History Awesome / TheBluesBrothers

* Who could forget Carrie Fisher's epically badass speech to Jake?

* Just the fact that this film predates most [[JukeboxMusical Jukebox Musicals]] makes this alone a CMOA!

** Escaping into the Cook County building, barricading it, climbing up the stairs, and paying the tax instants before every policeman, firefighter and National Guardsman in Illinois finally take them into custody.

-->'''Elwood:''' I hate Illinois Nazis.

** Special CMOA points go to Cab Calloway for absolutely ''killing'' with "Minnie the Moocher".

-->'''Elwood:''' I hate Illinois Nazis."

** Escaping into the Cook County building, barricading it, climbing up the stairs, and paying the tax just before hundreds of police, firefighters, and ''Illinois National Guardsmen''' and snipers.
* Playing ''Jailhouse Rock'' while they themselves are all in jail. [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet, perhaps]], but given the odyssey in getting to Chicago, which ended with them finally paying the county clerk to keep their old orphanage open, and every cop, firefighter, soldier, and National Guardsman within several states to bring them in, it was all worth it.

** Elwood's introduction to "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" -- there is something incredibly ballsy about not just acknowledging presence of the police officers who have arrived there to arrest you, but actually ''welcoming'' them:

* The entire fourth quarter of the movie, which starts with this very famous exchange:

* So the Blues Brothers are near a bridge but it's being blocked by Illinois Nazis who are giving an incredibly hateful and racist speech, no one wants them around. So what do the Blues Brothers do? Head around the traffic and ''drive straight for the bastards!''

* The soundtrack to both movies are musical [=CMoA=] in my opinion - If you can't tap your feet during the musical numbers there must be something wrong with you!
** And considering the shear number of musical genres represented.

* So the Blues Brothers are near a bridge but it's being blocked by Illinois Nazis who are giving an incredibly hateful speech, no one wants them around. So what do the Blues Brothers do? Head around the traffic and ''drive straight for the bastards!''

* The tone as a whole is triumphant, though, considering how final scene plays out. The band doesn't let a little thing like ''prison'' change anything. No matter where they are, or what's happened, they will always be making music, and they will always get people dancing.

* This film's rendition of ''Rawhide'' is one of the most perfect renditions you'll ever here.

--> '''Carrie:''' You contempitable pig. I remained celibate for you. I stood in the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendence. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good.... I must now kill you and your brother.

* RayCharles demonstrating his skill as as learnt from the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy

** Followed by a CrowningMomemtOfFunny when Jake weasels out of it.