Del - When Corinne comes back in here she’s going to find her kettle’s been knackered, her kitchen’s been turned into a Turkish bath, and she’s got a Kentucky Fried Canary at the bottom of that cage!
Del is constantly looking for quick money making schemes, and sees opportunities this time in stealing business from a local painter and decorator. We saw what the outputs of the Trotters’ painting and decorating abilities was last series in ‘The Yellow Peril’. Once again, the paint supply is a bone of contention - it’s no longer luminous paint for tunnels, but battleship grey coloured paint instead.
Introduced for the first time is Denzil, another old mate of Del, and his wife Corinne. This is also the last time we meet Corinne unfortunately due to the actress ‘s untimely death. However she is referred to often in future episodes and is someone that Del (and Denzil seemingly) fears. And quite right too, she initially points out that each time Denzil meets Del he’ll “end up drunk or out of pocket”. We then get the main source of anger, a recounting of their wedding that Del was booked to do the catering for.
After Rodney leaves the kettle on the gas, the trio discover that Corinne’s pet Busby the canary is dead in his cage and we are all convinced that the smoke killed him. Grandad rushes off to buy a replacement (spending a small fortune) only to bump into Corinne on the way out of the pet shop. Here he delivers one of Grandad’s best lines of the show.
Corinne - I thought you was back at the flat?
Grandad - I am. I mean, I just popped out for something to eat...!
The revealing scene from Corinne that the bird had died overnight is classic Only Fools humour, again testing our assumptions.
However all is not lost as Del still manages to make £500 for doing nothing by befriending Mike the new landlord of the Nags Head. This instant friendship with Mike is one that develops into one of the best relationships on the show as Del tries to get more and more out of Mike over time.
Tomorrow’s episode: Thicker than Water
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