It’s almost impossible to imagine Monty Python and the Holy Grail without the coconuts, so thank you Michael Palin.
Need is the mother of invention, and that proved true on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
When the Pythons were writing the script for Holy Grail, they imagined that it would be a first-rate period production, with castles and sophisticated battles and horses.
John Cleese, in an interview with Seth Meyers, said that the inspiration to use coconuts to replace actual horses came from Michael Palin.