what is jeeves and woosters and why does it sound like a vacuum cleaner manufacturer?
You’ve come to the right person. I’m so, so, so excited to introduce this series to someone unfamiliar with it! :D
Ahem…
Jeeves & Wooster is a series of novels by writing genius PG Wodehouse. It is also a 1990 tv series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The stories are set around the 1930s.
It centres around a young, rich aristocrat named Bertie Wooster, and his hyper-intelligent butler valet, Jeeves.
Plot-wise, each episode/novel is about
Bertie getting accidentally
engaged to different women (it’s a long story, lol), with him and Jeeves working together to find a way out of the marriage, so that Bertie can stay single and live happily in his flat with Jeeves.
All of the love interests are different. There’s the overly-sentimental Madeline Bassett:
(Ignore Bertie hiding behind the couch. It’s a long story.)
And there’s also Bobbie Wickham, the master troll trickster and practical joker:
There’s sooo many colourful characters in this series, it would take too long to list them all here.
Gussie Fink-Nottle is also pretty notable. He’s a “newt-fancier”:
Wodehouse’s writing is fantastic. It’s so clever and funny throughout.
Jeeves is very, very intelligent. He can come up with these elaborate schemes that fix everyone’s problems.
Anyway, I hope you check out the series. I highly, highly recommend it. :)
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