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{{quote|''"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound"''}} |
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* [[Oscar Bait]]: Lampshaded and spoofed, to the point that an exchange from the movie serves as the page quote for [[Academy Award]]. |
* [[Oscar Bait]]: Lampshaded and spoofed, to the point that an exchange from the movie serves as the page quote for [[Academy Award]]. |
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* [[Think of the Censors]]: In the title song: |
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{{quote|I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils |
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We'd tell you more, but we would have the censor on our tails}} |
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* [[Throw It In]]: The spitting camel scene. |
* [[Throw It In]]: The spitting camel scene. |
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This is the screwiest picture I was ever in.
—one of the camels
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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.
- 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. |
- 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 |
- After Bob's recap exposition:
Bing: "I know all that!" |
- 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.
- Incredibly Lame Pun
"Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound" |
- Oscar Bait: Lampshaded and spoofed, to the point that an exchange from the movie serves as the page quote for Academy Award.
- Think of the Censors: In the title song:
I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils |
- Throw It In: The spitting camel scene.
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