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Ashes to Ashes (Only Fools and Horses)

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Later that night, at 3:00am, Del comes out of the bathroom, just to eavesdrop in on Grandad talking to the urn with Arthur's ashes in it. Del decides to mock him by talking through a traffic cone, making Grandad think that Arthur's ghost is speaking to him. Rodney is awakened by the voice and scares
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go to Alice's house, and Trigger tells the Trotters that his father died a couple of years before he was born, as well as the story of how Alice had an affair with someone else while her husband Arthur was away fighting in the war. Among the many things in the house are two urns that Del can sell.
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That night, back at the flat, as Del comes to the conclusion that the urns are valuable, Grandad looks in one of the urns and is shocked to see the ashes of Trigger's grandfather Arthur. Then, Grandad clears his conscience as he tells his grandsons that
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was the man whom Alice had the affair with while Arthur was away, because his wife had left him at the time. When Arthur found out, he told Grandad he would come back and haunt him someday. Del and Rodney, who do not believe in
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After failing to pour the ashes into a cement mixer, the Trotters get lucky when a council cleaning lorry sucks up the ashes from the urn. Del reasons that it is fitting since Arthur used to be a
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Del from behind. Grandad finally has enough and demands Del and Rodney get the ashes out of the flat. Del explains that he cannot contact Trigger since he is on holiday in
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arrives and asks them if they will attend the funeral of his grandmother Alice. At first hesitant, they learn they will be the only other mourners, so the Trotters agree.
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When they return home, Grandad tells Del and Rodney that Trigger received their telephone calls, since he is fogbound at
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The next morning, Del and Rodney try to pour Arthur's ashes into the water at
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Later, after the funeral, Del, Rodney, Trigger, and
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Index

Only Fools and Horses
Ray Butt
John Sullivan
The Long Legs of the Law
A Losing Streak
List of episodes
BBC
sitcom
Only Fools and Horses
Del Boy
Rodney
Trigger
Grandad
ghosts
Ireland
bowling club
St Katharine Docks
road sweeper
Gatwick Airport
David Jason
Derek Trotter
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Rodney Trotter
Lennard Pearce
Grandad Trotter
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Trigger
John D. Collins
Terry Duggan
Christian funeral

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