{"id":378,"date":"2009-12-23T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:40:10","slug":"unlucky-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/unlucky-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlucky Winner Is&#8230;"},"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<h2>Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; Episode Reviews<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Brief:<\/strong> Rodney&#8217;s won a holiday for three in the Mediterranean  courtesy of Del and the Megaflakes drawing competition. The only snag is he&#8217;s  got to pretend he&#8217;s fourteen years old all week. Should be a doodle &#8211; all he&#8217;s  got to do is keep his head down. Then the skateboarding and breakdancing  competitions begin&#8230;and Trudy willing to wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transmitted: 29.01.1989<br \/>\nDuration: 50 minutes<br \/>\nViewing Figures: 17.0 million<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/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<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Del has entered every competition on the market, trying to win as many  freebies as possible.<\/div>\n<div>Rodney has unknowingly been entered for an art competition, and won it.  It&#8217;s only when he arrives at the 5 star hotel in Mallorca that he learns he was  a schoolboy when he composed the winning painting, and has won the under-15  category.<\/div>\n<div>While Del and Cassie enjoy playing mum and dad, Rodders has to endure the  Fun Bus, chaotic children, and becoming a lifelong member of The Groovy  Gang.<\/div>\n<div>He has the last laugh, however, as Del&#8217;s tinkering with his passport makes  them ineligible to claim Rodney&#8217;s winning ticket on the Spanish lottery.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/unlucky.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/unlucky3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/unlucky4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/unlucky6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Episode Observations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; in the book &#8220;the only fools and horses story&#8221; the  picture of rodney in his skateboard gear shows him wearing different clothes to  that of the episode &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; rodney&#8217;s painting entered for the mega flakes  competition is called &#8220;marble arch at dawn&#8221; but in the episode &#8220;A royal flush&#8221;  del and rodney talk about the painting that was entered and they call it &#8220;marble  arch at dusk&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; when rodney first finds out he has to spend  his entire week in majorca as a 14 year old this is also mentioned in episodes  &#8220;jolly boys outing&#8221; where rodney is on the phone and in &#8220;time on our hands&#8221;when  they all walked into success!.<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; The &#8220;doctored&#8221; passports &#8211; as Cassandra was  posing as Del&#8217;s wife, then her passport needed to have been changed from Miss  Cassandra Parry to Mrs Cassandra Trotter &#8211; and yet when her&#8217;s is examined,  nothing is mentioned; either it should have revealed that Del had changed the  name to Trotter (which would have annoyed Cassandra, the same as it did Rodney  when he found out his DOB had been altered), or if it wasn&#8217;t changed then the  holiday reps should have queried why her passport had her maiden, and not her  married name.<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; when Albert and Del are reading the letter  that Rodney recieves from Megaflakes,Del hands Albert all the relevant paperwork  then you can distinctly see that Del still has one sheet in his hand when Albert  gives him back the other sheet when Albert says&#8221;have you read the other  page?&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; When Rodney and Del are sitting on the  balcony and cassandra has gone to get Rodney a drink, if you look in the glass  door you can see cassandra&#8217;s reflection with the drink waiting for her cue.<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; during one of the scenes in their hotel room,  just after Del leaves for a walk round the town, Cassandra snuggles up to Rodney  and seems very interested in his &#8216;uniforms&#8217; fantasy. However, in the Christmas  special two years later, (Miami Twice), she seems to have a very different  opinion about the same fantasy, shown during the conversation outside in the  Nags Head car park (&#8220;If it&#8217;s got anything to do with uniforms the answer&#8217;s no&#8221;).  Obviously a very fickle lady!<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; while in the airport the same guy walks past  3 times wearing different clothes.<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; Rodney&#8217;s birthday comes under scrutiny again.  He claims to be &#8220;a 26 year old man who has just come second in a skateboard  derby&#8221;. This means he was born in 1962 or 1963, which makes him a teenager in  &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; when the series started in 1981. But as others have pointed out,  he was 23 in &#8220;Big Brother&#8221;, which should have made 31 in &#8220;The Unlucky Winner  Is&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In The Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; Del doctors his passport in biro &#8220;to make it  look like Rodney was born in 1974&#8221;. How on earth can you change 62 or 63 to 74  and make it NOT look doctored, bearing in mind the above proves he was born in  1962 or 1963.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; Script<\/h2>\n<div>The script will be downloadable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/files\/The%20Unlucky%20Winner%20Is.txt\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\/unlucky-winner-is\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignright wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Unlucky Winner Is&#8230; Episode Reviews Brief: Rodney&#8217;s won a holiday for three in the Mediterranean courtesy of Del and the Megaflakes drawing competition. The only snag is he&#8217;s got to pretend he&#8217;s fourteen years old all week. Should be a doodle &#8211; all he&#8217;s got to do is keep his head down. Then the skateboarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","category-series-6"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unlucky Winner Is...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unlucky Winner Is... 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