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* AuthorAvatar: Mike is partly based on Wodehouse, especially in ''Psmith in the City'', where his family's financial difficulties force him to take a job in a bank, which is what happened to Wodehouse at the same age.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: In ''Leave It To Psmith'', Ada Clarkson tells Eve Halliday that mutual friend Cynthia McTodd's husband has run away on her. While this is true, Cynthia failed to mention (or Ms. Clarkson failed to hear) that this was about the sixth time Mr. McTodd had "run away never to be seen again" and that Cynthia had no doubt that he would return to her in a few weeks' time at worst. Had Eve been aware of this particular detail, a great deal of unnecessary trouble between herself and Psmith might have been avoided.
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* NiceHat: Psmith seems to have quite a collection. In addition, Eve in ''Leave it to Psmith'' is broke because she bought a gorgeous and expensive hat, then had to buy the whole outfit to match.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Psmith (left) and Jackson (right)]]
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Wodehouse later averred that the character of Psmith was inspired by an anecdote he had heard of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, the son of the producer of the [[Creator/GilbertandSullivan Gilbert and Sullivan]] operas, a bit of a dandy who reportedly, when one of his masters at Oxford inquired after his health, replied, "Sir, I grow thinnah and thinnah."[[note]]However, Rupert's daughter Bridget D'Oyly Carte believed that Wodehouse had confused her father with his brother Lucas, who had died in 1907 at the age of 34.[[/note]]
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* ProperLady: Phyllis to Eve's SpiritedYoungLady.
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire PSmIth]].
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire PSmIth]].the character(s) [=PSmIth=] from ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire''.
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* CatchPhrase: Jellicoe in ''Mike and Psmith'': "You ''are'' a chap!" or "You ''are'' chaps!" (with reference to one or both of the title characters). There's also Psmith's "never confuse the unusual and the impossible", "[[HypocriticalHumor I am a man of few words]]", and, in ''Psmith, Journalist'', "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!]]"
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* CatchPhrase: Jellicoe in ''Mike and Psmith'': "You ''are'' a chap!" or "You ''are'' chaps!" (with reference to one or both of the title characters). There's also Psmith's "never confuse the unusual and the impossible", "[[HypocriticalHumor "[[BlatantLies I am a man of few words]]", and, in ''Psmith, Journalist'', "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!]]"
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* SeriousBusiness: {{Cricket}}. Also, [[MundaneMadeAwesome anything Psmith has taken it into his head to talk about]].
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* SeriousBusiness: {{Cricket}}.UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}. Also, [[MundaneMadeAwesome anything Psmith has taken it into his head to talk about]].
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* AffectionateParody: The sequence in ''Leave It to Psmith'' where Psmith applies for work and meets up with Freddie Threepwood is a spoof of the opening of ''BulldogDrummond''.
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* AffectionateParody: The sequence in ''Leave It to Psmith'' where Psmith applies for work and meets up with Freddie Threepwood is a spoof of the opening of ''BulldogDrummond''.''Literature/BulldogDrummond''.
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* LovableJock: Mike.
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* LovableJock: Mike. He's far better at cricket than schoolwork, but he's a nice chap all the same.
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* NotMyDriver: In ''Psmith, Journalist''.
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* NotMyDriver: In ''Psmith, Journalist''.Journalist'', Psmith is caught by the bad guys when he hails a cab on an urgent errand; the cab driver is one of the enemy, and the errand itself turns out to have been a fraud designed to inspire Psmith to incautiously hail a cab at that particular moment.
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* OldFashionedRowboatDate: In ''Leave It to Psmith''.
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* OldFashionedRowboatDate: In Psmith and Eve in ''Leave It to Psmith''. Psmith''.
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* PassThePopcorn: In ''Psmith, Journalist'', Psmith and Billy climb onto a roof to fend off the gangsters who are attacking them. The resulting scene draws a crowd of spectators, mostly FightingIrish, who perch on the roof of a house nearby to watch the show. This is also Psmith's attitude toward humanity in general.
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* PassThePopcorn: PassThePopcorn:
** In ''Psmith, Journalist'', Psmith and Billy climb onto a roof to fend off the gangsters who are attacking them. The resulting scene draws a crowd of spectators, mostly FightingIrish, who perch on the roof of a house nearby to watch theshow. show.
** This isalso Psmith's attitude toward humanity in general. general.
** In ''Psmith, Journalist'', Psmith and Billy climb onto a roof to fend off the gangsters who are attacking them. The resulting scene draws a crowd of spectators, mostly FightingIrish, who perch on the roof of a house nearby to watch the
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* StalkingIsLove: In ''Leave it to Psmith''.
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* StalkingIsLove: In Psmith's attentions to Eve in ''Leave it to Psmith''.
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* TitleDrop: In ''Leave It to Psmith.''
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* ShoutOut: Plenty, mostly from Psmith, who frequently references poetry, song and ClassicalMythology in his speech.
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* ShoutOut: Plenty, mostly from Psmith, who frequently references poetry, song and ClassicalMythology Myth/ClassicalMythology in his speech.
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* OutlawCouple: [[spoiler:Joe Cootes and Liz Peavey]] in ''Leave it to Psmith''.
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* OutlawCouple: [[spoiler:Joe [[spoiler:Ed Cootes and Liz Peavey]] in ''Leave it to Psmith''.
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* CreatorBacklash: Visible in [[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3773/the-art-of-fiction-no-60-p-g-wodehouse this interview]] with P.G. Wodehouse:
-->"People sometimes want to know why I didn’t go on with Psmith. But I don’t think that the things that made him funny as a very young man would be funny in an older man. He had a very boring sort of way of expressing himself. Called everybody comrade and all that sort of thing. I couldn’t go on with him. I don’t think he’d have worked as a maturer character."
-->"People sometimes want to know why I didn’t go on with Psmith. But I don’t think that the things that made him funny as a very young man would be funny in an older man. He had a very boring sort of way of expressing himself. Called everybody comrade and all that sort of thing. I couldn’t go on with him. I don’t think he’d have worked as a maturer character."
