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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Road to ...}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}}<!-- Images for when somebody does this: Wikimedia Commons has "Category:Road to Singapore (film)" and "Category:Road to Bali (film)" --> [[File:image565441g_5546.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\|''There had been comedy teams in movies before, of course, and fast-paced dialogue, but the Road pictures introduced something new. The interplay between [[The Marx Brothers\|Groucho and Chico Marx]], say, or [[The Burns and Allen Show\|George Burns and Gracie Allen]], had an abstract, almost surreal quality. The witty repartee of 1930s screwball comedies like ''[[My Man Godfrey]]'' or ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' was too polished and stylized to be mistaken for anything but movie dialogue. [[Bob Hope\|Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby\|Crosby]] seemed like ordinary guys — [[Shaped Like Itself\|like Hope and Crosby]], in fact — perfectly attuned to each other's thoughts, moods, obsessions and vulnerabilities.''\|Richard Zoglin, in his essay on ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' for the [[National Film Registry]]}} The '''''Road to ...''''' movies are a series of comedy films starring [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]], usually with Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular film genre. * ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' (1940) Line 15 ⟶ 17: ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1996. ''Road to Bali'' fell into the public domain because its copyright was not renewed in time once it lapsed. Watch it at [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Road_To_Bali_(1952).webm Wikimedia Commons] or [https://archive.org/details/RoadToBali1952_201612 the Internet Archive]. ---- {{franchisetropes}} {{tropelist\|This series provides examples, straight or parodied, of:}}▼ * [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: 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.▼ * [[Book Ends]]: ''Road to Morocco''.▼ * [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Bob Hope addressed remarks directly to the audience several times per movie. [[Aside Glance]] Possibly in ''Morocco'', they need to disguise themselves as locals, and Hope says something about, "No problem; [[Special Effects]] will take care of it." Then he calls out, "Hey, Special Effects!" and their clothing is immediately transformed into local garb. * [[The Cameo]]: Several, particularly in the last two films. * [[Captured by Cannibals]]: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[Mighty Whitey\|white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a side splittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla.▼ * [[The Cavalry]]: They arrive ''just'' after the fact in ''Rio'', although it's not for lack of trying.▼ * [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]]▼ * [[Darkest Africa]]: Once again, from ''Road to Zanzibar''. It uses all the standard Pulp Africa tropes and [[Subverted Trope\|subverts the heck out of them]].▼ * [[Demoted to Extra]]: 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 [[The Cameo\|cameo]] appearance.▼ * [[Drink Order]]▼ * [[Dueling Stars Movie]] * [[Genre Savvy]]: Anybody who doesn't fall for the usual distraction. * [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''Road to Singapore'' is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed.▼ * [[The Gay Nineties]]▼ * [[Genre Savvy]] * [[Greek Chorus]]: Humorist Robert Benchley, in ''Road to Utopia''.▼ * [[Harpo Does Something Funny]] * [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] * [[Hollywood Mirage]] * [[Identical Grandson]]: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ''Road to Utopia''. ("We adopted him.")▼ * [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|Incredibly Lame Puns]] ~~{{quote\|''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''}}.~~ * [[Invisible Backup Band]]▼ * [[Large Ham]] ** [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]] * [[Literal Genie]] * [[Logo Joke]] * [[MacGuffin]]▼ * [[Medicine Show]]▼ * [[No Party Like a Donner Party]] * [[Oscar Bait]]: Lampshaded and spoofed in many of the movies, notably in ''Road to Morocco''. * [[Overly Polite Pals]] * [[Road Movie]]: the [[Trope Codifier]] * [[Pardon My Klingon]]▼ * [[Running Gag]]: "~~Pattycake~~Patty-cake, ~~pattycake~~patty-cake..."▼ * [[Plot Armor]] * [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Roger Ebert called this trope "[[Dorothy Lamour Syndrome]]" after her role(s) in the franchise. * [[Road Movie]] ▲* [[Running Gag]]: "Pattycake, pattycake.." * [[Setting-Off Song]] * [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Lamour. * [[Sneeze of Doom]] * [[Thirsty Desert]] * [[Title Theme Tune]]: "We're off on the road to Morocco..." * [[Travel Montage]]▼ * [[Universal Adaptor Cast]] * [[Vagabond Buddies]] * [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] * [[We Need a Distraction]]: That's what the "patty-cake" routine was for. ----▼ ▲{{tropelist\|~~This~~Individual ~~series~~movies ~~provides~~provide examples, straight or parodied, of:}} ~~=== References in other works: ===~~ == ''[[~~Spies~~Road ~~Like~~to UsSingapore]]'' == ▲ [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''Road to Singapore'' is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed. ▲* [[Medicine Show]] == ''[[Road to Zanzibar]]'' == ▲* [[Captured by Cannibals]]: In ''Road to Zanzibar'', with the cannibals thinking Hope and Crosby are [[Mighty Whitey\|white gods]]... until, that is, the cannibals decide to test their divinity by having Hope get into a side -splittingly hilarious wrestling match with a gorilla. ▲* [[Darkest Africa]]: Once again, from ''Road to Zanzibar''. It uses all the standard Pulp Africa tropes and [[Subverted Trope\|subverts the heck out of them]]. ▲* [[Invisible Backup Band]]: [[Discussed Trope]] ▲* [[Pardon My Klingon]] ▲* [[Travel Montage]] ▲== ''[[~~Book Ends]]: ''~~Road to Morocco]]''. == Tropes specific to ''[[Road to Morocco]]'' are listed on that work's page. == ''[[Road to Utopia]]'' == ▲ [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]] * [[Drink Order]]: "Lemonade... in a dirty glass!" ▲* [[The Gay Nineties]] ▲* [[Greek Chorus]]: Humorist Robert Benchley~~, in ''Road to Utopia''~~. ▲* [[Identical Grandson]]: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ~~''Road~~the ~~to Utopia''~~picture. ("We adopted him.") ▲* [[~~Drink~~Logo ~~Order~~Joke]] == ''[[Road to Rio]]'' == ▲* [[The Cavalry]]: They arrive ''just'' after the fact in ''Rio'', although it's not for lack of trying. ▲* [[MacGuffin]] == ''[[Road to Bali]]'' == ▲** [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Hope's magic flute in ''Bali'', which backfires horribly when Crosby tries his hand at it. * [[The Cameo]]: [[Jane Russell]], at the very end of the picture. == ''[[The Road to Hong Kong]]'' == ▲* [[Demoted to Extra]]: 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 [[The Cameo\|cameo]] appearance. ▲---- {{examples\|References to the ''Road to'' series in other works:}} {{Fake heading\|Film}} * ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'' * ''[[~~Ishtar~~Spies Like Us]]''▼ * ''[[History of the World Part One]]'' The "Roman Empire" segment. Mel Brooks and others sing "We're off on the road to Judea!"▼ * ''[[Ishtar]]'' {{Fake heading\|Music}} * [[They Might Be Giants (band)\|They Might Be Giants]] song "Road Movie to Berlin"▼ {{Fake heading\|Western Animation}} * ''[[Family Guy]]'' episodes "Road to Rhode Island", "Road to Europe", "Road to Rupert", "Road to Germany", and "Road to the Multiverse" * ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' episodes "Road To Tasmania", "Return Of The Road To Tasmania Strikes Back" and "Yet Another Road To Tasmania" * ''[[Duckman]]'' episode "Road to Dendron" * The ''[[~~Tale Spin~~TaleSpin]]'' episodes "For Whom the Bell Klangs" and "The Road to Macadamia" * ''[[The Legend of Tarzan]]'' episode "Tarzan and the Fugitives" * The ''[[ALF\|ALFTales]]'' cartoon episode "The Aladdin Brothers" ▲* [[They Might Be Giants (band)\|They Might Be Giants]] song "Road Movie to Berlin" ▲* ''[[History of the World Part One]]'' The "Roman Empire" segment. Mel Brooks and others sing "We're off on the road to Judea!" ▲* ''[[Ishtar]]'' {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Films of the 1960s~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Film Series]] [[Category:Buddy Picture]] [[Category:Films of the 1940s]]▼ [[Category:The Forties]] ▲[[Category:Films of the 1940s]] [[Category:Films of the 1950s]] [[Category:~~Road~~Films Toof the 1960s]] [[Category:~~Multiple~~Comedy ~~Works Need Separate Pages~~Films]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Black-and-white films]]

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