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	The episode features a scene in which [[Del Boy\|Del]], leaning against a bar flap in a local bistro, moves away from it to point some women out to [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)\|Trigger]], and then leans back again, unaware that, in that short space of time, the bartender had just lifted it up. He falls straight down, and Trigger does a double-take when he looks around and finds that Del has "disappeared".<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_871624.html?menu= \| title=Del Boy's wine bar fall is favourite television pub scene \| work=Ananova \| access-date = 2 September 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Citation\|last=BBCWorldwide\|title=Del Boy falls through the bar - Only Fools and Horses - BBC\|date=21 July 2010\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74_ZoniuPE \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211217/B74_ZoniuPE \|archive-date=17 December 2021 \|url-status=live\|access-date=16 May 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 21 December 2006, this scene was nominated in the UKTV Gold Top 40 Greatest Only Fools Moments, and subsequently voted the most popular scene of the entire programme.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Gold.stepbystep/aid/579394 \|title=Top 10 Only Fools Moments \|access-date=21 December 2006 \|date=21 December 2006 \|publisher=UK Gold}}</ref> It was also named the "7th Greatest Television Moment" of all time in a 1999 Channel 4 poll, beating the likes of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Queen's coronation and Winston Churchill's funeral.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/1999/09/11/Y09150001/ \|title=100 Greatest ... (TV's 100 Greatest Moments) \|access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> In 2008, ''[[Empire (magazine)\|Empire]]'' placed ''Only Fools and Horses'' 42nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" and cited "Yuppy Love" as the show's best episode.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/default.asp?tv=1\|title=The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time\|access-date=29 March 2008\|publisher=[[Empire (magazine)\|Empire]]}}</ref>		The episode features a scene in which [[Del Boy\|Del]], leaning against a bar flap in a local bistro, moves away from it to point some women out to [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)\|Trigger]], and then leans back again, unaware that, in that short space of time, the bartender had just lifted it up. He falls straight down, and Trigger does a double-take when he looks around and finds that Del has "disappeared".<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_871624.html?menu= \| title=Del Boy's wine bar fall is favourite television pub scene \| work=Ananova \| access-date = 2 September 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Citation\|last=BBCWorldwide\|title=Del Boy falls through the bar - Only Fools and Horses - BBC\|date=21 July 2010\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74_ZoniuPE \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211217/B74_ZoniuPE \|archive-date=17 December 2021 \|url-status=live\|access-date=16 May 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 21 December 2006, this scene was nominated in the UKTV Gold Top 40 Greatest Only Fools Moments, and subsequently voted the most popular scene of the entire programme.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Gold.stepbystep/aid/579394 \|title=Top 10 Only Fools Moments \|access-date=21 December 2006 \|date=21 December 2006 \|publisher=UK Gold}}</ref> It was also named the "7th Greatest Television Moment" of all time in a 1999 Channel 4 poll, beating the likes of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Queen's coronation and Winston Churchill's funeral.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/1999/09/11/Y09150001/ \|title=100 Greatest ... (TV's 100 Greatest Moments) \|access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> In 2008, ''[[Empire (magazine)\|Empire]]'' placed ''Only Fools and Horses'' 42nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" and cited "Yuppy Love" as the show's best episode.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/default.asp?tv=1\|title=The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time\|access-date=29 March 2008\|publisher=[[Empire (magazine)\|Empire]]}}</ref>

	A similar scene also occurs in [[Last of the Summer Wine]] when Eli falls behind the bar.~~{{citation needed\|date=November 2019}}~~		A similar scene also occurs in [[Last of the Summer Wine]] when Eli falls behind the bar.

	==Episode cast==		==Episode cast==

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Only Fools and Horses]]
| caption =
| series_no = 6
| episode = 1
| writer = [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]
| director = [[Tony Dow (director)|Tony Dow]]
| producer = [[Gareth Gwenlan]]
| airdate = {{Start date|1989|01|08|df=yes}}
| length = 50 minutes
* 47:33 (DVD/iTunes)
| prev = [[Dates (Only Fools and Horses)|Dates]]
| next = [[Danger UXD]]
| episode_list = List of Only Fools and Horses episodes
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"'''Yuppy Love'''" is an episode of the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. It originally aired on 8 January 1989 and is the first episode of series six, marking the start of the increase in running time from thirty minutes to fifty minutes per episode.

==Synopsis==
Having seen and been strongly influenced by the film ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'', especially its lead character, the ruthless corporate high-flyer [[Gordon Gekko]], [[Del Boy]] has decided to adopt a new "[[yuppy]]" image, donning a striped shirt and red [[Suspenders|braces]], and carrying a [[filofax]] and a silver [[briefcase]]. [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] in turn has joined an evening computer class in an attempt to earn a diploma and finally get a proper job. His efforts to learn to programme the [[Amstrad CPC|Amstrad CPC 6128]] are mocked by his family. At the computer class Rodney meets and is attracted to [[Cassandra Trotter|Cassandra Parry]] and meets her again later at a nightclub, where she offers to give him a lift home. She first drives to her house and Rodney feels upstaged by Cassandra's luxurious lifestyle. Embarrassed at the thought of Cassandra seeing their council flat in Nelson Mandela House, Rodney instead leads her to King's Avenue, an expensive and very up market road, implying that he lives there and has to stand in the driveway, being seen by the homeowners. Despite soon finding out that he actually does not Cassandra still phones and agrees to meet Rodney again.

==="Falling through the bar" scene===
The episode features a scene in which [[Del Boy|Del]], leaning against a bar flap in a local bistro, moves away from it to point some women out to [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]], and then leans back again, unaware that, in that short space of time, the bartender had just lifted it up. He falls straight down, and Trigger does a double-take when he looks around and finds that Del has "disappeared".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_871624.html?menu= | title=Del Boy's wine bar fall is favourite television pub scene | work=Ananova | access-date = 2 September 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=BBCWorldwide|title=Del Boy falls through the bar - Only Fools and Horses - BBC|date=21 July 2010|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74_ZoniuPE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211217/B74_ZoniuPE |archive-date=17 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=16 May 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 21 December 2006, this scene was nominated in the UKTV Gold Top 40 Greatest Only Fools Moments, and subsequently voted the most popular scene of the entire programme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Gold.stepbystep/aid/579394 |title=Top 10 Only Fools Moments |access-date=21 December 2006 |date=21 December 2006 |publisher=UK Gold}}</ref> It was also named the "7th Greatest Television Moment" of all time in a 1999 Channel 4 poll, beating the likes of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Queen's coronation and Winston Churchill's funeral.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/1999/09/11/Y09150001/ |title=100 Greatest ... (TV's 100 Greatest Moments) |access-date=9 December 2015}}</ref> In 2008, ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' placed ''Only Fools and Horses'' 42nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" and cited "Yuppy Love" as the show's best episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/default.asp?tv=1|title=The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time|access-date=29 March 2008|publisher=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]}}</ref>

A similar scene also occurs in [[Last of the Summer Wine]] when Eli falls behind the bar.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

==Episode cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[David Jason]]
| [[Del Boy|Derek Trotter]]
|-
| [[Nicholas Lyndhurst]]
| [[Rodney Trotter]]
|-
| [[Buster Merryfield]]
| [[Uncle Albert|Albert Trotter]]
|-
| [[Gwyneth Strong]]
| [[Cassandra Trotter|Cassandra Parry]]
|-
| [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]]
| [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]]
|-
| [[Patrick Murray (actor)|Patrick Murray]]
| Mickey Pearce
|-
| [[Steven Woodcock]]
| Jevon
|-
|Francesca Brill
|Emma
|-
|[[William Thomas (actor)|William Thomas]]
|Barman
|-
|Diana Katis
|Dale (girl in bar)
|-
|Laura Jackson
|Marsha (girl in bar)
|-
|Tracy Clark
|Girl in disco
|-
|[[Hazel McBride]]
|Snobby girl
|}

== First appearances ==

* [[Gwyneth Strong]] as [[Cassandra Trotter|Cassandra Parry]]

== Notes ==

* The episode title is a pun on the popular song and saying, ''[[Puppy Love (song)|Puppy Love]].''

==Episode concept==
*The new image for Del Boy was based on [[Gordon Gekko]] from the movie ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' (Rodney mentions that his brother saw the film six times), as part of the [[yuppy]] movement that was popular at the time. The episode also introduces Cassandra into the series.<ref>[http://www.ofah.net/immediacy-320 Did You Know?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118005414/http://www.ofah.net/immediacy-320 |date=18 November 2007 }} ofah.net</ref>

==Music==
* '''[[The Funky Worm]]''': "The Spell! (Get Down With The Genie)"
* '''[[Errol Brown]]''': "Love Goes Up And Down"
* '''[[The Pasadenas]]''': "Enchanted Lady"
* '''[[Chris de Burgh]]''': "[[The Lady in Red (Chris de Burgh song)|The Lady in Red]]"
* '''[[Al Bowlly]]''' & '''[[Ray Noble]]''': "Makin' Wickey Wackey Down in Waikiki"

Note: "The Spell! (Get Down With The Genie)" and "Enchanted Lady" are removed on the VHS, DVD and iTunes versions and over-dubbed with library music, leading to some scenes of dialogue being removed.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Only_Fools_and_Horses#Yuppy_Love_.5B6.1.5D|Yuppy Love}}
*{{IMDb episode|0666595}}

{{Only Fools and Horses episodes}}

[[Category:1989 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Only Fools and Horses (series 6) episodes]]

Yuppy Love - Revision history

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