Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)
| Colin "Trigger" Ball | |
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Only Fools and Horses Rock & Chips character |
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| Portrayed by |
Roger Lloyd-Pack (1981–2003) Lewis Osborne (2010-2011) |
| Duration |
1981–2003: Only Fools and Horses 2010-2011: Rock & Chips |
| First appearance | Big Brother |
| Last appearance | Sleepless in Peckham |
| Created by | John Sullivan |
| Classification | Former; regular |
Colin "Trigger" Ball is a fictional character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its prequel Rock & Chips. He was played by Roger Lloyd-Pack in Only Fools and Horses and Lewis Osbourne in Rock & Chips.
How you going, Dave?
A regular at the Nag's Head pub, and old friend of Del Boy, Trigger is a road sweeper, and also appears to dabble in trading and petty thefts (though this status as a small-time thief is soon phased out of the character's development). He once supplied Del with paint which Del proceeded to use to decorate his mother's grave. Only then did Trigger inform him that the paint was used on signs in railway tunnels and therefore, luminous. He also supplies a load of stolen cigarettes, and in the opening episode he announces to Del that "he popped round to his sisters to sort out an alibi for next Thursday."
Trigger's most famous characteristic is that he constantly calls Rodney Trotter "Dave", the reason why being unknown. In fact, it is established that Trigger simply cannot grasp the idea that "Dave" is actually called Rodney. Rodney finally brings up the issue with Trigger in "Homesick", and he agrees to stop, but a few seconds later he calls him "Dave" again. When Cassandra Trotter, Rodney's wife, announced she was pregnant in "Modern Men", everybody raised a toast and said "To Cassandra and Rodney", but Trigger can be heard saying "Dave" after everyone else has spoken. At another point, while discussing Del and Raquel's son, Trigger claims that "They're naming him Rodney, after Dave".
He reveals he always greets women with 'hello darling, where have you been all my life?', but has no idea why as "it's never worked".
He can miss the point of the silliest joke, such as in "Fatal Extraction", when Del jokes with Boycie, Mike, Denzil and Trigger, saying that women ask men something then correct them, and everyone says "Why ask" together, and Trigger waits until they're finished and says "Why ask?" very stupidly.
In the pilot episode Rodney asked Del where Trigger got his nickname, thinking Trigger was an armed criminal (i.e. a trigger man). Del however replies that 'its cause he looks like an horse', this is a reference to the famous screen horse, Trigger, of the 1950s and 1960s, as Del says to Trig later on "You know what happened to the real Trigger don't you? Roy Rogers had him stuffed!".
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