sitcom butlers

The archetype:
http://quitedapper.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/jeeves2.jpg

http://115.photobucket.com/albums/a391/kingpopgun/lurch.jpg

christopher hewett as mr. belvedere:

http://chriskc.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/mrbelvedere.jpg

http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/imgs/spiggott/two_of_us/tv_news.jpg

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/bensonlogo.jpg

http://www.sofacinema.co.uk/guardian/images/products/0/44620-large.jpg
The master!

Hugh Laurie has had two butlers!
http://www.geocities.com/blackadderhomepage/blackadder3.jpg

How I miss funny Hugh Laurie.

Craig Charles in Captain Butler

Alan Napier vs. Michael Gough vs. Michael Caine

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/onthebuses2.jpg

... one for our American friends

that's a butler? only butlers please

"I 'ate you, Butler" etc etc

http://www.tvofyourlife.com/images/familyaffairsebastiancabot01.jpg

jeeves is a valet, not a butler!

This is true but he is such a strong archetype I thought he deserved a mention.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T6G0V2E7L._SS500_.jpg

http://www.chromewaves.net/images/interface/20070118suede.jpg

"Your sweet, milady. Your nuts, milord."

should've been a poll. I'd vote for ol' Brocktoon.

s t r e a k s o n t h e c h i n a

I have had the Mr. Belvedere theme stuck in my head, it's annoying.

the sekrit reason i started this thread is there's a sitcom butler i can't place to save my life, though i can SEE his face plain as day.. gray hair, long, pinched, creased face, sour expression usually, formal attire (i.e. no mr belvedere cardigans)

US or UK?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1990/gallery/340/yourang.jpg

When I was a little kid I honestly thought Benson was the governor.

man i used to think bernard butler was hot when i was 14. now i see he looks just like a lady.

mr belvedere theme song is amazing.

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/sitcoms/captain_butler.shtml

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=77192&rendTypeId=4

Hmm, that prob wont work.

Oh, it did. Marv.

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/35/92/39/18437418.jpg

Was, it Mr. French 2, John Williams, who played the father in the original Sabrina and did the Readers Digest's 100 Greatest Musical Masterpieces commercial?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/images/2007/09/11/yourang1_124x69.jpg

wait roz who is that?? it's not the one i'm thinking of but i forgot all about him!

tom i'm trying to think of an american butler (as if these people ever existed after like, 1935!!)

alfred in batman?

tracer it's Niles from The Nanny.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/01/11/swedish460.jpg
Same post as every year . . .

i can't find a pic of the butler on seinfeld's "the pilot" episode

the guy i'm thinking of is thin as a rake, looks like he smokes two packs a day, is never amused

JERRY: You had a date? You went out with my butler? Who said you could go out with my butler?

SANDI: Why do I need your permission?

JERRY: Because he's my butler!

Around 2:40 in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoYZprlYxd4&feature=related

the guy i'm thinking of is thin as a rake, looks like he smokes two packs a day, is never amused

Surely Alan Napier?

Streaks on the china,
never mattered before,
who cares.

When you dropped kicked your jacket
As you came through the door,
No one glared.

But sometimes things get turned around
And no one’s spared.

All hands look out below T
here’s a change in the status quo.
Gonna need all the help that we can get.

According to our new arrival
Life is more than mere survival
We just might live the good life yet.

xp
Dammit - I meant Michale Gough, I'm getting my Batman Butlers mixed up...

http://www.nndb.com/people/857/000086599/gough2.jpg

jeeves is a valet, not a butler!

Yes, but he did "butle" for several people.

nope and nope ned - was gough ever in a sitcom, btw?? would be awesome if so but keep it on topic people

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/03/22/2004299948.jpg

buttle

When you dropped kicked your jacket
As you came through the door,
No one glared.

Is it GLARED?! I've sung CARED during almost every single shower I've taken in the last 22 years!

http://blog.urbanomic.com/sphaleotas/archives/parker.jpg

http://www.sausagenet.com/i/p/140-4.jpg

ok. not exactly sitcom

the guy who played geoffrey in fresh prince later played a butler on the bold and the beautiful. his only back story was that he used to work for a beverly hills family.

http://web.newsguy.com/sdn001/images/nov2003/nikhud1104.jpg

the b & the b was my favorite.

me too.

i am tempted to start a thread about it, but i won't.

http://www.addamsfamily.com/addams/lurch4.jpg

Is there only the one picture of that bloke?

Ive thought about starting a b&theb daily update thread just for my own enjoyment

xxxposts to lauren

Victor Garber played Frasier's butler in one episode.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/OysteinietsyO/51092917.jpg

i haven't seen it in a few years, actually, but now that we have the soap channel i'm so tempted. i secretly watched so many terrible soaps when i was growing up. my friend worked on one life to live recently, and i was so jealous.

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/graceunderfire.jpg

I watched some young and the restless in the mid 80s when jill was a young ho stealing katharine's husband. other than that only BB.

BB has gone kind of crazy lately - Brooke's older brother Storm shot her youngest sister Katie when she mistook him showing a gun to Ashley(of y and the r fame) for him trying to shoot her. Really he was just showing her the gun he shot Stephanie with to prove he is A-OK to date. Anyway, sis and bro get in a struggle while Ashley, in a very unflattering halter top, looks concerned in the background then blam. Turns out the shot nicked Katie's heart and she needs a heart transplant STAT. Bridget, who has somehow gone from not having a medical degree to become the greatest doctor in the world over the last season, fails to find a heart so Brooke goes and says something crazy mean to her brother who then shoots himself in the head with the same gun he shot his sister with so she can use his heart in the transplant. Brooke saves the day AGAIN. Transplant works but sis wakes up all pissed about it. Oh and Nick Marone is dating Bridget but really wants to fuck transplant girl.

I dont think BB is on soapnet (is that the same as the soap channel?). They put the latest 4 eps on the CBS website though.

xp to lauren again

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41420000/jpg/_41420620_jeeveleaves.jpg

Jeeves Leaves

what about the forrester's terrible fashion design empire? boy, was that a joke.

haha yeah. ive been watching this show for years and i still cant work out what thorne actually does there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UpDown_S5Ep10.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/UpDown_S5Ep10.jpg

http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/lombard/lombard31.jpg

You know, I considered a career in butlering. I have to think that with (a) my law degree
(b) my cooking skill
(c) my classic taste in men's clothes

I'd be an ideal candidate. I would need to become proficient in at least one deadly martial art, though, as I don't have an accent to scare away the riff-raff.

Unspoken rule: Butler must have the upper hand else tv/cinema are squeamish about depiction?

"Your sweet, milady. Your nuts, milord."

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:04 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^