Trigger’s Broom

In the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the road sweeper Trigger is proud that he has used the same broom for 20 years. In that time, he explains, it has needed 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

The scene is from the episode “Heroes and Villains,” first broadcast on Christmas Day 1996. In Britain, “Trigger’s broom” is sometimes used as a name for an object whose parts have all been replaced but which is still treated as the original.

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