Ok, Only Fools and Horses fans
I put out a challenge, fans needed to make a Rock and Chips timeline
So the story started in February 1960 and the 3rd episode took us up to 1961.
What is yet to come to bring us up to date?
Joans death:
Del Boy: I remember what Mum said on her death bed. She said to me: “Del,” she said, “please give little Rodney all the encouragement that you can. Never, Del, never hold him back.”
Rodney: She didn’t half say a lot on her death bed, didn’t she?
Del Boy: What?
Rodney: Whatever the subject is, Mum had something to say about it on her death bed. She must have spent her final few hours in this mortal realm doing nothing but rabbiting!
Del Boy: You are walking a bleeding tightrope here, Rodney!!!!
Rodney: No, hang on! Right, you remember last week we were having a row about whose turn it was to go down the chippy, yeah? And you claimed that Mum said on her death bed: “Send Rodney for the fish!”
Del Boy: Yeah well, I’d had a few, hadn’t I?
The incident with Albie Littlewood in Happy Returns episode
- Del used to go out with Debby’s Mum, Junie, nineteen years ago. Del thinks that Debby is his daughter so he discourages Rodney’s friendship with Debby. It is later revealed that Debby’s father was Albie Littlewood, Del’s best friend. But Del was also seeing Albie Littlewood’s girlfriend, Deirdre, at the same time. Albie was killed when he was taking a short cut across the railway line. He was coming to see Junie, Del believed Albie was coming to meet him in the pub.
What else can you recall?
Trigger hitting his head off the ”MIND YOUR HEAD” sign
* Eels on wheels with Del giving Jumbo his last £200 to go to Oz
* How Denzel met Corinne and Del does the food for their wedding
* Triggers Gran and Grandad who do not talk
* Adding to Steve’s comment above, would be interesting to see Del meeting the Oil Barrons daughter and actually finding our her name and then the whole Rodney trying to sell the gas conversion kits would come after
This is brilliant!
– Rodney being the only boy to go to school in shorts and show of his ‘Italian footballers legs’
– Del’s dad leaving him and Rodney
and what about them adding a twist, Del and raquel could cross paths when they were younger…I think it would be good and they don’t actually know but we do :)
In Fatal Extraction, whilst in bed with Cassandra rodney tells her about the time Del got his A-level results. All ‘A’s, which they later found out stood for absent.
Not sure how this would fit though as Del and his mates have already left school in the first R&C, but Rodney tells Cassandra he was “a nipper at the time”. Doesn’t quite fit somehow…
Yes, i always thought some of the ages didn’t quite add up.
Then again, after what happened in “The Frog and the Pussycat”, it’s very likely that Joan sent Del back to school to take that exam after Mrs. Bird ruined both their chances of getting much happier lifestyles.
Or better yet, Rodney might’ve made the whole “Del takes his O-Levels” story up, considering he barely has any memories of his mum.
I think it is just a case that some of the ages/timelines don’t quite meet up. In Big Brother, the first episode, Del was moaning that Rodney didn’t come along like a normal brother or sister 2 or 3 years after him, but waited 13 years. Meaning Del would have been 13 when Rodney was born. As we see in R&C he is clearly older, 16 or 17
eels on wheels
maybe a bit too far forward but Rodney getting caught smoking his “funny fags” with the Chinese girl.
as such a big only fools and horses fan, you should watch every episode and then take notes in memory of John Sullivan may he rip!
Del and Boycie meeting marlene, didnt boycie and marlene marry when they were 16?
Del and Boycie meeting marlene – great one
. Del put his dad in hospital
. Del making Rodneys sell Gas convertors while he was wearing a flower shirt and had chicken pox. Rodney said from a distance he looked naked from the waist up.
. Freddie the Frog blowing himself up.
. Playing Pirates with Slater and making him walk the plank
Yes these are all needed Steve – some great Only Fools and Horses episode references here
Del and Boycie both meeting Marlene at the betting shop in Lewisham Grove.
Yes and maybe Bronco is also seen in the episode
Gran telling Delboy that she wants him to have ‘that’ painting (Yesterday never comes) when she’s gone.
ah yes – nice one Rich the Yesterday never comes painting