"Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

While Jeeves is only a minor character in this story, he plays a larger role in the next published story in which he appears, "The Artistic Career of Corky" (originally titled "Leave It to Jeeves"), which was first published in February 1916.

She is distressed that Augustus "Gussie" Mannering-Phipps, her nephew and Bertie's cousin living in New York City, has fallen for a girl named Ray Denison who is a vaudeville performer.

The poor nut had got stage fright so badly that it practically eliminated his voice.

Next, they visit Ray's father Danby, who turns out to have performed with Julia twenty-five years prior.

When describing the invigorating energy of New York City in the story, Bertie states that it makes one feel "God's in His Heaven: All's right with the world", a quotation from the dramatic poem Pippa Passes by Robert Browning.

This precise quotation differs from the allusions Bertie makes in future Jeeves stories, in which Bertie generally gives only a vague version of the quotations he alludes to, and often relies on Jeeves's help to correctly finish them.

For a long time I was baffled, and then I suddenly thought 'Why not make Jeeves a man of brains and ingenuity and have him do it?'

The 1918 story Jeeves and the Chump Cyril uses a similar plot device of Bertie being pressured by his Aunt Agatha to prevent a young man of his acquaintance from going on the New York stage.

The story was illustrated by Martin Justice in the Saturday Evening Post and by Alfred Leete in the Strand.