Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) point of the silliest joke, such as in "Fatal Extraction", when Del jokes with Boycie, Mike, Denzil and Trigger, saying that women ask men something then correct them, and everyone says "Why ask" together, and Trigger waits until they're finished and says "Why ask?" very stupidly. In the pilot episode Rodney asked Del where Trigger got his nickname, thinking Trigger was an armed criminal (i.e. a trigger man). Del, however, replies that 'it's because he looks like a horse', this is a reference to the famous screen horse, Trigger of the 1950s and 1960s, as Del says to Trig later
Video Nasty (Only Fools and Horses) the novel by Enid Blyton. Rodney quickly realizes that is what Mickey and his girlfriend have been filming in the flat, and quickly sneaks away once the film starts. Del screams out Rodney's name the moment he sees him in the film. Back at Nelson Mandela House, Rodney tells Del that he did not know what Mickey was going to do. Del mentions that the people backing up Boycie in his dirty movies are the Driscoll Brothers. As Del heads to the bathroom to flush the "Night Nurse" videotape down the toilet, Mickey Pearce and his friends show up to