TV/Movie Mania : Toodle Pip!

I can't decide whether to credit the genius of "Jeeves & Wooster" to P.G.Wodehouse or to Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.


How is it that some theme songs are so catchy?  If you asked me what the theme song was I couldn't have begun to guess, but the second the show starts, I can hum along with it as easily as one would sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (or The Alphabet Song, or Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman - not Mozart, after all)


I have seen all the BBC episodes before I ever read any of the Jeeves stories, and now I can only read the stories picturing Laurie and Fry in their typical shenanigans - or rather, Laurie's shenanigans and Fry's unswerving solemnity.


However, only Wodehouse gets credit for Gussie Fink-Nottle, Barmy Fotheringay Phipps, and the wonderful scrapes Wooster gets into and Jeeves extricates him from.


I suppose it doesn't really matter to whom credit is due, since once could not exist without the other.


Also, most people are familiar with Laurie in his role as House on Fox - I wonder if they realize what a comical actor he is.  He has an amazingly mobile face, which constantly fascinates me when I watch "Jeeves & Wooster".  (I also greatly enjoyed him as the samba-obsessed banker in Girl From Rio).  Stephen Fry, although I feel he doesn't get nearly enough laurels, is quite excellent as the quintessentially muted-humored Brit (As seen in "Jeeves & Wooster", IQ, "Bones", and the voice of the Book in HHGTTG)




Anyway, as Burtie says, "Toodle Pip!"