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 and Rodney says, "The old Derek Trotter could smell a fiver in a force 9 gale. They used to say that if Del Boy fell into a Viper's Pit, he'd come up wearing snake-skin shoes." However, in the episode ‘’Cash and Curry’’, from series one, Del lost £2,000 to a pair of confidence tricksters. While maintaining a tough exterior, Del still mourns the death of his mother and runs T.I.T. with Rodney. He takes great pride in having raised Rodney after their mother's premature death and has never forgiven his father for running away when Rodney was an infant. Despite