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{{quote|''[[Badass Creed|Be excellent to each other and... Party on, dudes]]!''
|Credo of Bill and Ted, quoted even by [[Abraham Lincoln]]!}}
'''<big>''[[Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' (1989)</big>'''
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{{quote|''EXCELLENT!''}}
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It is also noteworthy for being one of the few [[Buddy Picture|buddy comedies]] where the friends don't [[Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure|get mad at one another and split up for some amount of time]]. Also for an unexpected level of internal consistency, despite the wacky attitude.
'''<big>''[[Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]'' (1991)</big>'''
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{{quote|''STATION!''}}
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Since 1992, the Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood have used Bill and Ted in their annual Halloween Horror Nights event as ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure'', parodying that year's pop culture and entertainment. The 2009 event, for example, featured Twilight, Megan Fox (well, a male impersonator), ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'', ''X-Men Origins'', ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', and ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', among many others.
'''<big>''[[Bill & Ted
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{{quote|''Their most excellent adventure continues...''}}
In September 2010, it was announced that work had begun on a third movie ([http://io9.com/5646614/ source]). Winter and Reeves are signed on for it, as are the series' creators and writers, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.
According to Winter, the movie will evoke the spirit of the originals without succumbing to "retro cynicism", and that they've found a way to continue the story beyond the apparent [[Happily Ever After]] at the end of ''Bogus Journey''. Early information suggests that the plot will revolve around the fact that Bill and Ted haven't changed the world yet and are trying to write the song that will create Rufus' utopian future.
[[w:Bill & Ted Face the Music|Wikipedia says]]: "By May 2018, a distribution deal had been secured and the film entered pre-production, with filming officially commencing on July 1, 2019." While that page gives a release date of August 21, 2020, all movie release dates in 2020 are subject to change depending on the progress of the 2020 [[COVID-19 pandemic]].
The movie was released on August 28, 2020.
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=== The following most triumphant tropes appear in multiple ''Bill and Ted'' works: ===
* [[Air Guitar]]: '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx8FanC70S4 Every ten seconds]''' whenever Bill and Ted think of something EXCELLENT!
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Chuck De Nomolos.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Male version. Bill's customized sweatshirt.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Bill and Ted have a rather unique vocabulary and speaking style.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "Excellent!" often followed by an Air Guitar duet.
** The two will gasp "Bogus!" when something bad happens.
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* [[Myspeld Rokband]]/[[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: WYLD STALLYNS! ''*air guitar*''
* [[Nice Guy|Nice Guys]]: Stupid as Bill and Ted may both be, it's hard to deny that they are both sincere, decent and kind-hearted kids when push comes to shove.
* [[Parody Sue]]: The founders of a Utopian future are ''these'' guys.
* [[Retroactive Preparation]]
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'''Bill, Ted:''' And?
'''Rufus:''' They stink. }}
* [[Trophy Wife]]: In ''Excellent Adventure'', Bill's dad has divorced his mother and gotten married to Missy, who is only three years older than his son. In ''Bogus Journey'', they have split up and now Ted's dad is the one married to Missy.
* [[Utopia]]: The duo use [[The Power of Rock]] to turn the world into one.
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* [[Accidental Hug]]
* [[All Part of the Show]]
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: A given since one of the figures Bill and Ted capture is Sigmund Freud himself.
* [[Ancient Greece]]: It looks like the cover of the [[Led Zeppelin]] album "Houses of the Holy". (Allegedly.)
** It was also "most tranquil."
** And you'll never guess where it got the "[[Days of Our Lives|like sands from the hour glass]]" expression.
* [[
** Bill claims they went back to the year 1269 to pick up Genghis Khan, though Khan's death occured in 1227; possibly another "69 joke".
** Overlapping with [[Common Knowledge]], it is widely agreed upon that iron maidens were never truly used as torture or execution devices in the Middle Ages, possibly not even existing until the 1900s.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: When Bill and Ted are to be executed for trying to rescue the princesses, who better than Billy the Kid and Socrates to bust them out, [[Dressing as the Enemy|disguised as the executioners]].
* [[Big Fun]]: Socrates is portrayed as such.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]:
{{quote|'''Ted''': "Now your Dad's getting it on in your own room!"
'''Bill''': "Shut up, Ted."
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* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Suggested, though not really shown.
* [[Eternal English]]: Averted with Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Socrates, Napoleon, and Genghis Kahn being unable to speak a word of English.
** Invoked when they visit England 1501 and meet the Royal Princess Babes, however. While both sets of characters technically spoke English, you have sixteenth century Britons speaking to modern American valley-guys. While a handful of references and words were misunderstood on either side, in reality, they would sound like they were speaking in a bizarre Stage Irish accent --
** Also, Joan of Arc's lines are in standard modern French, when she actually spoke the Limousin dialect of middle French which is somewhat different.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Everything's Better With Royal English Babes]]:
{{quote|'''Bill:''' "We gotta go. It's a history report, not a babe report."
'''Ted:''' "But, Bill, those... are historical babes." }}
* [[Exty Years From Now]]: Rufus dates the future scenes to 2688, just about 700 years after the movie came out.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Both figuratively and literally. The topic of the history report is trying to interpret how famous historical figures would feel about San Dimas today. While most students are supposed to just write and read out what they think, Bill and Ted take the topic to the Nth Degree and actually bring historical figures to San Dimas of today. The figures react in their own ways to the modern wonders, from Joan of Arc being fascinated by Jazzercise and Aerobics to Beethoven fascinated by modern musical instruments.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In-universe, invoked by Freud himself. But to summarize: Bill and Ted's fathers are both pretty much complete ass at being parents. Ted's father blames him for everything and absolutely can't wait to send him to military school as far away as possible. Bill's father doesn't care about anything but his hot practically teenage wife, ignoring his son and kicking him out of the house so he can have sex romps.
* [[The Full Name Adventures]]
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Billy the Kid and Socrates toss around the ol' pigskin (actually something like a Nerf football) while Bill and Ted see the princesses for the first time.
** In something of a Funny ''Foreground'' Event, Napoleon begins to sidle closer to Missy (likely intending to hit on her) in her car while Bill and Ted make their way back to it. Napoleon promptly pulls back when they appear beside the passenger's side window.
* [[Gay Moment]]: Bill and Ted hug after Ted turns out to have not been killed by that medieval dickweed, then promptly let go and jokingly yell "Fag!" to one another.
* [[God Test]]: Invoked when Bill and Ted challenge their future selves:
{{quote|'''Ted:''' "If you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of?"
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'''Bill and Ted:''' "Whoa..."
''[quadruple air guitar]'' }}
* [[Hammerspace]]:
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Including [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]], Billy the Kid, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], Sigmund Freud, [[Socrates]]...▼
** It seems to be a common ability here. Where did Billy get the lariat he used on Freud? Kind of hard to say. Another example, Genghis Khan enters the booth carrying only a club, which he later discards; in an even later scene, he has a pole-axe weapon, and no explanation where it came from. Also, Joan of Arc is somehow able to change out of her armor before she and the others are arrested, and then change back into it after the duo spring them, with no explanation of where she put it; similarly, it's not clear where Napoleon stashes his uniform at the water park, despite changing back into it later. Hammerspace is really the only explanation.
** Of course, there's also the booth itself. Not exactly something that could fit nine (and later ''ten'') people easily (although Ted did say they were "running out of room" when there were only nine). They eventually tilt the booth onto its back and travel through time standing up through the open door in order to fit everyone comfortably.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Billy The Kid. When he first meets Bill and Ted, he saw them as suckers that would help him cheat at poker. Upon Bill and Ted bailing him out of a deadly bar fight, he not only says he owes them his life, but seems to like the two in general. He also gets along well with Socrates and at one point they rescue Bill and Ted from execution. He is later shown to have tremendous stage presence when introducing the two in the history report.
▲* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Including [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]], Billy the Kid, [[Genghis Khan]], [[Joan of Arc]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], Sigmund Freud, [[Socrates]]...
* [[Hollywood History]]: Consciously and unashamedly.
* [[How We Got Here]]: The most epic example. The beginning of the adventure has Bill and Ted meeting their future selves who offer them advice and wish them luck. Near the end of their adventure they end up doing the exact same thing, only this time we see what Rufus needed to talk to them about.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Bill and Ted get drafted into Billy the Kid's poker game, Bill gently admonishes Ted to "have a poker face, like me". Not ten seconds later he looks at his cards and exclaims "Woah, three Aces, dude!"
** Which is also [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] as this is being said to Ted, played by [[Keanu Reeves]] before he got his reputation for being rather [[Dull Surprise|stone-faced and bland]] in his roles.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Genghis Khan is impressed by the military potential of modern sporting equipment. He dons some football armor, arms himself with an aluminum baseball bat, and charges off on a skateboard.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Played for laughs. Bill and Ted are supposed to be the greatest musicians of all time. They stink.
** Lampshaded by Rufus - Who pulls off a stunning solo and then assures us in a fourth-wall breaking moment that ''they '''do''' get better'' as Bill and Ted make horrific noise whilst their new girlfriends from the past awkwardly test their own instruments.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Billy the Kid, who later returns the favor.
* [[It's Been Done]]: Amusingly [[Double Subverted]] in the film's production. The time machine was originally going to be a 1969 Chevrolet van, but when they realized the similarities to [[Back to The Future|another science fiction film]], they decided to change it... to a [[Doctor Who|phone booth]].
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: A [[Running Gag]], the two protagonists calling Socrates "So-crates".
* [[A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll"]]
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Wyld Stallyns won't be a good band until they have Eddie Van Halen, and they won't have Eddie Van Halen until they have a triumphant music video, and they won't have a triumphant music video until they have good instruments, and they won't have good instruments until they know how to play, and they won't know how to play until they have Eddie Van Halen...
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{{quote|'''King:''' "Execute them!"
'''Bill and Ted:''' "BOGUS!" }}
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Billy the Kid and Socrates. An outlaw and a philosopher respectively seem to get along well. When Bill and Ted make eyes to the Princesses, the two historical figures are seen in the background tossing a Nerf football to each other. They work together to rescue Bill and Ted from execution. When they run amok in San Dimas Mall, Socrates is seen trying to emulate Billy's trademark shooting the ceiling with a water gun. [[Shown Their Work|It's not so odd when you realize that William Bonney has been rumored to be a well educated man and even at one point studied philosophy.]]
* [[The Power of Rock]]: And how -- the music of Wyld Stallyns ushers in a worldwide golden age of peace, harmony, and awesomeness.
{{quote|'''Rufus:''' "San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you, it's great here. The air is clean, the water's clean... even the dirt, it's ''clean.'' Bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than any other planet we communicate with."}}
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'''Bill:''' Oh, yeah? Well, I'm Luke Bill, and you're not my father! You! }}
** After they tell Socrates that "All we are is dust in the wind, dude", he quotes the tagline for ''[[Days of Our Lives]]''.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]:
** If Wyld Stallyns would have broken up without Rufus' intervention, how did his timeline come into existence in the first place?
** Rufus ''never divulges his name''. Bill and Ted learn it from their future selves. Maybe it was in that phonebook?
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Taken [[Up To Eleven]], as none of the historic figures seem to object to being abducted by a pair of nutty teenagers - but then, that's part of the movie's humor.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Bill and Ted's guitar skills.
{{quote|'''Rufus (to viewers):''' "They do get better..."}}
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* [[The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]]: Most of the historical people adapt pretty quickly to the twentieth century, such as Beethoven mastering electronic synthesizers.
** Billy the Kid picks up the intricacies of time travel pretty quickly, for which the boys praise him when they arrive in ancient Greece.
* [[Visual Pun]]: When Sigmund Freud is trying to chat up the girls at the mall and being shot down in the process, you can see the corndog he's holding go from being 'erect' at the beginning of the conversation to being 'limp' at the end.
** [[Genius Bonus]]: It's frikkin' ''Freud'' using a penis standin.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: "All we are is dust... in the wind, dude."
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* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]: Our heroes travel to -- and pick up hitchhikers from -- ancient Greece, ancient Mongolia, and medieval Europe (among other eras), yet any and all unpleasant hygienic issues are ignored.
* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: One of the signs that Bill and Ted are clever if not book smart is their recognition of this trope; they realize that to solve a problem in the present, they can use their time machine to plant helpful items in the past, and then they'll be there for their present selves to discover - and they keep reminding each other "Once this is over, we have to go back and place all that stuff!"
=== ''Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey'' ===
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* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Bad attitude? Yes! Evil? No!
** Combines with [[Waxing Lyrical]] after the two beat Death and he has to lead them to Heaven.
{{quote|'''Dead Bill:''' "Hey, Ted -- [[Blue Öyster Cult|Don't Fear the Reaper]]!"
'''Death:''' "I HEARD THAT!" }}
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Colonel Oates, the head and namesake of Oates Military Academy where Ted's dad is threatening to send him in the first movie. He's only mentioned in the first film. He first appears in the sequel and doesn't seem too bad initially. However, when the duo goes to hell, the first punishment they go through is being in military school with him where he's this trope in full force and demands that they "get down and [[Up to Eleven|give me infinity]]".
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Evil Bill and Ted repeatedly try to kill animals.
** The Evil Robots' groping of the heroes' (rather chaste) princess girlfriends also counts in various ways
* [[Kirk's Rock]]: Lampshaded: Just before the boys meet the Evil Robots, they're watching that particular episode of ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: Evil Bill changes his voice to one of the medieval babes to give Bill and Ted a fake breakup call, in order to lead them into the trap where they will be killed.
* [[Losing Your Head]]: The Evil Us's version of basketball.
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* [[Overly Long Gag]]: When they get sent to hell.
{{quote|"Dude, this is a ''totally'' deep hole."}}
* [[Overly Long Scream]]: Bill and Ted fall down a pit to hell, screaming the whole way, but the pit is so deep that they eventually get tired of repeatedly screaming and start playing 20 questions.
* [[Our Founder]]: Bill and Ted, in The Future.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: The climax of the film. Both sides' plans rely on the premise that they won the current battle in the present, which would allow them to manipulate time afterwards and rig the battle in the present to their favor. "The future belongs to the winner."
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Wyld Stallyns to Play Mars - "Station!" }}
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Missy was married to Bill's Dad in the first film, but has left him and married Ted's Dad by the sequel. She also flirts with Col. Oates, and the end credits reveal that she has left Ted's Dad for De Nomolos.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: The Evil Robot Bill and Ted, who can apparently get "full-on robot chubb[ies]" from looking at a picture of the guys' girlfriends.
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: Bill punching his robotic evil twin.
{{quote|"Oww! You're totally metal, dude!"}}
* [[San Dimas Time]]: Interestingly, the sequel seems to throw this out by allowing Bill and Ted to spend 16 months to get guitar lessons, then return to the present to win the concert. This could be explained by assuming that Bill and Ted have to jump 16 months into the future after they win the concert.
** Plausible explanation: Bill and Ted take the booth sixteen months into the future, get out, and allow Future Bill & Ted (who have been in intense training ever since the concert) to get in and take the same booth back to the Battle of the Bands, while Bill and Ted wait in the future. Once their set is over, Future Bill & Ted get back in the booth, go back to their own time, and let Bill and Ted have the booth back, whereupon Bill and Ted travel back to their present San Dimas and begin sixteen months of intense training.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: De Nomolos is this for writer Ed Solomon.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Death is a pretty direct parody of Death from ''[[The Seventh Seal]]''.
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* [[That Poor Cat]]: "Aim for the cat, dude! Aim for the cat!"
* [[To Hell and Back]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Nobody finds it odd that the princesses are celebrating their 527th birthday?
** It's California. People probably figure they're counting all their past lives or something.
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* [[Uranus Is Showing]]: Bill and Ted pull this when complimenting ''God''.
* [[Visual Pun]]: Bill and Ted echo back "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" to the Evil Robot Usses... and a few seconds later, do in fact catch the robots' flying heads.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: When Evil Bill and Evil Ted have Good Bill and Good Ted hanging over a Cliff, they try to invoke this on hopes it would spare them. Too bad Evil Bill and Evil Ted react in [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|the exact same way]] [[Politically-Incorrect Hero|Bill and Ted would react.]]
{{Quote|'''Bill:''' Ted, we gotta do something.
'''Ted:''' Dudes, even though you're doing this, we....we....
'''Bill:''' We love you.
'''Ted:''' We love you.
'''Evil Bill and Evil Ted:''' -[[Beat]]- FAGS!!!}}
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Averted in the comic and novel adaptation. Rather than the [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] battle with DeNomolos, the boys simply find the [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] in Evil Robot B&T's heads and [[Hey, Catch!|throw them to DeNomolos]], killing him.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The final confrontation between Bill and Ted and DeNomolos.
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