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Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: After King Arthur chops off one of the Black Knight's legs, the Black Knight is played by a man with one leg.
Magnum Opus Dissonance: The Python crew generally considered this to be one of their lesser movies. John Cleese often says they think Life of Brian is their best work.
No Budget: The movie is very clearly filmed on a shoestring budget for its size, with cheap camera tricks and poor special effects being the norm. The famous ending and the squires banging coconuts together are both a direct result of the lack of money; a large battle would have cost far too much, and since they couldn't afford horses but were still using the coconut sound effect as a joke, why not have the people making the sounds be on camera?
Talking to Himself: Graham Chapman voices God and plays Arthur in just one example.
Throw It In: The coconuts were originally going to be offscreen due to the lack of budget for horses. The troupe had an epiphany regarding it -- since the movie was nonsensical anyway, they should just write the coconuts into the script.
- According to the book Monty Python Speaks they thought that the coconuts was a funny idea because coconuts are used for horse sound effects -- AND had the added bonus of saving them a pound of money on horses, training, etc.
  - It even made it into the German title of the film: Monthy Python's Knights of the Coconut ('Monty Pythons Ritter der Kokosnuss')
Trope Namer: This movie has named the following tropes:
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: Also spawned a Sports Center catchphrase.
- The Coconut Effect: Given a Lampshade Hanging, as we actually see the people clanging coconuts together in lieu of the horses.
- Help Help This Index Is Being Repressed
- Holy Hand Grenade
- Inherent in the System
- I Shall Taunt You
- Killer Rabbit: The Rabbit of Caerbannog.
- The Knights Who Say Squee: From the knights who say "Ni".
- Not Quite Dead: Lancelot's "steed" Concorde, Prince Herbert, the bride's father, and a random sufferer of the plague.
- Only a Model
- Only a Flesh Wound: The Black Knight.
- Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer and Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game: From Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film.
- Sham Ceremony, formerly known as Farcical Aquatic Ceremony
- Some Call Me... Tim
- These Questions Three
- With This Herring: See Impossible Task below.

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 * [[No Budget]]: The movie is very clearly filmed on a shoestring budget for its size, with cheap camera tricks and poor special effects being the norm. The famous ending and the squires banging coconuts together are both a direct result of the lack of money; a large battle would have cost far too much, and since they couldn't afford horses but were still using the coconut sound effect as a joke, why not have the people making the sounds be on camera?
 * [[Talking to Himself]]: Graham Chapman voices God and plays Arthur in just one example.
+* [[Throw It In]]: The coconuts were originally going to be offscreen due to the lack of budget for horses. The troupe had an epiphany regarding it -- since the movie was nonsensical anyway, they should just write the coconuts into the script.
+** According to the book ''Monty Python Speaks'' they thought that the coconuts was a funny idea because coconuts are used for horse sound effects -- AND had the added bonus of saving them a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pound]] of money on horses, training, etc.
+*** It even made it into the German title of the film: Monthy Python's Knights of the Coconut ('Monty Pythons Ritter der Kokosnuss')
 * [[Trope Namer]]: This movie has named the following tropes:
 ** [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]: Also spawned a [[Sports Center]] catchphrase.