly had to go and get

medical treatment, leaving me alone with
this audience in a television studio in

Belgrade.

What do you do?

I don't know if you speak the language,
you know.

Unable to speak but a few words of
Serbian, John Chalice had no option but

resort to the universal language of dad
dancing.

That was a

moment.

Only fools is so popular abroad, some
countries have even made their own

versions.

I love

things

like this.

Roughly translated, Slovenia gave us
brother to brother.

It's rather good, isn't it?

Spent more on the credit than we did.

The duck churned out what's it worth.

Oh, we got a dog in it now.

And the Portuguese produced Furo Vida, a
local expression for someone living

outside the law.

Little stale boy. That stale boy looking
like Boise.

No.

Granddad appears to be universal.

At least they get four wheels on that,
then.

Various countries all adapted the
original scripts.

You know what's coming here, don't you?

Which made for some instantly
recognisable, yet strikingly different

Even Del's faux French was given an
interesting linguistic spin by his

counterpart.

Where are you from?

From, from, yeah, from.

From, who from?

See you later.

Thank you.

The ultimate test for the foreign
remakes are in recreating the show's

iconic scenes.

Who's meant to be Dolboy?

Oh, there's your brace yourself.

Yeah.

That's pretty close, isn't it? That is
hilarious.

It works.

They copied that shot well, didn't they?
Yeah.

Yeah, well done.

Well done.

Tick VG.

It's universal, isn't it, a physical
comedy?

That is very, very funny in any language
in the world, because the wrong

chandelier falls.

So it's fantastic.

Yeah, and that lovely build -up, shot
for shot. And also, well, they had to

shoot that exactly the same, so that
works. They just have to do it the way

did it, otherwise it's not very funny.

But it's not always quite such a
flattering imitation.

Interesting they're doing it drunk.

I wonder why.

Oh,

no.

Nearly. Nearly worked.

Yeah, it's not quite the trigger turn,
is it?

He's doing funny walks now, and he's
putting a joke on a joke.

It's almost a different scene. It's
about something else. It's not about the

falling through the bar.

It's about being very drunk.

It's about, yeah, sort of the chaos is
there, where in the other one they're

very organised, they're very still, and
then that happens.

So, yeah, it's interesting to see.
Different interpretation.

It shows you how fragile and how
brilliant the actual concept is.

And that's a parallel universe that
shows you it's not the actual joke

it's the performance and it's the care.

Because just somebody falling through
the bar, particularly if they're saying,

oh, no, I'm in a comedy.

Ooh. With fewer readers providing an
interpretation that was anything but

jubbly... Let's see how one of the
greatest moments in British comedy could

done. In a Peckham wine bar, with Del
Boy and Trigger out to impress the

I think we're on a winner here, Trey.
All right? Play it nice and cool, son.

Nice and cool, you know what I mean?

Falling through the bar?

Yeah. No, I mean, when David did it,
obviously it became an instant classic,

rightly so.

LAUGHTER David Jason's fall is worthy of
Buster Keen, you know. I mean, it is. I

can't offer higher praise than that. But
it very, very nearly wasn't going to be

in the show at all.

It was purely because Roger Lloyd
Pack...

At the time, he was doing pretty much
every show on the BBC, it seemed, and he

couldn't be in an episode, and then he
was given some time off, and so he came

in just to say hello, and John went, oh,
can you do a bit? Because we're missing

you in this episode, you're not in it.
And he went, yeah, I can do a scene.

Straight up, straight up, we're leaving.

So John wrote a scene, pretty much there
and then, that involved the trap.

Ain't you going to try for them birds?

No, no, you're cramping my style, mate,
you're cramping my style.

That, again, is a classic example of the
brilliance of John Sullivan.

This is Derek.

Au revoir.

How amazing that, you know, to be
involved in a programme that's been so

and is still so popular is nothing but a
privilege.

Lovely jubbly.

It has really captured the world's
imagination, and it still is.

You know, there are still countries just
getting to know it. Oh, shut up, you

tart!

The stories that I've heard in places
like... Hong Kong, Singapore, in the

middle of Africa is a little tiny shack
of a shop going Delboys.

And they are told that if you want to
earn a bit and ingratiate yourself to

Brits, you just say, lovely jubbly, and
it said, you know, the world will be

your oyster.

No income tax, no VAT, no money back, no
guarantee.

Black or white, rich or poor.

We'll tell prices that are true.

God bless Hookie Street.

Viva Hookie Street.

Long live Hookie Street. Same 90 feet.