I figured our what Dennis' keyboard was - It's a Technics SX-F5 Organ, that went for $15,900.00 new in 1987, which in 2021 money would be $36,612.27! No wonder Dennis was trying to sell those tapes!
You could probably get one free on Craigslist these days. Every other instrument goes up in value over time, but nobody actually knows how to MOVE an organ so they tend to be willing to give them to you if you'll get it the fuck out of their house
Fun fact about the Christmas With Dennis tape- "Dennis Awe" (Yes, that's his name) is still alive and kicking, and runs a keyboard school. He seems like a pretty nice, friendly guy. Good for him.
@@elijahpierson Do you mean Dennis playing the Wendy Carlos theme, the ending credits song "Midnight, The Stars, & You", or Dennis playing the bartender? I can imagine all three.
He did the original score for the shining, but after he refused to stop doing impromptu flourishes on his keyboard they replaced him. He then went on to make Christmas With Dennis out of spite; he really showed them! (...Joking by the way.)
yes but not older than Mr.Plinkett. Despite how famous Rich Evans really is, he and Mike are merely the flesh and voice of Mr.Plinkett. The need for his vcr machine to be fixed is the only thing stopping him from wreaking havoc among mortals once more.
@@zachsorenson1382 And he seems to still be going. Still has a website and everything. It's kind of sad because I think he genuinely does want to educate kids about science but he's just so inferior to Bill Nye in every way
There's a moment in here where Rich clearly goes to do a second take after mispronouncing a name, but the editor just leaves the entire thing in with no cuts. >Edited by Mike Stoklasa Ah.
I've always loved Josh's excessively logical response to Mike's "Is The Magic Video itself actually magic?" question. J: "I don't think so. My logic being, have you seen The Muppet Movie? Is that movie a Muppet?"
@@MrPiccoloku Oh you looked at it. Now he punches you in the arm 'cuz you looked at it. It's a dumb kids' game circa late 2000's - early 2010's. You make that gesture below your waist and try to get your friends to look at it and if they do you punch them in the arm. Why he made that his profile pic I have no idea.
Except anywhere playing “The Nightmare Before Christmas” for Halloween. There is just no time of year that’s the “right” time to play that movie. Damn.
Growing up in Northern VA, seeing Billy B at Wolf Trap was our annual school “field trip”. Sometimes he’d come to our school for an assembly. He definitely filmed the entire video on the Wolf Trap grounds. He is a cornball. Thanks for bringing “Energy and Me” back into my life
@@stupidvolvoI live in VB - which I think The Satan Killer, Honorable Men and Night Killer were all filmed near here- but shit now I know that sick fuck Billy B. is out there in this state, it's truly haunting.
"So your group leaves the cafeteria with the magic pudding cups. You start down the hall back to your rooms." "Is Nurse Ratchet on duty? I don't want to take my medicine and she'll force it if she catches us!" "Roll for perception. -2 due to cataracts"
I was disappointed when the description on the back was just saying it was a list of 10 songs. I expected it to be an old lady teaching old people about DND.
“You rolled a Nat 1, the ogre attacks you with his giant axe but Nana saves you by giving the poor ogre a big hug and a knit blanket, he joins your party.
My theory: "Billy B" is a teacher and makes every new class produce a song as a group project; they choose genre, subject matter, and also choose a dance... it would explain the change in seasons and in ages of his students; he started off teaching one grade but then later in his career went to teaching another grade .... it's a compilation of school projects that took 10 years to make and that's why he aged so much
That's a decent theory. At the very least, the video was made to be marketed to educators. I don't think the guys touch on that. It's just stupid filler for a science teacher to throw on, on a Friday while he grades papers.
@@Xpwnxage there's an infinite amount of ken burns documentaries for that purpose. i briefly taught at a public high school last year and theres a teacher that basically never showed up and his students were almost through with the entire ken burns filmography
Billy B and his family are just entertainers. You remember the kid with the huge rat tail from Mary Applehoff's Worm Mania? That was Julian. He joined the Marines in 2005 against his families wishes (I believe the Brennans are Quakers, and Quakers are generally anti-war) because he wanted to be like his grandfather - a WW2 Navy Cross recipient. Lance Corporal Julian T. Brennan was KIA'd January 24th, 2009 by a roadside mine.
It is a manifestation of the fear of the inescapable reality of death. His fear of the elderly is merely his fear of his own old age, which ever looms beyond the horizon.
1:01:21 Mike chides the silver foxes as "4 angry drunk elderly people." Immediate cut to: Wide shot of 4 angry drunk elderly people. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
@@TaCo0oCaT Don't want to answer for the OP, but I believe he was at least a semi-well known entertainer in the 60s/70s. At some point in the late 70s/early 80s my grandfather bought an electric organ and taught himself how to play, eventually becoming competent enough to perform all the standard carols on Christmas. While I don't ever recall any Dennis VHS tapes, my grandfather did have a couple of books with Dennis on the cover. They were either sheet music or maybe a "Teach Yourself the Organ" type of thing... don't really recall precise details, been like 35 years... and grandpa, the organ and those books are long gone. That said, I only came back to this comment section to find a Dennis comment to reply to... for a good few days after this video first released I was racking my brain trying to remember why he looked so familiar. For awhile I thought it was because he looked like former St.Louis Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter, who I remember from childhood baseball cards... But then just about 20 minutes ago it randomly came to me while I was sitting on the throne... HE WAS FROM GRANDPA'S MUSIC BOOKS!!!! ...and just wanted to share.
The true weight of the Sentry Safe model SFW205CZB: 124.8 lbs. Poor Mike and Rich struggled to raise 125 pounds with hardware store pulleys. Either that or they're incredible physical actors.
@@sinman1968 I don’t think they’re using pulleys, it looks like they just threw the ropes to the ceiling beams. Maybe Billy B should have done a song about the benefits of block and tackle because then that might’ve helped the guys lift the safe
Even though we know true evil never dies, it is only.... REBORN! I still said "NOOOOOOO" as they cut from the safe to the wheel. ;n; pouring one out for the wheel homies tonight.
As it was happening I was laughing so hard thinking. Well Rich is just gonna build another one. These guys are always great, but is it possible it's getting better and better!?
Christmas With Dennis was probably made for elderly people in retirement homes so they can enjoy Christmas when all of their family doesn’t show up except for like 1 hour lol. I mean think about it, old people love the organ, they love old Christmas songs, and they would absolutely love Dennis. I rest my case.
I can't say this story is true, but I believe it to be true. In the mid 90s, I was in a mall In Oklahoma, that had a Wurlitzer Organ store. There was a guy playing an organ right outside the store. I'm pretty sure it was Dennis. It's the hair, nobody wears their hair like that anymore, and it sticks out when I see it. I watched him for a minute then went on. I'm pretty sure I saw Dennis live in concert.
@@CrasterFamily Lmao I love how the weird liberal arts student boogeyman character changes over the years. Not just a philosophy major anymore - now he's a smarmy communist writing about commercial surrealism! I'd really like to know more about this character. Do they also drink expensive coffee with strange names? What's their favourite plant-based milk?
@@CrasterFamily yeah that's the biggest misconception around liberal arts though, that you're supposed to get a job title the same as your major all the time. Nobody is employed as a philosopher, but plenty of people use that knowledge to inform their careers in other fields. AFAIK philosophy is one of the most common backgrounds for successful entrepreneurs and the like. Discouraging people from engaging with entire disciplines that essentially underpin like all of western culture because of some boring academics writing pointless social critiques is silly and the weird utilitarian takes on higher education are going to bring this world to pitiful Brave New World level shithole a lot faster than if we just let the occasional pseud do their thing in peace.
Okay, I've listened to "The Unintelligible Song" from Energy & Me several times now and I think I have the lyrics down: "It's accept'ble/what the Copts 'sis If you know/No means No Patti Do-a-doable, dap-a-doable What's a coffin? Dap-a-do-a-doable! (Dap-a-douabaaaaaaa..)" This MEANS something. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Incredibly, Dennis is still going and apparently has been going since the 50's. He has a website where his (no doubt, self-written) biography compares his keyboard talents to Fred Astaire's dancing which is weird because, well, I'd at least heard of Fred Astaire. Ignoring his many accomplishments, such as being named keyboard entertainer of the year twice-in-a-row by 'Keyboard world magazine' (an apparently short-lived magazine not to be confused with the much more popular contemporary music magazine 'Keyboard') he has also released a Joke book. That's probably the funniest thing about it.
As soon the Billy B video started I was like "Wait is that the guy from the Worm Mania video?" and sure enough he is. What happened to my brain that I recognized this.
Yes, he is. I just realized that while I was visiting his Soundcloud page... that is the extent of my sacrifice. I hope I will be remembered for other things though.
Fun fact: the only Stephan King book adaption that Stephan King directed was Maximum Overdrive and he says that he didn’t really know what he was doing because he was on so much coke
I think you're meant to momentarily feel shitty for randomly being a dick to a human being that's experienced real tragedy, then immediately forget all about the whole thing
Charlotte Diamond was a western Canadian children’s musician from the late 90s-2000s. I sang in choir and she came as a guest for a concert. We sang the song “I have shoes and I can walk” another one of her famous tracks went “four hugs a day, thats the minimum, four hugs a day, not the maximum.”
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If the RLM guys are still together as elderly people I hope they make an exercise video.
Osteoporosis Dance Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Rich would break his hip.
"We call this 'Jacking off the Droid', and it can burn up to 85 calories."
Well, they're immortal so it's completely possible.
Just to spite us they will probably use cutouts and review more movies. I love it.
“I didn’t realise you were alive when JFK was assassinated”
Who do you think did it Jay?
It was Rem Lezar's older brother, Red Baser.
The question should be why did you do it, Jay?
But JFK was killed by a bullet, not diabetes.
You know who WASN'T alive when JFK was assassinated? ...JFK
Makes you think.
@@toweypat are you sure it wasn't AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIDS?
I figured our what Dennis' keyboard was - It's a Technics SX-F5 Organ, that went for $15,900.00 new in 1987, which in 2021 money would be $36,612.27! No wonder Dennis was trying to sell those tapes!
He had that DB Cooper money.
This is why I still read TH-cam comments.
He’s gotta make that keyboard money back
You could probably get one free on Craigslist these days. Every other instrument goes up in value over time, but nobody actually knows how to MOVE an organ so they tend to be willing to give them to you if you'll get it the fuck out of their house
Fun fact about the Christmas With Dennis tape- "Dennis Awe" (Yes, that's his name) is still alive and kicking, and runs a keyboard school. He seems like a pretty nice, friendly guy. Good for him.
Unironically great advertising. If i had the money and was close by, I'd definitely drop some cash on some lessons.
@@John_Smith_Dumfugg why would you go to keyboard school when you clearly know how to type?
@@TheShahofIrann i cant tell if this is sarcasm and it hurts me
@@Jinglejangles2234 cmon man you and I both know I’m being sarcastic.
@@TheShahofIrann their name is "Essence of Stupid, bold of you to make that assumption. 😛
Almost 14 minutes before 9/11 was mentioned, that's a lot of restraint.
practically a new record
Their restraint is almost as surprising as 9/11 itself was.
Toooo soon?
Not for the RLM crowd.
This is the way things should be.
Cheers from Canada
When Mike is stuck in a retirement home he'll still laugh about old people dying jokes.
He'll die laughing because now he has become the joke.
@@makisdimakis333 I'm just saying, the fact that Mike was passed over for the role of joker is a tragedy
He'll have a target-rich environment.
Atleast Mike will make it into retirement. I fear for all those who have to face this world uninformed about edged weapons.
And Vermints.
My eldest relatives joke about their own impending deaths.
Christmas with Dennis would be one of the hotel rooms in the Shining.
Yeah, he's in room 238, right next door to his mum
Probably some Christmas music. Probably.
@@elijahpierson Do you mean Dennis playing the Wendy Carlos theme, the ending credits song "Midnight, The Stars, & You", or Dennis playing the bartender? I can imagine all three.
If he’s in that room with the bear that explains why he’s smiling so much when he’s sat behind the keyboard
@@elijahpierson k
“Earn it, save it, spend it, share it.” I love that Daft Punk song.
Can't wait for the Kanye West remix.
Technologic!
"Economic" parody
@@MrBastard90 It legit looks like something Weird Al would put off.
@@onkelpappkov2666 I am glad I revisited this video today, because this is the creativity from the fellow viewers that I love.
"I love those elderly weirdos." is what people 20 years from now will say about the RLM guys.
20 years is generous.
They are already mentally elderly, especially Mike with his early dementia
20 years? That's a bit generous
Mike could barely stand
@@hannibalburgers477 and Rich Evans with his early elderlyness
"Well she's dead."
- Mike Stoklasa upon seeing elderly woman.
and after picking up hitch-hikers.
Sometimes Jay feels like he overdoes those old people jokes because he's saying them to fit in.
Or if they're still alive - "Good for them"
Man speaks the hard truths so few of us dare
Rest in power, Jackie Stallone.
Christmas with Dennis looks like it was made to be on a TV in the background of a scene in Robocop.
AlhazredsGamingGoo Or Twin Peaks.
Fellow jank-freaks, please to be aware:
ALL of Dennis' videos are watchable on Yootoob! (for example; try "Partytime with Dennis") 🤣
I *wouldn't* buy that for a dollar.
@@zetetick395 you're a hero. he apparently goes by "dennis awe", for easier searching
@@Glassandcandy checked the replies specifically for this thank you
RIP Sal Pacino, father of Al Pacino, the man with a name so perfect I thought it was a joke before looking it up
Yes . . . his grandson is just named Pacino
@@turingmachine7905 and lets not forget Dunkachino
L'Pacino?
@@larryjohnson4906 say hello to his chocolate blend!
@waspswarm870 Thank you for reminding me of that nightmare I finally forgot
Dennis looks like he'd be one of the hotel patrons from The Shining.
The Shinning
He's in that hotel room with Rem Lazar...
I actually IRL spat out a sip of coffee onto my lap laughing because of your comment. You should know that. It caught me off guard.
He did the original score for the shining, but after he refused to stop doing impromptu flourishes on his keyboard they replaced him.
He then went on to make Christmas With Dennis out of spite; he really showed them!
(...Joking by the way.)
@@ryandempsey4830 You're welcome.
Jackie Stallone turns 98 this November. She is older than Mike Stoklasa, let that sink in
Abraham Ljungberg holy Christ she’s still alive? Wow come to think of it I can’t believe Mike is still alive too tbh
yes but not older than Mr.Plinkett. Despite how famous Rich Evans really is, he and Mike are merely the flesh and voice of Mr.Plinkett. The need for his vcr machine to be fixed is the only thing stopping him from wreaking havoc among mortals once more.
she will outlive us all
@Masilith Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-thru.
@Masilith He's not homosexual just swedish. Also where did this comment come from? Only us Danes get to mock the swedes, you aren't danish are you?
Rich is just bitter because he's actually in a cursed image.
Every frame of video with Rich Evans in it is a cursed image.
@@The5lacker *blessed
Cammie *blursed
He was actually birthed from that image
He trapped the curse, within the photo's yellowing frame
HE IS NOW FREE!!
"And until we meet again, may God grant you much good health, and happiness"
You too dennis. Until the next time I rewatch this episode.
I'm a 5 timer. How about the rest of yous guys?
P.S. When do we get a gold watch? 5, 10, or more times watching
;)
@@steveharvey2102 Oh god I don't even know. Well upwards of 10
I feel like Dennis is always with me in my heart, and sometimes in my room at night
@hayberdasher8625 my favorite jazz pianist "Hatman Dennis" 😂
@@tobiasaibot1317 Sleep Paralysis with Dennis
Christmas with Dennis felt like a long lost dream sequence from Twin Peaks
The Christmas special
That Christmas music you like will be coming back into style.
Let's Jingle Rock!
you’d think Jay would have picked it for best if so
@@christophzeit6282 Lol! Just starts swinging at the Christmas tree aswell before collapsing on the floor with the gas mask
I will let this Quote from Billy B.'s Website stand for it:
"Kids have taught Billy they want to do two things; move and make noise."
I can hear Chris hansen sprinting to that man's house.
Slidewhistle sound effect
Oh Christ that scares me more than any of his videos. D:
@@swytchblayd D:
oof
I know I've watched Red Letter Media way too often when I can immediately recognize Billy B from the Wormania video.
I recognized him immediately. He's got that Sunday school teacher voice.
I just read up on him and he went to the university of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
@@zachsorenson1382 GO BADGERS
@@knightofoctober , Billy B is a funnier character than we've ever had before
@@zachsorenson1382 And he seems to still be going. Still has a website and everything. It's kind of sad because I think he genuinely does want to educate kids about science but he's just so inferior to Bill Nye in every way
Sal Pacino just looks like Al Pacino dressed up to look like his own dad.
It's kind of creepy. lol
Yep,
that's hereditary genetics, all right.
IT WILL HAPPEN TO US ALL!! '@_@'
I thought that about Harry Hoffman. Looks like Dustin in old man makeup.
Is Al's son just gonna be named L Pacino to stick to the naming convention of removing a letter with each child?
Drunkaccino?
🍺
I unironically really like Dennis. He just genuinely seems to like what he does. He found his thing.
And the crew don't seem to shit on him for how much he enjoys it, either.
Agree, he's just doing his thing and it's nothing wrong with it.
The same could be said about Billy too, don't you think?
@@waltherstolzing9719 idk Billy reeks of desperation, Dennis is just comfortable living out his fifties snowglobe fantasy
I bet serial-killers really enjoy what they do too.
I hope Rich Evans knows how universally beloved he is.
I'm not gay but I'd do it
sweet, you take Rich and I'll take Mike
@@ReaperSound I'm hungry for that hot rich meat
You mean the world famous co-star from the Ellen show? That rich Evans? Yeah I think he knows.
Hemaglox
I call dibs on Jay!!!
Stallone's mom used to mock her son by pulling that face, and God punished her by freezing her face that way.
Now we can officially say that God punished her by killing her. RIP
she was a serious babe right up until the very end though, huh? I guess vanity and spite are good for you after all.
She really wasn’t… her surgeries made her look like a blob. Even when she was young, her being a babe is debatable.
@@IsaVargthis comment smells man
There's a moment in here where Rich clearly goes to do a second take after mispronouncing a name, but the editor just leaves the entire thing in with no cuts.
>Edited by Mike Stoklasa
Ah.
time stamp?
@@its1899 1:02:10
You don't throw gold in the trash when it presents itself to you
"Bye - for now....." Dennis ends with. That was a threat.
dennis will return in avengers: endgame
@@drearman6229 If Dr. Strange rescues him from the Multiverse of Madness this would come full circle.
Can we all just appreciate that they now have a cushion that has “push the whopper button” printed on it
How did I miss that? I didn't watch the whole video yet but...that is....amazing
Bagels!
@@T0pel HOOOOooooooooooWHOO!
..........watch............
@@Arthurzeiro thanks I did see it in the darkness after all. TAAAKE. THAT. HOME. WITH. YOU. HWWOOOOOO!!
I've always loved Josh's excessively logical response to Mike's "Is The Magic Video itself actually magic?" question.
J: "I don't think so. My logic being, have you seen The Muppet Movie? Is that movie a Muppet?"
"Commercial Surrealism" is an absolutely great term, Rich.
When he's not suffering abuse, Rich can bring some cool stuff to the table
@@Sorrelhas Uh, why is your profile picture an upside-down OK sign? No reason, just curious.
@@MrPiccoloku Oh you looked at it. Now he punches you in the arm 'cuz you looked at it. It's a dumb kids' game circa late 2000's - early 2010's. You make that gesture below your waist and try to get your friends to look at it and if they do you punch them in the arm. Why he made that his profile pic I have no idea.
I legit love the style.
@@MrPiccoloku gottem
Only on Wheel of the Worst could they have a Christmas movie at Halloween.
I hope they'll still have a Halloween episode this month. Unless they got too drunk again and just cancelled it...
Except anywhere playing “The Nightmare Before Christmas” for Halloween. There is just no time of year that’s the “right” time to play that movie. Damn.
Yea. Jerks.
"I love those elderly weirdos" - me describing Red Letter Media
Growing up in Northern VA, seeing Billy B at Wolf Trap was our annual school “field trip”. Sometimes he’d come to our school for an assembly. He definitely filmed the entire video on the Wolf Trap grounds. He is a cornball. Thanks for bringing “Energy and Me” back into my life
he was at my 4h camp in front royal. 25 years later, I'm still haunted.... "hey, hey, it happened today. it happened today on the Chesapeake bay"
@@stupidvolvoI live in VB - which I think The Satan Killer, Honorable Men and Night Killer were all filmed near here- but shit now I know that sick fuck Billy B. is out there in this state, it's truly haunting.
Rest in peace to One of the final members of the Silver Foxes
Jacqueline Frances Stallone who died on September 21, 2020
Holy shit that was my 21st birthday
@@cer_eal happy birthday
🎉 🥳 🎂 🎈
do you remember?
I swear every time they say a celebrity is still alive on BOTW they're dead in a year.
@@BlackGateofMordor It's the *CURSE OF THE WOIRST*
I'd like to imagine that Diamonds & Dragons is a D&D session where the GM is your grandma
Love you Nana Diamond.
I really hope they cover it at some point. My curiosity is barely containable.
"So your group leaves the cafeteria with the magic pudding cups. You start down the hall back to your rooms."
"Is Nurse Ratchet on duty? I don't want to take my medicine and she'll force it if she catches us!"
"Roll for perception. -2 due to cataracts"
I was disappointed when the description on the back was just saying it was a list of 10 songs. I expected it to be an old lady teaching old people about DND.
“You rolled a Nat 1, the ogre attacks you with his giant axe but Nana saves you by giving the poor ogre a big hug and a knit blanket, he joins your party.
Wheel of the worst: nothing's ever really gone.
Somehow, the Wheel of the Worst has returned.
My theory: "Billy B" is a teacher and makes every new class produce a song as a group project; they choose genre, subject matter, and also choose a dance... it would explain the change in seasons and in ages of his students; he started off teaching one grade but then later in his career went to teaching another grade .... it's a compilation of school projects that took 10 years to make and that's why he aged so much
That's a decent theory. At the very least, the video was made to be marketed to educators. I don't think the guys touch on that. It's just stupid filler for a science teacher to throw on, on a Friday while he grades papers.
@@Xpwnxage there's an infinite amount of ken burns documentaries for that purpose. i briefly taught at a public high school last year and theres a teacher that basically never showed up and his students were almost through with the entire ken burns filmography
So what you're saying is...
It's the Boyhood of Edutainment.
Either that or he tried to be the next Bill Nye and failed miserably
Billy B and his family are just entertainers. You remember the kid with the huge rat tail from Mary Applehoff's Worm Mania? That was Julian. He joined the Marines in 2005 against his families wishes (I believe the Brennans are Quakers, and Quakers are generally anti-war) because he wanted to be like his grandfather - a WW2 Navy Cross recipient. Lance Corporal Julian T. Brennan was KIA'd January 24th, 2009 by a roadside mine.
I kinda unironically love christmas with dennis. The wholesome and genuine feel to it comforts my broken soul
Same.
My family has turned it into a Christmas season tradition. Just have it playing in the background while you hang out one day!
Hes still making organ videos to this day, dude just loves what he does and thats kinda amazing
@@thetubapoobah8965 that makes me indescribably happy.
Mike's unmotivated fear of the elderly strikes again.
@K19 you said it yourself, essentially children
how hard is it to punch a child in the face?
@K19 they also have the strengh of a child, at least most of them.
It is a manifestation of the fear of the inescapable reality of death. His fear of the elderly is merely his fear of his own old age, which ever looms beyond the horizon.
I am also afraid of myself.
@@pictureofacat9525 spoken like someone who's never been on the receiving end of old man strength.
Rich yelling "No!" at the Water Cycle segment reminded me of the sound a cat makes when you give it a bath
Stallone probably had to yell "stop, or my mom will shoot!" in real life more than a couple of times.
1:01:21 Mike chides the silver foxes as "4 angry drunk elderly people." Immediate cut to: Wide shot of 4 angry drunk elderly people.
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Alcohol doesn't do Rich Evans.
@@DonnieBrook69Rich doesn't need to drink, he's always in a state of semi-incoherent madness.
“This is going to be a tums festival moment.”
Never have I seen Rich shut up so fast
Remind me of the lore of this
Hollywood Cop BOTW Spotlight Edition
@@CIA_Gnome_Patrol Not just "a tired old man"! A tired old CAMERON MITCHELL!!! D:
hit down by mistake, sorry.
hit down by mistake, sorry.
This felt like "Best of the Worst - the musical"
@Adrian Conn we're truly blessed
Crazy to come back to this and see Therapy Plus being advertised in the Silver Foxes video. Genius foreshadowing.
Dennis Awe! I knew him growing up, my father worked for the Lowrey organ company and did shows with him. He was a family friend
Flop The Bass Rabbit Got any stories or interesting to share about him? Was he a true entertainer or just narcissistic?
Do you have any insight about who’s house he broke into to film it and also how he lost his legs?
Was his real name Dennis B. Cooper?
Ben Williamson 🤣🤣
@@TaCo0oCaT Don't want to answer for the OP, but I believe he was at least a semi-well known entertainer in the 60s/70s. At some point in the late 70s/early 80s my grandfather bought an electric organ and taught himself how to play, eventually becoming competent enough to perform all the standard carols on Christmas. While I don't ever recall any Dennis VHS tapes, my grandfather did have a couple of books with Dennis on the cover. They were either sheet music or maybe a "Teach Yourself the Organ" type of thing... don't really recall precise details, been like 35 years... and grandpa, the organ and those books are long gone.
That said, I only came back to this comment section to find a Dennis comment to reply to... for a good few days after this video first released I was racking my brain trying to remember why he looked so familiar. For awhile I thought it was because he looked like former St.Louis Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter, who I remember from childhood baseball cards... But then just about 20 minutes ago it randomly came to me while I was sitting on the throne... HE WAS FROM GRANDPA'S MUSIC BOOKS!!!! ...and just wanted to share.
Dennis looks like he's about to chase me through a hotel with an axe.
Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Dennis!
Dennis should be the focus of a video that trains new parents how to spot dangers to their children.
@@m136a1 Just the glasses alone should be enough to send anyone running....
Especially if he's trying to sell you a used panel van.
His "sister" is just him in drag or just a figment of your imagination.
Hey legit props to Rich for building the wheel sturdy enough to survive 2000 pounds slamming down onto it. That's quality craftsmanship!
I was seriously expecting it to crumble under the weight of it.
The true weight of the Sentry Safe model SFW205CZB: 124.8 lbs.
Poor Mike and Rich struggled to raise 125 pounds with hardware store pulleys. Either that or they're incredible physical actors.
@@sinman1968 probably both
@@sinman1968 They were pretending lol
@@sinman1968 I don’t think they’re using pulleys, it looks like they just threw the ropes to the ceiling beams. Maybe Billy B should have done a song about the benefits of block and tackle because then that might’ve helped the guys lift the safe
Holy crap. I looked him up on TH-cam. Dennis and his sister has made another Christmas special somewhat recently. And Thrusting Santa is still there!
You can't get rid of such an iconic character.
Rich's painful cries of "No, no, no" at 24:54 are like an animal's caught in a trap. It always catches me off-guard.
This just in: Benedict Cumberbatch has dropped Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for the Christmas With Dennis remake
“No one’s ever really gone” I’m starting to think Luke is talking about the Wheel.
I can't decide if my expectations have been subverted or not.
Even though we know true evil never dies, it is only.... REBORN! I still said "NOOOOOOO" as they cut from the safe to the wheel.
;n; pouring one out for the wheel homies tonight.
Womp womp
TheMettaur good news, though, they can redo the open for the next WOTW with this latest attempt
As it was happening I was laughing so hard thinking. Well Rich is just gonna build another one.
These guys are always great, but is it possible it's getting better and better!?
Christmas With Dennis was probably made for elderly people in retirement homes so they can enjoy Christmas when all of their family doesn’t show up except for like 1 hour lol. I mean think about it, old people love the organ, they love old Christmas songs, and they would absolutely love Dennis. I rest my case.
“Energy and me” seems to be an attempt to make atheist gospel music.
And Symphony of Science is it's highly evolved modern descendant.
Or agnostic
Interesting that you equate science with atheism. Anyway yes, the songs suck
"White people ruin everything!" J Packard
@@PangolinMontanari It would be interesting if you didn't.
You can’t convince me that Dennis isn’t a David Lynch creation.
He’s performing at the Christmas Lodge
That actually makes so much sense
If you do good, you'll see him one more time.
If he is we're living in a David Lynch creation.
"What's the name of that one movie?" Someone asked
"*insert movie title*" said Jay Bauman to no one's surprise
"It develops mass,
The bigger it gets,
the more it attracts,
Then the club starts to
C O L L A P S E"
* bass drop *
Seeing Strong Against Crime here caught me off guard lol
When *is* the Rich Evans™ exercise tape coming out?
It's sure to move units.
"Exercise Can Beat AIDS!"
Like a B.M. in the A.M.
That will be the highest selling porno ever made.
@@toweypat "Exercise your AIIIIIIIIIIIIDSS! Away!"
Release the Evans Cut
That Christmas tape feels like you threw David Lynch, John Waters and Charlie Brown into a blender.
I can't say this story is true, but I believe it to be true. In the mid 90s, I was in a mall In Oklahoma, that had a Wurlitzer Organ store. There was a guy playing an organ right outside the store. I'm pretty sure it was Dennis. It's the hair, nobody wears their hair like that anymore, and it sticks out when I see it. I watched him for a minute then went on. I'm pretty sure I saw Dennis live in concert.
You entered a plane of existence vastly beyond mere mortal life.
Where in Oklahoma was this mall? I kind of got the same feeling from him that I got from my grandparents and other old folks over here.
One could only be so lucky
The most tame strange encounter Ive heard happening in Oklahoma yet!
That tracks.
I can’t imagine anyone other than Kevin Bacon for the recreation of Christmas with Dennis.
Better than the EE mobile phone adverts.
That's a good casting choice.
Absolutely. It's those cheeks when he grins, I can't unsee it now. Next question: who's gonna play Dennis' sister DyAnne?
Maybe the guy from that shoe 'Burn Notice'. Not Bruce Campbell, the other guy. Maybe Bruce Campbell, too, though, actually.
@@Cephyran well bacon's wife Keira sedgeweick. Or the girl from the vvitch
"commercial surrealism" sounds like a topic for somebody's PhD thesis
@@CrasterFamily Lmao I love how the weird liberal arts student boogeyman character changes over the years. Not just a philosophy major anymore - now he's a smarmy communist writing about commercial surrealism! I'd really like to know more about this character. Do they also drink expensive coffee with strange names? What's their favourite plant-based milk?
@@CrasterFamily yeah that's the biggest misconception around liberal arts though, that you're supposed to get a job title the same as your major all the time. Nobody is employed as a philosopher, but plenty of people use that knowledge to inform their careers in other fields. AFAIK philosophy is one of the most common backgrounds for successful entrepreneurs and the like. Discouraging people from engaging with entire disciplines that essentially underpin like all of western culture because of some boring academics writing pointless social critiques is silly and the weird utilitarian takes on higher education are going to bring this world to pitiful Brave New World level shithole a lot faster than if we just let the occasional pseud do their thing in peace.
jay - sal pacino
josh - harry hoffman
mike - lori williams
rich - jackie stallone
Yes
This has to be my favorite TH-cam comment ever.
I feel like Mike is Sal
Jacqueline Stone.
@@oscarhonduras88 no, because Mike and Rich are always feuding like Lori and Jackie
Okay, I've listened to "The Unintelligible Song" from Energy & Me several times now and I think I have the lyrics down:
"It's accept'ble/what the Copts 'sis
If you know/No means No
Patti Do-a-doable, dap-a-doable
What's a coffin? Dap-a-do-a-doable!
(Dap-a-douabaaaaaaa..)"
This MEANS something. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Joshua Moore I thought you were serious at first and then I just busted out laughing . This is a great comment
You honor me, friends. And the Copts, whatever they did to warrant mention in an otherwise incomprehensible song.
I feel like I’m on a watchlist now after reading this.
Incredibly, Dennis is still going and apparently has been going since the 50's. He has a website where his (no doubt, self-written) biography compares his keyboard talents to Fred Astaire's dancing which is weird because, well, I'd at least heard of Fred Astaire.
Ignoring his many accomplishments, such as being named keyboard entertainer of the year twice-in-a-row by 'Keyboard world magazine' (an apparently short-lived magazine not to be confused with the much more popular contemporary music magazine 'Keyboard') he has also released a Joke book. That's probably the funniest thing about it.
Thank you for letting people know about your findings.
is the joke book just his autobiography
@@bena1826 I bought it, it's 65 pages of his full name
How can I have such trouble remembering some things, then immediately recognize Billy B. from the Applebottom worm lady video? Damn you Billy B.
I actually thought that I recognized him. I was doubting myself till they actually stated it though
I thought that from the second I saw the box art and then I heard him sing and thought THAT HAS to be the guy from the Wormmania video.
Because we have broken priorities.
@@Shift_Salt I marathon these videos when i'm cooking or cleaning dishes on the reg so its always at the fore front.
@@Shift_Salt same most of the time but it becomes too distracting cause I sometimes catch myself wanting to actually rewatch it lol
I can't believe it's been 20 years of wheel of the worst already
*84 years
And 19 years of "the last wheel of the worst ever"
52:01 Can we just reflect a moment on the fact that Peter Pan's mom is dancing with Captain Hook's dad?
Is this how the live action Peter Pan Prequel starts? They were brothers all along?
53:53 Cameo for the Therapy Plus before it showed up in a Black Spine.
As soon the Billy B video started I was like "Wait is that the guy from the Worm Mania video?" and sure enough he is. What happened to my brain that I recognized this.
lol, I hadn't seen the worm-mania RLM video but I did see it on another channel when they riffed over it because it was so bad. XD
Yes, he is. I just realized that while I was visiting his Soundcloud page... that is the extent of my sacrifice. I hope I will be remembered for other things though.
I had the exact same song. Billy Brennan.
"Christmas with Dennis" is listed on Amazon. Shockingly, it's out of stock.
The RLM effect has already set in lol
Is it available on Blu Ray yet or just DVD?
It seems he's been making them every year since this. the last 5 years or so are available
I checked and oh my word Shake it Up America and Energy and Me are there too for some reason
But Energy and Me is a CD and you can stream it apparently?
“Commercial surrealism”. They make fun of Rich, but he’s a smart cat.
its funny because he plays a cat on tv
They mock him because they fear him
9:33 "I guess that's illegal, but I don't care" -Mike Stoklasa
This is the man that ellen guests hang around. Really makes you think about Hollywood.
5:56 Rich "I get one phonecall a year, god damn it" Evans everybody
Alex Lakis another funeral?
It's been at least a year.
Yeah
and it's just the baffled guy replying from the "Tales from Genesis Space" prank-call :(
Dennis and his sister play with their organs in: Double Exposure.
I was not prepared for this comment
And I read it in the dramatic announcer voice
very inbred, i mean intrepid, i mean inbred
"IS HE GONNA THRUST!?!"
"Did I say Stone again?"
* nods *
"Ah"
They don't even care anymore
From Dennis's website
To call Dennis Awe an ultimate entertainer is like saying Fred Astaire could dance!
"Positive." -Rich Evans letting Mike know he's going to be a dad.
Congratulations, it's a tumour.
Whitney Douglas I thought it was for AAIIIIIIDDDDSSSS.
Oh my gaaaaaaaaaaawd
His child is the pizza bear.
I would legitimately buy a "Push The Whopper Button" pillow, I need it in my life
and when you squeeze it, it says ‘BAGELS’
and then.....
"Whoooooo!!!!!"
They have enough tapes to make "Best of the Worst: AIDS Edition"
Sounds like it could go viral.
@@lucasoheyze4597 speech craft 💯
I just have no immunity at all to that kinda humour
That'd be enough for you to take a lot of cocktails.
Diamonds and Dragons sounds like a subtitle of a Yakuza game
And I could see Kiryu in that outfit no doubt
Or a DLC expansion
Dai ya mondo no ryu!!
*KIRYU-CHAAAAN!*
When Mike said that Sylvester Stallone looks like an upside down Elvis I swear to God I thought I was going to die from hyperventilating
i don't understand the joke :(
@bluesky868 It's a joke about Stallone's birth defect, and how his lip looks like the face Elvis always used to make.
"I guess that's illegal, but I don't care."
- Mike Stoklasa 2019
Isn’t that Mike’s mindset towards everything
Man, who knew Stephen King liked to record Christmas specials while on cocaine.
And he still managed to bang out It that afternoon
Fun fact: the only Stephan King book adaption that Stephan King directed was Maximum Overdrive and he says that he didn’t really know what he was doing because he was on so much coke
"Don`t let AIDS catch you!"
The alternative title for the movie "It Follows"
I like how over the years everyone's gotten visibly more cynical and jaded.
There's increasing pain and self-realisation in the old people jokes.
Wheel of Misfortune,
Turn turn turn,
Show us the movies
We should burn!
Billy B. is still alive and you can hire him according to his website.
For what, escort services?
Some people just don't know when to quit.
(or indeed when to not start at all) :S
Apparently his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. Weird stuff you find out on the internet. Seems like he enjoys his songs.
Micah Burke that’s one of those “I have no idea what to do with this knowledge” factoids
I think you're meant to momentarily feel shitty for randomly being a dick to a human being that's experienced real tragedy, then immediately forget all about the whole thing
"This is a moving blanket"
Nah, its just kinda sitting there.
thatisjustgreat why do people drive on parkways and park on driveways?
@@RustyMuck Why do North Americans drive on the pavement, when us Brits walk on it?
"This is a moving blanket". I don't feel anything, though.
@@Ghost-rb5tg Ayyyyyy! *finger guns*
"Is he going to thrust!?" - Rich Evans
At first glance I read that as Rich "is he going to thrust!?" Evans.
I guess I was really hoping...
I think they'd have exploded if the santa had done the same move.
Mike’s excitement when it landed on Christmas with Dennis is adorable
Jackie Stallone was still alive when this video came out. Now, not so much. The curse of these videos...
my organs hurt from laughing at dennis' thrusting santa
I think he might have originally been holding sleigh reins..........Santa's never been so sexy!
"Shoot the rodeo", and now "commercial surrealism." Keep it up with the terms, guys! These are great!
I like Rich's "Coupon Shot" (as opposed to "Money Shot") 🤣
"We think it's gonna be an elderly swingers video..."
I realize now that this was just wishful thinking on Mike's part.
Charlotte Diamond was a western Canadian children’s musician from the late 90s-2000s. I sang in choir and she came as a guest for a concert. We sang the song “I have shoes and I can walk” another one of her famous tracks went “four hugs a day, thats the minimum, four hugs a day, not the maximum.”
Dennis reminds me of Hugh Laurie playing the piano on A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
indeed - soupy twist!
"And that's the power of math, people "
"Science, f**k yeah!"
I clapped because I understood that reference
Their humor is getting more cerebral.
@@makisdimakis333 It may be dense, but how short is it?
@@makisdimakis333 short and dense is also what I call my sex life
47:27 I love when Mike genuinely compliments his best friend of many years Rich Evans
Robin Williams mom just looks like she's happy to be there and I respect that.