The boundaries of the constituency before it was replaced by Bradford East were based on the electoral wards of Bolton, Bowling, Bradford Moor, Idle, Eccleshill & Undercliffe before the local government boundary changes which took effect in 2004.

# Marriage Guidance Counsellor: Arthur and Deidre Pewtey ( Palin and Carol Cleveland ) attend an appointment with a marriage guidance counsellor ( Eric Idle ), who begins to flirt with Deidre, eventually telling Arthur to leave the room ( so that he can make love to the man's wife ).

This scene has been recreated many times ; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, in The Three Stooges short Idle Roomers ( 1944 ), in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ), in the TV series Gilligan's Island (" Gilligan vs. Gilligan ", 1966 ), in the film Big Business ( 1988 ), The X-Files (" Dreamland ") and Family Guy (" Road to Germany ").

He passed the idea to Idle, who had a separate idea about a boring TV documentary maker.

For helping Monty Python have a hit with the latter 13 years after it first appeared on the soundtrack to The Life of Brian, Idle presented Mayo with a model bare foot, in the style of the animated version which used to end the opening titles to the TV show.

And for German TV, Focus on Britain and The Idle Bunch.

Tom Fowler and Julia Ruzicka played guitar and bass in another band, Quiet Kill ( 2005 – 2006 ) and then Who Owns Death TV ( 2007 – 2009 ), and The Idle Hearts in 2009. while Ben Dawson currently plays drums for Palehorse, Mothlite, Queen of Swords and Armed Response Unit.

She had the lead role in the 15-part BBC TV series The Lotus Eaters in 1972-73, starring with Ian Hendry ; and made a guest appearance in Rutland Weekend Television, the first TV series made by comic Eric Idle after Monty Python's Flying Circus came to an end.

Terms such as " stream-of-consciousness " were used by music critics to describe songs like " Idle ":

Idle rants about the uselessness of television critics for a while, but Henry Woolf informs him that his satirical invective has won him a rave review.

Eric Idle, of Monty Python, once said that Aykroyd's ability to write and act out characters flawlessly made him the only member of the SNL cast capable of being a Python.

In 2005, Idle released The Greedy Bastard Diary, a book detailing the things the cast and crew encountered during the three-month tour.

The cast included Idle, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Emily Mortimer, Jim Piddock and Tracey Ullman.

* Gilliam shot the film with a different cast and crew than the Meaning of Life main production ( five of the members of Monty Python can be seen in brief cameos in the short: Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin washing the windows ; and Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Graham Chapman early in the board room when the attack starts ).

The attraction reprises most of the original cast and adds Eric Idle as the host of the award show.

In 2004, Ramirez was cast as the Lady of the Lake in the Eric Idle / John Du Prez musical Spamalot, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The nice one, Fidgit, as Palin ; the self-appointed leader, Randall, as Cleese ; the acerbic one, Strutter, as Eric Idle ; the quiet one, Og, as Graham Chapman ; the noisy rebel, Wally, as Terry Jones ; and the nasty, filth-loving one, Vermin, as Gilliam himself.

Æthelfrith, who was for years a successful war-leader, especially against the native British, was eventually killed in battle around 616 by Raedwald of East Anglia at the River Idle.

His father, Æthelfrith of Bernicia, was killed in battle, fighting against Rædwald, King of the East Angles and Edwin of Deira at the River Idle in 616.

Instead, Raedwald raised an army and marched against Æthelfrith, and around 616 Æthelfrith was defeated and killed on the east side of the River Idle by an army under Raedwald ; Bede says that Æthelfrith had the inferior army, because Raedwald had not given him time to bring all his forces together.

* " The Last Supper " – Michelangelo ( Idle ) defends his creative first draft of The Last Supper painting against the objections of the Pope ( Cleese ).

In 616 AD, the Anglo-Saxon King Aethelfrith met his end in battle against Raedwald King of East Anglia, at Bawtry on the River Idle.

With fellow Pythons already aware of his sexual orientation, Eric Idle replied, " We've found out who it was and we've had him shot.

Idle, choking back tears, stated that Chapman had thought that Palin talked too much and had died rather than listen to him any more.

His mother had difficulty coping with a full-time job and bringing up a child, so when Idle was seven, she enrolled him into the Royal Wolverhampton School as a boarder.

Idle maintains that there was little to do at the school and boredom drove him to study hard, and consequently won a place at Cambridge University.

In recent years, Idle has worked with people who regard him as a huge inspiration, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which he voiced Dr. Vosknocker.

In 2004, Idle recorded a protest song of sorts, the " FCC Song ", in which he lambastes the US Federal Communications Commission for fining him $ 5, 000 for saying the word " fuck " on national radio.

There has also been criticism of Idle from the other Rutles, who reunited for the Archaeology album in the mid-1990s without him.

Æthelfrith's power rested on his military success, and this success came to an end in 616, when the exiled Edwin of Deira, with the support of King Rædwald, defeated and killed him in battle by the River Idle.

The music Donovan's Brain were working on, harked back to Walker's Idle Race days, which interested him, so he got involved, although, with their " open door " approach, it is unclear if Walker was / is a " member " of Donovan's Brain or not.

* In the movie Idle Hands Anton, Played by actor Devon Sawa, is forced to cut off his right hand when it becomes possessed and kills people without him knowing.

# The Lumberjack Song: The shop owner ( Palin ) sings about his desire to be a lumberjack, and his desire to be female, the latter revelation surprising his best girl ( Connie Booth ) and the background singers ( nine Canadian Mounties -- five of whom are Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones and Gilliam ), who storm off and throw fruit at him.

After a succession of apparent rescue opportunities all come to nothing, a character on a nearby cross ( played by Eric Idle ) attempts to cheer him up by singing " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ".

While watching a documentary about lions by Declan Desmond ( voiced by Eric Idle ), Homer decides to nurture Lisa after thinking Bart has replaced him.

A few non-Innes songs ( mostly penned by Idle ) were also performed by him and members of his band, Fatso, during the tenure of the show.

A man ( David Battley ) is despondent after he scores zero in an IQ test, but since he managed to get his name right at the top of the paper, the examiner ( Eric Idle ) gives him two points and membership to the Cretin Club, whose perks include cufflinks, a club tie and an ' I Am A Cretin't-shirt.

Eric Idle runs a shop selling both unappetising fare such as tins of acne, the ' diarrhoea delight '- and the chance to take a vegetarian home and force-feed him meat.

Innes has claimed that Idle has no interest in seeing the series released as it reminds him of an unhappy time in his life, but recent litigation and bitterness concerning The Rutles spin-off may also be a consideration.

His wrong-way driving habits cause him to repeatedly crash into cars and knock over a frightened bicyclist ( Eric Idle ) who reappears in different scenes as if by coincidence.

* Idle talk: voorkamer stories ( 1999 ) edited by Craig MacKenzie ISBN 0-7981-3982-X Human & Rousseau

# Sir Edward Ross: The audience chases Ewing through a television studio, interrupting a talk show ( presented by Idle ) in which an interviewer ( Cleese ), attempting to create a rapport, calls his subject – Sir Edward Ross ( Chapman ) – increasingly inappropriate nicknames: " Eddie ", " Eddie Baby ", " pussycat ", " angel drawers ", and " Frank "... claiming " President Nixon had a hedgehog named Frank.

He is also the first person to appear in the show, as an interviewer in the first sketch, ' Gibberish ' in which Idle and Woolf talk in completely nonsensical sentences: