Jeeves & Wooster, episode 1

[timepiececlock]

Thanks to mswyrr.



-Interesting animated opening.
-Dude, that's the back of Hugh Laurie's head! I have the power to recognize the back of Hugh Laurie's head!
-I think he has the same exact haircut as House. That's funny.
-Speechless. Very un-House-like.
-stumbling around wasted... now that's familiar.
-Wow he's young. He looks like 25, 30 at very best, though it's hard to tell because the cheek-creases around his mouth probably started developing when he was 10, judging by the shape of his face.
-Dude, totally Brit accent. I knew that of course, but it's weird.
-He's SMILING. Weirder!
-You know, guys, all the "I say!"s and morning cheerfulness is not doing anything to break down my television-created British stereotypes.
-Dude, it's been too long since I got new Doctor Who episodes, I'm forgetting how to understand quick-spoken British accents!
-I keep watching Bertie and thinking "This is House doing an impression of someone to make fun of them" and expecting him to suddenly cease his immitation and spit out something acerbic.
-What year is this set in?
-HOUSE IS SMILING. AGAIN WITH THE WEIRD!
-British humor: I love it but it also goes around my head. Not over my head, around it. Like a dodge.
-Does everyone say "I say!"? Is that like a cultural requirement?
-So is Bertie Wooster just a rich kid bachelor who never works and spends all his time time socializing?
-Didn't Xander call Giles "Jeeves" on BtVS?
-Bertie's not too bright, is he? Jeeves already controlls him with a bit of reverse psychology.
-I'm kind of bored.
-mswyrr, I'm totally in agreement about the asexualness of Bertie. He's not fuckable like House is.
-Dude, he just pushed a little kid off a bridge. And the little kid swims better than he does.
-walking wet and scowling and rolling his eyes-- that's familiar.
-Definitely not too bright.
-He's kind of ditsy isn't he?
-Why is it all old family matriarchs seem the same in every British show or movie I've seen? All overbearing and stifiling.


...and here's where my computer's power source quit on me again. Stupid thing.

I'll finish watching the first episode later. I'm behind on my music pirating.

random: I NEED HOUSE ICONS. Clever and funny ones.

Or, dude, CROSSOVER HOUSE ICONS! That would be awesome. What dialogue could you cross House with? Jossverse is tried and true, always good for a laugh. Then there's movies of course.

I still want to see an episode / read a fanfic where House meets John C.McGinley's doctor character on Scrubs. I've only seen about 12 episodes of Scrubs from scattered seasons, but his character is House's kindred soul. I'm telling' ya. They even have similar hair.

Comments

Icons?

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Try houseicons and housegraphics. I see many an icon post in housegraphics that I never see appear in houseicons. And vice versa.

NO I AM NOT OBSESSED.

[mswyrr]

-What year is this set in?

The novels/short stories the series is based on were written during from the 1920s to the 1930s.

-Didn't Xander call Giles "Jeeves" on BtVS?

Yup. Lit reference. Wodehouse is *really* popular in England(And India, actually), so Joss must have picked up on it there. And Logan called the Brit hotel clerk Jeeves in "Rusky Business."

-I'm kind of bored.

The pacing does improve, but if the silly exploits of the upper crust do nothing for you, it's probably not your thing.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

have you ever seen black adder?

[minim_calibre]

See, imagine being a long-time Hugh Laurie fan who'd grown up watching him in Black Adder and Jeeves and Wooster (as well as A Bit of Fry and Laurie), and then dealing with... House.

Every time I read about a House fan watching his other stuff and boggling, my brain breaks. ;)

Have you watched Spooks/MI-5? He's in two S1 episodes, including one with ASH. (Which, because I can't remember the episode names for crap, I just think of as the Giles and Wooster episode.) His character is kind of what would happen if you crossed Wooster with House--all the upper class twittishness PLUS the sarcastic brains.

[sidewalksg.livejournal.com]

Have you gotten your hands on any Blackadder episodes yet? I was pretty into 'Jeeves and Wooster' a few years ago before seeing my first Blackadder III episode ('Ink & Incapability' being a personal favourite...) and from that day on I've never looked back. Hugh Laurie was absolutely brilliant as George. And it only got better in the 'Goes Forth' episodes.

And in case you're looking for some strange Hugh Laurie cameos, try digging up The Eurythmics 'Walking On Broken Glass' video. He plays Annie Lennox's very reluctant date (who gets ditched for John Malcovich)...

<3
ssg.x. aka The Woman Who Knew Too Much (about Hugh Laurie)