Jeeves &Wooster S01E05 Part 1/5

[VerilyTY]

"Since time immemorial". So, since the sixth of July, 1189, eh Jeeves? :-D

[historylover]

I need to find a situation in life to say "This just about takes the giddy biscuit."

Kat

[HaleyPfifer]

4:32 "GAH! I don't know any actual swear words!"

[crowingraven]

hahahaha...That is the first time I saw someone actually refer a book to make a tea. The first time I made a tea, I just simply add water, tea bag and sugar, and it worked perfectly fine! Wooster is just so adorable! :)

[Jeeves1952]

Opening musical notes (after the theme song) are wonderful!! Grave and solemn...re: tea.

[adebondt]

GIDDY BISCUIT!!! BWAWAHAHAHAHAHA!



[scamrasc]

omg i was actually quite impressed with bertie for a minute there that he was capable of making tea himself without jeeves.....and then the camera cuts to the book - "Tea, To Make"... lol! you had me there!

[hollylovemoney]

Wooster "I'm just making tea. It says here that its best to ues soft water but that after boiling it might become hard. Well i mean thats ice isnt it and the it says her that one tea spoon per person and one for the pot. I mean why does that pt get one."

wooster is so funny

hahahhahhaha

[hollylovemoney]

it says here that its best to use soft water but after boiling in might again become hard. Thats ice isnt it. One teaspoon per person and on for the pot. I mean why does that pot get one.

hahahahah

w\Wooster is so funny!! hahahhahahahaha

[Zeno931]

i love jeeves....

[ahenmaxtae]

one sees bertie attempting to make tea, and one feels the urge to place one's palm over one's face

[luludevreeze]

I was listening to an audiobook of this story. Aunt Dahlia says 'I wish there was something other than Uncle Tom that you could call him, I keep expecting him to turn black and start playing the banjo.'

[ihply0106]

"Household Management"? Is he reading Miss Beeton's book?

[MeonProductions]

I love how Jeeves takes a deep breath after that "Well, that's ice, isn't it?" line. XD I would have literally facepalmed if I were him.

I am surprised, that Bertie doesn't even know how to make tea. I don't think I know a single person who doesn't know that, haha. (Also, I think, even though it sounds prejudiced, that British people know how to make tea since their birth...)

[Jessrackham]

@MeonProductions It's not prejudiced, it's the literal, absolute, truth. Inf act not twenty minutes after I was out of the maternity ward, I was boiling my first kettle and stirring in my first milk. The point is, that one is supposed to be surprised, well actually not quite surprised, by Bertie's utter uselessness. The lack of tea making aptitude sums up his character concisely.

[tsujigiri15]

OK, these videos are starting to creep me out. I've been watching them in a row. It's not so much the comedy as that the bulk of the comments are written in 'schoolbook' English! I've never seen so many comments where viewers used the correct number of capital letters and punctuation - often simultaneously!

So to break the trend: LOL BERTIE IS GAY

[wolfxbloed]

@tsujigiri15 Isn't it a wonderful change? I'm quite proud of them.

LMAO SO IZ JIEVZ

[SibirianBlue]

@wolfxbloed That is actually QUITE true in Mr. Fry's case... :D

[AtTheApostasy]

@tsujigiri15

I think it just goes to show that people can actually construct coherent sentences properly these days if they tried hard enough, haha.

[ihply0106]

@tsujigiri15 I can't believe I didn't notice that. It is such a nice change. Goes to show what type of audience this programme caters to.

[fraidykat]

@tsujigiri15 Well if I do say so myself, I do believe wooster is of neither persuasion, in sexual terms, and thus is closer to a prepubescent boy and an aloof. This explains entirely his not one but multiple engagements in vain to so many delightful girls; he is quite simply everything a girl professes she wants in a man, honest, straightforward, exciting, and entertaining, but he is none of the things her mature female part desires in secret; he's lacking in the arts of the romantic lust fiend.

[Smarigdine]

That is one thick Phipps.

[jonber08]

What ho. Wolfxbloed is an honorable knight in the service of the people of Earth. Wolfxbloed's Jeeves & Wooster 23 episodes have already given me more laughs and brain stimuli than anything else I have ever watched on YouTube. Including the videos I make.

I was thrilled to read on Stephen Fry's blog that he has no qualm with "illegal" downloads.

WIKIPEDIA: Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy television program adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories....

[liketylickchick]

Classic intro, truely great! :D

[Piccadillyo]

"toodlepip."

"Cheerio."

Could this show be anymore stereotypically British? :P

[Vaultaiir]

@Piccadillyo Indeed not, lod thing, and that's why we love it. Everything properly British, from its quaint anachronisms to latent homosexuality. The other books are much more, erm, straighforward.

[ageorge33333]

"...takes the giddy biscuit."

I'd never hear something as cool as that here in America.

[sitithesecond]

I think the Jeeves stories were set in the 1920s. The short stories were published in 1924, 1925 and 1930. And it looks like the twenties from the clothes and cars etc. George V was King at that time. In Edwardian days ladies still wore long dresses with leg-of-mutton sleeves and had their hair piled up in super little buns on top.

[ciroalb3]

just for accuracy, the inter-war years were "Georgian". George V reigned. His father Edward VII had died in 1910.  His son Edward VIII reigned from Jan-Dec. 1936

[Evilqueen1985]

@ciroalb3 Georgian is the period when Georges I-III reigned... not George V. (George IV is actually part of the Georgian period but his reign is known as Regency cause George III was crazy)

[ciroalb3]

true, but I've seen literature of the post war George V era described as Georgian too. The earlier period tends to be called Augustan for literature I think, Georgian for furniture and decoration.

[gregkauf1987]

I'm actually rather fascinated by that electric stove. Was this very common in pre-war flats or is it merely a sign of his wealth and class?

[wolfxbloed]

Well, electricity came into practical use during the second Industrial Revolution when the ellectric generator was pretty much 'perfected' into marketable function. That dates it about 1860's-'70's, methinks. So I suppose it wouldn't be particularly uncommon for someone-particularly of Bertie's class, who benefitted most from the IR- to have electric appliances.

Also, this series is supposed to be more the Georgian era than Victorian, so that would put it even further into mainstream use.

[gregkauf1987]

True, and apparently electric stoves have been in practical use since the late 19th century. I had previously been under the misguided impression that they were a 20th century development.

Not to nitpick, but wasn't that more the Edwardian era and Interwar period? What with all the Nazi jokes and whatnot.

[wolfxbloed]

Well, a date is never specifically given, but as the books were written from 1915-1977, and no real mention of world events were discussed in the Wooster-Jeeves canon, it's generally accepted that the events in the stories occured pre-WWI. If you read "Ring for Jeeves", however, that takes place post-WWII, but Bertie doesn't appear in it, and it's disputed whether or not it belongs in the canon or as a stand-alone.

Though without a real date the Edwardian/Interwar period could also be used.

[MakeupHairFashionful]

@wolfxbloed Dont't you mean pre-WWII?

[wolfxbloed]

@MakeupHairFashionful Ring for Jeeves is post WWII.

[MakeupHairFashionful]

@wolfxbloed By my comment i meant that all of the Jeeves stories were set in 1920's. The art deco perfectly describes the setting. So, not before WWI.

[wolfxbloed]

@MakeupHairFashionful Yes, I understand that. And yes, all of the Bertie Wooster stories were set in the 1920's except for Ring for Jeeves, the book. Which is post WWII.

[MakeupHairFashionful]

@wolfxbloed I was refering to your comment " it's generally accepted that the events in the stories occured pre-WWI". Which should have been pre WWII. Just pointing out that mistake.

[wolfxbloed]

@MakeupHairFashionful I can be so terribly dense sometimes. My apologies.

[MakeupHairFashionful]

@wolfxbloed No need to apologize! :)

[ayellowbeanofdeath]

@gregkauf1987 i think your right, the clothes and music imply that it's set in the 30's

[yerk3]

@gregkauf1987 Everything hints at 1920s-30s.

[rileyandstella]

Why does Anatole talk about himself as if he was a third person albeit a good cook but a bits nuts!

[rileyandstella]

I think it just hilarious that Bertie needs instructions to make tea, fairly simple even in those times it were loose tea. But you need a good strainer for it. I think the pot the handle is not metal I think although I agree they are terrible I have scalded myself on one of those

[youvebeenthunderstru]

"Who is that?"

"It's Jeeves!"

[Chiscringle]

"What do you mean, 'I think not'?"

[macolleague]

I just love watching the careful, deliberate way Jeeves (Stephen) prepares the tea...something wonderfully hypnotic about watching him do the most mundane tasks like make tea, lay out clothes, or turn down a bed....lovely.

[pergorav]

Why on earth did these tea-pots had metal-handles anyways... ;)

[pergorav]

7:54 Jeeves is talking with his mouth-full! It's a shame that he has that bad manners...

[wolfxbloed]

Good heavens! He is!

Now, that should have been scripted better... ;)

[Theta101]

Very bad statement to make when the scorned love has his arrow notched.

[Shangas]

Hahahahaha...The start to this episode is one of the best. Having to read directions to make TEA!!

[Anovibg]

And I wonder how much water did he put in the kettle, it boiled like in 10 seconds :D

[Shangas]

It didn't look like much. Probably only a few cupfuls.

[firth03]

"this just about takes the giddy biscut"

I'll have to use that one sometime.