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Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves are fictional characters, created by British author [[PG ~~Wodehouse~~ ~~(Creator)~~|PG Wodehouse]]. They have appeared in many comedic short stories and novels published between 1915 and 1974.

Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves are fictional characters, created by British author [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]. They have appeared in many comedic short stories and novels published between 1915 and 1974.

Wodehouse's most famous [[Upperclass Twit]], Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster, is also the character who probably best embodies Wodehouse's gift for language. Bertie may be "mentally negligible", but as narrator of his own adventures he expresses himself with a loopy eloquence virtually unmatched in literature, giving this series its much-beloved [[Cloudcuckoolander]] sense of humor.

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The Jeeves stories were also the basis and inspiration for an [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] musical, ''Jeeves'', which was released in 1975 and failed so spectacularly both critically and commercially that it's still thought of as Webber's only real flop. However, in 1996 the musical was reworked, rewritten and re-released as ''By Jeeves'', which was far more successful and got generally positive reviews.

Perhaps most famously, the Jeeves stories formed the basis of the popular early '90s series ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', starring [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Hugh Laurie]], respectively.

Perhaps most famously, the Jeeves stories formed the basis of the popular early '90s series ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', starring [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Hugh Laurie]], respectively.

In 2008, a josei manga adaptation of the Jeeves novels, called ''Please, Jeeves'' and drawn by Bun Katsuta, began serialization in Hana to Yume's ''Melody''.

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* [[Compromising Memoirs]]: Sir Watkin writes his Memoirs and several parties take offense at the depiction of the now respectable pillars of society as the kind of roaring youths that would not have gone out of place in the Drones Club. Oddly enough, this does not include most of the people so depicted, who seem to like the idea that the youth may realise that they too were young once.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia Travers, whom he pointedly refers to as "my good aunt".

* [[Cut His Heart Out ~~With~~ a Spoon]]: Betie is often the recipient of threats of this kind. One such example can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4MgQD7VJZY&feature=relmfu here]

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: Betie is often the recipient of threats of this kind. One such example can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4MgQD7VJZY&feature=relmfu here]

* [[Dark Secret]]: Jeeves reveals wannabe Fascist leader Roderick Spode's terrible secret to Bertie: {{spoiler|Spode also owns a popular ladies' lingerie boutique}}. Even Bertie quickly catches on to the possibilities for blackmail.

{{quote| '''Bertie''': You can't be a successful Dictator and {{spoiler|design womens' underclothing}}. One or the other. Not both.}}

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** In-canon, during ''The Code of the Woosters''. Specifically, "Eulalie." It's revealed at the end of the book.

** Subverted when Bertie takes every opportunity he can to tell you what happened that night with Tuppy Glossop and the swimming baths.

* [[Not Good ~~With~~ People]]: Gussie Fink-Nottle finds newts easy, people difficult. Especially women.

* [[Not Good with People]]: Gussie Fink-Nottle finds newts easy, people difficult. Especially women.

* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Bertie attempts this on more than one occasion, usually with disastrous results.

* [[Opposites Attract]]: To Bertie's constant annoyance, high-powered and brainy women seem to find him, or at least the prospect of whipping him into intellectual shape, romantically irresistible.