You KNOW you're obsessed with Eric Idle when...
1. You start your own band and call it The Rutles 2. (The Rutles Reference)
2. You buy yourself a pet gray mouse and name it Martin. (The Secret Of NIMH 2 Reference)
3. Your favorite Christmas carol is Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. (Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie Reference)
4. You go to Stonehenge and instead of admiring the amazing monoliths you search for any blue, two-headed dragons. (Quest For Camelot Reference)
5. You are constantly found either humming, whistling, or singing "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" or any other Eric Idle song you have memorized by heart. (Eric Idle Reference)
6. You’ve bought any Eric Idle replica dolls you could find. (Eric Idle Reference)
7. You begin to wonder, since you don’t have shit all over yourself, if you might be royalty. (Holy Grail Reference)
8. You find an old wooden cart and drag it through the streets shouting, "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!" (Holy Grail Reference)
9. You eat at least one can of SPAM a day, sometimes more. (Flying Circus Reference)
10. When people ask you who your favorite music singer or band is, you hastily reply "The Rutles." (The Rutles Reference)
11. You begin to wonder if two heads really ARE better than one. (Quest For Camelot Reference)
12. You are constantly found reciting entire Monty Python sketches to yourself with yourself. (Flying Circus Reference)
13. Wherever you go, you have two halves of a coconut in your hands and you’re banging them together. (Holy Grail Reference)
14. You are trying to learn how to play the guitar, no matter how sore your fingers are getting. (Eric Idle Reference)
15. Your mind is accustomed to thinking that whenever you see someone running down the middle of the road that it just must be some narrator chasing his camera again. (The Rutles Reference)
16. You get mad at the airports when there’s no sign of Dragon Air anywhere. (Quest For Camelot Reference)
17. You compare anything close to water to making love in a canoe. (Live At The Hollywood Bowl Reference)
18. You never introduce an audience ladies and gentlemen- it’s always ladies and bruces. (Hollywood Bowl Reference)
19. If you’re not British, you have developed a very fine genuine British accent. If you already are British, you make others envious, especially fumbling Americans. (Eric Idle Reference)
20. You have suddenly acquired a taste for onions and tomatoes, and you like eating it while standing up. (Eric Idle Reference)
21. You find yourself getting up early in the mornings and swimming later in the afternoons and taking walks whenever you please. (Eric Idle Reference)
22. If you have a brother, you begin calling him "Hero" even though he has no clue why. (The Secret Of NIMH 2 Reference)
23. You have a very strict relationship with your teddy bear. (Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie Reference)
24. You buy a parrot, name it Waddlesworth, and teach it to act like a dog. (102 Dalmations Reference)
25. You believe that all you need to know in life is trust, how to be daring, and instinct. (Dudley Do-Right Reference)
26. You prefer reading a book rather than watching TV right before you go to bed. (Eric Idle Reference)
27. You’ve decided that you’d rather do the things you like for no money at all rather than get paid for doing something that doesn’t suit your tastes. (Eric Idle Reference)
28. You bought or seen almost every single Eric Idle movie, CD, or EI memorabilia. (Eric Idle Reference)
29. You begin to believe in ghosts. (Casper & Scream Team Reference)
30. You buy or build a nice, big house with purple walls and green carpet and ask Eric to come over. (Casper Reference)
31. You drive up to Canada, go wading in streams, and ask around for a guy named Kim Darling and if its OK that you "stay at his place." (Dudley Do-Right Reference)
32. Just for fun, when people ask where you are from, you instantly reply, "The Rutland Isles." (The Rutland Isles Reference)
33. You like Chinese, especially their tiny little trees. (Eric Idle Reference)
34. You open your refrigerator consistently to see if there’s any little white-haired man sitting in it. (The Meaning Of Life Reference)
35. You never eat canned salmon mousse. NEVER. (The Meaning Of Life Reference)
36. You argue with storekeepers about prices on any item you can find and get as upset as a bull when they won’t haggle with you. (The Life Of Brian Reference)
37. You wear a shirt that says DEAD PEOPLE ROCK. (Scream Team Reference)
38. You plan on becoming a ghost when you die. (Casper & Scream Team Reference)
39. You buy numerous assortments of watches from clock stores and after the twentieth watch the storekeeper asks you who or what they’re for and you reply, "Coffin Ed. Hasn’t had one for 250 years." (Scream Team Reference)
40. You drink tea. Lots and LOTS of tea. (The Rutles Reference)
41. Your new favorite animals are snowy white Antarctic foxes. (Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie Reference)
42. You try your best not to run over any guys on bicycles or hit people with hotel doors. (The National Lampoon's European Vacation Reference)
43. To you, the term "being armed" means you are equipped with a cellphone. (Casper Reference)
44. Whenever you see a nun, you ask them if their name is Brian. (Nuns On The Run Reference)
45. When talking about two or more things, you always start with the second one first. (Dudley Do-Right Reference)
46. When you go to Disneyland, you only go for the Honey I Shrunk the Audience ride and you go on it over and over and over and over and over… (Honey I Shrunk The Audience Reference)
47. You decide to become an inventor with the high hopes that someday Nigel Channing will present you with the Inventor of the Year Award. (Honey I Shrunk The Audience Reference)
48. You take a trip to LA and freak out because you think that you might POSSIBLY be within a 50 mile radius of Eric. (Eric Idle Reference)
49. You’ve bought yourself a shirt that says SPAM and you wear it at least once a week. (Flying Circus / Spam Club Reference)
50. In your spare time you think it’s fun to dress up as the front half of a tiger, but when curious people ask you why, you come up with hundred different reasons until they are fed up with disbelief. (The Meaning Of Life Reference)
51. You believe that if you were to travel back in time you’d go back to the age of King Arthur. Then you’d meet up with Sir Robin and proudly hand him a fresh suit of armor. (Holy Grail Reference)
52. You aren’t afraid to call people, "Bignose." (The Life Of Brian Reference)
53. You make your own Encore Bucket and tell people to put money in it if they ever want you to continue doing something for them. (Eric Idle Reference)
54. You begin to talk like a Bruce. (Flying Circus Reference)
55. You wear chains on your feet to support Berthold. (The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen Reference)
56. You decide to go on your own personal tour because you feel that it's the best excuse to travel and be able to see a lot of sights. (Eric Idle Reference)
57. At restaurants, you will order halibut for dinner and then slap the waiter with it. (Flying Circus Reference)
58. You have at least one Monty Python replica costume, if not more. (Monty Python Reference)
59. You travel over 1,500 miles or across a state border just to see one of Eric's shows. (Eric Idle Reference)
60. If you do go to a show, you are most certainly in costume and you sing to all the songs and mouth the lines to every skit. (Eric Idle Reference)
61. You have met Eric Idle. (Eric Idle Reference)
62. You yell at store managers for not having the magazine The Gate in stock. (Suddenly Susan Reference)
63. If you go to Las Vegas, the only hotel you'll stay in is the Mandalay Bay or the Wynn. (Eric Idle Reference)
64. If you're still in school, you write a research paper on the West Pole. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
65. You put a bumper sticker on your car that reads, "Support Your Local Thieves." (The Rutland Isles Reference)
66. You tell people that they look and smell divine. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
67. You join the army in hopes of being in the camoflauge regiment. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
68. You give people bribes daily. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
69. If you offend someone, you simply tell them not to worry that you offend everyone equally. (Eric Idle Reference)
70. You make your own Eric Idle t-shirts. (Eric Idle Reference)
71. You know the exact number in your head of days till the next new Eric movie. (Eric Idle Reference)
72. You ask people if there are shops on the moon. (The Greedy Bastard Tour Reference)
73. Your favorite sport is English soccer (football). (Eric Idle Reference)
74. You choregraph your own version of 'Liverdance' and actually perform it for an audience. (The Greedy Bastard Tour Reference)
75. You tell people your name is Michael Palin and then you're as rude as possible. (Eric Idle Reference)
76. Words like 'SPAM', 'coconut', 'banana', 'lumberjack', and 'shrubbery' all crack you up. (Monty Python Reference)
77. You take a trip to Australia just to try their beer. (Flying Circus Reference)
78. You suddenly become fascinated by the science of analology. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
79. You go to the zoo and ask a zoo keeper exactly how many species of gay animals they currently have. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
80. You start writing your own diary because Eric's was so fascinating. (Eric Idle Reference)
81. You go 'fishing for compliments' every Sunday evening from five to seven. (The Rutland Isles Reference)
82. You have the power to convert people to Ericism. (Eric Idle Reference)
83. You decide to build the world's most powerful outer space rocket just so you can go and visit the planet Spengo. (Mom And Dad Save The World Reference)
84. You feel sorry for people with the name "Alan Smithee." (Burn Hollywood Burn Reference)
85. You're sometimes caught climbing up on chairs while singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider." (Burn Hollywood Burn Reference)
86. You travel all the way to South Africa so you can find yourself a "holy stick" and a "holy rock." (Burn Hollywood Burn Reference)
87. You have a certain fondness for fortune cookies and are VERY eager to see what your fortune says. (Missing Pieces Reference)
88. Whenever you take a road trip, it is necessary for you to sing "High Energy" for as long as you can. (Missing Pieces Reference)
89. You've personally jumped into a barrel full of red wine. (Missing Pieces Reference)
90. You have a bad habit of opening up old grandfather clocks and feeling around inside them, no matter who they belond to. (Missing Pieces Reference)
91. You get a pet halibut and name it Eric, along with all your other pets: Eric, Eric, Eric, Eric, and, you guessed it, Eric. (Flying Circus Reference)
92. Your friends never want to watch a movie of your choice, because they know it will be an Eric Idle movie, and you will be reciting the words all the way through. (Eric Idle Reference)
93. You dream about waking up on Christmas morning to find Eric sitting in an oversized stocking. (Eric Idle Reference)
94. You never eat your peanuts when flying; you're too busy looking for Eric so you can offer him yours. (The National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 Reference)
95. You can never look at a baggage x-ray machine without laughing. (The National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2 Reference)
96. You've 'got a little list' of society offenders you hate. (The Mikado Reference)
97. You hate the FCC. (Eric Idle Reference)
98. You've joined as a member of Best Friends Animal Society. (Eric Idle Reference)
99. You purposely broke your right leg to show sympathy for Eric while he had his cast. (Eric Idle Reference)
100. You visit this website daily. (Eric Idle Reference)
101. You go around asking men if their wives are goers. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean? (Flying Circus Reference)
102. You think it's fun to dress up as a nun. (Nuns On The Run Reference)
103. You like riddles, except you pronounce them 'widdle-wuh.' (Missing Pieces Reference)
104. You're determined to attend college at Cambridge, if you're not already there. (Eric Idle Reference)
105. You've seen SPAMALOT not because it's adapted from Holy Grail, but because it's Eric's musical. (Eric Idle Reference)
106. You can't help giggling whenever you hear "Here Comes The Sun" because then you start screaming the lyrics. (Eric Idle Reference)
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