If it's out on Criterion, I'm at least watching it.

A line about the "enveloping Brian Eno score" doesn't count as a mention? Tough crowd.

Modern day Sisyphus here. I'll be …sigh… busy.

If you don't know what Band-Aids taste like, you were never a kid.

Holy shit, that was funny.

Oh, yes. You're the young man who doesn't know how to spell fuck.

You're going to have to wait for Bill Willingham to finish writing it.

Mmmm… Anthony Powell….

There's the inverted morality, the sense of a cartoon world in which nothing really bad ever happens, and the overwhelming focus on romance in parodic terms. Read some of Wodehouse's earlier novels set in America (Piccadilly Jim in particular) and you can definitely see the connection.

Read the book just for the Evan Dorkin illustrations.

Yes, you are missing something.

Saki's great. I have a big one-volume Collected Works, which I'm slowly working my way through.

Mussolini's fascists wore shorts, didn't they?

Oh God, those Treacher things are death. All the cliche and convention of Wodehouse with none of the wit and zip.

@Ms. Vane: Heyer's mysteries are only okay examples of the form, basically sub-Agatha Christie exercises; her romances from about 1940 to 1970 are (mostly) sparkling diamonds of wit and fantasy; and her historical fiction (like the Wm. Conq. novel) is a tedious slog, like most historical fiction.

Grenville.

The never go to the dentist thing is based solidly on BBC programs shown in the U.S. between 1960 and 1990.

Looking it up on Amazon, looks like Asimov did write a foreword, but I'm pretty sure the analysis above was actually from the preface by the book's editor, D. R. Bensen.

I think I like the Blandings novels more than the Jeeves & Wooster ones. I can identify so much with Lord Emsworth it's a little worrying.

Miller's analogy is a good one. (As far as I can tell; here's where I earn scorn for revealing that I've never watched a full episode of Seinfeld.) I was responding more to Mr. Tuna's possible point.