From HERE:
Much of the comedy came with a hint of tragedy.
Del had raised Rodney and made sacrifices for him. Their circumstances
were precarious and their income uncertain. In many ways, it’s the kind
of portrayal of working-class life that is increasingly rare on British
TV. And the show’s trajectory moved tellingly with the times; the
episode that, Friends-style, we might retrospectively dub The One Where
Del Falls Through the Bar was actually a surprisingly acute reflection
on gentrification, the influx of city money and Thatcher’s right to buy
scheme – which, typically, Del regarded as a nifty way of “making a bit
of bunce”.
It was poignant, too. There’s a heartbreaking scene, at Rodney’s wedding to Cassandra, where Del stands alone, holding the wedding cake figurine of the bride and groom, wondering what might have been. Who would begrudge Derek Trotter a happy ending? Creator John Sullivan surely sensed this because in the 1996 Christmas Special, Del and Rodney’s ship comes in. Through sheer dumb luck, they’re finally millionaires.
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