The last episode of Jeeves and Wooster (“The Ties That Bind”) is not objectively the best episode of Jeeves and Wooster but it is in some ways the MOST, as it gives us character and relationship development including…
- Bertie invited as a plus-one to The Junior Ganymede
- Jeeves called “Reggie” several times
- Bertie deeply, existentially nonplussed by listening to conservative political speeches
- a mess-around scheme in which Jeeves is the socializing face of the operation and Bertie the outsider sneak-around “shimmerer”
- Bertie skipping dinner to hang out with Jeeves while he cleans the bathroom
- Bertie figuring out a Jeeves idea before he says it
- “You’ll pardon me for interrupting, sir, but a notion a has just come to me”
- “Well, that’s the best news I’ve—YES, JEEVES”
- Jeeves objecting to Bertie’s wedding from a friggin’ church vestibule?!
- Jeeves sprinting ahead of an angry mob with Bertie instead of being mysteriously absent for the fallout and swooping in later to explain with (minor) regrets that letting Bertie get fucked over was a calculated risk
- Just generally a lot more of Jeeves and Bertie working the same grift in which Bertie understands his role, rather than contradictory nesting grifts where Bertie only realizes in the last 30 seconds that he hasn’t been driving the bus
Conclusion: If this show had run to six seasons we woulda caught Bertie three sheets to the wind at the Junior Ganymede interrupting the narration of a new story for The Book because Jeeves isn’t telling it right and/or hanging off his neck in the street yelling “eat the rich”; change my mind
(via tinsnip)
