Dumb But Fun – Coconut Horse

What is this app??? If you have to ask it must mean you never saw Monty Python and The Holy Grail or Spamalot.

If so, there is a huge gap in your modern cultural experience that can, thankfuly, be easily remedied. All you need to do is run, don’t walk, and go buy or rent the movie. (Or you could always stay where you are and Google it.)

Coconut Horse is a one trick pony (yes, pun intended) that falls into the same camp as More Cow Bell. It picks up on one of the running gags in Holy Grail (one of the all-time best comedies) by creating the virtual sound of a coconut horse which was how, in the movie, they created the virtual sound of a real live horse. The thing here is that the sound is created via the accelerometer move the phone up and down and it creates the sound. Start the app and put the iPhone it in your pocket and walk around and you get the sound. Get it? Fun but dumb and it gets old in about six seconds.

So what other apps can be drawn from the all-time great comedies?

Let’s see- We could have an app the creates a horse’s bray every time you say "Frau Blucher". That would be kind of easy. I’m not sure, though, what would go along with the line "Excuse me while I whip this out."? (If those references did not make sense to you I have a list of "must-see" movies for you…)

So is Coconut Horse worth the buck? Did just seeing the words "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" make you smile and think- "I love that movie!"? If so, maybe you should buy it. If not… put the $.99 toward renting the movie.