Yep, you guessed it

It’s more than 30 years old, and often mocked for for being the obvious choice, but Del Boy falling through a bar in Only Fools and Horses has been voted the greatest TV moment of all time.

The scene featured in the first episode of season six of  the BBC comedy, Yuppy Love, which  first aired on January 8, 1989.

Famously, David Jason’s character Del Boy is on the pull with Trigger, played by the Roger Lloyd Pack. As they eye up a couple of women, he says: 'Play it nice and cool, son, nice and cool - you know what I mean?', before disappearing through the bar, which had opened up without him realising.

Stewart Lee has mocked the popularity of the scene in his stand-up and on his TV show, ridiculing how its simple brevity and its constant inclusion in clip shows made it an almost meaningless meme.

The scene beat Susan Boyle's 2008 audition on Britain's Got Talent into second place  in the new survey of 2,000 viewers conducted by Virgin Media.  

Den Watts handing Angie divorce papers in the 1986 Christmas Day edition of EastEnders came third.

Scenes from Blackadder,  Friends,The Royle Family and The Good Life also rated highly:

Here is the top 30

1. Del Boy falls through the bar (Only Fools and Horses)

2. Susan Boyle's audition (Britain's Got Talent)

3. Den Watts hands wife Angie divorce papers (EastEnders)

4. Who shot JR? (Dallas)

5. David Attenborough meets the mountain gorillas (Life on Earth) 

6. Captain Blackadder goes 'over the top' into German gunfire (Blackadder

7. Rachel gets off the plane and gets back together with Ross (Friends) 

8. Kat Slater tells Zoe Slater she's her mum (EastEnders) 

9. Hayley and Roy Cropper say goodbye (Coronation Street)

10. Gillian McKeith faints (I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here)

11. 'Nasty' Nick Cotton dies after mum Dot refuses to call 999 (EastEnders) 

12. The Red Wedding (Game of Thrones) 

13. Nana dies (The Royle Family) 

14. Kylie Platt stabbed in the heart (Coronation Street)

15. The tram crash (Coronation Street) 

16. George Galloway pretending to be a cat (Celebrity Big Brother) 

17. Arthur Fowler's breakdown (EastEnders) 

18. Margo drinks Tom and Barbara's home brewed wine (The Good Life) 

19. Rylan getting through to the X Factor live shows (X Factor) 

20. Ted Finally Meets the Mother (How I Met Your Mother) 

21. Nikki Grahame's 'Who is she?!' rant (Big Brother 7) 

22. Walter White watches Jesse's girlfriend Jane die - and does nothing (Breaking Bad)

23. David Brent dances (The Office) 

24. Colin Firth's Mr Darcey emerges from the lake (Pride and Prejudice) 

25. The Brexit discussion (Love Island)

26. Carrie Bradshaw finally gets together with Mr Big (Sex and the City) 

27. Tony Soprano hears the restaurant door open and looks up... (The Sopranos finale)

28. Zammo's drug overdose (Grange Hill) 

29. Matthew Crawley's Car Accident (Downton Abbey) 

30. Matthew's Christmas proposal to Lady Mary (Downton Abbey

Published: 14 Jul 2020