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 Bertie Wooster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P.
Bertie has at least six uncles, three of whom he has acquired by marriage: Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband; Spenser Gregson, Aunt Agatha's first husband; Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon, her second; Henry Wooster, a "looney", whom the family find a considerable embarrassment; George, Lord Yaxley, who has a fondness for waitresses; and Willoughby Wooster.
Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, whom she believes to be a burden to society in his present state, must marry and carry on the Wooster name; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects.
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 Bertie Wooster - Under New Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bertie Wooster was established in 1989 to provide beautifully tailored clothes, of a cut and class rarely seen in the world of contemporary fashion.
This is why Bertie Wooster has always been so highly regarded by those who care about fine clothing, but prefer to avoid the inflated charges and exclusive stuffiness of “the Row”.
Bertie Wooster and Addison and Steele are united by a regard for craftsmanship and fine detailing lost to much of the men’s clothing world.
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 Jeeves And Wooster - Television Programme
She is determined to marry Bertie and bring an end to his happy bachelorhood, which would also be a threat to Jeeves, as well, because it would mean that Mrs.
Like Bertie and Honoria, all the characters in each episode generally work at cross-purposes, whether they are attempting to repair the plumbing in a grand country house or trying to locate a stolen necklace.
Wooster's club is The Drones, whose exclusively upper-class members are invariably shown in their beautifully furnished clubrooms jumping on sofas, playing catch with cricket balls, or throwing dinner rolls at one another.
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 "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bertie: The problem is, I've forgotten that jolly useful word you unearthed.
Bertie: The one that always reduces Spode to a quivering mass of apology.
Fortunately Hugh Laurie's daffy Bertie Wooster (along with Stephen Fry's Jeeves) are consistent throughout the entire series, they are masterful and well-worth the high price of the dvds, available from Acorn Media in a first-class DVD set.
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 BBC - h2g2 - The Jeeves and Wooster Stories by PG Wodehouse
Bertie is surprised, as he has previously met Honoria and describes her as 'nothing more nor less than a pot of poison'.
Bertie dismisses it at first, saying it was probably a taxi on the street, but when it happens again he then consults Jeeves on the matter.
Bertie explains that the cats ate the fish and then escaped, and that the man that they took the hat from was the one who was just at lunch.
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 BBC - Comedy - Guide - The World Of Wooster
Wooster's world is populated by rich, idle gentleman, dreamy but determined women, irate fathers and fearsome aunts.
Locations for these excitements are Bertie's Central London pad, in Berkeley Street, Mayfair; the country estates of various relatives and friends; and the Drones Club, drinking and dining hole of the upper classes.
Dashingly dressed, with a monocle firmly held in the eye, Bertie often turns up at such venues only to discover that he is accidentally engaged to a deb he scarcely knows; he then has to frantically avoid their fathers or homicidal ex-boyfriends; worse still, he has to face his awesome aunts.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/w/worldofwoosterth_1299003415.shtml   (424 words)

  
 Wooster Football -- Recommendations and Resources
Wooster used to claim at one time that it was the exclusive snap fit plastic model provider for more than 200 major airlines around the world.
Bertie, who is apparently an orphan, has at least two aunts and two uncles from the Wooster family, though Wodehouse alludes to his father's having had many siblings.
Bertie has at least five uncles, three of which he has acquired by marriage: Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband; Spenser Gregson, Aunt Agatha's first husband; and Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon, her second; Henry Wooster, a "looney" of whom the family is deeply embarrassed; and Willoughby Wooster.
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 Jeeves and Wooster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, and produced by Granada Television for the UK's ITV network from 1990 to 1993.
It ran for four series, and starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster (a jovial but empty-headed young gentleman) and Stephen Fry as Jeeves (his improbably well-informed and talented valet).
Senate House, the central library and administration building for the University of London, was used for exterior shots of Stuyvesant Towers, Wooster's residence in New York City during series 3 and 4.
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 Jeeves & Wooster (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bertie's school chum Chuffy hopes to propose to a wealthy American, one of Bertie's former fiancées.
Meanwhile, Jeeves is distressed by Bertie's engagement to the dictatorial Lady Florence Craye.
Bertie must try to persuade a prominent author to allow her latest novel to be published in Aunt Dahlia's magazine.
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 Jeeves and Wooster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The whole gag of the escape was that Jeeves fled up Bertie to make him look like one of a group of minstrals who were on board to entertain the son of the owner for his birthday.
Bertie Wooster (and BTW, he was played by Hugh LAURIE) is a half-wit, but a sympathetic one.
However, when Bertie and Jeeves cross the pond to come to America, the show devolves into a series of slapstick gags that were never in the Wodehouse original.
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 Jeeves And Wooster - Television Programme
By the middle of the fifth chapter I was able to use a knife and fork, and I like to think that I have made reasonable strides since.
It was The Code of the Woosters, and things, as they used to say, would never be the same again.
Bertie is leaving in a huff: " 'Tinkerty tonk,' I said, and I meant it to sting." I ask you: how is one to do justice of even the roughest sort to a line like that?
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 dOc DVD Review: Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete First Season (1990) - Printable
Hugh Laurie plays the frivolous Bertie Wooster sympathetically, allowing us to laugh with him personally even as we laugh at his misfiring schemes, and Stephen Fry is pitch-perfect as Jeeves, his amusement at the antics of his master bubbling just underneath his cool, reserved exterior.
One of the funniest moments involves Bertie's plan to ingratiate his friend "Bingo" Little with the object of his affection by pushing her younger brother off a bridge, an "accident" he stages with no subtlety whatsoever.
Bertie is left in charge of Aunt Agatha's Aberdeen Terrier, MacIntosh, whose canine proclivities interfere with Bertie's pursuit of one Miss Wickham during a golf game.
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 Encyclopedia Jeevesiana
Engaged to Bertie Wooster, Stilton Cheesewright, Percy Gorringe, Ginger Winship.
Bertie and Jeeves intervene to reunite Tuppy with Angela.
The young bachelor Bertie Wooster and his effortlessly superior manservant, Jeeves, were still together, their ages unadvanced, in Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971), though they first appeared in a story in The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).
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 Jeeves and Wooster Quotes Page
Wooster: "Madeline Bassett labors under the delusion that I am madly in love with her.
Bertie Wooster is pretending that he and Jeeves are chums (for the Communitsts at his table) - NOT master and servant.
Wooster: "I don't know what you've been doing to the cooker, Comrade Jeeves, but I don't seem to be able to get the gas lit."
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 Amazon.com: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through: Books: P.G. Wodehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
One delightful twist after another brings Bertie to the brink of disaster and back again, as he is faced with the prospect of having his spine broken in three, four, or five places by the oaf Stilton Cheesewright and, worse yet, marriage to Florence Craye.
Stilton is also the jealous type and quickly turns suspicious when Bertie is picked up after a raid on a late-night bistro where Bertie had taken Florence at her request to do some research on local color.
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through has that nice combination of serious pending threats, irrational fears and hopes, and muddle-headedness that makes for such good social comedy.
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 vhs video: wooster (masterpiece cow-creamer collection)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bertie Wooster, a young British gentleman of the 1920's who is con- stantly getting stuck in one bumbling scheme or another, is called upon by his aunt to restore one of her...
To Bertie's indignation his aunt has led him there to meet a potential wife and her charming curet brother....
Bertie is recruited to provide dinner and companionship and good references for the always-penniless Bingo's latest...
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 Wooster - The Complete Second Season DVD - Michael Weise Productions
Or when Bertie and two of his detractors are arrested for impersonating hobgoblins, or when a policeman's helmet goes missing and Bertie is the instant suspect.
Bertie is summoned to Westcomb on the Sea by his domineering aunt Agatha...
Bertie and Jeeves have quite a bit of one-to-one talking, and this is...
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 Amazon.com: The Complete Jeeves & Wooster Megaset: DVD: Ferdinand Fairfax,Robert Young (III),Simon Langton,Stephen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bertie Wooster is feeling a bit shy of the mark when his new valet reports for duty, bringing with him a much-needed cure for the effects of the previous night's excesses.
Bertie Wooster is in need of a valet, and the low-key, brainy manservant Jeeves is sent by an agency to deal with Bertie's everyday needs.
Though Bertie's lack of clothing sense (and a trombone) often annoys Jeeves, the brainy valet clearly does have affection for Bertie, and Bertie appreciates Jeeves' ability to save him from fates worse than death (such as marriage to various nightmarish young women that Bertie often becomes engaged to).
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 Pride, Prejudice, and Bertie Wooster
Of course, the crux of it was that Darcy left much to be desired as a travelling companion, although for once, it was not on the side of silence that he erred.
There had been a time, now shrouded in the mists of antiquity, when the Wooster heart had been hers to command, but she having cast it aside as being no more serviceable than an old tube of toothpaste, it now kicked away once more at the old stand, acknowledging no other master than yours truly.
I'm not asking for much, Bertie, just the sort of wedding of which any girl would be justifiably proud." And with that she turned back to the house, and there was nothing to do but to follow her back in.
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 P. G. Wodehouse - Free Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Of Bertie Wooster's relatives the most formidable was Aunt Agatha.
Bertie's name was linked during his bachelorhood with several girls, but usually Jeeves saved him from many disasters.
Northcote Parkinson wrote in his Jeeves, A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman (1979): "Bertie was under the impression that he had chosen Jeeves, approving the man who had been sent by an agency.
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 Amazon.ca: The Code of the Woosters: Books: P.G. Wodehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS is one of the few novel-length works about "intellectually negligable" young aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his titan of a valet Jeeves.
This is one instance in which Bertie is never to blame for the soup in which he finds himself-it is thrust upon him by others, either by cajoling or flmail, and Bertie's ever-good-hearted nature is taken advantage of to full extent.
This (funny in and of itself) is hilarious agaisnt the backdrop of his hyper-intelligent valet (or "gentleman's personal gentleman", as Jeeves refers to himself), strong-willed women, clutzy or (dare I use the word to describe a character of the 30's) nerdy friends, and comical villains.
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 FT October 2005: Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
But even a Bertie and Jeeves story is still a farce—a musical without the music—and it doesn’t escape the angel with the flaming sword who blocks the return to Eden.
If Bertie Wooster had ever really existed, he would (as George Orwell once pointed out) have died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 along with most of the rest of his Edwardian class.
Of course, Bertie Wooster didn’t really exist, and the world he inhabits bore little contact with English reality before World War I and even less contact with reality as the years went on.
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 ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre | The Archive | Jeeves & Wooster, III
Bertie's creator, P.G. Wodehouse, did in fact settle there in the early part of the century and made a great deal of money writing for American magazines and working in the theater with Jerome Kern.
Bertie Wooster's New York of course isn't meant to be the real thing.
You noticed that when Bertie and Jeeves headed back to England they didn't hop in one of those jet-powered tin cans that now shoot us across the Atlantic between dinner and dawn.
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 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Bertie Wooster Sees It Through)
Bertie gets himself into an utter pickle when he and Jeeves share Aunt Dahlia's hospitality with the loathesome G. D'Arcy Cheesewright (aka Stilton) and his on/off fiancee Florence.
Add to this combination a fake plot to rob Aunt Dahlia of her pearls and the scene is set for calamity...
Bertie Wooster — Grew a mustache of which Jeeves disapproves.
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 Jeeves and Wooster Page At DVDwolf.com
Jeeves and Wooster - A Quick Overview: Bernie Wooster is feeling a bit shy of the mark when his new valet reports for duty, bringing with him a much-needed cure for the effects for the previous night's excesses.
Bertie is obliged to assume Gussie's identity and travel to Deverill Hall to preserve Gussie's engagement.
Comrade Bingo: Bertie's peace is shattered when his apartment is invaded by communist revolutionaries, and his Aunt Dahlia demands that he become a gentleman burglar and steal a painting.
www.dvdwolf.com /British/Britcoms/Jeeves_And_Wooster.html   (1180 words)

  
 screenonline: Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93)
The misadventures of upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves.
's Prince/Captain George was so clearly modelled on Bertie Wooster that his transition to the real thing seemed entirely natural.
was particularly effective at capturing Bertie's distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness.
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 Mini-reviews of the Jeeves novels of P. G. Wodehouse
Bertie impersonates the incarcerated Gussie; Gussie impersonates Bertie; Catsmeat impersonates a valet; Corky fascinates Gussie; Bertie steals a letter from Madeline; Esmond is a hit at the village concert; and Gussie rescues a dog from Constable Dobbs.
Bertie, in a nightclub with Florence, is arrested; Aunt Dahlia tries to convince Trotter to purchase Milady's Boudoir; Stilton is prevented from harming Bertie by drawing his name in a darts contest; Spode reappears as Lord Sidcup; Bertie steals Mrs.
Aunt Dahlia employs Bertie to stop Willie from proposing to Phyllis; Upjohn threatens to sue Kipper's periodical for slander; Glossop goes undercover as the butler Swordfish; Bertie is caught searching Willie's room twice for a cow-creamer; and Jeeves disappears for most of the novel.
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