Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) Trigger felt excluded as a child and found his status by saying things that made people laugh. Trigger first appeared on "Only Fools and Horses" in the first episode and appeared regularly throughout the entire show's run. He is an example of a breakout character in that he became popular with the show's audience, despite his status as a minor, supporting character. Trigger appears as a teenager in the "Only Fools and Horses" prequel series, "Rock & Chips", where he is portrayed as equally daft as in the main series. As shown in "Sleepless in Peckham", he accompanies Del, his
Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) on - wangling himself a bungalow by feigning illness being one of his many talents as seen in "Homesick". Similarly, in "Who's a Pretty Boy?", he conned Delboy out of £5, informing him the canary he purchased from the pet shop cost him £50, when in reality cost him £45 (Del Boy finds out at the end of the episode, and replied "£45?", to which Grandad innocently replies, "What did I say?") And in "A Slow Bus To Chingford" he almost succeeds in conning Del out of £50 by betting him that no-one will turn up for the Trotters' proposed