Rodney Come Home Episode Review
Brief: Rodney has to sleep on the settee because Raquel hasn’t yet agreed to ‘stamp Del’s card’. To make Cassandra jealous Rodney arranges a date with Tanya from the Peckham – Exhaust Centre. He backs out before going through with it but somehow Cassandra still finds out. Del’s heart is in the right place, pity about his brain.
Transmitted: 25.12.1990
Duration: 75 minutes
Viewing Figures: 18.0 million
Rodney seems to have it all, a beautiful wife, a cushy job at the father-in-law’s printing company, and a lovely home. Del is very happy too, Raquel has agreed to live with him having returned from a theatre tour of America’s east coast.
All is not well between Rodney and Cassandra, however. Cassie has become a workaholic, and Rodney cannot understand why she wants to attend work functions instead of cooking his tea.
Del, worried for his brother’s happiness (and the loss of cheap printing perks through Rodney’s job) plays cupid. Rodney consequently finds himself homeless for the third time in 18 months.
Episode Observations
- In Rodney Come Home, In the scene where Del is walking to Cassie’s flat, when he walks out of the van, you can see a building behind saying “Agricultural Machinery”. This is Peckham, which is only 3 miles from Central London, and the nearest field is 10 miles away. Surely there wouldnt be a tractor factory in the middle of South London.
- In Rodney Come Home, when uncle Albert goes to pore himself a drink, Raquel walks in and uncle says he his looking for his slippers… well the drink he pours changes when the cameras look back at the drink… the amount goes from a little bit to half a glass.
- In Rodney Come Home, On the back of the video case, there are two pictures, the top one is from Fatal Extraction and on the back of Fatal Extraction there is a picture from Rodney Come Home
- In Rodney Come Home, When Cassandra throws Rodney out telling him to find one of these many women who would want him, it shows him storming to the garage. He comes flying out on his bicycle but leaves the well illuminated garage wide open to thieves!
- In Rodney Come Home, Del Boy has aged quite quickly since The Jolly Boys Outing 1 year before. In just 1 year his sideburns, and his hair at the front has gone grey and his face looks a lot older than it did in The Jolly Boys Outing, when he had not one grey hair on his head and his face looked like a child’s.
- In Rodney come home, there is a part were del boy has told albert to look horrified with rodney for going to the flicks with a girl called Tanya. Albert keeps mistiming his horrified expresions, and if you look closely you can see Del boy unable to keep a straight face, even when he`s telling Albert off.
- In Rodney Come Home, When Albert is about to pour a brandy on the sly, he is stopped having poured only a tiny drop when Raquel walks in and he claims that he’s looking for his slippers. On the next shot of the table the glass is nearly two thirds full, a lot more than he actually poured.
- In Rodney Come Home, Del who comes storming in , when the door slams shut the dividing ‘wall’ between the entrance hall and the kitchen nearly falls over! A proper wall surely wouldn’t do that!
- In Rodney Come Home, When Albert helps himself to Del’s brandy, he is startled by Raquel after pouring just a tiny drop, and starts pretending he is looking for his slippers. When Raquel enters the room, the brandy glass is suddenly half full!
- In Rodney Come Home, At the beginning of this episode, Del and uncle Albert are arguing on the escalator in a shopping centre, but as they come into view neither of them seem to be talking at all as their lips aren’t moving.
- In Rodney Come Home, When Rodney leaves his flat after having quarrelled with Cassandra, he has a bottle of ketchup in his bag. Outside his garage he throws the bag onto the ground with such force that the bottle would normally have been smashed. But when he arrives at Del’s flat, he gets it out of the bag unbroken.
Rodney Come Home Script
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I’m not really bothered by the numerous continuity errors on this show, mainly around dates and ages. I watch in such random order that i don’t even notice them.
But on this episode, it appeared to be a big error unless i’ve missed something. Start of show in rodneys office, it’s clear he hasn’t seen raquel since she left in the dates episode. He asks how USA was and when she got back to UK, he’s also surprised to learn she’s been back for a while and was living in Margate.
None of this makes any sense when you consider the JBO episode when they met raquel again for the first time since she left in dates. They stayed at her flat. Therefore in rodney come home, rodney would know that raquels been back for ages and had been living in margate!!
In the ‘Dates’ episode she went to the middle east not the USA, she went to America after ‘The Jolly Boys Outing’ episode.
Ah I hadn’t realised that. In JBO when raquel says she doesn’t know what she’ll do after margate, del says peckham is nice this time of year so i always assumed she went there. I don’t recall any mention of her going to usa after that meeting in JBO.
That aside, it still doesn’t explain rodney’s surprise (in rodney come home) when learning that raquel had been back for some time and had been living in margate, when they went to margate in JBO and met her!
I like this episode. because Rodney fell out with Crassrdra. and crassrdra shed to Rodney to get out of the flst and about his marriage.
Hi, can anyone tell me where the nightclub scenes were filmed in Rodney come home please?
Thanks
Justin
Something I’ve always thought relating to this episode but never got to the bottom of, when Rodney and Cassandra argue at the end and Cassandra throws Rodney out, does she really use the f-word? It sounds like she does but if she did, how did the episode only get a PG rating on DVD? And on TV, when she calls him a b—–d it has now been bleeped out but the f-word is left in unedited?
Mark I’m not sure what you mean mate, Cassandra doesn’t use the F word.
she does indeed say ‘b*****d’ when Del tells her about Rodney’s date with Tanya – however UK GOLD bleep this word out, you hear a beep sound when she says it – although the word is intact on VHS and DVD releases.
Pretty sure she says ‘Just bugger off Rodney’
only 1 small minor cut to this episode.
A line has been removed out of respect to the late princess Diana.
when Del starts talking about HIV, and women are dodgy, he says: ‘take 1 wrong move and you could be shaking hands with princess Di’
you can still see the line on repeats on UK GOLD – however the line was removed on VHS and DVD releases.
“In Rodney Come Home, In the scene where Del is walking to Cassie’s flat, when he walks out of the van, you can see a building behind saying “Agricultural Machinery”. This is Peckham, which is only 3 miles from Central London, and the nearest field is 10 miles away. Surely there wouldnt be a tractor factory in the middle of South London.”
Maybe they make lawnmower engines!
This episode was a bit depressing for Christmas Day in my opinion?
Yes I agree, especially as the previous year’s episode was the outstanding ‘Jolly Boy’s Outing’. I think a lot of people were expecting more of the same hilarity and felt a bit disappointed at the time but this episode was an important link to series 7 and John Sullivan was never frightened to make the occasional episode like this to keep the flow of the overall story going.
Albert says to Rodney after he leaves Cassandra – ‘That’s the third time in 18 months you two have broken up for good’
Once was the end of Jolly Boys Outing when Rodney punches Stephen, the second being in this episode when Cassandra tells Rodney to go and find himself a woman that will cook for him. But when is the third time, is it shown or mentioned in the show?
Also can anyone tell me the name of the shopping centre Del and Albert attempt to sell the dolls, and where it is please…
That’s my favourite scene in the episode, Del’s confidence and command over the crowd to try and make a sale is mesmerising – ‘West End goods at South End prices!’
Broadwalk Shopping Centre,
Knowle,
Bristol,
BS4 2QU
Cheers for that. I was hoping it would be around London near me so I could check it out at some point. Won’t be going to Bristol anytime soon, oh well.
http://www.findthatlocation.com/Television-Show/Only-Fools-and-Horses
it’s mentioned by Raquel when she is talking to Rodney about his marriage problems ( near the beginning of the episode in the office when he invites her up for coffee, she says Cassandra went back to her parents this was after the time in between the first time and the last time!
with dels ex fiance trudy
This is my one of my favourite’s special’s this is fantastic special and funny moments in it ,Del Yes, sorry! Is there anything i can do to help? Rodney Yes Piss Off.
That line echoes to the last episode where Rodney is writing his ISLAND OF DEATH movie and Damien asks Rodney “What he wants him to do” and Rodney replies “Bugger off and leave me alone”
Rodney: I’ve never been so insulted in my life
Del: Well sit down bruv & let me have a try