10 MP3 Audio clips from The Blues Brothers (1980)

PLAY ALL 10 CLIPS

Clip 1

Jake is about to be released from the Joliet Correctional Center. First, a guard must list and return his belongings.

Guard

One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled.

Clip 2

Jake and Elwood are visiting the orphanage where they grew up. The news from the nun who raised them is not good.

Sister Mary Stigmata

The county took a tax assessment of this property last month. They want five thousand dollars.

Elwood

Doesn't the church have to pay that?

Sister Mary Stigmata

They would if they were interested in keeping the place. But they aren't. The archbishop wants to sell this building to the Board of Education.

Elwood

What's gonna happen to you?

Sister Mary Stigmata

I'll be sent to the missions... Africa, Latin America... Korea.

Jake

Forget it! Five grand? No problem. We'll have it for you in the morning. Let's go, Elwood.

Sister Mary Stigmata

No, no! I will not take your filthy, stolen money!

Jake

Well, then... I guess you're really up sh*t creek.

[SISTER MARY STIGMATA hits JAKE with a wooden paddle for swearing]

Aghhhhh!

Sister Mary Stigmata

I beg your pardon. What did you say?

Jake

I offered to help you. You refused to take our money. Then I said, "I guess you're really up sh*t creek."

[SISTER MARY STIGMATA hits him again]

Yow!

Elwood

Christ, Jake, take it easy, man.

Sister Mary Stigmata

Elwood!

[She hits ELWOOD]

Elwood

Ow, sh*t!

[She begins to leather them both with the paddle as their language understandably deteriorates]

Ah, you fat penguin!

Clip 3

Elwood has fled from a traffic stop with the police in hot pursuit. Not the best start to Elwood's first day of freedom.

Jake

First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone, then you lie to me about the band... now you're gonna put me right back in the joint.

Elwood

They're not going to catch us. We're on a mission from God.

Clip 4

Jake and Elwood have gone to find their old band members who are playing a frankly terrible gig to about four people.

Willie

So, Jake. You're out, you're free, you're rehabilitated. What's next? What's happening? What'cha gonna do? You got the money you owe us, motherfu*ker?

Clip 5

Their old bandmate, Mr. Fabulous, is now maitre'd of Chez Paul. Jake is having a little fun with a snobbish patron at the next table.

Jake

How much for the little girl? The women? How much for the women?

Patron

What?

Jake

Your women... I, I want to buy your women. The little girl. Your daughters. Sell them to me. Sell me your children!

Patron

Maître d'! Maître d'!

Clip 6

The road ahead is blocked by the American Socialist White Peoples' Party.

Jake

Hey, what's going on?

Cop

Oh, those bums won their court case so they're marching today.

Jake

What bums?

Cop

The fu*king Nazi party.

Elwood

Sheesh. Illinois Nazis.

Jake

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Clip 7

Things aren't going so well down at the diner where Matt seems to have moved on since the band broke up.

Matt

But, Babes. This is Jake and Elwood. The Blues Brothers.

Aretha

The Blues Brothers? Sh*t!

Clip 8

The band are at "Bob's Country Bunker" where they're pretending to be the "Good 'Ol Boys" who are due to play there... just to get a gig.

Elwood

Er, what kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire

Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country, and Western.

Clip 9

The "Good 'Ol Boys" have showed up and Jake thinks on his feet, pretending to be from the American Federation of Musicians Local 200 to get away.

Leader

S'pose we ain't got no union cards and we go in there and start playing anyway. Now what you gonna do about that? You gonna stop us? You're gonna look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no fu*king teeth!

Clip 10

The brothers have escaped from the Illinois Nazis and local law enforcement and now need to get back to Chicago in time to pay off the orphanage's debts.

Elwood

It's a hundred-and-six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half-a-pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake

Hit it!