His most famous writings are The Sexual Impulse, Mens Gods, Those Thoughtful People, Sand & the Blue Moss, Apple Pie Bed, Indian Patchwork (with "Mary Charles", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), Portrait of the Artist's Children and Idle Hands.
Eric Idle | Show of Hands | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | River Idle | Idle | Idle Hour Stock Farm | Idle Hands | Idle Gossip | Hands Across America | Manos: The Hands of Fate | laying on of hands | Hands of Stone | With Hands United | Tokyu Hands | The Hands That Thieve | Show of Hands (1987 album) | Live at Lollapalooza 2007: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Idle, West Yorkshire | Hands of the Cause | Hands All Over | Cross Hands | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (album) | Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! | China Hands | Would You Raise Your Hands | Throw Ya Hands Up | These Hands of Mine | The Hands That Built America | The Hands | Show of Hands Live |
Flender's directing credits include the feature films The Unborn, Idle Hands and the documentary Let Them Eat Rock as well as episodes of many television shows, including The Office, Ugly Betty, The O.C., Dawson's Creek, Tales from the Crypt and Gilmore Girls.
The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands is a greatest hits album released by New Zealand band, Head Like A Hole in 2009 in support of their 2009 reunion tour.