Only Fools and Horses (TV Series)

Strained Relations (1985)

Nicholas Lyndhurst: Rodney Trotter

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Quotes 

• Del Boy : Your personality has changed! I've seen a side of you I never thought existed!

  Rodney Trotter : You don't understand, Rodney.

  Del Boy : You're right about that Del, I mean look at you! Last night, you was laughing, you was drinking, I mean why didn't you just put your Boney M record on Del, we could've had a good old knees up! It was Grandad's... how could you get over it so easily?

  Rodney Trotter : [looks up to Rodney]  Get over it?

  [stands up] 

  Rodney Trotter : What a plonker you really are Rodney! Get over it? I ain't even started yet, I ain't even started bruv! And do you know why? Because I don't know how to! That's why! Survived all my life with a smile and a prayer, I'm Del Boy ain't I, good old Del Boy, he's got more bounce than Zebedee! Hey palm what you drinking go on! Hello darling, you have one for luck, that's me, that's Del Boy innit! Nothing ever upsets Del Boy! I've always played the tough guy, I didn't want to, but I had to! And I've played it for so long now, I don't know how to be anything else. I don't even know how to... Oh it don't matter! Bloody families I'm finished with them! What do they do to you, eh? Hold you back? Drag you down? And then they break your bloody heart.

  Del Boy : I'm sorry.