- Yuppy Love
Infobox Only Fools and Horses
episode_name = Yuppy Love
Series = 6
writer = John Sullivan
director = Tony Dow
producer = Gareth Gwenlan
Duration = 50 minutes
Airdate =8 January 1989
Audience = 13.9 million
Cast =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 on8 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.ynopsis
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 afilofax and a silverbriefcase . 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 inNelson 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; [cite web
url=http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_871624.html?menu=
title=Del Boy's wine bar fall is favourite television pub scene
work=Ananova | accessdate = 2 September
accessyear=2006 ] 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. [cite web |url=http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Gold.stepbystep/aid/579394 |title=Top 10 Only Fools Moments |accessdate=2006-12-21 |date=21 December 2006 |work= |publisher=UK Gold ] 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. [cite web |url=http://www.thecustard.tv/linksandlists/100moments.html |title=100 Greatest Television Moments |accessdate=2007-11-10 |date=10 November 2007 |work= |publisher=thecustard.tv] 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. [cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/default.asp?tv=1|title=The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time|accessdate=2008-03-29|publisher=Empire]Episode cast
First appearances
Episode concept
The script was based on Gordon Gekko from the movie "Wall Street", to reinvent a new image for Del, and bring in Cassandra and Raquel into the series. [http://www.ofah.net/immediacy-320]
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.
*David Jason nearly slips out of character when Rodney chases him around the settee after fooling him out of a bet. He starts to chuckle when he says "Now, stop it...!"Notes
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools/series6/yuppylove.shtml "Yuppy Love" at bbc.co.uk]
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