#Thank You Jeeves

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

While we’re on the topic of J&W characters being neurodivergent, Thank You, Jeeves contains one of the clearest descriptions of ADHD hyperfixations I’ve ever read

#thank you jeeves #jeeves books #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster

[spotforme]

When i tell you that the 1936 movie Thank you, Jeeves is diabolical, i very well mean it! Let me recap some happenings from it so you'll understand better

It starts with Bertie playing the drums and Jeeves beside him, screaming on the phone to be heard over the 'playing'

Divorse is announsed within the first 5 minutes

A girl shows up in the night, witch means it's time for Jeeves to lock Bertie up in his bath-/bedroom for the night

They drive to a hotel together. On the way picking up a lifter and scaring him to death with Bertie's manic driving

There the gal who Bertie fell for threatens him with a gun

Jeeves is out singing and dancing along to a one man orchestra. His agressive dansing makes him fall through the floor.

More people threaten Bertie with more guns, having mistaken him as competent

Jeeves beats up close to 20 people while Bertie kinda just runs around..

Somewhere there Bertie gets engaged (by his own free will!)

The thing ends with Bertie shackled to a basement wall and this bit of dialogue between him and Jeeves:

"This place would be perfect for our honeymoon!"

"Your honeymoon, sir"

"You mean you're not coming?"

#jeeves and wooster #thank you jeeves #this all happened in under an hour

[alexfireon]

What's the heterosexual explanation for this then

#jeeves and wooster #jooster #thank you jeeves #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves

[teaspoonnebula]

Uh oh UH OH

Oh gosh how bad is this about to get... I'm still plucking up the courage to read on...

#jeeves #jeeves and wooster #pg wodehouse #thank you jeeves

[semper-legens]

27. Thank You, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

Owned: No, library Page count: 263 My summary: Thanks to his insistence on playing the banjolele, Bertie Wooster has been 1) kicked out of his flat and 2) dumped by Jeeves. But not to worry. He's out into the country, where nothing can go wrong! Except maybe love triangles, wacky escapades, imprisonment on a yacht, forced marriages, and a distinct lack of butter. Just his lucky day. My rating: 3/5 My commentary:

You know, despite my usual tastes in literature and my general predilection for the stuffy English gentleman, I've never actually engaged with any Jeeves and Wooster. I've seen clips from the Steven Fry/Hugh Laurie show, as every English person is legally required to, but I've never actually sat down to read any Wodehouse myself. Well, one of my coworkers is currently working her way through Jeeves and Wooster, and decided that I'd like it too. So, on her recommendation, I've gone in blind with this book. Let's see what it's like!

First off - Wodehouse's voice is delightful. Archaic without being impenetrable, sardonic and drawling, punning and witty in all the right ways. I was charmed and captivated from the start, not less because of how full-on it is right out of the gate. It's a very droll writing style, the kind that was definitely a spawn of the 30s; I can't imagine someone writing like that now except to satirise. Still, it's wonderfully charming. And Wooster himself is well-characterised as a complete brainless twit. He actually had a lot more heart than I was expecting from what I knew of his character, but he's still a big idiot who doesn't ever help himself out of any situation at all.

Also, like, I know calling Jeeves and Wooster gay isn't exactly the hottest of takes, but it surprised me just how gay it was. Seriously, Jeeves says that he's got a policy of never working for a married man. I can't be the only one reading implication into that. And he's always at Wooster's beck and call, even in this book where he's not technically working for him. (More on that in a bit.) And Wooster is not all that put out that the eligible young lady who is also his ex in this book isn't into him. In fact, he goes out of his way to avoid getting into a relationship with her! Any tension between them is coincidence and awkward encounters. Just…so gay.

Unfortunately with literature written in the early 1900s, and particularly literature by white people, you're gonna get some racism. In this book, it takes the form of the banjolele and the blackface. The former is the inciting incident for the novel; Wooster has to move to the country because he has taken up playing the banjolele, a cross between a banjo and a ukulele. Everyone hates the noise, but it's the instrument itself that's brought up as being the problem. Jeeves, in particular, hates it. The racial connotations of this can't be ignored - the banjo is associated with black Americans, where obviously the ukulele is a native Hawaiian instrument. But more egregiously, Wooster spends half the novel 'comically' in blackface. There is a never-seen troupe of minstrels referred to with the n-word - whether they are actually black or white people in blackface is unclear from the text, but apparently that was the contemporary term for blackface performers. And every person who sees Wooster in blackface assumes he's a devil and screams and runs away, again 'comically'. Look, I know this was written in 1934, but honestly I don't care. This is just straight-up racist. The idea of Wooster being blacked up is treated as hilarious rather than insulting, and of course not a single actual person of colour shows up at all. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth, the casualness of these stereotypes and this behaviour. It's just bad. (And apparently, the TV episode based on this book also had the blackface in 1991. Plus ca change…)

Next, we're off to the Arctic, where there's a haunting on a beached ship…

#Thank You Jeeves #PG Wodehouse #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #3

[doyke]

just noticed a subtler reference in thank you jeeves in which bertie infers jeeves as his wife when "I had only to go and get in touch with him and he would bring out pounds of butter on a lordly dish" is in fact referring to himself as Heber the Kenite and Jeeves as Jael in Judges..

#thank you jeeves

[therearenomorevalidblognames]

Thank you, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

Joy in the Morning, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

Enough with the gag in tv shows or books where characters talk ill of another character while they're right there in the room. Give me characters giving one the old oil as though the person weren't there.

Bonus:

Jeeves telling Bertie he's a knight in shining armor for volunteering to be a scapegoat

#jeeves & wooster #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #thank you jeeves #joy in the morning jeeves #joy in the morning #p. g. wodehouse

[chekhov-and-chill]

I can’t believe Brinkley the replacement valet CHASED BERTIE AROUND WITH A CARVING KNIFE in the books and we didn’t get to see it on screen

#we were robbed #jeeves and wooster #thank you jeeves #Jeeves #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #wooster #bertram wooster #pg wodehouse #wodehouse

[weast-of-eden]

me: ok i'm going to start reading something new, i've read and watched a lot of sherlock holmes media for the past few months, now let's try the jeeves and wooster stories

p.g. wodehouse: try me bitch

wooster LITERALLY pretends to be holmes when he correctly guesses who's at the door. comedy gold

#but also these stories are HILARIOUS #and the show is great too #gotta love laurie and fry ofc #anyways READ THE JEEVES STORIES #there were two other SH references in this book alone!! wodehouse is a fan fr #this book is called 'thank you jeeves' and it's to die for #sherlock holmes #jeeves and wooster

[thebatcreature]

Watching Jeeves And Wooster to get over House was a mistake actually cause now I be juggling Bertie and House in my mind 24/7 like a clown

#house md #jeeves and wooster #Hugh Laurie i blame you #also now I'm rewatching two shows thank you #I have got to get normal

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

When your ex-fiancée knows you’re gay before you do

#mother knows #jeeves and wooster #jeeves books #thank you jeeves #pauline stoker #bertie wooster

[spotforme]

Thank you, Jeeves from the 1936 movie

#a policeman is currently touching his sides #jeeves and wooster #thank you jeeves

[aceredshirt13]

Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) - The Better Version

This movie - the earliest extant Jeeves adaptation - is overwhelmingly terrible and you shouldn't watch it. However, despite being completely out-of-character, about 25% of it is honestly still kind of fun. So as a collaborative effort between myself and @beetle-goth, we are happy to present you with a supercut of all of the scenes in this movie that are entertaining, with nearly all the rampant racism and sexism cut out. Will it make the movie good? Maybe not! But at least it will be... better.

This version has a few silly editorial comments inserted in by the both of us. If you want the version without our silly comments, you can find it here.

#red randomness #jeeves and wooster #thank you jeeves (1936) #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #jooster #wooves #it is actually embarrassing how long some of these edits took lmao #i had to relearn how to use video editing software #but this was very fun #expect one or two more edits of the entertaining bits of awful movies based on old british literature to come your way #increasingly convinced david niven is incapable of not making his character and his costar's character feel like they're married #even in a bad movie like this #it's his magical power

[makiitabaki]

Sometimes I go on tumblr just to look at that one dead fandom with 10 posts on its tag (I've seen all of them a hundred times) and I just kind of

Stare.

#ziemia obiecana #niebezpieczni dżentelmeni #wesele wyspiańskiego #błagam polskie fandomy odezwijcie się #sprawa dantona #to akurat nie jest aż tak martwe #fandom frev jest jednak cudowny #polishpost #sort of #whatever #not a jeeves and wooster post #definitely not that #the fandom is thriving #and I thank you for that

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

some jeeves quotes! the first one .. "what do you mean by a gentleman of my description?" he's saying you're gay, bertie.

HES SAYING YOURE GAY BERTIE

bertie is so... oblivious to his own inclinations.

the man is like "hm why is it im so opposed to marriage, and i dont really fancy any of the women i meet more than a passing "she's fine, i suppose"

*puts on aluminum hat*

biffy "shes a tender goddess" biffen and bertie "describes jeeves as godlike" wooster

#thank you so much for this btw i love that <3 #god #theyre so gay and in love #in my head? jeeves knows full well who he is and how hes in love with bertie and bertie.... doesnt at all but very much is in love #he just hasnt experienced with women really and therefore doesnt have a frame of reference #anyhow my 2 cents #no shit to ppl who view him as bi thats just not how i see him #jeeves and wooster #jooster

[lettersregardingjeeves]

How do you do, old chap, I've just received your letter about the 'Letters Regarding Jeeves' subscription. Jolly spiffing, I do say, I'm bloody delighted to be included.

I do wonder, may I have an invitation to the Discord server, dear thing? Sounds like a right gas and I'd love to join.

Righto, all the best with the golf, I won't keep you.

Yours heartily and affectionately,

Kat (the superest of)

Oh, good gracious. It appears I've mucked this up quite a bit. I neglected to mention the Discord server hasn't quite opened up! Since we're rather far out from the start of the Substack, I supposed I'd wait on opening it until the date of the letters drew a little closer. But I'll be sure to let you know when it's open for all to join! Terribly sorry for the mistake on my part!

Yours a touch mucked-up-ily,

Acey

#jeeves and wooster #letters regarding jeeves #lrj #(thank you so much for sending me messages in the character voice oh my god) #(it has truly brightened my day unimaginably) #(and sorry for the miscommunication!) #(can't wait to meet you all!)