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1	[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roadtozanzibar_1941.jpg]]
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3	''Road to Zanzibar'' is a 1941 film directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring Music/BingCrosby, Creator/BobHope, and Dorothy Lamour. It is the second film in the ''Film/RoadTo'' series.
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5	Crosby and Hope play a pair of con-men, Chuck Reardon and "Fearless" Frazier, who get into a series of misadventures in DarkestAfrica while trying to raise the money to buy passage back to civilization.
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7	!!This film contains examples of:
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9	* AfricanChant: One scene has a bit of chanting titled "African Etude".
10	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Subtle but the first sign of the series doing it is when the pair try the "patty cake" punch on a thug...who knocks them both down.
11	-->'''Fearless''': He must have seen the picture!
12	* CapturedByCannibals: Chuck and Fearless are captured by an African tribe, who think they are [[MightyWhitey white gods]]... until, that is, they decide to test the duo's divinity by having Fearless get into a wrestling match with a KillerGorilla. After he loses, Chuck and Fearless find themselves on the lunch menu.
13	* DarkestAfrica: ''Road to Zanzibar'' uses all the standard Pulp Africa tropes and [[SubvertedTrope subverts the heck out of them]].
14	* HumanCannonball: One of the scams the duo run is a human-cannonball act; it turns out Fearless hides in a secret compartment in the base of the cannon and it's a dummy that gets launched out. (And catches fire, and crashes into a tent, and causes an entire carnival to burn down.)
15	* InvisibleBackupBand: Discussed together with MickeyMousing in a dialogue which ends with Crosby conducting the invisible orchestra to accompany his singing of the love theme:
16	-->'''Fearless:''' 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?
17	* KillerGorilla: Towards the end, Fearless gets tossed in a cage with a wrestling gorilla.
18	* PardonMyKlingon: The natives of DarkestAfrica have their lines subtitled in English, but one line produces a '''[CENSORED]''' stamp instead of a subtitle.
19	* SawAWomanInHalf: The heroes attempt this at the end.
20	-->'''Chuck:''' Are you sure you know what you're doing?\
21	'''Fearless:''' If I don't, one of us is going back half fare.
22	* ShoutOut: Chuck's tribal garb includes a headpiece which looks a whole lot like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse ears. In the same scene, his line about being "off to see the wizard" is a quote from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
23	* TalentDouble: Hope is doubled by Olympic wrestler Peter Mehringer in the scene where he wrestles a gorilla.
24	* TravelMontage: The comedy version where the line starts meandering chaotically.

Context Film / RoadToZanzibar