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The native habitat of the Blue Blood, these social groups are secretive, mysterious and ruthlessly exclusive. Expect to see a lot of besuited, bemonocled old white men, reclining with snifters of brandy in tufted red leather armchairs in a wood-panelled library of their private club, smoking cigars or pipes. Leather bound volumes surround them and most members have the Financial Times open to check on their investments. White-gloved, black-suited servers glide silently in and out to refill drinks or take food orders. Malicious versions of these clubs tend to feature evil aristocrats and/or corrupt corporate executives, all pulling the strings of society for their own benefit. Sometimes it can be an ostensibly harmless establishment that in reality caters to a... less genteel clientele and it has 300 pound bouncers at the doors. If it doubles as an Adventurer's Club, but skews more towards this, then the members are likely Evil Colonialists planning their next resource-harvesting foray into Africa or South America. Alternatively, they're just a Brotherhood of Funny Hats, where upper-class men can be out from under the feet of their wives. Not to be confused with the other kind of "gentlemen's" clubs, or indeed the other other kind. Clubs like this generally seem to be named according to similar rules to a Mad Lib Thriller Title; "The [esoteric noun or Classical mythology name] Club". If you are invited into the inner sanctum for a glass of vintage port, you may see a decades-old Secret Society Group Picture of the founders. In Real Life, gentlemen's clubs had their heyday during the Regency and Edwardian eras. They were a place for well-off men to be able to get away from their families and do manly pursuits such as gambling, billiards, drinking and smoking. The strict, class-based membership rules, high fees and dress code ensured everyone was the "right sort of person." The club was also a place for networking, gossiping, and trading favors. |
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As in the books (see above), Mycroft Holmes is a member of the Diogenes Club in Sherlock; in this continuity it seems to be one for government employees. When Watson storms in loudly demanding to see him, he encounters a lot of angry, stuttering old duffers in chairs before being gagged and dragged into a back room. Apparently there's a strict code of silence in the main club to avoid members revealing any vital state secrets. | |
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Trading Places: Louis, all his friends and coworkers, and the Duke brothers are all members of the same one. The Dukes get Louis kicked out by framing him for stealing cash from the coat closet. | |
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"The Club of Deep Thinkers" is a Disney comic strip based on The Great Mouse Detective, with the eponymous club being where the wisest and cleverest of London's mice sit in deep (and mostly abstract and detached from reality) thought. Naturally, Basil's previously unmentioned brother Clifford is a member. | |
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Cats: Bustopher Jones, "the Cat About Town", is among the elite of the cats, and visits prestigious gentlemen's clubs. | |
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The Hellfire Club of X-Men have a smoke filled room thing going on in some of the 19th century plotlines, when Dark Phoenix goes back in time with Sebastian Shaw. The modern-day version affects the appearance of one of these as their cover. |
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Reginald and Murgatroyd of Silicon Wolfpack are members as well. The author must think it's a Public Domain Location. | |
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Lucien Blake belongs to one of these—The Colonists Club—in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, because his father had been a member. He keeps doing things to deliberately upset the stuffiness of the other members. | |
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The Season Four opening arc of Bones, "Yanks in the U.K.", included a visit to a Gentlemen's Club. The American implications of the term are discussed. | |
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Phryne Fisher belongs to a female version of one of these. | |
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Parodied with the Drones' Club in Jeeves and Wooster. The decor and the venerable servants fit perfectly with the trope's imagery, but all the members are young Upper Clas Twits who treat the place like a frat house. | |
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Titanic (1997) the First Class Smoking Room is modelled after this trope. Only First Class men were allowed to enter the room. | |
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In Scanners, Dr. Ruth is relaxing in a comfy leather chair in such an establishment when Vale calls him over the phone to report back to him. Other members are seen reading the newspaper and playing chess in the background. | |
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Brannigan. British Fair Cop Jennifer has to wait outside while Brannigan goes in to see her boss Commander Swann at the mens' only Garrick Club. The scene could only be filmed on location because Richard Attenborough (playing Swann) was a long time member of the club. | |
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The National Campaign Committee (a mostly unseen group of people) in the musical Of Thee I Sing. Their headquarters is a shabby hotel room suffused with cigar smoke, and more than a few bottles of White Rock (this was during Prohibition). "It's not that they couldn't afford a better hotel, for the party is notoriously rich," the script explains, "but somehow this room seems thoroughly in keeping with the men who occupy it." | |
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Discworld: The unnamed get-togethers where brandy-swilling men plot the replacement of the Patrician in Feet of Clay and The Truth fit the sinister version of the trope. It's also commented on by Sam Vimes that everyone wants to believe these exist and are responsible for the Crapsack World, because it avoids thinking about how many of their problems are actually caused by people just like them. Fidgett's in Thief of Time is a refuge for gentlemen who have spent their lives being ordered around by mothers, nurses, governesses and wives, where they can sit back, eat unhealthy food, and take naps under tented newspapers. Death is a member, since he fulfills all the qualifications of a gentleman: he has an estate in the country (indeed, his own Domain), is unfailingly polite and very punctual, and of course is an excellent horseman. Susan is able to gain admittance to find him because, since women are only allowed inside Fidgett's during a small, specified timeframe, its members assume any woman they see outside that timeframe must be a hallucination. |
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James Bond's boss, M, is a member of one of these called Blades (which also features in the film Die Another Day); at the beginning of Moonraker he invites Bond along because he suspects one of the other club members is habitually cheating at cards, and he wants Bond to work out how it's being done so the club officials can take appropriate action. (And yes, this does turn out to be relevant to the rest of the plot.) Kingsley Amis noted that how M got a membership in the club is a bit of a mystery; Fleming's description of the club states that a member must be able to 'show' £100,000 in cash or gilt-edged securities (i.e. government bonds)... which equates to just shy of two million pounds in 2015 money. M doesn't earn anywhere near that much in his job. |
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There's one in the Plaza in the Eloise At Christmastime Made-for-TV Movie. | |
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At least two episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959): "Back There" and "The Silence", seem to be set in this sort of club. | |
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Lampshaded in Deathlands, where apparently these still exist After the End. | |
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Dracula Unleashed has the prestigious Hades Club, which American protagonist Alexander Morris is sponsored into by the wealthy Arthur Holmwood. Considering that Arthur is actually Dracula in disguise, this was likely for the purposes of keeping an eye on Alexander and distracting him from looking into his brother Quincey's death. | |
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The House of Silk features a well-kept, tastefully decorated brothel for those gentlemen whose tastes run towards raping young boys. | |
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Day Break (2006): The Santayana club caters to the government and business elites of the city. Hopper has to infiltrate it to pursue a lead, since Alberto Garza was a key member. So are the bad guys, including Detweiler, Booth, and Colburn. | |
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Parodied in Lucky Luke and the Daltons. The meeting room in a railroad carriage where Lucky Luke meets the politicians who hire him is covered in a large, thick, barely transparent cloud of tobacco smoke, descending to as low as waist level. | |
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The X-Files hints at this: Cigarette-Smoking Man and his fellow-conspirators are often seen having grave secret meetings in smoky rooms, which often look old and expensive. | |
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Billions: Charles Rhoades Senior belongs to one, establishing him as a Blue Blood in contrast to the Nouveau Riche Axelrod. | |
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In Fallout 4, the Sole Survivor is able to enter the premises of the Boylston Club, a pre-War club made from the highest leaders of the Commonwealth and the United States (presidents, governors, Supreme Court justices, etc.) and their descendents. Days after the bombs fell, a special meeting was slated for the end of the month, where they all made speeches about how the nuclear doom removed from them any will to live in a destroyed world, causing their mass suicide by poisoned wine. | |
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The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, originating in the 1967 British television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show and later done by Monty Python and others, in which the four participants recount increasingly absurd recollections of how hard they had it in the "old days", is usually set in either a classy restaurant or gentleman's club. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey is also a member of more than one Smoky Gentlemen's Club; the novel The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club mostly takes place within one of them. | |
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Fidgett's in Thief of Time is a refuge for gentlemen who have spent their lives being ordered around by mothers, nurses, governesses and wives, where they can sit back, eat unhealthy food, and take naps under tented newspapers. Death is a member, since he fulfills all the qualifications of a gentleman: he has an estate in the country (indeed, his own Domain), is unfailingly polite and very punctual, and of course is an excellent horseman. Susan is able to gain admittance to find him because, since women are only allowed inside Fidgett's during a small, specified timeframe, its members assume any woman they see outside that timeframe must be a hallucination. | |
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The Hound of the D'Urbervilles invented the Xeniades Club as an Evil Counterpart of the Diogenes above (it was founded by Professor Moriarty's older brother). In a direct contrast, it's noted to be for social types who aren't wanted anywhere else, and it encourages lively debate so it's the noisiest club in London. Like Diogenes, there are also hints that it's a cover for something more: specifically, the creation of weapons of mass destruction for the British government. | |
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Batman villain 'Boss' Rupert Thorne did most of his dirty dealings out of one of these called The Tobacconists Club. | |
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"The World of Commander McBragg" on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales always started with McBragg in his gentlemen's club, telling a Tall Tale to his fellow members. | |
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As per tradition, the haunt of Sir Humphrey and his fellow senior civil servants in Yes, Minister, discussing what really needs to be done for Britain, in spite of elected politicians' ambitions, and how to best run around their political masters. | |
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Fiorello! has the Ben Marino Association, a smoke-filled joint in Greenwich Village where Tammany Hall hacks meet and play five-card stud as they try to determine the winner and the loser of the next municipal election. | |
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The Professionals. Cowley is well versed in the corridors of power, so knows them well. Played for laughs in "Slush Fund" when he's meeting a publisher in one, and interrupts his conversation to wake up one of the old duffers who's fallen asleep in his chair. In "Not A Very Civil Civil Servant" he brings Bodie in with him to the disapproval of the Old Soldier he's meeting, even though Bodie is ex-military himself. | |
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The "Humphrey and Godfrey" sketches in The Two Ronnies. | |
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The Exeter Club/White Lodge in the Elemental Masters series passes itself off as one of these (going so far as to pension off male servants to sit in the padded leather chairs and read the newspaper/nap) as a cover. | |
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Jerry waits for Horace in one at the start of Top Hat. Their silence rule and their attitude annoy him, so he does a short but loud tap dance for them as he leaves. | |
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In Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, Bruce and Harvey belong to one called The Dionysus Club, which apparently counts most of Gotham's young, ruling class males as members. Bruce smuggles Selina in in a none-too-convincing male disguise. | |
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The Murder, She Wrote episode "The Committee" is set at one, where Jessica has been invited to be their first female speaker (with her friend suggesting that he's also pushing for female members). The inevitable murder is complicated by the club's arcane rules and belief that it's a law unto itself. | |
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The League of Robots from the Futurama movie "Beast with a Billion Backs" is a parody of this. Bender believes them to be secretly plotting to rise up and kill all humans. In reality, they're just five or six robots who enjoy getting together to drink, smoke, and occasionally talk catty about humans. | |
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The Crown (2016). Prince Philip and his private secretary/best friend Mike Parker found the Thursday Club where they can carry on out of the sight of their wives; specifically the Queen in Philip's case. While it is used for networking and information exchange (one member is shown briefing the others on the rise of Nassar in Egypt) it also has young pretty waitresses. One of those waitresses reveals to Mike's wife some of the things that go on there for her divorce case, getting Philip and Mike in a lot of trouble. | |
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The Peabody Club in The Associate. | |
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"Talma Gordon": The Canterbury Club of Boston's members are of high social standing. Aside from Dr. Thornton, they include a jurist/politician, a theologian, and a college president. | |
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The unnamed get-togethers where brandy-swilling men plot the replacement of the Patrician in Feet of Clay and The Truth fit the sinister version of the trope. It's also commented on by Sam Vimes that everyone wants to believe these exist and are responsible for the Crapsack World, because it avoids thinking about how many of their problems are actually caused by people just like them. | |
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Good Omens (2019): As in the book, the "discrete gentlemen's club" where Aziraphale learned to dance the gavotte is mentioned. Word of God from Neil Gaiman says that Aziraphale was a member of the historical 100 Guineas Club which was frequented by gay men. | |
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In The Ripper (1997), Sir Charles invites Jim to his club, where he meets Prince Albert. | |
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Boardwalk Empire, being set in the 1920s, features a few gentlemen's establishments. Most notably, Nucky Thompson goes to meet Andrew Mellon, the US Finance Secretary, to make him an offer in one. Nucky, despite being a big fish in the small pond of Atlantic City, knows he is out of his depth among these genuine aristocrats. | |
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Steed is a member of one in The Avengers (1998). The members are scandalized when Mrs. Peel barges in to speak with him. | |
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Heroic example - Good Night, and Good Luck.. | |
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The beginning of Around the World in 80 Days (1956). | |
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Astro City has Butler's: an upper class club where superheroes can relax in their secret identities (and formal wear) while the staff wear masks. Discretion is absolutely guaranteed. | |
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A subplot in the Lois & Clark episode "Chi of Steel" revolves around Perry White's membership in one of these; Lois manages to sneak in in disguise. | |
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Between the Lines (1992). Tony Clark meets John Deakin in one of them, and annoys the residents when his fancy new mobile phone rings and he doesn't know how to answer it. One of the old duffers grabs the phone off him and swiftly presses the correct buttons to do so. | |
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Lois' father in Family Guy frequents a club like this. One gag involves a London gentlemen's club that resembles the above-mentioned Diogenes Club in both location and most famous trait (if only to the letter of the law). |
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Thank You for Smoking - the MOD Squad's lunches. | |
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Finnemore, the narrator in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, is generally introduced speaking from his club and/or sets the beginning of his stories in it. Common activities beyond the usual drinking and smoking seem to involve storytelling and bizarre Edwardian varieties of Calvinball. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: Holmes' brother Mycroft belongs to the Diogenes Club — a club for antisocial gentlemen, which treasures silence so much that talking in any room save the Strangers' Room is an offense punishable by expulsion. Sherlock is also apparently a member, as he remarks to Watson he finds it a "soothing atmosphere". In "The Bruce-Partington Plans" Mycroft is revealed to have a vital position in the British government (synthesizing reports from different services and presenting how each will affect the other), and as an extension of this, many adaptations and pastiches enjoy portraying the Diogenes Club as a front for some kind of secret governmental organisation or the prototype of the Secret Intelligence Service. Watson, as a middle-class professional, is also a member of an (unnamed) club, where he hangs out and plays billiards when he wants to escape from Holmes' malodorous chain smoking and chemical experiments for a few hours. The Return of Sherlock Holmes indirectly features one: After Moriarty's death, his Number Two Colonel Moran makes a living by cheating at cards at his club. His partner, horrified at such a breach of conduct yet unwilling to cause a scandal implicating a senior club member, privately informed him that he must restore his ill-gotten gains, and was working out how much he should return as well when Moran shot him. The Hound of the D'Urbervilles invented the Xeniades Club as an Evil Counterpart of the Diogenes above (it was founded by Professor Moriarty's older brother). In a direct contrast, it's noted to be for social types who aren't wanted anywhere else, and it encourages lively debate so it's the noisiest club in London. Like Diogenes, there are also hints that it's a cover for something more: specifically, the creation of weapons of mass destruction for the British government. The House of Silk features a well-kept, tastefully decorated brothel for those gentlemen whose tastes run towards raping young boys. |
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In the episode "Zip Zip Zip" of How I Met Your Mother, Barney takes Robin to one of these and in a subversion of this trope they dork out, high five, then go play laser tag. | |
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In Around the World in Eighty Days, the Reform Club, where Phileas Fogg goes to read papers and play whist, is quintessential to the novel's key bet, as it arose from the card table discussion of a newspaper article Fogg had read recently. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Tom Anderson hosts an informal one at the Fairplay Saloon in the form of a private poker game where he invites a handful of (mostly) white, upper-class businessmen and politicians to discuss commerce as they smoke, drink and bet while playing cards. Louis de Pointe du Lac later takes up the mantle after he buys the Fairplay Saloon from Tom and changes its name to the Azalea. | |
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One episode of Frasier sees Frasier and Niles competing for a recent membership opening in one of these. The club accepts Frasier but on his first night there he realises there's been a mix-up and they actually wanted Niles. He attempts to step aside only for Niles to arrive and deliver a speech about how he doesn't want to be in the club anyway. As a result, both brothers are kicked out and told not to return. | |
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Training Day: Alonzo meets with three powerful members of local law enforcement, whom he deems the Three Wise Men, in some sort of smoky establishment implied to be one of these. | |
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