Bertie is at Totleigh Towers for the marriage of Roderick Spode and Madeline Bassett. Friend Ginger Winship is engaged to Lady Florence Craye so Bertie thinks that he's finally safe as far as marriage is concerned. However, Parliamentary candidate Ginger falls for his secretary and throws the Parliamentary election, causing Florence to dump him, and Spode decides to stand in his place, throwing in his title and causing Madeline to dump him. Both women now have their eyes firmly set on Bertie. Meanwhile the Butlers' and Valets' book from the Ganymede Club has been stolen, having all the secrets of the people they worked for. Also there is a problem with the drains at Totleigh Towers so Bertie calls in Tuppy Glossop, who has bought a new invention which clears drains, or so he believes, but when he tries it out it makes things far worse. The show ends with Bertie getting the blame for a spoiled wedding and with the guests chasing him and Jeeves widdershins around a church while the end titles come up.
This episode is also called The Exes Are Nearly Married Off. This episode is adapted from Much Obliged, Jeeves.
This episode contains examples of:
- Butt-Monkey: Bertie always seems to get the short end of the stick.
- Covered in Gunge: Nearly everyone at the end of the episode, due to the Plumbo Jumbo drain-cleaning machine going haywire, causing raw sewage to spew from the church baptismal font.
- Chase Scene: This occurs at the end of the episode, with Jeeves and Bertie being the one chased.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Par for the course with Tuppy. This time it's running a plumbing business called "Plumbo Jumbo".
- Mythology Gag: In various Wodehouse stories, characters consider (and reject) the plan of putting on false whiskers and claiming they have come to inspect the drains. In this episode, Tuppy Glossop actually goes through with it, and we see why it really isn't a good idea.
- Plot-Driven Breakdown: The new invention that clears drains had to fail for the sake of the plot though it's given the justification of being left to run unattended for far too long.
