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Jeeves and Wooster :: The Once And Future Ex (04x02)
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| Title: | The Once And Future Ex |
| Episode #: | 04x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday May 23rd, 1993 |
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Still in the United States, Bertie bumps into "Stilton" Cheesewright, who is learning American police practices while in New York with his fiancee, Lady Florence Craye. Stilton is unhappy with the state of police affairs, and very unhappy when he learns that Bertie used to be engaged to Florence.
Lady Florence's father, Lord Worplesden, is trying to seal a business deal with Mr. Clam. Bertie's friend George wants the deal to go through so his show will be successful and he'll be able to marry Nobby, Worplesden's niece. Bertie comes up with an idea to bring the two businessmen together, but the matter is made more difficult by the curious press, and Stilton's belief that Bertie is secretly wooing Florence again. Matters are finally resolved by a disguised Jeeves at a Fourth of July costume party.
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At the fancy-dress ball, the orchestra plays "Anything Goes," composed by Cole Porter; it was both the title of a musical and the title song in that musical, which opened in New York in November, 1934.
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Florence: Good gracious, Bertie. Is it really you?
Bertie: Florence! Good heavens. (he laughs nervously)
Florence: Fancy meeting you... and in a bookshop, of all places!
| Stilton: What's that you're drinking?
Bertie: Oh, that's dashed decent of you, Stilton. I'll have a...
Stilton: (sniffing the drink) Alcohol! I'm surprised at you, Bertie. Don't you know there are laws against alcohol in New York State?
Bertie: Well, ...yes, ...
Stilton: I'm over here doing a course with the New York Police Department, and I must say, I'm surprised at the lax way their prohibition laws are enforced. (dumps Bertie's and George's drinks)
George: Cheesewright's on a one-man campaign to stiffen 'em up a bit.
Bertie: Oh. Jolly good... well done, Stilton... ha.
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Nobby: Twenty-one. In a year's time.
Bertie: Well, there you are then, just wait a year.
Nobby: But George leaves for Hollywood next month. And I don't think he ought to be allowed to go to Hollywood without a wife at his side... to keep his mind off the local fauna.
Bertie: Nobby, there can be no love where there is not perfect trust.
Nobby: Who taught you that?
Bertie: Jeeves, I imagine... sounds like one of his.
Nobby: Well, Jeeves is an idiot.
| Florence: Darcy Cheesewright is an uncouth Cossack!
Bertie: (looking confused) Isn't that one of those things clergymen wear?
| Bertie: Georgie, I'm engaged to Florence again.
George: Oh, well, congratulations. That's a bit sudden, isn't it?
Bertie: Yes, well, Florence is like a volcano; you can go around thinking it's been extinct for centuries, and suddenly you're covered in red-hot lava.
| Bertie: This is getting serious, Jeeves. I've got to find out what this method of George's is for getting rid of Florence.
Jeeves: When I was in service with Lord Worplesden, Sir, Mr. Fittleworth contracted an engagement to Lady Florence.
Bertie: Boko Fittleworth, Jeeves? Huh, I never knew that! This tendency on the part of the human race to rush around getting engaged to Florence is absolutely inexplicable!
| Bertie: Well, how did it all end?
George: I'm not sure... depends what construction you put on the words 'I never want to see or speak to you again, in this world or the next, you miserable fat-head.'
Bertie: Oh, that's nothing, Georgie.
George: Just making conversation, you think?
Bertie: If I were to tell you the number of times I've heard that from a girl... you can't go by what a girl says when she's giving you hell. It's like Shakespeare... it sounds well enough, but it doesn't actually mean anything!
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Stilton: I'm surprised at the lax way the prohibition laws are enforced.
Prohibition in the United States began with the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in January, 1919 and the Volstead Act, which was passed on October 28, 1919. It ran until the repeal of the 18th Amendment, with the passing of the 21st Amendment, on December 5, 1933.
However, at the fancy-dress ball, the orchestra plays the Cole Porter song "Anything Goes", which did not come out until November, 1934. If this song was popular enough to be played at a costume party, it must be after the end of the Prohibition era.
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Cultural References |
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Bertie: (to Bookseller) Spinoza... collected whatnots.
Bertie is in the bookshop trying to buy The Collected Works of Spinoza for Jeeves as a birthday present. Baruch Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677), was a Dutch philosopher and ethicist.
| Jeeves: It is well known that Mr. Clam is attending the fancy-dress ball at the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building was completed and officially opened to the public on May 1, 1931, which puts this episode sometime after that date.
| Bertie: You can't go as Edward the Confessor; Chichester Clam's going as Edward the Confessor.
George: Well, it's all they had left. Apparently, they bought in a job lot from Hollywood.
Jeeves: From Mr. Frederick Flowerdew's latest epic, Sir; "Edward and Hardicanute, Knights of Passion."
Edward the Confessor ruled in England from 1042 until his death in 1066.
Hardicanute was a king of Denmark and England from 1035 to 1042, when he died.
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Jeeves: From Mr. Frederick Flowerdew's latest epic, Sir; "Edward and Hardicanute, Knights of Passion."
Freddie Flowerdew appears in the musical that George has written in the third series episode Introduction On Broadway.
| Bertie: Georgie, I'm engaged to Florence again.
Bertie was previously engaged to Lady Florence Craye in the series 3 episode Hot Off The Press.
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