If you ask me, no movie based on Saturday Night Live characters is better than 1980’s The Blues Brothers, in which John Belushi and co-writer Dan Aykroyd reprise their musician alter egos, Jake and Elwood Blues. I think the reason director John Landis’ musical-comedy masterpiece has remained so beloved — in addition to the incredible car crashes (which set a record for most cars destroyed for a movie) and truly magical soundtrack — is the dialogue, which does not have a single line that isn’t a classic, as far as I am concerned. It seems impossible to narrow down all the funniest Blues Brothers quotes to just 20 and rank them from snicker-inducing to gut-busting, but I tried anyway, and it resulted in the list below.
