Funny / The Blues Brothers

A true list of funny moments for this film would basically be a read-through of the script.

• All of the car chase scenes (especially the one through a frickin' shopping mall! made even better by the utterly deadpan Jake and Elwood).
  Jake: This place has everything!
  Elwood: New Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
  • This line from Elwood before the mall chase. Not just because of the way he says "OK", but he gets them out of the parking lot, all right:
    Elwood: You want out of this parking lot? OK.
• When the leader of the Illinois Nazis and his lieutenant are plummeting to their death, the lieutenant just has to make it awkward:
  Neo-Nazi: I've always loved you.
• Willie 'Too Big' Hall: So, Jake, you're out, you're free, you're rehabilitated. What's next? What's happenin'? What you gonna do? You got the money you owe us, motherfucker?
• The greatest moment was when the ex-girlfriend nearly blew up the protagonists with a drive-by missile launch, and their reaction.
• Elwood's completely nonchalant reaction to being blown sky-high by the woman attempting to kill Jake with a flamethrower.
  Elwood: Hey, Jake! There's gotta be at least seven dollars worth of change here!
• Sister Mary Stigmata AKA "The Penguin", especially the moment when Jake and Elwood keep swearing and the nun keeps whacking them with her ruler, eventually sending them retreating out of the room still stuck in their school desks and tumbling down the stairs. Especially when Elwood actually calls her "Penguin" as she does so.
  The Penguin: You are such a disappointing pair. I prayed so hard for you. It saddens and hurts me that the two young men whom I raised to believe in the Ten Commandments have returned to me as two thieves, with filthy mouths and bad attitudes. Get out! And don't come back... until you've redeemed yourselves. (seems to float back into her office and the door slams behind her)
  • "Boys, you gotta learn not to talk to nuns that way."
• The scene when they drive over a bridge and through the Illinois Nazis.
  • It's the only scene in which the police and the Blues Brothers are on the same side. The cop who filled them in about the Nazis watched them drive all those Nazis off the bridge, but darn! He seems to have forgotten to file the offending vehicle's license number or any description of the culprits. Drat! And then, his colleagues pushed away the crowd to let the Bluesmobile through.
• The whole "Minnie the Moocher" scene. Between the band magically turning into a swing ensemble, Jake and Elwood sneaking in from outside to the rhythm of the song, and the audience trying to keep up with the scatting section, the whole thing is completely absurd.
• "We would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community, who have chosen to join us here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time."
• The end when the Blues Brothers are handcuffed and turn around to see every cop and National Guardsman in Illinois pointing their guns at them
  • The sheer absurd scale of the task force sent to bring them in; it ends up being not only every cop, state trooper, fire-fighter and National Guardsman in Illinois, but tanks, helicopters and water patrols... sent after two musicians in black suits in a beat-up old police car.
  • Lampshaded by a deadpan police dispatcher: "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.''
  • All of the SWAT scenes that has them shout "Hut!Hut!Hut!Hut!Hut!" rapidly during every action, including roping down the side of the building.
  • While chasing after the brothers, the mob stops to ask directions from a clerk.
    Cop: Excuse me, did you just see two men? Black clothes, black hats, one carrying a briefcase?
    Clerk: Yeah, I just sent 'em down there.
    Cop: Thank you.
    (The mob goes back to running and screaming)
• Jake's Large Ham / Hurricane of Excuses speech to Carrie Fisher telling her why he left her at the altar, which culminates with: "THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE! A TERRIBLE FLOOD! LOCUSTS! IT WASN'T MY FAULT I SWEAR TO GOD!" ... And when that doesn't work, he takes off his sunglasses. That works. After which he kisses her, drops her on the ground, and says to Elwood "Let's go".
  • Elwood then says to her "Take it easy!"
• Burton Mercer, after the epic chase ends with him and his police car sticking out of the side of a semi:
  Mercer: Hi. This is car...what number are we?
  Cop: Five five.
  Mercer: Car 55. Uh, we're in a truck! Heh-heh!
  • During the concert, Jake and Elwood wave at the cops while performing “Sweet Home Chicago.” Burton enthusiastically waves back and then points at them. Jake looks throughly confused while Burton just chuckles.
• The rednecks switch from throwing beer bottles at the stage in anger... to throwing beer bottles at the stage as applause. Makes you wonder how long it took for the owner to install that cage.
  • "Chicken wire?"
• The Cool Car falling to pieces the exact second Jake and Elwood don't need it anymore.
  • And the "Oh dear" reaction faces of the nearby statues.
• Jake and Elwood blackmailing Mr. Fabulous into coming back to the band by behaving badly in a ritzy restaurant. It really must be seen in all its hilarity.
  • "How much for ze women? Sell me your children!"
  • The little girl's reactions throughout the sequence too.
  • (Elwood holds up a non-wine glass) "Wrong glass, sir." (Elwood insists)
• When Jake gets his Mission from God:
  "YES! YES! JESUS H. TAP-DANCING CHRIST, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!"
  • "What light?!"
• Jake uses a pack of cigarettes to fool the Good 'Ol Boys into thinking he was a Union boss.
• Elwood stealing fireworks from the gas station.
• During the montage of everyone getting the word out about the show, we see Ray hanging up a flier in his store...upside down.
  • Whose idea was it to give Ray a gun?
  • Hell, Ray's practically a walking, talking moment of funny in and of himself, thanks to the sheer amount of Adam Westing on the part of Ray Charles.
• The hotel the brothers are staying in gets completely and totally levelled while they're in it. After a few seconds, they wake up and brush the rubble off, their suits perfectly ironed and without a single scratch on them.
  • Even better, the charges go off just as the cops break down the door of the room they're staying in. One wonders if they thought they overdid it with the battering ram...
• During their performance of "Stand By Your Man", there's a selection of shots of various couples in the Country Bunker... and one lonely cowboy crying in his beer.
  • And they're still throwing beer bottles at the stage.
• The Cheez Whiz incident. Was it product placement, an Orphaned Punchline for a cut scene, or just evidence that Elwood's errands for the day were "1. Get Cheez Whiz for buddy, 2. Pick up brother from prison"?
  Random Old Man: You get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?!
  (Elwood produces a can of Cheez Whiz and tosses it over)
  • What's even funnier, is that the random old transient (who is portrayed by Shotgun Britton, the movie's makeup artist) is listed in the credits as 'The Cheese Whiz'.
• "Are you the police?" "No, ma'am. We're musicians."
• Of the Fridge Logic variety. The band's bar tab is $300 by the end of the Bob's Bunker's gig. Beer at the time cost less than two dollars a pint. Even given this was a tab for nine people... that's a lot of beer.
• Mrs. Murphy: "The Blues Brothers? Shit, they still owe you money, fool!"
• During the band's performance of the Rawhide theme song in the bar, Elwood gives a passionate performance. Meanwhile Jake, having no interest in the song, just stands there with his arms crossed while yelling the occasional background vocal.
• The scene at the Soul Food Cafe, when the Blues Brothers order some food while trying to recruit Matt Murphy who's the co-owner. Jake orders four entire fried chickens (and a coke), and Elwood asks for some dry, white toast.
  • They then run afoul of Mrs. Murphy, played by Aretha Franklin, who refuses to let her husband run off on some wild goose-chase with his old hoodlum friends. The argument ends up escalating into a huge music number, with the other patrons joining in as background singers and dancers.
  • After Matt leaves with the Blues Brothers, Mrs. Murphy just glances back at "Blue Lou" Marini, the dishwasher and another former member of the band, and just tells him to go with them already. He promptly tosses off his apron and runs off, leaving her to run the whole restaurant by herself.
    Mrs. Murphy: Shit...
  • Matt reminiscing with Jake and Elwood about all the terrible meals they've had in prison and lockups over the years.
  • After Matt and Blue Lou take off, Mrs. Murphy sees her back-up singers are still looking at her. She glares at them and they immediately turn around.
  • And even though the purpose of the song is to get them thrown out, Jake and Elwood still join in the dancing.
• "They broke my watch..."
• The Blues Brothers learn an important fact about Bob's Country Bunker on arrival:
  Elwood: What kind of music do you normally play here?
  Waitress: (cheerfully) Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country and Western!
  (look of total despair on Elwood and Jake's faces)
• When Jake gets paroled and picks up the belongings he turned in upon being sent to prison, one of the items turns out to be a used condom. Not only did he think it was worth keeping, but the prison staff actually held on to it for three years. The guy returning Jake's belongings understandably uses a pen to display it.