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{{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)" -->
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{{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
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)
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''[[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].
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{{tropelist|This series provides examples, straight or parodied, of:}}▼
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Bob Hope addressed remarks directly to the audience several times per movie.
** [[Aside Glance]]
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* [[Vagabond Buddies]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]
* [[We Need a Distraction]]:
== ''[[Road to Singapore]]'' ==
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''Road to Singapore'' is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed.
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== ''[[Road to Utopia]]'' ==
* [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]]
* [[Drink Order]]: "Lemonade... in a dirty glass!"
* [[The Gay Nineties]]
* [[Greek Chorus]]: Humorist Robert Benchley
* [[Identical Grandson]]: Used to hilarious effect at the end of
* [[Logo Joke]]
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== ''[[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]]'' ==
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{{examples|References to the ''Road to'' series in other works:}}▼
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▲{{examples|References in other works:}}
* ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]''
* ''[[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]]''
* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] song "Road Movie to Berlin"
* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[The Legend of Tarzan]]'' episode "Tarzan and the Fugitives"
* The ''[[ALF|ALFTales]]'' cartoon episode "The Aladdin Brothers"
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[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]
[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]
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[[Category:Black-and-white films]]
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