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* [[Identical Grandson]]: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ''Road to Utopia''. ("We adopted him.")
* [[Identical Grandson]]: Used to hilarious effect at the end of ''Road to Utopia''. ("We adopted him.")
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]]
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]]
{{quote|''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''}}.
{{quote|''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''}}
* [[Invisible Backup Band]]
* [[Invisible Backup Band]]
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Large Ham]]

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There had been comedy teams in movies before, of course, and fast-paced dialogue, but the Road pictures introduced something new. The interplay between Groucho and Chico Marx, say, or 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. Hope and Crosby seemed like ordinary guys — 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.

The franchise inspired some other movies, including The Road to El Dorado.

Road to Morocco was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.

This series provides examples, straight or parodied, of:

"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"

References in other works:

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