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** Subverted when Bertie takes every opportunity he can to tell you what happened that night with Tuppy Glossop and the swimming baths.
** 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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: A regularly-appearing plot development.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: A regularly-appearing plot development.
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* [[Serial Romeo]]: Bingo Little.
* [[Serial Romeo]]: Bingo Little.
* [[Small Town Rivalry]]: In his short story "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" the towns Upper Bleaching and Hockley-cum-Meston have a heated rivalry which is expressed in the form of an annual rugby game known for its violence and injuries.
* [[Small Town Rivalry]]: In his short story "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" the towns Upper Bleaching and Hockley-cum-Meston have a heated rivalry which is expressed in the form of an annual rugby game known for its violence and injuries.
* [[Smoky Gentlemens Club]]: The Drones is one of the archetypical examples.
* [[Smoky Gentlemen's Club]]: The Drones is one of the archetypical examples.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Bertie's narration style fits this, being an interesting combination of witty prose and attempts to quote from the classics, with what is essentially [[Buffy-Speak]].
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Bertie's narration style fits this, being an interesting combination of witty prose and attempts to quote from the classics, with what is essentially [[Buffy-Speak]].
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Jeeves, from a rather awed Bertie's point of view. He frequently describes his valet as "shimmering" from place-to-place.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Jeeves, from a rather awed Bertie's point of view. He frequently describes his valet as "shimmering" from place-to-place.
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In an early chapter of ''Jeeves In The Morning,'' a house burns down. This is barely mentioned throughout the rest of the novel, not even by the owner.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In an early chapter of ''Jeeves In The Morning,'' a house burns down. This is barely mentioned throughout the rest of the novel, not even by the owner.
* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Yes -- oh, yes. Many of Bertie's friends make him look like ''Jeeves'' by comparison.
* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Yes -- oh, yes. Many of Bertie's friends make him look like ''Jeeves'' by comparison.
* [[We Named the Monkey Jack]]: Bertie's [[Embarrassing Middle Name]] is the name of a horse his father won money on.
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: Bertie's [[Embarrassing Middle Name]] is the name of a horse his father won money on.
* [[World of Snark]]: A more idealistic example than most, but ''still''. Even Bertie gets to snark.
* [[World of Snark]]: A more idealistic example than most, but ''still''. Even Bertie gets to snark.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Bertie has to remind himself that a proper gentleman never hits a lady, when he deals with girls like Bobbie Wickham.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Bertie has to remind himself that a proper gentleman never hits a lady, when he deals with girls like Bobbie Wickham.
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