The Yellow Peril
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| Only Fools and Horses episode | |
| "The Yellow Peril" | |
| Series | 2 |
|---|---|
| Writer | John Sullivan |
| Director | Ray Butt |
| Producer | Ray Butt |
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Airdate | 18 November 1982 |
| Audience | 8.2 million |
The Yellow Peril is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was the fifth episode of series 2, and was first screened on 18 November 1982.
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Del Boy is at a Chinese restaurant called the Golden Lotus, and promises the owner Mr. Chin that he'll paint his kitchen before the health inspector arrives. But Del can't do it today, because it is the 18th anniversary of the death of his and Rodney's mother Joan Mavis Trotter.
At the cemetery, as they look at the fiberglass grave of their mother, Del tells Rodney that their mother said to Del on her deathbed, "Look after Rodney for me Del Boy. Share everything you've got with him, try to make him feel normal..." Also, Del asks Rodney to help him paint the kitchen at the Golden Lotus tomorrow. Rodney refuses at first, but Del promises him a box of dirty magazines in return for the painting.
The next day, the Trotter brothers and Grandad show up at the Golden Lotus and find unlabeled tins of paint in their arsenal. Rodney opens one to see that it is yellow paint. Rodney and Grandad then get to work, while Del disappears for a few days.
One week later back at Nelson Mandela House, Trigger enters and tells the Trotters that he and Monkey Harris get the paint from a storage shed down in Clapham Junction, and that the paint is used for painting tunnels because it's luminous, much to Del's horror! Suddenly, the telephone rings, and Grandad answers it. Mr. Chin is calling, asking for Del. Grandad says that Del's gone out but is not sure where, so he asks Del, "Where you gone to Del?" Del takes the phone, and Mr. Chin complains about his kitchen glowing very brightly from the paint. Del explains that the luminous paint save money on electricity, before realizing what else the paint has ruined.
The Trotters race to the cemetery and find out where Del had been for the last couple of days: painting his mother's monument with the luminous paint, so it now looks radioactive. Del says that he will not bow his head to any snotty-nosed town hall clerks, but shall look them straight in the face and say "I am the man responsible - and I'm proud of it." But instead, Del says that he, Rodney, and Grandad'll put it down to vandals.
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