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In 'Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!', Lord Emsworth's prize sow, the Empress of Blandings, stops eating when her pigman is jailed for drunkenness, which threatens her chances at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. James Belford, the suitor Emsworth's family has rejected for his niece Angela, teaches him an American farm pig-call. Emsworth forgets the call, and it is Belford's own bellow that gets the Empress eating again, so Emsworth backs the match.
In the Hollywood of the Mulliner stories, the studio hierarchy has a rank below the yes-man, called the nodder. The nodder's only job is to nod after the yes-men have agreed with the producer. Sycophancy becomes so professionalised that agreement is split into graded, paid tiers that add no judgement at all.
In 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend', Emsworth is forced to judge a village fete for London slum children. There a small cockney girl named Gladys picks flowers and stands up to Angus McAllister, the head gardener who has long bullied him. Inspired by her nerve, Emsworth finally overrules McAllister himself and lets her have the flowers she wants.
Blandings comedy depends on a reversal in which the earl who owns everything is ruled by the people he employs. His gardener, his pigman and his secretary each hold a skill or routine he cannot do without. Watching who controls the thing the powerful person values shows where authority really sits, whatever the formal hierarchy says.