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Right Ho, Jeeves

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Right Ho, Jeeves	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Right Ho, Jeeves is a 1934 Jeeves and Wooster novel written by P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster comes home from vacation in Cannes to find that his valet, Jeeves, is giving romantic advice to Bertie's old school chum, Gussie Fink-Nottle. Gussie has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett, an recent platonic acquaintance of Bertie's, but is far too shy to share his feelings with her. When Jeeves' idea to have Gussie make an impression on Madeline by dressing up as Satan for a costume party goes wrong, due to Gussie's own bumbling, Bertie decides that Jeeves has lost his knack for problem solving and decides to take Gussie under his own wing.Meanwhile, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia is demanding Bertie come to her mansion, Totleigh Court, in order to present the end-of-term prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. Fortunately for Bertie, Madeline Bassett is staying with Aunt Dahlia and her husband Tom, which gives Bertie an excuse to send Gussie instead.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Eventually, however, Bertie is forced to come to Totleigh Towers anyway. His cousin Angela (daughter of Dahlia and her husband Tom) has broken up with her fiancé, Tuppy Glossop, another one of Bertie's old school chums. And Bertie also must figure out how to coax Tom into paying for Aunt Dahlia's insolvent women's magazine, Milady's Boudoir. Bertie, who is miffed at Jeeves for disparaging Bertie's mess jacket, insists on taking all these tasks on himself rather than asking his hypercompetent valet. Disaster ensues.This is the only Jeeves and Wooster novel that is available in the public domain.In 2018 Castalia House published a comic book adaptation by Chuck Dixon under the Arkhaven Comics imprint. A digital version of the comic is being published at Arkhaven and can be read here.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Jeeves suggests this as a plan, if Bertie sets off the fire alarm then the disentangled couples will rush to each others' aid and reentangle, dis-entangling Bertie and saving Aunt Dahlia's magazine. His actual plan is somewhat more complex however, involving making an ass of Bertie as a key step.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_14cde8b2	type	Mask of Confidence
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_14cde8b2	comment	Mask of Confidence: Jeeves invokes this trope advising Gussie Fink-Nottle, who Cannot Spit It Out to Madeline Basset, to get a Captain Pirate costume to a costume ball Madeline has invited Gussie. We will never know if it would have worked, because Gussie prefers a Mephistopheles costume to the pirate costume, and he gives the taxi the wrong address and his costume has not pockets where to save money and he expends the night at jail.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Bertie relates Jeeves the descent and fall of Augustus Fink-Nottle, from Newts as a harmless hobby to a dark obsession:
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_1aa0df93	type	Gibberish of Love
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_1aa0df93	comment	Gibberish of Love: Befalls Gussie Fink-Nottle when he attempts to propose to Madeline Bassett.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: "We stayed at Cannes about two months, and except for the fact that Aunt Dahlia lost her shirt at baccarat and Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning, a pleasant time was had by all." The shark is the indirect cause of Angela's severed engagement later in the novel, and Dahlia losing all that money becomes important as well in regards to keeping her newsletter in business.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: The central plot driver of Right Ho, Jeeves. Besides Jeeves' "pig-headed" opposition to his fashionable new mess jacket, Bertie is completely fed up with his friends and relatives trampling over him in their rush to get his valet's advice. He forbids Jeeves from interfering again and takes everyone's problems on himself. Bertie repeatedly points out the superiority of his ideas to Jeeves' throughout the novel, but they're predictably disastrous for all who implement them. By the time he's forced to haul Jeeves in to fix things, an entire house party is locked outside on a dark night. Jeeves sends Bertie on an eighteen-mile bicycle ride for the only available key... not before smirkingly recounting an anecdote about a horrible bicycle accident. After finding out his journey has been for nothing, a sore and weary Bertie returns home to find everyone celebrating how Jeeves has solved all their troubles. It turns out that Bertie was a cat's-paw in Jeeves' scheme to focus everyone's anger away from each other, and when Jeeves reveals that he's also "accidentally" ruined the mess jacket, Bertie has no choice but to let it all go so long as Jeeves makes him an omelet.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2b98ddb5	type	Liquid Courage
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2b98ddb5	comment	Liquid Courage: Goes wrong when Gussie follows Bertie's advice and downs a whole lot of whisky, then drinks all the orange juice that unbeknownst to him Bertie spiked with gin. He is thus drunk as a lord when it's time to give a speech at the school.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Bertie never swears. So when Dahlia hears that Anatole is angry again after she worked so hard to calm him down, she lets loose with "a rich hunting-field expletive."
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: The hyper-intelligent Jeeves is prone to this.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: Bertie is nursing a hangover when Aunt Dahlia comes barging in to demand that he visit her estate.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Gussie's main problem. At one point he nearly bares his soul to Madeline only to find himself talking about his main hobby, newts.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_6547ce31	type	Accidental Proposal
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_6547ce31	comment	Accidental Proposal: Bertie has a supernatural skill at blundering into these. In this novel he tries to argue Gussie's case to Madeline, only to accidentally make her think he's proclaiming his own love.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_7eeb72ce	type	Mistaken Declaration of Love
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_7eeb72ce	comment	Mistaken Declaration of Love: Bertie manages to give Madeline Bassett the impression that he loves her. This turns out to be a Chekhov's Boomerang throughout the series, as Madeline has a habit of going back to Bertie whenever her relationships go wrong, much to Bertie's horror.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Bertie mentions a girl who criticized his "manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus".
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Bertie tries to use this as a defense when he finds out Tuppy thinks he's in love with Angela, saying "isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?"note Actually, marrying your first cousin was legal in England at the time.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Gussie says he met Madeline for the first time when she was out walking her dog, and she happened to run into him. The dog had a thorn in its foot, which Gussie extracted.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Bertie observes that Aunt Dahlia's French chef Anatole had been in service with an American family for several years before coming to work for her. Bertie pronounces Anatole's English as "fluent, but a bit mixed." In the next paragraph, Anatole mixes up American slang ("Hot dog!", "hit the hay", "mad as a wet hen") with British ("jolly well", "blighters").
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Tuppy confesses that this happened when he met Angela.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_b92a4cd9	type	Splitting Pants
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_b92a4cd9	comment	Splitting Pants: Gussie's terror of delivering the prizegiving speech is heightened by memories of a similar occasion he and Bertie attended as schoolboys, where the speaker bent over to pick up a book and his trousers split. Now he's convinced that the same thing will happen to him.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_bea84606	type	Pain to the Ass
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_bea84606	comment	Pain to the Ass: Bertie's eighteen-mile bike ride results in "physical anguish in the billowy portions" that he bemoans throughout the last chapter. One would be tempted to call it karma for his novel-length power trip and the trouble it caused everyone... if the more painful and humiliating side effects of the plan hadn't been clearly engineered by a vengeful Jeeves.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_bf2e98c7	type	Love Informant
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_bf2e98c7	comment	Love Informant: Bertie tries to do this with Madeline for Gussie, but botches it horribly.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_c00e1999	type	Midnight Snack
Right Ho, Jeeves / int_c00e1999	comment	Midnight Snack: Tuppy Glossop the gourmand has been fighting with his vegetarian fiancée Angela. Bertie advises him to pretend not to be hungry at dinner, so Angela will think he is pining over her—and then nip down to the kitchen while everyone's asleep and have some steak-and-kidney pie. Unfortunately, though, what with one thing and another the entire household ends up coming down to the kitchen at midnight. Angela uses the midnight snack as even further evidence of Tuppy's gluttony, and he doesn't even get time to eat it.
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: A Running Gag throughout the series has Bertie being thrown off by Jeeves appearing or disappearing in a room without being seen to enter or leave. In this novel, he "just seems to float from Spot A to Spot B like some form of gas."
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Right Ho, Jeeves / int_e44da6cc	comment	Makeup Is Evil: When Tuppy and Angela quarrel, he says he disapproves of this habit of modern girls, putting on make-up.
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