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'''Jeeves''': ''[[Genre Savvy|Experience, sir?]]'' }}
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Honoria Glossop, Florence Craye, and Madeleine Bassett. Rare examples where the primary problems are with their personalities, and not their appearances.
** With Honoria Glossop it is more the case of [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]], which is a special case of Bertie who is mortally afraid of strong-willed women mainly due to bad experiences with his aunts.
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: In the last season, Jeeves has to dress as a female novelist. Bertie finds his feminine appearance rather amusing, but Stilton Cheesewright finds him more attractive than his ex-fiancee. (Just to remind you, Jeeves is played by [[Stephen Fry]], [[The Big Guy|who is nearly six-and-a-half feet tall, and does not have what you would call a traditionally feminine build]].)
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Jeeves is the master of the Gambit, based on what he calls "the psychology of the individual."
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* [[Beach Bury]]: In the episode where Bertie is staying by the seaside and his aunt's necklace gets stolen, there's a scene that opens with Bertie already buried, which hampers his ability to run away from the girl of the week when she shows up. One can only assume that he asked Jeeves to bury him.
* [[Because I'm Jonesy]]: In season 1 episode 5, "Brinkley Manor," Jeeves is away and Bertie is forced to take care of himself. While he is struggling to make tea, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps arrives for a visit. When the phone rings, Bertie asks Barmy to answer it and pretend he is Jeeves.
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'''Bertie:''' Who was it?
'''Barmy:''' Jeeves! }}
* [[Bedsheet Ladder]]: Subverted. Gussie wanted to use Bertie's sheet to escape. Bertie refused to let him, as much because it wouldn't work as because he didn't want his sheets dirty and knotted.
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* [[Big No]]: Sir Watkyn Bassett, upon learning of {{spoiler|Bertie and Madeleine's "engagement"}}.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Very much Jeeves' modus operandi, although other characters occasionally engage in it as well in an emergency, such as when Bertie locks Lord Chiswick in a room to prevent Ms. Rockmetteller from meeting him:
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'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' There's somebody in that room!
'''Bertie:''' Er... no, it's an earthquake.
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' An earthquake?
'''Bertie:''' Well, more of a tremor, really. Nothing to worry about.
''(more banging and shouting)''
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' There's somebody in there, I say!
'''Bertie:''' Yes, um... it might be Jeeves. Oh dear, it's stuck. ''(turns to door)'' It's alright, Jeeves. The door's stuck again. It keeps jamming, particularly after a tremor.
'''Lord Chiswick:''' ''(through door)'' This door is locked!
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' He said it's locked!
'''Bertie:''' Yyyyes, it did sound like that, didn't it? What he actually said was "the whole building rocked".
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' Rocked?
'''Bertie:''' Yes, it's alright, Jeeves. We'll have you out of there in no time.
'''Jeeves:''' ''(coming from the kitchen)'' I've brought you some fresh tea, sir.
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' That's Jeeves!
'''Jeeves:''' Yes, madam?
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' Then who is in that room?
'''Jeeves:''' In that room, madam? The painter. The room is being redecorated, I lock him in until he's finished. He's a fine craftsman but unreliable. ''(turns to door)'' Get back you your work! You can have a drink when you finished and not before! ''(turns back to Ms. Rockmetteller)'' Would you like some tea, Ms. Rockmetteller?
'''Ms. Rockmetteller:''' No! No... I was going out for a walk... yes... ''(turns to leave)''
'''Jeeves:''' Very good, madam. Good afternoon, Ms. Rockmetteller. ''(closes the door after her, unlocks the bedroom door)''
'''Lord Chiswick:''' The blasted door was locked!
'''Jeeves:''' I'm so sorry, your grace. That was my doing, there were reporters present from the Daily Chronicle and I did not have the time to warn your grace.
'''Lord Chiswick:''' Reporters! The devils are on my trail already!
** Occasionally subverted for comic effect when Jeeves DOESN'T lie even when he has suggested the subterfuge, although normally for the greater good, but still with hilarious consequences.
*** On this occasion Bertie (at Jeeves' suggestion) attempts to cover for Wilmot's short stay in prison by telling his overbearing mother that he is in Boston
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'''Lady Malvern''' Then how do you account Mr Wooster, that when I went to Blackwells Island Prison to collect material for my book I saw poor dear Wilmot there dressed in a striped suit and walking the exercise yard with a pack of criminals ?
'''Bertie''' Really ?
'''Lady Malvern''' So this is how you have been looking after my poor dear boy Mr Wooster ?
'''Wilmot Malvern entres with Jeeves looking as if nothing had happened'''
'''Wilmot''' Mother! Good Heavens!
'''An awkward pause'''
'''Wilmot''' I've been to Buffalo.
'''Lady Malvern looks disapproving'''
'''Wilmot''' No, no, no... Baltimore!
'''Lady Malvern continues to look unimpressed'''
'''Wilmot''' Jeeves, where have I been, beginning with B ?
'''Jeeves''' Prison sir ?
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Jeeves doesn't give a fig if Bertie gambles, drinks too much, or commits burglary. {{spoiler|In fact he actively helps Bertie blackmail Roderick Spode for the return of Gussie's notebook. Although he refuses to actually tell Bertie what the secret he has discovered is, he happily equips him with the word 'Eulalie' to do with as he sees fit.}} But he will countenance no fiancées, moustaches, monogrammed handkerchiefs, 'American hats' or white dinner jackets.
* [[Brawn Hilda]]: Honoria Glossop
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** Otherwise mostly averted.
* [[Character Name Alias]]: When Bertie and his friends get arrested.
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'''Bertie:''' I say!
'''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
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'''Jeeves:''' Thank you. So I have been informed.
'''Waitress:''' (Giggling) You really slay me.
'''Bertie:''' Jeeves, you seem to have a fatal fascination with the women in this country.
'''Jeeves:''' Yes, it is a problem, sir.
'''Bertie:''' No chance of your switching it off, or something, I suppose?
'''Jeeves:''' I regret not, sir. I have to learn to bear it.
'''Bertie:''' As do the rest of us, Jeeves. }}
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** [[Large Ham|Spode]] is fond of making threats of this calibre, one particularly fine example can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4MgQD7VJZY&feature=relmfu here]
* [[Dark Secret]]: Jeeves reveals British fascist leader Sir Roderick Spode's terrible secret to Bertie: {{spoiler|Spode owns a ladies' fashion boutique}}. Should this become widely known it would ruin his reputation.
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* [[Dashingly Dapper Derby]]: Jeeves' hat of choice.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Jeeves, Jeeves, Jeeves. A departure from the novels, in which he doesn't (quite as much).
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: "The Delayed Arrival" has both Jeeves and Bertie briefly in drag; Jeeves disguised as an American author, and Bertie as a maid.
* [[The Ditz]]: Cyril 'Barmy' Fotheringay-Phipps
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"[...]Yes, you have. Your mother lives in Kensington."
"Oh, ''that'' Kensington!" }}
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Lord Chuffnell's first name is Marmaduke. His friends all know him as "Chuffy".
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* [[I Have This Friend]]: Bertie never seems to learn that when he says things like 'there is a heart here that yearns for you', it's bound to be taken the wrong way. He ''really does'' have this friend.
* [[Inflationary Dialogue]]: Bertie is trying to pose as author Rosie M. Banks for his friend Bingo's family. Bingo's young cousin asks him how many words there are on a page. Clearly having no idea, he comes out with:
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* [[Informed Flaw|Informed Attribute]]: Despite what Bertie's nearest and dearest seem to think, he shows no signs of insanity. [[Too Dumb to Live|Terminal stupidity]], yes, but not insanity.
** He does have a tendency to put himself into situations that to those unaware of the reasoning (i.e most of the 'adult' characters) seem to be utterly illogical and certainly without explanation might seem a little mad. Having been arrested numerous times, engaged to just about every eligible woman he has met and involved in all manner of hijinks, pranks, attempted burglaries, escapes from the police and general tomfoolery, the weight of evidence might suggest that he is not ''entirely'' normal.
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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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** Another one is that it wouldn't be too surprising if Bertie was named after/alludes to Prince Bertie, the guy the Edwardian Age was named after. While that Bertie was short for Albert (not Bertram), like Bertie Wooster, he had a reputation as a well-meaning but dim hedonist, and had a bad relationship with his [[Grand Dame]] mother, Queen Victoria, much like Bertie's relationship with his aunts.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]:
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'''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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'''Jeeves:''' Oh, not at all, sir! }}
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'''Jeeves:''' That seems scarcely possible, sir. }}
** Jeeves sneaks in a dig at the song "Nagasaki" in response to Bertie's expressed love of the song:
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'''Bertie:''' Yes, Jeeves, that is just the word I would have used. Yes, it makes you want to get up and bally well have a run 'round the park.
'''Jeeves:''' My feelings precisely, sir. }}
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: See [[Heroic BSOD]] above; Bertie's friends' more garish fashion decisions seem to cause Jeeves actual physical discomfort.
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* [[Throwing Out the Script]]: Bertie attempts to help Gussie give a speech by fortifying him with a large quantity of gin. Gussie throws away his notes at the start of the speech and begins saying what he thinks, with things rapidly going downhill from there.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Mostly true for Bertie in some respects, but Jeeves starts to veer in this direction in the first 10-15 minutes or so of "The Full House."
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The title characters to some extent. Bertie and his Aunt Dahlia very much so.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: In spades, although in this case the trope name should be immediately followed by "Ever Get Married." Notably, Madeline and Gussie's on-again off-again engagement is the only one that spans the whole series. In the end, {{spoiler|they don't}}.
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