Oh By Jingo - Jeeves and Wooster ( Hugh Laurie and Fry )

[@ausomeaspie]

I love how they are all happy, characters that normally hate eachother are all singing together. Love it!

[@ShaddySoldier]

Yeah its a grand scene

[@jonathanstern5537]

Especially the fascist guy excitedly singing, "Oh by Jove, oh by Jove, oh by Jove."

[@ausomeaspie]

@@jonathanstern5537 Spode. Yes exactly.

[@jonathanstern5537]

@@ausomeaspie Yes, it's been a few years since I've seen the show, and I haven't read the stories yet.

[@MissGrapeNehi]

Whenever I get depressed, I watch Jeeves and Wooster. It restores my faith in humanity, and all that rot.

[@MIck-M]

That comment aged well.

[@jackheslop2367]

@@MIck-M How so?

[@TIMG128]

me too!

[@Orlabobz]

I love how they just added a wonderful musicality to Bertie's character (it's not mentioned in the books) for the tv series simply because of Hugh's great piano playing and singing ability. It was a great decision as so many of the songs are done very well and amusing! :)

[@onthepalehorse]

Hugh Laurie is really such an amazing and multi talented actor

[@giovanniacuto2688]

@@onthepalehorse And blues man

[@dannuttle9005]

Bertie is described by Jeeves as having a "light, pleasant baritone" and is roped into singing "Sonny Boy" in "Jeeves and the Song of Songs." He takes up the banjolele in "Thank You, Jeeves", causing Jeeves to bolt. There are several other examples.

[@andersonrearickiii6392]

Actually Bertie becomes enamoured of the banjolele in "Thank You Jeeves" but he drives everyone crazy with it until Jeeves says they must part if he pursues his studies with "that instrument." As for Bertie and the piano, I think your correct and it is a great addition.

[@misfitsailor]

To me this was one of the best moments in the history of TV!

[@phemyda94]

i think bertie slowly rubs off on jeeves. this is nearly the end of the show, and minnie the moocher was the first episode. everyone notices how jeeves manipulates bertie, but i think jeeves also changes a little... he becomes more tolerant and just more human and i just love him!

[@Militaria-pr9rj]

Most wholesome ending to any episode of the series. Everybody is getting along and nobody is mad at Bertie! Stark contrast to the series finale which follows this episode.

[@Presleyfg]

Ahaha the finale was the epitome of the show ahaha

[@DuncanElliott1700]

Love the last line, its so random, and when Fry just gives his little knowing look!

[@janesmith9024]

This is why we all need to sing around the piano at home!

[@chriskershaw7968]

YES! ...though if anyone at home could actually play the piano, it would probably be even better.

[@marklinville6157]

Will guitars do? When our family gathers, three generations of guitarists play and sing together. :-)

[@sherlocksconsultancy5447]

I love this so much because normally they are fighting and hate eachother but here they are all being friends and singing together. If spode can do it so can everyone else. It is very heartwarming. It is so true that music can bring us all together unless you happen to be a Mod and a rocker of course (I'm a mod personally) but anywho. Music is the way forward!

[@charliehuxley2124]

Rocker here. My ex boyfriend was a mod and we did very well together ☺️. Music can bring people together 😅

[@Exayevie]

My fave music scene from this series - everyone resolves their differences and has a good ol time around the piano...it's all Bertie ever wants, really :P

[@jamesbroughton]

This is the last scene from the final episode of the final series. A good send off song I'd say.

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

Actually it was the penultimate episode. At least, according to my DVD.

[@madamewoselle]

I have the sheet music for this song! I love it and what a great rendition. Yay Hugh Laurie! Now, the real question is, how could he NOT sing this on "House?" By gee by gosh by gum by jove!

[@lipnoodle117]

I always found it odd that Madeline Basset, who had a ridiculous voice in the show, had a very nice singing voice.

[@RossiniSoprano]

The actress who plays her obviously has a great ear, hence her ability to do a superb character voice. For someone who can do that, it doesn't surprise me that she's musical...both things come from the same place. And when you're doing a character voice for speaking, sometimes it's really difficult to carry it over to singing.

[@en1909s9iah]

fun fact: people that stammer can usually sing without problem

[@davidwilson6577]

@@en1909s9iah I think it has to do with goal orientation - for example, people with Parkinsons' who have trouble walking can be aided with clear visual or auditory directions (even as simple as an 'x' on the ground to mark foot placement). Any dimension of any action that can be refined to strict parameters is one the person doesn't have to invest cognitive energy improvising.

[@erichwalrath970]

I expect that the pleasure was real. They were having fun and, for the moment, put their characters aside. Except for Stephen Fry. He remains undeniably Jeeves.

[@melindalandon4954]

I play this as a mood lifter, never fails. 😊

[@ПолинаСибагатуллина-у6ы]

Oh what a timeless masterpiece!!! The best TV show ever!

[@hlysnan6418]

That cheered me up.

[@gracenewsom4694]

Lyrics: Oh by gee, by gosh, by gum, by Jove! (Oh by Jove, oh by Jove, oh by Jove!) Oh, By Jingo, won't you hear our love? (Will you, can you raise your voice?) (LOUDER!) We will build for you a hut (YES!) You will be our favourite nut (CRACKED!) We'll have a lot of little Oh By Joveses (Dress them up in clogs and clotheses) Oh by gee, by gosh, by gum, by Jove! (Oh by Jove, oh by Jove, oh by Jove!) Oh, By Jingo, won't you hear our love? (Will you, can you raise your voice?) (LOUDER!) We will build for you a hut (YES!) You will be our favourite nut (CRACKED!) We'll have a lot of little Oh By Joveses (Dress them up in clogs and clotheses) Oh By Jingo said, by gosh, by gee! (G A B C D E, STOP!) Oh, by Jiminy, please don't bother me! (Bother her? Bother her?) So they all went away, saying Oh by gosh, by gum, by gee, my Oh By Jingo By gee, you're the only one for me! (Bring me lobster on a clean plate. :)

[@adventureswithaurora]

Thank you! 😁

[@TwinkleMoon44]

I love this episode its the best i love the bit with Alpine Joe!

[@FrodrickVFS]

I've just discovered Jeeves and Wooster, but I've seen this episode. This part rocks

[@phantomphiddler5]

Bring me lobster on a clean plate!

[@bbdupon]

Even Spode, that nasty blackshirt "amateur dictator", sounds practically cheerful ;-)

[@tessiemae4038]

Does nobody read Wodehouse? He wrote the Jeeves and Wooster series as well as numerous other characters. His peak was 1920's through the 1950's but he is probably the funniest writer ever. I dare you to read his stories and NOT start to talk like Bertie Wooster! As well as laugh out loud-and I rarely laugh out loud while reading.

[@BRIANPOWER1977]

Nope, never really liked him :D

[@merrickdamato2260]

Read the stories, ended of orating more akin to Reginald Jeeves.

[@JosephDaly-yt2er]

No dear, no one reads Wodehouse. No one ever did. No one has heard off him. Only you. You're so smart and cool.

[@robertbrookes2000]

Read a few of them and yes I do laugh out loud whilst reading. I watched some of the TV show when I was younger, too young to read/know the books. So when I'm reading Fry and Laurie's voices are in my head. Still fabulous writing.

[@adarshlakshman4715]

i do! ive read much of the jeeves and wooster series and seen the episodes and im currently reading a perfects uncle.

[@CADJewellerySkills]

One of my all-time favourite uses of a Spike Jones song anywhere.

[@TheoTheTimeTravelingMagician]

Spike jones is amazing, and I agree, but jones didn’t write this song. It was actually written in 1919. Spike jones’ version is the best in my opinion.

[@CaptainPrincess]

The man wants a fucking lobster! And he ain't taking no dirty plate bullshit, he's a valet he knows what clean plates look like

[@swa7169]

This would have been the perfect ending for the series.

[@ИльяРыженко-п2ъ]

Oh by gee, by gosh, by gum, by jove - (Oh by jove, oh by jove, oh by jove,) Oh By Jingo, won't you hear our love (Will you, can you raise your voice) (Louder!) We will build for you a hut (Yes!) You will be our favorite nut (Right!) We'll have a lot of little Oh By Joveses Dress them up in clogs and clotheses Oh by gee, by gosh, by gum, by jove - (Oh by jove, oh by jove, oh by jove,) Oh By Jingo, won't you hear our love (Will you, can you raise your voice) (Louder!) We will build for you a hut (Yes!) You will be our favorite nut (Right!) We'll have a lot of little Oh By Joveses Dress them up in clogs and clotheses Oh By Jingo said, "By gosh, by gee, (G, A, B, C, D, E stop) Oh by jiminy, please don't bother me" (Bother her, bother her) So they all went away, saying, "Oh by gee, by gosh, by gum, by Oh By Jingo, By gee you're the only one for me (Bring me lobster on a clean plate)

[@damechastain]

I think the gentleman's personal gentleman is just adorable i n this snippet.

[@VinceRocksMySocks]

fantastic, i've had this in my head for the past couple of days, i love this bit, especially the way steven says his lines ^-^

[@clojio]

BEAUTIFUL

[@SamDLite]

I know where you're coming from with getting it stuck in your head. Had someone say "Oh by jove" in class today and IMMEDIATELY had it in my head for the rest of the day. Thankfully had it on my iPod so I could listen to it and at least not subject all my friends/classmates to me singing it to myself :D

[@TheCashmanianDevil]

A work of motherflipping loveliness.

[@sayak4253]

This is a very popular song in the west. But whenever I hear this tune I remember another oldie which is in my mother tongue Bengali. The tune was definitely copied but the lyrics are hilarious in its own right. I always love different renditions of the same song. So, if anyone wants to give it a try, search 'Shing nei tobu naam tar shingho'.. it's a fun song too.. love how different cultures inspire one another

[@CarlChristensen64]

Hope this link works to the Kishore Kumar version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mneunZJrr7SAfac. The original “western” novelty song “Oh By Jingo” was written in 1919.

[@phantomphiddler5]

this song fills me with such happiness!

[@werfox666]

[@KawhackitaRag]

This is hilarious. However, I think the best version of this song is Pete Wendling's piano roll (QRS 1089 made in 1919). He simply kicks ass in the roll performance and does things I never thought were possible on a piano (roll or no roll). A MIDI of this fantastic roll can be heard on Warren Trachtman's website, on the roll scans page. Hopefully, someone will post a video of this roll to KZbin soon.

[@232bluewings]

Jeeves adds that something to the song. :')

[@athveg34f]

WOT a rousing rendition! Does anyone know if there are any Jeeves and Wooster music collections? I've been here just replaying this vid and the J&W theme song for the last 20 minutes and I'm filled with vim n' vigor.

[@themusicdr]

yes quite right - thanks needed that. imagine being attached to someone who always so vacant

[@FrodrickVFS]

He has to, it would be so funny to see the whole team sing this.

[@themusicdr]

the BEST song from J+W. im sl worried im finding myslef strangely attracted to madeline bassett, what should i do?

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

Resign yourself to hearing about the star's being God's daisy-chain.

[@kristalball527]

Yeah, well Bertie was my first crush. You gotta problem with that?

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@kristalball527 You should know what to do when you are informed that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the fairy Queen. Perfect rot, of course. They’re nothing of the sort.

[@blackcat355]

best ending to a jeeves and wooster episode by far =]

[@konstantineguruli]

Sir Roderick Lord Sindcup ♥

[@amnesiacsmuzak]

hahhahahaha...i totally don't remember this scene from the series, but what a great little song!!

[@mistydreamz]

i love these series. i luv u for uploading this

[@KoenZyxYssel]

0:37 my favourite part.

[@francescaconsoli7050]

me tooo

[@manekadesilver8685]

Me tooooooi

[@CarlChristensen64]

I’m glad they finally allowed Elizabeth Heery to let her real voice shine through and not Madeline’s quirky Broadway chorus girl voice.

[@Orlabobz]

@lomeinie See thats the brilliant thing. Stephen is very anti singing himself as he feels he can't sing.... so he rather wonderfully puts his jeeves character into it (as jeeves is very modest) and speaks the lines!

[@Android2137]

Wow. Hugh Laurie looks so different! It took me a minute to figure out which one is also Dr. House!

[@PopAddelum]

The three other Madelines and one other Styffie dislike this.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

Apparently three other Madelines, the other Stiffy, both versions of Florence Craye, the Glossops, and the Stokers dislike the video now :)

[@lordhighmarshal]

Season Four, Episode 5 "Trouble at Totleigh Towers"

[@lomeinie]

Yeah I also love how he doesn't bother to actually sing the lines -- makes me think of Minnie the Moocher in the first episode and how he added sir at the end of every line :-)

[@cyclos12]

Same i was like 12 and i watched it in the summer on pbs at like 1:00am it was the episode where wooster Gave that main girl a newt as a pet!

[@gentillygirl545]

Holy

[@Zephyr_Zeitgeist]

I think the idea is that they are pronouncing 'correct' with the intention of it sounding like 'crack'. A lovely pun.

[@TophxAang]

I love this song =p

[@SoodleDoo]

I believe it was Gussie Finknottle who gave the newt.

[@Teszab2]

@jamesbroughton No, episode before the last one. At the end of the last one Bertie and Jeeves are chased around the chapel by Spode, Madeline, Aunt Agatha and the other present at Madeline's wedding.

[@BSXD]

@jamesbroughton Actually that's the second-last episode. There is another one.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

LOL as a left,y I supposed to hate tha feckless class. But I loves Jeeves and wooster . Love this scene.

[@thechaos44]

True, but at least it ended in a flourish! Who was it who said "always finish with a song"?

[@Gydinglight12]

While watching this I keep seeing Peter O'Toole and the twits from The Ruling Class doing Varsity Drag,

[@jamesbroughton]

I used to have this song as my ring tone on my mobile and I used to get very embarrassed when it went off in public, but I do love the song.

[@charliehuxley2124]

I did too 😂😂

[@samuelmack-poole3290]

not me lol

[@CibelesSanz]

¡Qué mantón de Manila tan magnífico hay encima del piano! What a wonderful Manila's shawl is on the piano! Five stars for the song, it's really funny.

[@wommpomm]

pure class

[@Rose_Blue87]

I love it :D

[@Karlfalcon]

Now consider this is POP music to which I am referring.

[@Karlfalcon]

Yes. Clever. Do you have an issue with my use of the word? I would say using a string of (once) common exclamations to imitate some exotic language certainly counts as clever. I never said there were NO good lyricists left, But lyrics have certainly taken a back seat in most genres since the 60's hit. It is painfully apparent that wordplay is no longer appreciated by most musicians as it once was. Possibly the last bastion of clever lyrics is hip hop - but these days even that seems middling.

[@ispyjonnytriff]

Wasn't there the episode with the wedding between Spode and Madeleine Basset being interuppted by Tuppy's hopeless plumbing? I think this is the penultimate episode

[@tamaboyle]

That's from the second-to-last episode of season four isn't it? It's the one where Bertie goes to Totleigh because Stiffy wants him to steal the African totem that Sir Watkyn bought.

[@lovetolovefairytales]

@jamesbroughton Second to last epoisode, wasn't it? I thought the last one was where Jeeves and Wooster's idiot friend tubby ruined Madline and Spode's wedding.

[@ЛидияГромова-ч6ц]

It's Tuppy, but yeah, you're quite right))

[@OmgRockOut]

Im singing this at my school show!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAH!

[@Oiyuki]

Bring me lobster on a clean plate.

[@Jam10661945]

Does anyone know why Jeeves says 'bring me lobster on a clean plate'? I can't find anything about it!

[@thomasdahl3083]

It was "cool" to put in a short fun phrase, often a Wish between the final word and the final orchestra sound in some circles in the 30´s, and this one is superb: said by the Butler, like it was his personal wish. I totally get this. Not any plate, but a clean plate.

[@thomasdahl3083]

Stephen Fry never likes singing, so he talks instead of singing, but it's gorgeous here.

[@HooDatDonDar]

Yes, and the phrase had to fit the music and the rhythm- as though it were a lyric that had been written for the song.

[@damechastain]

Oh Jeeves.

[@VinceRocksMySocks]

Absolutely ^-^

[@Orlabobz]

@CarbonatedMargarine hehehe.... good old fry and laurie.... :)

[@themusicdr]

yes def agree

[@FrodrickVFS]

bring me lobster on a clean plate lol

[@TwinkleMoon44]

"obi je my gosh my gum bi jo"

[@Karlfalcon]

You certainly don't find lyrics like that anymore. I hate to sound like an old fogey, but ever since that gosh darned Rock & Roll became popular it's like they don't even try to be clever. Lyrics in the Jazz Age and earlier are infinitely superior to the drech you find these days.

[@Zelli52]

@Zelli52 As well. I know he sang it on this show (one of my fav songs!)

[@MultiCappie]

I don't quite get this, out of its presumable context, but I do like it.

[@PeterPresents]

That one guy went on to become Police Commissioner of Gotham City.

[@thechaos44]

If it's not, then it damn well should be... :)

[@CarbonatedMargarine]

Am I the only one who habitually says "Soupy twist" after this song? ;O)

[@Mullahgrrl]

When did wooster ever get so cordial with Spode?

[@Zelli52]

@Chibi12345678 No, its on the House soundtrack.

[@ignorantpom]

This is the penultimate episode.

[@CaptainPrincess]

That's one way to end an epsiode I guess.

[@TheBombson]

Dr. House before college?

[@MaggieCredits]

I like to think that this is what would happen if House and Bones had a crossover show made.

[@themusicdr]

yes run for the hills ha ha ha ;-)

[@ignorantpom]

I agree with you.

[@CibelesSanz]

Stephen Fry is a genius... He`s simply the best... What chapter is this?

[@poldova]

what episode is this from? I love this song!!

[@ЛидияГромова-ч6ц]

Season 4 ep 5

[@Joebycool]

@jamesbroughton it's now famous because it's Downton Abbey :)

[@hartleymartin]

The song is great, but I still don't get the ending line "Bring me lobster on a clean plate."

[@cj-seejay-cj-seejay]

@Ellipsis14 YES! CORRECT!

[@popppaortiz]

:D:D.d:D

[@Zelli52]

@Chibi12345678 Didn't he sing Minnie the Moocher? I never saw it, but I heard he did,

[@rosedevine440]

Probably

[@topolino2]

to the empire!

[@shelldie8523]

For the emperor.