History YMMV / TheBluesBrothers

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: There was a platformer for the UsefulNotes/SuperNES. It has almost nothing to do with either the movies or the skit [[InNameOnly beyond the name]], controls that are poor at best, downright painful at worst, and it isn't designed too well. Oh, and it was made by Creator/TitusSoftware, who also worked on the Super NES PortingDisaster of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'', ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} [[SuperTitleSixtyFourAdvance 64]]'' (another Porting Disaster), ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' for the Game Boy and, last but not least, ''VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}''. Not much more needs to be said about this.

** It's also highly regarded as the singular best movie, if not the ''only'' good movie, adapted from an ''SNL'' skit (with the arguable exception of the ''Film/WaynesWorld'' movies).

** In the same scene, the brothers get past the rally and counter-protest by driving their car through the crowd. In August 2017, a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, killing one and injuring at least 19 others. In later years, this has happened increasingly, with some states even immunizing drivers from liability if they hit a person.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Jake and Elwood pay the taxes for the orphanage, but they wind up in jail.

* ValuesResonance: The hated Illinois Nazis feel relevant again in the wake of the resurgence of far-right extremism in late 2010s, such as the riots in Charlottesville, VA in 2017.

* HilariousInHindsight: The brothers' agent tells them that {{blues}} is a DeadHorseGenre and they should switch their act to {{disco}}. Thirty years after the film's release, blues music is still going strong, while disco remains going through periods of PopularityPolynomial.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Assuming it was a really high-end microphone, Elwood's swapping the original Bluesmobile for one was not automatically a bad deal.

** Elwood notably gets several elements of their performance wrong at Bob's Country Bunker (calling the ''Rawhide'' theme "an old Rowdy Yates tune").[[note]]Rowdy Yates was a character on the show, not the songwriter[[/note]] Is this the creators [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer not doing their research?]] Or is it meant to show that Elwood is out of his element at a country bar and is mostly bullshitting his way through the set? Or was Elwood getting it ''deliberately'' incorrect because they needed to get out of there?
** Another bit of brilliance. That old beaten-up police car of theirs takes a lot more damage and punishment than any car ''ought'' to, and they are able to evade Nazis, police, Jake's heavily-armed [[PsychoExGirlfriend pissed off ex]], etc. as well as being able to have multiple car chases with no casualties. But the car suffers CriticalExistenceFailure the ''instant'' the Blues Brothers park outside the office and are able to deliver the cash. They really ''were'' subject to divine intervention and the car falls apart because its mission to ferry the Brothers to the office was complete.
** It is also easy to see divine intervention in another way: no innocent person is actually hurt or ''killed'' by the Blue Brothers and their high speech chases. The police chasing them [[HeroAntagonist are technically antagonists, but rightfully doing their jobs and arresting two felons]]. Hell, the parole officer genuinely likes the Blues Brothers and even lets them do a performance. The Good Old Boys chase after them, but they right to be angry at the Blues Brothers for cheating them out of a gig. The only people who (possibly) get killed are the Illinois Nazis, and they were racist scumbags who even the police didn't particularly care for.

** One iconic scene has Jake and Elwood heroically running down a group of neo-Nazis with their car. In 2017, this scenario played out in reverse to far more tragic effect when, during a white supremacy rally in Virginia, several counter-protesters were run down, one of them fatally, by a neo-Nazi in his car. Even worse, both the Blues Brothers and the real-life neo-Nazi were driving Dodges, a Monaco in the case of the former and a Challenger in the case of the latter.

** In the same scene, the brothers get past the rally and counter-protest by driving their car through the crowd. In August 2017, a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, VA, killing one and injuring at least 19 others. In later years, this has happened increasingly, with some states even immunizing drivers from liability if they hit a person.

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/FrankOz as the prison guard, Kathleen Freeman as the Penguin, Music/JamesBrown as the Preacher, Music/ArethaFranklin as the diner owner, Music/RayCharles as the owner of Ray's, Creator/PaulReubens as the waiter at Chez Paul.

** Creator/PaulReubens is a waiter at the Chez Paul.

* {{Squick}}: The soiled prophylactic the corrections officer fishes out of Jake's belongings with a pen.
* ValuesResonance: The hated Illinois Nazis feel relevant again in the wake of the resurgence of far-right extremism in late 2010s, such as the riots in Charlottesville, VA in 2017

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The Illinois Nazis.
-->'''Elwood:''' Illinois ''Nazis''.
-->'''Jake:''' I ''hate'' Illinois Nazis.

** It's never really elaborated on, but Elwood's love of plain white toast (as opposed to more flavorful food) and insistence on wearing sunglasses at all times can be seen as someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder trying to avoid sensory overload. This is only reinforced by his tendency to go off on rambling tangents in conversation about everything from car specs to blues musicians to Russian politics.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Elwood's "Who you gonna call, Jake?" at the phone booth is put in entirely new perspective when you consider Aykroyd's [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 other well-known work]].
** [[Film/TheDarkKnight Another movie]] made in Chicago has featured an extended, extremely destructive chase scene through the Chicago underpass system. Soundtrack swap material, anyone?
** "Are you the police?" "No, ma'am, we're musicians." Guess [[Music/ThePolice which band]] was just beginning to become internationally famous at the time when the movie was released? Becomes funnier, since Police guitarist Andy Summers and Creator/JohnBelushi were good friends who went out partying together.
*** Also funnier since Aykroyd's deadpan delivery of "ma'am" so perfectly foreshadows his later turn as [[Film/{{Dragnet}} Jack Webb]] a few years later.
** The brothers' agent tells them that {{blues}} is a DeadHorseGenre and they should switch their act to {{disco}}. Thirty years after the film's release, blues music is still going strong, while disco remains going through periods of PopularityPolynomial.
** The "fucking Illinois Nazis" wound up being the first American-based neo-Nazis to be officially labeled a terrorist organization by their state in 2017, a result of the aforementioned tragedy in Virginia.
*** One of the Illinois Nazis (who actually participated in the march that inspired their inclusion in this movie) is now [[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-arthur-jones-congressional-primary-20180204-story.html running for Congress]], in a district that includes part of Chicago, no less.
** A close-up shows that the Bluesmobile has lost the second D of its rear Dodge decal, so it reads "Doge". Just like the [[MemeticMutation totally unrelated meme]] decades later.