I love when Bertie begins playing the piano at 49:45 and it morphs into the theme tune at the end. It's little touches like that which makes this show splendid.
"Everybody wears things with their initials on them nowadays." "I thought the practice was restricted to those who were in danger of forgetting their names, sir."
Now here is one place where I don't agree with Jeeves. In the book, the opposition to monogramming comes from the fact that everyone seems to be doing it at that time. That doesn't make it wrong. Especially with handkerchiefs. Handkerchiefs are our one accessory that is likely to be given to someone else temporarily. You're at a funeral, or someone next to you sneezes and doesn't have disposable tissues nearby. The polite thing to do when lent a handkerchief is to launder it and then give it back. As a result it's always smart to have a monogram in your handkerchief if you can.
@@RasheedahNizam I guess that shows that you are not a gentleman then (neither am I if it comes to that). This is not a matter of being smart (it never is if you are of the gentry) but a matter what is appropriate for your class and what is not. If you lend a handkerchief you naturally expect them to return it because they are of the gentry too, it is the gentlemanly thing to do. And if you do not get it back then you do not hanker after it.
TRAIN SHIPS mr Spode not sir Spode lol he doesn’t get a title until his uncle dies and he gets the title lord sidcup and he then gets addressed as lord sidcup,or your lordship,sorry to be anal lol
Utter brilliance. As complex as a Hitchcock thriller, with wonderful writing and acting. Superb from start to finish. And how did Jeeves get on top of that wardrobe so quickly!
This was so well done. If ever there were two people made for these characters. I remember watching Jeeves and Wooster when it first aired and loved it then too. Fry and Laurie have come a long way. From a double act doing the comedy circuit to becoming household names. And well deserved.
Read 90% of PGW in high school. Never imagined the nuances could be reproduced so brilliantly on camera, actually surpassing all expectations. Best part is, just like any PGW book, one can watch this n number of times and still experience that term ROFL .
LOVE this show. Perfect for a Sunday evenings viewing on a crisp cold Winter where there's not a cloud in the sky, Sun's going down, a thin film of fog hanging near the ground, while you're inside your warm home with a Guard around the Fire Hearth. Ahhhh, the joy of just thinking about it lol.
This is the cutest and funniest Spode episode. John Turner was hilarious as Spode. He really made those scenes light up. Got me laughing even as he's banging on the door with both hands. His expression when he turns to look at Bertie spouting on about Ulalie. ..or however you spell it. Absolutely hilarious stuff.
I feel the same way! I laugh at him constantly during most of his scenes! He's really at his best when he's angry or making speeches. John Turner did an amazing job, overacting just enough to make it believable and not cartoonish!
Students of brilliant cinematography will notice the wonderful use of the mirrors in Stiffy’s room as she’s talking to Bertie and Jeeves. The mirrors and the actors are all perfectly placed. 22:25 - 23:30
What I love about this series? I am a language nerd(English), and I love the use of language in it. When you realize most movie/tv scripts are written on the level of a 10 year old, this is standard practice in the industry, then a series like this is so refreshing.
Utterly right. Jeeves and Wooster revive the right way to enunciate the English language. I feel so replenished when I here the accents in this series.
@@nilgiridreaming Yeah, I love Bertie's accent and also the Accent Barmy has. I love English and Irish accents, especially the Irish.( the Irish police man trope still holds strong) Pity there are not many Irish men, I love deciphering what they say.
Yah hah, mate ! Indeed ! Greetings from your fellow Grammer Nazi ! The whole show seems to be a commentary on the 5 year old compatible language that most shows use, And in that Rocky Rockmettler episode, Rocky even complains how Jeeves' lang. Is too hard for him. I love such episodes Soooo much.
I increasingly believe that, in general, movies and TV scripts up to the early70;s were written by people who read books; after that, generally by people who grew up watching TV Of course these scripts here are slight modifications of PG Wodehouse, as we know, and like you, I greatly appreciate the fact. A great job was done with the Brideshead Revisited Script (to which John Mortimeer slightly contributed). Mortimer's Rumpole also makes good use of language.
Oh god - The Black Shorts - pure comedic genius. For clarity for those unfamiliar with the nuances of British history, The Black Shirts were the common name of the pre-war British fascist movement.
I love this show (despite feeling “less than” sometimes!). I literally looked up “eulalie” thinking I’d missed something due to the accents and British references. Oh fa… Love it!!!
Jeeves’s face at 36:38 is my favorite thing... he makes a (subtle, of course) face of surprise at fink-nottle giving away the notebook, but when bertie drops the sword, he turns around and gives him a look of judgment as if he’s thinking “your friend might be an idiot but you’re no better if you go about dropping things when you’re surprised!” Fry’s Jeeves is excellent.
Lovely in all ways. Made in 1991 and nicely mocking of Spode. All characters played brilliantly. The language is wonderful. I sometimes think I am one of the few alive in England who still uses were for the subjunctive etc. It takes me back to the days when TV was allowed to present this kind of 1930s world and time and speech.
A columnist who I can't recall, about twenty five years ago, had a running thread where people wrote in, stating who they found attractive, and why this might be unusual and not widely shared. This comment reminds me of that. It may have been Movieline magazine, but I'm not sure.
At the end of this episode Jeeves mixes a cocktail. There seems to be a milky liquid being poured out of the cocktail shaker and a bottle of Cointreau on the table. I looked it up and when Cointreau is mixed with water it produces a milky liquid (the Ouzo effect). In other words it looks like Jeeves is mixing up an authentic cocktail.
"I just came to give Stephanie a newt" Of course Madeleine would think "newt" was a euphemism. Nobody seeing a couple struggling on a bed would think the struggling began because the man was trying to give the woman "a newt to soften her up" "And Ha, Bloody Ha, to you, with double knobs on!" This scathing abuse hurled at Wooster was fortunately interrupted by Jeeves, because it seems that Stephanie had already won the exchange. So well written, and plays her role perfectly. This is set in the interwar period like Poirot and both productions were lush and faithful to the recreation of both Christie and PGs vision of those times.
"You are not to Bad at it either, I might use some lessons from you , I say !" Is what Spode should have said. It would ahve been so Nerve breaking for Gussie. Wodehouse was in Backtalker's Guild, and It's Confirmed !
@@RoninDave Well, if Ronin is an Irish name perhaps you could ponder a method to stop your country giving itself away again! (Diarmuid McMurrough gave Ireland to the NORMANS, that is the so called FRENCH....)
Capers galore..laughed all way thru this one..this series gives you insight into how ridiculously mad live could be…if only some of this was true Maybe not..🎉
4:10 Are you saying I'm out? Haha! Wonderful to see cricket on Jeeves and Wooster. P.G. Wodehouse was a massive fan, so is Stephen Fry. Fun fact: Stephen is distantly related to the legendary cricketer (and author and footballer and long jumper and oh-so-nearly King of Albania) C.B.Fry. I wonder if PG and CB ever met.
#loreal9110 Thank you ever so much for putting Jeeves and Wooster on here! I shared it with my sister who read the book but never saw this series. She loves it, and I love sharing them with her! We're on Season 2 now.
It's the most scandalous incident in "Totleigh Towers," which is way milder than the unfortunate 'incident' involving a certain Turkish gentleman named Mr Pamuk in "Downton Abbey"
In the text, Gussie doesn't accost Stiffy on the bed. She's carrying the notebook in her stocking, so Gussie accosts her on the piano bench. It was the most risqué sexual innuendo I remember in any of his stories.
Lol When I was very young, I would have a recurring dream featuring Scotty dogs. They were nightmares. I'm not sure if I had them because I was afraid of dogs when I was little, or vice-versa. Chicken or the egg? Luckily I grew out of that fear, but I still think of those dreams when I see the little Terriers . 😅😅😁
Reginald Jeeves: “I hesitate to contradict you, Mr. Spode, but the working masses and I have barely a nodding acquaintanceship.” This is the correct version of what was said.
