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Jeeves and Wooster :: The Hunger Strike (01x04)
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| Title: | The Hunger Strike |
| Episode #: | 01x04 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday May 13th, 1990 |
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Bertie is having a terrible morning; first he's awoken by the arrival of Gussie Fink-Nottle, then by the arrival of Aunt Dahlia. Gussie needs help in wooing Madeline Bassett; Aunt Dahlia expects Bertie to hand out prizes at the local grammar school. When Bertie finds out that the love of Gussie's life is staying at Brinkley Court, both of these problems seem to be solved; he sends Gussie in his place to hand out the prizes, and woo the elusive Madeline Bassett while he's there.
Things take a turn for the worse, however, and Bertie's presence is required. Arriving to find that the engagement between his cousin Angela and friend Tuppy Glossop is on the rocks, Bertie suggests the same plan that he's suggested for Gussie; show the woman you love that you're pining for her by not eating. This, however, brings negative results from the family chef, Anatole, who gives his notice.
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Bertie: I've got engaged three times at Brinkley.
Bertie says this to Gussie when encouraging him to propose to Madeline Bassett at Brinkley Manor. Bertie does not say to whom he was engaged, or why the engagements ended; however, it's fair to assume that the women involved were the ones to end the engagements (or their parents), as, given the times, it would be impossible for a respectable gentleman to end three separate engagements with three different women and still remain both respectable and a gentleman.
| Bertie mentions more aunts: Aunt Julia and Aunt Charlotte; however, these two aunts are never seen in any of the four series.
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Jeeves: Good morning, Mr. Wooster.
Bertie: What? What's the time?
Jeeves: Ten past nine, Sir.
Bertie: Ten past nine? Is the building on fire?
Jeeves: Not that I've been informed, Sir, no.
| Bertie: What a lesson it is to us, Jeeves. In this life, you can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into the newt-tank, or you can be a dasher with the sex. But you can't do both.
Jeeves: It's a sad reflection, Sir.
| Gussie: Oh, Bertie! Life would be so much simpler if we were newts!
Bertie: Yes, well... yes, I've said the same thing myself a hundred times.
| Bertie: I say, Jeeves, as a matter of interest, what are you doing?
Jeeves: I'm sorting through these clothes, Sir. These (indicating one pile of clothes) are for repair, and these (indicating the other pile) for discarding.
Bertie: Oh, wait a second! This white mess jacket is brand new!
Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, Sir. Or else that it had been placed there by your enemies.
Bertie: I will have you know, Jeeves, that I bought this in Cannes.
Jeeves: (disbelieving) And wore it, Sir?
| Tuppy: Angela has just been most offensive, the little squirt. I merely seized the opportunity to get a bit of my own back.
Bertie: Offensive?
Tuppy: She's most offensive! Just because I happened to let fall some casual remark to the effect that I wondered what Anatole was going to give us for dinner, she said I ought not to always be thinking about food.
Bertie: You still love her, don't you?
Tuppy: I don't say I don't love her... little blighter. I mean, I love her passionately, but... well, that doesn't alter the fact that in my humble opinion, what she needs most in this world is a kick in the pants!
| (Bertie enters wearing the white mess jacket from Cannes)
Aunt Dahlia: What do you think you're made up as?
Bertie: What? The jacket, you mean?
Aunt Dahlia: You look like one of the chorus in Act II of a touring musical comedy.
Bertie: Tut.
Aunt Dahlia: What did you say?
Bertie: I said, "Tut."
Aunt Dahlia: Say it again and I'll biff you where you stand! I have enough to endure without being tutted at.
Bertie: Well, quite.
Aunt Dahlia: Any tutting that's required, I'll attend to myself!
| Madeline: Oh, don't say any more, Bertie!
Bertie: No, right... well, I wasn't going to, actually. That's about it, I think.
Madeline: I suspected this at Cannes when you used to stand and stare at me without saying a word, but with whole volumes in your eyes.
Bertie: (jumps up in shock) No!
Madeline: (pulls him down to the bench) Yes. A girl always knows.
| (everyone catches Tuppy sneaking to his room with plates of food and an apple in his mouth)
Aunt Dahlia: Mr. Glossop, what are you doing?
Angela: I should have told you, Mamma... Mr. Glossop always likes to have three or four good meals during the night. It helps keep him going until breakfast.
(Tuppy tries to reply but can't because of the apple in his mouth)
| Bertie: Right, now... I shall take Madeline to the garden and talk to her of hearts that yearn, intimating that there actually is one such on the premises. Then, after about a quarter of an hour or so, you'll turn up and take over. By that time, her emotions will be so churned up, it'll be like leaping on a moving bus.
Gussie: The last time I leapt on a moving bus, Bertie, I hurt myself rather badly.
Bertie: Yes, well, that was more sort of the front of a bus, though, wasn't it, Gussie?
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Uncle Tom: Look at that Benjamin Disraeli... him and his damned book writing...
Benjamin Disraeli, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was the Prime Minister of England for a short period; he was also a novelist who caused quite a stir in the upper classes with the publication of Vivian Grey, which satirized his own involvement with John Murray in an attempt to publish a newspaper to rival The London Times.
| Anatole: In the words of the so-called poet Shakespeare, 'If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?' Anatole shall have his revenge...ment!
Anatole is quoting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, where Shylock, a Jewish money-lender, rhetorically asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" (Act III, scene i, lines 49ff (for the whole speech)).
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