Jeeves & Wooster wank spotting
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indeedsir_backupLadies and gentlemen; eggs, beans, and crumpets:
For your consideration: Jump the Shark.com's page for discussion of Jeeves & Wooster, wherein we learn that the title characters were played by Hugh Loren and Stephen Fletcher, and that Wodehouse stole his plots from Mr. Belvedere. I also like the one where the (relatively canon-savvy) commentor goes on for about 600 words about his personalwet daydream of how the show should've been made. It's quite a long time before anyone points out the difference between a valet and a butler; it's somewhat unfortunate, therefore, that they get the explanation totally wrong.
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For your consideration: Jump the Shark.com's page for discussion of Jeeves & Wooster, wherein we learn that the title characters were played by Hugh Loren and Stephen Fletcher, and that Wodehouse stole his plots from Mr. Belvedere. I also like the one where the (relatively canon-savvy) commentor goes on for about 600 words about his personal
This link has been provided strictly for the purposes of pointing and laughing.
innocentsmith cannot be held responsible for any bleeding out the eyes or ceilings collapsing with the shock waves from your screams of frustration which may result from clicking on the link.
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Date: 2006-07-12 01:50 am (UTC)...
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Date: 2006-07-12 01:53 am (UTC)Seinfeld did an episode where they totally skewered the whole humorous butler motif. I could hear Steven Fry gasping. It was the one wheere Jerry and George develop a new tv show where Jerry has a butler - clearly a parody of this show. For those who couldn't pick up on this, Jerry came out and did some jokes about the stupidity of the name Jeeves. "If your name is Jeeves, isn't it pretty much unavoidable that you're going to grow up to be a butler." Once again a little Yankee know-how punctures the air out of stuffy British convention.
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Date: 2006-07-12 02:13 am (UTC)Thin air, of course, can only be punctured by 7th generation Bostonians with high midichlorian counts.
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Date: 2006-07-12 02:29 am (UTC)My brain is still stuck trying to cope with the "Seinfeld" comparison. It's sort of like the mental equivalent of one of those Magic Eye images, where you keep squinting at it and trying to get it to make sense, and it just ... doesn't ever quite resolve properly.
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:27 am (UTC)The gentleman who portrayed Mr Belvedere on the tube, whatever his name was, would be the natural choice for Jeeves, but I suppose they felt like he was already used. I did like chris fry, tho.
I didn't know Christopher Fry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Fry) was involved with the series! How cool. But the Valet's Not For Fantwitting.
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Date: 2006-07-12 02:20 am (UTC)It's too early in the morning to deal with this. *sobs*
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Date: 2006-07-12 02:58 am (UTC)But in any case the discussion is hilarious!
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:48 am (UTC)...
Maybe I'm just more cynical about the idiocy of random denizens of teh internets. It's really almost worse when someone's comment starts out sounding sensible and then takes a sharp left turn into wankery.
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:02 am (UTC)The internet is a dark and frightening place sometimes.
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:00 am (UTC)Good Lord. I mean to say, Good Lord! I do believe my brain just bubbled out of ears. Fancy th--
*collapsed*
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 03:05 am (UTC)*sniggers*
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:14 am (UTC)even better then Black Adder. That's why it's on Masterpiece Theatre.
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:26 am (UTC)Bless you, sweet.
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 03:39 am (UTC)lipsfingers to [insert random deity]'s ears.no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 04:09 am (UTC)While I agree that Jeeves is probably older than Stephen Fry was in the show....seriously, does Lord TL;DR here not know any English grad students, or what?
Anyway, this is all awfully silly. Ha ha, internet.
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 04:20 am (UTC)That guy's kind of fascinating because he's got all the right canon knowledge, yet manages to take it all in completely and utterly the wrong spirit.
BERTIE AND JEEVES NEVER JUMPED OFF A SHIP. This is what comes of a lack of close reading. Wodehouse was a master plotter and never would've sunk so low. However, in "The Amateur Cracksman", Raffles jumped off a ship and swam into the distance. Perhaps that's what the defenders of that STUPID idea are thinking of. I'll be so kind as to allow them confusion rather than simply saying they're cretinous jackasses.
How generous, milord. And where the hell did Raffles come from in this discussion? YOU! Out of my fandoms!
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Date: 2006-07-12 06:22 am (UTC)You know the clueless kids in your Lit class who would say that all of Shakespeare's plots had been "done to death"? They're all on Jump the Shark.
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 10:50 pm (UTC)The once-promising "Veronica Mars" has jumped the shark. Why? Because Veronica now has a cute boyfriend. It ruins everything!
...bwuh?
Yeah, not reading any further.
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Date: 2006-07-12 02:08 pm (UTC)I want a Fletcher/Loren fic.
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Date: 2006-07-13 12:02 am (UTC)Though the slash community would probably explode at seeing the pair in the same scene as Robert Sean Lennon.
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Date: 2006-07-13 02:54 am (UTC)*applauds*
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Date: 2006-07-13 04:29 am (UTC)"Tristram Handy" seemed like the biggest stretch, but upon further thought it pleases me. It's a little like those pornos with titles stolen from big recent blockbusters and then changed just enough to make them dirty. "Tristram Handy: A Shaggy Doggie-Style Story."
...yes, I am a ridiculous lit geek.
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:07 pm (UTC)*crawls into corner to cry and drool*
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:44 pm (UTC)on BertieX3no subject
Date: 2006-07-17 09:52 pm (UTC)If you look closely, so does Jeeves. Well, not quite a puppy, but still.