History Film / ADayAtTheRaces1937

Not to be confused with the 1976 Music/{{Queen}} album ''Music/{{A Day at the Races|Album}}'', which was named after the movie.

* BoyMeetsGirl:
-->''"I can't hide it any longer. I love you. It's the old story, boy meets girl -- Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet -- Minneapolis and St. Paul!"''
* CallBack: to ''Film/DuckSoup'' during the barn musical number, with the line "All God's children got swing." Previously it was "All God's children got ''guns.''"

-->'''Whitmore''': Dr. Hackenbush, tell me, who sent for these men?\\
'''Hackenbush''': You don't have to send for them. You just rub a lamp and they appear.\\
'''Tony''': My name is Steinberg.\\
'''Hackenbush''': Dr. Steinberg, by a strange coincidence, this is another Dr. Steinberg. May I take my great friend and introduce my colleagues and good friends, another Dr. Steinberg. This is a Dr. Steinberg, Dr. Steinberg. Dr. Steinberg. And a Mrs. Steinberg. And Doctor, I'd like you to meet another Dr. Steinberg. And, eh... that's a, that's a Steinberg junior.

The Creator/MarxBrothers' seventh film, released in 1937 and following closely in the same mold as their previous one, ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''.

* EndOfAnAge: This film, although still hailed as a classic, has been noted as repeating the basic plot of ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' and it was produced around the death of the MGM executive Creator/IrvingThalberg. With that, the Brothers lost their strongest advocate and their streak of comedy film excellence came to an end.

-->'''Gil:''' Does anyone else know about this?
-->'''Tony:''' Only Hackannapuss, and he won't talk!
-->'''Gil:''' It's bound to get out sooner or later.

* InducedHypochondria: The reason Hackenbush is so well trusted by Mrs Upjohn:
-->'''Mrs Upjohn:''' Why, I never knew a thing was wrong with me before I met him.
* LopsidedDichotomy:
-->"Either this man is dead, or my watch has stopped".

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As with ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', Allan Jones fills in for Zeppo.

-->'''Hackenbush:''' So it's WAR! I'm off to the battlefield!
-->'''Mrs. Upjohn:''' No no! That's from the racetrack.
* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush.

Not to be confused with the 1976 Music/{{Queen}} album ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'', which was named after the movie.

JustForFun/TheOneWith horseplay where a sanitarium is at stake.

-->'''Gil:''' Does anyone else know about this?\\
-->'''Tony:''' Only Hackannapuss, and he won't talk!\\

Meanwhile, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx play a sanitarium worker and a former jockey who have to save Hackenbush from a FemmeFatale employed by Morgan, while simultaneously trying to get the racehorse owned by Judy's fiancée Gil (Allan Jones) into race-winning condition.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The basic plot is markedly similar to the previous Creator/MarxBrothers film, ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', except with horse-racing instead of opera.

[[TheOneWith The one with]] horseplay where a sanitarium is at stake.

-->''"I can't hide it any longer. I love you. It's the old story, boy meets girl -- [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo and Juliet]] -- Minneapolis and St. Paul!"''

* {{Blackface}}: The boys, evading the law, momentarily done blackface to hide among a bunch of stable hands. Harpo only paints half his face.

'''Hackenbush''': [''turns on the fan and holds a piece of paper next to it''] I'm sorry, sir, but there's a hurricane blowing down here, and you'll have to talk a little louder! Whew, it certainly is the windiest day we ever did have. Woo, it certainly is windy!

'''Hackenbush''' [''as Col. Hawkins'']: I can't hear you, you'll have to talk a little louder.\\

-->'''Whitmore''': I want to know about Doctor Hackenbush. [''Hackenbush pushes the dictograph buzzer, summoning Whitmore away from the phone; Whitmore answers''] Yes?\\

'''Hackenbush''' [''disguising his voice as Col. Hawkings'']: And, eh, I hope, sir, that's the information that you require.\\

'''Whitmore''': I was called to the dictograph!

'''Hackenbush''': Whitmore, you'll have to cut out that squawking. The patients are all complaining.

* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Dr. Huo Z. Hackenbush.