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The Road to ... movies are a series of comedic adventure films starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and (usually) Dorothy Lamour. Each of the films is a parody of a particular genre set in a different "exotic" locale, brimming with gags and musical numbers.The series inspired a number of later comedy films, including Spies Like Us, Ishtar, and The Road to El Dorado, as well as the Family Guy "Road to..." episodes focusing mostly on Brian and Stewie. | |
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Cymbal-Banging Monkey | |
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Cymbal-Banging Monkey: In Road to Utopia, when Hope and Crosby enter a talent contest, their act follows a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Several, particularly in the last two films. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: Bob and Bing's "pattycake" game. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Hope addressed remarks directly to the audience several times per movie. | |
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Buddy Picture | |
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Buddy Picture | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: Road to Bali: The branch that Hope and Crosby are leaning against breaks, but they stay suspended in mid-air. | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: The climax of Road to Rio. While the two heroes are busy tangling the villainess and her two henchmen, an ally (Jerry Colonna) and a bunch of reinforcements ride furiously toward the heroes' location. But then suddenly, the heroes have won and the villains are hauled off to jail without The Cavalry ever arriving. Colonna reins in his horse mid-gallop and cheerfully comments to the camera: "Well, we never made it. But exciting, wasn't it!" | |
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Tropical Island Adventure | |
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Tropical Island Adventure: Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar and Road to Bali. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: Jerry Colonna's rendition of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in Road to Singapore begins with one of these. | |
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Road Trip Plot | |
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Road Trip Plot: All of the pictures featured Bob and Bing as comic partners getting in various misadventures as they traveled from A to B. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Road to Singapore is a lot more subdued and conventional than the films that followed, with less Breaking the Fourth Wall. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator: Robert Benchley in Road to Utopia. | |
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Logo Joke | |
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Logo Joke: In Road to Utopia, Hope and Crosby are sledding through the Klondike countryside and enjoying the scenery, when something catches Hope's eye: | |
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Just Smile and Nod | |
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Just Smile and Nod: Dorothy Lamour frequently did this when she shared scenes with Hope and Crosby. Justified in that more often than not Hope and Crosby were off-script. | |
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Medicine Show | |
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Medicine Show: Road to Singapore has Hope, Crosby and Lamour playing ocarinas and selling bottled soap as a miracle stain remover. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Lamour, though both Zanzibar and Morocco gave her a female sidekick/traveling companion. | |
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Drink-Based Characterization | |
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Drink-Based Characterization: In Road to Utopia, Hope's character tries to fit in at tough-guy frontier bar, but then orders a lemonade. Realizing his mistake, he quickly turns to the bartender and growls, "...in a dirty glass!" | |
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Giant Squid | |
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Giant Squid: In Road to Bali. | |
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Iconic Outfit | |
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Iconic Outfit: Dorothy Lamour's sarong. They even managed to sneak it into Road to Utopia, which is set in the Yukon, via an Imagine Spot. | |
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Born in the Theatre | |
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Born in the Theatre: As Crosby gets ready to sing a song, Hope turns to the camera and says, "OK, folks, now's the time to go get some more popcorn from the lobby." | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: Road to Utopia starts out in current (1946) times and then flashes back to the turn of the century. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Dorothy Lamour on making the pictures: "I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham." | |
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Vagabond Buddies | |
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Vagabond Buddies: Forever on the road, bickering every step of the way. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: Used to hilarious effect at the end of Road to Utopia. ("We adopted him.") | |
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The "The" Title Confusion | |
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The "The" Title Confusion: Only The Road to Hong Kong includes the definite article in its title. | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way: In Road to Bali, a bullet shot out of a bent gun barrel starts whizzing around in circles, due to the Rule of Funny. | |
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Language of Love | |
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Language of Love: Road to Rio suggests this trope in the song "You Don't Have to Know the Language". | |
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Overly Polite Pals | |
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Overly Polite Pals: Hope and Crosby had been known to invoke the trope on occasion. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: In Road to Rio, there are the mysterious Papers that have no bearing on the plot besides having an interesting safe-cracking scene. Lampshaded when Hope and Crosby say that "the world must never know" their contents. At the end, when the papers have been recovered and they're about to be read, they get torn up instead, since they've served their dramatic purpose. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Hope's usual persona is either this, a Lovable Coward, or both. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Hope's magic flute in Bali, which backfires horribly when Crosby tries his hand at it. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Hope's characters repeatedly get dragged into various schemes hatched by Crosby's. | |
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The End | |
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The End: In Road to Bali, Hope is unsatisfied with the ending, so he keeps trying to shove the "The End" card off the screen, until it becomes "Positively The End". | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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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 cameo appearance. | |
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Thematic Series | |
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Thematic Series: Despite sharing the same actors and style of humor (to say nothing of being in the same series), the movies are technically not part of the same narrative, with the actors playing different, yet similar characters in each. | |
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Universal-Adaptor Cast | |
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Universal-Adaptor Cast: In each movie, Hope, Crosby and Lamour play different characters with similar personalities. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Hope and Crosby have this dynamic. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Personality," the big hit song of Road to Utopia, uses the title as a euphemism for a woman's body, with lines like "She had a well-developed personality." | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: The "patty-cake" routine: When faced with a foe, Hope and Crosby start playing patty-cake, and while the bad guy watches in bemusement, they each punch him out simultaneously. Occasionally, the villain is onto them and hits them first, causing Hope to point out that "he must have seen the picture". | |
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Greek Chorus | |
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Greek Chorus: Humorist Robert Benchley, in Road to Utopia. | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: When not outright Breaking the Fourth Wall, the guys often glance at the camera. | |
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Worthless Currency | |
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Worthless Currency: Road to Utopia has Bing, having swindled some money out of drunks in their crooked theater show, discarding some of it because it is "Confederate ten spots"; remarking that "some people can be so crooked." | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The boys play pattycake before the big brawl at the climax of each film. | |
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Character Aged with the Actor | |
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Character Aged with the Actor: The Road to Hong Kong, filmed much later, deals with the pair being significantly older. Ironically, Dorothy Lamour (in spite of being over a decade younger than the guys) was judged by Crosby to be too old to be a leading lady anymore, so she was Demoted to Extra. | |
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TheGayNineties | |
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The Gay '90s: Road to Utopia is set in the '90s gold rush in the Yukon. | |
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