History Recap / OnlyFoolsAndHorsesS5E01FromPrussiaWithLove

* ChocolateBaby: Once Anna's baby is born, it turns out that the father is a second generation West Indian immigrant. Marlene still wants to go ahead with the adoption, but Boycie doesn't see how they can claim it's theirs.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Del eventually feels guilty about trying to sell Anna's baby and tries to abort the deal with Boycie. Unfortunately, it's too late as Boycie and his wife have noticed the baby is clearly of mixed race, putting Del in a bad light and landing him in hot water with the very irate Boycie.

* WhatTheHellHero: Both Rodney and Albert give Del this treatment for planning to sell Anna's baby to Boycie and Marlene.

* TranslationYes: From English to Peckham English when the trio meet Anna, a German girl who has just been fired from her job as au pair because she's pregnant. As the slightly more educated one in the family, Rodney is forced to translate for Del and Albert.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Del eventually feels guilty about trying to sell Anna's baby and tries to abort the deal with Boycie. Unfortunately, it's too late as Boycie and his wife have noticed the baby is clearly of foreign heritage, putting Del in a bad light and landing him in hot water with the very irate Boycie.

* ChocolateBaby: Once Anna's baby is born, it turns out that the father is of West Indian ancestry. Marlene still wants to go ahead with the adoption, but Boycie doesn't see how they can claim it's theirs.

* CallBack: When Del and Rodney go round to Boycie's place to pitch the adoption idea, Rodney gets lumbered into playing with Duke, the dog who'd previously been looked after by the Trotters in [[Recap/OnlyFoolsAndHorsesS4E05SleepingDogsLie "Sleeping Dogs Lie"]].

-->''[Del and Albert look at Rodney for a translation]]''

--> '''Del Boy''': English! You saucy mare, course we speak English, we invented the lingo, didn't we?

* TranslationYes: From English to English when the trio meet Anna, a German girl who has just been fired from her job as au pair because she's pregnant. As the slightly more educated one in the family, Rodney is forced to translate for Del Boy and Albert. The exchange goes something like this:

* ChocolateBaby: Once Anna's baby is born, it turns out that the father is of West Indian ancestry. Marlene wants to go ahead with the adoption, but Boycie doesn't see how they can claim it's theirs.

--> '''Boycie:''' For God's sake, Marlene! I might be able to con people into buying my cars, I might even be able to convince them you conceived and gave birth in seven days flat, but how the hell am I going to persuade them my granddad was Music/LouisArmstrong?

* CallBack: When Del and Rodney go round to Boycie's place to pitch the adoption idea, Rodney gets lumbered into playing with Duke, the dog who'd previously been looked after by the Trotters in [[Recap/OnlyFoolsAndHorsesS4E05SleepingDogsLie "Sleeping Dogs Lie"]]

Back at the flat, Anna explains that she was working for a Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright. When they threw a party, she got drunk and was taken advantage of by their son, Spencer. When she found out that she was pregnant as a result, she told her employers, but they fired her for being a bad influence on their son. They gave her money to go home to Germany, but not wanting her family back home to know what had happened, she planned to stay in London, have the baby and then give it up for adoption.

This gives Del an idea. Boycie and Marlene have dreamed of having a child for years but have been unable to conceive -- and, thanks to Boycie's criminal record, they have been unable to adopt either. Since Anna is almost due and wants to give up her baby, he approaches Boycie and Marlene and gets them to adopt Anna's baby. For this, they'll pay him £3,000. Rodney is angry with Del for coming up with this, even though (as Albert points out) everyone is going to get what they want -- Anna will have her baby adopted, Marlene will get the child she's so desperately wanted, and Del's even going to give Anna £300 to take back to Germany with her. When Anna goes into labour, the Trotters take her to the hospital.

A week later, Marlene and Boycie are at the flat, waiting for Anna to return with the baby. When she does, they're in for a surprise -- not only is the baby a girl (Del having previously convinced them that Anna had had a scan which said the baby was going to be a boy), but she's of mixed race -- as a smirking Rodney reveals, he had previously tried to tell Del that the Wainwrights had come over from Jamaica in 1956, but he hadn't listened. And Anna, having bonded with her daughter, now wants to keep her and take her back to Germany. An irate Boycie calls the deal off, and leaves with a distraught Marlene.

In the Nag's Head one night, the Trotters encounter a frightened 19-year-old German woman called Anna who tells them that she has been working in England as an au pair but has recently been fired and has no money and nowhere to go. After Del and Albert go home, Rodney takes pity on her and invites her to stay at the flat. It's only when she gets up that she is revealed to be ''very'' heavily pregnant.

* ShoutOut: The title of the epiosde is a play on ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.

In the Nag's Head one night, the Trotters encounter a frightened 19-year-old German woman who tells them that she has been working in England as an au pair but has recently been fired and has no money and nowhere to go. After Del and Albert go home, Rodney takes pity on her and invites her to stay at the flat. It's only when she gets up that she is revealed to be ''very'' heavily pregnant.

-->'''Rodney''': He said, "On yer bike".