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
Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) 'ethnic bus tours of old London' - and then failing to deliver the tour's publicity leaflets (a ploy only foiled when Del discovers the discarded leaflets in the dust-chute at Nelson Mandela House). "It wasn't me, Del Boy," Grandad wails on being discovered on this occasion; "It was me brain!" Grandad was also responsible for the spectacular (and noisy) failure of Del's chandelier cleaning business in "A Touch of Glass". When Lennard Pearce died in 1984, writer John Sullivan chose not to replace him but to write the character's death into the series. A funeral was held for Grandad in