In Popular Culture
Fictional bishops of this title repeatedly appear in the BBC television comedy Blackadder. In "The Foretelling", the first episode of The Black Adder, Edmund falsely claims the bishop as one of the people he killed in battle. The episode "Money" from Blackadder II features a psychotically violent and self-described "colossal pervert" bishop of this title, called "The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells". Others are mentioned in at least two skits by Monty Python and yet another in the BBC radio comedy Absolute Power.
Neil Gaiman's 2008 work The Graveyard Book features a character named the Bishop of Bath and Wells - he is one of a trio of ghouls who spirit the main character away.
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