Monty Python - Dennis Moore

[@torchwoody58]

"Blimey! This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought!"

[@markschildberg1667]

Cue stock footage of old ladies applauding

[@JohnSmith-vb6tc]

​@@markschildberg1667😅😮😮😮 😮

[@luisreyes1963]

And you wonder why Bernie Sanders will never be President. 😟

[@zupnikal]

08:10

@@markschildberg1667 Happens a lot.

[@paulm5197]

This is perfect Monty Python: an absurd premise marked by endless arguments. One of my favorites!

[@blackgun9087]

William Wright that is not argument,it's contradiction

[@theworstben]

@William Wright Yes it is.

[@Pikestnt]

It’s never a willow

[@Rubyofthedead]

No it isn't!

[@anonUK]

This is the point at which John Cleese said he would never do another Python TV series ever again. All the sketches became combinations of sketches they had done in Series 1 or early in Series 2.

[@seankayll9017]

"Dennis dum, Dennis dee, dum dum dum" has been a regular earworm ever since I heard it on my father's Telefunken reel-to-reel nearly fifty years ago.

Thanks.

[@BeckyLingoCreations]

'He steals from the poor and gives to the rich! Stupid Bitch' cracks me up every time it's so unexpected especially the first time you watch it. XD

[@unfa00]

I did not see that coming :D

[@smokeythebandit1889]

'I have two pistols here... I know one of them isn't loaded anymore but the other one is' XD

[@00bikeboy]

One thing I loved about Python is that you never knew what the heck you were in store for when you tuned in. Love these guys.

I helped a bit.

[@chrislong3938]

"This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought..."

I never got it right.

[@_Ben4810]

I remember in the primary school playground the morning after this was broadcast, everyone was singing the Dennis Moore song...!!! 😂😂🤣😂

Same in my school.

[@dougmassari6977]

That's awesome

[@IAmTheHound]

I bought some lupins for my garden the other day - everything I think about them I get this sketch in my head.

[@mercoid]

IAmTheHound ...that's me exactly right now. Just planted them.

[@markiangooley]

For years after I tried to grow luipins in my garden and inevitably killed them. In some places, like Iceland, they’re an unstoppable invasive weed! They’re sensitive to climate but if it’s right for a particular variety they’re unstoppable.

[@SalvableRuin]

every time

[@ThinPicks]

Love it when the girl says "why are you here"... "well why are any of us here y'know", hysterical!😂

[@luisreyes1963]

Only on Monty Python can a highwayman get philosophical. 🤔

[@able34bravo37]

I love how many references to this are in Holy Grail.

[@michaelklopper7615]

Really? Which ones apart from the Concord one?

@@michaelklopper7615 Why are you picking an argument? Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?

[@michaelburke5907]

"This is a hold up, not a botany lesson!" Cracks me up

Made me angry. Almost.

[@SeoulMan]

His horse's name is Concord, much like Sir Lancelot's squire/horse in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[@alexc8123]

This is exemplary comedy writing. I remember laughing at it when i was 10 and its still funny 40 years later with several LOL moments, from the sidebar botany lesson, to the devolving theme song, the absurd ineptness of Dennis Moore, even the existential crisis in the midst of the robbery, to the argument with the theme song that stops everything in its tracks. hilarious ! Even the end where our bumbling Dennis redistributes wealth on the spot. A post modern masterpiece of comedy writing !

[@maxstirner8717]

I also saw this as a youngster, I'm a much better person because of it.

[@WytZox1]

Those of us who remember the 1950s "Robin Hood" British TV series starring Richard Greene get the joke of this Dennis Moore theme song. ☺

[@davidwdorr6636]

No it isn't

[@richardkammerer2814]

It’s time for a good argument, then.

[@suesmith2317]

Simply, absolute genius. What Einstein was to physics, Mozart to music, these guys were to writing/performing.

[@DERBYCFC]

"Never a willow." "Shut up! This is a hold-up, not a botany lesson" LOL!

[@NEUTR0NDANCE]

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, with a bag of things.

[@321snoot]

Bag o' Swag!

[@screwthenet]

When they would go all out with costume and on location filming, realistic props, or even reproductions, it made all the difference. Superb.

[@luisreyes1963]

After being given all that loot, those pesants become ungrateful sods. Wonder if Robin Hood experienced such a thing? 😂

[@peghead]

No, but every 'welfare state' in the World is these days.

[@WillScarlet16]

See John Cleese in 'Time Bandits.'

[@MsPandaRosa]

"We eat lupins, sit on them, sleep on them, burn them, even wear the bloody things!" Never knew there were so many uses for lupins!

[@NeidalRuekk]

It looks very smart!

[@beavinator]

Look the cat's just choked on them!

[@robertsmith3672]

Notts Forest used to play the Robin Hood theme before their home games . The away fans sang the Dennis Moore version. 5555. LFC.

[@TomFynn]

"We all shagged Mathilda, we all shagged Mathilda. We all shagged Mathilda, and so did our mates. And she moaned and she groaned as she took it up the billabong. We all shagged Mathilda, and so did our mates." Seen on "Russell Howards Good News"

[@TralfazConstruction]

"...Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore Galloping through the sward Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore And his horse Concorde..." The imagery. 'Python's 'Dennis Moore' is another classic for the ages. What wit these guys possess. Thank you, Monty Python.

[@beavinator]

I like how they re-used the name Concorde in Holy Grail. Nobody bangs two halves of coconut together better.

[@trippjohnson7393]

I love Michael’s reaction to getting more lupins😅.

[@rosskerr1439]

🎵Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, et cetera, et cetera.🎶

[@321snoot]

...dum dum dum dee dum...

@@321snoot ...is not in this bit.

[@Mandi7882]

This is one of my favorite Python sketches. I hadn't seen it for years. I came here because the other day at work, my mind went blank after someone did something so idiotic, I started humming this song out of the blue...all these years later! Thank you for posting!!!

[@RobertTC009]

Dennis Moore: Don't worry, I've brought you something Peasant: Food? Clothes? Wood for the fire? Dennis Moore: Lupins! Peasant: OH CHRIST! *laughed so hard

[@FranssensM]

A hornbeam. No, not a hornbeam. What’s the one with a sort of…

[@bulletdozerx9954]

There I was watching Charlie Dimmock on Garden Rescue and she was planting lupins. ‘Your money or your lupins’ went through my brain and I just had to find this and watch it once more. Then have another nap in the chair 🤣🤣

[@waywardhunter8633]

I just love how the robbery turned into a whole debate

[@magistrumartium]

This bit was in the first Python show I ever saw, on Canadian TV around 1973. I was a kid. Laughed my head off, loved Monty Python from that moment on. It's good to see again. Thanks for posting this!

[@Honmatres]

Hahaha exactly the same. Sneaking up to watch it at night, except in New Zealand! This also was my fave skit

[@robertslaven8667]

Yup, Friday nights at 10 pm on CBC, IIRC. (Although I was in a weird situation, living in Yellowknife, getting CBC via satellite from a Vancouver feed, so everything was an hour later.) This, Dead Parrot, Election Night Special ... OMG, what a revelation to a 10-year-old! And then CBC running Holy Grail one 1976 summer night in place of hockey, uncut! Ahhh, those were the days!

[@WytZox1]

B-b-b-but I never expected a sort of Spanish Inquisition! ☺

[@chrislong3938]

This was the first Python sketch I ever saw! I was hooked after that!

[@fonziebulldog5786]

I really do miss these guys. 😄❤️👍

[@bezzaderbane9890]

I didn't even know what lupins were until I saw this sketch now all I can ever think of is this sketch if I hear the word lupin lol

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Dennis Moore: "Don't worry, I've brought you something" Peasant: "Medicine, at last?" "Nnnnooo . . ." "Food?" "Nope." "Some blankets, perhaps? Clothes? Wood for the fire?" "Nope . . . . LUPINS!" "OH, CHRIST!!" lol

[@dillonskye3236]

Catzilla LUPINS!

[@janeappleseed2154]

Dillon Skye OH CHRIST

[@NickSBailey]

at least nobody told them that lupins are poisonous, no wonder the cat snuffed it

[@mysocalledknife07]

My favorite Monty Python skit of all time! :-)

[@philipjuliancook]

We have lupins outside our cottage in Nova Scotia. Every time I look at them I remember the Dennis Moore sketch.

[@ROOKTABULA]

I still remember watching this in the mid 70s as a kid and laughing till I literally cried because they sang and rhymed "stupid bitch!" with rich. I sang the song for days after the broadcast.

[@johnbristow8099]

Absolutely classic Python. Nothing like that nowadays.

[@truemansparks]

Watching the Chelsea flower show this week every time they mention Lupins it cracks me up.

[@sidDkid87]

*_Look, my fine friends, I happen to know this is the Lupin Express!_*

[@markschildberg1667]

Damn

[@robzrob]

Remember this well - at school we repeated lines from it over & over & over.

[@tyrssen1]

My favourite Python sketch!

[@douglundquist4260]

Seth Tyrssen mine too

[@RickCoram]

Having missed most of the tv series by living in regional NSW, I'd never seen ''Dennis Moore'', but had heard it in audio only on an LP of various Python skits. Thank you, youtube !

[@henryhammond7393]

Hang on… blimey this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought… 😂

[@sidDkid87]

*_"this is a holdup, not a botany lesson!"_*

[@musodave]

"In a bunch, in a bunch!"

[@NeoMegaMan999]

Such an hilarious sketch. When Michael Palin's explodes at him and when the cat commit suicide with the lupins...priceless

[@luisreyes1963]

That poor moggy didn't commit suicide, it choked on a bunch of lupins because it had nothing else to eat. 😿

[@beavinator]

We can tell you're English because "an hilarious". In the states we pronounce the H 🙂

[@thelegendfamily4836]

"Fair Concorde, you shall not have have been mortally wounded in vain!"

[@WonkaVator72]

One of the best Python sketches ever.

[@douglundquist4260]

WonkaVator72 the best

[@Tily0507]

This is brilliant. I can't get enough.

[@MickInTheMorning]

Wait a tic.... Blimey! This re-distribution of wealth is trickier than I thought!

[@newcarpathia9422]

I didn't know there was a full version of this. I have the VHS and this sketch is only half as long.

[@gmaqwert]

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, Dum Dum Dum.

[@Lemon77UG]

They're not poor, they've still got the bloody castle.

[@JBoy62497]

"He steals from the poor, and gives to the rich! Stupid bitch-" (Music Stops) lol hilarious

[@pinSjon79]

3:30 In a bunch in a bunch.....EPIC!!!! This is so funny!

[@Sikandra00]

3:46, Scarlet Pimpernel reference. Awesome!

[@danielgolisch9760]

Dennis Moore has so much swag. 6:15

[@premanadi]

The album version is a bit shorter, and has some different song lyrics. I recall: "Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the sward, soon every lupin in the land will be in his mighty hand, he steals them from the rich and gives them to the poor, Mr Moore, lu-PIN do-NOR, extra-OR (dinary)." Anyone know why the horse being called Concord gets such a big laugh?

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Wait, Concord? Is Dennis a descendent of Sir Lancelot?

[@voornaam3191]

Why only 10 pixels and 3 colours? I expected Moore!

[@SuperSuperDoughnut]

Love Michael Palin!

[@AdirondackRuby]

Someone gave my mother some lupines this morning, so we've been singing this all day!

[@nunduforyou]

I love how it starts on an Adan Ant key.

[@saffronxl5]

They always had great costumes

[@MagikGimp]

Beautiful flowers, and so many varieties!

[@jameswakefieldmusic]

'looks very smart' cracks me up every time

[@Jemmyleedoesart]

THANK YOU!! 🤣 I’ve had “Steals from the poor and gives to the rich, stupid bitch!” stuck in my head for decades, I had no idea it was a Monty Python sketch! I’m so happy I can finally re-enjoy it as a 35 year old! 😂💖

[@douglundquist4651]

The best sketch the ever did. Genius

[@Drbigbzy]

This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought ...

[@TerryCrodgedy]

Dennis Moore was everyones agent except cleese. Hes 84 now, im decorating a bit of his house for him at the moment, so there

[@zoranmilovanovic5457]

I remember as a young lad aged 12 watching this sketch and seeing those women in their underskirts and thinking....err..mmmmm....and .. that night.......

[@douglundquist4651]

With the money they had I love how they clip everything together

[@johnrudy9404]

One of the few period peices from MPFC. Shot on location. The stereotype of the highwayman was ripe for parody. The lupine gag was all the more hysterical, as lupine are essentially very common.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I wish they would rerun this on the telly..it is so very difficult to find the flying circus anywhere...a full dvd set would be great....

[@RedwoodTheElf]

I am pretty sure the full DVD set is available on Amazon...Here's a link to the full 4 season run (restored): www.amazon.com/Monty-Pythons-Flying-Circus-Complete/dp/B0B9T3GZ5D/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1PNHFH1BRPD4O&keywords=monty+python+flying+circus+complete+series&qid=1687382261&sprefix=Monty+Python+Flying+C%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-3

[@lachmowe1642]

It's on Netflix

[@santeris.4708]

That last dum dum dum always cracks me up

[@RobertWilliams-ur5gi]

What has Dennis Moore done to deserve this.! Absolutley hilarious. No seen it for ages.

[@sidDkid87]

*_Never a willow!_*

[@Kryspina60]

sidDkid87 - cześć, piszę bo to dziwne.... przez ostatnie 20 minut oglądałam grafiki z Monty Pythona żeby umieścić post na G+, i...wchodzę na główny strumień a tam niespodzianka ! znajduję Twój post w temacie. Witam w klubie! fajnie !!!!! ;)

[@sidDkid87]

@@Kryspina60 *_translation, proszę_*

[@AvahiCleesei]

My favorite sketch and ah! I love John!)

[@bugbait42]

This is a holdup, not a botany lesson!

[@paulm5197]

One of the greatest satires o all time

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

great social commentary on trying to do things for people.

[@iluvcheezitsheyhey]

Ah, okie dokie. Thanks for posting it - Dennis Moore's one of my faves.

[@jameswoodend6029]

This is really a classic

[@pmyodb1]

Dennis Moore Dennis Moore Dum Dum Dum the night Dennis Moore Dennis Moore Dum Dum Dum the fight He steals dum dum dum And dum dum dum dee Dennis Dum Dennis Dee Dum Dum Dum

[@Scrimmer08]

Lupins: He seeketh them here, he seeketh them there, he seeketh them everywhere!

[@gome275]

"Your lupins or your life...!"

[@unclesam3999]

"Moore: What's the tree that has a leaf with sort of regular veins coming out and the veins go all the way out to the... Girl: Serrated? Moore: ...to the serrated edges. Parson: A willow! Moore: Yes, that's right. Parson: That's nothing like a willow. Moore: Well it doesn't matter, anyway. I can hit it seven times out of ten, that's the point. Parson: Never a willow. Moore: Shut up! This is a hold-up, not a botany lesson."

[@OmacOmac1]

"Dennis Moore Dennis Moore Etc. Etc." LOL.

[@michaeldinkins9145]

It's a holdup not a biology lesson

[@Rich6Brew]

Botany

[@michaeldinkins9145]

@@Rich6Brew right. I texted botany but my smart phone sent biology

[@raantas946]

"we burn lupins and we even wear the bloody thing"😂

[@asumjessen2013]

look, the cats choked himself to death with them

[@thedoctorand]

The government in 10 minutes.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

Yes, that "redistributing the wealth" bit was harder than they thought, wasn't it?

[@Vojife]

It's money what's making it complicated.

[@RyanBellRyanofWeird]

I was thinking the EXACT same thing!!

[@fife8332]

The episode is called Dennis Moore and its in season 3

[@richardgadberry8398]

4:46 "OH CHRIST!"

[@asdfasdfasdf405]

It's a critique of socialism/communism, of course.

[@tweetyxo32]

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!! DID YOU SEE HOW FAST SHE THREW THOSE SPOONS???

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

Other than a little cut on 7:58 this clip is perfect! :D

[@WilliamDeminguet]

Doesn’t some of this sketch reminds you of BlackAdder the Third, The Scarlet Pimpernel ?

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

Scarlet Pimple

[@markiangooley]

When first I saw the old Robin Hood show on television, ten years after I saw this on Monty Python, I was mildly interested until the credits song, which made me break out laughing because the song about Dennis is a parody and I’d never guessed that.

[@airdriver]

Dennis Moore Dennis Moore Dum dum dum LMFAO!