Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 comedy where two high school slackers time travel in an attempt to assemble historical figures for their history presentation. Among the icons brought back in time with their telephone booth time machine are Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln and Ludwig van Beethoven.
The film garnered two sequels, an animated series, comics, a musical, and a short-lived live-action series.
References[]
- In the Muppet Babies episode "Muppet Babies: The Next Generation," the babies time travel in a telephone booth, just like the heros of the film.
- Janice reviews the movie in the Winter 1988 issue of Muppet Magazine (as told to Pat Berry).
- In the Farscape episode "Out of Their Minds," while dealing with a dimensional hole that has produced two versions of himself, John Crichton says that he's in "Bill and Ted land."
Muppet Mentions[]
- The second season Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures episode "A Bogus Day in the Neighborhood," while primarily spoofing Mister Rogers, has Mr. Radish briefly get a job in a frog suit on Frognme Street, spoofing Sesame Street. Bill and Ted return to the street and find a hungry monster in a trash can.
Connections[]
- George Carlin played Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and the first season of the animated series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
- Dave Grohl appeared as himself in Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Arte Johnson played Albert Einstein in the live-action series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures episode "A Stand Up Guy"
- Keanu Reeves played Ted "Theodore" Logan in all three films and the first season of the animated series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
- Kristen Schaal played Kelly in Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Holland Taylor played The Great Leader in Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Frank Welker provided the voices of Station, The Devil, and the Easter Bunny in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- "Weird Al" Yankovic appeared as himself in Bill & Ted Face the Music