Only Fools and Horses fans fume over ‘accent blunder' that 'ruins entire series'

 Fans of classic sitcom Only Fools and Horses confessed their experience watching the series was “ruined” by a strange inconsistency between brothers Del Boy and Rodney..

Only Fools and Horses fans complained their entire experience of watching the series was “ruined” by a major blunder.

The classic comedy followed brothers Derek ‘Del Boy’ and Rodney Trotter as they attempted to wheel and deal their way through dodgy deals – with the goal of becoming millionaires. Along with iconic characters like Trigger, Boycie and Grandad, viewers see plenty of things go wrong.

But one thing some viewers are only just realising was wrong all along is the discrepancy between Del Boy and Rodney’s accents – despite them being brothers. Taking to Reddit, one fan wondered: “There are so many London accents but why do Derek & Rodney have different accents if from the same area?”

One fan fumed: “Ruins the entire series for me.” Another attempted to explain: “Probably because they are two different actors and they didn’t pay that much attention to it.

“You could argue there is a pretty big age gap, different upbringing, different school friends and as we find out later they have different fathers. Del is more similar to Reg and Rodney is more similar to Freddy. It just depends how much you want to read into it.”

Somebody else argued: “It’s not healthy to try and pick these things apart. It’s a 40 year old programme, it just wasn’t something that they paid too much attention to back then, the goal was to just make it funny.”

Another fan theorised: “It's upbringing. Del grew up around market traders trying to make a living. He's brash and loud. Rodney didn't have to do that because Del protected him as much as he could. We know Rodney went to college and hung around with arty types who were probably reasonably well off living off their parent's money.”

It comes after the news that the BBC wants to work with Sir David Jason to make another classic sitcom. The Beeb’s head of comedy Jon Petrie told the Daily Star: "We would always be open to hearing anything from Sir David Jason. We are totally open to making sitcoms.

“We don’t get pitched them very much. But we want to make it clear to producers that we’re not closed to the idea of doing them." Jon reckons he is still one of TV’s biggest stars after all these years. He said: "David is a legend". Traditional sitcoms filmed in front of a studio audience pull in big viewing figures for the BBC.

He added: “There aren’t many British shows that can compete with Friends where diehard fans can watch it all so when you start again, you’ve forgotten the first episode."