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The first film features Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted "Theodore" Logan ([[Keanu Reeves]]) as two air-headed rocker kids from San Dimas, California. They're so focused on their wannabe rock band Wyld Stallyns (and so dumb) that they're in danger of failing History class and being held back. To make matters worse, Ted's authoritarian police chief father says that if that happens, Ted will be shipped off to a military academy in Alaska, breaking up the band.
Things look bleak for the two until they meet Rufus ([[George Carlin]]), a time traveler from a utopian future built upon the teachings of Wyld Stallyns. Rufus offers them the use of his time machine -- [[
The movie ended up being an unexpected comedy classic, credited with launching Keanu Reeves' career (a more snarky troper might contend that the dopey Ted is his best role ever). Because of this, as well as the contrast between this and Reeves' later roles, ''Bill and Ted'' is frequently used to mock other movies: ''[[The Matrix (Film)|The Matrix]]'' is quite comedic when you redub Neo with dialogue that sounds like [[Totally Radical|Ted]].
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=== Expanded Universe ===
The first film was followed by an [[Animated Adaptation]] by [[Hanna-Barbera]] that was fairly faithful (and even had Winter, Reeves, and Carlin reprising their roles), while the second was followed by a forgettable live-action [[Recycled:
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.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Chuck De Nomolos.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Male version. Bill's customized sweatshirt.
* [[Buffy
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "Excellent!" often followed by an Air Guitar duet.
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* [[Either or Title]]: The Hanna-Barbera animated episode "The Birth Of Rock And Roll, or: Too Hip For The Womb."
* [[The Fool]]: Bill and Ted... totally.
* [[Full
* [[Garage Band]]: Wyld Stallyns.
* [[Garfunkel]]: Alex Winter, though this is largely because he retired from acting in 1993 to begin a directing career.
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* [[Idiot Hero|Idiot Heroes]]
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: In "The Birth Of Rock And Roll" animated episode, Little Richard voices himself.
* [[May
* [[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.
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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.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]:
{{quote| '''Ted''': "Now your Dad's getting it on in your own room!"<br />
'''Bill''': "Shut up, Ted."<br />
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* [[California Doubling]]: Strangely inverted. The first movie is set in California, but was filmed primarily in Phoenix.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The keys that Ted's Dad lost at the beginning of the movie {{spoiler|turns out to have been stolen by Ted who came back from the future ''after'' the movie.}}
* [[Cluster F
** Still true in the TV edit: "Zut, zut, zut, zut!" (lit. "Damn, damn, damn, damn...!")
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who created the characters and wrote the script, appear as the annoying waiters serving ice cream to Napoleon.
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** 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 -- see Shakespeare in original pronunciation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWe1b9mjjkM
** Also, Joan of Arc's lines are in standard modern French, when she actually spoke the Limousin dialect which is somewhat different.
* [[
{{quote| '''Bill:''' "We gotta go. It's a history report, not a babe report."<br />
'''Ted:''' "But, Bill, those... are historical babes." }}
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** 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.
* [[
* [[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...
* [[Man Hug]]: See [[Gay Moment]], above.
* [[May
* [[The Middle Ages]]: Briefly.
* [[Mistaken for Profound]]: Socrates mistakes song lyrics for wisdom.
* [[The Not
{{quote| '''King:''' "Execute them!"<br />
'''Bill and Ted:''' "BOGUS!" }}
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{{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."}}
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Bill lapses into one when he thinks a medieval dude killed Ted.
{{quote| '''Bill:''' ''[[
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Royal Ugly Dudes Are Bogus]]
* [[Shout Out]]: Numerous references to 80s culture.
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{{quote| '''Rufus (to viewers):''' "They do get better..."}}
* [[Tagline]]: "History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell."
* [[Timey
* [[Title Drop]]: Abraham Lincoln refers to Bill and Ted bringing them on "a most excellent adventure."
** Earlier at the Circle K, Future!Ted tells Present!Ted that they're about to "embark on an excellent adventure through time."
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* [[Dead to Begin With]]
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Bill & Ted in between the time they die and go to Hell.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: "I can't believe we Melvined Death."
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]
* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Bad attitude? Yes! Evil? No!
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" First by the Evil Robots to Bill and Ted, then by Bill and Ted to the Evil Robots. {{spoiler|Both times, the party spoken to is about to die.}}
* [[Ironic Hell]]: Both boys experience this after passing through [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] for a bit.
* [[
* [[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
* [[
* [[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.
* [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]: De Nomolos' motive.
* [[May
* [[Men Can't Keep House]]: Bill and Ted's apartment in the second movie is a showcase of this trope. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse.]]
* [[Mirror Match]]: The Evil Robot Bill and Ted vs. the Good Robot Usses.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Ties in with the [[Stable Time Loop]]. De Nomolos decides to broadcast his defeat of Bill and Ted live to the world. After he's defeated, this only ensures that Bill and Ted broadcast their first performance live all over the world, hence beginning the cycle of their music creating the future [[Utopia]].
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: When they get sent to hell.
{{quote| "Dude, this is a ''totally'' deep hole."}}
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* [[Spinning Paper]]: Seen during the end credits.
* [[Squick]]: An in-universe example; Death gets jealous of all the praise Station is getting and starts fishing for compliments. When Ted says he has "an excellently huge Martian butt", Death asks "What about my butt? Reaping burns a lot of calories, you know." Bill and Ted visibly shudder at this.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: De Nomolos is [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|basically responsible]] for Wyld Stallyns' world fame, broadcasting their Battle of the Band appearance to the world by accident in his attempt to [[Take Over the World]]. Also used tactically in the fight.
** The ''language'' of the second movie even forms a [[Stable Time Loop]]. STATION!
* [[Tagline]]: "Once... They Made history. Now... They Are History."
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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.
* [[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
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The final confrontation between Bill and Ted and DeNomolos.
* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: The entire climax is Bill, Ted, and De Nomolos performing dueling versions of this. {{spoiler|Except that, as Bill points out, only the winner can change history, so all the things the villain thought he planted were just decoys B&T placed to lull him into a false sense of security}}.
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