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* IllTimedSneeze: Jeff and Orville are hiding from Kasim by pretending to be two severed heads on plinths--but a fly lands on Orville's face. Eventually he sneezes, giving them away.
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* SneezeOfDoom: Jeff and Orville are hiding from Kasim by pretending to be two severed heads on plinths--but a fly lands on Orville's face. Eventually he sneezes, giving them away.
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* MediumAwareness: A hallmark of the ''Road To'' series which occurs multiple times in this installment.
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* MediumAwareness: A hallmark of the ''Road To'' series to...'' series, which occurs multiple times in this installment.
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* VocalDissonance: During a reprise of "Moonlight Becomes You", Hope, Crosby, and Lamour all wind up singing with each other's voices via {{Gag Dub}}bing.
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* {{Handwave}}: At one point the duo are bound hand and foot and wrapped up inside nets, hopping across the desert. They get loose somehow off-screen, and when Orville asks how they managed it, Jeff says they'd better not tell, as the audience would never believe it.
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
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* {{Handwave}}: At one point point, the duo are bound hand and foot and wrapped up inside nets, hopping across the desert. They get loose somehow off-screen, and when Orville asks how they managed it, Jeff says they'd better not tell, as the audience would never believe it.
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by a singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by a singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
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* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing an Arab sheik.
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* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing plays an Arab sheik.
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* ThirstyDesert: As indicated above, the duo spend time wandering across a comedic version of one of these.
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* ThirstyDesert: As indicated above, the The duo spend time wandering across a comedic version of one of these.
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* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."
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* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco...""
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* LostAtSea: At the beginning and at the end. Parodied at the end, when, after Orville's overly dramatic speech (see OscarBait below), Jeff points out that they're within sight of New York harbor.
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* LostAtSea: At the beginning and Played relatively straight at the end. Parodied start of the movie, and then parodied at the end, when, after Orville's overly dramatic speech (see OscarBait below), Jeff points out that they're within sight of New York harbor.
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* MisplacedWildlife: A bactrian camel... in Africa.
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* SpitefulSpit: In an [[ThrowItIn unscripted moment]], the camel gets Hope in the face in this fashion.
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* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.
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* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.As indicated above, the duo spend time wandering across a comedic version of one of these.
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* ImAHumanitarian: PlayedForLaughs like everything else. While they're adrift, Jeff informs Orville that Orville will be Jeff's dinner. Luckily they spot land right after this.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: PlayedForLaughs like everything else. While they're adrift, Jeff informs Orville that Orville will be Jeff's dinner. Luckily they spot land right after this.
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In this one Crosby and Hope play Jeff and Orville, two ne'er-do-well cousins who are adrift at sea after a ship wreck...Orville took a smoke break in the powder room. They wash up on the coast of North Africa and hitch a ride on a friendly camel, ending up in a city somewhere in Morocco. They run afoul of bad guy Sheik Kasim, who is about to enter into an ArrangedMarriage with the gorgeous Princess Shalamar (Lamour). Romantic complications and comedy hijinks ensue.
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In this one Crosby and Hope play Jeff and Orville, two ne'er-do-well cousins who are adrift at sea after a ship wreck...Orville wreck--Orville took a smoke break in the powder room. They wash up on the coast of North Africa and hitch a ride on a friendly camel, ending up in a city somewhere in Morocco. They run afoul of bad guy Sheik Kasim, who is about to enter into an ArrangedMarriage with the gorgeous Princess Shalamar (Lamour). Romantic complications and comedy hijinks ensue.
* BedlahBabe: All the harem girls, most noticeably the gorgeous one who falls for Orville. Princess Shalamar is dressed this way as well to maximize the {{Fanservice}}.
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* HaremOutfit: All the harem girls, most noticeably the gorgeous one who falls for Orville. Princess Shalamar is dressed this way as well to maximize the {{Fanservice}}.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Orville gets his hands on a magic ring; unfortunate complications ensue.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Orville gets his hands on a magic ring; unfortunate complications ensue. See LiteralGenie below.
* PoisonRing: The Magic ring that Orville's girl slips our heroes also has poison pills hidden inside, in case the magic doesn't work.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: It's subtle, but Hope says in ''Morocco'' that he was born on September 13, 1913. "It was a Friday." (Never mind that it was actually a Saturday...)
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: It's subtle, but Hope says in ''Morocco'' that he was born on September 13, 1913. "It was a Friday." (Never mind that it was actually a Saturday...)
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* BornInTheTheater: After Orville rants about what a fix they're in and how they got this way.
--> '''Jeff''': I know all that.\\
'''Orville''': Yeah, but the people who came in to the middle of the picture don't!\\
'''Jeff''': You mean they missed my song?
--> '''Jeff''': I know all that.\\
'''Orville''': Yeah, but the people who came in to the middle of the picture don't!\\
'''Jeff''': You mean they missed my song?
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* SneezeOfDoom: Jeff and Orville are hiding from Kasim by pretending to be two severed heads on plinths--but a fly lands on Orville's face. Eventually he sneezes, giving them away.
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* BalconyScene: The process of stealing Shalamar away from Orville is expedited when Jeff walks around the palace singing a romantic song, and catches her on her balcony.
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* BalconyScene: The process AccidentalKiss: Jeff and Orville both try to kiss their shared hallucination of stealing Shalamar away from Orville is expedited when Jeff walks around while they're stranded in the palace singing desert. But she's a romantic song, and catches her on her balcony.hallucination, so they kiss each other.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Kasim simply dumps Jeff and Orville in the desert, despite earlier vowing to deliver a torturous death.
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* CirclingVultures: "Buzzards" start circling overhead as Jeff and Orville are wandering in the desert.
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* HaremOutfit: All the harem girls, most noticeably the gorgeous one who falls for Orville. Princess Shalamar is dressed this way as well to maximize the {{Fanservice}}.
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* BalconySerenade: The process of stealing Shalamar away from Orville is expedited when Jeff walks around the palace singing a romantic song, and catches her on her balcony.
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* BalconySerenade: BalconyScene: The process of stealing Shalamar away from Orville is expedited when Jeff walks around the palace singing a romantic song, and catches her on her balcony.
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* ImAHumanitarian: PlayedForLaughs like everything else. While they're adrift, Jeff informs Orville that Orville will be Jeff's dinner. Luckily they spot land right after this.
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* LostAtSea: At the beginning and at the end. Parodied at the end, when, after Orville's overly dramatic speech (see OscarBait below), Jeff points out that they're within sight of New York harbor.
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* BalconySerenade: The process of stealing Shalamar away from Orville is expedited when Jeff walks around the palace singing a romantic song, and catches her on her balcony.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Shalamar gives Orville a long passionate kiss, the long curled toes of his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crakow_(shoe) poulaine shoes]] straighten out.
--> '''Jeff''': Now kiss him on the nose, see if you can straighten that out.
--> '''Jeff''': Now kiss him on the nose, see if you can straighten that out.
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* ShoutOut: When Jeff dreams of dead Aunt Lucy, the dream ends with her saying "I have to go. Film/HereComesMrJordan."
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* ThinkOfTheCensors: 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
-->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
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In this one Crosby and Hope play Jeff and Orville, two ne'er-do-well cousins who are adrift at sea after a ship wreck...Orville took a smoke break in the powder room. They wash up on the coast of North Africa and hitch a ride on a friendly camel, ending up in a city somewhere in Morocco. They run afoul of bad guy Sheik Kasim, who happens is about to have a enter into an ArrangedMarriage with the gorgeous daughter, Princess Shalamar (Lamour). Romantic complications and comedy hijinks ensue.
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* ComedicSociopathy: Jeff ''sells Orville into slavery''. Because he needs the cash.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Orville gets his hands on a magic ring; unfortunate complications ensue.
* BookEnds: Begins and ends with the protagonists LostAtSea.
* CrashingThroughTheHarem: Orville and Jeff try to hide from the evil Kasim by hiding in a harem. Unfortunately, they get found out.
* BookEnds: Begins and ends with the protagonists LostAtSea.
* CrashingThroughTheHarem: Orville and Jeff try to hide from the evil Kasim by hiding in a harem. Unfortunately, they get found out.
* {{Handwave}}: At one point the duo are bound hand and foot and wrapped up inside nets, hopping across the desert. They get loose somehow off-screen, and when Orville asks how they managed it, Jeff says they'd better not tell, as the audience would never believe it.
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* LiteralGenie: 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 a monkey)''
* HollywoodMirage: There's a mirage of a drive-in, followed by singing mirage of Dorothy Lamour, who disappears when touched.
* LiteralGenie: 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 a monkey)''
* NotSoRemote: Ends with Orville and Jeff stranded on a raft after Hope accidentally blows up the ship. Just as Orville is winding up to a big dramatic moment about the possibility of them dying out there, Jeff points out that they're within sight of New York.
* OscarBait: InUniverse. Lampshaded and spoofed, ending with Orville and Jeff stranded on a raft after Orville accidentally blows up the ship:
-->'''Orville''': I can't go on! No food, no water! It's all my fault. We're done for! It's got me. I can't stand it! No food, nothing! No food, no water! No food! ''HAHAHAHAHA!!''\\
'''Jeff''': What's the matter with you, anyway? There's New York. We'll be picked up in a few minutes.\\
'''Orville''': ''(snaps out of it)'' You had to open your big mouth and ruin the only good scene I got in the picture. I might've won the Academy Award!
* PlotArmor: {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ed in the title song:
-->For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;\\
Creator/{{Paramount}} will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years.
* OscarBait: InUniverse. Lampshaded and spoofed, ending with Orville and Jeff stranded on a raft after Orville accidentally blows up the ship:
-->'''Orville''': I can't go on! No food, no water! It's all my fault. We're done for! It's got me. I can't stand it! No food, nothing! No food, no water! No food! ''HAHAHAHAHA!!''\\
'''Jeff''': What's the matter with you, anyway? There's New York. We'll be picked up in a few minutes.\\
'''Orville''': ''(snaps out of it)'' You had to open your big mouth and ruin the only good scene I got in the picture. I might've won the Academy Award!
* PlotArmor: {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ed in the title song:
-->For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;\\
Creator/{{Paramount}} will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years.
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* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing an Arab sheik.
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* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing an Arab sheik.sheik.
* SettingOffSong: "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco"
* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: It's subtle, but Hope says in ''Morocco'' that he was born on September 13, 1913. "It was a Friday." (Never mind that it was actually a Saturday...)
* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."
* SettingOffSong: "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco"
* ThirstyDesert: Played with in ''Road to Morocco''.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: It's subtle, but Hope says in ''Morocco'' that he was born on September 13, 1913. "It was a Friday." (Never mind that it was actually a Saturday...)
* TitleThemeTune: "We're off on the road to Morocco..."
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''Road to Morocco'' is a 1942 film directed by David Butler, starring Music/BingCrosby, Creator/BobHope, and Dorothy Lamour. It is the third film in the popular ''Film/RoadTo'' series.
In this one Crosby and Hope play Jeff and Orville, two ne'er-do-well cousins who are adrift at sea after a ship wreck...Orville took a smoke break in the powder room. They wash up on the coast of North Africa and hitch a ride on a friendly camel, ending up in a city somewhere in Morocco. They run afoul of bad guy Sheik Kasim, who happens to have a gorgeous daughter, Princess Shalamar (Lamour). Romantic complications and comedy hijinks ensue.
A pre-stardom Creator/AnthonyQuinn plays Sheik Kasim.
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* DutchAngle: Used for every speaker in the opening scene as various newscasters around the world report the loss of the ship Orville and Jeff were stowing away on.
* MediumAwareness: A hallmark of the ''Road To'' series which occurs multiple times in this installment.
--> "I'll lay you 8 to 5 that we meet Dorothy Lamour."
* PlotHole: These were silly movies driven by RuleOfFunny, of course--but how did two people cast into the Mediterranean Sea by a shipwreck manage to cobble together a wooden raft?
* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing an Arab sheik.
In this one Crosby and Hope play Jeff and Orville, two ne'er-do-well cousins who are adrift at sea after a ship wreck...Orville took a smoke break in the powder room. They wash up on the coast of North Africa and hitch a ride on a friendly camel, ending up in a city somewhere in Morocco. They run afoul of bad guy Sheik Kasim, who happens to have a gorgeous daughter, Princess Shalamar (Lamour). Romantic complications and comedy hijinks ensue.
A pre-stardom Creator/AnthonyQuinn plays Sheik Kasim.
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* DutchAngle: Used for every speaker in the opening scene as various newscasters around the world report the loss of the ship Orville and Jeff were stowing away on.
* MediumAwareness: A hallmark of the ''Road To'' series which occurs multiple times in this installment.
--> "I'll lay you 8 to 5 that we meet Dorothy Lamour."
* PlotHole: These were silly movies driven by RuleOfFunny, of course--but how did two people cast into the Mediterranean Sea by a shipwreck manage to cobble together a wooden raft?
* RaceLift: Mexican Anthony Quinn playing an Arab sheik.
