Minnie the Moocher

by rugby843, posted in Bladder cancer

“Let me tell you the story of Minnie the moocher, she was a low down hoochie coocher”. So goes my favorite song by Cab Calloway, in the“Blues Brothers” movie. Mr. Calloway was one of a few cameo appearances, including John Candy, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles. This is one of my all time favorite movies, starring Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi. It has great music, comedy, and unparalleled rapport between Dan and John. There are many memorable scenes, one of my favorites is when the nun who taught them gave the boys their “mission from God”. Another is when their blues band performs in a bar where they have “both kinds of music, country and western”. Most of the funniest scenes are on YouTube if you’re interested. If you like comedy, music and blues, you must see it!

https://youtu.be/u7ogK_unbqM

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23 thoughts on “Minnie the Moocher”

  2. Love BB when I was a kid, probably the second movie I ever watch with interest. By the time I was 8 I knew pretty much the entire movie word for word. I can still recite most of the scenes 🙂

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    2. I used to love the scene where they first got caught running the lights which started with
      Elwood: Shit
      Jake: What
      Elwood: Rollers
      Jake: No
      Elwood: Yes
      Jake: Shit

      After all this time I can still remember what SCMODS stands for. 🙂

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    3. I could talk about this movie for a while….I didn’t even mention the dancing by the two of them in “Somebody to Love” which was hilarious. My kids loved the last part where the police were climbing the building saying “hut, hut, hut, hut”. We all still use the jokes in it.

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    4. There is so many good scenes and good actors that turn up in it.

      The scene where they go and meet the Penguin for the first time had me in stitches when I first saw it. And the way the car fell apart at the end was just brilliant.

      BB2000 was a good movie too but it didn’t have the same kick as the first one.

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    5. I agree. The penguin scene is my rarity scene, starting with John B trying to squeeze into that desk and move it closer. Darn, now I’m going to have to watch it again!

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    10. I might not have seen it straight away (was probably at least a year because I taped it off tv) and I might have the age wrong slightly. I remember very little of my childhood and times and dates of what I do aren’t very accurate.

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    12. I took no fences. 🙂

      I relate a lot more to older people than people my age, always have. Alot of people didn’t understand that, especially when I was in my teens, although for some it’s still hard to understand.

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    19. I wished I was 20 years older from the time I was 15, it’s something that didn’t really go away until my thirties. Right now I don’t really care what age I am because I think it’s just a number.

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    21. I’m younger than some older than some, when I was younger I didn’t like people my age because their values and ideals seemed to be so far away from mine. Now days even though we are all older I still don’t think that’s changed. The self centred, egotistic, me me me generation I went to school with are still the same, they just have a higher number in the age column.

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