I love Only Fools and Horses. It is such a brilliant show. Not this episode, though. In this episode Del's character is mean-spirited and almost cruel to Rodney at times. This episode makes Del's character look so bad I frankly wish I'd never watched it. Del has always been a handful, but at his core he's a decent man who loves his brother. But that essential quality of goodness is largely missing in this episode. If they were shooting for humor, they missed the mark with this episode. I saw the unedited version, and nearly didn't make it through without turning it off. But I stuck with it, hoping for some whiz-bang ending to make up for the dismal slog that most of this episode is. It didn't arrive. In my opinion, this episode is only for Fools and Horses completists. All that being said, this is an otherwise great series. Every television series has its clunkers, and this episode was theirs.
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