Oh, this episode is exactly right. I am 82, born in 1941 and though the time period is off ten to twenty year the scenery country landscape and seaside all have an illusion, as I remember New Jersey in the 1940's. Even some of the episode events have a vague allusions to things that I learned about as an adult, that was happening around me that I was to innocence as a child to understand. Thanks again, Jeeves and Wooster, for a memory "trigger " of things I remember or imagined.
@douglasmilton2805. I saw the series when it was first released many years ago. One thing that sticks in the memory is Hugh Laurie's hop skip and jump in this episode. As you say, a thing of beauty.
This must be the best cast of all comedy series. Wodehouse's genius is so wonderfully played by these 2 that they are now in my mind synonymous of the characters.
Late summer, Sidmouth, 1990 I worked on the set of this. We had to make the predominately pebbly beach look like a sandy ones with the help of lorry loads of sand and a lot of elbow grease. Good grub in the catering stations as I recall. Stephen kept himself to himself by Hugh was very friendly.
@@chrysalis66 That's something to treasure. There is but a meager handful of available behind-the-scenes video snippets from this programme, sadly. I'd give a kidney to see the blooper reel. Do you recall any, perchance?
@@chrysalis66 Those would be a splendid keepsake. I'd love to see them. After all these years, I don't suppose you are able to recall any bloopers or memorable moments during the filming?
When Jeeves tells an exhausted Bertie that the first bicycle was invented in 1839: “Too late to do anything about it now I suppose?”. This has to be THE classic J&W episode. Although I love them all.
This to me, is the best work these two ever did and ever will do. A Bit of.., QI, Blackadder & House are great, but as a duo with Wodehouse as the foundation they excel. Nuanced, polished intellectually superior Jeeves and loopy, well-meaning, oft befuddled Wooster, great sets, backdrops, props and a complimentary cast all add up to utter perfection.
I have to agree with you. I keep trying to get my kids to watch these old shows when you can find them. They only know Hugh Laurie as House and don’t know Stephen Fry at all. Fantastic duo!
The point where Bertie goes into Aunt Agatha's room where she's speaking to the police and greets them, and Aunt Agatha stops, looks at him and then continues speaking to the police - reminds me of when I was in the theatre the other day and I said excuse me to a horrible woman who was blocking the aisle. She stopped, looked at me and then continued speaking to whoever she was speaking to, while I waited. Seeing this scene with Bertie somehow makes me feel better about that. Not only is this the most perfect, beautifully done comedy, but it also makes me see the comedy in my own life.
@@lizclegg7556 Basil would note something unpleasant about her, something that normal people would be too polite to discuss, and he would state it in loud, penetrating tones. Like 'Excuse me, Madam, but you have stained your trousers.' Or, 'Madam, I have politely asked that you let me pass 3 times while you discuss (repeat their overheard conversation).' Or he might pretend to pick up something embarrassing and pretend she dropped it ''Madam, you dropped your condom.'
"I'm going back into the room now and I'm going to put in some pretty tense thinking." "Shall I waken you at six, sir?" As well as the brilliance of the two leads and the general cast no TV series has stuck closer to the author's original dialogue.
Aunt Agatha....”pucci mem”, just like the “pucca sahibs”. Super acting by every single one of them. Having read nearly all of PGW by early 80s, i never imagined that the magical language chemistry could ever be reproduced teasonably well on film. But so pleased to be proven wrong. These episodes makes one relive the books in a complementary manner.
I remember laughing out loud reading these stories. As much as I think TV programs and films based on books are inferior, this series is an exception that confirms the rule.
I'm laughing at the 10 year old (or so) girl just behind the baby at 7:28 (possibly baby's big sister), who's grinning as she's got her fingers in her ears.
Although they are almost all excellent, this episode is probably one of the best ! Jeeves & Wooster is the best thing that has happened to Britain since prehistoric times.
You should know that Wodehouse was rather shunned in England for his portrayal of the upper class. He was far more at home in New York and his work always more popular in America.
@@abcbcde9985 True, because he was so unrealistic and apolitical that people were able to forgive and forget. He himself always claimed that his actions during the war were due to stupidity and not political. His writings after the war - which we are enjoying here - are fantasies of an England that no longer existed and never would again.
I love Wodehouse. These enactments are as good as adaptations can be, but still don’t capture the unique hilarity of the stories themselves, because Wodehouse’s writing, in itself, is a chief joy.
Also recommended: "Bring on the Girls" by PGW and his Anglo-American collaborator, Guy Bolton, about their adventures writing shows, mostly American, but some British. It's beyond hilarious! Left me gasping for air many times!! HIGHLY recommended!
Honoria is the kind of character that could have been played as an intense,conventionally romantic hearted as reading her lines in the novels used to make me think! But this Honoria is adorable and so well portrayed (perfectly cast) because she also is of an athletic disposition as PGW described her! :)
She's also so beautiful, in an extremely unique and "striking" fashion. Very fitting for her wonderfully assertive and persuasive disposition. Echoing your words here, but perfectly cast indeed! Gotta love her "It's the Bertie Wooster!" lines, though. Such a cutie. hahha
Absolutely wonderful casting. She is the very best! I read all his books when I was a teenager, and have loved him for the 50 years since. This is the most brilliant series. Brings them so much more alive, and has induced me to reread them all. You really miss a lot when you're younger, I'll say. lol
God, this is so brilliantly directed. All the little details, like when Bertie is dragged off to the concert on the pier and you see the old geezer hobbling along with the nurse and the brass band playing slightly flat... delightful...
Anthea! What a Lady you are! You are totally correct! I would love to take you back to the thirties, in a time machine, and treat you to lunch at The Ritz!
@@brettknoss486 Goes without saying. Such a class-based society ... Bertie's pals all make use of Jeeves intellect & insight, but if he tried to date a Drone's sister, they'd plot his downfall.
I always enjoy these stories for how all loose ends are tied up in surprisingly simple ways. Yes it is all plots but in the end it is "oh that was my niece."
Yes perfection! Although the final episode in the series does not tie up the loose ends. I'm not sure why they ended it on a note of sheer chaos. It is funny to see Jeeves run for his life. There is an old English drama called The Honorable Creighton"; Stephen Fry should play the titular role, as he is the epitome of the servant/lord synergy.
I love how at 7:54 those two climb a 15% slope without breaking a sweat while a collegiate rower and an Olympic hopeful in his day huffs and puffs behind.
All the wonderful & accurate period pieces & props throughout this Jeeves & Wooster series are a pleasure to behold. From the clothes, cars, furniture, interior decor & art work & the various castles, Manorial homes & apartments, etc. are a treat for the viewer. I have always appreciated the BBC’s focus on high quality period accuracy in their television series 8:06 productions.
This was from the days when the BBC took their professionalism seriously. Today Aunt Agatha would be a disabled black lesbian and the stolen pearls a kilo of cocaine.
This was an ITV series, not BBC. Like the Poirot series, ITV was willing to pay for the best background details. The BBC was always tight-fisted in contrast.
Absolutely spiffing and top hole! The actors give an excellent authentic rendition of the subtle social manners from the period, with nary a set or prop out of place. I never thought Ian Carmichael would be upstaged, but Fry and Laurie strike sparks from each other...
not only him. If you notice about half of the cast are very well known actors. As in a real cast of A class people at the start of there rise. Both on the British and international world both in TV, film and theater productions.
I love this series and wish they would bring it back at least once a year! The chemistry between Jeeves and Bernie is phenomenal.....amazing.....unique and hilarious! Nobody could have done it better than these two seasoned actors!
The “Hemmingways” don’t deal in small sums. The £100 loan would be worth somewhere around $10.000 (£7800 or so) in today’s money, and the £3000 value claimed for the pearl necklace would be more like $300,000 ($234,777) today.
(guest) Hello, do you mean the episode where Bertie is innocently asking about the words of ' Minnie The Moocher' ? What it Jeeves said , something like ".....ardent spirits...."and "....hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho, .....Sir....". I love that scene! 😊.
@@judeirwin2222 As the 's' is part of Jeeves' name, the apostrophe belongs at the end of Jeeves, after the 's,' as shown in the first line of this comment, and not between the 'e' and the 's.' If Bertie's valet were named 'Jeeve,' _then_ the apostrophe would belong between the 'e' and the 's.'
Pure delight! Greatest of joy and entertainment, thanks to CZcams uploading now available outside the UK. Never ever have I seen such a perfect tv show! Every scene, every actor, every setting just PERFECT! Hugh and Steven: OSCARS 👑👑 must be given to TV actors, too! Adorable acting, which only the Brits can do. I cannot stop celebrating the whole creative team 🏆 And the music is just gorgeous!
27:42 - Great character acting work by the constable here with the wink at the chambermaid. I don't know if it was scripted or not, but it's an excellent touch that goes beyond the simple direction of "Act satisfied at other character's misery".
It must be great being "blessed" with a confidant that just happens to act as a Guardian Angel. Jeeves' sobriety, wit, and common sense fills the gap missing in Wooster's personality. But Wooster is as good of a person as any of us have ever met. Wooster's mischief is always in fun and never intended to harm. Put Wooster and Jeeves together and we have a person we'd all love to emulate.
Even considered as separate specimens, one could do much worse than either of them. In fact, personally, I doubt that Jeeves' wit and common sense would make quite as charming a package if coupled with Wooster's lighthearted lust for life; and likewise feel that Bertie's sense of adventure and somewhat naive sense of duty to those lucky enough to be considered 'his' people would suffer dramatically if combined with that cool, dry, the-punchline-is-the-part-I-didn't-say magic that is Jeeves' sense of humour. Or maybe that's just me... ;^)
@@maryrecluse1839 no there is no game called Hamlet, the joke is in the phrase :playing Hamlet: it could also be read as 'playing {against} Hamlet'. Punch line of Really, Who won. {the competition}
What a delightful episode. So often the picturisation falls so short of the book, but here I was chuckling away as much as I did with the book. Perfect casting all around.
I can’t watch House after being a diehard fan of Jeeves and Wooster. How can I watch Bertie as a doctor with an American accent in a horrible US hospital after seeing perfection, wit, comedy???🎭
I just found out that Hugh Laurie went on to do a medical series named "House MD". Here Hugh is a totally light-hearted comedy actor and in House he is solemn drama sometimes subtle sarcastic humor. Shows what range he has for acting.
JMP LMR especially as he has to put on an American accent for house,which he does so well that some people no aware of his career thought he WAS American !
I didn't like House, and wish I hadn't seen Hugh Laurie in that role. Seeing actors out of the character you liked them in can be an upsetting experience. Maybe that is why some directors type cast.
Yes indeed. Having very successfully portrayed an upper class English well-meaning twit with more gusto but even less intellect than Bertram Wooster (as Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh, in Blackadder Goes Forth), he very successfully inhabits the character of an outrageously multitalented American misanthrope with an IQ of roughly 200.
Loved these exquisitely done pieces in this veddy English series. And you had to find a forklift to get my jaw off the floor after I realized who was playing Dr. House. Also exquisite. It was great to be made to feel humble as an American. To badd it didn't last. I have to mention the first episode Jeeves & Wooster where Jeeves shows for the first time and Bertie is deeply hungover and speechless, straining for cognizance. It was looking like some primal climb to consciousness and was howlingly enjoyable.
At about 37:59, Honoria leaps over the fallen table, banging on some silverware. What a hilarious bit of business and so in character. She is my favourite among the females that threaten Bertie.
@@granthurlburt4062 Yeah, Pauline is great too. Aren't their American accents perfect? They sound more authentic than actual U.S. citizens. I love this series: three comic geniuses in one show. It doesn't get better than that. Have you read any Wodehouse? He wrote a lot more than Jeeves and he is laugh out loud funny.
I love Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster. I advise anyone to find and read PG Wodehouse's many hilarious books on Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
Love Jeeves and Wooster brilliant actors brilliant locations I love Sidmouth in Devon where this part of the episode was filmed.Nothing today compares to this brilliance well done to Stephen and Hugh will always love these epidodes
Thanks so much for putting these up. Seen them before and I'll see them again but they're the perfect antidote for all the hollywood violence and shmaltz.
What about all the stuff Hugh Laurie did inbetween Jeeves & Wooster and House? You should catch up on it all. A lot of collaboration between Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
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Has anyone else noticed that Stephen Fry's Jeeves always says, "Yes [comma] sir," and "No [comma] sir"? Not an automatic "yessir," "nosir," like he isn't really listening? A bit of magic there. Not only does that signal to Bertie that Jeeves is really listening, but also Jeeves is sort of encouraging Bertie to THINK about what he is saying. Not that that usually works...but...Jeeves always does his best.
Jeeves always pauses between a word that ends in an 's' or in an s sound, and the 'sir,' I suppose to make certain that every syllable gets its full measure. For example: 46:33
The best comedies are always performed by actors who are both talented AND intelligent - and that in turn is what tends to make British Comedy the best on the Planet (at least for those who can understand it)!
The vocabulary in these are wonderful, it almost makes me wish I had gone to Cambridge. Fry and Laurie are all rounders, from this to Blackadder and beyond.
You don't think Fry and Laurie (Cantab) actually wrote their own dialogue do you? The scripts were written by Clive Exton (who also wrote Poirot). He not only didn't go to Cambridge, he left school at 16 to go onto the army, had lots of menial jobs before studying acting at Central School of Speech and Drama. No uni at all. There are lots of ways to have an extensive vocabulary, starting with reading good writing.
24:38 "I have to get back to my flock by tomorrow." "Oh, sheering time, is it?" Damn! Clever dialogue!! A hell of an innuendo there, inadvertently made by Bertie, that them gruesome twosome were slick hustlers. Don't know if any one else caught that as a sly way of outright saying the false preacher had get back to his congregation to "fleece" them (some more, I suppose), if anyone else stills knows the meaning of "fleece" in underworld con games terminology. That was just TOO good, alas unbeknownst to Bertie. Damn!!!
"I told you he couldn't be as gormless as he looked." And the look on Bertie's face. I think the casting of Hugh Laurie as Bertie is perfection itself. Stephen Fry is too young to be Jeeves but I think Wodehouse himself would have been thrilled by Laurie.
Frank O'Brien Fry is so expressive compared to Wodehouse’s Jeeves, but I think he works wonderfully this way, in particular because it’s on screen this time.
Thanks for posting. Bertie, with his louche and lavish lifestyle, endless aunts called Agatha, Dahlia etc, leading a life with no visible means of support, apart from said aunts... of course , all English people live like this. And cricket and bowling greens and honey for tea. And floral clocks and boon craving. Such a soporific, such fun.
Oh, this episode is exactly right. I am 82, born in 1941 and though the time period is off ten to twenty year the scenery country landscape and seaside all have an illusion, as I remember New Jersey in the 1940's. Even some of the episode events have a vague allusions to things that I learned about as an adult, that was happening around me that I was to innocence as a child to understand. Thanks again, Jeeves and Wooster, for a memory "trigger " of things I remember or imagined.
I grew up in NJ. Where abouts were you from?
"...I saw Irving playing Hamlet.'' "Really? Who won?'' That just about killed me.
Bertie’s triumphant hop skip and a jump after the Hemmingway denouement is a thing of beauty.
@douglasmilton2805. I saw the series when it was first released many years ago. One thing that sticks in the memory is Hugh Laurie's hop skip and jump in this episode. As you say, a thing of beauty.
This must be the best cast of all comedy series. Wodehouse's genius is so wonderfully played by these 2 that they are now in my mind synonymous of the characters.
'with' not of.
@@louistracy6964 I wonder if the grammar police have a sense of humour?
@@2011littlejohn1 Apparently not . . . the floor is littered with picked nits . . . .
@2011littlejohn1. Or nott.
"Is that the doorbell, Jeeves?"
"It certainly gave that impression, sir." Wodehouse is an evergreen delight!
Late summer, Sidmouth, 1990 I worked on the set of this. We had to make the predominately pebbly beach look like a sandy ones with the help of lorry loads of sand and a lot of elbow grease. Good grub in the catering stations as I recall. Stephen kept himself to himself by Hugh was very friendly.
What a fascinating and intriguing experience. Did you witness the taping?
@@sesquipedalian2885 very much so...so really nice to watch the Episode back.
@@chrysalis66 That's something to treasure. There is but a meager handful of available behind-the-scenes video snippets from this programme, sadly.
I'd give a kidney to see the blooper reel. Do you recall any, perchance?
@@sesquipedalian2885 nope I have some stills though taken on slide film somewhere.
@@chrysalis66 Those would be a splendid keepsake. I'd love to see them. After all these years, I don't suppose you are able to recall any bloopers or memorable moments during the filming?
When Jeeves tells an exhausted Bertie that the first bicycle was invented in 1839: “Too late to do anything about it now I suppose?”. This has to be THE classic J&W episode. Although I love them all.
Surely a classic line.
Me as well, I just love that line!
This to me, is the best work these two ever did and ever will do. A Bit of.., QI, Blackadder & House are great, but as a duo with Wodehouse as the foundation they excel. Nuanced, polished intellectually superior Jeeves and loopy, well-meaning, oft befuddled Wooster, great sets, backdrops, props and a complimentary cast all add up to utter perfection.
Indeed. Spot on.
Agree completely timc924
I have to agree with you. I keep trying to get my kids to watch these old shows when you can find them. They only know Hugh Laurie as House and don’t know Stephen Fry at all.
Fantastic duo!
You Should Be Breeding Children, Bertie!!
Excellent description!
Just found these I'm 63 read Wodehouse as a kid my family had all the books lovely memories so well done fine collection of flint knapped flints😉😁🤣
The point where Bertie goes into Aunt Agatha's room where she's speaking to the police and greets them, and Aunt Agatha stops, looks at him and then continues speaking to the police - reminds me of when I was in the theatre the other day and I said excuse me to a horrible woman who was blocking the aisle. She stopped, looked at me and then continued speaking to whoever she was speaking to, while I waited. Seeing this scene with Bertie somehow makes me feel better about that. Not only is this the most perfect, beautifully done comedy, but it also makes me see the comedy in my own life.
Should have told her to piss off. That usually works.
Unless you want to be especially kind, just think 'What would Basil Faulty do in this situation'? He's a good guide to life's puzzles.
@@evelynwaugh4053 What would Basil Fawlty do?
@@lizclegg7556 Basil would note something unpleasant about her, something that normal people would be too polite to discuss, and he would state it in loud, penetrating tones. Like 'Excuse me, Madam, but you have stained your trousers.' Or, 'Madam, I have politely asked that you let me pass 3 times while you discuss (repeat their overheard conversation).' Or he might pretend to pick up something embarrassing and pretend she dropped it ''Madam, you dropped your condom.'
@@evelynwaugh4053 Thanks! Next time .....
"I'm going back into the room now and I'm going to put in some pretty tense thinking." "Shall I waken you at six, sir?" As well as the brilliance of the two leads and the general cast no TV series has stuck closer to the author's original dialogue.
Not only do the woman react in shock at Bertie's language, but a baby starts crying. lol. Great stuff.
It’s the old version of sirens in the distant
I didn't notice the baby so I rewound it.. LOL!!!!!!!!! BLAST!!
Kindly restrain your language!
And stand up straight!
Aunt Agatha....”pucci mem”, just like the “pucca sahibs”.
Super acting by every single one of them.
Having read nearly all of PGW by early 80s, i never imagined that the magical language chemistry could ever be reproduced teasonably well on film.
But so pleased to be proven wrong.
These episodes makes one relive the books in a complementary manner.
The baby crying at his swearing is a thing of beauty.
I remember laughing out loud reading these stories. As much as I think TV programs and films based on books are inferior, this series is an exception that confirms the rule.
my favourite episode of this series. So nice to see Bertie come out on top and Aunt Agatha look foolish.
Most unusual, indeed
The epitome of British humor and wit.
A perfectly ripping series! Even the title sequence of the band, with the lively signature tune, is exceptional.
The woman playing Honoria is wonderful in the role.
Liz kettle
An act of God😂😂
The baby started crying LOL what a great comic addition! This show is pure genius.
I'm laughing at the 10 year old (or so) girl just behind the baby at 7:28 (possibly baby's big sister), who's grinning as she's got her fingers in her ears.
Although they are almost all excellent, this episode is probably one of the best !
Jeeves & Wooster is the best thing that has happened to Britain since prehistoric times.
I love this episode.
You should know that Wodehouse was rather shunned in England for his portrayal of the upper class. He was far more at home in New York and his work always more popular in America.
@@sageemma Actually he was "persona non grata" in England because he broadcast from Germany during the war...
@@dindinprivate3477 But pretty much accepted again by the 1950s in the UK. I have a huge collection of Penguins, inherited from my Dad, from that era.
@@abcbcde9985 True, because he was so unrealistic and apolitical that people were able to forgive and forget.
He himself always claimed that his actions during the war were due to stupidity and not political.
His writings after the war - which we are enjoying here - are fantasies of an England that no longer existed and never would again.
I love Wodehouse. These enactments are as good as adaptations can be, but still don’t capture the unique hilarity of the stories themselves, because Wodehouse’s writing, in itself, is a chief joy.
😊yes‼️
Also recommended: "Bring on the Girls" by PGW and his Anglo-American collaborator, Guy Bolton, about their adventures writing shows, mostly American, but some British. It's beyond hilarious! Left me gasping for air many times!! HIGHLY recommended!
Yes ‼️
I’m so happy to see this as a series. I absolutely loved the books. The series is as entertaining as they were. great job, what talent!
Bertie: "Is that the door, Jeeves?"
Jeeves: "It certainly gave that impression, sir."
Absolutely fabulous.
Aww, Bertie is so good-natured. I love this show :)
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Bertie is dim and inbred. He is too slow to take offence.
Honoria is the kind of character that could have been played as an intense,conventionally romantic hearted as reading her lines in the novels used to make me think! But this Honoria is adorable and so well portrayed (perfectly cast) because she also is of an athletic disposition as PGW described her! :)
She's also so beautiful, in an extremely unique and "striking" fashion. Very fitting for her wonderfully assertive and persuasive disposition. Echoing your words here, but perfectly cast indeed!
Gotta love her "It's the Bertie Wooster!" lines, though. Such a cutie. hahha
Absolutely wonderful casting. She is the very best! I read all his books when I was a teenager, and have loved him for the 50 years since. This is the most brilliant series. Brings them so much more alive, and has induced me to reread them all.
You really miss a lot when you're younger, I'll say. lol
I know! I loved how she leapt over the fallen table without any hesitation! Bloody brilliant stuff.
The entire dinner scene with the Glossops is sheer genius.
I laughed so hard, sheer genius indeed.
OMG I had forgotten how brilliant this show was.
God, this is so brilliantly directed. All the little details, like when Bertie is dragged off to the concert on the pier and you see the old geezer hobbling along with the nurse and the brass band playing slightly flat... delightful...
Anthea! What a Lady you are! You are totally correct! I would love to take you back to the thirties, in a time machine, and treat you to lunch at The Ritz!
@@Dentistmentalust And I would like to join you both
Aunt Agatha has been cast perfectly here..."stand up straight!" and "you should be breeding!". lol
She's a racist.
"I say dash it Aunt Agatha"...."oh don't be such a POLTROON Bertie"
@@brettknoss486 It surprises me that you watch something like this since you clearly miss the whole point of it.
@@brettknoss486 Goes without saying. Such a class-based society ... Bertie's pals all make use of Jeeves intellect & insight, but if he tried to date a Drone's sister, they'd plot his downfall.
@@factsoverfiction7826 except I'm pretty sure Jeeves is already dating Bertie.
I always enjoy these stories for how all loose ends are tied up in surprisingly simple ways. Yes it is all plots but in the end it is "oh that was my niece."
Yes perfection! Although the final episode in the series does not tie up the loose ends. I'm not sure why they ended it on a note of sheer chaos. It is funny to see Jeeves run for his life.
There is an old English drama called The Honorable Creighton"; Stephen Fry should play the titular role, as he is the epitome of the servant/lord synergy.
I love how at 7:54 those two climb a 15% slope without breaking a sweat while a collegiate rower and an Olympic hopeful in his day huffs and puffs behind.
I love the finale of this episode, it's like a very polite version of Inglourious Basterds
love how honoria leaps over the table 38:05
All the wonderful & accurate period pieces & props throughout this Jeeves & Wooster series are a pleasure to behold. From the clothes, cars, furniture, interior decor & art work & the various castles, Manorial homes & apartments, etc. are a treat for the viewer. I have always appreciated the BBC’s focus on high quality period accuracy in their television series 8:06 productions.
This was from the days when the BBC took their professionalism seriously. Today Aunt Agatha would be a disabled black lesbian and the stolen pearls a kilo of cocaine.
This was an ITV series, not BBC. Like the Poirot series, ITV was willing to pay for the best background details. The BBC was always tight-fisted in contrast.
Don't forget the steam train and train station.
@@philhawley1219 Hahahaha.... you are absolutely right and FUNNY !!!!
Absolutely spiffing and top hole! The actors give an excellent authentic rendition of the subtle social manners from the period, with nary a set or prop out of place. I never thought Ian Carmichael would be upstaged, but Fry and Laurie strike sparks from each other...
Each episode is so beautifully done! Watched them so many times but never gets tiresome and always bring a smile to my face ! What ho Jeeves :)
Never to be repeated 😉
What a treat to catch the young Doc Martin (Martin Clunes) as one of Bertie's air-headed friends!
not only him. If you notice about half of the cast are very well known actors. As in a real cast of A class people at the start of there rise.
Both on the British and international world both in TV, film and theater productions.
will never stop loving this series. these guys defintely had a lot of fun.
"I don't pretend to be Sherlock Holmes..." my foot. I've seen House.
@Grand Moff Porkins there were a good few years separating them too haha
Maybe it's mostly thanks to the actress, but I absolutely love Honoria.
“Because they jolly well stole them. That’s how.” My favorite line delivery of the whole series!
I love this series and wish they would bring it back at least once a year! The chemistry between Jeeves and Bernie is phenomenal.....amazing.....unique and hilarious! Nobody could have done it better than these two seasoned actors!
BERTIE, not BERNIE!
@@mjremy2605 I’ve heard him called both! It’s a comedy, remember?
Why bring it back annually, when it’s here for you 24/7?
Biffy's hotel has "big doors, and a sort of roof..."
The “Hemmingways” don’t deal in small sums. The £100 loan would be worth somewhere around $10.000 (£7800 or so) in today’s money, and the £3000 value claimed for the pearl necklace would be more like $300,000 ($234,777) today.
My preferred aesthetic is Bertie playing the piano singing a ditty while Jeeves calmly prepares libations in the background.
(guest) Hello, do you mean the episode where Bertie is innocently asking about the words of ' Minnie The Moocher' ? What it Jeeves said , something like ".....ardent spirits...."and "....hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho, .....Sir....". I love that scene! 😊.
I love that episode... Sir.
You unmitigated Cad sir and Bounder To Boot!
Lucy yes lol! Love it
Agreed, the feller's a beastly rotter.
The expression on Jeeves face as he listens to the lyrics of Bertie's song is absolutely priceless...
You mean the expression “ on Jeeves’s face”. Don’t forget the apostrophe.
@@judeirwin2222
As the 's' is part of Jeeves' name, the apostrophe belongs at the end of Jeeves, after the 's,' as shown in the first line of this comment, and not between the 'e' and the 's.' If Bertie's valet were named 'Jeeve,' _then_ the apostrophe would belong between the 'e' and the 's.'
@@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991Quite Correct.
Very good sir!
Pure delight! Greatest of joy and entertainment, thanks to CZcams uploading now available outside the UK. Never ever have I seen such a perfect tv show! Every scene, every actor, every setting just PERFECT! Hugh and Steven: OSCARS 👑👑 must be given to TV actors, too! Adorable acting, which only the Brits can do. I cannot stop celebrating the whole creative team 🏆 And the music is just gorgeous!
I agree. But I think American actors do just as well in different ways ❤❤
The Oscars have lost their sheen,helped by Gervais who gave the W ⚓ 's a well deserved hurry up. (At a different award show)
27:42 - Great character acting work by the constable here with the wink at the chambermaid. I don't know if it was scripted or not, but it's an excellent touch that goes beyond the simple direction of "Act satisfied at other character's misery".
"I told ya he couldn't be as gormless as he looks!" 😂
It must be great being "blessed" with a confidant that just happens to act as a Guardian Angel. Jeeves' sobriety, wit, and common sense fills the gap missing in Wooster's personality. But Wooster is as good of a person as any of us have ever met. Wooster's mischief is always in fun and never intended to harm. Put Wooster and Jeeves together and we have a person we'd all love to emulate.
Even considered as separate specimens, one could do much worse than either of them. In fact, personally, I doubt that Jeeves' wit and common sense would make quite as charming a package if coupled with Wooster's lighthearted lust for life; and likewise feel that Bertie's sense of adventure and somewhat naive sense of duty to those lucky enough to be considered 'his' people would suffer dramatically if combined with that cool, dry, the-punchline-is-the-part-I-didn't-say magic that is Jeeves' sense of humour. Or maybe that's just me... ;^)
They are a perfect match. Jeeves keeps him from certain disaster
Inura Facititia Here Hera!! 🥃
@@khairiledzhamismail1029 hehehe, yes!
Quite right, that's called Yin and Yang, two halves of a whole)))
Wooster s wardrobe is simply topping.
Every woman gasps and a baby cries .... Hahaha !!
Playing Hamlet.
- Really? Who won?
Classic.
"-One of my most tresured memories is of Irving playing Hamlet at the Lyceum.
-Really? Who won?" Lol.
@@mihaicraciun5266 I don't get the joke... Is there also a game called Hamlet?
@@maryrecluse1839 no there is no game called Hamlet, the joke is in the phrase :playing Hamlet: it could also be read as 'playing {against} Hamlet'. Punch line of Really, Who won. {the competition}
@@oddnnhairy7824 Thanks!
Biffy: I see. The trouble is there isn't any insanity in my family.
Wooster: Really?
ROFLMAO
Very good Sir, shall I wake you at 6?
Yes ... No no Jeeves!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jack Bourne I love that part!!! 😂
I love Bertie's unflappable optimism!!
What a delightful episode. So often the picturisation falls so short of the book, but here I was chuckling away as much as I did with the book. Perfect casting all around.
AB-SO-LUTE-LY! Couldn't have said it better!
I never would've guessed Laurie was British watching 'House' here in America. The accent transition is astoundingly good.
I can’t watch House after being a diehard fan of Jeeves and Wooster. How can I watch Bertie as a doctor with an American accent in a horrible US hospital after seeing perfection, wit, comedy???🎭
"The last time we met you said you were thinking of getting a job", "Yes, still thinking!" Brilliant!
I love how Jeeves describes his niece wanting to marry a loser lol
Kelly Anne Ortega:Wish Jeeves had been around in 1982!And I didn't realize bikes were invented so far back.
I just found out that Hugh Laurie went on to do a medical series named "House MD". Here Hugh is a totally light-hearted comedy actor and in House he is solemn drama sometimes subtle sarcastic humor. Shows what range he has for acting.
JMP LMR especially as he has to put on an American accent for house,which he does so well that some people no aware of his career thought he WAS American !
check out his music, so you might recognize his range as an artist^^
I didn't like House, and wish I hadn't seen Hugh Laurie in that role. Seeing actors out of the character you liked them in can be an upsetting experience. Maybe that is why some directors type cast.
Yes indeed. Having very successfully portrayed an upper class English well-meaning twit with more gusto but even less intellect than Bertram Wooster (as Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh, in Blackadder Goes Forth), he very successfully inhabits the character of an outrageously multitalented American misanthrope with an IQ of roughly 200.
Also the Prince Regent in Blackadder III.
Loved these exquisitely done pieces in this veddy English series. And you had to find a forklift to get my jaw off the floor after I realized who was playing Dr. House. Also exquisite. It was great to be made to feel humble as an American. To badd it didn't last.
I have to mention the first episode Jeeves & Wooster where Jeeves shows for the first time and Bertie is deeply hungover and speechless, straining for cognizance. It was looking like some primal climb to consciousness and was howlingly enjoyable.
At about 37:59, Honoria leaps over the fallen table, banging on some silverware. What a hilarious bit of business and so in character. She is my favourite among the females that threaten Bertie.
+Grant Hurlburt yes, i'm loving her character all over again!
Honoria is marvelous! She's Brunhilda! Most of the Wodehouse women are just self-absorbed ballbreakers but she's got some humor and spirit.
@@mickyalberta3484 Yes, she is well-intentioned if a little heedless. I also like Pauline Stoker, the American heiress.
@@granthurlburt4062 Yeah, Pauline is great too. Aren't their American accents perfect? They sound more authentic than actual U.S. citizens. I love this series: three comic geniuses in one show. It doesn't get better than that. Have you read any Wodehouse? He wrote a lot more than Jeeves and he is laugh out loud funny.
I fancy Honoria. And Pauline Stoker!
Could not agree more they were perfection & born to play the roles.
Bertie getting to tell Aunt Agathia off. AWESOMENESS!
This series is a thing of greatness.
"The nostrils positively quiver" lol
Omigod I love that Aunt Agatha! I'd forgotten how hilarious that show was. Great fun to catch up :-)
31:36 -- "Sunny Disposish" by George Gershwin (1927)
I love Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster. I advise anyone to find and read PG Wodehouse's many hilarious books on Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
or find ian carmichael's superior portrayal of wooster
Did the animal's appetite improve, sir?
Not noticeably.
He ate the telegram though.
Ha!
The incidental anecdotes are my favourite bits.
Lol
Hugh Laurie as Wooster and then as House MD shows that he can play comedy and drama with aplomb! Wow! He can play the piano and sing as well.
and other instruments.
Love Jeeves and Wooster brilliant actors brilliant locations I love Sidmouth in Devon where this part of the episode was filmed.Nothing today compares to this brilliance well done to Stephen and Hugh will always love these epidodes
I...... can't....... stop...... watching.......these.....
Thank you so so much! this is my favourite serial. Thank you
Sarcasm flows from Jeeves like there is no tomorrow.
Thanks so much for putting these up. Seen them before and I'll see them again but they're the perfect antidote for all the hollywood violence and shmaltz.
Love the Jeeves & Wooster series. Watched the House series which made me a fan of Hugh Laurie. Lovely to watch him as Wooster. Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏
What about all the stuff Hugh Laurie did inbetween Jeeves & Wooster and House? You should catch up on it all. A lot of collaboration between Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Wonderful!! Thank you❤
1923 : ' I wonder if I might crave a boon Sir? '
2023 : 'Ere guvnor, do us a favour will ya?'
Ah progress...
I loved 47 ginger haired sailors.
My favorite song!!
Love it . The Ladies at the Beach , & a Baby cries. Fantastic Fun.
What an enjoyable story I totally totally didn’t move from my seat to even fetch myself a hot coffee,, I must watch all of his episodes. This is the first that I’ve watched. I must give it five stars.👍🏼👍🏼 first do you thumbs up for sharing this film with us Loreal9110 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this video was absolutely brilliant thank you thank you
I constantly have envisions of Monty Python's: "UPPER-CLASS TWIT OF THE YEAR" COMPETIONS
Laurie and Fry were so brilliant together and played their parts so well!
I love Bertie when Aunt Agatha dresses him down.
I imagine Hugh Laurie as very henpecked man lol
Has anyone else noticed that Stephen Fry's Jeeves always says, "Yes [comma] sir," and "No [comma] sir"? Not an automatic "yessir," "nosir," like he isn't really listening? A bit of magic there. Not only does that signal to Bertie that Jeeves is really listening, but also Jeeves is sort of encouraging Bertie to THINK about what he is saying. Not that that usually works...but...Jeeves always does his best.
As the book's were written old bean!
Why the apostrophe?
Jeeves always pauses between a word that ends in an 's' or in an s sound, and the 'sir,' I suppose to make certain that every syllable gets its full measure. For example: 46:33
@@stevenstout1542 It is just proper grammar, no?
@@lordeden1475 And as we love them, old bean.
The best comedies are always performed by actors who are both talented AND intelligent - and that in turn is what tends to make British Comedy the best on the Planet (at least for those who can understand it)!
27:26 just watch his little dance at the end of the scene
Sweet revenge but gentle.
Yes, perfect writing, that moment has been building since the first episode of the first series.
... this Glossop menace... 🤣
The vocabulary in these are wonderful, it almost makes me wish I had gone to Cambridge. Fry and Laurie are all rounders, from this to Blackadder and beyond.
You don't think Fry and Laurie (Cantab) actually wrote their own dialogue do you? The scripts were written by Clive Exton (who also wrote Poirot). He not only didn't go to Cambridge, he left school at 16 to go onto the army, had lots of menial jobs before studying acting at Central School of Speech and Drama. No uni at all. There are lots of ways to have an extensive vocabulary, starting with reading good writing.
"and stand up strait" lol i still had to listen to that kind of thing when i was a parent myself. it never stops.
When you were a child, surely?
"Do you know what I look for in a song, Jeeves?"
"Ah, not precisely, sir, no. I have often speculated."
I'm pretty sure old P G would be 'Delighted' with these two swells!
Bertie is a swell, Jeeves is a gentleman ' gentleman.
Thank you so much for posting these classic stories.
24:38
"I have to get back to my flock by tomorrow."
"Oh, sheering time, is it?"
Damn! Clever dialogue!! A hell of an innuendo there, inadvertently made by Bertie, that them gruesome twosome were slick hustlers.
Don't know if any one else caught that as a sly way of outright saying the false preacher had get back to his congregation to "fleece" them (some more, I suppose), if anyone else stills knows the meaning of "fleece" in underworld con games terminology. That was just TOO good, alas unbeknownst to Bertie. Damn!!!
I also noticed Bertie never received his 100 pounds back as well
I very much doubt that the author didn't know what this meant. Maybe Bertie didn't, but I even doubt that.
lol, yep
It’s shearing u mean ,right."
SHEARING TIME FOR THE FLOCK
"I told you he couldn't be as gormless as he looked." And the look on Bertie's face. I think
the casting of Hugh Laurie as Bertie is perfection itself. Stephen Fry is too young to be
Jeeves but I think Wodehouse himself would have been thrilled by Laurie.
Frank O'Brien Fry is so expressive compared to Wodehouse’s Jeeves, but I think he works wonderfully this way, in particular because it’s on screen this time.
They are a comedy team, after all
Wodehouse often pointed out that Jeeves was young. I think they work so perfectly together.
I preferred Ian Carmichael as Wooster, but Stephen Fry to me is the essential jeeves.
Thanks for posting. Bertie, with his louche and lavish lifestyle, endless aunts called Agatha, Dahlia etc, leading a life with no visible means of support, apart from said aunts... of course , all English people live like this. And cricket and bowling greens and honey for tea. And floral clocks and boon craving. Such a soporific, such fun.
Aristocratic English people did...
'No means of support', you mean Bertie? Bertie inherited a lot of money from his Uncle Willoughby
He wasn't dependent on the dashed aunts. Had independent means of support.
love this episode..... somehow i expect poirot to show up whenever an aristocrat losing their jewellery.
MrJeroek: they actually used some of the same sets used in the Poirot series, too.
Woulda liked to see Poirot (Suchens) amble past in one scene.. 😂
I like that show, too, less for the actual detecting, but rather for the era itself.
* Suchet
Same script writer too.
Absolutely brilliant!