we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing

blue light of my life

we enjoy your films

i thought they smelled bad on the

outside

[Music]

welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time

i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless

and i'm richard wells and today marks

the 40th anniversary of the release of

the blues brothers on june 20th

it was written by dan aykroyd and john

landis directed by john landis

and released by universal pictures and

we're about to spoil it if you haven't

seen it

so get ready the origin of the blues

brothers as a musical group was an snl

sketch in january of 76

wherein howard shore and his all b band

performed a slim harpo song i'm a king b

in b costumes with little bouncy

antennas that's right

cause i'm a cane

[Music]

and belushi was singing and accurate was

unharmonica shortly after his start at

saturday night live

aykroyd began to rent the holland tunnel

blues bar

and it became a popular venue for snl

after parties

among the cast and weekly co-hosts

belushi stalked the place with amps and

instruments in case

anyone ever wanted to jam stylistically

akroyd credits the

duo and dancing inspiration to sam and

dave

the r b group that performed from the

60s through the 80s with hits like soul

man and hold on i'm coming the hats and

glasses though

aykroyd credits to johnny lee hooker who

appears in this film performing his blue

standard boom boom

together with pianist arranger paul

shaffer

aykroyd and belushi began hand-picking

musicians from the snl band to back the

brothers

and this is the paul schaefer yes

currently or well and who didn't kill

dorothy stratton

yes we didn't kill anyone yeah uh

allegedly

we should specify we don't know blue lou

and tom malone were chosen from the snl

band specifically

uh schaefer suggested steve cropper and

donald duck dunn

from booker t and the mgs and the group

was rounded out with

juilliard trained trumpeter alan rubin

and matt guitar murphy

they recorded their first album suitcase

full of blues

in 78 while opening for steve martin on

tour

back when he was doing that king tut

stuff

how did you get so focused

[Music]

the album consisted of blues covers from

the 50s to the 70s and went double

platinum

wow yeah pretty impressive the album

liner notes filled in the backstory of

the fictional blues brother characters

with details about the orphanage and

having learned blues from a janitor

named curtis

when they officially decided to make a

movie it kicked off a bidding war which

universal narrowly beat out paramount

john landis who had directed animal

house was on board to direct

lou wasserman the head of universal

pictures at the time predicted a 12

million dollar budget but the filmmakers

asked for 20

despite no budget or script having been

put together aykroyd and credited story

consultant ron gwynne

went on to write the bulk of the blues

brothers script at the holland tunnel

blues bar

it was referred to as a tome by most

because the first draft akray turned in

allegedly ran 324 pages yeah that sounds

like accurate

yeah because he'd never written a script

before and didn't know what he was doing

so you said they asked for 20 but it

didn't cost a bunch more

yes okay it did cost more than that but

they were requesting even

according to screenwriting rules a 324

page script would run about five and a

half hours

keep in mind though this is basically a

concert film so the one page equals one

minute rule goes out the window when the

line

cab calloway plays mini the moocher

reflects three minutes of screen time

according to popular lore aykroyd bound

the final script

with the cover of the yellow pages to

poke fun at its length

it was initially titled the return of

the blues brothers and credited

to scriptatron gl 9000

which for me brings to mind the popular

unproduced screenplay

balls out by robotard 8000

which you can find online and it's

totally ridiculous but fun

wait is that the one that was like

written by a.i

or something no it's two guys that wrote

it but they're just dumb

friction grew between aykroyd and landis

as the former insisted on casting r b

legend

after rnb legend in not just musical but

speaking roles

the budget ballooned way out of

proportion as the developer of the group

paul shafer was of course cast as the

piano player

but obligations to saturday night live

and gilda live

a comedy documentary film centered on

gilda radner prevented him from

appearing in the film

as a result belushi literally kicked him

out of the band and he was replaced with

murphy dunn because he was so angry that

he would work with gilda over their

movie

for the first month of production things

went fairly smoothly

though when the final budget of 17.5

million was handed down by universal

producer robert weiss joked i think

we've spent that already

okay in the next month belushi's

drinking and cocaine habits pulled the

production further and further behind

schedule

everywhere they went people on set would

just walk up and hand belushi coke

hoping to do some with him despite the

fact that according to aykroyd

a portion of the film's budget was

specifically allotted for the purchase

of cocaine

belushi would crash in his trailer and

waste hours sometimes days of production

time

they would just flat out lose him

occasionally and one time aykroyd

journeyed to the only house he could see

from set with a light on

to find belushi eating out of a

stranger's refrigerator

the homeowner answered the door are you

looking for john

because they knew who he was he was

massively famous at the time

i i mean if john belushi

broke into my house welcome i was like

hey john belushi are you

are you hungry buddy and i'm sure he

didn't just wander in like a black bear

like

he i think he did no i think he i think

at the very least he introduced himself

and was like i want a sandwich

i want i wanted him to break through the

wall with the kool-aid man yeah

and just start going through the

refrigerator yeah oh yeah

64 slices of american cheese

uh carrie fisher aykroyd's girlfriend

and later fiance during the production

said that yeah he proposed to her during

the making of the film

uh she said that the three of them would

spend many nights at the blues bar and

that

all the bartenders there were basically

doubled as coke dealers landis

apparently put carrie fisher in charge

of keeping belushi away from coke which

hardly seems fair considering their size

discrepancy

but also carrie fisher was drunk

probably yeah she's like she's

famous for coke addiction it doesn't

make sense to be like perhaps

at one point belushi's wife and some of

the other crew even staged an

intervention for belushi and eventually

production actually got smoother again

though they were still wildly over

budgeted behind schedule just before the

final musical number at the hollywood

palladium

belushi borrowed a skateboard from an

extra and messing around fell and

injured his knee quite badly

universal head wasserman sent the best

orthopedic surgeon in the

world probably to the set and belushi

was sufficiently anesthetized to finish

shooting

as planned the finished film initially

ran two and a half hours

and wasserman demanded 20 minutes be cut

we watched the two and a half hour

version though

volusia and aykroyd having left saturday

night live to make the movie put a dent

in the expected box office

and belushi's most recent film role in

1941 bombed pretty hard

not to mention that this film released

the same day as the wide release of

empire strikes back

which did not help the final budget

amounted to 30 million dollars

but including foreign receipts the box

office take amounted to 115 million

dollars

less than half of which was domestic

which john landis claims is a first

for feature films that an american movie

would make more money overseas than i

made here

well that's typical now is it i guess it

is yeah

yeah well for spectacle films for like

for like things like avengers and

whatnot but like

for like a casual like drama yeah or

just a general comedy even

that's weird it might have performed

better but it was only open in 590

screens because at the time

either universal or the theater owners

in the south specifically were convinced

that people in the south would not watch

a movie with this many black characters

so they just didn't run the movie there

but there were nazis

well that's another problem for black

characters yeah but they're

the nazis are portrayed as bad guys so

that doesn't play well in the south

either

uh the movie was released as i said the

same day that empire strikes back

which nearly starred dan and john as

monsters

because carrie fisher promised them she

could get them roles in the movie

but when she spoke to george lucas about

it he was like no thanks

but then akron at least got into temple

of doom that's true

yes and a sequel with many of the

original cast members blues brothers

2000

uh came out in that year 2000 to give

you an indication

of the quality of blues brothers 2000 in

the making of

the first blues brothers film 103 cars

are destroyed

and in the second film 104 cars are

destroyed which lets you know that they

weren't trying to honor the first film

they were trying to out do it and they

failed miserably

it's it's not well remembered critically

or commercially

but it does have paul shaffer in it

which is nice that he got to be in a

blues brothers movie

there's a moment towards the end where

he asks if he can cut in on piano and

then

lucy was uh was no longer around at the

time to be angry and kick him out

he could no longer object but yeah why

don't we get into this movie shall we

let's do it

we start with aerial footage of steel

works or some kind of a refinery

looks like a volcano there's like lava

and a flag is raised outside joliet

correctional center

signs outside the prison advice passing

motorists

against picking up hitchhikers which i

liked i'm sure those are real signs

outside

those areas yep but it's just uh amusing

that it's like

oh this guy needs a ride like oh wait

that's a murderer that's

this is a bad idea two jailers struggle

to wake joliet jake blues from his cell

and he has escorted to where he will be

discharged from the prison today

frank oz performs the standard prisoner

release

jake steps up to the counter and he taps

tattooed fingers that read jake across

the knuckles

oz gives him a look and he is dragged by

two other prison employees

behind a line a few feet back i can't

figure out

how frank oz fits in to any of these

people like why is he in this movie i

think he's friends with john landis and

probably carrie fisher dragged him along

because she was like hey let's both be

in both of these movies that came out

today is she in any scenes with him

no i think we're in the movie together

no but she knows him does she

yes he's yoda yeah i know he's yoda i'm

just saying like

they weren't in scenes together they

don't have to be in scenes together to

know each other

oz gives him back everything he had the

night of his arrest the first time i

remember seeing this kind of scene was

in clockwork orange when alexander

delarge is being released and he's

getting all of his stuff back

but here jake is getting a broken watch

an unused prophylactic

a soiled one his blues brothers costume

and some pocket money

he leans against the counter from behind

the line a few feet back to sign an

x because apparently he can't read

i'm assuming that's the joke here

outside the prison doors open

with a mysterious bright light behind

jake as he walks to his brother elwood

who just pulled up in a decommissioned

police cruiser

the blues brothers cover of taj mahal's

she's caught the katy

plays over the titles as the actors

names appear under their faces and they

hug

and move toward the car shortly after

pulling away jake asks what happened to

the cadillac

which he calls the blues mobile as he

complains about it not being there

anymore

jake tries and fails to light a

cigarette with the cigarette lighter in

the car

and just tosses the lighter off the

window which i feel like

was probably not in the script yeah

i wouldn't doubt it but also he then

lights his cigarette with a regular

lighter yeah

why would you use the cigarette lighter

in the car if you had a lighter just

because he wanted something to pick on

elwood explains that he traded the caddy

for a microphone which jake actually

understands

and he replaced it with this car which

he picked up at the mount prospect city

police auction because they were

practically giving them away

jake expresses his disappointment having

been picked up from the prison

by his own brother in a police car the

brothers pull up to the east 95th street

drawbridge

just as it's raising to allow a tugboat

passage elwood

in an effort to win over jake drives the

new bluesmobile over the gap in the

bridge which would never work

because there's a huge visible gap on

the

on the upside of the bridge that they

would have just fallen into

or crashed directly into the side of the

bridge there's no way they could have

cleared this gap

but uh but that's what happens here this

movie does

a lot of really great things with

inserts yeah so like while this

drawbridge stuff is happening we keep

cutting to the interior workings of

the drawbridge the big gear workings was

like

the little details like that of this

movie i really love yeah as they land on

the other side

elwood goes on to explain it's got a cop

motor a 440 cubic inch plant

it's got copped tires cop suspension cop

shocks

there's a model made before catalytic

converters so it'll run good on regular

gas

which reminds me of when he pulls up in

the ectomobile four years from now and

he says

need some suspension work and shocks and

uh brakes brake pads lining steering box

transmission rear end how much

only 4 800 maybe new rings also

jake says fix a cigarette lighter and

then basically has his approval

elwood pulls up to their childhood

orphanage deep into an alleyway

he reminds jake that he promised to

visit the penguin when they got out but

he says he was lying and he has no

intention of following through on that

promise

coming up the stairs into the orphanage

they stop at a particularly gruesome

crucifix

she calls to them before they knock on

the door and opens the door

psychokinetically it also closes behind

them

she informs them that unless she can

come up with five thousand dollars for

property taxes that the orphanage will

be shut down

apparently this is because when the

script was being written

there was a bill that was like in the

process of being

voted on that might have caused churches

to be charged

taxes but because it didn't pass and

churches in america have never been

forced to pay property tax this plot

point doesn't really make sense a lot

there was a draft where the illinois

nazis were attempting to buy the

orphanage as their new headquarters and

i feel like they should have just stuck

with that

yeah that would have made a little bit

more sense but then you're giving a

bunch of nazis money

at the end in order to win no because

they were trying to buy it so you're out

bidding the nazis

oh you're buying it from the nazis right

you're just preventing them from buying

it paying

whomever owns the building yeah jake

says that 5k

is no problem but she refuses his filthy

money

and he says oh well then you must be up

[ __ ] creek and this kicks off a long

repeating pattern of jake and ellwood

cursing in pain from being slapped with

a ruler

and then being slapped with a ruler for

cursing in pain

when he just calls her a [ __ ] yeah and

then

the last thing that he says before they

get up and like move towards the door is

[ __ ] this noise man which i didn't

realize was a thing that people said in

the early 80s like

for some reason [ __ ] this noise sounds

very modern it does

[ __ ] this

so they're scrambling for the door but

jake can't even get out of this tiny

like

student's desk that he was sitting in so

elwood is

just runs down the stairs and then jake

just falls down i'm still sitting at the

desk

which he apparently hurt himself real

bad i believe it she calls down to them

at the bottom of the stairs

and tells them not to come back until

they've redeemed themselves

before levitating backwards through the

door into her office

and slamming it with her mind downstairs

jake and l would encounter curtis

the man who taught them the blues he

tells them that the five thousand

dollars needs to be at the cook county

assessor's office

in 11 days and he advises them to hear

reverend cliophus

down at the triple rock church so that's

where they go despite the fact that

jake has no intention of going to a

church he doesn't want to hear that jive

church talk reverend cleophis is played

by r b legend

james brown and he refused to lip-sync

the scene

so he actually performed the full song

over and over

and is dripping with sweat throughout

this scene but

that was kind of his thing yeah in the

trademark james brown yeah

uh during his performance light suddenly

pours through a window

and sets jake a glow and he starts

repeatedly shouting

[Music]

he says he sees the light and he does a

bunch of cartwheel flips up to the stage

which is a very clever trading out of

john belushi for someone

later that night they're driving

listening to a sam and dave tape

and jake says we're gonna get the band

back together we're gonna earn that five

thousand dollars we're to save the

orphanage

and elwood doubts that reuniting the

band will be possible at all

uh while they're having this

conversation they blow a red light or

possibly a yellow light i didn't

actually

frame by frame it to see if they're

breaking the line it's it's a yellow

light

but they they were within there but

they're very quickly being pulled over

by

officers daniel and mount who are named

after tom daniel and sean mount

two universal executives who had pushed

especially hard to get landis animal

house made

and they were rewarded with these

characters elwood hands over his license

and worries allowed to his brother that

these cops probably have commands

state county municipal offender data

system a computer readout in the cop car

reveals that elwood's license is

suspended

he has 116 standing parking warrants and

56 moving violations

flashing text below advises the officers

to arrest driver and

impound vehicle instead of stepping out

of the car

as is requested elwood pulls away at top

speed

and because he's driving a police car he

can actually keep pretty well ahead of

these police

very wet roads make for some fun

slippery driving and the cars are just

skidding around in this

suburban neighborhood jake is mad that

they are headed right back to prison

when elwood reminds him we're on a

mission from god they loop around a mall

parking lot for a while

before elwood points the card directly

at the mall's toys r us

driving full speed a customer inside

played by gary mcclarty

the film's stunt coordinator holds up a

grover doll and asks an employee if they

have miss piggy before the wall

explodes behind him the first shot here

bothers me the most because a woman in a

red shirt

is clearly clipped and knocked over by

the car as it plows through a row of

shelves

i think that there are probably a fair

amount of people

who are injured yes in some way or

another because there are just

so many extras running around and the

car is not

slowing down at all whoever's driving is

intentionally driving as dangerously as

possible near

large crowds it does not look well

coordinated in terms of who's running

which direction and when

when the when the glass panes of these

stores shatter

they're not breakaway glasses no it's

definitely it's full glass

yeah it's glass everywhere it's an

insane action piece but if you showed me

just this scene

and told me that landis would formally

be charged with involuntary manslaughter

for multiple deaths on the set of a

later film i would 100 believe you

because it doesn't look like they're

being careful at all here it looks

actually very poorly coordinated

the car continues into the interior of

the mall deliberately drifting into

multiple storefronts

elwood and jake nonchalantly comment on

them all's spaciousness

and wide variety of goods and services

baby clothes

this place has got everything the

pair of police cars presumably part of

the pursuit through them all

are inexplicably doing donuts in the

middle of a display of plants and easels

loaded with paintings

they're just circling around like at

first i was like oh is there something

stuck on this tire and that's why you

can't drive straight and it's like

no they're just literally doing donuts

on purpose here not trying to chase the

car at all

but this mall which i'm assuming is

probably a real mom

yeah like is just fully stocked like

they're they're they're not

nothing's fake yeah like it's all really

full of stuff

that is true i honestly don't even know

how they did this movie

for 30 million because this mall scene

and the number of cars they wreck

throughout the entire film is

just mind-boggling uh somehow one of the

cop cars is ramped up

and flipped over on its roof the cop in

the driver's seat desperately gripping

his hat is director john landis

the dixie square mall had been closed

for over a year

when it was rented by producers for this

sequence the various companies featured

in the mall were invited to set up

storefronts

as free product placement in the film

with advanced knowledge that the

displays were at risk of being destroyed

by stunt work

guaranteed not at risk yeah but they

just said at risk

and then even though the car is clearly

just swerving to destroy them

uh universal was later sued by them all

for 87 thousand dollars for failure

to return them all to its original

condition something that had never been

agreed upon

that's really their bad lost that suit

they did

uh the new bluesmobile bursts out of the

jc penny window and back into the

parking lot and off into the night

officer mount promises i'm gonna catch

that sucker

it's the last thing i ever do we also

get the first

officer of many officers shouting they

broke my watch

yeah which i think is revenge for them

breaking his watch

they destroyed so much in the scene they

must have just had like

one take on all of this stuff because

they're just destroying actual

storefronts and glass and all this stuff

so

they just get nine cameras on it you

better hope you got that shot

yeah well because you can see you see

things and people hit the cameras

yeah yeah like i mean or the protective

they definitely destroyed at least one

camera on this

we also get our first of many of uh

henry mancini's peter gunn theme here

uh this is the theme that currently

starts every episode of this podcast

manchester united spy hunter if you

there you go for our nes

classic nes everyone remembers that uh

mancini previously scored little miss

marker for us earlier this year

elwood parks the car in this tight

garage that's labeled

cta e-train power transformer

high-voltage danger

it's like this little brick house and a

back alley and this is possibly what's

imbuing the vehicle with its magical

powers that exhibits

as the brothers walk back to their

apartment carrie fisher is suddenly seen

smoking in a car

and she lifts a rocket launcher to train

it on them and fires several explosives

into the door to their building as they

hit the floor

they dust themselves off from under a

pile of rubble and just go inside like

nothing happened

and they're like literally pulling the

doors off of their building because it's

completely destroyed

in the lobby of their building an older

gentleman asks

if l would remember to get his cheese

whiz apparently he did

he's had it in this pocket this whole

time

we step into the i'm going to say about

50 square foot apartment

jake asks how often the train goes by

how often does the train go by

so often you won't even notice it

jake sits on ellwood's bed while he

toasts some white bread on a stove top

which is apparently his thing yeah he's

like cooking it with the handle of a

jiffy pop

oh i thought it was a coat hanger oh is

it a coat hanger okay

either way it's a bit of wire over a

burner yeah

jake worries that the cops will track

them down with the address from his

license but elwood explains that the

address on his license points to wrigley

field

so they should be in the clear jake

passes out on elwood's bed

and elwood throws a blanket over him

sits in the window to watch five more

trains pass

every time they show this window there's

a train going by

sometimes too in the morning carrie

fisher pulls up again just as police are

doing so

john candy i think is jake's parole

officer and he's speaking with the cops

and laughing about the wrigley field bit

but they seem less amused by it

just as the cops and john candy are

bursting into

the actual apartment carrie fisher

triggers an explosion in the building

which just destroys the entire building

yeah it all collapses in on itself

the bottom drops out of their room and

you see dan aykroyd just

dropped through the set and it's dan

aykroyd like

it's not a stunt man he's leaning in the

corner of the room it just falls through

the floor and the bed tips forward and

dumps

belushi down the brothers wake up under

this layer of bricks that are comically

falling

because they're clearly like foam bricks

right but the the heavy

the heaviness the weight of the bricks

can be heard yeah it just sounds like

clay scraping against each other

and uh suddenly they're remembering

their plans for the day they never

question for a second what just happened

to them

and uh seconds later cops also arise

from the bricks

somehow one of these full weight bricks

is balanced on the brim of one of the

cops hats

i like i like to think in that in their

world this stuff happens to them

all the time yeah this is this is just

par for the course it's normal

elwood heads to his job at a factory of

some sort with cans

um i'm not clear what this place is it's

like spring

i don't know if they're spray paint or

hair spray this is where he gets the

epoxy

no it's not where he gets the epoxy

because he he pockets

he pockets one of the bottles no he

pulls the bottle off of the assembly

line and puts it in his bag

elwood produces three different types of

cans in this film the first one is the

cheese whiz can

which is not from this factory this is

not a cheese with factory some some

people call this that he works at the

cheese whis place and he doesn't

no other people call it the glue factory

but

the cans that he steals here don't have

labels on them

and the glue epoxy that he uses later

has a label on it

the cans that he uses that don't have a

label on them are just

some toxic chemical that he uses to fill

up the tires

so that's what these cans are that he

took oh is it is it the same stuff that

he uses to for the elevator

later yeah possibly

but either way whatever i don't know

what this factory does specifically but

they have this

one particular chemical in unlabeled

cans but he's watching the line

as he walks into the building and a

co-worker

is standing there for a moment and he

snatches a few of them off the line

and just tucks them into his case but

the extra playing his co-worker was

clearly not instructed to do anything

but watch the machine

so when the line backs up and cans are

just being tossed onto the floor by the

machinery

she doesn't do anything to unblock the

path and

she's just like watching it like this is

how it's supposed to work

which made me laugh a little bit for

this scene only elwood's eyes are

visible

as he has swapped his ray-bans for

protective goggles he tells his boss

he's quitting to become a priest

and his boss says okay we'll get your

severance package ready there's no fight

there's no jokes here the scene

shouldn't be in the movie and it's not

in the shorter version the one that's

not

two and a half hours long the brothers

head out to touch base with bones malone

and blue lou

their last known address was scribbled

across an old pack of cigarettes

and they pull up to a building to speak

with mrs tarantino

the former landlord of the

aforementioned band members they're

posing intentionally or not as law

enforcement when they speak to her

they sound a lot like the characters

from dragnet which is funny because

accord would later go on to play the

characters from dragnet just the facts

ma'am

he does say that they're just musicians

though when she asks if they're

law enforcement right but they they get

all the way into her apartment and

they're like

halfway through this investigation

before she's like are you the police

no ma'am we're musicians this man is the

police is like oh no no man we're not

the police

we're hoping it won't be necessary to

call the police but as they leave her

house she's rushing out to them with a

business card for murph in the magic

tones so they head down to the local

holiday inn where the magic tones are

currently playing

murph sings in spanish and very poorly

[Music]

i don't know if it's a joke that he's

singing badly or what but it's

very off tune and and bad murph and the

magic tones are

five of the full 10-member band the

original script had a separate story

about collecting

each member oh god jesus uh the waitress

in this scene is john belushi's wife at

the time

some of the members ask if jake has the

money that he owes them

and elwood claims that jake was in

prison for sticking up a gas station

to try and pay their room service tab

from a kiwanis gig in coal city

upon learning that they're getting the

band back together they explain that mr

fabulous is now the head mater d

at shea paul and will never again join

the band

and that matt murphy and blue lou run a

restaurant with matt's wife

the brothers are not dismayed by this

news and repeat

we're on a mission from god the

bluesmobile skids to a stop at the valet

outside shape hall possibly a reference

to banished band member paul shaffer

as they walk in mr fabulous is on the

phone but still blurts out

oh no i thought it was supposed to be

five years because he immediately

recognizes

jake is there and should not be as

predicted he is reluctant to join the

band

and so the brothers take a seat in the

restaurant they take a seat next to a

family and proceed to be as obnoxious as

possible

firstly with their stinch and then by

whistling for service from the waiter

played by paul rubins here

from whom they order the finest

champagne they have to offer our second

paul reuben's movie of the year

yeah and there will be another one he

says we have a dom perignon 71 at 120

that'll be fine pal a nearby table asks

for them to be removed because they

smell

horrible the guy says well frankly

they're offensive

smelling i mean they smell bad

which sounds like the delivery that like

will ferrell would use yeah

i mean that thing is good jake and l

would feed each other

shrimp with their arms entangled

sometimes they just

toss it right in yeah there's one moment

where

dan agreed clearly is just throwing it

but then they cut to an angle of

blushy catching on his mouth to imply

that he caught the same one well

it's almost like like you're feeding

scraps to your dog you're just kind of

tossing it and the dog just catches it

and because elwood isn't even looking at

it yeah he just he just kind of casually

to the side because he's like making

eyes at like this like

14 year old girl yeah at the next table

but uh

the lines don't match up for the the

angle that he throws it out of the angle

it's caught at the champagne shows up

and elbows insisting on accepting it in

his water glass

which uh the waiter's like that's not

the right glass he's like just

just fill it up that's fine uh he turns

to jake turns to the offended family and

asks

how much he would be willing to sell

them for how much for the little girl

the women how much for the women what

you're women i i want to buy your women

their little girl

your daughters sell them to me sell me

your children

mater d he starts eating off their

plates because

he's not getting enough of a reaction as

quickly as he wants mr fabulous

threatens to call the police but they're

telling him that

that's just bad form he just got out of

jail like he wouldn't do that

so they threatened to come back here and

eat every meal every day

until he leaves to join their band and

he gives up because he knows they'll do

that

yeah except that doesn't really make any

sense because nobody's going to let

these guys back in the door

when they don't pay for this meal right

but unless he's going to involve the

owner it's the maitre d's job to get

them out of there

so he knows they're just going to keep

coming back in

and he's not going to call the police on

his friend so he's kind of screwed

either way and

i think he kind of wants to join the

band so he quits and joins the band and

ignores the pleading of the

the gentleman at the next table over

who's like sir sir

but he's done working here on their way

to recruit matt murphy and blue lou the

brothers encounter henry gibson at a

nazi rally

this is based on a real rally that was

held in the mid 70s

it was originally scheduled for skokie

illinois

which was home at the time to an

unusually large number of holocaust

survivors

before protests drove the case to the

supreme court where it was decided in 77

that they had a right to freedom of

assembly

the rally eventually took place though

in chicago

similarly to what was portrayed here fed

up by the traffic caused by the nazi

protest

and their general shittiness as humans

the brothers pull around a line of cars

to drive through the middle of the rally

on a bridge

which forces the nazis to jump over the

side into the water

it is impossible now yeah to watch a car

drive through a crowd of people at a

nazi rally and not be reminded of the

charlottesville attack

it's one scene that in retrospect i wish

there was a way to rework or remove

without ruining the rest of the nazi

subplot but

it sets up a lot that's gonna happen in

the rest of the movie and it's just a

bummer

it's just a bummer to watch because this

was probably funny at some point and

it's not it's not anymore uh the

brothers pull up to the soul food cafe

where johnny lee hooker is performing

boom boom outside to a massive crowd

landis gets these super long telephoto

lens shots to accentuate how crowded the

streets are

and it almost makes it look like the

bluesmobile is about to crash into

people

because you're looking so far down the

street but

they pull up and they park and instead

of going in they just sit outside and

let them finish the song

they listen through the end of boom boom

as the song trails off hooker announces

that he wrote that song back in the 50s

and another gentleman seems to take

issue with the claim and an argument

ensues

um as we move inside uh elle would order

some toasted white bread

dry and jake orders four fried chickens

and a coke

from aretha franklin as she relays the

orders to the chef matt murphy

he recognizes the orders and rushes out

to greet his friends

aretha seems unamused as she overhears

the plan to reassemble the blues

brothers

she tells him that he needs to think

about this decision you better think

apparently like james brown aretha had a

difficult time with the lip sync

this particular scene was cobbled

together from hundreds of takes

because she couldn't get the hang of

just singing along to a track

and wanted to sing it out loud and i

have a feeling that that's pretty

typical

for good musicians that if you

are really good at what you do you can't

just repeat the same performance that

you had

on one recording once yeah well this

wasn't

i don't think this is her original

recording of it is it maybe it is

i think i think they recorded it new for

the film but yeah well either way

it's a track that she's singing to

recorded it once and now you're asking

me to repeat exactly that one recording

and that's right and good musicians are

constantly

evolving and and changing how they

perform

especially in her type of music where

there's a lot of improvising and there

could be a lot of like changing it up

from performance to performance

if we were watching this movie with our

six-year-old daughter addie

and uh she pointed out while we were

watching and she was like

this lady's a really good singer they

should get her in the band

what's her name she seems like she could

go places

but even after this display murphy is

somehow able to shut her down

and he tosses his apron aside and leaves

with the brothers

and aretha gives reluctant permission to

blue lou to follow them

and he rushes out immediately as well

after hours we see a salon called curl

up and die

where carrie fisher is reading the

instruction booklet for a flamethrower

and on her desk we see a bunch of

photographs of her and jake together

which kind of explains a little bit more

what's happening but we're still not

totally clear on this lady's story

uh the boys head to rey's music exchange

and inside the guys are looking at some

instruments ray charles interrupts them

to remind them of store policy that an

employee must be present before an

instrument can be handled

a child sneaks into the store and

reaches for a guitar on the wall

and ray puts two bullet holes in the

wall next to the guitar to scare the kid

away

and you have to wonder what he's aiming

at yeah

now go on get he prices a nearby

keyboard at two thousand dollars

and when they say it doesn't have any

action left this

forces ray to kick off a musical number

and uh they go into i think it's called

twist it

tail feather or tail feather okay there

you go

i think it's called tail feather

[Laughter]

i love it

the rest of the band jumps into play and

somehow even people outside the store

are dancing to the music another thing

addie commented on

it's funny because they're pretending

they can hear the song

[Laughter]

i love andy's observation but

they play the rest of the song and we

cut to that night

the band is pulling up to a howard

johnson's to use a pay phone

to try and lock in their first gig this

was something that he was also confused

yeah she's like why are they going into

this box

yeah uh in the booth uh

it conveniently next to a large propane

tank elwood asks

who are you going to call jake which

weirdly doesn't remind me of anything

jake says he plans to reach out to a

booking agent maurice lein

here addie asked why the phone was in a

tiny room and we explained that this

movie was made before people use cell

phones

but she was confused even further when

jake in espousing sline's prowess as an

agent

reminded elwood he got us to morgan park

got us to tick-tock

and eddie was like how did tick-tock

exist if people didn't have cell phones

as soon as they place the call carrie

fisher torches the booth

and the adjacent propane tank with a

flame thrower and they are rocketed

straight up into the sky

and they crash down real hard in the

parking lot

i love the dummy that's in the car that

ends up being dan aykroyd

it's just like its arm is hanging out

it's just

for sure dead well i love that there's

like there's

tons and tons of change yeah but he

grossly underestimates how many quarters

it's got to be at least seven dollars

worth of change here they obviously

they're uninjured and ecstatic to find

all the change spilled from the broken

pay phone

the nazis try to track down the brothers

using the license plate

of the car that nearly hit them they all

convene at wrigley field

admitting defeat in this particular

effort and make plans

to monitor all city county and state

police radios to find the blues brothers

i want all party members in the

tri-state district

to monitor the city county and state

police on their cbs

which reminded me of when ray's dance

says go to the gosarian

good evening as a duly designated

representative of the city

county and state of new york i order you

to cease any and all supernatural

activity and return forthwith to your

place of origin

or to the nearest convenient parallel

dimension

that ought to do it thanks very much ray

the brothers pull up to bob's country

bunker

and pose as the scheduled band the good

old boys

the brothers introduce themselves to the

bartender as the band

and ask what kind of music they have

here to which she responds

oh we got both kinds we got country and

western the band sets up the stage

behind chicken wire

which reminded me of road house where

jeff healy is performing behind chicken

wire

and we'll learn why later owner bob

provides the boys with a set list

but they don't seem to know any of the

songs and just consider them suggestions

they jump right into gimme some lovin

and the crowd [ __ ] hates it

immediately

the purpose of the chicken wire becomes

abundantly clear as a barrage of beer

bottles are hurled at the stage

exploding at the wire and continuing in

shards to shower the band

this also did not look like breakaway

glass to me

i think it is breakaway glass because i

don't think a real glass would break

when it hits chicken wire

i think the actual point of the wire is

to just stop the bottle not to actually

break it

okay because it would work more like a

nap than what they're showing here

that's true

but there's just shards of glass

spraying through this

thing luckily everyone's wearing

sunglasses so they're not getting like

shards in the eye but

it's pretty ridiculous bob notices

quickly that this ain't no hank williams

tuned

and he shuts off the power to the stage

we just had hank jr a couple movies ago

in rhodey

uh the band takes a swing at the rawhide

theme to calm the crowd

and the barrage of bottles continues but

now as a show of approval

uh they follow rawhide with tammy white

net staple stand by your man complete

with bad falsetto

and the crowd loves it

[Music]

uh they closed the show with a rawhide

reprise and while they're packing the

stage bob informs them that their

200 check only covers part of their 300

beer tap because the first round was on

the house

and they assumed all of it was but it

wasn't jake steps outside and warns the

band to take off so they can skip the

tab

when the good old boys arrive led by

charles napier

and uh they pull up in an rv apparently

hours late for when a show would have

started slightly confusing because the

bar is

empty at this yeah they're basically

closing for the night and they didn't

make any sort of excuses about being

late

no jake poses as the as a representative

of the

musicians union local 200 and asks to

see their permit to play

uh jake tells bob that they're writing

him a check in the car now

and then the blues brothers skid out of

the parking lot as fast as they can

bob jumps in with the good old boys and

a chase ensues

the good old boys fire a shot through

the back window of the bluesmobile

they start racing faster and faster down

these old country roads

officers daniel and mount are stationed

across the street from a billboard for

see you next wednesday which according

to the poster seems to be some kind of

king kong rip-off

the film is a recurring gag in landis

movies and according to the billing here

stars donald sutherland

who famously took fifty thousand dollars

for his role in animal house over the

offered fifteen percent

that would have made him millions

comparatively the title see you next

wednesday apparently comes from the last

words

that frank poole hears from his father

in 2001 a space odyssey see you next

wednesday

daniel and mount move to chase the

bluesmobile and

immediately crash headlong into the good

ol boys rv

and just completely destroy it some of

these guys would have been dead

but somehow later in the movie it's

totally fine yeah nothing happened to

this rv

the next day in asana after making very

little progress with sline

jake pulls the trigger and blackmails

slime to book them at the palace hotel

ballroom

which apparently seats 5 000 people in

an effort to make the five thousand

dollars they need

right so that i guess everyone is only

paying one dollar or their share is a

dollar i guess

but uh jake apparently knows something

that slime's wife might like to hear

sline agrees to do the show and the boys

move to advertise the show

and fill the venue in a wide shot we see

that all of the band are also in the

sauna

and they get up to leave with the

brothers curtis hires a bunch of orphans

hires is a strong word curtis forces a

bunch of orphans

to advertise the show to save their

orphanage so it's really

they're beneficial too yeah chat labor

it's all good yeah

uh jake and ellwood's trap an enormous

speaker from the top of

a tower that was next to a playground

yeah it's it's like

i'm assuming it was some kind of warning

system like tornado warning or whatever

but now it's a show warning they strap

it to the top of the car and just drive

around announcing the show to

pedestrians

[Music]

you on the bike the first shot though

that we see

they're just driving through a field

like an empty field off in the

wilderness

and i like how he has the the mic just

dangling in front of him so he doesn't

have to hold it

yeah like it's just it's suspended from

the top of the card it's probably just

taped open

it seems to be hanging from the same

piece of rope that's tying the speaker

to the top of the car that's coming

through the windows

yeah uh james brown aretha and ray

charles all hang posters for the show

raises of course upside down

peeing at a urinal the good old boise

and ad for the show scribbled on the

wall

with the words tonight only but there's

no date so they assume it was written

today

sufficiently advertised the brothers

decide to head for the show but realize

that they've run out of gas

they push the car to a gas station which

is also out of gas

elwood flirts with another customer who

arrives he's posing as a gas station

attendant

and he pretends he's going to help her

while he waits for the tanker truck to

refill the station

eventually it shows up and everything is

handled yeah

he he all she wanted was some gas and

for someone to look under the hood real

quick and yes

so that'll be um 94.

and she gives him 95 and he's like

here's your change for a dollar and

she's like i'll

keep the change it's fine 95

well he could tell she had a british

accent so he knew he could take

advantage of her she doesn't understand

the currency exchange from pounds to the

dollars

yeah it's a dollar worth more it's like

an american gigolo when uh richard gere

overheard the woman order in another

language and he's like oh someone for me

to take advantage of and he sits down

and she starts talking to him in english

and this is famed model twiggy yes

before she leaves the gas station though

he invites her to meet up with him at

his hotel later if her date doesn't go

as well as she's hoping

the band is getting restless at the show

because the brothers have not shown up

yet and there's an audience

all seated at the venue jake's parole

officer gets a flyer for the show

and he puts in a call to officers daniel

and mount gas

is just pouring out of the blues mobile

until jake realizes how late they are to

the show

and they drive away tossing a cigarette

behind them

uh into the puddle of gas that they've

dragged this far down the road

and blow up the whole gas station

private eye style

the brothers parked the car under a

bridge and walked to the show under a

team of officers at a roadblock

in jake and elwood's absence the band

opens with cab calloway performing

minnie the moocher

a song we heard tweaked a little earlier

this year as squeeze at the moocher

performed by danny elfman as the devil

in richard elfman's forbidden zone

as soon as the song starts here an

entire bandstand materializes

and the band is all tuxed up in the

background

jake and elwood are sneaking past

countless police into the venue

but they're sneaking with the music

right

and moving through the parking lot

elwood sprays super adhesive epoxy on

the gas pedal of the apparently fixed

good old boys rv

crawling past a few squad cars elwood

retrieves the cans that he stole off of

the line at his job

and he explains to jake this can is from

a surplus disposal run

15 overcharged ounces of pure

uncompounded

isopropanol butane monosulphic when

combined with oxygen and a little heat

will cause a rapid expansion so at least

one of the things they make at this

factory

is cans of isopropyl butane monosulfate

he lets this toxic gas fill the tires of

all of the parked cruisers

before heading into the building the

cops want to move to arrest the band

but john candy says they aren't going

anywhere and he hasn't even heard them

sing yet

so they decide to block all the exits

instead so he seems like he's on their

side

throughout this i think he's he's

friendly with i mean he's

he's a parole officer so i think he at

least knows

jake and he does seem happy

about like stuff that happens later and

yeah

he seems friendly with him he's

generally happy throughout no matter

what's happening

so it seems like he's rooting for him i

think he just has

he's got no dog in this fight yeah it's

yeah it's not his job to

to apprehend them when they sit down he

he looks at the troopers and goes do you

want an orange whip

orange whip and both they both

reluctantly nod like yes they would like

in orange website orders three orange

whips

the brothers sneak into the building

through the girls restroom

and eventually catch curtis's eye at the

curtains behind the audience

curtis welcomes the blues brothers on

stage and elwood gives a special thanks

to all the law enforcement officers who

made it to the show tonight

which reminds me of a similar comment

from another snl alum chevy chase

in fletch when he is similarly

surrounded at

at someone's retirement party or

something so why not stand up and

have him on the back go ahead reach out

go ahead

shake hands with any one of the guys you

see here these men included

hug a cop yeah go ahead i said it yeah

that's a wonderful feeling

which was likely inspired by this

particular scene because that was much

later

the guys leave during the final number

and conveniently

they are interrupted backstage by not

only a record executive

carrying a 10 000 cash advance to sign

them for an album

but one who used to be a bouncer here in

the 70s

and knows a secret way out of the

building so they take

five thousand dollars and they ask the

man to give 1400 to rey's music exchange

and the rest of the band

in the tunnel on their way out they

encounter carrie fisher again

this time with an automatic weapon and

we finally learned her backstory it

turns out that jake stood her up at the

altar

and embarrassed her in front of her

friends and family he gives her

a dozen contradictory excuses while

pleading for his life

but still rejects any and all

responsibility he removes his glasses

for a moment

and she looks into his eyes and falls

right back in love with him

and he kisses her hard before dropping

her in the mud and they just run off

because he tricked her again hopping in

the car

acroid announces probably the most

quoted line of the film

it's 106 miles to chicago we got a full

tank of gas

half a pack of cigarettes it's dark and

we're wearing sunglasses

hit it the cops all race out of the lot

after the car

the good old boys join the chase but

accelerate out of control

on account of their glued gas pedal and

crash hard

over a dock and into the lake that's

right near the venue

the girl from the gas station waits

fruitlessly outside of elwood's hotel a

trope we last

saw in the children when a woman was

invited on a date that never came to

fruition

the nazis over here on the cbs that the

pursuit is happening and they rushed to

join elwood pulls off the road to a

different highway

and probably 30-ish cop cars follow them

over an embankment just piling slowly as

they crash into each other

this this scene is really fun and

ridiculous

i remember the first time i watched this

movie where i didn't get how much of a

joke it was

until like the 12th car came over that i

was like

oh okay i see what they're doing this is

one of those jokes that just gets

funnier the longer it goes

mount daniel and candy swerve off the

road

but they managed to avoid this pile of

cars at the bottom of the hill so they

try to

swerve back up the hill onto the freeway

and they end up

ramping up and flying into the back of

an 18-wheeler

and then uh john candy takes the radio

in the car and he says hi this is car

um what number are we five

five car 55 uh

we're in a truck he's just smiling and

laughing about it

well and the guy who hands him the radio

was the driver

who's now completely upside down and

head down by the pedals and legs up over

the seat so when he hands him the radio

it comes up from

like from underneath it's great um we

see

a quick montage of like mounties and

coast guard joining the race

and then we get maybe my favorite line

of the whole movie over the cb

use of unnecessary violence in the

apprehension of the blues brothers

has been approved

literally hundreds of police cars chased

the brothers through downtown chicago

which was completely blocked off for six

consecutive sundays for the production

that's impressive yeah uh the chase

moves along the bridge

where batman's tumblr raced to foil the

joker's plot

in the dark knight not his website

tumblr but his vehicle

he wrote really angry poetry at the

joker elwood comes out of the tunnel so

fast that he flies over a roadblock

and just barely clips a police car as he

goes by

and then he blasts under the l train at

118 miles per hour

which looked fake in the dailies after

the first take so they added pedestrians

for take two to prove that the footage

wasn't being sped up

but they're literally driving 118 miles

an hour under this train

why would you put people anywhere near

that because you're

john landis uh they swerve left to avoid

a sudden cop

and their entire tail crashes into it

all these all these police cars behind

them

just go full speed into the side of the

car blocking the road and then they

just get angry and just start opening

fire into the public

they're just firing their weapons down

the street um the blues mobile passes an

alley

and uh hiding in this alley are the

illinois nazis

and a couple of christmas cars they got

a green car and a red car

and they pull out to pursue the blues

mobile uh the nazis start shooting at

them

and the car throws a rod so i love

well first of all because like first of

all they're driving volkswagens yes

um and then henry gibson leans out the

window to pull out his like german luger

and he keeps firing at them and with

each consecutive shot

jake and elwood keep trying to duck

lower even though the bullets aren't

impacting anything

but they're they keep getting more and

more concerned of the bullets until

they're both completely down below the

dashboard yeah

but then one goes through the dash and

uh the

the car throws a rod and starts coughing

this weird

gunk up it's like spurting oil up over

the windshield which jake has to climb

out on the front of the car to wipe away

the new chase leads somehow to an

overpass in milwaukee

which was still under construction at

the time and uh the blues brothers

barely stop

before going over the end of this

unfinished freeway section

they throw the car in reverse so hard

that it does a backflip over the nazis

as they drive under it to go off the

cliff but suddenly they're thousands of

feet in the air dropping from the height

of a skyscraper

past the chicago skyline and fall

through the city street leaving like

this eight foot hole in the ground

in the shape of a car uh the bluesmobile

having looped around i guess jumps over

it with its magical jumping powers

but the second nazi car drops right in

behind them so they're just stacked in

this hole

jake and elwood skid to a stop outside

the county cook assessor's office

upon exiting the car it erupts into a

pile of parts

and they take a moment to grieve and the

statues outside the building are

grieving with them

i love this effect why i think it just

looks so great

how the all the parts just pop right off

yeah

moving inside they pal everything they

can find against the double doors to buy

time

cops and firefighters are chopping away

at these barricaded doors to get into

the building

and arriving swat team hot huts

incessantly

uh tanks are dropping off army troops

yeah like the the amount of extras

in this scene and because they also

drive through a building

in a plaza and i was looking at like

they were leaving like all kinds of like

skid marks on the

on the internals like they must have had

to lay fake

floor something like that because

i mean like taking out windows and

putting them back in to

that's one thing but if you like you can

take the tire tracks off of the concrete

yeah yeah exactly so they must have had

to lay down i don't know what they did

because there's just my guess

they just destroyed the concrete and

left

but uh this is a total mad house

apparently there were over 500 extras

used for this scene

of them blockading the daily thing so

many shots in this movie have ridiculous

amounts of

extras yeah when they're dancing outside

the the music

store yeah and in the mall it's just

so many people everywhere and here

they're all in uniform like that's

that's twice as much work oh yeah how

did they only spend 30 million

yeah it's actually impressive for the

budget uh we get a shot of dan aykroyd

in front of a no smoking sign in the

elevator four years before it would

happen again

in the sedgwick hotel in ghostbusters

the brothers destroy the elevator on

their way out with the same

can of gas i guess midnight madness

style so that no one else can use the

elevator

i i love the screwdriver that he uses

like one of those like

jam it in yeah like whereas it's like

it's like torque driven like it you

just plunge it down and it completely

pops the screw out

yeah and then he uses it to pry the

panel off so that he can spray the gas

in and blow all the electrical

but again it's just one of the things he

has on him yep like he's

he always has these things on him he's

very prepared

when they get to the assessor's office

there's a sign in the window that says

back in five minutes

eventually the brothers strong-arm the

man running the office

into processing the five thousand dollar

payment to save the orphanage

and he does it and hands them the

receipt seconds before they are

handcuffed at gunpoint by this entire

team

that has finally gotten into the

building uh we cut two

months later maybe where the band is

performing jailhouse rocket juliette

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why why was the band arrested

they they they actually didn't do

anything

hmm that's a good point i mean you

evaded a hundred dollar

bar tab well they definitely all got out

of prison before

jake and elwood did because are they all

in prison

they were all performing jailhouse rock

together in the jail no i meant

i thought you meant previously oh no but

i'm saying

based on my knowledge of the future of

this story

when elwood gets out of prison all the

other guys have been out of prison for a

long time

so elwood and jake definitely went in

for the longest

after the credits we see an

advertisement for universal studios

hollywood

with the parenthetical ask for babs

which is a reference to a character from

animal house

who according to the film's epilogue

went on to become a tour guide at

universal

the same advertisement can be seen at

the end of animal house obviously

and apparently guests who asked for babs

were provided with some unspecified

incentive

as late as 1989 when the park announced

it would no longer reward the phrase

so i don't know what the reward was but

apparently for a while

you would get something for saying hey i

was told to ask for babs when you go to

universal

but who would you ask i don't know

whoever you like turn your ticket into i

guess

um john belushi here was joliet jake

he's also in tarzune shame of the jungle

with bill murray

uh from 1975 he was in animal house

going south 1941 continental divide and

neighbors

and that was it uh he was an original

snl cast member

and uh he's probably best remembered for

that

if not in his house this in animal house

oh yeah like

his character was pluto yes yeah

uh frank oz was the corrections officer

at juliet he's the voices of fozzie bear

miss piggy and yoda

uh we went over a lot of his credits in

our empire strikes back episode

but he also directed bowfinger indian in

the cupboard what about bob

most recently in knives out right he's a

character in that

dan aykroyd was elwood he wrote this

with landis

he wrote and starred as race dancing

ghostbusters

he wrote and starred in dragnet he wrote

and starred in and directed in nothing

but

trouble so he writes for himself and he

does a good job

kathleen freeman was sister mary

stigmata she's

joe dirtz foster mother she's the old

woman in the first shrek movie

she's back in blues brothers 2000 she's

peg's mom on married with children

yeah uh she's miss olin the teacher in

hocus pocus

yeah she's so many great rehearsals

she's she's a character actor she

does voice acting she was the voice of

fenton crack shell's mother original

duck tales around

that on here um she was uh uh

fred ward's mother in the third naked

gun movie oh nice

when nelson nielsen subdues her by

putting both of her

arms in the windows of a car and her

locking her head into the sunroof

and she's like her the girl says won't

that look a little conspicuous it's like

no it's happened to me a number of times

she's also a microwave marge in gremlins

too oh yeah microwave marge

and she played rose magruder and off the

wall

that's the one where the kid does the

graffiti she's an attorney okay the

macgyver episode

uh cam calloway played curtis he's a

musician he has lots of credits

and he plays yeller and cincinnati kid

with steve mcqueen

uh donald duck dunn is a musician and he

came back for 2000 that's going to be

what i say for a lot of these people

james brown was reverend cleophus james

he's a musician he's back in 2000 he's

also in dr detroit rocky iv

and he's a hostage negotiator in an

episode of duck man

okay which i was like now i want to look

that up well and dr detroit was also

with dan aykroyd

yes uh chaka khan was a choir soloist

somewhere in here she's a famous

musician oh yeah

you see her in there yeah um i they kept

focusing on this woman and i was like is

she

someone of note yeah that's who it must

have been in the church

yeah uh stephen williams was trooper

mount

stephen williams is great he was mr x on

x-files the guy who you tape a big x in

your window and he comes and solves your

mystery

he was creighton duke and jason goes to

hell he's a tree trimmer and better off

dead

and he's charlie it's a vacuum mack

robinson on

macgyver season 1 episode 14 countdown

where he blows up trying to defuse a

bomb uh

carrie fisher played mystery woman she

doesn't even have a name

she was obviously leia an empire the

same day you can listen to that for more

credits

uh john lanez it's carrie fisher it's

carrie fisher you know who she is

john landis plays trooper lafong he

directed this movie

uh he directed animal house american

werewolf in london next year

trading places thriller twilight zone

three amigos coming to america beverly

hills cop three the stupids

you name it i mean are we gonna go into

more about landis

not yet because like spielberg is in

this movie

and that's true and you know a lot of

joe dante regulars in here too

uh but you know uh obviously we know the

twilight zone would be the last time

spielberg and landis

would work to work together and we'll

get to that

lane britain was the cheese whiz he's

credited as shotgun britain

he was the makeup artist for this movie

he's also the makeup artist for tora

toratora

he does lots of makeup uh his credits

date back to gunga din

in 1939. wow he also did citizen kane

two years later

so he did all of orson welles's old

person makeup i i do have to feel bad

for the kangadin one only because he put

sam jaffe in brown face

yeah and i was like and don't get me

wrong i think it did is great

but they do a lot of brownface in that

movie yeah it's not as bad as the

conqueror with

john wayne as genghis khan yeah that's a

rough one

uh john candy was burton mercer he plays

barf in spaceballs he's uncle buck

he's gus polinski in home alone and he's

ox and stripes

along with a bunch of other things he's

also a really just funny comedian that

we lost too early just like john

judith belushi paisano or pizzano

uh she was the holiday inn cocktail

waitress and she was belushi's wife

obviously

alan rubin was mr fabulous he's a

musician he's back in 2000.

paul rubins was the waiter he's peewee

he was in midnight madness

earlier this year and he'll be back

later this year as the actual peewee

character

in chichen chang's next movie uh henry

gibson

was the head nazi uh he's in burbs he's

in magnolia

he's also in gremlins too yeah he he was

a regular on laughing

yeah he's very very famous comedian

uh i always look cause like you

mentioned joe dante regular he's in

so many joe dante films uh but just

you know tv and movie he he was

very busy all the way up into until his

death i think in the early 2000s yeah he

was in two macgyvers

he was in the one where he played the

silent film actor oh that's right and he

was he also had a cameo where he had

like a car

a station wagon full of kids that he was

getting fast food for and harry as well

i remember that harry's will was a great

episode a lot of cameos on that episode

weird one uh john lee hooker played

street slim

he's a musician aretha franklin was the

sole

soul food cafe owner you know her she's

a musician she's

back for the 2000 movie lou marini same

musician back for 2000 matt murphy the

same

ray charles he's a musician he's famous

he was played by jimmy fox in a biopic

which like the more i see him young the

more i'm like yeah jamie foxx is the

only person who could have done that

um and uh he's also a famous diet pepsi

spokesperson

you got the right one bae ebay

deborah white was the young guitar thief

he played argyle the limo driver from

die hard okay

yeah um and probably not it by

coincidence he also played an uber

driver on workaholics

i'm sure they were like can you get the

limo driver from die hard to play the

uber driver

uh charles napier was tucker mcelroy

yeah

he's murdoch in what i would call second

blood

um rambo two uh lieutenant boyle and

silence of the lambs yeah okay sorry i

thought we were i thought you were

i thought you were moving on i was like

no we gotta talk about this guy he plays

lieutenant boyle and silence to the

lions he's also the commander in austin

powers

who is on the radio with clint howard as

they're like

talking about bob's big boy re-entering

the earth's atmosphere um

but he's great he is the head of the

duke entertainment

on the critic jay sherman's boss yeah

i think he also did a voice in archer

but i don't i didn't write down what it

was

he does tons of his voice is fantastic

yeah

steve lawrence was maurice lyon he came

back for 2000 also

and he was a musician who performed

commonly with his wife edie gourmet

twiggy was the lady from the gas station

who was a top model in the late 60s

uh ralph foodie was the police

dispatcher he played johnny in angels

with filthy souls

oh my god yeah now oh that all makes

sense yeah

keep the change you filthy animal um

steven spielberg

was the cook county assessor's office

clerk

and obviously he's a very famous

director he's not in a lot of movies no

no

it's funny like uh this i can think of

this austin powers

um where he's playing himself yeah and

gold member

yeah james avery was apparently

somewhere in the crowd outside of rey's

shop

uh he's uncle phil he's the voice of

shredder one of the voices of shredder i

think he was the voice first

and then he was replaced with uh jim

cummings

but uh great guy we just lost him pretty

recently too

and apparently mr t is also out there

somewhere um

although this could be just people like

i wish i was in that movie i'm gonna say

i was in that

yeah yeah but uh mr t was obviously

clubber lange

uh he's b.a barack is from the a team

and he's earl devereaux in the first

cloudy with a chance of meatballs film

jess up or down i don't know richard

what do you think about this

uh this movie's getting a big up

a big up a big up really this is a big

up this is a richard

richard classic this is this is

a movie much beloved by by the richard

and i'm having a hard time not putting

it in my number one spot

wow i don't know man

it's an up for me for sure well

i mean i guess you should see it but

it's really not

like not a lot it's sloppy it's a

reluctant up

it's a reluctant wow i'm actually

surprised

uh from both of you it's not

it's not super funny to me

it's really not that funny i laughed the

entire time i had tears in my eyes and

this is like this like that

who knows how many times i've watched

this did you watch it when you were a

kid no

i i my father introduced this to me

pretty late in my life

uh and since then i've just been

obsessed with it

because i saw for the first time i think

either late high school or early college

and

i had always heard that it was like one

of the funniest movies ever made and

that john belushi was a genius that we

lost before

you know his time but i

he's not funny

nothing he says in this whole movie is

funny

uh i could probably agree that he is not

as funny as he could be

i think that people misremember how

funny he was

i think that dying as early as he did

has done a lot for his legacy

i think that happens for a lot of people

obviously but

i don't think because i don't i also

don't happen to like animal house very

much i don't like animal house at all

so between these two if these are like

showing you who john belushi was as a

character

i don't care for his work but the music

is obviously great i love the music

i think dan aykroyd is doing a hell of a

job i think he's

he's carrying their side of the story

but i think

that if you'd cut the car accidents

and the music together and skipped all

the stuff about the band getting back

together

i would have been totally fine with this

movie i like john belushi

on snl i i enjoy i didn't see him on snl

well i mean i i didn't

watch it when he was originally on

obviously but

i the stuff that i've gone back and seen

which is probably

mostly highlight reels i liked that

stuff

but this movie just doesn't i don't know

it just doesn't make me laugh well i i

also feel

that watching the extended cut is a bit

of a

is a bit of a disservice because 17

minutes

is a lot of time to add back into him

already a very long movie

an unnecessary long movie even without

the 17 minutes

as far as i'm concerned and so watching

a lot of those extra scenes

i was just like this is what was in here

this doesn't really add

anything even some of the scenes that

were literally just a line of dialogue

like

when they go to see the penguin and i

can't remember what

what l because i don't know the scenes

because i i've only watched the

theatrical version yeah

um but elwood says something and jake

just repeats it back

in this naughty voice i was like yeah

yeah that was

that was one scene that was cut back in

maybe through two seconds and the whole

movie was filled with like those like

two three

i was like why does it keep getting

washed out um

and those were cut for a reason and they

didn't add anything

and uh so i feel it's a

it makes the film a little more arduous

to watch yeah i will agree

um but i i i just adore this movie

yeah i enjoy all the music i think

i like the characters i just don't think

that

it was a well put together movie yeah i

think it was definitely

pretty sloppily shot and edited

i think that everybody was on a lot of

coke

and they had to make a movie and so they

made the movie

and that it wasn't it wasn't uh

their best work i don't think it was

anybody's best work but uh

honestly if you gave me this or the

stupids in a desert island

i'm taking the stupids all right i'm

gonna take the desert island

yeah because that's just like those are

worth millions of dollars

yeah but yeah where does this go on your

list jess

um yeah after i go and complain about it

it's actually

on the top no it's not that it's not

that high it's um

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it looks like 17th place for me for the

year okay

uh it's uh after mountain men and a head

of last married couple in america

all right richard where's this going

like i said like watching this movie

as i did just recently again for the

again

millionth time i was like oh man this

might be my new number one

but no i've had clear clarity of

thoughts

uh we're not trying to sway your opinion

no no no i i it's not it's not that

you can't you cannot

i i am obstinate on this no um but

um i'm going to put this in uh fourth

position

uh just just after ninth configuration

because again ninth of configuration was

just like

a marvel to my eyes that i had never

seen

um so this puts it between ninth

configuration

and where the buffalo roam all right uh

for me

this is going just above folks and just

under saturn three

which is still pretty high on my list um

it's in my top twenty seven three's in

my top ten

still it's wonderful just barely now

though with with the addition of the

blues brothers it's it's now number 10.

yes i think that's everything for this

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be discussing brubacher

which imdb describes like so the new

warden of a small

prison farm in arkansas tries to clean

it up of corruption

after initially posing as an inmate

what is a prison farm find out

next time we leave you now with a

trailer for brubacher

although wakefield is admittedly an

imperfect institution

much like america herself

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she is nonetheless a grand experiment

i am i am the man i'm the new warden

here my name is henry brubaker

i figure most of you guys belong here

basically you don't have any respect for

other people or yourselves

what do you think of our new warden i'm

trying to get a fix on

what his first order of business here is

gonna be

blow the place up he's dangerous what

the hell's the matter with you you mean

to tell me you're charging for medical

me attention start wars and you let

other people fight them do not come

marching in here from wherever the hell

she found you

and presumed to lecture us about how to

treat our fellow man

must be over 200 of them abraham are you

talking about the bodies that are

supposed to be buried here

somebody needs to stop them

how many men are buried out there you

wouldn't even know would you

it's crazy the the digging of bodies

that murder they're talking about in

there

and if they can doughnut how are you

going to turn around and tell these guys

why they're locked up

robert redford brubacher