History Series / JeevesAndWooster

* MistakenForCheating: In one episode, Madeline continually walks in on Gussie in compromising but completely innocent positions with other women.

A TV Series starring StephenFry and HughLaurie and based on [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse]], ''Jeeves and Wooster'' is set [[GenteelInterbellumSetting sometime between the wars]] and focuses on Bertie Wooster, an affable but not overly bright young chap with an unfortunate tendency to get accidentally engaged to every woman he so much as looks at, while his valet (''not'' butler), Jeeves, is the brains of the operation, suggesting the various schemes that help Bertie and his friends get out of trouble. Well sometimes. Sometimes, he [[JackassGenie gives them what they need, not what they want]].

The plots tend to be quite similar - a friend of Bertie's is in love but they lack the courage to propose/their family doesn't approve of the match/they've forgotten the girl's name and address, and they require Bertie to propose in their stead/pretend to be engaged to their fiancee/pose as a burglar to make them look heroic when they foil him; this will go wrong and Bertie will get unwillingly engaged to someone, or be caught stealing something, or both. At the last minute everything will turn out all right and Jeeves will explain how he solved everything. Grateful at being saved from the altar or prison (or both) once again, Bertie will give permission for Jeeves to book the cruise he's been angling for, or destroy the hat of Bertie's he dislikes; inevitably, Jeeves has already done so.

A TV Series starring StephenFry and HughLaurie and based on [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse]], ''Jeeves and Wooster'' is set [[GenteelInterbellumSetting sometime between the wars]] and focuses on Bertie Wooster, an affable but not overly bright young chap with an unfortunate tendency to get accidentally engaged to every woman he so much as looks at, while his valet (''not'' butler), Jeeves, is the brains of the operation, suggesting the various schemes that help Bertie and his friends get out of trouble. Well sometimes. Sometimes, he gives them what they need, not what they want.

* GenteelInterbellumSetting: The series is set in an idealized version of England at an indeterminate point between the World Wars, and largely picks and chooses on matters of detail -- Bertie Wooster drives a mid-'30s car, for instance, but Prohibition is still alive and well when he visits the US.

* ButtMonkey: Bertie is this to practically everyone (including his valet!)

* ServileSnarker: Jeeves

* CoolOldLady: Aunt Dahlia is this, I don't care what anyone says.

**** Having observed the egregious little oik in question, I can say confidently that I'd cheerfully push him off a bridge, infatuated friend or no infatuated friend.

** XanatosSpeedChess: Jeeves can work around almost anything that spoils his stratagems on a moment's notice.

--> '''Aunt Dahlia:''' What do you mean, Cheesewright's taken a fancy to her? She's Jeeves!

* ThisIsSparta: "ANATOLE. HAS GIVEN. NOTICE."

* XanatosGambit: Jeeves is the master of the Gambit, based on what he calls "the psychology of the individual."
** XanatosSpeedChess: And he can work around almost anything that spoils his stratagems on a moment's notice.

* ChickMagnet: Bertie manages to attract a surprising large number of women.

** [[LargeHam Spode]] is fond of making threats of this calibre, one particularly fine example being: "I will tear your head off and make you carry it around in a bag"

*** Specifically, if you actually listen to his speeches, you will not only notice plenty of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ideas ([[InsaneTrollLogicreplacing 27,000 miles of railway track in order to widen their spacing by eight inches to facilitate the transportation of livestock, paid for by the fact that sheep will be able to stand sideways]]), but also a lot of mixed metaphors ("to take up the reins of the ship of state") and sentences which he thinks will be profound sound-bites but clearly show that he has no idea what he's talking about ("Rome may have been built in a day, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis but it took only a trumpet. To bring down. The walls. Of Jericho").]]

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Over the course of one episode, Roderick Spode threatens to break Bertie's "rotten spine in [three, four, five, '''SIX'''] places!"

* AttractiveBentGender: In the last season, Jeeves has to dress as a female novelist. Bertie finds his feminine appearance rather amusing, but Stilton Cheesewright finds him more attractive than his ex-fiancee.

* TheJeeves: The latest incarnation of the TropeNamer.

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Bertie's world-view is very much based on this.
** Though it should be noted that everyone in Bertie's social circle are perfectly willing to screw everyone else over for the pettiest of reasons, but are appalled whenever anything remotely inconveniences them.

* RalphWiggum: Cyril 'Barmy' Fotheringay-Phipps
--> "I don't think I've ever been to Kensington."\\
"[...]Yes, you have. Your mother lives in Kensington."\\
"Oh, ''that'' Kensington!"

* HoYay: More obvious in the original books, thanks to Bertie's (and, in one story, Jeeves's) narration, but with Fry and Laurie playing the main characters...
** Bertie describes himself as a 'Nature's bachelor', and seems to get very upset when he has a tiff with Jeeves. He also compares Jeeves to the wives and sweethearts of his friends. Jeeves, on the other hand, goes to great lengths to ''keep his master unmarried''. Of course, he is stated to have a strict policy of never working for married men, it's up to the reader which way to take this.
** Not to mention the fact that in the very first episode, Aunt Agatha describes Bertie's perfect wife - a description that fits Jeeves like the most fashionable of gloves.

A TV Series starring StephenFry and HughLaurie and based on [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse]], ''Jeeves and Wooster'' is set [[ChristieTime sometime between the wars]] and focuses on Bertie Wooster, an affable but not overly bright young chap with an unfortunate tendency to get accidentally engaged to every woman he so much as looks at, while his valet (''not'' butler), Jeeves, is the brains of the operation, suggesting the various schemes that help Bertie and his friends get out of trouble. Well sometimes. Sometimes, he gives them what they need, not what they want.

* ChristieTime: The series is set in an idealized version of England at an indeterminate point between the World Wars, and largely picks and chooses on matters of detail -- Bertie Wooster drives a mid-'30s car, for instance, but Prohibition is still alive and well when he visits the US.

* PeekaBoo: In one episode there is a nude statue of a child in the background, with a flower ''just'' between its legs.

* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: An episode where Bertie blacks up and attempts caveman-speak to impersonate a visiting African chief is arguably saved from cringeworthiness when the real chief shows up and turns out to have been educated in England and be better-spoken than Bertie.

* StealthInsult: "Oh, stop playing with the hat, Jeeves. I knew you wouldn't like it." "Oh, not at all, sir!"

* ChristieTime
* CompromisingMemoirs: Sir Watkins become the centre of a truly awesome farce.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: [[strike:Roderick Spode]] STILTON CHEESEWRIGHT will break your rotten spine in [[strike: three]] [[strike: four]] [[strike: five]] '''SIX''' places!

* DisguisedInDrag: "The Delayed Arrival"

A TV Series starring (in the most recent incarnation) StephenFry and HughLaurie and based on [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse]], ''Jeeves and Wooster'' is set [[ChristieTime sometime between the wars]] and focuses on Bertie Wooster, an affable but not overly bright young chap with an unfortunate tendency to get accidentally engaged to every woman he so much as looks at, while his valet (''not'' butler), Jeeves, is the brains of the operation, suggesting the various schemes that help Bertie and his friends get out of trouble. Well sometimes. Sometimes, he gives them what they need, not what they want.