Del Boy falling through the bar in Only Fools And Horses was never meant to happen like it did, it is claimed.
The iconic moment from the 1989 episode Yuppy Love is often voted the funniest in British sitcom history. But it’s been revealed that Roger Lloyd Pack’s character Trigger wasn’t originally meant to appear in the scene.
The classic clip sees the pair eyeing up two women in a fancy wine bar before David Jason’s charcter plunges through the serving hatch. But a newly-found rehearsal script by writer John Sullivan has been put up for sale by Bristol & Bath Auctioneers.
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Valuer Andy Stowe said it was a mere page long and meant the scene would have been quite different. Andy said: “The rumour goes that the scene didn’t originally feature Roger Lloyd Pack as Trigger.
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“But he turned up on the day and writer John Sullivan wrote him into that scene. A lot of the humour actually comes from Trigger’s reaction, him looking around.”
But Andy insists David’s performance as Del Boy elevates it to something very special. He added: “What you see on screen is pure acting and comic timing and that’s where the magic is.”
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Boycie actor John Challis seems to have supported the claim. He told the Telegraph: “Roger happened to be at the BBC at the time and he had a break, so they found Trigger’s blue suit and stuck him in this scene, which was almost improvised.
“When I saw it, I thought it was just so brilliant. The timing of it and Roger’s take – him circling around, looking for Del Boy, by which time Del Boy’s got up again. But I always say it wasn’t very funny because I wasn’t in it.”
Roger himself picked the scene as his top moment from the series. Speaking at an Only Fools convention to an interviewer from the Only Fools Appreciation Society, he said: “I’ve got lots of highlights, obviously the falling through the bar scene was very special.
“We spent a long time working it out and it’s been a very particular little episode, very famous and won prizes and things so obviously that. There are lots of lovely moments though.”
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