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Jeeves and Wooster :: Golf Tournament (01x02)
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| Title: | Golf Tournament |
| Episode #: | 01x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday April 29th, 1990 |
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Bertie is in love and determined to propose marriage to Bobbie Wickham against the advice of Jeeves. A weekend at the country home of the Wickhams brings an end to Bertie's starry-eyed amorousness when he seeks revenge on Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps; unbeknownst to him, Barmy has received the same idea for a prank. When both play the prank on the other, they are asked to leave in disgrace. To add insult to injury, Bobbie Wickham gives away Aunt Agatha's beloved dog to a Broadway producer, leaving Bertie to get it back.
Tuppy Glossop has fallen in love as well; he's in love with an opera singer, and has stopped courting Bertie's cousin Angela. Jeeves comes to the rescue with a plan to save the day.
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Bertie sings "47 Ginger Headed Sailors," composed by Leslie Sarony and recorded by Jack Hylton in the 1920s.
Cora Bellinger, Tuppy and Bertie all sing "Sonny Boy," composed by Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, and Al Jolson and made famous in the Al Jolson movie "The Singing Fool" in 1928.
| In this episode, Bertie, Bobbie and Barmy are using little piles of sand as golf tees; although golf tees (as we know them now) were invented in the late 1880s, they were not popular and the common practice was to use the small piles of sand. Modern golf tees were gaining in popularity by the 1920s, but had not achieved universal acceptance.
| We learn that Tuppy Glossop's real first name is Hildebrand; Bertie also seems to be learning this for the first time, as he looks surprised and amused when Tuppy says his name to Cora Bellinger.
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(discussing whether Bertie should propose to Bobbie Wickham)
Jeeves: Miss Wickham, in my opinion, Sir, is too frivolous. Whenever I see Miss Wickham, I know that trouble cannot be far behind. In order to qualify as Miss Wickham's husband, a gentleman should be possessed of a commanding personality and considerable strength of character.
Bertie: Exactly, Jeeves! Condemned out of your own mouth!
| Barmy: I mean, as far as I can see, the trick in playing the piano is to get one hand to do one thing while the other one's doing something else.
Lady Wickham: Well...
Barmy: Well, I mean, I can do that with a knife and fork! So I don't see why...
Lady Wickham: Oh, Mr. Fotheringay-Phipps...
| Professor Cluj: Are you mad or what, man?
Bertie: No, no, no... I, ah, I thought you were Barmy.
Professor Cluj: You thought I am barmy?
| (after playing the opening verse of "47 Ginger-Headed Sailors" on the piano)
Bertie: It really speaks to me, that song, you know, Jeeves.
Jeeves: I'm sorry to hear that, Sir.
Bertie: Would you like to hear the rest of it?
Jeeves: I shouldn't like to put you to any trouble, Sir.
| Bertie: Tell me, Jeeves, were you always like this, or did it come on suddenly?
Jeeves: Sir?
Bertie: The brain, the grey matter. Were you an outstandingly brilliant child?
Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, Sir.
Bertie: Well, you can't go by that! My mother thought me intelligent!
| (while watching Cora Bellinger perform in an opera)
Tuppy: Isn't she wonderful?
Bertie: Reminds me of that chap we used to play rugby with...
Tuppy: (thinking) Oh, Buffy Trompton!
Bertie: Yes!
(Tuppy looks at Bertie angrily)
Bertie: Oh, not really... just something about the trousers.
| Tuppy: The thing is, Bertie, what with her great soul and everything, she has this rather serious outlook on life. I want you to back me up, let her know I've got a serious mind, and so forth.
Bertie: I didn't know you had any sort of a mind. (begins laughing)
Tuppy: That is just the sort of remark we don't want, thank you very much!
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Tuppy: She's chorusing in "The Barber of Seville" tonight.
Barmy: Is that the one with the pyramids in it?
Bertie: Sounds like it, by the name.
The Barber of Seville is an opera by Pierre Beaumarchais; it is set in Spain and is a romantic comedy. There are no pyramids in it.
Aida is an opera by Verdi about an Ethiopian princess who ends up as a slave in Egypt. This would be the opera with the pyramids in it.
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(about Bertie's golfing outfit)
Jeeves: I'm told that Mr. Freddie "He's A Riot" Flowerdew often appears on the music hall stage in comparable attire.
Freddie Flowerdew eventually appears in an episode, the series 3 episode Introduction On Broadway.
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