{"id":2717,"date":"2011-01-21T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:02:24","slug":"revealed-why-trigger-is-called-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/revealed-why-trigger-is-called-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Why Trigger is called Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of all the 63 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, Trigger appears in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>But why was he called Trigger when his character name is Colin Ball?<\/p>\n<p>One early episode has Rodney asking the same question to Del. Rodney asks &#8220;Del, do they call him Trigger cos he carries a gun?\u201d Del reveals &#8220;no, it&#8217;s because he looks like a horse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Trigger was the horse ridden by Roy Rogers a cowboy from the early 1950s.<br \/>\nThe real horse Trigger used in the films died in 1965 and was preserved in the Roy Rogers museum in USA, not that it\u2019s an consolation for Colin Ball.<\/p><div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ofah2-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5593259115\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Trigger or Colin Ball?<\/h2>\n<p>I suppose this leads to the next question, how do we know Trigger is actually called Colin Ball? Certainly it\u2019s always been in John Sullivan\u2019s notes that this is the case and may be this will get revealed during an episode of Rock and Chips. Either way it\u2019s certainly an accepted fact amongst Only Fools fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So in conclusion:<\/strong><br \/>\nRoger Lloyd Pack played the Only Fools and Horses character Colin Ball known as Trigger due to his horse like look.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/revealed-why-trigger-is-called-trigger\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/trig-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Roger aka Trig\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Of all the 63 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, Trigger appears in the majority. But why was he called Trigger when his character name is Colin Ball? One early episode has Rodney asking the same question to Del. Rodney asks &#8220;Del, do they call him Trigger cos he carries a gun?\u201d Del reveals &#8220;no, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-characters","category-only-fools-and-horses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Revealed: Why Trigger is called Trigger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Of all the 63 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, Trigger appears in the majority. 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