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'''Judge:''' Quiet, Dr. Crippen! }}
** A (brief) explanation. Dr. Crippen murdered his wife and fled with his secretary to America. He was caught (on board the ship, the first major case invovling wireless/radio). Bertie is thick-witted enough to take a "criminal" name as an alias. A rough modern equivalent would be calling yourself "Ted Bundy".
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Bertie manages to attract a large number of women. Then again, he's rich, not too hard on the eyes and quite a pleasant person.
** Jeeves too
{{quote|'''Waitress:''' (to Jeeves) Say, you're pretty cute, you know that?
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** When we see him practicing a speech by himself, he simply exclaims the key words of his policies in order, all dripping with dramatic intent (Bicycles! Umbrellas! Brussel sprouts!) making his own cheering audience sounds between each to further increase the effect.
*** All of this underlines the fact that it is all a massive [[Ego Trip]] and that despite his best efforts, his movement is tiny. There is something so much funnier about ludicrous policies delivered with such obvious intensity and intent but with almost no-one listening.
*** Specifically, if you actually listen to his speeches, you will not only notice plenty of [[Cloudcuckoolander]] ideas ([[Insane Troll Logic|replacing 27,000 miles of railway track in order to widen their spacing by eight inches to facilitate the transportation of livestock, paid for by the fact that sheep will be able to stand sideways]]), but also a lot of mixed metaphors ("to take up the reins of the ship of state") and sentences which he thinks will be profound sound-bites but clearly show that he has no idea what he's talking about ("Rome may have been built in a day, [[Punctuated!
* [[Love Freak]]: Madeline Bassett
* [[Majored in Western Hypocrisy]]: An episode where Bertie blacks up and attempts [[You No Take Candle|caveman-speak]] to impersonate a visiting African chief is arguably saved from cringeworthiness when the real chief shows up and turns out to have been educated in England and be better-spoken than Bertie.
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* [[Metaphorgotten]]:
{{quote|'''Spode''': Because he's a butterfly, who toys with women's hearts and throws them aside like soiled gloves!
'''Bertie''': [[Literal
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: In one episode, Madeline continually walks in on Gussie in compromising but completely innocent positions with other women.
* [[Name and Name]]
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* [[Status Quo Is God]]: An episode may begin with Jeeves giving notice or Bertie getting engaged, but things are always back to normal by the end. This trope is less applicable to the supporting characters, who ''do'' sometimes undergo major life-changes.
* [[Stealth Insult]]:
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{{quote|'''Bertie:''' Oh, stop playing with the hat, Jeeves. I knew you wouldn't like it.
'''Jeeves:''' Oh, not at all, sir! }}
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{{quote|'''Bertie:''' She gave it to me, you know. Trying to improve my mind, I dare say.
'''Jeeves:''' That seems scarcely possible, sir. }}
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