Played delightfully by Roger Lloyd-Pack, the character of Trigger always delivered hilarious one-liners which are timeless.
Thanks to the show’s creator and writer John Sullivan the Only Fools and Horses script never becomes boring, even as time goes on and we watch re-runs of old episodes.
Trigger – real character name Colin Ball – is famed for enjoying the more simple things in life and of course referring to Rodney Trotter as Dave.
He’s a proud road sweeper and a long-standing friend to Del Boy, Rodney, Boycie and the rest of the gang.
So let’s take a look back at 15 of the funniest one-liners, courtesy of Trigger.
1. “If it’s a girl they’re gonna name it Sigourney, after the actress. And if it’s a boy they’re gonna name him Rodney, after Dave.”
2. “This old broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.”
3. Referring to his own dad: “He died a couple of years before I was born.
4. Del Boy: “We had Denzil in goal, we had Monkey Harris at left-back, we had… camaraderie.”
Trigger: “Was that the Italian boy?”
5. Mike: “Ladies and Gentleman, will you please raise your glasses to our future mum and dad, Cassandra and Rodney!”
All: “Cassandra and Rodney.”
Trigger: “Cassandra and Dave.”
6. Uncle Albert: “How did you walk into a mind your head sign? Didn’t you see it?”
Trigger: “Of course I saw it. But in those days, I couldn’t read.”
7. Visiting the local council tip.
Del Boy: “You said it was open 24 hours a day.”
Trigger: “Yeah, but not at night.”
8. Trigger on Gandhi: “He made one great film and then you never saw him again…”
9. On dressing up for the funeral wake: “Yeah, I come as a chauffer. I feel a bit stupid now.”
10. “What’s the name of that bloke who invented the Dyson vacuum cleaner?”
11. Rodney: “I don’t want to talk about it Trig. You ever been wrongly accused of something?”
Trigger: “Yeah, once.”
Rodney: “Yeah, How did you get out of it?”
Trigger: “Well I didn’t – I was guilty.”
12. Rodney: “Wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home.”
Trigger: “You’ve got a hat now, have you, Dave?”
13. Del: “This is my punishment, isn’t it? Spending the rest of my life in this wheelchair.”
Trigger: “Still, it could have been worse.”
Mike: “How?”
Trigger: “My gran had one with a squeaky wheel.”
14. Rodney: “So ummm… what you doing here, Trig?”
Trigger: “Well Del said he’d give me a lift to the pub.”
Rodney: “Oh, right. But you live closer to the pub than us.”
Trigger: “I know.”
Rodney: “In fact, you have to walk past the pub to get to this flat.”
Trigger: “Yeah? But Del said he’d give me a lift!”
15. Boycie: “Had the wife in tears you know, still Marlene’s easily touched.”
Trigger: “Yeah, as Del said earlier all the lads remember Marlene.”
