# My Pre-Thanksgiving Blues Brothers Tradition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612 "2015-11-26T06:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/1 "2015-11-26T06:21:51Z")
I love this film and watch it every year the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. Beer or wine is required. Let The Good Times Roll 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/2 "2015-11-26T09:17:36Z")
My favorite music/comedy ever. That’s the best blues band you can muster, back then. “We have both kinds. We have country AND western!” ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/3 "2015-11-26T15:26:06Z")
Locrian…Locrian is it? How you gonna eat turkey and stuffing…with no FUCKIN teeth!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/4 "2015-11-26T15:27:52Z")
RIP Charles Napier…you were one creepy scary dude. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/5 "2015-11-27T03:20:48Z")
Not in the movie, but a karaoke classic I have sometimes sung: [“Hey, Bartender!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzP0GCILr7c) BTW, WRT: "I blew each and all of my friends “Felt so good I had to blow 'em again” “Blow” means “treat,” as in, “Sure, Mike, if you’ll blow me to a pail of suds!” 🙂 (Line from an O. Henry story.) [It’s easily misunderstood, I know . . .](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveAGayOldTime) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/6 "2015-11-28T16:23:10Z")
The original Blues Brothers movie is absolutely wonderful and holds up perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/7 "2015-11-28T19:09:15Z")
_Chickenwire?_ ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/8 "2015-11-28T19:12:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Chickenwire?_ Iirc that was shot in the old Palomino Club in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/9 "2015-11-28T19:29:44Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > … That’s the best blues band you can muster, back then… They had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline. I’m probably in the minority here, but I liked Blues Brothers 2000 even more than the original, and I LOVE the original. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/10 "2015-11-28T20:08:19Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Iirc that was shot in the old Palomino Club in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. No, it was “Bob’s Country Bunker”, somewhere in the Mid-West, as you can never convince me that this _documentary_ about the saving of an orphanage is anything other than 100% true and accurate, like everything you see at the movies or on TV. If its on the screen, it _has_ to be real. That’s, like, _the law_ or something. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/11 "2015-11-28T20:15:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > No, it was “Bob’s Country Bunker”, somewhere in the Mid-West, as you can never convince me that this _documentary_ about the saving of an orphanage is anything other than 100% true and accurate, like everything you see at the movies or on TV. > > If its on the screen, it _has_ to be real. That’s, like, _the law_ or something. If it was Bob would be a multimillionaire by now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pre-thanksgiving-blues-brothers-tradition/738612/12 "2015-11-30T04:39:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Not in the movie, but a karaoke classic I have sometimes sung: [“Hey, Bartender!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzP0GCILr7c) It’s the second song I ever sang at karaoke, and six years later it’s still my favorite. Those first three notes get everybody’s attention, and the subject matter is perfect when it’s close to last call at the bar.