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The following amounts are adjusted for inflation in 2022: The $23.07 given back to Jake Blues when he gets his belongings back upon his release comes out to $82.44The June 6, 1979 version of the screenplay by Aykroyd and Landis is almost identical to the extended DVD cut of the film, except that it features a deleted scene right at the start. After being released from jail, Jake is taken to a whorehouse located behind the prison by Elwood. They meet a madam called Cecille and three hookers, Connie, Penny and Streak (who has short black hair with a pink streak down one side). Cecille picks out Streak for Jake. Elwood asks for a cup of tea, and Penny puts a kettle on. Connie offers to show Elwood how to play a video game on the TV set, but even before the tea is ready, Jake is done and hands Cecille the only money he has, $23.07 ($82.44 in 2022 adjusted for inflation). After they leave, Jake asks Elwood what happened to their Cadillac (their first lines in the movie)[13:15] The $5,000 that the orphanage owes in property tax (the plot for the entire movie) comes out to $17,868.41[51:13]The waiter (Paul Reubens) quotes $120.00 for the Dom Perignon champagne. This comes out to $428.84. The $10 soup comes out to $28.59[1:08:31]The $350 that Ray offers to buy back the amplifiers from Murph comes out to $1250.79. Murph had paid $800 ($2858.95) just 6 months priorThe $2000 that Ray wants for the keyboard ("I'll throw in the black keys for free") $7147.37[1:14:10]The estimated $8 in change after the phone booth at the Howard Johnson's comes crashing down comes out to $25.02[1:22:09]After The Blues Brothers play Rawhide at Bob's Country Bunker, there is a sign next to one of the pinball machines warning minors that there is a five hundred dollar fine. The rest of the sign is illegible. $500 in 1980 comes out to 1786.84[1:25:17]After the band plays at Bob's Country Bunker, Bob tells Jake that the band drank $300 ($1072.10) in beer. In 1980, the average price of a bottle of beer was about $1.50 ($5.36). That means the ten members of the band drank about 200 beers, or about 20 each, that nightThe $1400 that Jake tells the former bouncer to take to Ray's Music exchange comes out to $5003.16The receipt stamped by the tax assessor clerk (Steven Spielberg) is #6829, dated August 9, 1979, and correctly reflects that $5,000 ($20,281.07 in 2022 adjusted for inflation) cash for St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage was received from "Jake & Elwood Blues", with an address of 1060 West Addison, Chicago, Illinois (Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs). He signs the receipt "R.J. Daley", a reference to the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, for whom the plaza through which they drove (with the Pablo Picasso sculpture) was named.

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