I’m finishing up with the short stories-on project gutenburg-and starting on the novels, which are not. As such, I’m putting them on hold at the library, but some are available before their prequels. Am I good to go ahead and read them or are there some with plot continuity I would lose out on?

Edit: I have already read all the short stories. I am talking particularly about the novels

I have read this series a dozen times, and was wondering if you know any other book or series that are as funny and pleasant to read? (I've read Wodehouse's other series but it didn't hit the same cord)

In “joy in the morning” one critical scene has Bertie needing to negotiate with his uncle percy, Lord Worplesdon at a fancy dress ball (Wooster dressed as blue bottle, i.e. police officer, and Lord Percy dressed as Sinbad the sailor).

It goes exactly as planned — even though Bertie has to navigate several challenges. He thinks on his feet and negotiates a social situation perfectly. The situation is difficult when he enters, as he’s been delayed by a car breakdown, and Percy is now quite inebriated. And next morning, things of course go wrong — but it’s no fault of Bertie’s. Overall Bertie has independently done an excellent job of his task.

On other occasions too - even within that book — Bertie goes ahead with his planned task and succeeds - Eg when tasked with kicking Edwin in front of Stephanie Cray - he also succeeds, only to have it immediately blow up in his face. But that is a single step operation, it’s plausible that Bertie would do it correctly; it falls within his scope of work.

But pleading successfully with an Uncle, without possessing any specific collateral or weapon equivalent in power to (for example) the word “Eulalie” as deployed against Spode on an earlier occasion, seems a bit of a stretch.

Why did Bertie succeed with that complex social task, in that situation?

About 3 years ago I created a glossary of all the interesting words used in the Jeeves and Wooster series. This included a list of Wodehousian terms, funny turns of phrase, slang, British lexicon, and other fun stuff.

I was very happy with it until I, the the other day, accidentally deleted it.

I can't recover it, so I decided I might as well start afresh. The new glossary--

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17JGaWy5aFkLdfWcSfVp94fsS3P0icAJjaVdJaYjoAJQ/edit?usp=sharing

--is now expanded into a compendium, including some snazzy new stuff:

• The OG vocabulary included in Version I (okay, that's old stuff)
• A section (unfinished) devoted to literary & pop culture references (new stuff!)
• IPA transcriptions in Received Pronunciation
• Etymologies
• References to text, with quotes
• Parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.)
• Updated formatting compatible with mobile and desktop
• Support for jump-to-section on mobile and desktop
• Some aesthetic cleaning-up

There are definitely errors sprinkled throughout, lots of missing vocab, and the literary references section is woefully unfinished (I am not that well-read), so I do apologize for those. I am also not British or from the 1920s, so I also apologize if I have gotten some definitions wrong--if anybody has any corrections or suggestions, I should be very happy to have a look!

I hope you guys enjoy!

I felt quite disheartened by how the Gussie-Madeline story played out. The start made it sound like a fairytale but in the end, Gussie threw in the towel without a fight, almost as if he hadn’t been interested to begin with. Keen to hear your thoughts/analysis. Maybe I’m reading too much into their romance... the books obviously are not focused on that.

i knew hugh sounded good from ‘a bit of fry and laurie’ but i’ve spent the past month listening to minnie the moocher nonstop— i can’t be the only one that feels this way?

I have an inside joke with my SO about the word huzzah. I frequently say it, quoting Hugh Laurie in either Jeeves and Wooster or Blackadder, and I can’t find it for the life of me. Can anyone point me towards an episode or timestamp? Thanks!

I don't know if I'm getting confused but I feel like every episode I see a character the actor has changed?

Does anyone know of any good Jeeves and Wooster fanfic where Jeeves is the master and Wooster is the servant?

Never watched them...but I don’t see Fry and Laurie as close to the ideal Jeeves and Wooster. After seeing a young Rik Mayall in ‘The Young Ones’ I believe he would have been about as close to the book version of Bertie as you could get. Engaging, able to convincingly play mentally negligible and a gifted comedian. Still can’t think of the perfect actor for Jeeves. Who is your fantasy casting choices?

"The Code of the Wooster's" concludes with mention of the tour, did P. G. Wodehouse actually write a book focused on the trip?

My father is curious if anyone on here has any insight into the actual ingredients of Jeeves’ hangover cure?? Just a bit of fun, appreciate any thoughts. Thanks!

From the book “Enter Jeeves”

I'm on the 3rd season. Why does everyone take advantage of Bertie? He's so nice, does all he can, puts his name on the line, and no one appreciates him. They just expect him to do their bidding. He can't even have a mustache or wear a hat that he likes.