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[eirinstiva]

Too many questions

What ho! After the last and very festive letter regarding Jeeves, I finally write my comments. It was fun but left me with many, maaaany questions.

Did Aunt Agatha plan Bertie and Sir Roderick reunion? Does she really want to marry Bertie to Honoria? Was Sir Roderick disposed to give Bertie a second chance?

[Sir Roderick during this letter]

Did Roberta have some feelings for Bertie? How can the Wickhams deal with such naughty woman? Does she cause disasters with different ideas or use the same ones on repeat? Does she want to see the world on fire?

Was a coincidence that Jeeves didn't cancel the tickets to Monte Carlo? Did he plan all of this from the beggining or he improvised? Did Jeeves get inside information again? Did Jeeves meet Roberta before this story? How much money did he win at monte Carlo?...

[zdeno]

[uozlulu]

Reading part 1 of "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" and it's like:

Honoria: When we are married, you must get rid of Jeeves My Immediate Reaction: [Honoria Glossop singing "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne all "Hey hey you you I don't like your valet" at the table like we're in a musical with back up vocals courtesy of Aunt Agatha]

[dathen]

Biffy cast an imploring look at me.

“You’ll come too, Bertie?”

There was such agony in his eyes that I only hesitated for a second. A pal is a pal.

Agreeing to go on an outing with the dreaded Roderick Glossop for the sake of a friend…Bertie really is the truest soul even if not the brightest star in the sky….

“Would it be too much if I asked you to give me a seat in the car, sir? I had thought of going to Wembley myself this afternoon.”

At least he gets a date with Jeeves out of it!!

[funnuraba]

Modern Wodehouse (or "Jeeves get iPad")

-Ukridge canceled

-Jeeves briefly wrenched from Bertie's employment when the startup he was hired through goes belly up

-Spode super-canceled

-Ten women go viral for exposing "Tuppy from London"

-Stiffy dumps Stinker for refusing to try pegging. (Bertie: Trying jeggings, did she say? JEEVES: No, sir. BERTIE: Ah. Speaking of jeggings-- JEEVES: No, sir.) Jeeves eventually reveals a Bible verse that convinces Stinker pegging can be a god-honoring experience

-Ukridge re-canceled

-Lady Constance furious with entire younger Threepwood generation after finding their groupchat where they have a running tournament to see who can bait her into saying the most unhinged thing about Mr BaXtEr

-Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member have competing 132-part TikTok stories

- Stilton threatens Bertie's life for saying "all coppers are blighters"

-Rodney Spelvin gives up on his Timothy Bobbin poetry after entering a charity livestream of Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby

-Ukridge debuts 4th, uncanceled alt account; Corky exposes him to Gawker

-George Cyril Wellbeloved accuses Psmith of cosplaying socialism and Psmith deflects by explaining polyamory to him

-Lady Constance takes Lord Emsworth's iPad away because he won't stop looking at his livestream of the Empress sleeping

-Sir Roderick Glossop recommends Bertie LSD, first combatively and later as a friend. Jeeves starts quoting Reefer Madness around the home ("It has been observed that if you do drugs, sir, you go to Hell before you die." "And who observed that, Jeeves?" "The late Captain Lou Albano, sir, speaking in his capacity as Super Mario.")

-Rosie M. Banks writes billionaire CEO Marine shifter omegaverse HEA romance; Lady Constance considers inviting her to Blandings but then actually picks up a book and is immensely disturbed by their taboo themes of marrying poor people

-Aunt Dahlia was really into the DIY zine scene and refuses to take Milady's Boudoir digital

-Bingo in hot water after throwing little Algernon's iPad into the fireplace over a Baby Shark incident

-Literally everyone assumes Baxter and Lady Constance are having an affair, but finally Julia hires someone to hack their Facebook DMs, and it's just the dryest, most autistically formal exchanges any two human beings have ever produced and Julia is like 😑 Connie... only you would pick a man so stuffy that neither of you even thinks of having an affair in the middle of your affair

[huanglaoshu]

"We have to take into consideration the fact that Mr. Runkle is..." "Yes? You hesitate, Jeeves. Mr. Runkle is what?" "The expression I am trying to find eludes me, sir. It is one I have sometimes heard you use to indicate a deficiency of sweetness and light in some gentleman of your acquaintance. You have employed it of Mr. Spode or, as I should say, Lord Sidcup, and, in the days before your association with him took on its present cordiality, of Mr. Glossop's uncle, Sir Roderick. It is on the tip of my tongue." "A stinker?" No, he said, it wasn't a stinker. "A tough baby?" "No." "A twenty-minute egg?" "That was it, sir. Mr. Runkle is a twenty-minute egg."

-- Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, chapter 12

[spotforme]

some Jeeves characters as different cheeses:

Bingo = emmental

Gussie = american cheese

Jeeves = smoked edam

Rocky = mozzarella

Cynthia = cumin cheese

Steggles = cheddar

Roderick Glossop = gouda

Bertie = blue cheese

Bicky = koskenlaskia

Barmy = feta cheese

Corky = processed cheese

Claude & Eustache = port salut

[bitchycasenthusiast]

Enough about Jeeves, we need to talk more about archenemies to besties Bertie Wooster and Roderick Glossop

[ao3feed-jeevesandwooster]

The Purple Sock

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/fPq8B2S " by Small_Hobbit Sir Roderick Glossop has come to lunch. Words: 434, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Reginald Jeeves, Roderick Glossop Relationships: Reginald Jeeves & Bertram "Bertie" Wooster " read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/55702909

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

J&W S01E01 “Jeeves Takes Charge”

Adapted from: Jeeves Takes Charge (obviously), The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded/Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch (with a bit of dialogue from Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind)

If nothing else I appreciate this show for giving me a visual image of what the Drones club actually looks like, which is something that has always eluded me (to be honest I only have the barest understanding of how these English clubs work or what you do in them, and that IS an invitation to explain it to me if anyone would care to)

In this version of their first meeting, the attempted fiancée is Honoria rather than Florence

I was apprehensive about the idea of Jeeves emoting (which I understand is a necessity when you don’t have the benefit of Bertie’s narration), but I liked Stephen Fry’s disapproving look about Bertie’s suit, which was understated enough to still more or less look like Jeeves but pronounced enough to be read by viewers who lack B’s superhuman ability to interpret J’s eyebrow twitches

In the next scene B is wearing the suit J wanted him to wear. Love that

Actor playing Bingo is flawless no notes

Similarly to the interior of the Drones Club, I appreciate seeing visually what Jeeves is actually doing/how he’s physically positioned while he’s performing his duties. My mental image of this while reading the books was always very vague

THAT’S where the word “thingness” comes from! I see it in fanfics all the time and kept expecting it to show up in the books but it never did. It’s a very good word, I wish it HAD been in the books

Honoria is like “but does he even WANT to marry me?” In a just universe she would’ve been an equal party in the hijinks from the start

Sir Roderick Glossop looks exactly like I pictured him

It’s a good thing Jeeves came up with the fish and cats scheme because Bertie is doing a great job acting sane and normal

It took book Bertie until the very last book to come up with the idea of saying that Jeeves is an expert cat-imitator. In neither canon do we get to see Jeeves actually imitating a cat and I think that’s a travesty

This seems promising

[wotwotleigh-prime]

Jeeves and Wooster vs. Plum, Part 2

S1e2: Tuppy and the Terrier

The second episode of Jeeves and Wooster is again based on three of the short stories, all of which were eventually published in Very Good, Jeeves: “Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit,” “Jeeves and the Song of Songs,” and “Episode of the Dog McIntosh.” There are also elements borrowed from “Jeeves and the Kid Clementina,” which was published in the same book.

One general difference I wanted to mention before I go on is that the TV episodes are not arranged in the same order as the stories and novels. For the most part, it doesn’t really matter, but it does lend a slightly different feeling to the development of events and the relationships between the characters. For example, Bertie spent a lot more time early in the stories bouncing around in America, whereas most of that takes place later in the show. These particular stories take place after most of Bertie’s American adventures in the book!timeline.

Anyway, let’s look at how these episodes stack up against their corresponding stories!

There are a few general changes here that make a great deal of sense. For instance, the three main stories involved here seem to take place over a longer period of time in the book (maybe a few months), whereas in the episode they are compressed into a few days, or maybe a couple of weeks at the most. The order of events is somewhat changed to help the stories fit together more seamlessly, too. For instance, McIntosh is with Bertie from the very start of the episode, meaning he’s there through the events of both “Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit” and “Episode of the Dog McIntosh.” Bertie also first meets Cora when he’s at Bobbie Wickham’s country house at the start of the episode.

Also, as the title suggests, “Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit” was originally a Christmas story, not that the Christmas setting really matters that much. The only thing that’s really lost is Jeeves’s brutally chipper “Merry Christmas, sir!” when he greets Bertie in the morning after he’s spent a terrible night sleeping in an armchair post-water bottle incident. Oh Jeeves, you magnificent bastard.

But there are several other big changes to the events of “Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit” that I really don’t get. First of all, Bertie’s rival in the water bottle war was originally Tuppy Glossop, not Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps. Bertie had sworn ~*~*~HIDEOUS REVENGE~*~*~ against Tuppy for betting him he couldn’t swing across the ropes and rings above the Drone’s swimming pool, which ended with Bertie being forced to drop into the pool in full evening attire when he found that Tuppy had looped back the last ring. This was a long-running joke in the short stories and novels, and something for which Bertie never completely forgave Tuppy.

I’m not sure why they chose to change this, because A) it’s hilarious, and B) Tuppy’s right there the whole time in the episode! I guess they just wanted an excuse to feature Barmy? Anyway, this also necessitated giving Bertie a reason to get back at Barmy, hence the extended golf sequence at the beginning where Barmy shows up Bertie in front of Bobbie Wickham.

Also, in the story, Jeeves was particularly salty because they had been planning a Christmas vacation to Monte Carlo, which Bertie canceled in order to visit Bobbie Wickham’s family home. Jeeves’s big goal, other than souring Bertie on Bobbie, was to get the Monte Carlo vacation back on track so he could chill at the casino. Instead, we have a more low-key disagreement over Bertie’s hideous golf trousers, which is an element borrowed from “Jeeves and the Kid Clementina.”

Finally, the original victim of all that water bottle piercing was Sir Roderick Glossop, who was replaced with the new characters Prof. and Madame Cluj. Again, I’m not sure why this was changed. In the short story, the whole incident reinforced Sir Roderick’s notion that Bertie was insane, so Jeeves’s gambit was a double whammy against two marital threats (Honoria and Bobbie).

There are also, as in many of the TV episodes, little touches here and there that seem calculated to make Bertie seem a little dumber. For instance, in “Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit,” Bertie is the one who uses the word espièglerie in reference to Bobbie, not Jeeves (although, as usual, he second-guesses himself about whether it’s the right word).

Otherwise, the events of the episode are fairly similar to those of the stories in question. One difference is that Bertie had already met Blumenfield and son in the short stories, in the early story “Jeeves and the Chump Cyril.” (This story is adapted in the season 3 episode “Introduction on Broadway.”) Bertie is alarmed at the prospect of meeting Blumenfield Jr. again. He’s afraid the kid will tell him he has a face like a fish just like he did to Cyril, in which case Bertie fears he will not be able to resist “doing his upper maxillary a bit of no good.” (“Perhaps the young gentleman will not notice that you have a face like a fish, sir,” says Jeeves. Harsh, bro.) It is for this reason that Bertie takes off during the lunch and isn’t around to stop Bobbie from giving away McIntosh.

The sequence where Bertie witnesses Jeeves giving Blumenfield Sr. the McIntosh clone and freaks out is also a change from the story. Originally, Jeeves explains what he has done after the fact. It’s a solid change, IMO, because that scene is hilarious.

It’s also worth noting that Bobbie comes off more sympathetic in the original story than she does in the TV episode. She actually apologizes to Bertie for troubling him with the lunch at his apartment, and, even though she’s the one who gives the dog away in the first place, she ultimately helps Bertie with the scheme to get him back. Bertie is also sympathetic to her desire to make a hit with Blumenfield, and doesn’t seem to hold a lot of ill-will regarding the water bottle prank.

One more minor note: In “Episode of the Dog McIntosh,” Bertie makes reference to the song “I Lift Up My Finger and I Say Tweet Tweet,” which Bertie performs in the season 3 episode “Right Ho, Jeeves.”

The segment with Cora Bellinger and everyone in the universe singing Sonny Boy is a solid adaptation of “Jeeves and the Song of Songs” with few differences that are really worth mentioning. There are changes, but they’re pretty minor. I am sad that we miss out on this particularly Extra monologue from Bertie after Tuppy’s performance of Sonny Boy, though:

“’Come, Jeeves,’ I said, and those standing by wondered, no doubt, what had caused that clean-cut face to grow so pale and set. ‘I have been subjected to a nervous strain unparalleled since the days of the early Martyrs. I have lost pounds in weight and permanently injured my entire system. I have gone through an ordeal, the recollection of which will make me wake up screaming in the night for months to come. And all for nothing. Let us go.’” 

@cuddyclothes (I will cross-post this and Part 1 to G_S later!)

[eirinstiva]

C'est la vie~

What ho! Jeeves and Wooster are back from France!

Amazing how one’s always running across fellows in foreign cities⁠—birds, I mean, whom you haven’t seen for ages and would have betted weren’t anywhere in the neighbourhood.

Bertie and his friends go to the same cities. A good idea would be to visit the countryside.

Did Jeeves sense something in Old Biffy that he didn't like it? Does Jeeves own a problem detection system? Maybe, because Charles Edward Biffen is... just like many of Bertie's friends:

“What do you mean, lost?” “I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn’t know where on earth I was. I’ve been wandering round in circles for hours.” “Why didn’t you ask the way?” “I can’t speak a word of French.” “Well, why didn’t you call a taxi?” “I suddenly discovered I’d left all my money at my hotel.” “You could have taken a cab and paid it when you got to the hotel.” “Yes, but suddenly I discovered, dash it, that I’d forgotten its name.”

The fact that compared to him Bertie is a lot smarter Biffy is says a lot about him.

“What on earth are you doing in Paris?” I asked. “Bertie, old man,” said Biffy, solemnly, “I came here to try and forget.” “Well, you’ve certainly succeeded.”

Another case of broken heart? And I thought we will free of love affairs after Bingo's wedding. I think I'll need a coffee too to deal with this case.

How can somebody forget too many things in one day? How can Biffy forget the surname of his love? How can...? Whatever, Bertie needs somebody at his side and it's not Biffy.

Which, after I had listened to his story, struck me as pretty low-down. However, the longer you live, the more you realize that the good old sporting spirit of give-and-take has practically died out in our midst. So I boosted him into a cab and went off to lunch.

Wait a minute.

Biffy got engaged to Honoria Glossop? THE Honoria Glossop? The smart and athletic Bertie's ex-fiancée? No way!!! I understand how Wooster feels relief and pity at the same time, he got free from Honoria but now Biffy is engaged to her. Maybe you don't like Honoria but she seems to be an interesting woman.

“And it sort of happened with me. You know how it is when your heart’s broken. A kind of lethargy comes over you. You get absentminded and cease to exercise proper precautions, and the first thing you know you’re for it. I don’t know how it happened, old man, but there it is. And what I want you to tell me is, what’s the procedure?”

Biffy is still heartbroken and in the claws of Honoria, but as always, Bertie helps a friend in distress. He's the one who has Jeeves as a valet. "(...) when there is a chance of helping a pal we Woosters have no thought of self."

I don't know why Jeeves doesn't want to help Biffy, but at least Bertie has experience dealing with Sir Roderick. Will his plan work? Wait until the next letter. Pip pip!

[themaninthegreenshirt]

I’ve told you how I got engaged to Honoria Glossop in my efforts to do young Bingo Little a good turn. Well, on this particular morning she had lugged me round to Aunt Agatha’s for lunch, and I was just saying “Death, where is thy jolly old sting?” when I realised that the worst was yet to come.

“Bertie,” she said, suddenly, as if she had just remembered it, “what is the name of that man of yours—your valet?”

“Eh? Oh, Jeeves.”

“I think he’s a bad influence for you,” said Honoria.“

"When we are married you must get rid of Jeeves."

It was at this point that I jerked the spoon and sent six of the best and crispest sailing on to the sideboard, with Spenser gambolling after them like a dignified old retriever.

"Get rid of Jeeves!" I gasped.

“Yes. I don’t like him.”

“I don’t like him,” said Aunt Agatha.

“But I can’t. I mean—why, I couldn’t carry on for a day without Jeeves.”

P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch

[sherlock-is-ace]

Jeeves and Wooster casting

Because the casting director of this show was on drugs... I decided to compile the various changes in actors throughout the seasons. Because I know it was a pain in the ass for me to keep track of who was who (I thought I had prosopagnosia for a second lol)

Aunt Agatha

Mary Wimbush (series 1, 2 and 3)

Elizabeth Spriggs (series 4)

Madeline Bassett

Francesca Folan (series 1)

Diana Blackburn (series 2)

Elizabeth Morton (series 3 and 4)

Aunt Dahlia

Brenda Bruce (series 1)

Vivian Pickles (series 2)

Patricia Lawrence (series 3)

Jean Heywood (series 4)

Gussie Fink-Nottle

Richard Garnett (series 1 and 2)

Richard Braine (series 3 and 4)

Bingo Little

Michael Siberry (series 1 and 2)

Pip Torrens (series 3 and 4)

Sir Roderick Glossop

Roger Brierley (series 1 and 2)

Philip Locke (series 4)

Stiffy Byng

Charlotte Attenborough (series 2 and 4)

Amanda Harris (series 3)

Florence Craye

Fiona Gillies (series 3)

Francesca Folan (series 4)

Bonus:

Richard Braine as Rupert Steggles in series 1

[dathen]

But I had hung up the receiver. Shaken. That’s what I was. S. to the core.

Hey Bertie do you know where Sir Roderick Glossop isn’t? MONTE CARLO

Stop me if I’ve told you this before, but, in case you don’t know, let me just mention the facts in the matter of this Glossop.

ADHD behavior to include disclaimers about repeating yourself, even in writing, cause you know you’ve got a habit of doing it

(also love how the phrasing really does make it sound like it’s a letter from our pal Bertie vs even an in-universe published book)

[funnuraba]

RUPERT BAXTER: the man, physically

SOMETHING FRESH: Wiry-haired, with rimless spectacles and a sharp nose (glasses are steel-rimmed in later appearances)

LEAVE IT TO PSMITH:

Swarthy and thick-set with a bad complexion (bad complexion never mentioned again; possibly another early-century subtlety I'm not getting?) Also a "domelike" brow, which Wodehouse associates phrenologically with intelligence (see Jeeves and Sir Roderick Glossop)

“Dark” and “swarthy” are both used regularly, but in the time and context of the stories this means a white guy with dark hair who tans instead of burning—unfortunately if he were a man of color there would be quite a different description. As we know from Wodehouse himself.

Thick-set is also tricky to nail down—LitP describes it as a trait that makes him less pleasant to look at than Lady Constance, but then Baxter himself comments mentally on R. Jones being fat.

SUMMER LIGHTNING:

Heavy eyebrows

UNCLE FRED IN THE SPRINGTIME:

Sturdy and well-knit, apparently comparable to Ricky Gilpin in frame if not musculature?!?!

Square jaw

THE CRIMEWAVE AT BLANDINGS has him using a “throaty baritone” when screaming in pain, whereas Uncle Fred has him singing in a “pleasant tenor”. A typical Wodehousian inconsistency. He also develops trouble with smiling, period, which wasn't a problem back in Something Fresh.