Without a brainy valet on staff, though, Reggie soon messes up the marriage and alienates the formerly happy couple. Bucky also really wants chickens.Ībsent Treatment. Here, we randomly meet Reggie for the first time as he helps his forgetful friend Bobbie Cardew make amends with his wife. Ultimately, Bucky (the friend) doesn’t want to give up his life to pursue business like his uncle, and so some trickery and shenanigans follow. Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg. When Bucky’s uncle arrives, Bertie tries to help his friend earn a little money on the down-low, at the uncle’s expense.
With Jeeves on the outs over Bertie’s unfortunate choice of tie, it’s up to him to calm his bumptious guest, but a sudden return of Lady Malvern means the jig, as they say, is up. Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. Through a fear of the ever-horrifying Aunt Agatha and her intimidating friend Lady Malvern, Bertie ends up stuck with a long-term guest named Motty whose supposed bookish ways erupt into endless partying once his domineering mother has dumped him at Bertie’s door. Disaster ensues on both fronts (love and art getting a good shakedown as it were) and the story is effectively two in one, with the end portion involving an unfortunate baby’s portrait as a memorable salute to humor of the most outrageous kind. The only problem – the uncle must think the entire affair is his own idea, otherwise Corky’s shaky flow of money will stop. This is one of my personal favorites in which Bertie tries to help his friend Corky win over his uncle (the money bags to Corky’s luxury) to the idea of marrying Miss Singer and pursing his art. The eight stories are split with four going to Bertie and Jeeves and four to Reggie, who has no quick-witted butler to soften the brunt of his ill planned schemes. It leaves readers confused for a while, expecting Bertie and Jeeves to show up in the Reggie stories somewhere, but they do not.ĭespite the continuity hiccup in My Man Jeeves, it’s still quite a fun, sharp witted, conversational, and laugh-out-loud repertoire of adventures and general chumminess.
Reggie Pepper, another bumbling aristocrat, and apparently early prototype of Bertie, is thrown into the mix, sans explanation. It’s just a collection of Wodehouse’s very early work in short story form, and not all of them are about the iconic Bertie and Wooster duo. My Man Jeeves, which I have probably read before in the far distant past, was a bit of a surprise. And so, as you must do a thing right, I started the hubby and myself at the very beginning of the series during our morning commute. One night my husband overheard me listening to a random assortment of Jeeves and Wooster and wanted to be introduced to the slapstick series of misadventures set right by the noble butler who babysits his British aristocrat with a firm hand and an admirable fashion sense.
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