Popular Culture
The game is celebrated in the 1944 music hall song "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", best known from recordings and performances by Merv Griffin in the 1950s. More recently the song was used by Disney in the film The Lion King.
On The Mighty Boosh, Howard Moon makes a joke to Vince's coconut friend, Precious, about being "coconut shy", in the episode entitled, "The Nightmare of Milky Joe".
In the song he wrote as part of the Submarine OST, "Hiding Tonight", Alex Turner talks about playing the coconut shy, winning a prize even if it's rigged, and not knowing when to stop.
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