Editing Jeeves (section)

== Influence ==
Jeeves's name is used as a synonym for a personal manservant.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/12/02/672391198/jeeves-and-wooster-but-make-it-a-modern-spy-novel |title=Jeeves And Wooster, But Make It A Modern Spy Novel |last=Garcia-Navarro |author-link=Lulu Garcia-Navarro |first=Lulu |access-date=27 January 2021 |website=National Public Radio |date=2 December 2018}}</ref> A "[[wikt:Jeeves|Jeeves]]" is a generic term for a model valet or butler according to the  ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''<ref>Cawthorne (2013), pp. 169–170. "Jeeves has achieved the ultimate accolade: his own entry in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', where he is 'the perfect valet, used allusively'. 'Jeevesian' and 'Jeeves-like' also appear."</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | author      = Ring, Tony
 | date        = c. 2000 <!--NO DATE GIVEN, ARTICLE CITES SOME "1999" BOOKS-->
 | title       = Jeeves and Wooster March Into The Twenty-first Century
 | work        = Wodehouse.ru <!-- NOT SOURCE GIVEN BY WODEHOUSE.RU -->
 | url         = http://wodehouse.ru/march.htm
 | access-date  = 2007-08-15
 | quote       = The frequency with which the term 'Jeeves' is used without further explanation in the media of today, and its inclusion as a generic term in the Oxford English Dictionary, suggests that P G Wodehouse's Jeeves, together with his principal employer Bertie Wooster, remain the most popular of his many enduring characters.
}}</ref> and the ''[[Merriam-Webster Dictionary]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/wodehouse-words/the-words-of-p-g-wodehouse |title=9 Words from P.G. Wodehouse |website=Merriam-Webster |access-date=27 January 2021}}</ref> It can mean a "resourceful helper" according to the ''[[Encarta Webster's Dictionary|Encarta World English Dictionary]]''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia
 |encyclopedia=MSN Encarta
 |date=2007
 |title=Jeeves
 |url=http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Jeeves.html
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109141831/http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Jeeves.html
 |archive-date=2007-11-09
 |access-date=2007-08-15
 |quote=Jeeves [ jeevz ], noun – Definition: resourceful helper: a useful and reliable person who provides ready solutions to problems ( informal ) [Mid-20th century. < a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse]
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}}</ref> In a comedy routine in a 1993 ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode, [[Jerry Seinfeld]] said, "Did you ever notice a lot of butlers are named Jeeves? I think when you name a baby Jeeves; you've pretty much mapped out his future. Not much chance he's gonna be a hitman."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/did-you-ever-notice-a-lot-of-butlers-are-named-jeeves-i-think-w/ |title=Did you ever notice a lot of butlers are named Jeeves? |last=Seinfeld |first=Jerry |date=May 20, 1993 |website=TV Fanatic |access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref>

From 1996 until 2006, [[Ask.com]], a question-and-answer search engine, was known as Ask Jeeves and featured a caricature of a butler on its launch page.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/10/news.media |website=The Guardian |title=That'll be all for now, Jeeves |last=Johnson |first=Bobbie |date=10 February 2006 |access-date=27 January 2021}}</ref> The name of Jeeves has also been used by other companies and services, such as the British dry-cleaning firm [[Jeeves of Belgravia]] and the New Zealand company Jeeves Tours.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murphy |first= N. T. P. |title= The P. G. Wodehouse Miscellany |pages=164–165 |publisher=The History Press |year=2015 |location=Stroud, Gloucestershire |isbn=978-0750959643 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PYTDQAAQBAJ&q=commercial+ventures}}</ref>

The fictional amateur detective [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] and his valet [[Mervyn Bunter]], created by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] in 1923, were partially inspired by Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.<ref>Thompson (1992), pp. 115–116.</ref>

Jeeves himself is parodied in the mashup "Scream for Jeeves."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-940884-60-1|website=Publishers Weekly|title=Scream for Jeeves: A Parody}}</ref>