Watching the Girls Go By

Rodney is taking some stick from the lads down the pub about his ‘imaginary’ girlfriend, and Mickey Pearce bets him fifty that he won’t bring a girl to the Saturday night bash in The Nag’s Head.

When Rodney admits to Del that he was lying about the girl he’s going to bring on Saturday night, his big brother sets about trying to get him a date.

On the Friday night, the two brothers head out clubbing, and despite trying almost every club in London, they end up in a seedy little bar in search of a date for Rodney. As luck would have it, Del boy spots Yvonne, an old flame who he knows isn’t too picky who she goes out with, and he offers to pay her part of the winnings from Rodney’s bet if she’ll escort his little bruv the following night.

When Rodney gets home from The Nag’s Head on Saturday night he’s in tears. Apparently, the date went well, until halfway through the evening when Yvonne takes centre stage in the pub and begins her act as a stripper – in front of all of Rodney’s mates.

Del boy tries to console Rodders with the thought of his £50 winnings, but it turns out the bet was for fifty pence, not pounds.

Episode Observations

• In Watching the Girls Go By, Near the end scene, just before Del & Rodney wind up albert about the snake, when albert first gets up he spills his milk!
• In Watching the Girls Go By, When Del is chatting to Yvonne at the bar – at the beginning of the scene the bar man is the same bloke who plays Abdul’s cousin in To Hull and Back, blink and you’ll miss him!
• In Watching the Girls Go By, when Mickey says to Rodney “We’re with the birds, see” in the pub, one of ‘The Birds’ appears to be the surly checkout girl from “The Longest Night”.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, during the scene where the Trotters are at the dinner table, Del is holding his cup of coffe in his hand. There is a 3 second shot of Rodney saying “here we go again see”. And when it cuts back to Del he is eating his dinner. So in just 3 seconds Del has put his cup of coffee down, picked up his knife and fork and start eating his dinner. Fast mover Del Boy.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, after Del has finished telephoning his old birds ,he remarks how the experience has made him feel his own age.On the occasion of the last two repeats of this episode the subsequent two lines have been cut: Albert:Some of them married are they? Del:Couple of them are dead! Presumably they were removed owing to the death of David Jason’s partner a couple of years ago.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, Del is seen going out from the lounge to his bedroom just before the scene when they go to a club and bump into Yvonne. Watch the walls shake as Del pushes the door.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, look at the scene in the Nags head just before Mickey throws his final dart. He unconvincingly makes out he had been shoved in the back by one of his mates.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, just after the scene of Mickey throwing darts, he clearly throws the dart on to the floor no-where near Boycie, yet Boycie produces the dart from thin air like a magician. Clearly the same dart wasn’t used.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, On the scene where Boycie warns Mickey Pearce to “BE AWARE” in the Nag’s Head, one of Mickey’s friends playing darts (standing directly between Boyce and Mickey) looks exactly like Dr Robby Meadows from “Sickness & Wealth”.
• In Watching the Girls Go By, Boycie and Del are playing poker in the pub, as clearly demonstrated by Del when he announces he has a Royal Flush. Yet in their last game, when Boycie wins just a pound, both players are holding six cards. Poker is a five-card game.

Watching the Girls Go By Script