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
Del Boy show fonder feelings for him when he dies in "If They Could See Us Now". Rodney apologises for the way he treats Albert in "Sickness and Wealth". In "Rock & Chips", Del Boy is shown to have a particularly close relationship with his mother Joan, whom he thinks the world of. (He is Joan's favourite, to the point that she refuses to run away with Freddie Robdal until she is certain of Del's financial security.) His relationship with Grandad is the same in "Rock & Chips" as in "Only Fools and Horses", but he has an estranged relationship with his