Jeeves and Wooster (TV series): Difference between revisions

'''Jeeves''': ''[[Genre Savvy|Experience, sir?]]'' }}

 

 

The plots tend to be quite similar - a friend of Bertie's is in love but they lack the courage to propose/their family doesn't approve of the match/they've forgotten the girl's name and address, and they require Bertie to propose in their stead/pretend to be engaged to their fiancee/pose as a burglar to make them look heroic when they foil him; this will go wrong and Bertie will get unwillingly engaged to someone, or be caught stealing something, or both. At the last minute everything will turn out all right and Jeeves will explain how he solved everything. Grateful at being saved from the altar or prison (or both) once again, Bertie will give permission for Jeeves to book the cruise he's been angling for, or destroy the hat of Bertie's he dislikes; inevitably, Jeeves has already done so.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: During the first season, the blonde Madeline Bassett was portrayed by a brunette. Both actresses who were cast as the platinum blonde Florence Craye were also brunettes. Finally, the hair of the actress who portrayed Bobbie Wickham during the first season could hardly be described as a vivid shade of red (or any shade of red unless you squinted really hard).

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: In several of the stories Bertie tries to fix things on his own, invariably making them ten times worse, and realising that the only one who can get him out of this mess is Jeeves. He often seems to have forgotten this lesson by the beginning of the next story.

* [[Apron Matron]]: Aunt Dahlia

* [[Arc Words]]: More like Episode Words: "Eulalie" and "Celia."

* [[Compromising Memoirs]]: Sir Watkin's memoirs become the centre of a truly awesome farce.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Aunt Dahlia is this, I don't care what anyone says.

** [[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.

** [[Large Ham|Spode is capable of speaking in a quiet and calm manner, he just rarely does so.]]

* [[No Name Given]]: Jeeves. His first name isn't revealed until the final episode.

* [[Oireland]]: There's an episode in which Gussie and Spode are hired to play a pair of stage Irishmen named Pat and Mike for the village talent show. They put on woolly green beards and wave around umbrellas. Gussy really can't do the accent and Spode doesn't even bother. Much like the episode with the blackface minstrels, it managed to avoid being offensive just by being utterly ludicrous.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted in Sir Roderick Glossop and Roderick Spode; Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps and Cyril Bassington-Bassington; and Brinkly the valet and Brinkly Court.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Over four seasons, we have had two Gussies, three Madelines, two Agathas, two Barmies, four Dahlias?

** Reaches [[Mind Screw]] levels when you realize that the first Madeline ''comes back'' as the ''second Florence.'' Especially bizarre in the last episode where the two characters ''actually share scenes.''

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Sir Watkyn Bassett, J. Washburn Stoker, and Sir Roderick Glossop.

* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: Usually from Sir Watkyn Bassett, trying to prevent his young ward Stephanie from marrying the Rev. Harold "Stinker" Pinker.

* [[Politically-Correct History]]: A definite aversion as the series manages to have scenes in blackface still be humorous, shows the segregation of America during the time period, and perhaps most notably, is accurate to the books in showing Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts dressed as the [[wikipedia:British Union of Fascists|British Union of Fascists]]. It is still toned down from the original books, which has Bertie blacking up to blend in with a group of black minstrels and features characters freely using the N-word..

* [[Produce Pelting]]: Featured in the episode with the opera singer.

* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: See [[Heroic BSOD]] above; Bertie's friends' more garish fashion decisions seem to cause Jeeves actual physical discomfort.

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Subverted in "Introduction on Broadway" when we finally do get to see Corky's hideously Cubist painting.

* [[Theme and Variations Soundtrack]]: The jazzy opening theme tune gets reworked to set all kinds of different moods.

* [[They Stole Our Act]]: In one episode, Jeeves deliberately arranges for this to occur, as part of his current scheme.

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