The two main actors are just perfect for their roles. Similar to Alec Guinness in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. Impossible to think of anyone better suited.
Wonderful episode! I do love Lady Glossop, what an adorable character. The actress, Jane Downs, does a superb job with the part. But so does the whole cast. Pure brilliance.
I love how Jeeves is believably written as the sort of man who can get everyone around him to trust him implicitly and also the sort of man who will get a dozen aristocrats arrested with no scruples in order to save money on wine. What a guy.
Yep! Always appears to be "rescuing" Bertie, but somehow, covert Bolshevik that he is, first ensuring Bertie gets into the scrapes...can't let him marry the Magdalenes, Honoria's and other left on the shelf - can't imagine why... - ladies. In the honey moon carriage /car their first words would be "Get rid of Jeeves..." or more kindly put: "you don't need Jeeves any more, Bertie. You have me to count the daisy chains in the sky for you now..." And where else would Jeeves find such an obliging, good natured dim wit to keep him in the style to which he has determinedly become accustomed ..."Four weeks Marlin fishing, Jeeves...?"
There are so many layers to the plot it is incredible. How many of us had totally forgotten about the Dining Committee rule before it was finally resolved?
Yes. These are produced with such care and attention - it's love, really - like the faded blackface when they're in the dock. There's hilarity in the details.
This is the funniest episode ever. I just laugh my socks off when I see Delia and Sir Roderick Glossop. Brilliant timing and the eccentric guy is beyond humorous. Love it!
The opening credits of "Jeeves & Wooster," both music and animation, are some of the best produced, in my opinion. They are comparable in quality to David Suchet's "Poirot" and Timothy Hutton's "Nero Wolfe" title credits. I would now add "The Durrells of Corfu" to that list too.
Ya know there really is a marked similarity in quality and style between this show’s intro and Poirot’s. I’ve only just recently gotten into the latter and every time the intro plays I think this very thing.
Even better, in my view. I love the tune - it is an original, fairly recent composition, that matches the music of the time. The animation is terrific and perfectly in time with the music. The graphics for Poirot are great. Maury Chaykin is also outstanding in the more recent "Less Than Kind" set in Winnipeg. Having been raised in a prairie city, I was very impressed how much of it occurs in winter, with dirty snow piled up on the sides of wide streets, and the characters wearing ski jackets inside cafes. It was one of Canada's best TV shows, IMHO.
Such is the nature of Bertie's Eton and Oxford education that he quite commonly makes classical references and has no trouble understanding them when made by Jeeves, but events in America in 1776 are completely foreign to him.
"Who's that knocking on my door? ..... Barnacle Bill the Sailor calling on the Lady of Spain! lol. I'd forgotten how dry and witty these Jeeves and Wooster episodes are. Timeless.
I happened upon a Jeeves and Wooster movie with Arthur Treacher and David Niven in the title roles. I only watched it for a little while, I'm afraid I'm spoiled by Fry and Laurie
What-Ho, Rachel! Yes indeed. Hugh and Stephen do indeed seem made for these parts. Added to which, there is love and attention to detail in the production values from Granada Television. This was a golden time for Granada period drama for the Sunday Night slots- their version of Sherlock Holmes, which was being made, broadly; at this time, with Jeremy Brett. That has also become the "definitive" version for many, including me.
Just discovering this series , left the UK before this was made. One of the funniest episodes I’ve seen ,mustn’t see it as offensive to any party. But to see it as a bit of slap stick comedy of the old silent movies. Looking at the comments we seem to have forgotten to laugh at silly situations we read to much into it. Too much analyzing takes the fun out of watching , that everyone is being ridiculed in one or another. It portrays another era of manners and fashion that’s what entertainment is about to forget our everyday troubles.
Thank you for saying what has long been needed to be said. Being locked in one point of view based on the values of the present w/ no accommodation for history or the social mores of another era is a sad commentary on the rigid adherence to the concept of “Political Correctness”. It has turned everything flat & grey, & boring. Sorry, I guess I got carried away, but it’s really great to be able to finally say my say on this subject. It’s so much more fun & rewarding to be open to & enjoy the variations like black face, etc. in context instead of passing harsh righteous judgement on bygone eras!
Little Englander means anti-empire. Clive had naught to do with the new world. ‘Sewers’, what?? There aside buzzard stoned comments here. Jeeves no doubt regrets the colonial policy of the North ministry as a series of easily avoidable errors not consistent with good governance. Painful to dwell on, indeed.
@@jimclark6256 Yeah I think the point is he is a very sad, lonely, mean boy who shoves down and away any potential friend and is clearly incredibly insecure. Whoever he doesn't drive away, his father does. What he finds enjoyable reflects a poverty of the spirit from excess wealth, lack of being raised in good conduct (empathy), and cold perfunctory "parenting" by an asshole
@@Mariah-dy6lu It funny you should say what you did knowing it's a fictional film. And believe it or not the Indians in Cowboy film don't really die when shot.
"Genius doctors?" Quite the oxymoron. I can't watch "House" - upsets the neighbours when I start yelling in exasperation "See a Homeopath why don't you!" And I mean a genuine, skilled, experienced Homeopath. We'd have those "mysterious" symptoms done and dusted before the lab reports got back! ("holistic" is generic. "Homeopathic" is precise, specific and requires considerable skill in practice.)
The portrayal of loud mouthed agressive wealthy yanks in several episodes may be a hint of what the yanks were and still are.A British ancestry,no matter where you call home from the old empire is worth its weight in gold.Jolly Good Show P.G.👍
Thanks so very much for posting these episodes of "Jeeves" - especially "The Mysterious Stranger". My three favorite British actors : Fry, Laurie & Clunes! I ask you, does it get any better?
Much of the conflict comes from what seems easy to say but is left unsaid until the end. Once again, the Foley artist does great justice to someone getting smacked. Glossop's wallop across Seabury's head was great and the slap was perfect.
17:11 -- Notice that Pauline gives her brother, Dwight, a shove because he stopped at the wrong spot upon entering the room. He gives her a rather indignant look in return.
I remember those from my childhood. Not that easy to get the ice out. Jeeves makes it look easy. You had to pour warm water on them sometimes to get the ice out.
My favourite epusode; so many daft lines and 'business' and Clunes is brilliant. Lady of Spain as a leitmotif takes the woofers, and the chase after old boggie. As for Marmaduke's beard; could do better on the covert surveillance front. Love it, love it 😁
You know, I first watched Jeeves and Wooster on TV, then later I read PG Wodehouse stories and was amazed how accurate everything was performed by Fry and Laurie. Crisp Accurate! And all the other secondary characters too! Although I never I understood why they changed the actors - it seems like every new season has a new Bingo or Aunt Agatha. Nevertheless always a joy to come back and watch this! Thx for uploading it!
@@emdiar6588: While I could never claim to be an expert on anything connected to the internet or social media ( I don't even have a cell phone) I will gladly accept & consider any criticism that stems from voicing a personal opinion. Thank you for your erudite response. As I'm sure aware....many things are said tongue in cheek around here.
The ‘Jakarta’ joke is an anachronism. The city was known as ‘Batavia’ in the time of this show, and not re-named until 1942. Need a new joke. How bout: Person A asks person B, a shopkeeper, if he has any soap. Person B inquires “Do you want it scented?” Whereupon Person A ripostes “No, I’ll take it with me!” Thank you, thank you. And I’m here all week.
It’s extraordinary that this _amuse-bouche_ of light entertainment of Wodehouse should have been so sumptuously staged and presented by Fry and Laurie and company. British theatre seems uniquely skilled at presenting period pieces so magnificently.
Glossop was especially hilarious in this episode. Superb character, superb actor.
Yes he was. His singing was truly awful!
Roger Brierley was fantastic
What Ho Glossops ?
"My place is at Mr. Wooster's side" D'awwwwwwww
awwwwwww
awwwwwwww
“Why Jeeves, you old smoothie.” Adorable the way she says that line.
Mrs Glossop: "He's working on his memoirs"
Bertie: "I thought my ears were burning..."
13:45: "Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir." 😅
I love the adroitness with which Jeeves obtains dairy products these last two episodes. First with the milk straight from the cow, now butter!
there is something of perfection in these. I know Wodehouse would approve.
The two main actors are just perfect for their roles.
Similar to Alec Guinness in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.
Impossible to think of anyone better suited.
Wonderful episode! I do love Lady Glossop, what an adorable character. The actress, Jane Downs, does a superb job with the part. But so does the whole cast. Pure brilliance.
mrs stoker: you must be outta gas bertie!
bertie: no..i'm pretty sure these things run on petrol.
😂😂
😂 It is Ms. Stoker, but the way. She is the daughter of Mr. Stoker, you see!
I love how Jeeves is believably written as the sort of man who can get everyone around him to trust him implicitly and also the sort of man who will get a dozen aristocrats arrested with no scruples in order to save money on wine. What a guy.
Jeeves is "upper class" English trash.
Yep! Always appears to be "rescuing" Bertie, but somehow, covert Bolshevik that he is, first ensuring Bertie gets into the scrapes...can't let him marry the Magdalenes, Honoria's and other left on the shelf - can't imagine why... - ladies. In the honey moon carriage /car their first words would be "Get rid of Jeeves..." or more kindly put: "you don't need Jeeves any more, Bertie. You have me to count the daisy chains in the sky for you now..." And where else would Jeeves find such an obliging, good natured dim wit to keep him in the style to which he has determinedly become accustomed ..."Four weeks Marlin fishing, Jeeves...?"
And who better to act it out than Fry?
You know what they say, keep your friends close and their valets closer
Anybody apart from old Smugbum@@abidarahman74
Oh well you know. An engagement here. An engagement there!
Classic Wooster :)
There are so many layers to the plot it is incredible. How many of us had totally forgotten about the Dining Committee rule before it was finally resolved?
Yes. These are produced with such care and attention - it's love, really - like the faded blackface when they're in the dock. There's hilarity in the details.
oh, you know.. an engagement here, an engagement there...
:D
"I finished miles ahead of you fellows" HAHA
Well, *my* band teacher always said "ready, set, go!" 😂
Martin Clunes!
@@craighenry802 Yep. Spotted that myself.
I read, nay, devoured all of the books. I love the way Fry and Laurie have captured the characters.
"You're taking money for making that racket?" LMAO~
There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't.
There are indeed...
Jeeves, draconian in his scheming, indeed. You wouldn't want to be in his way. lol
This is the funniest episode ever. I just laugh my socks off when I see Delia and Sir Roderick Glossop. Brilliant timing and the eccentric guy is beyond humorous. Love it!
"I hates the devil and all his works, uncle Ted!"--"Very commendable Dennis, but this is a new car!!" Awesome.
The opening credits of "Jeeves & Wooster," both music and animation, are some of the best produced, in my opinion. They are comparable in quality to David Suchet's "Poirot" and Timothy Hutton's "Nero Wolfe" title credits. I would now add "The Durrells of Corfu" to that list too.
Ya know there really is a marked similarity in quality and style between this show’s intro and Poirot’s. I’ve only just recently gotten into the latter and every time the intro plays I think this very thing.
@@Fooma777 Clive Exton.
Yes couldn’t agree more!!!
Even better, in my view. I love the tune - it is an original, fairly recent composition, that matches the music of the time. The animation is terrific and perfectly in time with the music. The graphics for Poirot are great. Maury Chaykin is also outstanding in the more recent "Less Than Kind" set in Winnipeg. Having been raised in a prairie city, I was very impressed how much of it occurs in winter, with dirty snow piled up on the sides of wide streets, and the characters wearing ski jackets inside cafes. It was one of Canada's best TV shows, IMHO.
Seems quite awful to me; unbearable in the same manner as Kelsey Grammar's musical intro to Frasier.
Such is the nature of Bertie's Eton and Oxford education that he quite commonly makes classical references and has no trouble understanding them when made by Jeeves, but events in America in 1776 are completely foreign to him.
Laurie perfectly playing him too, doing some method acting no doubt as well since he himself went to those establishments!
I think the British attitude to American independence was somewhat akin to that of a spurned lover
@@shugaroony Laurie went to The Other Place, not Oxford.
@@alisonhill3941 That gave me a good chuckle.
@@alisonhill3941 Ah the better place you mean? :P
"Quiet, Dr. Crippin!" made me laugh out loud.
45:15 😀
As did I!
Yep!
Seabury needed that wallop long before he got it! 😆
Brilliant, the most ludicrous episode yet! :D
We could all do with a 'man' like Jeeves!
This blasted minstrel music actually became the soundrack for a fever dream I had once. Reckon I aged about five years that night…
The lengths Jeeves will go to to save money on the wine budget! Excellent episode!
more to increase his own budget by finding a way to lower the wine budget.
I say, what a spiffing episode ! Jeeves, you are a wonder
Brilliant! If you want to read the original, it's in "Thank you Jeeves"
"An engagement here, an engagement there" :)))
Thank God these good old shows are still around. It's such a relief from all the crap they put out now. The Brits are the best.
22:21 Poor Bertie is so startled he's about to jump on Jeeves's arms :D
"Who's that knocking on my door? ..... Barnacle Bill the Sailor calling on the Lady of Spain! lol. I'd forgotten how dry and witty these Jeeves and Wooster episodes are. Timeless.
I happened upon a Jeeves and Wooster movie with Arthur Treacher and David Niven in the title roles. I only watched it for a little while, I'm afraid I'm spoiled by Fry and Laurie
Rachel Garber
Same
Rachel Garber Rather!!
Indeed!!
What-Ho, Rachel! Yes indeed. Hugh and Stephen do indeed seem made for these parts. Added to which, there is love and attention to detail in the production values from Granada Television. This was a golden time for Granada period drama for the Sunday Night slots- their version of Sherlock Holmes, which was being made, broadly; at this time, with Jeremy Brett. That has also become the "definitive" version for many, including me.
Just discovering this series , left the UK before this was made. One of the funniest episodes I’ve seen ,mustn’t see it as offensive to any party. But to see it as a bit of slap stick comedy of the old silent movies. Looking at the comments we seem to have forgotten to laugh at silly situations we read to much into it. Too much analyzing takes the fun out of watching , that everyone is being ridiculed in one or another. It portrays another era of manners and fashion that’s what entertainment is about to forget our everyday troubles.
Thank you for saying what has long been needed to be said. Being locked in one point of view based on the values of the present w/ no accommodation for history or the social mores of another era is a sad commentary on the rigid adherence to the concept of “Political Correctness”. It has turned everything flat & grey, & boring. Sorry, I guess I got carried away, but it’s really great to be able to finally say my say on this subject. It’s so much more fun & rewarding to be open to & enjoy the variations like black face, etc. in context instead of passing harsh righteous judgement on bygone eras!
well, Jeeves puts it in tongue-in-cheek context
Comedy of manners
Jeeves rowing a boat... lol. Priceless! Ahoy, indeed!
"I prefer not to dwell on it..." Apparently Jeeves still resents the loss of Clive's colonies
Jeeves is quite the Little Englander.
nishav101822
It's the queen's loss, I've always thought, 50 states plus other territories.
as he should....they are now returned to pre colonial sewers.
@@scottleft3672 Tbf we are making a pigs ear of this country now too, its heading almost the same way as Yankieland.
Little Englander means anti-empire. Clive had naught to do with the new world. ‘Sewers’, what?? There aside buzzard stoned comments here.
Jeeves no doubt regrets the colonial policy of the North ministry as a series of easily avoidable errors not consistent with good governance. Painful to dwell on, indeed.
That kid's birthday party on the yacht was probably one of the saddest scenes in the whole series.
You may have not enjoyed it but the boy did. Watch again.
@@jimclark6256 Yeah I think the point is he is a very sad, lonely, mean boy who shoves down and away any potential friend and is clearly incredibly insecure. Whoever he doesn't drive away, his father does. What he finds enjoyable reflects a poverty of the spirit from excess wealth, lack of being raised in good conduct (empathy), and cold perfunctory "parenting" by an asshole
I know, blackface.😳🤗
Cringe n bad
@@Mariah-dy6lu It funny you should say what you did knowing it's a fictional film. And believe it or not the Indians in Cowboy film don't really die when shot.
What marvelous brain one needs to invent such delicious well thought through nonsense???!!! TFS
I do so love Aunt Dehlia. The actress also appeared in an episode of 'Midsomer Murders', together with Pussy Galore, Honor Blackmun.
Quite fitting that Clunes and Laurie both, years latter, will play the part of genius Doctors.
"Genius doctors?" Quite the oxymoron. I can't watch "House" - upsets the neighbours when I start yelling in exasperation "See a Homeopath why don't you!" And I mean a genuine, skilled, experienced Homeopath. We'd have those "mysterious" symptoms done and dusted before the lab reports got back!
("holistic" is generic. "Homeopathic" is precise, specific and requires considerable skill in practice.)
"See a Homeopath why don't you!"
****SYNTAX ERROR****@@DeirdreMcNamara
@@DeirdreMcNamaraor ‘give me a break, not bl***y lupus again ..!’
"Quiet, Dr Crippen!" A hilarious episode that would sadly not be made these days.
Love how Jeeves glances upwards when Bertie mentions getting a letter. As if saying I wouldn't want to pry Sir
I like Lady Delia's question, "We don't know any Boggies, do we?"
The portrayal of loud mouthed agressive wealthy yanks in several episodes may be a hint of what the yanks were and still are.A British ancestry,no matter where you call home from the old empire is worth its weight in gold.Jolly Good Show P.G.👍
Thanks so very much for posting these episodes of "Jeeves" - especially "The Mysterious Stranger". My three favorite British actors : Fry, Laurie & Clunes! I ask you, does it get any better?
An ABSOLUTE CLASSIC 👍❤️
Pauline: What had you *done* to those people Bertie?
Bertie: I was once engaged to their daughter.
Pauline: Ah.
Har!
Excellent! One of the best episodes I've seen.
love the false names in the court!
"He's working in his memoirs you know..."
Bertie: Aaah, I thought my ears were burning.
Much of the conflict comes from what seems easy to say but is left unsaid until the end.
Once again, the Foley artist does great justice to someone getting smacked. Glossop's wallop across Seabury's head was great and the slap was perfect.
17:11 -- Notice that Pauline gives her brother, Dwight, a shove because he stopped at the wrong spot upon entering the room. He gives her a rather indignant look in return.
I love the ice tray @5:10. The ice from the plastic ones are so hard to pry out. The silicon ones are so bad for the environment.
This is funny because I just posted a comment about how difficult the metal ones were!
@@kathryntanner9796 but didn’t Jeeves just pull out the dividers and have a tray full of ice cubes?
I remember those from my childhood. Not that easy to get the ice out. Jeeves makes it look easy. You had to pour warm water on them sometimes to get the ice out.
I like the old metal ones much better than the plastic ones. I use mine all the time.
My favourite epusode; so many daft lines and 'business' and Clunes is brilliant. Lady of Spain as a leitmotif takes the woofers, and the chase after old boggie. As for Marmaduke's beard; could do better on the covert surveillance front. Love it, love it 😁
Jeeves is pure genius.
That thin cop could pass for Woosters Brother.Don't you think? Laurie has 2 brothers so who knows?
I doubt it as Hugh is the youngest of his siblings
You know, I first watched Jeeves and Wooster on TV, then later I read PG Wodehouse stories and was amazed how accurate everything was performed by Fry and Laurie. Crisp Accurate! And all the other secondary characters too! Although I never I understood why they changed the actors - it seems like every new season has a new Bingo or Aunt Agatha. Nevertheless always a joy to come back and watch this! Thx for uploading it!
"The methods were perforce Draconian." Good work, Exton.
I adore this sagacious subaltern and his goodhearted schlemozzle.
Boy, that'll go down in my Diary as one of the great Lunches of my Life.
“Come on, Dennis. We’ve got a supernatural!”
What a wonderful life ..jeeves takes care if everything and bertie can live laugh and love 😂
The crime that dogs Bertie, theft of a policeman's helmet, occurred in the very first episode of the first season.
Gee, thanks inkyguy. Good thing you were here.
That trick of slipping a sheet of paper under the door to recuperate the key I learned at a very early age from Enid Blyton 😅
Jeeves face during the dinner.😆
Uau! Parabéns a quem fez a ilustração de abertura. Fantástica!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks for putting these series up!
Even in blackface, Martin Clunes was recognizable.
+qhsperson
the ears ae a dead giveaway!
One of the best episodes of Jeeves and Wooster :D
Was that Doc Martin who finished first?😂
This is one of my favorites, love the band.
in blackface...racist shite.
Love the band!
Remarkable how they had improved their performance by the birthday party. The tunes became recognisable
My favorit episode XD -thank you so much for uploading it.
That 1776 reference though! XD
Laugh out loud funny. Thank you for sharing loreal9110.
I’m laughing so hard, the neighbors think I’m... balmy 😂🤣😂
That would be 'barmy', actually
@@pamelaspooner8335 oh, ok.
That Boat Race Night will haunt Bertie in perpetuity.
Best one so far in my opinion.....
Jeeves would sit on the iron throne.
He would probably scheme Bertie Wooster to Iron throne and then rule behind him 😂
I made a fortune with this series! Tinkity Tonk.
Jeeves' Machievellian scheme to get Wooster the post of Chairman of the Wine Committee is pure genius. The best episode ever.
Awesome series...always loved p g Wodehouse.
That Jeeves is a genius!
No better watch than when actors fit their characters like a hand in a glove.
Oh I say! Quiet Dr. CRIPPIN. 😂
we need more shows like this! kids don't get slapped enough on tv and there aren't enough minstrels!
It was actually quite shocking as you wouldn't see that these days (same with the minstrels!); the little blighter deserved it though.
@@shugaroony Ah, the good old days, when violence toward minors and offensive cultural appropriation were considered par for the course. What-ho!
I'm always looking over my shoulder for Snowflakes. If they were literate PGW would probably be yanked off YT.
@@emdiar6588: While I could never claim to be an expert on anything connected to the internet or social media ( I don't even have a cell phone) I will gladly accept & consider any criticism that stems from voicing a personal opinion. Thank you for your erudite response.
As I'm sure aware....many things are said tongue in cheek around here.
Could have done without the minstrels...
The ‘Jakarta’ joke is an anachronism. The city was known as ‘Batavia’ in the time of this show, and not re-named until 1942.
Need a new joke. How bout: Person A asks person B, a shopkeeper, if he has any soap. Person B inquires “Do you want it scented?” Whereupon Person A ripostes “No, I’ll take it with me!”
Thank you, thank you. And I’m here all week.
"Following you? You mean as in following you?" Hahaha
Watching these programs are better than attending a English speaking class , proper expressions I will use
Watching things like this make me immensely pleased of the events of 1776.
Oooo Jeeves, you Mastermind.
The best episode yet!
Who else have started saying «Here we are again, what?» when meeting up with chums, as a result of watching this series? 😂
2.32...Barmy....that's Martin Clunes, good ole Doc Martin.
Americans OMG we must be running outta gas!
Brits- No, pretty sure these things run on petrol?
It’s extraordinary that this _amuse-bouche_ of light entertainment of Wodehouse should have been so sumptuously staged and presented by Fry and Laurie and company. British theatre seems uniquely skilled at presenting period pieces so magnificently.
"Come on Jeeves, put some beef into it!" Stoker telling to row faster, hahaha
Trotzki, Lenin, Dr. Crippen... lololol!
This is so silly, I can't stop laughing
Absolute banger of an epi