The Blues Brothers : Best throwaway lines?

Best throwaway lines?

After seeing a comment on one of the other threads, I got to thinking. What are your favorite throwaway lines in the movie?

Mine has got to be:
"Did you get my Cheez Whiz, boy?"

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"Hey Jake, there's got to be at least seven dollars' worth of change here."

Then I love the way Jake reaches over.

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well what are ya' gonna do about it..Whitey!


"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire."

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I always crack up when the boys are talking about bad prison food with Matt Guitar Murphy.

Matt: How was Joliet?

Jake: Oh, it was bad. On Thursday night they served a wicked pepper steak.

Matt: It can't be as bad as the cabbage rolls at the Terre Haute Federal pen.

Elwood: Or that oatmeal in the Cook County slammer.

Matt: They're ALL pretty bad!

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I love that exchange!

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Can't drive past a Pier 1 Imports without deadpanning "Pier 1 Imports."

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I don't know if it's a throwaway line but:

"How much for the little girl? The women! How much do you want for the women?"

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"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

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The lines about buying the girls/women are probably from the SNL parody of "The Beverly Hillbillies". I can't find the skit online anywhere, but it aired in 1979. Google for "snl bel arabs".

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I like how both Elwood and Mercer say hi to Sim (?) on the stoop.


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Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips!

"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine, boy?"

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The exchange in the phone booth, culminating with Elwood asking Jake: "Who are you going to call?"

Foreshadowing, anyone? :)

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As soon as Elwood asked that, I shouted out "Ghostbusters!" haha.

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You want I should wash the dead bugs off the windshield?


One soiled.


Chicken wire?


You can't lie to a nun.


Fix the cigarette lighter.

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Another favorite:

"I knew a hooker once name Minnie Mazola."

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"How often does the train go by?"

"So often you won't even notice it."





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SSSOOOOOO MMMMAAANNNNYYYY!!!!!

"We got both kinds; we got Country AND Western!"

"I took the libery of... bull $#!tting you."

"I hate Illinois Nazis."

"You know, we happen to make the state's best pepper steak!"
"NO THANK YOU, MA'AM!"
(Especially after he talked about the prison making a wicked pepper steak)

"They broke my watch!"

"Well then... I guess you're really up $#!T creek!"

"Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way!"

"What light?"

"Lots of space in this mall."
"This place ahs got EVERYTHING!"

"Boys... you in BIG trouble."

"YOU! On the motorcycle!"

"This is car... uh... What number are we?"
"Five - Five!"
"Car 55. We're in a truck!"

"Bring me four fried chickens and a coke."

"Wrong glass... SIR!"


And duh... "We're puttin' the band back together."
And "We're on a mission from God."

--End Transmission: Code 350--

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"YOU'RE the Good 'Ole Boys?!"

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As the boys are driving on in Chicago, Elwood says they are getting closer to the Daly Building and Jake just says "that's where they have that Picasso".

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When Bob gives one of the band members a list of songs to play:

"I'll give this to you, you're the tallest."

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I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts.
It wasn't my fault - I SWEAR TO GOOOOODDDDDDDDD!!!!

Oh, Jake, Jake honey.......

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"Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"

"Hut! Hut! Hut Hut Hut!"

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New Oldsmobiles are in early this year.

As Brits in the Eighties, that line became standard when anyone made the slightest driver error.

I had a friend who would walk into a bar and say Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Then to the barman: 3 Orange Whips.

As usual I got to take an IOU.


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Disco pants and Haircuts

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When the nazis are falling from the sky
"I've always loved you"




" You ain't going to the basement bitch !!! "

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Oh God, where to start:

"You still wearing those farkakte suits? Why don't you wear blue jeans or jump suits like Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders?"

"5,000 bucks? Who do you think you are? The Beatles?"

"Bring me 4 fried chickens and a coke."

"Don't you "don't you get riled, sugar" me."

"You can just walk right out that door without your dry white toast, without your 4 fried chickens, and without Matt 'Guitar' Murphy."(Aretha was great in this)

And finally the greatest:

"106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."

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No ma'am, we're musicians.

Don't say a *beep* word

We would especially like to welcome all the representatives of the Illinois law enforcement community

The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved

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""5,000 bucks? Who do you think you are? The Beatles?"

^ That line is probably inspired by the SNL segment where Lone Michaels offered the Beatles $3,000 to reform on SNL.

There was a delayed punchline the following week where you glimpse musical guest George Harrison backstage with Michaels and trying to claim his portion --calling Michaels chintzy for not paying him.

Also of note: Paul McCartney was AT John Lennon's home when the offer episode aired and they briefly considered taking a cab down to 30 Rock as a joke.

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Mr Man!...Mr. Man!...always my favorite line from the movie

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"Mrs Toronto?"

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Elwood:- "What kinds of music do you usually play here?",

Bar woman:- "Why we have both kinds, Country and Western!"

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YEARS after this became one of our most quotable movies, my buddy moved to an apartment literally next to railroad tracks, and I think he actually got tired of me throwing out the "how often does the train go by" bit, because he was required to follow up. That was one of our favorites.

We also used to love the hyper-enthusiastic, "well, it's a BEAUTIFUL place, Bob!!!"

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Only line I can come up with that hasn't been said yet:

"This is glue. Strong stuff."

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"I'd much rather be happy than right."--Slartibartfast, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"$#!t." "What?" "Rollers." "No." "Yeah." "$#!t."

"And it's . . . Ladies' Night tonight at the Palace Hotel ballroom."

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75% of you don't know what a throwaway line is.
the other 50% nail it.

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Cute.

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"Mission from God " should be thrown away. Ask any American after 9/11.

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"Stand by your man…"



"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley

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Or any human since the Inquisition . . . or probably earlier.

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Oh *beep* now the mobs after us.

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when connected with this movie, "mission from God" will always be funny. If it stops being funny, the terrorists win.

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Pretty much every line said while driving through the mall.

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Ackroyd on the Bluesmobile loudspeaker: "You two girls." The way he says it cracks me up every time!

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"At least we got a change of clothes, sucker. You're wearing the same *beep* you had on three years ago.

"Did you get my Cheez Whiz boy?"

"You're gonna look pretty funny tryin' to eat corn on the cob with no *beep* teeth!"

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"The use of excessive force in the apprehension of The Blues Brothers... has been approved."



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So far, so good.

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"Yes, do you have the Miss Piggy?"

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Hands down favorite was "You're gonna look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no *beep* teeth!" haha gets me every time!
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