History Film / ANightAtTheOpera

* ShoutOut: While Driftwood tries to hide the three stowaways in his room while the cop looks around:

[[caption-width-right:300: ''[[Music/ANightAtTheOpera Is this the real life...]]'' ''[[NamesTheSame is this hilarity?]]'']]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the earlier ''Film/MonkeyBusiness'', which also put the Marx Brothers on an ocean liner. Additionally, the following Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces'', shares a similar plot but with different characters and scenery (a rest home in need of rescue and a horse race to be won).

* MuggedForDisguise: Fiorello, Tomasso and Ricardo take the Italian aviators' uniforms ([[UpToEleven and their beards]]) to slip off the boat in disguise. After Tomasso bonks Gottleib on the head ''again'', Driftwood takes his tux to get into the opera.

* TheShowMustGoWrong: ''[[UpToEleven And how]]''! The brothers throw the performance at the opera house into sheer and utter chaos, taking up a good portion of the movie with catastrophes on and off stage.

%%* ChekhovsSkill: Tommaso (Harpo)'s rope-climbing and acrobatic skill. - explain how this was showcased as a skill earlier on

* SpaghettiAndGondolas: The crowd on the boat lean hard into Italian stereotypes, especially during the "Cosi Cosa" number, in which many a word is pronounced-a like-a this.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The following Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces'', shares a similar plot but with different characters and scenery (a rest home in need of rescue and a horse race to be won).

* DeepSleep: Harpo is asleep in Groucho's steamer trunk in his tiny stateroom. As a crowd assembles and grows in the tiny, tiny room, Harpo is jostled around and over peoples' heads, never waking up (but still able to repeatedly signal via bulb horn for an extra hard boiled egg.)

** Allan Jones as Ricardo was basically playing a role that Zeppo usually would have. Zeppo had left the Marx Brothers after ''Duck Soup'' to focus on being a Hollywood agent.

* LowerDeckEpisode: Fiorello, Riccardo and Tomasso mingle with the third class passengers and perform with them.

* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: Otis B. Driftwod.

[[TheOneWith The one where]] Groucho says "[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Of course you know this means war!]]", this time for real.

[[TheOneWith The one where]] Groucho says "Of course you realize this means war!", this time for real.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

-->"Hey you big bully, stop picking on that little bully!"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Almost everything Driftwood says to Mrs. Claypool pushes the boundaries of good taste for 1936. A few cracks are still on the outrageous side.
-->'''Driftwood:''' You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents. ''(Pause)'' For a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.
--> or
-->'''Mrs Claypool:''' Do you have everything, Otis?
-->'''Driftwood:''' Well, I haven't had any complaints yet.

'''Otis:''' And two hard-boiled eggs. (''Tomasso honks his horn'') Make that three hard-boiled eggs. (''honk'') And one duck egg.

** Later Gottlieb fires Driftwood and demands he left his office immediately.

* LogicalFallacies: Half of the hilarity comes from Groucho's elaborate wordplay and mind games.
-->'''Driftwood''': That woman? Do you know why I sat with her? Because she reminded me of you.
-->'''Mrs. Claypool''': Really?
-->'''Driftwood''': Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that? ''(beat)'' If she figures that one out,

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: Groucho, playing the shady social consultant Otis B. Driftwood and operating solely along the lines of the RuleOfFunny, orders two to three portions of what seems to be everything on the menu in an illogical way, punctuating his selections after each item with an order for "two hard-boiled eggs" for the stowaways hiding in his stateroom.

* GettingTheBoot: The elevator man punts Driftwood [[StaircaseTumble: down the stairs]] after Driftwood's firing.

** Mr. Driftwood is apparently very hungry indeed!
--> '''Driftwood:''' And two hard-boiled eggs!
--> '''Steward''' ''(writing down the order):'' ... and two hard-boiled eggs.
--> '''Harpo's Horn:''' ''[HONK]''
--> '''Driftwood:''' Make that three hard-boiled eggs.
--> '''Harpo's Horn:''' ''[HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK [[OverlyLongGag HONK HONK HONK HONK]]]''
--> '''Driftwood:''' Either it's foggy out or make that another twelve hard boiled eggs!

* {{Homage}}: The 1992 film ''Film/BrainDonors'' is a lovingly-crafted tribute.

It was subsequently {{Homage}}d by the Zucker Brothers' movie ''Film/BrainDonors''. Not to be confused with the 1975 Music/{{Queen}} album ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'', which was named after the movie. (Or with the Music/BlindGuardian album, which was named after the Queen album.)

* TheRemake: ''Film/BrainDonors'', an all-but-the-name retelling of ''Opera'' with ballet instead of opera.

* TemptingFate: After getting fired, kicked down the stairs, and forced off a park bench by his troublesome colleagues, Otis thinks the worst is over.
-->'''Driftwood:''' Well, there's one consolation; nothing more can happen to me.\\
'''Passing Cop:''' Hey, get off the grass.\\
'''Otis:''' I was wrong. [tries to get a drink of water from the fountain, which promptly dries up.] People drink too much water anyway.

* AllPartOfTheShow: Gottlieb tries to invoke this by on going in costume when he and Henderson pursue Tomasso and Fiorello (also hiding in costume) onto the stage, but the hijinks that ensue flatten any hopes of this trope working.

* RunningGag: When Otis Driftwood orders room service:
-->'''Fiorello''': And two hard-boiled eggs.\\
'''Driftwood''': And two hard-boiled eggs.\\
[''Tomasso honks his horn'']\\
'''Driftwood''': Make that three hard-boiled eggs.

* RefugeInAudacity:
** From the very first lines:
--->''(For context, Driftwood is sitting with his back to Mrs Claypool, the woman he was supposed to have dinner with, having had dinner with another woman and the waiter has just given him the bill)''\\

--->'''Driftwood:''' Just the man I want to see! Gottlieb, these are the worst cigars I've ever smoked!\\
'''Fiorello:''' Yeah. And your ice isn't cold enough, either.

* ClosetShuffle: The stateroom gag.