Awesome / Only Fools and Horses

• The Batman and Robin scene in part 1 of the 1996 Christmas trilogy, "Heroes and Villains". Brief summary: Del Boy and Rodney are going to a fancy dress party as Batman and Robin, but their three-wheeled van breaks down en route. As they're in a rough part of London they decide to run to their destination through the back alleys so as not to draw attention to themselves. Cut to a female councillor being mugged in a car park, until the Batman theme plays on the soundtrack and Batman and Robin come charging out of the fog. The muggers scatter.
  • They then proceed to enter the house, going "Na-na-na-na" and spraying silly string, only to discover that the party is now actually a wake, with all attending in funeral wear. They quickly try to apologise to the man's son, only for him to reassure them that it's fine;
    Son: Don't be [sorry]. I'm sure the old man is up there right now, having a bloody good laugh at us all!
  • Boycie's smug line before the above;
    Del Boy: Boycie's come as the Penguin!
    Boycie: No Del Boy, not the Penguin. More like... the Joker.
• In "May the Force Be With You", Del managing to use Slater's vanity and ego against him.
  DI Roy Slater: There's your immunity from prosecution, in writing - you've less chance of being pulled than the Queen - for the final time of asking, who nicked the the microwave?
  Del Boy: I did!
  • Granddad gets this cracking zinger earlier in the episode after Slater has finished toadying to the Assistant Commissioner:
    Granddad: You wanna be a bit more careful about your health, son. In the last half-hour, you've done so much bootlicking, you could be going down with Cherry Blossom Poisoning.
  • The second time Slater gets his comeuppance doesn't belong to Del, but to Slater's own partner Hoskins. As Slater's driver, he makes a "wrong turn" towards a police blockade, revealing that they knew about his involvement with the diamond smugglers and were trying to catch him in the act. The real CMOA comes when Slater tries to bribe Hoskins, who responds with an Ironic Echo from a previous conversation.
    Hoskins: You seem to forget, sir; I don't think, I only do my job. (reveals a wire in his coat)
  • The third time belongs to both Trotter brothers. They blackmail Slater, with the promise that they will send to the police, a photocopy of a letter from a diamond merchant regarding 10 undiscovered diamonds that Slater had kept aside before the smuggling racket fell through. They tell him to divorce Raquel, leave Peckham for good and keep his mouth shut about his marriage to Raquel.^note This would have tarnished Del's image and no one would do business with him. Slater complies and leaves, but true to form when it comes to the Trotters there was an element of bluff; the photocopier was never working. Good old Del Boy, he may a chronic liar, but that's why we love him.
• In "A Losing Streak", a crowning moment for Del when after playing Boycie at high stakes poker, he bets everything he owns on the last card stating his belief that Boycie is bluffing; Boycie managing to cheat and replace the cards dealt to him with four kings. After Boycie reveals his hand, an apparently shocked Del keeps Boycie hanging on by stating he just has "two pairs" before revealing that this is "one pair of aces... and pair of aces." The conversation that follows this.
  Boycie: Where did you get those bloody aces?
  Del Boy: Same place you got those kings. I knew you was cheating.
  Boycie: Oh yeah, how?
  Del Boy: Because that wasn't the hand that I dealt you!
• "Modern Men": In the hospital after Cassandra's miscarriage a loud, obnoxious, and irate patient is loudly abusing the hospital staff and other patients as he is demanding to be seen first. His condition? He took a bunch of pills but can't remember what they were because he was drunk. As he continues his loud-mouthed tirade, a heartbroken Del steps out still in full hospital scrubs, sets his jaw, then steps up to the idiot and lays him out flat with a single punch. What makes this better is that this actually helped the man.
  Del: Feeling any better?
  Man: Yes, thank you, doctor.
  Del: All part of the service. Bonjour.
  • As he walks past an elderly couple who have witnesses this:
  I bet you wish you'd gone private, don't you?
• "Yesterday Never Comes": After Del is conned out of his grandmother's priceless painting by his new upper-class, antique dealing girlfriend, she taunts him by asking if he really thought she would be attracted to someone like him. She then tells him she's had the painting legally registered to her, with her parents signing sworn affidavits that it's been in their family for generations. Cue Del admitting his relief that he's finally rid of the painting, having known for years how much it was worth, due to his gran being a cleaner for an art-dealer.
  Miranda: And this Mrs Mop, she examined it, did she?
  Del: No, she didn't examine it... she nicked it! Good luck, sweetheart!
• In "Fatal Extraction", the inhabitants of the Trotter's estate have been rioting for days. In the middle of a full on battle between the rioters and the police, Del drives up in his Ford Capris with Damien and Raquel in the car. He makes his presence known and one of the police officers yells that it's Del Boy. The two factions immediately part and let him drive through, with combatants on both sides asking him questions about their recent purchases.
• There's an understated one in the very last episode, "Sleepless in Peckham" when, in the middle of making a very valid argument about Del wasting money they haven't got, Raquel makes the somewhat daft and irrelevant comment "only women bleed" (she probably took the phrase from Julie Covington's 1977 UK hit single, penned by Alice Cooper). Del points out that he's suffered plenty, what with losing his parents and having to look after both Rodney and Granddad at a very young age. Raquel is silenced and leaves the room.
• Del gets one in "No Greater Love". Rodney is dating a woman whose husband is in prison and said man meets Del with a thug assuming him to be his brother. Del claims to be Rodney and prepares to take a beating for his brother. They let him take his coat off and then chucks it in a puddle. Angered that his new coat has been ruined, he starts the fight with the man, and he wins, despite taking a beating himself. For all his teasing, Del really does love his brother.
• The famous chandelier scene in "A Touch of Glass" could only be done in one take, and it went down as one of the funniest moments in TV history.
• The ending of "Chain Gang", where Del and his consortium figure out the truth behind the scam that Arnie's been running, prevent Denzil and his brothers from getting caught up in the same scam, and then get hold of their own ambulance to intercept Arnie before his sons can arrive, and confront him with a pair of bolt cutters, intending to not only get the chains they're rightfully owed, but some retribution against Arnie. It says everything that this is widely considered the best episode (not counting "The Jolly Boy's Outing", which is a double-length special) of a season that includes a whole bunch of stone-cold classics like "Yuppy Love", "Danger UXD" and "The Unlucky Winner Is".
• In "Tea For Three", when Del and Rodney are competing for a girl's affections, Del decides to put Rodney through the wringer by letting him get badly burned under a tanning bed. So Rodney gets his revenge by turning Del's cock-and-bull story about being a former paratrooper and getting him the chance to go hang gliding, something Del is petrified by. When Del has the gall to beg Rodney's help to get out of his situation, Rodney pretends to get ready to come running with a fabricated message that they need to get going. When Del's gotten into the hang-gliding equipment, and is mere seconds from having to take off, he nervously asks Rodney about that call. And what does Rodney do? Tells Del what Del angrily told him when Rodney "gave" him a solution out; they haven't got a car phone. Del's Oh, Crap! reaction is beautiful as he realizes he's well and truly trapped, with Rodney's ice cold "You might get a tan!" being icing on the cake, leaving Del seething.
  • Del's attempt at revenge ultimately falls flat as well; pretending his injuries from crashing were more severe than they were and appearing to need a wheelchair, Rodney pokes a big hole in his story to the others. Mainly, that hospitals wouldn't send a paralyzed patient home via bus. A frustrated Del gets up and threatens Rodney, only to get an Oh, Crap! expression when he realised he's exposed himself in front of everyone else.
  • Albert ends up getting the last laugh however, after warning the boys the whole time that fighting over Lisa would get them nowhere, it turns out Lisa was engaged all along. The both of them sulk at each other over the humiliations they suffered for what turned out to be nothing while Albert bursts out laughing.
  Albert: What a couple of wallies!

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