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- From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
- Subject: TV series
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:44:01 GMT
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- Hello, all. I've been reading PGW for about 12 years now, and I think I'm
- scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of the reprints Penguin is coming
- out with now; they're just not as funny as the Jeeves, Mulliners and Emsworths
- that I've long since read. So I was glad to finally have an opportunity to see
- the TV series during Christmas break. Seeing Jeeves & Bertie on TV was a
- refreshing way to laugh at them again without rereading the book (although I
- imagine I'll do that too, one of these days). Neither Jeeves nor Bertie is
- quite how I pictured, but I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed Bertie's
- portrayal, both in the horrified expressions on his face, as someone mentioned,
- and in his inflection of the "what"s and "don't you know"s -- those _did_ sound
- like I'd imagined them. Jeeves I was a little disappointed in, but he came a
- lot closer to what I'd pictured than the gray haired balding man that appears
- on the cover of a 5-novel PGW megabook. My main complaints were that (at
- least in the episode I saw) the plots are not truly PGW's, but a composite of
- two or more plots at once. I would rather see one story done at a time, and
- this would also obviate the need for bland, sequel-like titles like "Jeeves and
- Bertie II," which is what the show I saw was called. Maybe the others aren't
- like that; I hope my family will have videotaped some of them and not lost
- track and erased them by the time I visit them again. One final question: I
- loved the gag in which Bertie is having is portrait painted and keeps saying
- "Sorry." Just when you're wondering why the hell he keeps doing that you hear
- the painter say, "It's allright to blink, Bertie!" What story or book did this
- come from? Please give more details than just the title, because most of them
- have long since run together in my mind.
-
- -Neal Whitman, I mean to say, what?
-