“Mr. Wooster told me to tell you he’s gone to Switzerland Madam…” “Oh, piffle Jeeves, get him out of bed!” “Very good Madam. “ That was so funny the way Jeeves just conceded so gracefully!
As soon as I hear a few bars of the introduction music, I start to smile broadly. Pure unadulterated joy from start to finish. The music, the script, the acting, the sets, the timing, the costumes, all perfection.
Frye and Laurie were reluctant to do the Jeeves and Wooster series...but they did it because they decided that no one else at the time could do it justice...and they were so so so so so right. They did a brilliant job!
The way Wooster talks in abbreviated telegram speak, but still dicates the longest and therefore most expensive telegrams at every opportunity and over absolutely nothing 😂
As one tasked with the teaching of English grammar, "The adverb did not escape me." has crossed my mind more times than the galline-vial intersections.
Frye's head tilts, brow articulation, and facial expressions in time with Laurel's observations are priceless. The camera angles with the mirror reflection work so well to capture their dialogues.
Glad the producers had the sense to repeat Bertie’s dressing down of Spode exactly as written. You laugh at Bertie’s naive way of expressing himself, but admire his getting to the essential reason Spode’s movement is not a success - most Britons think he is silly. Quite a contrast to the mass movements on the Continent.
Such a treat to enjoy Wodehouse's stories that never contain any malevolence nor judgment nor prejudice of any sort. The sheer pleasure of fun for the sake of fun, without malice.
18:01 “Send a telegram cancelling that last telegram” “Ahh.. I haven’t sent this one yet sir” “What? Well get moving Jeeves. Get them both off at once” … and then the way he says: “Yes sir”
Absolutely wonderful!! Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie are the Jeeves and Wooster i saw in my mind every time i read the books, love the music,the period, the language and the fashion when i look at modern society i just feel sad at how much we've lost
As if this series wasn't plagued by top-notch EVERYTHING....and brilliantly done humor....the often preposterous translations in caption mode have added a whole new dimension of humor for a show I still believe is unimprovable. What ho! And unending thanks...
"Everything!? Did you tell them that I came home from Pongo Twistleton's birthday party and mistook the standard lamp for a burglar!?" "Oh, yes indeed, sir! That one is a particular favorite, sir."
Highclere Castle.. I never realized it was used for Jeeves and Wooster, until I saw it in Downton Abbey.. Something made me think 'I've seen that before somewhere?'.. AND here it is ... Oh deep joy indeed :0)
"Now, run along and sneer!" Well spoken, Aunt Dahlia. I must remember to say this to my elementary school students, when they ask me how to stand up to playground bullies.
The actor impersonating Spode is just second to none. It is a real pleasure to see how his facial expression changes when he hear the word " Julaly". I am sorry I've called you a miserable worm, lol!
Yes, it is great. They are all acting like overgrown schoolboys, that was the mold that stamped them, and they know no other, due to their insulation from ordinary stresses in life. Bertie is taking the prefect role: “ Say goodnight, nicely, to Mr. Fink-Nottle” “I shall be very sharp on that sort of thing in future, Spode”. HaHahaa...
At least Jeeves got his cruise in the book - my favourite part about it was Bertie telling Aunt Dahlia that they were NOT going to a world cruise, after Jeeves kept leaving brochures and flyers everywhere for weeks - and she looking at him in a "you keep telling yourself that buddy" way. I have just realized that Jeeves is fond enough of Bertie to tell him about his super secret club.
@@drawingsticks5333 LOL I'm going through it a second and third time, there is so much in it - including how it is actually Jeeves who chooses the gentleman he works for, and dumps those not up to standard - the standard he has for his own life :)
"The Dutch, Sir, while an admirable people in many ways, and renowned for their domestic hygiene, are not considered to be of the first rank in matters of argentine craftsmanship. " Such a great line, and I can't find it in my copy of Code of the Woosters. Fry or Laurie must have come up with it, an actual improvement on the book. I say, great stuff old chaps.
I remember that line from the book, but it wasn't Jeeves that said it. I believe it was Aunt Dahlia. In Jeeves in the Offing, the cow creamer reappears, and various characters taunt its owner, Wilbert Cream, calling it "Modern Dutch".
Well lets face it they were, I mean the 'Drones Club' was not exactly a place where they all sat around discussing the 'order of the day', more like playing cricket with bread rolls. Nice to know that the 'idle rich' of the period really stuck to that moniker!
So much good stuff in these productions. Apart from the brilliant dialogue, the physical comedy is always top notch, stuff like the verger’s clumsiness and the policeman getting knocked off his bike are so well timed and performed.
LOVE this. Jeeves and Wooster are total classics. I love how I can listen to this on RUclips while working in my office lol. Helps the day go much better lol. Before that I used to record episodes on audio cassette and listen to them on my walkman lol. Classics.
Yeah they always drop a bunch of pronouns, articles, and prepositions but keep all sorts of unnecessary words. lol Meanwhile on the other end Abbot and Costello had a classic skit about trying to trim everything that isn't absolutely necessary out of a telegram so they could afford to send it, only to be left with nothing at all!
Of all the women on the show, Steffi is one of my favorite characters. She is a real firecracker. The daughter of Sir Richard Attenborough, she will be 64 this June, in line with all the young charms populating this delightful series (Laurie, Fry, Clunes (Doc Martin)).
I watched a rerun of Doc Martin earlier this evening from the final season (season 10, episode 1). Then I watched this episode of Jeeves and Wooster. I was surprised and pleased to see Martin Clunes listed in the credits as "Barmy." At 10:54, when Bertie has hidden from Spode and Sir Watkyn Bassett in the Drones Club dining room, a police officer follows Bertie into the dining room. Clunes shouts "bluebottle" and they all throw rolls at the police officer. Clunes is at the front right side of the dining room throwing rolls. According to IMDb, Clunes appears in four Jeeves and Wooster episodes: Season 2, episodes 1, 2, 3, and 5.
This is based on Code of the Woosters: The first time I read Code of the Woosters I thought it was very funny indeed. The 2nd time I read it I thought it was the funniest book I ever read. The 3rd time I read it I thought it was the funniest book ever written. The 4th time I read it I concluded that it was the funniest book it is possible for any human being to write. I stopped modifying my conclusions regarding this gem after subsequent readings of it.
It was nice to see other parts of the Highclere Castle and some of the known rooms with different furniture. Also, it was kind of weird to see other people other than the Granthams there. Loved Downton Abbey and I'm in love with this series too.
Highclere Castle has been used as the set for so many movies and tv series episodes. The upkeep to keep that estate going is massive - the owners of Highlclere rent it out on a regular basis for private parties, wild game hunting shoots, and movie and tv film set. If it was not for that, Highclere would have been lost many decades ago. I think it was around the end of WW1 and especially after WW2 the big fall of the British Empire went poof and the only aristocratic families who could hold onto their estates realized they would have to hold tours, charge admission - rent out their estate to private parties, weekend wild game hunting shoots, film and tv set rentals....although many of those grand old manor homes have farmland that is not enough to keep a huge estate going because these are many hundreds of years old manor homes with huge repair bills.
Spode and his Blackshorts are a swipe at Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts. This is the first series episode I've seen that brings politics and the events of the outside world (beyond Bertie's circle of tapioca-brained toffs) into the story. I've read one Jeeves book awhile ago and have seen only a handful of the Fry and Laurie series. Also, Vivian Pickles (Aunt Dahlia) played Harold's mother in the 1971 film, Harold and Maud. Her line, "Harold, that was your last date!" was very famous at that time.
Yes, that immediately came to my mind in the opening sequences. Remember the sister of Jessica Mitford turned out to be an avid Nazi sympathizer - even the dim witted Edward the VII and Wallis SImpson cozied up to Hitler because he flattered and praised them. It turned out to be the salvation of the Crown and UK that Edward VII abdicated and bolted to Wallis Simpson. If he had remained King, the UK would have fallen to Nazi Germany because he was too foolish to understand how evil Hitler was. Of course, we will always remember that dolt bratty Prince Harry who wore a Nazi uniform to his "Colonials and Natives Party" Prince Harry is now blaming William and Kate for "coercing and manipulating him" to wear that Nazi uniform....what a toad Harry is. He never has taken any responsibilty for any of his blunders and always blames somebody else.
For those of you who only know Jeeves and Wooster through this series, I highly recommend reading "The Code of the Woosters". As great as this series is, the original Novel by Wodehouse is 10X better. The man was pure genius as a craftsman of English prose. Better still, read 'Right ho Jeeves' and 'the Code of the Woosters' back to back to get the full flavor.
I would recommend reading the stories in chronological order. Mr. Wodehouse makes references to previous events in later works. If you are like me, you will want to read all of the series. The allusions aren't exactly spoilers, but much of the fun of the stories are the amazing plotting and hilarious denouement. If you can read them in order, there will be more surprises
What a coincidence, I've been watching a lot of Downton Abbey lately and also wanted to watch this because I finished reading Code of the Woosters. They used the same castle!
"Jeeves and Wooster" is a tonic. Always a good time. And this might be my favorite episode, with the cow creamer. Anyone have an episode they find to be "top drawer"? Another excellent one is The Con, the show with the stolen pearls.
I have had the great pleasure of reading the Comments section. Most were quotes from Jeeves and Wooster, the rest were a pure joy, to read such love for the Actors Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie. A better series has not been aired.
"Would hurl out on ear and set dogs on." and "Don't be an ass, Soames. You can't expect a dog to pass up a policeman on a bicycle. It isn't human nature." :D
"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?'" (from "The Code of the Woosters) Spode's character was based loosely on Sir Oswald Moseley, a British fascist in the 1930's...
I kept looking at that house and, thinking this looks like 'Highclere Castle'. My notions weren't confirmed until I saw 'Bertie's' bedroom, and then I knew; that is the same room' Lord and Lady Grantham' uses on "Downton Abbey".
@@lapernice6978 Some fans have theorized that the Crawleys lost all of their fortune during the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 and had to sell Downton to a buyer...Sir Watkyn Bassett who took over the house and renamed it Totleigh Towers :)
I was half hoping that when Spode was chasing Gussie and Bertie through the halls after midnight, they would bump into Lady Mary, Lady Cora and Anna carrying Mr. Pamuk.
It's half-way into this and I've spotted the reasoning for Jeeves' idea for the foreign Trip far away !! Wooster should have left that same morning Jeeves thought of it with the brochures.
The series mixes different books and characters. I have an entire bookcase of nothing but Wodehouse. I enjoy the Blandings Castle series almost as much as Jeeves and Wooster. Not so fond of his very early work-the British schoolboy stories and his golf related stories. If you like J & W, please pick up a Blandings Castle book. You won't be disappointed.
My mother in her youth was a HUGE Wodehouse fan. I still haven't read the 1st one, but if they're much better than these at all, it's probably about time I read at LEAST one!
When watching screen adaptations of books/stories, it's important to take as understood that books will almost always contain more detail than a feature length film or hour long TV show.
@PEHook In some matters. Film is limited by time, budget, etc as to what they can show. For example in books we are often privy to a characters thoughts, memories, etc.. that aren't relayed to us in film. Character development is much better developed in books. Also, our imaginations can paint quite the vivid picture. Film often fails to meet our expectations.
Someone should sing the praises of the incomparable theme and soundtrack composed by Anne Dudley. Magnificent.
Hear! Hear!! Although I don't sing well, singing away!
Thank you for the information...
Anne Dudley was the conductor for Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra. Thought you’d like to know if you didn’t already…
@waynemarvin5661 it's just about average trad jazz
@@jameshowlett9219 And a co-founder of Art of Noise.
“Mr. Wooster told me to tell you he’s gone to Switzerland Madam…”
“Oh, piffle Jeeves, get him out of bed!”
“Very good Madam. “
That was so funny the way Jeeves just conceded so gracefully!
As soon as I hear a few bars of the introduction music, I start to smile broadly. Pure unadulterated joy from start to finish. The music, the script, the acting, the sets, the timing, the costumes, all perfection.
Frye and Laurie were reluctant to do the Jeeves and Wooster series...but they did it because they decided that no one else at the time could do it justice...and they were so so so so so right. They did a brilliant job!
I think it was felt at the time, that Fry was too young to play Jeeves. But in an interview he gave, Fry said that he enjoyed the role.
They did indeed. I can't watch or listen to any other production of J&W.
I enjoy it more than the original writing.
I'd like to see Webb and Mitchell give it a shot.
@@sageemma Robert Webb has actually been in a theatre production of the books. Not sure how he did, I haven't seen it.
This really was one of those series where everything came together perfectly, and it still stands up 30 years later. Absolute gem.
Everything came together perfectly and it still does. ☺️
Yes, indeed!
It's stood up since 1938 when it was written by PG Wodehouse, so that's 85 years.
@@TM-tx9ct And the award for Most Pernickety Reply in a RUclips Comment Section goes to...
@@richardenglish2195 it goes to you...congratulations.
Best line: “Is it a code?” After Bertie reads out his telegram to the woman in the post office, who hasn’t understood a word he’s said.
I'm having a Jeeves and Wooster marathon right now... It's fantastic!
I have had many, and will have many more! And the books!
In March 2021, me too and loving it old chap
I am now! 2021!
You are not alone!
Me too
The way Wooster talks in abbreviated telegram speak, but still dicates the longest and therefore most expensive telegrams at every opportunity and over absolutely nothing 😂
As one tasked with the teaching of English grammar, "The adverb did not escape me." has crossed my mind more times than the galline-vial intersections.
Frye's head tilts, brow articulation, and facial expressions in time with Laurel's observations are priceless. The camera angles with the mirror reflection work so well to capture their dialogues.
Laurel? Laurie.
Oh yes, the mirror was perfect!
Frye??
@@rosemaryperry7150 , sorry, Stephen Fry. Not Frye
Jeeves reminds me somewhat of Sir Humphrey and Sir Arnold in Yes Minister
Oh what a life; no work to do, limitless money to spend, hired help to cook and clean, nothing to hit on the road but children and animals. Paradise!
Is that sarcasm?
@@kevingoodwin9278 I think not. They are my thoughts exactly!
Eh, it's a living.
Along with popping up to the old pile in the country from time to time.
Without a purpose, a mans life soon becomes nothing. Must be a dull lifestyle.
I hope you know you efforts uploading this wonderful series is appreciated.
"The British knee is firm, the British knee is muscular, the British knee is on the march!" -- made my day. evening that is.
Love John Turner in these series...his facial expressions!!!!
Sounds like something nigel farage would say
Was that a poke at Hitler?
@@clementmartinez121 It was more a poke at the support for Hitler among the British upper classes.
😂
I love how the actor managed to make the term "beat you to a jelly" sound so bloody threatening.
As naive and childlike Wooster is, he becomes very precise when analysing Spode... :-)
Yes indeed, on the main point of spotting fascists, I rather like his dressing down of Spode.
Glad the producers had the sense to repeat Bertie’s dressing down of Spode exactly as written. You laugh at Bertie’s naive way of expressing himself, but admire his getting to the essential reason Spode’s movement is not a success - most Britons think he is silly.
Quite a contrast to the mass movements on the Continent.
Such a treat to enjoy Wodehouse's stories that never contain any malevolence nor judgment nor prejudice of any sort. The sheer pleasure of fun for the sake of fun, without malice.
Indeed! The true genius of Wodehouse: no obscenities, no innuendos, no offensive allusions. All it took was an immaculate prose.
Jean Aiplu Don't let the book changers near these brilliant stories!
...and equal weight between the sexes - even if the women do tend to win on most occasions! 😂
Fry and Laurie seem to have almost been made to play Jeeves and Wooster. Brilliant!
18:01 “Send a telegram cancelling that last telegram”
“Ahh.. I haven’t sent this one yet sir”
“What? Well get moving Jeeves. Get them both off at once”
… and then the way he says:
“Yes sir”
«Yes Sir, the adverb did not escape me»😂
“Well, well, well!”
“Is that all you can say?”
“...Well...”
Absolutely wonderful!! Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie are the Jeeves and Wooster i saw in my mind every time i read the books, love the music,the period, the language and the fashion when i look at modern society i just feel sad at how much we've lost
Yes, but not enough, the rich still have too much, the poor too little. One day???
As if this series wasn't plagued by top-notch EVERYTHING....and brilliantly done humor....the often preposterous translations in caption mode have added a whole new dimension of humor for a show I still believe is unimprovable. What ho! And unending thanks...
Thank you loreal9110 for posting these episodes. Going through them this second time enriches life and manners. Grins & Giggles.
Man, all the actors are on top of their game in the second season.
"Everything!? Did you tell them that I came home from Pongo Twistleton's birthday party and mistook the standard lamp for a burglar!?"
"Oh, yes indeed, sir! That one is a particular favorite, sir."
“I want you to go to an antiques shop in Bond Street and sneer at a cow creamer.” What an entrance!
I can't get over Wooster putting 5 lumps of sugar in his tea...
Haha, not just me, egad!
This is so funny I have to leave the room sometimes! The best comedy series of all times. Wonderful acting. Such a treat.
Highclere Castle.. I never realized it was used for Jeeves and Wooster, until I saw it in Downton Abbey.. Something made me think 'I've seen that before somewhere?'.. AND here it is ... Oh deep joy indeed :0)
+Sally Ann Loveday same production company, or variant thereof.
you beat me to it! only by 2 years.
I was thinking the exact same thing! Thank God you said it, I thought I must be thoroughly confused!
I was wondering who else noticed which stately home was used for the location shots.
Sally Ann Loveday isn’t it Pemberley as well?
"Now, run along and sneer!" Well spoken, Aunt Dahlia. I must remember to say this to my elementary school students, when they ask me how to stand up to playground bullies.
I’m for it, but how would that work, exactly??
The actor impersonating Spode is just second to none. It is a real pleasure to see how his facial expression changes when he hear the word " Julaly". I am sorry I've called you a miserable worm, lol!
Eulalie.
@@j.b.9260 I agree. No one else could do Spode like he does.
John Turner (Spode) played the young fisherman burned by radiation in the 1959 British film the Giant Behemoth, England's answer to Japan's monster
The way he says goodnight to mr. finknottle!! 45:00 LMAO hahahaha
Yes, it is great. They are all acting like overgrown schoolboys, that was the mold that stamped them, and they know no other, due to their insulation from ordinary stresses in life.
Bertie is taking the prefect role:
“ Say goodnight, nicely, to Mr. Fink-Nottle”
“I shall be very sharp on that sort of thing in future, Spode”.
HaHahaa...
Excellent that these episodes were filmed at Downton Abby. Rather perfect.
At least Jeeves got his cruise in the book - my favourite part about it was Bertie telling Aunt Dahlia that they were NOT going to a world cruise, after Jeeves kept leaving brochures and flyers everywhere for weeks - and she looking at him in a "you keep telling yourself that buddy" way.
I have just realized that Jeeves is fond enough of Bertie to tell him about his super secret club.
Jeeves seems to get Wooster to holiday in a load of places of interest to him, including 4 weeks in Cuba!
@@maryodonnell5760 New York aside, all the holidays they end up on are mostly because Jeeves said so
@@drawingsticks5333 LOL I'm going through it a second and third time, there is so much in it - including how it is actually Jeeves who chooses the gentleman he works for, and dumps those not up to standard - the standard he has for his own life :)
Bertie: "I thought you had guts!"
Gussie: "I have. And I don't want Roderick Spode fooling about with them."
LOL!
I love how so many people post their favorite quotes from the episode under the videos; it goes to show how really quotable the witty show is.
"The Dutch, Sir, while an admirable people in many ways, and renowned for their domestic hygiene, are not considered to be of the first rank in matters of argentine craftsmanship. " Such a great line, and I can't find it in my copy of Code of the Woosters. Fry or Laurie must have come up with it, an actual improvement on the book. I say, great stuff old chaps.
I remember that line from the book, but it wasn't Jeeves that said it. I believe it was Aunt Dahlia. In Jeeves in the Offing, the cow creamer reappears, and various characters taunt its owner, Wilbert Cream, calling it "Modern Dutch".
Argentine craftsmanship! Not from south america, I gather?
In this case argentine refers to argentium silver, a tarnish-resistant formulation.
@@AlohaBlade Thanks.
@Mad Max Thanks.
I love the whole idea of the Junior Ganymede Club - all these valets talking about their charges like they're naughty children! :-D
Isabelle Powell mnn
The story of Zeus and Ganymede from Ovid gives a somewhat homoerotic aspect to the Junior Ganymede Club! ;)
Dennis Lewis thats the bloody Greeks for yah...
Well lets face it they were, I mean the 'Drones Club' was not exactly a place where they all sat around discussing the 'order of the day', more like playing cricket with bread rolls. Nice to know that the 'idle rich' of the period really stuck to that moniker!
@@vtecpreludevtec Ovid was a Roman.
So much good stuff in these productions. Apart from the brilliant dialogue, the physical comedy is always top notch, stuff like the verger’s clumsiness and the policeman getting knocked off his bike are so well timed and performed.
Never watched this wonderful series, so am being treated to episode after episode. What a talented filled series.
"Is it a code?"
"Mr Wooster asked me to say he's gone to Switzerland" 😂😅
LOVE this. Jeeves and Wooster are total classics. I love how I can listen to this on RUclips while working in my office lol. Helps the day go much better lol. Before that I used to record episodes on audio cassette and listen to them on my walkman lol. Classics.
I would watch this in class when I was in high school. it got me through being bullied all the time.
I absolutely love the Drones Club. What a fun club to belong to. Pure silliness.
It is curious how incompetent Wooster is while still being one of the brightest of the Drones Club.
"The Brrrrritish knee is MUSSSSSCULAR!!!"
The telegrammes are hilarious to any who remember telegrammes..."I say. Look here... &c." - hahaha... Pretty damned expensive telegramme!
And that was the point of the "joke". Usually, they cost by amount of words and were kept quite simple.
Yeah they always drop a bunch of pronouns, articles, and prepositions but keep all sorts of unnecessary words. lol
Meanwhile on the other end Abbot and Costello had a classic skit about trying to trim everything that isn't absolutely necessary out of a telegram so they could afford to send it, only to be left with nothing at all!
"That hound Basset"
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Nice detail, putting a picture of the house on the book Wooster is reading
"Who's blood?"
"Well your blood."😂
Just read "The Code of the Woosters" from which this episode is based. PG Wodehouse never disappoints.
These are such a joy to watch and Fry and Laurie perfect for their roles !
Of all the women on the show, Steffi is one of my favorite characters. She is a real firecracker. The daughter of Sir Richard Attenborough, she will be 64 this June, in line with all the young charms populating this delightful series (Laurie, Fry, Clunes (Doc Martin)).
I watched a rerun of Doc Martin earlier this evening from the final season (season 10, episode 1). Then I watched this episode of Jeeves and Wooster. I was surprised and pleased to see Martin Clunes listed in the credits as "Barmy." At 10:54, when Bertie has hidden from Spode and Sir Watkyn Bassett in the Drones Club dining room, a police officer follows Bertie into the dining room. Clunes shouts "bluebottle" and they all throw rolls at the police officer. Clunes is at the front right side of the dining room throwing rolls. According to IMDb, Clunes appears in four Jeeves and Wooster episodes: Season 2, episodes 1, 2, 3, and 5.
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Just noticed that Bertie was up at Oxford with all his pals and wondered what his subject was. Hard to imagine.
This is based on Code of the Woosters: The first time I read Code of the Woosters I thought it was very funny indeed. The 2nd time I read it I thought it was the funniest book I ever read. The 3rd time I read it I thought it was the funniest book ever written. The 4th time I read it I concluded that it was the funniest book it is possible for any human being to write. I stopped modifying my conclusions regarding this gem after subsequent readings of it.
Oh, how i love the music scores..something so energising.
Never watched it before, a most magnificent treat, thanks!
+MsFoland You lucky girl, now you get to read the books!
+EccentricaGallumbits
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little girl😉
It was nice to see other parts of the Highclere Castle and some of the known rooms with different furniture. Also, it was kind of weird to see other people other than the Granthams there. Loved Downton Abbey and I'm in love with this series too.
Highclere Castle has been used as the set for so many movies and tv series episodes. The upkeep to keep that estate going is massive - the owners of Highlclere rent it out on a regular basis for private parties, wild game hunting shoots, and movie and tv film set. If it was not for that, Highclere would have been lost many decades ago. I think it was around the end of WW1 and especially after WW2 the big fall of the British Empire went poof and the only aristocratic families who could hold onto their estates realized they would have to hold tours, charge admission - rent out their estate to private parties, weekend wild game hunting shoots, film and tv set rentals....although many of those grand old manor homes have farmland that is not enough to keep a huge estate going because these are many hundreds of years old manor homes with huge repair bills.
@@colleenwhalen-pg7un Quite right.
And if I had the money, I'd rent it for a week's stay to host a murder-whodunnit murder dress up party.
Spode and his Blackshorts are a swipe at Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts. This is the first series episode I've seen that brings politics and the events of the outside world (beyond Bertie's circle of tapioca-brained toffs) into the story. I've read one Jeeves book awhile ago and have seen only a handful of the Fry and Laurie series. Also, Vivian Pickles (Aunt Dahlia) played Harold's mother in the 1971 film, Harold and Maud. Her line, "Harold, that was your last date!" was very famous at that time.
TIL I always thought it was a joke on hitler
Mosley, a follower of Mussolini.
@@birdbrainsolutions6112 I honestly thought the same thing! 😅
Yes, that immediately came to my mind in the opening sequences. Remember the sister of Jessica Mitford turned out to be an avid Nazi sympathizer - even the dim witted Edward the VII and Wallis SImpson cozied up to Hitler because he flattered and praised them. It turned out to be the salvation of the Crown and UK that Edward VII abdicated and bolted to Wallis Simpson. If he had remained King, the UK would have fallen to Nazi Germany because he was too foolish to understand how evil Hitler was.
Of course, we will always remember that dolt bratty Prince Harry who wore a Nazi uniform to his "Colonials and Natives Party" Prince Harry is now blaming William and Kate for "coercing and manipulating him" to wear that Nazi uniform....what a toad Harry is. He never has taken any responsibilty for any of his blunders and always blames somebody else.
Hitler and his Brownshirts@@birdbrainsolutions6112
For those of you who only know Jeeves and Wooster through this series, I highly recommend reading "The Code of the Woosters". As great as this series is, the original Novel by Wodehouse is 10X better. The man was pure genius as a craftsman of English prose. Better still, read 'Right ho Jeeves' and 'the Code of the Woosters' back to back to get the full flavor.
Start with his collections of short stories. They're wonderful and good to ease your way into the novels.
Rick Rashid They are indeed excellent books, I read the whole series about thirty years ago.
He is a genius hands down!
I would recommend reading the stories in chronological order. Mr. Wodehouse makes references to previous events in later works. If you are like me, you will want to read all of the series. The allusions aren't exactly spoilers, but much of the fun of the stories are the amazing plotting and hilarious denouement. If you can read them in order, there will be more surprises
@@snugglyshadow2049 since I do reread them all now and again, it eventually doesn't make much difference
Spode pulls off one of the best 180 degree character swaps I've ever witnessed. Hilarious.
While my favourite Aunt Dahlia is the one from S1, this one is most like how I imagine her in the books :)
Good to know us Dutch are at least renowned for domestic hygiëne
hahhahahaha
Yep, my mother made sure the house was spotless, never mind her state of mind hahaha! Anxious and neurotic!
LOL
You have to, because of that ridiculous curtain thing, right? ;)
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What a coincidence, I've been watching a lot of Downton Abbey lately and also wanted to watch this because I finished reading Code of the Woosters. They used the same castle!
lady12480 Highclere Castle in North Hampshire, currently owned by the Countess of Carnarvon.
lady12480 Also used in Pride and Prejudice
I think Diana Blackburn is brilliant as Madeleine Basset. She's so understated in her comedy. Stinker's great, too; love his pratfalls. Thank you!
"Jeeves and Wooster" is a tonic. Always a good time. And this might be my favorite episode, with the cow creamer. Anyone have an episode they find to be "top drawer"? Another excellent one is The Con, the show with the stolen pearls.
bruh at 31:00 bertie puts five lumps of sugar in his tea I'm sobbing
at 10:40 the officer slides to a stop in cartoon fashion. Quite remarkable.
I'm British but I doubt my knees would meet with Spode's approval
Mine probably wouldn't either lol
My knees are Savage.
Don't worry y'all aren't alone. That's why I formed the " knobby knee league". All ugly knees are welcome, we keep em covered anyway.
You have knobbly knees?
😂
Mr Wooster dictating a telegram scene 22:43 ...hilarious... toodle pip OMG, LOOOOL
“I cannot do with any more education, Jeeves, I was full up years ago!”
Nine witty comment. My honest apology to "Affitive Action."
I have had the great pleasure of reading the Comments section. Most were quotes from Jeeves and Wooster, the rest were a pure joy, to read such love for the Actors Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie. A better series has not been aired.
“I was never under the impression that Totleigh Towers had a reputation for prandial jocundity, sir.”
Series one Jeeves: Won't even take a trip to the countryside
Series two Jeeves: WORLD CRUISE!!
In one book Jeeves is contemptuous of 'Jazz' music, in another he is a dab hand at syncopation :-))
"Would hurl out on ear and set dogs on."
and
"Don't be an ass, Soames. You can't expect a dog to pass up a policeman on a bicycle. It isn't human nature."
:D
GildaLee27 what serious rift? Why serious rift? What are you doing to the poor girl? Reply, Bertram. *duck squeaky*
Oats. The constable's name is Oats.
@@shahancheong9792 Oates, actually.
Both the actresses who played Aunt Dahlia were absolutely spot on.
Cream and FIVE sugars !
Bertie Wooster might s well drink icecream....☕🍦😄
The policeman the dog chewed up sounds exactly like Hagrid from Harry Potter.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
Do you mean Robbie Coltrane? Yeah, he does sound like him! ☺️
Five sugars in Wooster's tea? Five?!!
Happy to say I have stood in Bertie's bedroom at Tottley aka HighClere Castle although more famous for Downton
23:49 - That's the friendliest savaging I've ever seen.
"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?'"
(from "The Code of the Woosters)
Spode's character was based loosely on Sir Oswald Moseley, a British fascist in the 1930's...
Thanks for the transcript!
The guy that plays Spode is great! And he lived well into his 90's.
christmas day 2022/ he's 90 and still with us,
I kept looking at that house and, thinking this looks like 'Highclere Castle'. My notions weren't confirmed until I saw 'Bertie's' bedroom, and then I knew; that is the same room' Lord and Lady Grantham' uses on "Downton Abbey".
Carolyn Argabright Indeed it is. The very same. A number of productions use the place.
Well, the series stops more or less at the time in the 20's when this here takes over. ;-)
@@lapernice6978 Some fans have theorized that the Crawleys lost all of their fortune during the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 and had to sell Downton to a buyer...Sir Watkyn Bassett who took over the house and renamed it Totleigh Towers :)
@@LGranthamsHeir Oh yeeeeesssssss😅
Thoroughly enjoyable! Thank you.
What a send-up of English country house mysteries.
Because PG Wodehouse called his fictional group of fascists the black shorts, for now on I will refer to neo-nazis as brown shorts.
best episode of downton ever
I was half hoping that when Spode was chasing Gussie and Bertie through the halls after midnight, they would bump into Lady Mary, Lady Cora and Anna carrying Mr. Pamuk.
Hahhaaahaahaa!
It's half-way into this and I've spotted the reasoning for Jeeves' idea for the foreign Trip far away !! Wooster should have left that same morning Jeeves thought of it with the brochures.
The series mixes different books and characters. I have an entire bookcase of nothing but Wodehouse. I enjoy the Blandings Castle series almost as much as Jeeves and Wooster. Not so fond of his very early work-the British schoolboy stories and his golf related stories. If you like J & W, please pick up a Blandings Castle book. You won't be disappointed.
That adorable young woman is a complete lunatic, but of course no one says anything about it, which makes it even funnier.
My mother in her youth was a HUGE Wodehouse fan.
I still haven't read the 1st one, but if they're much better than these at all, it's probably about time I read at LEAST one!
Definitely, how you getting on?
One of my fav eps.
Sometimes I watch these and just smile
When watching screen adaptations of books/stories, it's important to take as understood that books will almost always contain more detail than a feature length film or hour long TV show.
Actually it's the other way round. Film has to show all kinds of stuff that the reader is free to imagine or skip.
@PEHook In some matters. Film is limited by time, budget, etc as to what they can show. For example in books we are often privy to a characters thoughts, memories, etc.. that aren't relayed to us in film. Character development is much better developed in books. Also, our imaginations can paint quite the vivid picture. Film often fails to meet our expectations.
TWO men of iron will? Oh blimey!
Well Jeeves a most satisfactory binge last night.
“Jeeves, this nuisance must now cease!” Hahahahaha unfortunately they just don’t say put downs like that anymore...
You say them! Put those chumps and fatheads in their place!
ok but bertie put 5 sugars in his tea
the most terryfying scene in the whole series
And Jeeves has the sugar tongs but Wooster uses his fingers.