Favorite married-couple line?

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

We ALL know that Jeeves and Bertie have Their Moments, and I know I have my favorites, so I was wondering:

Counting both the books and the show, what are your favorite lines that just scream "all we're missing are the rings and a wedding dress"? And it doesn't have to be spoken by the boys, it just has to at the very least pertain to them.

Mine by far has to be Jeeves' infamous "mustaches are a leading cause of divorce."

Your turn! Repeats are okay.

Comments

[sige-vic.livejournal.com]

Well, the end of The Tie That Binds, of course :-)

[nemesishamartia.livejournal.com]

YES THIS. I was pointing to that for DAYS after I finished it going OMG OMG OMG CANON! SEE, CANON.

[sweet-fallacy.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly dialogue and I wouldn't say it was my favorite, but at the end of Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest...

I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive. I felt I wanted to do all sorts of other things to show Jeeves that I appreciated him.

All sorts of other things, Mr Wooster? Oh do go on...

[hephaistia.livejournal.com]

And here I thought it was only my perverted mind imagining what those 'other things' could be.....

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

I love this one. A lot.

[mrs-rochester11.livejournal.com]

hehe, I remember that line as well:) How slasherific!

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

It might be TV canon only, but I like the one where Bertie and Jeeves have a falling out over the trombone (banjolele in the book). Bertie tells Chuffy he's going to the country for a while and Chuffy asks him if Jeeves will like that. I can't remember if Chuffy asks this in the canon story.

And there's also the mustache bit where Stilton Cheesewright asks Bertie what Jeeves thinks of Bertie's mustache. Bertie admits Jeeves isn't fond of it, and Stilton says something like "it's all over for that mustache, then." Or something to that effect. It's in "Bertie Wooster Sees it Through."

Good discussion topic.

[georgeodowd.livejournal.com]

Oh golly, I know I have something to contribute to this, but it's escaping me at the moment! Most of the memorable ones have been touched on above, but my old notes suggest something vaguely under this heading in the story about 'young Sticketh-Closer-Than-a-Brother' in Carry On, Jeeves. Anyone remember it? I think the aforementioned character couldn't understand that Bertie didn't need a wife because he already had Jeeves.

Oh, here's a fun one from the always-controversial McCrum biography:

p.110 '[Wodehouse and his wife's] relationship finds an unconscious echo in many aspects of Jeeves and Bertie's rapport.'

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

I think the "aforementioned character" was Bingo Little. I know people here mention that line a lot.

[reginaldrobot.livejournal.com]

"mustaches are a leading cause of divorce." lololol I think about that one fondly.

[lollyphants.livejournal.com]

'Of course, I know it's as bad as being henpecked; but then Jeeves is always right. You've got to consider that, you know. What?’

From My Man Jeeves. Sure it's not that romantic but I've never come across a definition of 'henpecked' that didn't involve the word 'wife' somewhere.

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

I just remembered another great one: from the episode Trouble at Totleigh Towers:

"Oh, stop playing with the hat, Jeeves! *under breath* I knew you wouldn't like it..."

[danse-amore.livejournal.com]

There are a bunch from Bertie Wooster sees it through. The first ten pages or so read like Bertie/Jeeves fanfiction, but these are the best bits:

"It had done so, moreover, at a moment when I was already lowered spiritually by the fact that for the last couple of weeks or so Jeeves had been away on his summer holiday. Round about the beginning of July each year he downs tools, the slacker, and goes off to Bognor Regis for the shrimping, leaving me in much the same position as those poets one used to have to read at school who were always beefing about losing gazelles. For without this righthand man at his side Bertram Wooster becomes a mere shadow of his former self."

...

"My reverie was interrupted by the sound of a soft footstep in the bedroom, and I sat up, alert and, as you might say, agog, the soap frozen in my grasp. If feet were stepping softly in my sleeping quarters, it could only mean, I felt, unless of course a burglar had happened to drop in, that the prop of the establishment had returned from his vacation, no doubt looking bronzed and fit."

[alex51324.livejournal.com]

Love these--what I like best about the first one you quoted is how the reader is left wondering if Bertie is actually so dim that he doesn't realize that the gazelles in the poems are actually beazels (which I now want to spell "beazelles," but I'm fairly sure "beazels" is right. Spellcheck doesn't like either, of course).

It took listening to the audiobooks for me to cotton on to just how slashy Jeeves and Wooster are--can't remember the line exactly anymore, but I recall that I was in my car and listening to some part where Bertie witters on about feeling so sorry for chaps who don't have a man at home to take care of them, and I stopped the tape (perhaps even the car, I'm not sure) to say "Oh my God!" a few times. Then to listen to that bit again.

Jeeves in the Morning!

[rosencrantzgirl.livejournal.com]

Jeeves in the Morning all the way! I don't have the book with me at the mo, but I specifically remember Bertie comparing Jeeves to a gazelle. Also, when Jeeves corners Bertie in the garden at night and soliloquizes about the stars. It goes something like this:

"There's not the smallest ord which thou beholdest, sir, but in his motion like an angel sings, still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. Such harmony is in immortal souls, sir, but whilst this muddy vesture of decay doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it."

Bertie, unfortunately is not receptive, but I love the mention of immortal souls.

Re: Jeeves in the Morning!

[rosencrantzgirl.livejournal.com]

My bad, it's orb. Sorry.

Re: Jeeves in the Morning!

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

That's such a lovely bit, but Bertie's a wet blanket in the "scene" (don't know why I call them scenes when it's text) :(

(and lolol rosencrantz lololol high-five for Shakeapeare nerds)