Road to Morocco

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This is the screwiest picture I was ever in. —The camel, Breaking the Fourth Wall

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope reprise their earlier success with the third in their series of "Road To" pictures. In Road to Morocco, the hapless duo are castaways on a desert shore where they employ snappy dialog, asides to the camera, and a little song and dance as they woo Dorothy Lamour across the dunes, but not before encountering a spitting camel.

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

In addition to the tropes that are common to the franchise, tropes used in Road to Morocco include:

• Award Bait Song: "Moonlight Becomes You". It has its own page on The Other Wiki.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Hope's character gets his hands on a magic ring – that acts as a Literal Genie. An imprisoned Jeff and Orville are given a ring which grants wishes, but are told it doesn't work for everyone. They're also given two poison tablets to use in case the ring doesn't work for either of them. When the ring doesn't work for Jeff, Orville begins to swallow a tablet, and then...

Orville: (to the sky) Set the table, Aunt Lucy, there'll be two more for dinner... Boy, I sure wish I had a drink. (a drink appears in Orville's hand) Jeff: Junior! Junior, It worked! How about that, the magic ring, it worked on you! Orville: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! (Orville turns into, well, a monkey)

• Book Ends: The movie starts and ends with the boys adrift at sea.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Too many to list them all.
  • At one point, 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.
  • From the song "Road to Morocco":

For any villains we may meet We haven't any fear Paramount will protect us 'cause We're signed for five more years.

• • After Bob's recap exposition:

Bing: "I know all that!" Bob: "Yeah, but the people who came in the middle of the picture don't." Bing: "You mean they missed my song?"

• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The entire picture, which was released just days after Allied troops invaded North Africa. That didn't stop it from being the fourth-highest-grossing picture of 1942, though.
• Hollywood Mirage
• Incredibly Lame Pun: It's a "Road" movie - what did you expect? One from the title song:

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

• No Party Like a Donner Party: Played for Laughs in the opening.
• Oscar Bait: Lampshaded and spoofed, to the point that the closing exchange from the movie serves as the page quote for Academy Award.
• Plot Armor
• Setting-Off Song
• Sneeze of Doom
• Think of the Censors: In the title song:

I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils We'd tell you more, but we would have the censor on our tails

• Thirsty Desert
• Throw It In: The spitting camel scene.
• Title Theme Tune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."