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As a side note, the apex of coconut use is in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail https://en.wikiped
by jaclaz 4y ago
As a side note, the apex of coconut use is in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grai...
>Originally the knight characters were going to ride real horses, but after it became clear that the film's small budget precluded real horses (except for a lone horse appearing in a couple of scenes), the Pythons decided their characters would mime horse-riding while their porters trotted behind them banging coconut shells together. The joke was derived from the old-fashioned sound effect used by radio shows to convey the sound of hooves clattering.
- baud147258 4y agoAnd on the same subject, quoting the tvtropes article linked above: > Ironically, in a major sense-of-humour failure, Monty Python founder Eric Idle threatened to sue an independent film-maker who used the "that's not a horse - you're using coconuts!" gag, claiming he had originated it for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Saner counsel prevailed, when it was pointed out to him exactly how old the gag was, and that (for instance) a radio comedy show Idle himself had written for had used this gag way back in the 1960's - ten years before the Holy Grail movie. And the BBC radio comedy archives preserved older examples still...