Only Fools and Horses : As one door closes mystery

As one door closes mystery

Half way through this episode Denzil bumps into Del and Rodders at the market. Then Rodney asks about Denzil getting arrested. When Rodney asks about 'hearing about it' Del says "We've all heard it ain't we?"
Does anyone know what he means?

Re: As one door closes mystery

It was Del's response to a pathetic joke that Rodney was trying to make about the size of the ghetto blaster that Denzil used to carry around in those days -

Rodney - I heard it took three coppers
to arrest Denzil the other
night!

Del
That's right. One to put the
handcuffs on and two to carry
the radio!

Rodney
You've heard it then.

Del
We've all heard ain't we? Come
on. Let's go. Hey hold up!

Basically Del was simply saying to Rodney that the punchline to the joke was so predictable that he was wasting his time trying to tell it, especially to Del who was much more sharp-witted than Rodney and most of the people in and around the market who knew Denzil.

Re: As one door closes mystery

I don't agree with all due respect. It's not that it was Rodney's joke and Del predicted it but rather that it was an actual joke going around the parish and Del was being literal when he said 'we've all heard it'. It just demonstrated the fact that Rodney was being an idiot when he thought he had heard a great joke and assumed Del who knows everyone hadn't heard it.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him: Henning von Tresckow.

Re: As one door closes mystery

It wasn't a local joke. It was a country-wide joke that went around Britain at the time due to West Indian men carrying large ghetto blasters during the '80s.


What is that thing you're using?.... It's technical.

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