THE BLOOZE BROTHERS

THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)
dir: John Landis

THE BLOOZE BROTHERS
Crazy #71, February 1981
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Dave Morris

I think Dave Morris may be a pseudonym, only because I never saw his art anywhere other than Crazy, there was nothing particularly memorable about his style, and they used other artists with pseudonyms.

Jake (John Belushi) has just been released from prison and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) has just come to pick him up in a used police car. Jake is disappointed that it's not the Cadillac they used to own. He's also disappointed that Elwood no longer legally has a driver's license, so the first thing that happens when he's sprung is they're chased by cops.

Their first stop is to visit the orphanage they were raised in, which they find out is being shut down since they can't pay their property tax. They go to a nearby church and Jake has an inspiration—if they get their old band back together they can have a concert to raise money to save the orphanage. First they have to lose the cops chasing them and drive through a mall.

They go to Elwood's home for the night, which is a room in a run down hotel. An assassin (Carrie Fisher) is after them. The next morning, they get the band back together (“We're on a mission from Gaaahd”, Dan Aykroyd keeps saying in his Chicago accent). Some of the former members are a lounge act now and agree to come back. One is a maitre d' at a restaurant who refuses to rejoin until Jake and Elwood continue to embarrass him.

The last two remaining members are now a cook and dishwasher at a diner.

They go to a music store and get instruments from the owner (Ray Charles) who hesitantly gives them on credit.

Another scene not used is them posing as from a country band and taking their gig from them.
Now that they have all the pieces together, they've organized the concert, but now have to get into the venue while eluding all the people after them—the police, the woman shooting at them, the country band they impersonated, and some Nazis who had a march they plowed through.

It's not revealed in the parody, but the assassin is an ex-fiancee of Jake who he left at the altar, which means Jake and Elwood aren't related by blood, because otherwise he'd know.

After performing, they have to get to the county clerk office early in the morning in time to save the orphanage with everyone chasing after them before they're arrested. What happens in the last few minutes is a combination of an extravagant car chase and travelogue for Chicago.

In the parody, They're sent back to Saturday Night Live, where The Blues Brothers started as a recurring sketch.