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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 Face the Music]]'' (
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{{quote|''Their most excellent adventure continues...''}}
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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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** 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.
* [[Artistic License History]]:
* [[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]]. ▼
** 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!"
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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."
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'''Bill and Ted:''' "Whoa..."
''[quadruple air guitar]'' }}
* [[Hammerspace]]:
** 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.
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* [[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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** 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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