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* BusCrash: The movie begins with Elwood being informed of Jake's death. This is due to Creator/JohnBelushi having died in 1982 and the decision being made not to recast the character.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After Creator/JohnBelushi died in 1982 the character was also killed off. The movie begins with Elwood being informed of Jake's passing.
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* HellIsThatNoise: When Mother Mary extends her baton, your ass WILL draw up to your elbows in terror.
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* DreamTeam: The Blues Brothers band in-universe, as well as the Louisiana Gator Boys, a supergroup led by Music/BBKing and containing nearly every living R&B great.
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** The Blues Brothers bandin-universe, as well as the is considered a dream team in-universe.
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** The Louisiana Gator
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* WesternTerrorists: The neo-Confederate survivalist faction appear to be more anti-communist and antisemitic than racially supremacist. However, they do display a banner that reads "White Power."
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* WesternTerrorists: The neo-Confederate survivalist faction appear to be more anti-communist and antisemitic than racially supremacist. However, they do display a banner that reads "White Power.""
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: {{Slapstick}}: Lt. Elizondo (played by Nia Peeples) gets comically banged up in the cruiser pile-up. While naturally she's not really hurt, this kind of slapstick wouldn't fly back in the 80s.
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* RealAfterAll: When Elwood mentions Queen Moussette early in the film, he mentions that she is told to be a voodoo witch. Mighty Mack mentions that it's got to be typical false advertisement... nope, [[OutsideContextProblem she's real]], and the supremacists are turned into rats for their problem, and Elwood, Mack and Cab are turned into zombies for a short period of time.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Elwood.Elwood tries to call it quits for a moment early in the third act when the Bluesmobile conks out and the rest of the band wants to quit themselves. Buster gives him a little speech and he decides to walk to see if he can find some gas, the rest of the band hesitatingly following him a moment later.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' ends with [[spoiler:Elwood and Buster racing away from Queen Mousette's contest (leaving the rest of the band behind, playing "Mississippi Queen" with Mousette's band) while chased by a miles-long line of police cruisers. We assume that Elwood will try some crazy stunt to try to lose them eventually (his final line in the film is telling Buster to "buckle up")]], but aside from that, anything goes.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' ends with [[spoiler:Elwood and Buster racing away from Queen Mousette's contest (leaving the rest of the band behind, playing "Mississippi Queen" with Mousette's band) while chased by a miles-long line of police cruisers.cruisers (it's so long that it keeps on going in TheStinger). We assume that Elwood will try some crazy stunt to try to lose them eventually (his final line in the film is telling Buster to "buckle up")]], but aside from that, anything goes.
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-->'''Mighty Mack''': The suit's real neat, but do I have to wear the hat?\\
'''Elwood Blues''': [[TheMafiya These]] are unsophisticated men. They only respond to fear and the draw of lucre. We elicit this by using iconographic symbols, and psychological intimidation. The way we look together presents a uniform image of strength and organization. Don't say anything. Look mean. No smiling.
'''Elwood Blues''': [[TheMafiya These]] are unsophisticated men. They only respond to fear and the draw of lucre. We elicit this by using iconographic symbols, and psychological intimidation. The way we look together presents a uniform image of strength and organization. Don't say anything. Look mean. No smiling.
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* NeverBareheaded: As with the CoolShades, the brothers' hats are never removed, with two momentary exceptions. Elwood takes his hat off two times: when Caleb tells him to do so, and when he's face to face with Queen Mousette, as a gesture of respect, prompting the other members of the band to do the same. She appreciates the gesture.
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* NeverBareheaded: As with the CoolShades, the brothers' hats are never removed, with two momentary exceptions. Elwood takes his hat off two times: when Caleb tells him to do so, and when he's face to face face-to-face with Queen Mousette, as a gesture of respect, prompting the other members of the band to do the same. She appreciates the gesture.
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* LemmingCopsLemmingCops: One of the car chases finishes with the police pursuing the Blues Brothers Band slamming on the brakes to avoid doing a RampJump and crashing into each other [[OverlyLongGag for a whole 100 seconds]].
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* QuitWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
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* QuitWhining: QuitYourWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
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* QuiteWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
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* QuiteWhining: QuitWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
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* AmphibiousAutomobile: The updated Bluesmobile can function underwater.
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* BattleOfTheBands: Where the band is ultimately headed.
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* BattleOfTheBands: Where The film ends with a Battle of the Bands between the Blues Brothers Band and the Louisiana Gator Boys. Unusually for this trope, the title characters ''lose'', but band leader Elwood Blues is ultimately headed.on good terms with the Gator Boys' leader, Malvern Gasperone (portrayed by Blues legend Music/BBKing) after an earlier encounter with him, and so the two bands decide to team up and play one more song together to close out the film.
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* DreamTeam: The Blues Brothers band in-universe, as well as the Louisiana Gator Boys.
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* DreamTeam: The Blues Brothers band in-universe, as well as the Louisiana Gator Boys.Boys, a supergroup led by Music/BBKing and containing nearly every living R&B great.
* TheFunInFuneral: Elwood and Mack find Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin working as an undertaker, and attempt to blackmail him into rejoining the band by disrupting his work until he agrees. This includes interrupting a funeral and talking loudly how they're going to rob the valuables off the corpse and sell his penis to med school as soon as the burial is over. Things take an unexpected turn because the mourners are members of the Russian Mafia, who whip out AK-47s and give chase. The graveyard is destroyed by the ensuing gunfire.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: Queen Mousette. At first all her powers seem to do is turn people's skin green and cause them to dance about stiffly to "calypso-funk" music (and temporarily lose their memory). But then we learn she can literally turn people to stone, as well as transform humans into rats.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Buster:''' It smells like dog shit in here.\\
'''Elwood:''' Don't say "shit", kid.\\
''[Buster attempts to light a cigarette, which Elwood confiscates]''\\
'''Elwood:''' You don't need that shit, kid.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Buster:''' It smells like dog shit in here.\\
'''Elwood:''' Don't say "shit", kid.\\
''[Buster attempts to light a cigarette, which Elwood confiscates]''\\
'''Elwood:''' You don't need that shit, kid.
* PigLatin:
-->'''Cab Chamberlain:''' I thought you said she was old and ugly.\\
'''Elwood Blues:''' Ix-nay on the ugly-ay.
* ThePowerOfRock:
** When the Blues Brothers do "Ghost Riders in the Sky", they summon bad weather, the devil's herd, and the ghost riders; lightning even strikes down a sniper.
** And the "In the Blood/John the Revelator" sequence was certainly doing ''something''.
* PunkInTheTrunk:
** Elwood gets two Russian gangsters drunk and then stuffs them in the trunk of the Bluesmobile.
** Later on in the film, the Bluesmobile's trunk becomes Buster's room; we see him sleep in there.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The plot driver is Elwood's quest to reunite the surviving members of the old band, along with a few new recruits.
* QuiteWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
-->'''Cab Chamberlain:''' I thought you said she was old and ugly.\\
'''Elwood Blues:''' Ix-nay on the ugly-ay.
* ThePowerOfRock:
** When the Blues Brothers do "Ghost Riders in the Sky", they summon bad weather, the devil's herd, and the ghost riders; lightning even strikes down a sniper.
** And the "In the Blood/John the Revelator" sequence was certainly doing ''something''.
* PunkInTheTrunk:
** Elwood gets two Russian gangsters drunk and then stuffs them in the trunk of the Bluesmobile.
** Later on in the film, the Bluesmobile's trunk becomes Buster's room; we see him sleep in there.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The plot driver is Elwood's quest to reunite the surviving members of the old band, along with a few new recruits.
* QuiteWhining: Elwood laments that with his brother and mentor dead, and the orphanage gone, he's got nothing left. Mother Mary tells him briskly to snap out of it and that she didn't raise him to be a quitter.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: A neo-Confederate survivalist militia group is one of the groups the protagonists get on the wrong side of (more or less filling the role the neo-Nazis played in the original film).
* SkullCups: After the title characters rudely interrupt the funeral of a Russian mobster's nephew, an associate declares that he will turn Elwood's skull into a cup and drink vodka from it.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Averted by Creator/JohnGoodman, who distinguishes himself from Belushi in his performance ''and'' his singing.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Averted by Creator/JohnGoodman, who distinguishes himself from Belushi in his performance ''and'' his singing.singing.
* WeDontNeedRoads: The updated Bluesmobile can function underwater, allowing the protagonists to avoid a roadblock.
* WesternTerrorists: The neo-Confederate survivalist faction appear to be more anti-communist and antisemitic than racially supremacist. However, they do display a banner that reads "White Power."
* WeDontNeedRoads: The updated Bluesmobile can function underwater, allowing the protagonists to avoid a roadblock.
* WesternTerrorists: The neo-Confederate survivalist faction appear to be more anti-communist and antisemitic than racially supremacist. However, they do display a banner that reads "White Power."
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elwood's well-intentioned attempt to deal with the Russian mob threatening Willie's club promptly gets the club burned down.
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* RousingSpeech: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' has Buster verbally kicking Elwood's rear end, followed up by this gem:
-->'''Elwood:''' You may go if you wish. Remember this: Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Willie Dixon, Music/JimmyReed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I (and II), Music/OtisRedding, Jackie Wilson, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LeiberAndStoller, and Robert K. Weiss.\\
-->'''Elwood:''' You may go if you wish. Remember this: Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Willie Dixon, Music/JimmyReed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I (and II), Music/OtisRedding, Jackie Wilson, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LeiberAndStoller, and Robert K. Weiss.\\
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* RousingSpeech: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' has Buster verbally kicking Elwood's rear end, followed RousingSpeech:
** Elwood launches into a semi-inspiring speech (mostly about the many reasons that [[TheMafiya the Russian Mafia]] is ''not'', in fact, going to blow upby this gem:
-->'''Elwood:'''Willy's Strip Club) -- but it consists almost entirely of a history lecture on Russian politics that leaves everyone else entirely perplexed.
** Another one after they've run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and all but the main three are thinking of just giving up:
--->'''Elwood:''' You may go if you wish. Remember this: Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Willie Dixon, Music/JimmyReed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I (and II), Music/OtisRedding, Jackie Wilson, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LeiberAndStoller, and Robert K. Weiss.\\
** Elwood launches into a semi-inspiring speech (mostly about the many reasons that [[TheMafiya the Russian Mafia]] is ''not'', in fact, going to blow up
-->'''Elwood:'''
** Another one after they've run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and all but the main three are thinking of just giving up:
--->'''Elwood:''' You may go if you wish. Remember this: Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Willie Dixon, Music/JimmyReed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I (and II), Music/OtisRedding, Jackie Wilson, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LeiberAndStoller, and Robert K. Weiss.\\
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* FakeBand: The Louisiana Gator Boys are an example of a fake band composed of real musicians. The group doesn't exist outside the movie, but the roster is basically a collection of all the most legendary blues musicians alive at the time of filming, including Music/BBKing, Music/EricClapton, Music/BoDiddley, and Music/IsaacHayes.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Buster with Elwood and Mack (and later, Cab).
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* CoolShades: Which they almost never take off. Flat-out parodied, like everything else, in ''2000'' when Cabel tells Elwood to take his hat and glasses off in the office. The camera pans to Cabel, then back to Elwood--covering his eyes with his arm to avoid being [[DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes blinded by normal indoor light]].
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* CoolShades: Which they almost never take off. Flat-out parodied, like everything else, CoolShades:
** Elwood, as always, has his pair of shades that he takes off only once in''2000'' when the entire film. Even his driver's license has shades. When Cabel tells Elwood to take his hat and glasses off in the office. The office, the camera pans to Cabel, then back to Elwood--covering his eyes with his arm to avoid being [[DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes blinded by normal indoor light]].light]].
** New core members of the band also get cool shades; when Cabel is converted to the true faith of R&B, his cop shades are turned into cool shades.
* CousinOliver: Elwood gets saddled with being mentor to a heartwarming orphan named Buster as part of the studio's attempt to make the sequel more family-friendly than the original.
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* CousinOliver: Elwood gets saddled with being mentor to a heartwarming orphan named Buster as part of the studio's attempt to make the sequel more family-friendly than the original.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Elwood.
* {{Acrofatic}}: Mighty Mack.
* AffectionateParody: The scene with John Popper reads like an affectionate parody, verging on a TakeThat, of the fans and the unease felt by Landis and Aykroyd whenever blues fans and musicians tell them that the Blues Brothers are these really great blues musicians, on par with B.B. King or other well known names.
* AlliterativeName: Mighty Mack [=McTeer=].
* AsHimself: The band members play themselves. The majority of them were part of the original backing band, and are well known blues and R&B legends, including Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn (both of whom played for Music/OtisRedding, amongst others), and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Paul Shaffer[[note]]The Blues Brothers Band's original keyboardist in real life, but not in screen canon, as he was unavailable for the first movie[[/note]] turns up, but he's not actually playing himself -- he instead adopts a thick French accent, playing the role of Queen Mousette's aide, Marco. He later takes off the wig and performs with the band, though, for which he gets credited both as Marco and as himself on the end credits list.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Lampshaded when Elwood tells his new partners why they have to dress the same way.
* BattleOfTheBands: Where the band is ultimately headed.
* BavarianFireDrill: Elwood's "puffball bacteria." John Goodman's [[LargeHam intentional hamming it up]] and Evan Bonifant's over-the-top screaming are both hilarious, but the rest of the band ''completely ignoring them'' is what sells it.
* BigBad: The Russian {{Mafiya}}.
* BolivianArmyEnding: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' ends with [[spoiler:Elwood and Buster racing away from Queen Mousette's contest (leaving the rest of the band behind, playing "Mississippi Queen" with Mousette's band) while chased by a miles-long line of police cruisers. We assume that Elwood will try some crazy stunt to try to lose them eventually (his final line in the film is telling Buster to "buckle up")]], but aside from that, anything goes.
* CarFu: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' held the Guinness World Record for most cars destroyed in a single movie (over 100, as reported by Guinness) for 11 years, beating out the previous record-holder -- the original ''Blues Brothers''.
* CatchPhrase: "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
* CheckPlease: The band's exit from Bob's Country Kitchen.
* ChekhovsGun: You see some wiring hooked up to the ignition of the Bluesmobile when they reveal where Elwood is. A short time later, you see the wiring is part of a secondary control method.
* CloserToEarth: Music/ArethaFranklin's character, who tries to dissuade her husband (Matt "Guitar" Murphy) from rejoining the Blues Brothers.
* ContinuityNod: In the first film, Elwood's favorite meal is two pieces of dry white toast. In the second film, the police invade Bob's Country Kitchen to look for the Blues Brothers, and notice the table where they were sitting. One of the plates has two pieces of dry white toast on it.
* CoolCar: It can even drive ''underwater''.
* CoolShades: Which they almost never take off. Flat-out parodied, like everything else, in ''2000'' when Cabel tells Elwood to take his hat and glasses off in the office. The camera pans to Cabel, then back to Elwood--covering his eyes with his arm to avoid being [[DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes blinded by normal indoor light]].
* CrazyEnoughToWork: They shrug off a bunch of Russian gangsters chasing them by dumping out a bag of drywall nails, and they drive directly into it. It works.
* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: When Cabel tells Elwood to take his hat and glasses off in the office, the camera pans to Cabel, then back to Elwood--covering his eyes with his arm to avoid being blinded by normal indoor light.
* DenserAndWackier: ''2000'' is a ''lot'' more cartoonish than the first film, featuring things such as a voodoo witch who turns the band into zombies and rednecks into rats.
* DineAndDash: The band stop at a diner to get some food, but are tracked by some officers looking for Elwood. Upon seeing this, Elwood [[YouDontWantToCatchThis fakes a disease]] by covering his head in shaving cream and having Big Mac warn the patrons to stay away as they, along with Buster, stumble out of the building, Big Mac grabbing his sandwich on the way out. Humorously, the owner of the place, who was also the owner of the bar where the band fled without paying in the first movie, experiences deja vu and asks the band if he knows them. The band quickly eat their food and call for their check.
* DreamTeam: The Blues Brothers band in-universe, as well as the Louisiana Gator Boys.
* EtherealChoir: Heard by Cab when he has an epiphany.
* FanserviceExtra: Some of the strippers in ''Blues Brothers 2000'' are quite easy on the eyes with their revealing outfits.
* FatAndSkinny: Mighty Mack and Elwood.
* GenerationXerox: Cabel Chamberlain sings and dances just like Curtis, and by the end of the movie, Buster has turned into a mini-Elwood.
* GenreShift: While the first film has more than its share of goofy, over-the-top humor, the sequel goes more in the direction of outright fantasy, including a performance of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" causing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to appear, Cabel being transformed into a Blues Brother by God, and the climax [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext revolving around a 130-year-old voodoo lady, who temporarily transforms the Blues Brothers into zombies and the pursuing bad guys into rats.]]
* GospelRevivalNumber: Featuring John The Revelator (although we get a taste of the song during the opening credits too, with Taj Mahal singing solo). It's later on sung again at a Tent Revival by James Brown, Sam "The Supervoice" Moore, and Joe Morton.
* HappyEndingOverride: The sequel starts with Elwood being informed of Jake's death, and later Curtis's as well. To make matters worse, we quickly learn that the orphanage Jake and Elwood went through so much trouble to save in the first movie was shut down anyway sometime in between the two movies.
* HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy: The cops in the sequel are, if possible, even worse than those in the original. At least when they confront the pileup at the end of Lower Wacker Drive in the first film, the cops stop.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Queen Mousette.
* JustGotOutOfJail: The movie begins with Elwood getting out of jail.
* LongList: Elwood runs down the list of musical genres the Blues Brothers are capable of performing. It includes just about every genre imaginable (except Caribbean music, for whatever reason).
* TheMafiya
* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: "New Orleans"
* MotorMouth: Elwood.
* NeverBareheaded: As with the CoolShades, the brothers' hats are never removed, with two momentary exceptions. Elwood takes his hat off two times: when Caleb tells him to do so, and when he's face to face with Queen Mousette, as a gesture of respect, prompting the other members of the band to do the same. She appreciates the gesture.
* NoEnding: The film ends with [[spoiler:Elwood and Buster on the run from authorities; whether they escape is uncertain.]]
* NoEndorHolocaust: Parodied; after the car crash in ''2000'', every police officer is shown climbing safely out of the mountain of wrecked cars.
* OhCrap: Elwood at the climax of ''2000'', when he sees the Penguin in the audience, and she sees ''him''.
* OverlyLongGag: The car chase.
* RankUp: Creator/FrankOz's appearance in ''2000'' is supposed to imply his property supervisor character from the first movie has been promoted to prison warden in the interim.
* RoadBlock: In ''The Blues Brothers 2000'', a roadblock has been set up; Elwood gets around it by driving ''under'' a river.
* RousingSpeech: ''Blues Brothers 2000'' has Buster verbally kicking Elwood's rear end, followed up by this gem:
-->'''Elwood:''' You may go if you wish. Remember this: Walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Music/RobertJohnson, Music/MuddyWaters, Willie Dixon, Music/JimmyReed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louis Jordan, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I (and II), Music/OtisRedding, Jackie Wilson, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LeiberAndStoller, and Robert K. Weiss.\\
'''Duck Dunn:''' Who is Robert K. Weiss?\\
''[Duck, Cropper, and Bones Malone shrug]'' [[note]]Mr. Weiss is a movie and TV writer/producer/director with over 40 credits, including the Dan Aykroyd vehicles ''Film/DoctorDetroit'', ''Film/{{Dragnet}}'', and... ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''.[[/note]]\\
'''Elwood:''' Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B, and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will wither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect.
* RunningGag:
** Several referring to the first movie, from Elwood throwing the cigarette lighter out the window to all the cops being [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy terrible shots]] to someone climbing out of a wrecked car and complaining of a broken watch.
** "The Lord works in mysterious ways," said by Jake, becomes the running gag of ''2000''.
** Elwood stealing things (the windshield wipers from the gas station in the first movie; the toilet paper from Bob's Country Kitchen in the second).
* SenselessViolins: A Russian gangster at the country fair hides his sniper rifle in a guitar case.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Elwood's RousingSpeech to the band.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Averted by Creator/JohnGoodman, who distinguishes himself from Belushi in his performance ''and'' his singing.
