r/OnlyFoolsAndHorses

It feels petty and it also shows what terrible actors they both are when isolated. Rodney is acting melodramatic and Cassandra acts like she’s in a community pantomime production. Also the basis of their constant falling outs are so boring which don’t get me wrong most married couples disputes often are but I just feel like you’re almost praying for Del Albert or Trigger to enter the scene to liven it up.

Would he get the same snooty condescending attitude from the shop keeper? Even though Boycie isn’t upper class he’s very wealthy yet still came from the same council flats as the rest of the lads do and is cut from the same cloth at the end of the day

Yet he speaks with the mock posh accent and clearly wears very expensive clothing.

Yet Delboy came in wearing an extravagant suit also but got the condescending attitude from the shop keeper.

In the episode when Boycie and Del plays cards Boycie makes some comment along the lines of they don’t make places like this anymore implying this is the first time he’s been in the flat or seen it, but the two have been best friends since childhood. Surely that wasn’t the first or second time Boycie was in the flat.

Or maybe Boycie was just making a smug smart comment due to being so confident about beating Del in the game.

I like the gradual move of Boycie from antagonist in the earlier seasons to a supporting role in the later one’s.

One thing to note is that there are certain lines Boycie never crosses. For example, he hates Slater as much as the rest of his friends and although he does someone let Del down in To Hull and Back he doesn’t actually intend to shaft him.

The notes he pays to Van Cleef are fake but not to Del Boy. And it probably has as much to do with a sense of loyalty as much as not being “into plastic surgery”.

By the time of Chain Gang, he is really an ally more that anything else. Yes there is competition there but it is worth noting Boycie multiple times becomes concerned about Del Boy’s welfare checking on him after the Driscolls menace him.