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• The Batman and Robin scene in part 1 of the 1996 Christmas trilogy, "Heroes and Villains". Brief summary: Del Boy and Rodney are going to a fancy dress party as Batman and Robin, but their three-wheeled van breaks down en route. As they're in a rough part of London they decide to run to their destination through the back alleys so as not to draw attention to themselves. Cut to a female councillor being mugged in a car park, until the Batman theme plays on the soundtrack and Batman and Robin come charging out of the fog. The muggers scatter.
  • They then proceed to enter the house, going "Na-na-na-na", spray silly string- and discover that the party is now actually a wake, with all attending in funeral wear.
    • They then try to apologize to the man's son only to be confronted with "Don't be [sorry]. I'm sure the old man is up there right now, having a bloody good laugh at us all."

Del Boy: Boycie's come as the Penguin! Boycie: No Del Boy, not the Penguin. More like... the Joker.

• "May the Force Be With You".

DCI Roy Slater: There's your immunity from prosecution, in writing - you've less chance of being pulled than the Queen - for the final time of asking, who nicked the the microwave? Del Boy: I did!

• • The second time Slater gets his comeuppance doesn't belong to Del, but to Slater's own partner Hoskins. As Slater's driver, he makes a "wrong turn" towards a police blockade, revealing that they knew about his involvement with the diamond smugglers and were trying to catch him in the act. The real CMOA comes when Slater tries to bribe Hoskins, who responds with an Ironic Echo from a previous conversation.

Hoskins: You seem to forget, sir; I don't think I only do my job. (reveals a wire in his coat)

• • The third time pushes the Trotter brothers to borderline Magnificent Bastard territory. They blackmail Slater, with the promise that they will send to the police, a photocopy of a letter from a diamond merchant regarding 10 undiscovered diamonds that Slater had kept aside before the smuggling racket fell through. They tell him to divorce Raquel, leave Peckham for good and keep his mouth shut about his marriage to Raquel. Slater complies and leaves, but true to form when it comes to the Trotters there was an element of bluff; the photocopier was never working. Good old Del Boy, he may a chronic liar, but that's why we love him.
• In "A Losing Streak", a crowning moment for Del when after playing Magnificent Bastard Boycie at high stakes poker, he bets everything he owns on the last card stating his belief that Boycie is bluffing; Boycie managing to cheat and replace the cards dealt to him with four kings. After Boycie reveals his hand, an apparently shocked Del keeps Boycie hanging on by stating he just has "two pairs" before revealing that this is "one pair of aces... and pair of aces." The conversation that follows this.

Boycie: Where did you get those bloody aces? Del Boy: Same place you got those kings. I knew you was cheating. Boycie: Oh yeah, how? Del Boy: Because that wasn't the hand that I dealt you!