@@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.
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.
@@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
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.)
@@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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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!?
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.
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.”
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
Ya know this episode will hold a special place in my heart. It came out right while I decided to just not go to my college class for the first time. I was just burnt that day and sat in the library and chilled out. This video made the time go by. I drew a girl with big milkers thank you goodnight.
@@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.
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
