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It inspired some other movies, including ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''.
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It inspired some other movies, including ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''. And even the inspiration for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' "Road To..." episodes that mostly focus on Brian and Stewie.
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'''Harry:''' Oh you ''have'' lost your memory.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Road to Hong Kong'', Chester has [[EasyAmnesia lost his memory]] and Harry asks if he remembers him, his [[HeterosexualLifePartners "bosom buddy"]].
--> '''Chester''': Bosom, what's that?
--> '''Harry''': Oh you ''have'' lost your memory.
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* JustSmileAndNod: Dorothy Lamour frequently did this when she shared scenes with Hope and Crosby. Justified in that more often than not Hope and Crosby were off-script.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", "Road to the Multiverse", and "Road to the North Pole".
** Road to Rhode Island even has a song of the same name to the tune of the song "Road to Morocco"
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", "Road to the Multiverse", and "Road to the North Pole".
** RoadPole". "Road to Rhode Island Island" even has a song of the same name to the tune of the song "Road to Morocco" Morocco".
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* IconicOutfit: Dorothy Lamour's sarong. They even managed to sneak it into ''Road to Utopia'', which is set in Alaska, via an ImagineSpot.
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* IconicOutfit: Dorothy Lamour's sarong. They even managed to sneak it into ''Road to Utopia'', which is set in Alaska, the Yukon, via an ImagineSpot.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: It's subtle, but Hope says in ''Morocco'' that he was born on September 13, 1913. "It was a Friday." (Never mind that it was actually a Saturday...)
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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: A fair amount of the pictures consisted of this, despite the fact that a script theoretically existed.
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* GenreSavvy: In ''Road to Morocco'', Hope and Crosby try [[PreAssKickingOneLiner the old "pat-a-cake" routine (used to great success in the series' earlier films) on the villain's henchmen]], only to get clobbered:
-->'''Crosby:''' Yessir, Junior, that thing sure got around.\\
'''Hope:''' Yeah, and back to us!
-->'''Crosby:''' Yessir, Junior, that thing sure got around.\\
'''Hope:''' Yeah, and back to us!
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* NotSoRemote: ''Road to Morocco'' ends with Hope and Crosby stranded on a raft after Hope accidentally blows up the ship. Just as Hope is winding up to a big dramatic moment about the possibility of them dying out there, Crosby points out that they're within sight of New York.
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* IncrediblyLongNote: Jerry Colonna's rendition of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in ''Road to Singapore'' begins with one of these.
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* {{Narrator}}: Robert Benchley in ''Road to Utopia''Utopia''.
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''(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)''\\
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''(The "Paramount Pictures" "[[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Pictures]]" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)''\\
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* {{Handwave}}: At one point in ''Morocco'' the duo are bound hand and foot and wrapped up inside nets, hopping across the desert. They get loose somehow off-screen, and when Hope asks how they managed it, Crosby says they'd better not tell, as the audience would never believe it.
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* LiteralGenie / WastefulWishing: In ''Road to Morocco'', an imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...
* LiteralGenie / WastefulWishing: In ''Road to Morocco'', an imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...
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* LargeHam / HamToHamCombat: LargeHam[=/=]HamToHamCombat: Dorothy Lamour on making the pictures: "I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham."
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* LiteralGenie: LiteralGenie / WastefulWishing: In ''Road to Morocco'', an imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...
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* LostAtSea: Parodied at Played (relatively) straight in the end first scene of ''Road to Morocco''.Morocco'', and then parodied at the end.
* SawAWomanInHalf: The heroes attempt this at the end of ''Zanzibar''.
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* RoadMovieRoadTripPlot: All of the pictures featured Bob and Bing as comic partners getting in various misadventures as they traveled from A to B.
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* CapturedByCannibals: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[MightyWhitey white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a sidesplittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla.
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* CapturedByCannibals: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[MightyWhitey white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a sidesplittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla.KillerGorilla.
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* ShoutOut: Crosby's tribal garb in ''Zanzibar'' includes a headpiece which looks a whole lot like MickeyMouse ears. In the same scene, his line about being "off to see the wizard" is a quote from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz.''
* TheSmurfettePrinciple:LamourLamour, though both ''Zanzibar'' and ''Morocco'' included a second female character.
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* GenreSavvy: In ''Road to Morocco'', Hope and Crosby try [[PreAssKickingOneLiner the old "pat-a-cake" routine (used to great success in the series' earlier films) on the villain's henchmen, henchmen]], only to get clobbered:
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The ''Road to ...'' movies are a series of comedy films starring Creator/BobHope and Music/BingCrosby, usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre.
* ''Road to Singapore'' (1940)
* ''Road to Zanzibar'' (1941)
* ''Road to Morocco'' (1942)
* ''Road to Utopia'' (1946)
* ''Road to Rio'' (1947)
* ''Road to Bali'' (1952) -- The only one in color
* ''The Road to Hong Kong'' (1962) -- with Joan Collins
It inspired some other movies, including ''TheRoadToElDorado''.
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!!This series provides examples, straight or parodied, of:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** In ''Morocco'', Hope's character gets his hands on a magic ring...
** Hope's magic flute in ''Bali'', which backfires horribly when Crosby tries his hand at it.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Bob Hope addressed remarks directly to the audience several times per movie.
** AsideGlance
* BookEnds: ''Road to Morocco''
* CapturedByCannibals: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[MightyWhitey white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a sidesplittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: They never get there in ''Rio''. But exciting, wasn't it?
* TheCameo: Several, particularly in the last two films.
* CrashingThroughTheHarem: In ''Franchise/{{Road to}} Morocco'', BobHope and Music/BingCrosby try to hide from the evil Kasim by hiding in a harem. Unfortunately, they get found out.
* CymbalBangingMonkey: In ''Road to Utopia'', when Hope and Crosby enter a talent contest, their act follows a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins.
* DarkestAfrica: Once again, from ''Road to Zanzibar''. It uses all the standard Pulp Africa tropes and [[SubvertedTrope subverts the heck out of them]].
* DemotedToExtra: Dorothy Lamour, in ''The Road to Hong Kong''. She actually wasn't going to appear in it at all after Crosby insisted on (and got) a younger female lead in Joan Collins, but Hope intervened to at least get her a [[TheCameo cameo]] appearance.
* DrinkOrder: In ''Road to Utopia'', Hope's character tries to fit in at tough-guy frontier bar, but then orders a lemonade. Realizing his mistake, he quickly turns to the bartender and growls, "...in a dirty glass!"
* DuelingStarsMovie
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Road to Singapore'' is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed.
* TheGayNineties: ''Road to Utopia'' was set in the '90s gold rush in the Yukon.
* GenreSavvy: In ''Road to Morocco'', Hope and Crosby try the old "pat-a-cake" routine (used to great success in the series' earlier films) on the villain's henchmen, only to get clobbered:
-->'''Crosby:''' Yessir, Junior, that thing sure got around.\\
'''Hope:''' Yeah, and back to us!
* GreekChorus: Humorist Robert Benchley, in ''Road to Utopia''.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: A fair amount of the pictures consisted of this, despite the fact that a script theoretically existed.
* HeterosexualLifePartners
* HollywoodMirage: ''Road to Morocco'' has a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* HowWeGotHere: ''Road to Utopia'' starts out in current (1946) times and then flashes back to the turn of the century.
* IdenticalGrandson: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ''Road to Utopia''. ("We adopted him.")
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Incredibly Lame Puns]]
-->''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''
* InvisibleBackupBand: ''Road to Zanzibar'' discusses this together with MickeyMousing in a GenreSavvy dialogue which ends with Music/BingCrosby conducting the invisible orchestra to accompany his singing of the love theme:
-->"What killed me is that ''from nowhere'', an orchestra started. You know, violins and everything, right in the minute of a jungle. Isn't that silly?"
* LargeHam / HamToHamCombat: Dorothy Lamour on making the pictures: "I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham."
* LiteralGenie: In ''Road to Morocco'', an imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...
-->'''Orville:''' ''(to the sky)'' Set the table, Aunt Lucy, there'll be two more for dinner... Boy, I sure wish I had a drink.\\
''(a drink appears in Orville's hand)''\\
'''Jeff:''' Junior! Junior, It worked! How about that, the magic ring, it worked on you!\\
'''Orville:''' Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!\\
''(Orville turns into a monkey)''
* LogoJoke: In ''Road to Utopia'', Hope and Crosby are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Hope's eye:
-->'''Hope:''' Hey, get a load of that bread and butter!\\
''(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)''\\
'''Crosby:''' Bread and butter? That's a mountain!\\
''(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)''\\
'''Hope:''' Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me!
* {{MacGuffin}}: In ''Road to Rio'', there are the mysterious Papers that have no bearing on the plot besides having an interesting safe-cracking scene. Lampshaded when [[spoiler:Hope and Crosby say that "the world must never know" their contents]]. At the end, when the papers have been recovered and they're about to be read, they get torn up instead, since they've served their dramatic purpose.
* MedicineShow: ''Road to Singapore'' has Hope, Crosby and Lamour playing ocarinas and selling bottled soap as a miracle stain remover.
* {{Narrator}}: Robert Benchley in ''Road to Utopia''
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Done for laughs at the beginning of ''Road to Morocco'', where Geoffrey (Crosby) and Oliver (Hope) are stranded at sea.
* OscarBait: Lampshaded and spoofed in many of the movies, notably in ''Road to Morocco'', which ends with Hope and Crosby stranded on a raft after Hope accidentally blows up the ship:
-->'''Hope''': I can't go on! No food, no water! It's all my fault. We're done for! It's got me. I can't stand it! No food, nothing! No food, no water! No food! ''HAHAHAHAHA!!''\\
'''Crosby''': What's the matter with you, anyway? There's New York. We'll be picked up in a few minutes.\\
'''Hope''': ''(snaps out of it)'' You had to open your big mouth and ruin the only good scene I got in the picture. I might've won the Academy Award!
* OverlyPolitePals
* PardonMyKlingon: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', the natives of DarkestAfrica have their lines subtitled in English, but one line produces a '''[CENSORED]''' stamp instead of a subtitle.
* PlotArmor: {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ed in the title song of ''Road to Morocco'':
-->For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;\\
Creator/{{Paramount}} will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years.
** Also in ''Road to Bali'': The branch that Hope and Crosby are leaning against breaks, but they stay suspended in mid-air.
-->'''Crosby''': Hey, why don't we fall?
-->'''Hope''': Paramount wouldn't dare. Especially at your age.
* RoadMovie
* RunningGag / PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Pattycake, pattycake..."
* SettingOffSong: "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco"
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lamour
* SneezeOfDoom: Done with a fly landing on Hope's face in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThematicSeries: Despite sharing the same actors and style of humor (to say nothing og being in the same series), the movies are technically not part of the same narrative with the actors playing different, yet similar characters in each.
* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThoseTwoActors
* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."
* TravelMontage: ''Road to Zanzibar'' uses the comedy version where the line starts meandering chaotically.
* UniversalAdaptorCast
* VagabondBuddies
* VitriolicBestBuds
* WeNeedADistraction: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOmRro_P20 "patty-cake"]] routine: When faced with a foe, Hope and Crosby start playing patty-cake, and while the bad guy watches in bemusement, they each punch him out simultaneously. Occasionally, the villain is onto them and hits them first, causing Hope to point out that "he must have seen the picture."
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!!References in other works:
* ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', which is something of a SpiritualSuccessor.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", "Road to the Multiverse", and "Road to the North Pole".
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episodes "Road To Tasmania", "Return Of The Road To Tasmania Strikes Back" and "Yet Another Road To Tasmania"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' episode "Road to Dendron"
* The ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episodes "For Whom the Bell Klangs" and "The Road to Macadamia"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' episode "Tarzan and the Fugitives"
* The ''Series/{{ALF}}Tales'' cartoon episode "The Aladdin Brothers"
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Road Movie to UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}" on the album ''Flood''.
* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'': The "Roman Empire" segment. Creator/MelBrooks and others sing "We're off on the road to Judea!"
* ''Film/{{Ishtar}}''
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The ''Road to ...'' movies are a series of comedy films starring Creator/BobHope and Music/BingCrosby, usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre.
* ''Road to Singapore'' (1940)
* ''Road to Zanzibar'' (1941)
* ''Road to Morocco'' (1942)
* ''Road to Utopia'' (1946)
* ''Road to Rio'' (1947)
* ''Road to Bali'' (1952) -- The only one in color
* ''The Road to Hong Kong'' (1962) -- with Joan Collins
It inspired some other movies, including ''TheRoadToElDorado''.
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!!This series provides examples, straight or parodied, of:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** In ''Morocco'', Hope's character gets his hands on a magic ring...
** Hope's magic flute in ''Bali'', which backfires horribly when Crosby tries his hand at it.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Bob Hope addressed remarks directly to the audience several times per movie.
** AsideGlance
* BookEnds: ''Road to Morocco''
* CapturedByCannibals: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[MightyWhitey white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a sidesplittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: They never get there in ''Rio''. But exciting, wasn't it?
* TheCameo: Several, particularly in the last two films.
* CrashingThroughTheHarem: In ''Franchise/{{Road to}} Morocco'', BobHope and Music/BingCrosby try to hide from the evil Kasim by hiding in a harem. Unfortunately, they get found out.
* CymbalBangingMonkey: In ''Road to Utopia'', when Hope and Crosby enter a talent contest, their act follows a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins.
* DarkestAfrica: Once again, from ''Road to Zanzibar''. It uses all the standard Pulp Africa tropes and [[SubvertedTrope subverts the heck out of them]].
* DemotedToExtra: Dorothy Lamour, in ''The Road to Hong Kong''. She actually wasn't going to appear in it at all after Crosby insisted on (and got) a younger female lead in Joan Collins, but Hope intervened to at least get her a [[TheCameo cameo]] appearance.
* DrinkOrder: In ''Road to Utopia'', Hope's character tries to fit in at tough-guy frontier bar, but then orders a lemonade. Realizing his mistake, he quickly turns to the bartender and growls, "...in a dirty glass!"
* DuelingStarsMovie
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Road to Singapore'' is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed.
* TheGayNineties: ''Road to Utopia'' was set in the '90s gold rush in the Yukon.
* GenreSavvy: In ''Road to Morocco'', Hope and Crosby try the old "pat-a-cake" routine (used to great success in the series' earlier films) on the villain's henchmen, only to get clobbered:
-->'''Crosby:''' Yessir, Junior, that thing sure got around.\\
'''Hope:''' Yeah, and back to us!
* GreekChorus: Humorist Robert Benchley, in ''Road to Utopia''.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: A fair amount of the pictures consisted of this, despite the fact that a script theoretically existed.
* HeterosexualLifePartners
* HollywoodMirage: ''Road to Morocco'' has a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* HowWeGotHere: ''Road to Utopia'' starts out in current (1946) times and then flashes back to the turn of the century.
* IdenticalGrandson: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ''Road to Utopia''. ("We adopted him.")
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Incredibly Lame Puns]]
-->''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''
* InvisibleBackupBand: ''Road to Zanzibar'' discusses this together with MickeyMousing in a GenreSavvy dialogue which ends with Music/BingCrosby conducting the invisible orchestra to accompany his singing of the love theme:
-->"What killed me is that ''from nowhere'', an orchestra started. You know, violins and everything, right in the minute of a jungle. Isn't that silly?"
* LargeHam / HamToHamCombat: Dorothy Lamour on making the pictures: "I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham."
* LiteralGenie: In ''Road to Morocco'', an imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...
-->'''Orville:''' ''(to the sky)'' Set the table, Aunt Lucy, there'll be two more for dinner... Boy, I sure wish I had a drink.\\
''(a drink appears in Orville's hand)''\\
'''Jeff:''' Junior! Junior, It worked! How about that, the magic ring, it worked on you!\\
'''Orville:''' Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!\\
''(Orville turns into a monkey)''
* LogoJoke: In ''Road to Utopia'', Hope and Crosby are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Hope's eye:
-->'''Hope:''' Hey, get a load of that bread and butter!\\
''(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)''\\
'''Crosby:''' Bread and butter? That's a mountain!\\
''(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)''\\
'''Hope:''' Maybe a mountain to you, but it's bread and butter to me!
* {{MacGuffin}}: In ''Road to Rio'', there are the mysterious Papers that have no bearing on the plot besides having an interesting safe-cracking scene. Lampshaded when [[spoiler:Hope and Crosby say that "the world must never know" their contents]]. At the end, when the papers have been recovered and they're about to be read, they get torn up instead, since they've served their dramatic purpose.
* MedicineShow: ''Road to Singapore'' has Hope, Crosby and Lamour playing ocarinas and selling bottled soap as a miracle stain remover.
* {{Narrator}}: Robert Benchley in ''Road to Utopia''
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Done for laughs at the beginning of ''Road to Morocco'', where Geoffrey (Crosby) and Oliver (Hope) are stranded at sea.
* OscarBait: Lampshaded and spoofed in many of the movies, notably in ''Road to Morocco'', which ends with Hope and Crosby stranded on a raft after Hope accidentally blows up the ship:
-->'''Hope''': I can't go on! No food, no water! It's all my fault. We're done for! It's got me. I can't stand it! No food, nothing! No food, no water! No food! ''HAHAHAHAHA!!''\\
'''Crosby''': What's the matter with you, anyway? There's New York. We'll be picked up in a few minutes.\\
'''Hope''': ''(snaps out of it)'' You had to open your big mouth and ruin the only good scene I got in the picture. I might've won the Academy Award!
* OverlyPolitePals
* PardonMyKlingon: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', the natives of DarkestAfrica have their lines subtitled in English, but one line produces a '''[CENSORED]''' stamp instead of a subtitle.
* PlotArmor: {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ed in the title song of ''Road to Morocco'':
-->For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;\\
Creator/{{Paramount}} will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years.
** Also in ''Road to Bali'': The branch that Hope and Crosby are leaning against breaks, but they stay suspended in mid-air.
-->'''Crosby''': Hey, why don't we fall?
-->'''Hope''': Paramount wouldn't dare. Especially at your age.
* RoadMovie
* RunningGag / PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Pattycake, pattycake..."
* SettingOffSong: "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco"
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lamour
* SneezeOfDoom: Done with a fly landing on Hope's face in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThematicSeries: Despite sharing the same actors and style of humor (to say nothing og being in the same series), the movies are technically not part of the same narrative with the actors playing different, yet similar characters in each.
* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThoseTwoActors
* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."
* TravelMontage: ''Road to Zanzibar'' uses the comedy version where the line starts meandering chaotically.
* UniversalAdaptorCast
* VagabondBuddies
* VitriolicBestBuds
* WeNeedADistraction: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOmRro_P20 "patty-cake"]] routine: When faced with a foe, Hope and Crosby start playing patty-cake, and while the bad guy watches in bemusement, they each punch him out simultaneously. Occasionally, the villain is onto them and hits them first, causing Hope to point out that "he must have seen the picture."
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!!References in other works:
* ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', which is something of a SpiritualSuccessor.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", "Road to the Multiverse", and "Road to the North Pole".
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episodes "Road To Tasmania", "Return Of The Road To Tasmania Strikes Back" and "Yet Another Road To Tasmania"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' episode "Road to Dendron"
* The ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episodes "For Whom the Bell Klangs" and "The Road to Macadamia"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' episode "Tarzan and the Fugitives"
* The ''Series/{{ALF}}Tales'' cartoon episode "The Aladdin Brothers"
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Road Movie to UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}" on the album ''Flood''.
* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'': The "Roman Empire" segment. Creator/MelBrooks and others sing "We're off on the road to Judea!"
* ''Film/{{Ishtar}}''
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