Thursday was a sad occasion for British television and for Only Fools and Horses fans after actor Roger Lloyd Pack died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.

Lloyd Pack’s role as the dour-faced and idiotic road sweeper Trigger was universally loved by all and to me, he will go down in history as one of television’s greatest characters.

This article pays tribute to the legend that is Trig as I look back on his twenty best moments from the hit show:

ASHES TO ASHES

Trigger: You knew my Grandad Arthur, didn’t you Mr Trotter?
Grandad: Yeah, I knew Arthur alright.
Trigger: He was a smashing man; he took care of me when my Mum went.
Rodney: Where was your Dad?
Trigger: He died a couple of years before I was born.

HOMESICK

TEA FOR THREE

Del: This is my punishment, isn’t it? Spending the rest of my life in this wheelchair?
Trigger: Still, it could have been worse.
Mike: How?
Trigger: My gran had one with a squeaky wheel.

THE FROG’S LEGACY

Mike: Don’t try and be funny with me, Trigger. I’ll tell you this much, I’ve had certificates for my beer.
Trigger: Yeah, I’ve had a few days off work with it as well!

SICKNESS AND WEALTH

THE JOLLY BOY’S OUTING

Mickey: Leave off Jevon, can you see Delboy standing in the kitchen cutting up all them loaves? He probably got some idiot to do it for him.
Trigger: No, I made them for him.

THE JOLLY BOY’S OUTING

Trigger: What’d you think’s wrong with him?
Mike: What do I think? Well, snow-blindness would be my bet, Trig.
Trigger: Yeah? I thought he was pissed.

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

CLASS OF 62

Rodney: As I was saying. On a cold, rainy night in Peckham, someone has arranged for you four to be here in in this room – together. No one knows who. And the most frightening aspect of the whole mystery – no one knows why! Now, think hard. Who would do something like that?
Trigger: Jeremy Beadle?

CLASS OF 62

Del: We had Denzil in goal, we had Monkey Harris at right-back, we had…we had camaraderie.
Trigger: Was that the Italian boy?

THREE MEN, A WOMAN AND A BABY

MOTHER NATURE’S SON

Denzil: That’s Derek Trotter in there, not bloody Einstein!
Trigger: Del knows what he’s talking about. And I don’t see what the Beatles manager has got to do with it anyway.

MOTHER NATURE’S SON

FATAL EXTRACTION

Beverley to Del: What’s wrong with you, you moron?!
Trigger (walking up to the counter): Oh just a couple of fillings.

HEROES AND VILLAINS

HEROES AND VILLAINS

Rodney: Oh you ought to be careful with the old beef Del.
Del: Oh shut up you brass.
Trigger: I don’t know what you’re worrying about. I’ve eaten British beef my whole life.

HEROES AND VILLAINS

Rodney: We didn’t know the fancy dress had been cancelled.
Trigger: Me neither.
Rodney: You mean, that’s your costume?
Trigger: Yeah. I came as a chauffeur. I feel a bit stupid now.

MODERN MEN

TIME ON OUR HANDS

STRANGERS ON A SHORE

Del: (pretending to look surprised): Oh hello Trig, what you doing here?
Trigger: You told us to meet you here at 4.