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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 -- [[It's Been Done|disguised as an]] [[Doctor Who|ordinary phone booth]] -- so they can [[Excellent Adventure|do the research needed]] to pass their final assignment. When a brief trip to France causes Napoleon to follow them back to the present, Bill and Ted decide to stage the ultimate oral report by getting the historical figures themselves to present it.
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: ''[[
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.
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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 (
=== ''Bill & Ted 3'' (2013) ===
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: Despite being uncomplicated slackers, Bill and Ted have a natural instinct for mastering the [[Retroactive Preparation|causal]] and [[Tricked-Out Time|paradoxical]] [[San Dimas Time|effects]] of time travel. Also, while their use of the English language is most unconventional and egregiously unorthodox, their vocabulary does seem to be more well developed than most teenagers, or for that matter most ''anyone''.
** Try reading that in their voices. IT FITS.
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Bill and Ted do everything together. Including proposing to their girlfriends.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Bill (and later Ted's) stepmom, Missy. It helps that she's only three years older than Bill and Ted. Ted even asked her to the prom. It's lampshaded in the first movie, when Freud offers to psychoanalyze Bill during the history report, and he responds, "Nah, just got a minor Oedipal complex."
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* [[San Dimas Time]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: The poster for the upcoming sequel seems to finally [[Lampshade Hanging]] the unintentional similarities with [[Doctor Who|the TARDIS.]]
** Arguably the first film did this with the absurd number of people they cram into the thing, subtly drawing attention to the fact that it is most assuredly ''not'' [[Bigger
* [[Shallow Female Love Interest]]: The princesses again.
* [[Surfer Dude|Surfer Dudes]]: Bill and Ted are from Southern California, so their speech includes a lot of So-Cal surfer slang even though they're not surfers and San Dimas is a fair distance inland.
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* [[Accidental Hug]]
* [[All Part of the Show]]
* [[Ancient Greece]]: It looks like the cover of the [[
** 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.
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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.
* [[Everything's Better
{{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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'''Bill and Ted:''' "Whoa..."<br />
''[quadruple air guitar]'' }}
* [[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.
* [[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!"
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* [[The Middle Ages]]: Briefly.
* [[Mistaken for Profound]]: Socrates mistakes song lyrics for wisdom.
* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: The guys enthusiastically embrace the King's order to "put them in the [[I Thought It Meant|Iron]] [[Iron Maiden
{{quote| '''King:''' "Execute them!"<br />
'''Bill and Ted:''' "BOGUS!" }}
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* [[Best Out of Infinity]]: The Reaper is a poor loser, apparently.
* [[Burger Fool]]: Off-screen, Bill and Ted work for "Pretzels and Cheese" in order to support the band.
* [[Chess
* [[Confusing Multiple Negatives]]
{{quote| '''Bill:''' "That was non-non-non-NON-heinous!" <ref>i.e. it was heinous</ref>}}
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'''Evil Ted:''' [[Friendly Enemy|Kudos to you, good human usses!]] }}
** In a less literal sense, their Battle of the Bands entry also counts. They had the most insane intro in the history of rock music, with robots and time travel, and their band has aliens, robot backup dancers, and ''Death himself''. I honestly feel sorry for everyone who had to play before them.
*** Which was ''everyone'', as it had been specifically stated that Wyld Stallyns would be the last to perform that night. One could assume that the other bands would go on to either be [[Blessed
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Whilst ''Excellent Adventure'' is a feel-good romp, ''Bogus Journey'' has the title characters a) facing robot terrorists from the future and b) ''dying and going to hell'', even if it is still played for laughs and they get better eventually.
* [[Dead to Begin With]]
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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
'''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]]".
** Then again, they are in ''HELL...''
* [[Earth Is the Center of
{{quote| '''Death:''' "Did you assume that the most brilliant scientist in the entire universe would be from Earth?"}}
* [[Evil Twin]]: The duo's robot duplicates.
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* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Starts off as a minor antagonist, but soon joins the guys. Later {{spoiler|wins the Indy 500 on foot and gets caught in a lip-syncing scandal}}.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Variant: Bill and Ted use a Melvin, a front-side wedgie, on [[The Grim Reaper]].
* [[Happily Ever After]]: The end credits of the film feature a montage of newspaper headlines chronicling Bill & Ted's rise to fame and their music bringing about world peace and a new scientific renaissance while playing the song "God Gave Rock And Roll To You" by [[
* [[Homage]]: The second movie parodies the older film ''The Seventh Seal'' where a Knight plays chess with the Grim Reaper for his soul. Bill and Ted play him with classic board games and Twister.
* [[Homemade Inventions]]: The Good Robot Usses.
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{{quote| '''Dead Bill:''' "Ted."<br />
'''Dead Ted:''' "Yeah?"<br />
'''Dead Bill:''' "If I die, you can have my [[
'''Dead Ted:''' "But, dude, we're already dead."<br />
'''Dead Bill:''' "Oh. Well then they're yours, dude!" }}
* [[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.
* [[It's Been Done]]: The plot is a blend of ''[[Terminator (
* [[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:
* [[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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* [[Perfect Pacifist People]]: Bill and Ted's future society appears to be one of these.
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: The Stations use the word "Station" for everything.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]], as the effects of Wyld Stallyns' music are shown via a newspaper montage at the end of the film (set to [[
{{quote| Wyld Stallyns Tour Midwest; Crop Growth Up 30%<br />
Bill & Ted Tour Mideast; Peace Achieved<br />
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