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.
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.
"...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.
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
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 !
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!!!
"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"
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!
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!
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 🤣🤣
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 !
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"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."
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.
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?
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.
"He giiiives to the poooor and giiiiives to the riiiich... stupid bitch." First time I heard that a few years ago, I lost it. It's still hilarious today.
Peasant: mr moore shes going fast medicine at last? some bread? some wood for the fire? Moore: "No, Lupins!" (smiling and producing a bunch of Lupins) Peasant: Oh Christ!
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.......
"Blimey! This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought!"
Cue stock footage of old ladies applauding
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And you wonder why Bernie Sanders will never be President. 😟
'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
I did not see that coming :D
This is perfect Monty Python: an absurd premise marked by endless arguments.
One of my favorites!
William Wright that is not argument,it's contradiction
@William Wright Yes it is.
It’s never a willow
No it isn't!
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.
'I have two pistols here... I know one of them isn't loaded anymore but the other one is' XD
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.
"This is a hold up, not a botany lesson!" Cracks me up
"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.
"Never a willow."
"Shut up! This is a hold-up, not a botany lesson" LOL!
"This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought..."
Love it when the girl says "why are you here"... "well why are any of us here y'know", hysterical!😂
Only on Monty Python can a highwayman get philosophical. 🤔
"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!
It looks very smart!
I bought some lupins for my garden the other day - everything I think about them I get this sketch in my head.
IAmTheHound ...that's me exactly right now. Just planted them.
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.
every time
Dennis Moore,
Dennis Moore,
with a bag of things.
"...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.
This is a hold up, not a botany lesson!
watching again ... should be working.
I happen to know, this is the lupin express!
channelling his future Basil Fawlty there, Come on, come on lupins!
After being given all that loot, those pesants become ungrateful sods.
Wonder if Robin Hood experienced such a thing? 😂
No, but every 'welfare state' in the World is these days.
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
3:30 In a bunch in a bunch.....EPIC!!!! This is so funny!
His horse's name is Concord, much like Sir Lancelot's squire/horse in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I love Michael’s reaction to getting more lupins😅.
When they would go all out with costume and on location filming, realistic props, or even reproductions, it made all the difference. Superb.
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
Catzilla LUPINS!
Dillon Skye OH CHRIST
at least nobody told them that lupins are poisonous, no wonder the cat snuffed it
"In a bunch, in a bunch!"
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 !
I also saw this as a youngster, I'm a much better person because of it.
Those of us who remember the 1950s "Robin Hood" British TV series starring Richard Greene get the joke of this Dennis Moore theme song. ☺
No it isn't
It’s time for a good argument, then.
Simply, absolute genius. What Einstein was to physics, Mozart to music, these guys were to writing/performing.
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!!!
Notts Forest used to play the Robin Hood theme before their home games . The away fans sang the Dennis Moore version. 5555. LFC.
"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"
I just love how the robbery turned into a whole debate
My favorite Monty Python skit of all time!
:-)
Such an hilarious sketch. When Michael Palin's explodes at him and when the cat commit suicide with the lupins...priceless
That poor moggy didn't commit suicide, it choked on a bunch of lupins because it had nothing else to eat. 😿
I really do miss these guys. 😄❤️👍
We have lupins outside our cottage in Nova Scotia. Every time I look at them I remember the Dennis Moore sketch.
3:46, Scarlet Pimpernel reference. Awesome!
🎵Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, et cetera, et cetera.🎶
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!
Hahaha exactly the same. Sneaking up to watch it at night, except in New Zealand! This also was my fave skit
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!
B-b-b-but I never expected a sort of Spanish Inquisition! ☺
Absolutely classic Python. Nothing like that nowadays.
*_Look, my fine friends, I happen to know this is the Lupin Express!_*
Damn
I love how many references to this are in Holy Grail.
Really? Which ones apart from the Concord one?
This was the first Python sketch I ever saw!
I was hooked after that!
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, Dum Dum Dum.
"Fair Concorde, you shall not have have been mortally wounded in vain!"
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 🤣🤣
Dennis Moore has so much swag. 6:15
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
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 !
Love Michael Palin!
That last dum dum dum always cracks me up
One of the best Python sketches ever.
WonkaVator72 the best
They're not poor, they've still got the bloody castle.
Watching the Chelsea flower show this week every time they mention Lupins it cracks me up.
My favourite Python sketch!
Seth Tyrssen mine too
Someone gave my mother some lupines this morning, so we've been singing this all day!
Wait a tic.... Blimey! This re-distribution of wealth is trickier than I thought!
Remember this well - at school we repeated lines from it over & over & over.
Hang on… blimey this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought… 😂
*_"this is a holdup, not a botany lesson!"_*
'looks very smart' cracks me up every time
This is brilliant. I can't get enough.
"He steals from the poor, and gives to the rich! Stupid bitch-" (Music Stops) lol hilarious
Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore
Dum dum dum
LMFAO!
*_Never a willow!_*
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@@Kryspina60 *_translation, proszę_*
A hornbeam. No, not a hornbeam. What’s the one with a sort of…
"Your lupins or your life...!"
I didn't know there was a full version of this. I have the VHS and this sketch is only half as long.
The government in 10 minutes.
Yes, that "redistributing the wealth" bit was harder than they thought, wasn't it?
It's money what's making it complicated.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing!!
Beautiful flowers, and so many varieties!
"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."
This is a holdup, not a botany lesson!
"we burn lupins and we even wear the bloody thing"😂
I love how it starts on an Adan Ant key.
What has Dennis Moore done to deserve this.! Absolutley hilarious. No seen it for ages.
Lupins: He seeketh them here, he seeketh them there, he seeketh them everywhere!
The "lag" at 7:57 was so hilarious
The best sketch the ever did. Genius
Dee...dee...dum...dum...lol!
look, the cats choked himself to death with them
"Lupines?"
"We haven't got any lupines."
They always had great costumes
Dennis Moore was everyones agent except cleese. Hes 84 now, im decorating a bit of his house for him at the moment, so there
With the money they had I love how they clip everything together
My favorite sketch and ah! I love John!)
Ah, okie dokie. Thanks for posting it - Dennis Moore's one of my faves.
"Dennis Moore Dennis Moore Etc. Etc." LOL.
Wait, Concord? Is Dennis a descendent of Sir Lancelot?
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.
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?
Dennis Moore gets a lesson in Socalism.
Haha, that' s brilliant.
One of the greatest satires o all time
This is really a classic
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.
Absolutely brilliant
Dennis Moore , Dennis Moore, I want more!!
"He giiiives to the poooor and giiiiives to the riiiich... stupid bitch."
First time I heard that a few years ago, I lost it. It's still hilarious today.
Do you mean steal from the poor?
Why only 10 pixels and 3 colours? I expected Moore!
Peasant: mr moore shes going fast medicine at last? some bread? some wood for the fire?
Moore: "No, Lupins!" (smiling and producing a bunch of Lupins)
Peasant: Oh Christ!
This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought ...
Dennis Dum....Dennis Dee............dum dum dum
Fun --hadnt seen that one before. Thanks
With a bag of things!
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
Dum dum dum da dum
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.......