No - but if you are reading "BS" as "BabySitters", my mind automatically fills in a "club" substitute! Brains, there.
Being 'foppish' != 'feckless incompetent' - being a heroic fop is a huge trope (there's even Raffles as the anti-hero example). Pssssh. I don't recall ANY Avengers villain (or at least, not in the Diana Rigg era) ever treating Steed with anything other than awed respect (part of the 'cordiale' of the coldwarish games, made explicit in that episode where they swap Mrs Peel for her Russian equivalent)! I <3 the Avengers. Maybe one day I'll watch an Honor Blackman episode (I've been meaning to, but not managed).
Re: John Steed-style 'pose as feckless incompetent'
Being 'foppish' != 'feckless incompetent' - being a heroic fop is a huge trope (there's even Raffles as the anti-hero example). Pssssh. I don't recall ANY Avengers villain (or at least, not in the Diana Rigg era) ever treating Steed with anything other than awed respect (part of the 'cordiale' of the coldwarish games, made explicit in that episode where they swap Mrs Peel for her Russian equivalent)! I <3 the Avengers. Maybe one day I'll watch an Honor Blackman episode (I've been meaning to, but not managed).