Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses)

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Only Fools and Horses episode
"Christmas Crackers"
Series	Christmas Special
Writer	John Sullivan
Director	Bernard Thompson
Producer	Bernard Thompson
Duration	35 minutes
Airdate	28 December 1981
Audience	7.5 million

Christmas Crackers is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 28 December 1981. It was the first Christmas special edition of the show.

[edit] Synopsis

It's Christmas Day at Nelson Mandela House, and Grandad, cooking the Christmas dinner, manages to ruin it by under-cooking the Turkey, forgetting to remove the giblets and then also burning the Christmas pudding. Rodney, bored with the lack of good programming on the television, there is a circus on 2 channels, gets his only enjoyment on the day from a body language book lent to him by his friend, Mickey Pearce, and suggests that he and Del Boy go out for the night. Del rejects the idea, saying that they can't leave Grandad alone on Christmas Day, only for Grandad himself to go out shortly afterwards to an OAPs party.

Del and Rodney visit the Monte Carlo club, attempting to meet some girls. They spot a group of girls to chat up, but argue over who should actually do it. They take so long, that two other men ultimately beat them to it and speak to the girls.