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| Only Fools and Horses episode | |
| "Yuppy Love" | |
| Series | 6 |
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| Writer | John Sullivan |
| Director | Tony Dow |
| Producer | Gareth Gwenlan |
| Duration | 50 minutes |
| Airdate | 8 January 1989 |
| Audience | 13.9 million |
Yuppy Love is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was the first episode of series 6, and was first screened on 8 January 1989. With a running time of 50 minutes, it was also the first regular episode of the time to be longer than 30 minutes.
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Synopsis
Having seen and been strongly influenced by the film Wall Street, especially its lead character, the ruthless corporate high-flyer Gordon Gekko, Del Boy has decided to adopt a new "yuppy" image, donning a striped shirt and red braces, and carrying a filofax and a silver briefcase. Rodney in turn has joined an evening computer class, where he meets Cassandra Parry. He later meets her again at a nightclub, where she offers to give him a lift home. She first drives to her house and Rodney feels upstaged by Cassandra's luxurious lifestyle. Embarrassed at the thought of Cassandra seeing their council flat in Nelson Mandela House, Rodney instead leads her to The King's Avenue, an expensive and very up-market road, implying that he lives there. Despite soon finding out that he actually doesn't Cassandra still phones and agrees to meet Rodney again.
The episode also features a now-famous British comedy scene;1 Del, leaning against a bar flap in a local bistro, moves away from it and then leans back again, unaware that the bartender has just lifted it up, and he promptly falls straight down. On 21st December 2006, this scene was nominated in the UKTV Gold Top 40 Greatest Only Fools Moments. It was voted in as the most popular scene of the entire programme.2 It was also named 7th Greatest Television Moment of all time in a 1999 Channel 4 poll, beating the likes of JFK's assassination, the Queen's coronation and Winston Churchill's funeral.3 In 2008, Empire placed Only Fools and Horses 42nd their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" and cited "Yuppy Love" as the show's best episode.4
Episode cast
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First appearances
Episode concept
The new image for Del Boy was based on Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street (Rodney mentions that his brother saw the movie "Wall Street" six times). The episode also introduces Cassandra into the series.[1]
Errors
- When Rodney is going to his evening class, he is wearing a black suit. Rodney attends class, then tells Del that he isn't going back to the flat ("Not with Albert there.") But when Rodney goes to the disco instead, dances with Cassandra, gets dropped off at the King's Avenue in the rain, then comes home, he is wearing a grey suit.
Notes
- ^ "Del Boy's wine bar fall is favourite television pub scene". Ananova. Retrieved on 2 September, 2006.
- ^ "Top 10 Only Fools Moments". UK Gold (21 December 2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-21.
- ^ "100 Greatest Television Moments". thecustard.tv (10 November 2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
- ^ "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". Empire. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.
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| Preceded by Dates |
Only Fools and Horses 8 January 1989 |
Succeeded by Danger UXD |
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