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Dennis Moore is a highwayman. He appears in the episode Dennis Moore in Monty Python's Flying Circus, the sketches Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore Rides Again, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

Dennis is an inefficient yet successful highwayman, managing to stop carriages and steal the lupins from the passengers whilst getting sidetracked during the process.

He used to give his stolen lupins to a peasant couple until they ordered him to steal something more valuable. He eventually had an epiphany when his singing chorus pointed out he was stealing from the rich, making them poor. He says "this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought" and adopts a new method of robbing - taking everyone's valuables and redistributing them so he and everyone else gets the same amount.

n the quaint 1747 English countryside, a coach is stopped by highwayman Dennis Moore (John Cleese). He shoots one driver as he reaches for his gun, and threatens to do the same for the others, even though one of his two pistols is empty now. He goes off on a tangent, talking about how much he practises his shooting. The other passengers and drivers (Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle) dispute over which tree Moore is saying he could shoot. They talk about types of trees for a while before getting back to the raid.

Moore asks the passengers for all the lupins they have and the passengers are confused if he really means lupins. He orders them out the coach and actually finds a bunch of lupins, taking them and riding off on his horse Concorde. A chorus sings a narrative song (sung by The Fred Tomlinson Singers) about Dennis Moore (in the tune to 'Robin Hood riding through the glen'), showing him giving the lupins to the poor.

In a fancy Georgian ballroom, Dennis Moore (John Cleese) bursts in and demands their lupins. Although clueless at first, the party guests take out lupins hidden in their clothing and hand them over. He rides off, but one guest (Carol Cleveland) reveals she still has one hidden up her dress and they cheer.

A similar song from the first Dennis Moore sketch plays as Dennis arrives at the peasants' house. He enters to see the male peasant (Michael Palin) telling his ill wife (Terry Jones) to eat the lupins Moore has been bringing them. When Moore announces he's brought something else, the husband asks if it's food or medicine, but Moore gives him more lupins. The husband complains about the abundance of lupins in their life, asking him to bring them something useful like money. Touched, Moore takes notes and rides off to the same song, this time sung a bit more vaguely.

Back at the Georgian party, Moore asks for all their valuables, but the Georgians are more concerned about the hidden lupin. Moore rides back with a large swag bag to the peasants' happiness.

A dramatic man (Eric Idle) monologues but it cuts to show he's in an off-licence. The shopkeeper (John Cleese) offers him an amontillado but he goes off monologuing again. As he bags the items up, the shopkeeper finally tells him to shut up and the man apologises as he's caught poetry. The shopkeeper says he caught short stories once, with the man asking "when?". The shopkeeper begins to tell a story about Dennis Moore (Cleese).

Moore has just delivered another bag of swag to the peasants (Michael Palin and Terry Jones) who are now dressed in upper-class clothing. The Georgians at the ballroom party sit in the ballroom in their undergarments eating bread and soup. Moore swoops in and after a sudden existential crisis, gets back to stealing their valuables. As they have nothing left to give him, he takes their metal spoons and rides back to the peasant's house.

They discard the spoons and order him to steal nicer things. As he rides out, the chorus (The Fred Tomlinson Singers) sings "he steals from the poor and gives to the rich" to which Moore stops and asks them what they sang again. They repeat themselves, and Moore realises "this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."