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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. It stars Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin. The plot follows slackers Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school history presentation. "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" received generally positive reviews. In 1988 San Dimas, California, slackers Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) would rather pursue their band the Wyld Stallyns than schoolwork. Ted's father, the local police chief, threatens to
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Amiga and Commodore 64 port were made in 1991 by Off the Wall Productions and IntraCorp, Inc. under contract by Capstone Software and followed the original film very closely. A single player graphic adventure PC game based on the 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". It was released by Capstone for DOS, Commodore 64, and Amiga systems in 1990. An action-puzzle game loosely based on "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". A video game for the Atari Lynx handheld based on the "Bill & Ted" films and the Saturday morning cartoon. An action-adventure video game based on "Bill & Ted's
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989 video game) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a single player graphic adventure video game for the Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms. The game was developed by Off the Wall Productions and published by Capstone Software. This video game is a part of the Bill & Ted franchise and the concept is based on the 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". The player will take control of both Bill and Ted as they travel through different time periods and talk to locals to help find the historical figures for their oral report
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Bill & Ted Bill & Ted is an American comedy film series featuring William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore "Ted" Logan (Keanu Reeves) as two metalhead slackers who travel through time. The first "Bill & Ted" film, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", was released on February 17, 1989, followed by a sequel two years later entitled "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". A third film, "Bill & Ted Face the Music", started pre-production in May 2018. In addition to the films, the franchise has spawned both an animated television series (with Winter and Reeves reprising their roles) and
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following allegations by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete from "Vice" of homophobia and racism in that year's show. The show continued at Universal Studios Florida, until 2017. Bill & Ted Bill & Ted is an American comedy film series featuring William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore "Ted" Logan (Keanu Reeves) as two metalhead slackers who travel through time. The first "Bill & Ted" film, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", was released on February 17, 1989, followed by a sequel two years later entitled "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". A third film, "Bill & Ted Face the Music", started
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. It stars Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin. The plot follows slackers Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school history presentation. "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" received generally positive reviews. In 1988 San Dimas, California, slackers Bill (Winter) and Ted (Reeves) would rather pursue their band the Wyld Stallyns than schoolwork. Ted's father, the local police chief, threatens to
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Club. After completing NYU film school, he and Tom Stern moved out to Hollywood, where the two wrote and directed a number of short films and music videos. Winter continued to find work as an actor, landing notable roles in such big productions as "The Lost Boys" and "Rosalie Goes Shopping". In 1989, Winter found international success when he co-starred with Keanu Reeves as Bill S. Preston in the smash-hit comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and its 1991 sequel, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Following the success of "Bill & Ted", Winter and creative collaborators Tom Stern and Tim
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in present-day San Dimas. As in the film, if player does not finish the game in a set amount of time, the player fails the history report, thus losing the game. Capstone started up a trivia contest on the Computer Gaming World magazine, consisting of 10 questions about the game. The reader had to answer the questions on a card and send it to Capstone. The first fifty readers to submit the most correct answers, won "Bill & Ted" T-Shirts. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989 video game) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a single player graphic adventure video
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1980s California, can only communicate with his abductors by gesturing and gurning – since Bill and Ted, it goes without saying, speak not a word of ancient Greek. Even the miracle of time travel, it appears, cannot serve to alter what is, for any historian, a most awkward fact: that it is impossible to be certain of what Socrates actually said. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. It stars Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film, and the directing debut of Pete Hewitt. It is the second film in the "Bill & Ted" franchise, and a sequel to "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989). Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin reprise their roles. The film's original working title was "Bill & Ted Go to Hell" and the film's soundtrack featured the song "Go to Hell" by Megadeth, which Dave Mustaine wrote for the film. Despite mixed reviews from film critics, like its predecessor, the film has since
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in a film alongside Keanu Reeves and a member of the Go-Go's – none would have seemed more unlikely on its release than the idea that one day, with much media fanfare, the public would be celebrating the film's 25th anniversary. By the time "Bill & Ted" was released in 1989, the 80s teen film explosion was starting to taper out. [...] Moreover, there had already been plenty of films about time-travelling teens by the time "Bill & Ted" rocked up in cinemas, such as "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Back to the Future". Few who were around then would
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two years to make. Filming took place from February to May 1987 and it was planned to be released in 1988. However, the film's original distributor, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, went bankrupt. Orion Pictures and Nelson Entertainment bought the rights to the movie in 1988, and it was released theatrically on February 17, 1989. It was followed in 1991 by a sequel, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". A longstanding urban legend has it that Reeves auditioned for Bill and Winter for Ted. According to Winter, the story emerged because the characters are so similar, and even he and Reeves sometimes
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Services operates the Pomona Health Center in Pomona, serving most of San Dimas. Some portions of San Dimas are served by the Monrovia Health Center in Monrovia. In the 1953 film "Hondo", John Wayne's lead character is said to have a ranch just east of San Dimas. The 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and the 1991 sequel "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" were set in San Dimas, California, which in the storyline of the movie, is the "Center of the Universe" according to Bill & Ted. In actuality, the bulk of the first film was shot in and
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man at age 13 while he was acting on Broadway. Alex Winter Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is a British-American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and its 1991 sequel "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film "The Lost Boys", and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film "Freaked". Winter was born in London, England, to mother Gregg Mayer, a New York-born American who was
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992 TV series) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is an American live-action comedy television series created by Clifton Campbell that aired on Fox from June 28 to August 8, 1992. It was based on the 1989 film of the same title, and is part of the "Bill & Ted" franchise. The series follows the misadventures of two time-traveling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future. After the DIC Entertainment animated series was cancelled, it was supplanted by a live action version of the same name. The series was set to air during
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Alex Winter Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is a British-American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and its 1991 sequel "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film "The Lost Boys", and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film "Freaked". Winter was born in London, England, to mother Gregg Mayer, a New York-born American who was a former Martha Graham dancer who founded a modern-dance company
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parents to let their youngsters take over the TV from "60 Minutes" reruns." Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992 TV series) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is an American live-action comedy television series created by Clifton Campbell that aired on Fox from June 28 to August 8, 1992. It was based on the 1989 film of the same title, and is part of the "Bill & Ted" franchise. The series follows the misadventures of two time-traveling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future. After the DIC Entertainment animated series was cancelled, it was supplanted by a live
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the episodes from Season 1 (5 episodes are missing), while Disc 2 has the complete second season. It was a Wal-Mart exclusive at first, but now it's available nationwide. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990 TV series) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is a 1990 animated television series spinoff from the 1989 film of the same title, following the misadventures of two time-travelling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future. It is part of the "Bill & Ted" franchise. The first season of the animated series was produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on CBS in 1990, with
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990 TV series) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is a 1990 animated television series spinoff from the 1989 film of the same title, following the misadventures of two time-travelling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future. It is part of the "Bill & Ted" franchise. The first season of the animated series was produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on CBS in 1990, with Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, and Bernie Casey reprising their film roles. For the second season in 1991, the animated series switched production companies and networks, now airing
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on local radio station Rock 98. After signing with A&M Records, they recorded their debut album "Surprise! Attack" in 1989. This album peaked on "Billboard"'s Top 200 at No. 47 and featured the singles "Walkin' Shoes" and "Guilty." The single "Dancing With a Gypsy" was on the soundtrack for the film "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" later that year. In 1992, their second album, "Wild America", was released. It only achieved No. 134 on the Billboard charts and it did not sell as well, but, it was a more mature step at songwriting. A third album, "Revolution Day", was recorded
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93 on the "Billboard" 200 with "Breakaway" reaching No. 60 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 Singles Chart, and No. 7 on the related Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. "Money God" was used as the theme for the BBC-TV's "DEF II"s Rough Guides show with Magenta Devine hosting, whilst tracks from "Bonk" were used for "Miami Vice" episodes in the late 1980s. "Hungry Town" and "Boy Wonder" both featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film, "Young Einstein". "Breakaway" was used in the opening sequence of comedy-road film, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989). Their second album, "You Lucky People", was produced
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Terry Camilleri Terrance Camilleri (born 1949) is a Maltese-born Australian actor who has performed actively in both the United Kingdom and United States. He is best recognized for portraying Emperor Napoleon I in the blockbuster comedy film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989). Camilleri was born in Malta, and made his feature film debut in Peter Weir's 1974 film "The Cars That Ate Paris". He appeared in the 1983 sequel film "Superman III". He also made a cameo appearance in Weir's "The Truman Show". Other appearances include as Special Branch police officer Hemmings in the science fiction film "Incident at
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Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure Andy Colby’s Incredible Adventure is a 1988 child’s science fiction film, directed by Deborah Brock and written by Brock and Jed Horovitz, about a boy who has to travel through several videos and static-filled channels in order to rescue his sister who was snatched into the television because she sat too close to it. As it was thought the film's original release title would be confused with "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", the name was changed to "Andy and the Airwave Rangers" for 1989 video release. The film is referred to as a full-length "cheater" in
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Nova Scotia. Salter Street Films was named after the street in Halifax where Michael had been living. The company began life with early problems. Its first major feature film was "Def-Con 4" (1985) which eventually became profitable, but other pictures such as "George's Island" (1989), "Buried on Sunday" (1992) and "Paint Cans" (1994), though critically acclaimed, were money-losers. They also produced "A Switch in Time", but the distributor's title change to "Norman's Awesome Experience" made the unique time travel comedy, in which language barrier is fundamental to the story, sound like a knockoff of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", as
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure is an action-adventure video game that is part of the Bill & Ted franchise and is based on the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" which was released in North America by Acclaim Entertainment under their LJN label for the Nintendo Entertainment System in . The game's plot is not an adaptation of the movie, but rather serves as an original continuation to the film's events. The story begins when Rufus summons Bill S. Preston Esq. and "Ted" Theodore Logan for a mission. The boys arrive
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which is more of a "bogus journey" than the real sequel claimed itself to be." Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure is an action-adventure video game that is part of the Bill & Ted franchise and is based on the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" which was released in North America by Acclaim Entertainment under their LJN label for the Nintendo Entertainment System in . The game's plot is not an adaptation of the movie, but rather serves as an original continuation to the film's events. The story begins when Rufus
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1991 video game) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a video game for the Atari Lynx handheld that is part of the Bill & Ted franchise and is based on the Bill & Ted films and the Saturday morning cartoon. It was released by Atari in 1991. The Princesses, Joanna and Elizabeth, have been kidnapped by Death and the San Dimas duo must travel through time to find and rescue them. The game is set with an overhead view of all the action. Unlike other Bill & Ted games, players get the choice to play
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his final verdict he wrote; "It has a fair amount of action with lots of rock-solid puzzle solving, and the addition of time travel offers even more gaming potential. Though the sound and graphics are not extraordinary, in the end Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure earns its name." Giving a score of 8 out of 10. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1991 video game) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a video game for the Atari Lynx handheld that is part of the Bill & Ted franchise and is based on the Bill & Ted films and the Saturday morning
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of the evil robot Bill and Ted, plus he has brainwashed Death and some historical figures to stop them along the way. Each level takes place on a single screen. Players must collect scattered time fragments while jumping platforms, climbing ladders or ropes, and avoiding enemies. Because this is a Game Boy game, all sprites are very simplistic as both Bill and Ted have almost identical game sprites. In addition, enemies are only differentiated by their actions. Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure: A Bogus Journey! Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure: A Bogus Journey! is an action-puzzle
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure: A Bogus Journey! Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure: A Bogus Journey! is an action-puzzle game based on the Bill & Ted films released by Acclaim Entertainment for the Game Boy in . DeNomolos has hatched another plan to alter history in his favor. He has stolen special orbs called Time Fragments and scattered them all across time. Now Bill and Ted must travel across time to retrieve the time fragments to prevent the future from altering. But it won't be easy for the San Dimas duo. As DeNomolos has the aid
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Excellent Adventure" that was released in North America by LJN for the Nintendo Entertainment System. "Wyld Stallyns" is an action-RPG video game based on the "Bill & Ted" universe was released by Built Games in 2018 for iOS and Android devices. Bill & Ted also feature in an annual live-action show at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood during Halloween Horror Nights. Typically the show will parody the past year's worth of notable pop culture events, featuring locally cast performers as the title characters. In 2013, the Universal Studios Hollywood "Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure" show was cancelled
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Rufus. "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" grossed $40.4 million domestically on a budget of about $10 million. "The Washington Post" gave the film a negative review, finding the script written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon as "made only the sketchiest attempts to draw their historical characters. They exist as foils and nothing else, and the gags that are hung on them are far from first-rate", and that if director "Stephen Herek, has any talent for comedy, it's not visible here. More than anything, the picture looks paltry and undernourished." "Variety" wrote about each historical figure that Bill & Ted
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meet, stating that "Each encounter is so brief and utterly cliched that history has little chance to contribute anything to this pic’s two dimensions." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" referred to the film as a "painfully inept comedy" and that the "one dimly interesting thing about "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" is the way the two teen-age heroes communicate in superlatives. "We are about to fail most egregiously," says Ted to Bill, or maybe it's Bill to Ted. They are also fond of odd words, such as bodacious." In the "Los Angeles Times", Chris Willman was also unimpressed,
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal was a cereal based on the Bill & Ted movies and cartoon of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was promoted with the branding slogan "A Most Awesome Breakfast Adventure". The magazine "Mental Floss" ranked it first in their list of the 10 best marketing-inspired breakfast cereals. The cereal was made by Ralston Purina, which at the time sold food products for both humans and animals. The cereal was cinnamon-flavored and had mini music-themed marshmallows, although they resembled pieces of Kibbles 'n Bits. While the cereal was sold, which
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cereal, and challenged an audience member to eat a bowl, which he did. Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal was a cereal based on the Bill & Ted movies and cartoon of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was promoted with the branding slogan "A Most Awesome Breakfast Adventure". The magazine "Mental Floss" ranked it first in their list of the 10 best marketing-inspired breakfast cereals. The cereal was made by Ralston Purina, which at the time sold food products for both humans and animals. The cereal was cinnamon-flavored and had mini music-themed marshmallows, although
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1991 by Off the Wall Productions and IntraCorp, Inc. under contract by Capstone Software and followed the original film very closely. The annual Halloween Horror Nights events at Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood have featured since 1992 (Orlando) and 1997-1999/2007 (Hollywood) Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure, a show satirizing pop culture of the year with Bill & Ted as the protagonists fighting villains who steal their phone booth for their own schemes. The show differs from year to year, with spoofs of various pop culture icons. The main plot involves Bill and Ted being threatened by an evil villain
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Rufus states that since they both came alone, it is best that they work separately. From there Bill is brought up to speed on the situation. Bill is instructed to go back in time and leave items to help Ted along the way in each time period he visits. When Bill has done this he will start his own search. Ted will also do the same for Bill's search after he has found a historical figure. Depending on the level, players take control of either Bill or Ted to search for the stranded historical figures' various worlds throughout history and
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sequel was published to coincide with the second film's release. Its popularity led to the series "Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book" by Evan Dorkin and produced by Marvel Comics. A cereal based on the cartoon adaptation. It was made by the now-defunct Ralston Purina. It was short-lived, like the cartoon, and it included many giveaways and promotions. A musical based on the film was produced in 1998 called "Bill and Ted's Excellent Musical Adventure". There were also , NES and Atari Lynx games released, which were very loosely based on the film's plot. A PC title and nearly identical
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although MGM, which holds the rights to the "Bill & Ted" franchise, has yet to give the movie an official greenlight. In an April 2014 article on the original film's 25th anniversary, Alex Winter reported that work on going ahead with the second sequel was still in progress. "Bill and Ted Face the Music" was officially announced to be in pre-production on May 8, 2018. Two spin-off television series were produced; both were titled "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures". DC Comics produced a tie-in comic following the plot of the first movie timed to coincide with that film's release on
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at different times; first Ted then Bill. They are informed that time-space rebels have gone back in time, kidnapping various historical figures and leaving them stranded in different time periods. So now they must travel to the time periods, retrieve these figures and return them to their correct time periods. This must be done soon as possible; for if history isn't made right, the boys will miss the big concert that will launch Wyld Stallyns' music career. Unfortunately, Rufus can only loan out a pay phone-booth for this trip. Once the mission is explained, Ted leaves and Bill arrives later.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book was a twelve-issue comic book series published in 1991–1992 and based on the Bill & Ted franchise. The series was nominated for a 1992 Eisner Award in the category of Best Humor Comic. The first two issues revolve around the efforts of Bill (Bill S. Preston, Esq.) and Ted (Theodore Logan) as they plan a party to celebrate their recent nuptials. Unfortunately the personification of mortality, Death, a more recent ally, becomes vastly out of sorts and steals the phone-booth time machine. Rufus, their old guide, helps by
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humor." GamePro states "What could have been a truly excellent video game adventure wound up as a mildly entertaining video-jaunt." "Video Games & Computer Entertainment" states "The verbose Bill and Ted themselves would likely describe this adventure of theirs as being 'bogus,' but what we get can be best called average."" Many gaming sites have also given their thoughts on the game. As many of the reviews have been written ten years after the game's initial release, these reviews have been for the most part negative. The site 1UP.com gives the game an F grade, but features no feedback. Honest
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concluding: "Make no mistake, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" […] is not a satire of mindlessness; it's unabashed glorification of dumbness for dumbness' sake. Bill and Ted are heroic in their ability to reduce some of history's great minds to their level. However, writing for "Radio Times", Alan Jones decided: "A nonstop giggle from start to finish, this beguiling grab-bag of time-travel clichés, hard-rock music and Valley-speaking cool dudes is a flawless, purpose-built junk movie". The film has a 78% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 46 reviews with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads:
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Gamers gave the game a 4 out of 10 stating "Though it does a reasonable job of making you feel like you're really exploring different historical periods, Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure doesn't really do anything else right." Just Games Retro gave a 22 out of 100 stating "It had all the ingredients, yet fundamentally obvious problems that any gamer will catch in ten minutes make it an unplayable mess." Flying Omelette.com gave a 1 out of 5 saying "Thankfully, the Bill & Ted movie got a proper sequel to cleanse the territory stolen by this forgettable outing,
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creates a utopian society in the far future. Leaders in the future, aware of the importance of Bill & Ted to complete school and bring their band to fame, send a representative, Rufus (George Carlin), back in time with a time machine that appears as a phone booth, and teaches them how to use it as to complete these key moments in their lives and assure the future utopia comes about. "Excellent Adventure" introduces Bill and Ted who are trying to write a history report. Rufus arrives to provide them the time machine which allows them to travel back in
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the chin and never give in Coronado Dons fight on!!! In the late 1980s, Coronado was used as a film location as a less-expensive alternative to filming in California. It was used as the high school that Bill and Ted attended in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", although the high school in the movie was named San Dimas High School (San Dimas was actually the site of the "Bill & Ted" sequel). The movie finale (Bill and Ted's final on-stage report with historical figures) was filmed in Coronado's auditorium which was torn down for remodeling in 2006. Disney used the
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where she met actor Robert Poynton who played "John Black". They married in 1987 and had a son, but divorced in 2004. In 1987, she played a recurring role in a major story arc on "Dallas" as Lisa Alden, the biological aunt of Christopher Ewing. She played Missy, the sexy stepmother of Bill and later Ted, in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", and its sequel "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Stoch also appeared in four television movies of the "Gunsmoke" series, as Marshal Matt Dillon's daughter "Beth", and also made a guest appearance on an episode of "Matlock". Stoch holds
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became confused about who was who. In earlier drafts of the script, Rufus was 28 years old and historical figures Bill and Ted plucked from history included Charlemagne (whom they referred to as "Charlie Mangay"), Babe Ruth, and a non-famous medieval person called "John the Serf". John is listed in the credits. In a 1991 interview, co-writer Ed Solomon said the characters of Bill and Ted were originally envisaged as "14-year-old skinny guys, with low-rider bell-bottoms and heavy metal T-shirts" who were despised by the popular kids at school. Casting Reeves and Winter changed the filmmakers' images of the characters
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during 2005-07 renovations, but its unique roof and intricate exterior mosaic, seen in an opening scene when Bill and Ted leave school in a red Mustang, was saved and moved, piece by piece, to the new auditorium. The interior shots of the auditorium were filmed inside the East High School auditorium, which was in Phoenix on 48th Street just north of Van Buren. East High School was demolished in 2002 as part of a redevelopment project. The production also shot a sequence on the Western Street on the back lot of Southwestern Studio in Carefree, Arizona. Odescalchi castle was used
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Southern and Hardy in Tempe. The film also employs computer-generated imagery for the scenes where Bill & Ted are travelling through the 'Circuits of Time', created by the VFX house Perpetual Motion Pictures. The film's writers, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, appear in the film's ice cream scene. Solomon is credited as the "stupid" waiter, and Matheson is credited as the "ugly" waiter. They are given similar credits in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". When Rufus plays his guitar solo, the hands in the close-up are those of Stevie Salas, who composed the film's guitar music. The film took nearly
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their presentation. With the help of the historical figures, the two give an impressive presentation that assures they pass the course. After returning the historical figures, Bill and Ted return to practice, when Rufus shows up with the two princesses in tow, having rescued them himself since he knows they will be their wives and bandmates in the future. As the band starts to play, terribly, Rufus explains to the audience "They do get better." The film was shot in 1987 in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area, mostly in and around Scottsdale's Coronado High School. Coronado's auditorium was torn down
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report near a Circle K. As he introduces himself, a second phone booth lands nearby and future versions Bill and Ted come out, proving their identity to their younger selves and telling them to trust Rufus before they leave. Rufus offers to show the teens how the machine works, taking them to Austria in 1805 where Napoleon Bonaparte is commanding the French army. Assured the machine works, Rufus, Bill and Ted return to the present, though Napoleon, knocked back by an explosion, is caught in the phone booth's wake and dragged with them. Back at Ted's house, Rufus provides the
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as either Bill or Ted. The main aim of the game is to collect all the musical notes that are scattered around each particular time. The game starts with the player having access to only one timeframe - old Egypt. Bill and Ted can travel to the next timeframe by collecting 16 musical notes, or a phone book page. There are different structures in the game that can be entered to collect notes, keys, or other important items that are needed. If the player is touched by an enemy, the character is respawned at the entry point of the last
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You Come Home Bill Bailey", and Ancient World uses Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water". Upon its release the game earned a handful of Mixed-to-Negative reviews. "Nintendo Power" gave the game a 3.6 out of 5 stating the positive side as "Bill & Ted fans won't be disappointed by the video versions of the dudes from San Dimas" but also points "It isn't easy finding items, which means you'll spend ages wandering around, and that's frustrating." "Game Player's Strategy Guide" states "It's a change of pace from the usual role playing adventure, with a refreshing - if somewhat overbearing -
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after performing in "Hello Dolly" in 1995 for The Gordon/Frost Organisation. Falzon also toured internationally with The Really Useful Company production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" Both "HMS Pinafore" and "Pirates of Penzance" were recorded for DVD. In 2000 he starred in the short film "Computer Boy", a parody of the successful film "The Matrix" for Abe Forsythe. Falzon played the role of Neo, and won a Melbourne Underground Film Festival for Best Actor. He styled the character after "The Matrix"s actor, Keanu Reeves's portrayal of Ted from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". During this period, Falzon began
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Holland continued: Even to metalheads, then, the philosophy of ancient Greece serves as something that is both primal and emblematic of civilisation as a whole. Socrates, in particular, the 'lover of wisdom' who insisted that the most fundamental presumptions of his countrymen should be subjected to experimental investigation, and who ended up being made to drink hemlock for his pains, has always been admired as the very fountainhead of rationalism. Yet when it comes to identifying what he taught and believed, there is a problem, on which "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", rather unexpectedly, puts its finger. Socrates, transplanted to
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who, for complicated reasons, have to assemble assorted celebrities from history in order to pass a high-school project, it is chiefly remembered for bringing Keanu Reeves to the attention of a mass audience. Classicists, however, will always cherish it as the only film ever to combine the music of Van Halen with Greek philosophy. When Bill and Ted embark on their quest, what should be their first destination if not classical Athens, and who should be the very first 'historical dude' bundled into their time machine if not a bald-headed man in a sheet whom they persist in calling 'Soh-kraytz'?"
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send Ted to military school if they should flunk their history class, ruining their dreams of success. The two struggle to assemble a final report for the class, which is to describe how historical figures would see modern-day San Dimas. In 2688, humanity has built a utopia thanks to the music of Wyld Stallyns. The supreme beings of this world instruct Rufus (Carlin) to travel back in time by a time machine disguised as a phone booth to give aid to Bill and Ted to ensure they pass their class. Rufus lands by the two as they work on their
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city of San Dimas celebrated 50 years of incorporation. The celebration's slogan was "San Dimas, 1960–2010 – An Excellent Adventure". "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" was selected as number 8 in Rolling Stone's '10 Best Stoner Movies of All Time' in 2013. Writing in "The Guardian" on the occasion of the film's 25th anniversary, Hadley Freeman found: "Of all the delightfully improbable scenarios depicted in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" – from Napoleon Bonaparte causing havoc on a waterslide to Billy the Kid and Socrates (a.k.a. "So-crayts", of course) picking up chicks in a California mall to George Carlin acting
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Than One", "The Boys and Girls Are Doing It", "Play with Me", "Walk Away", "Not So Far Away" and "Two Heads" (reprised over the credits). The following songs appeared in the film but were not included in the soundtrack: A theatrical sequel, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", was released in 1991. A third theatrical film in the "Bill & Ted" franchise was planned, and a screenplay was written, though it never got past the pre-production phase. Although rumors claimed that the script was adapted into the 1996 film "Bio-Dome", Alex Winter has said that it was not. In 2010, Reeves
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has featured several live entertainment shows. Recurring shows have included "The Rocky Horror Picture Show A Tribute", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure", Robosaurus and Academy of Villains. Bill and Ted's show has appeared in every Halloween Horror Nights edition to date, beginning with Halloween Horror Nights 2 in 1992. It is "...a scatter-shot mashup of pop culture, popular radio and unexpectedly mature content" according to a recent review. Halloween Horror Nights 27 was the final year for the Bill & Ted Show. Several rides remain operational during the event. In past event years, some rides were re-themed for the
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Matheson and the brother of Ali Marie Matheson. He is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles. Chris Matheson (screenwriter) Chris Matheson is an American film director and screenwriter. Matheson is best known for his collaborations with fellow screenwriter Ed Solomon, together creating the "Bill & Ted" franchise, writing the two films "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Together they also wrote the films "Mom and Dad Save the World" and "Imagine That". His 2015 book "" is an alternative interpretation of the Christian Bible as seen through the eyes of an atheist. He
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Chris Matheson (screenwriter) Chris Matheson is an American film director and screenwriter. Matheson is best known for his collaborations with fellow screenwriter Ed Solomon, together creating the "Bill & Ted" franchise, writing the two films "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Together they also wrote the films "Mom and Dad Save the World" and "Imagine That". His 2015 book "" is an alternative interpretation of the Christian Bible as seen through the eyes of an atheist. He is the son of author Richard Matheson, as well as the younger brother of fellow screenwriter Richard Christian
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gives it to its owner in old Egypt, they cannot travel to the next destination until they plant the warning. This avoids a time paradox. Players can save their progress by a unique 16-character password, which represents every part of the game's state. This system worked very well and saved on the costs of putting non-volatile memory into the Lynx game card. It was also possible to play a cooperative multiplayer game, with one player as Bill and the other as Ted, by use of a ComLynx cable. Robert A. Jung reviewed the game which was published to IGN, in
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"Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are just charming, goofy, and silly enough to make this fluffy time-travel Adventure work". On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The successes of the film and the animated series spawned a short-lived breakfast cereal called Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal. A phone booth used in the sequel was given away in a contest presented by "Nintendo Power" magazine, to promote "Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure". It was won by Kenneth Grayson of Mississippi. In 2010, the
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from a popular film of that year, with appearances by a host of villains, heroes, and celebrities. The show usually includes elaborate dance numbers, stunts, and multiple double-entendres for the late night event crowd. In 2013, the Hollywood version of the show was cancelled in the middle of its run following complaints of homophobic humor. On August 15, 2017, Universal announced that 2017 will be the final year of Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure in Orlando. And on November 4, 2017, Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure came to a final close, but not before a surprise appearance of
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current timeframe, with hours before the report presentation, Bill and Ted leave the historical figures at the local mall to experience San Dimas, while they try to track down Napoleon, whom Deacon had ditched the previous night. They find Napoleon at the Waterloo water park, but by the time they return to the mall, the historical figures have caused a commotion and are now in jail under Ted's dad's watch. They develop a plan to use the time machine to plant elements to help free the historical figures, and make their way to the school, barely arriving in time for
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sent in by listeners and other BBC Radio 1 DJs. Pocket-lint called the addition of the show to BBC Radio 1's schedule a "bold move" while The Telegraph described the show as "reminiscent of that film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter". The Guardian made reference to the show's young demographic, stating that while the viewer-made music videos were "sweet", it was "too tame to be funny to adults". Dan and Phil Dan and Phil (previously known as "The Radio 1 Request Show") was a British radio show hosted on BBC Radio 1 on Sunday
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the "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" adaptation, the eighth issue of the regular series was skipped due to the fact that Dorkin did not write or illustrate the issue. In 2016, Boom! Studios published "Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book Archives", reprinting the same material in color, plus letter columns. Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book was a twelve-issue comic book series published in 1991–1992 and based on the Bill & Ted franchise. The series was nominated for a 1992 Eisner Award in the category of Best Humor Comic. The first two issues revolve
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was for only a short period, it offered many giveaways and promotions. One of the more prominent ones was "Hysterical Postcards," which were mini-postcards involving Bill & Ted and their trips through time. Another notable promotion was a free audio-cassette holder, shaped in the image of the Phone Booth, and with a sticker depicting the cartoon versions of Bill and Ted on the front. The cereal was featured in a comedy bit on "The Arsenio Hall Show". When Alex Winter appeared on the show, Arsenio Hall asked Winter about the cereal. Hall then presented Winter with a box of the
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reproduction of the band's live show was filmed for 1988's "Bar-B-Que Movie", a short Super 8 mm film movie directed by Alex Winter, who is best known as "Bill S. Preston, Esq." from "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". Bar-B-Que Movie is a spoof of 1974's "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", and the film ends with a music video-style performance of the song "Fast" (a.k.a. "Fart Song"), featuring Haynes, Leary, Coffey, Nervosa, and Jeff Pinkus, as well as dancer Kathleen Lynch. The track displayed many of the band's stage gimmicks, such as the burning cymbal, strobe lights, films, and smoke. By
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Stewie, Chris, & Brian's Excellent Adventure "Stewie, Chris, & Brian's Excellent Adventure" is the seventh episode of the thirteenth season of the animated sitcom "Family Guy", and the 238th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on January 4, 2015, and is written by Alex Carter and directed by Joe Vaux. In the episode, Stewie and Brian take Chris back in time so he can perform well in a history exam. The title is a play on the time travel film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". Chris Griffin gives his parents Peter and Lois a note stating
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looks just like Fishburne except he's white and from New Zealand." The role of "Neo", played by Michael Falzon in a manner reminiscent of Keanu Reeves iconic character "Ted" from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" earned a Best Actor Award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival Not content with paying homage to "The Matrix", Forsythe aimed to enhance the original plot. While the original "Matrix" has neither a chase sequence involving a Wilderness Society koala or action filmed covertly in McDonald's, "Computer Boy" has them both. "New Moon" contains an ID3 artist tag of "Sinister Sam". Lenehan's downloadable version contains
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on Fox Kids, and produced by DIC Entertainment. As Fox was also planning on airing a new live-action version series with the same name, the cast was replaced, and the leads were now voiced by Evan Richards and Christopher Kennedy, the actors who respectively portrayed Bill and Ted on the short-lived 1992 live-action television series. The new episodes introduced a "Squint" phone booth that could take Bill and Ted into literature, television shows, and (after shrinking them) inside the human body. The new show had trouble catching on, and after one more season, the animated "Bill & Ted" series was
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Niels de Ruiter On the darts circuit his nickname is The Excellent Dude, which is a reference from the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". He is also known for using Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' as his walk-on music, which he plays air guitar as he enters the stage. He began playing darts in 1999, but it wasn't until 2005 de Ruiter became popular in the BDO circuit when he reached the semi-finals of the Welsh Open and the Welsh Classic. De Ruiter made his World Championship debut in the 2006 Lakeside World Championship, but lost in the first round to
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home video. The sequel was adapted by DC's competitor Marvel Comics, published to coincide with the second film's release in theaters. Its popularity led to the ongoing Marvel series "Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book" by Evan Dorkin, which lasted for 12 issues. There was a weekly 2/4 page semi-adaptation of the animated series published for a year by UK's defunct Look-In Magazine from 1991 to 1992. There were also , NES, and Atari Lynx games released, which were very loosely based on the film's plot. A PC title and nearly identical Amiga and Commodore 64 port were made in
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beheaded, but they are rescued by Billy and Socrates. Ted suggests that since they still have time before their report is due, they go for extra credit and set out to obtain more historical figures, including Sigmund Freud, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan and Abraham Lincoln. With no more space in the booth, they decide to return home, but end up at the Circle K, witnessing their younger selves on the night before the report. They repeat their advice to them about Rufus, and then ask Rufus how to get to their present time. Back in their
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write the song it’s not just the world, it’s the universe. So they have to save the universe because time is breaking apart.” On May 8, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that a third film, "Bill & Ted: Face the Music", was officially in pre-production with Dean Parisot directing. No release date has been announced yet. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film, and the directing debut of Pete Hewitt. It is the second film in the "Bill & Ted" franchise, and a sequel to "Bill & Ted's Excellent
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many action films have garnered him a cult following. He is also notable for his role as Genghis Khan in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". Leong was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. His credits include "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard", "Joshua Tree", "Big Trouble in Little China", "The Scorpion King", and "They Live". and a recurring role on the first season of the TV series "24". He also portrayed an out-of-time Genghis Khan in the comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". In 2003, Leong lampooned himself as well as the Hollywood tradition of actor
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cancelled. The voice director for the 1990 Hanna-Barbera version of the series was Gordon Hunt. The voice director for the 1991 DiC version of the series was Greg Morton. This season featured historical characters like Giacomo Casanova, Elvis Presley, Theodoric and Martin Luther. The first episode of the first season was released as a special feature on the "Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection" DVD box set, and on the Blu-ray of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". In 2013, TGG Direct, LLC (under license from MGM Home Entertainment) released a 2 disc "Best of" DVD. Disc 1 has most of
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Joel Soisson Joel Soisson is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He works primarily in the field of independent film. His numerous credits include "Dracula 2000", "," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Prophecy, Little Pink House and Buffalo Rider""." Soisson studied fine arts and character animation at Pratt Institute and film studies at the University of Southern California and the American Film Institute. Soisson has written, produced, and directed numerous feature films since producing the breakout hit Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. He worked extensively with production companies such as New Line Cinema, DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group and The Weinstein
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former Dream Theater bandmates Chris Collins and Kevin Moore, but rather to the track on Liquid Tension Experiment's first album entitled "Chris & Kevin's Excellent Adventure", which is itself a reference to the band's photographer's habit of calling Mike Portnoy and Tony Levin "Chris and Kevin", even after being corrected several times. It is also a reference to the 1991 film "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", the sequel to "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". The song "Jazz Odyssey" is a reference to the movie "This Is Spinal Tap", in which Spinal Tap experiments with an improvisational song of the same
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have bet that a goofy movie about a pair of California metalheads skipping back through time in a phonebox collecting historical characters to bring back to 20th-century California for their history report would still be remembered today. But I am very much among those few". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Writing in British Sunday newspaper "The Observer", Tom Holland noted, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" does not tend to be rated as one of cinema's profounder treatments of the relationship between present and past. The story of two Californian slackers with a time machine
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Games Strategy Plus"s "Adventure Game of the Year" prize, which ultimately went to "". In 2000, a "Computer Games Strategy Plus" retrospective said of "Mission Critical", "A terrific storyline, excellent puzzles and a superb tactical combat engine (!) made this the best of Legend's many quality adventure offerings." Mission Critical (video game) Mission Critical is an adventure game released in 1995 by Legend Entertainment. Though its main advertising point was the presence of "" actor Michael Dorn, he played a very small role in the game. The game also featured a leading role by American actress Patricia Charbonneau, best known
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Peter Hewitt (director) Peter Hewitt (born 9 October 1962, Brighton, England) is an English film director. Upon graduating from England's National Film and Television School in 1990, Hewitt flew to Hollywood with his BAFTA award-winning short film, "The Candy Show", in hand. Once there, he called executives from major U.S. studios and asked if he could show them his film. Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Although not as big a success as the original, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", the movie made a profit. He turned
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Adventure Unlimited Adventure Unlimited is a 1965 Australian anthology TV series. It was made at a time when Australian TV drama was extremely rare. It was produced by Lee Robinson and associate produced by Joy Cavill. The directors included Ken Hannam. The series was made in 1963, but was not shown in Sydney until 1965, airing on Channel Ten on Friday nights at 7.30. It was not seen in Melbourne until 1968. It sold to Canadian television and screened there in 1965. Filmed on the Northern Territory in West Arnhem Land – starring Grant Taylor as Ted Abbott, one of
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Defensive End and star of the hit television series "Hunter" on NBC. "Ted Sobel's Excellent Sports Adventure" is a weekly podcast hosted by Ted Sobel, who joined Sports USA in 2005 as a sideline reporter and studio host for NFL and college football games. Ted Sobel is the recipient of three Golden Mike Awards for his work as a sports reporter/anchor at KFWB 980 in Los Angeles. Sports USA Radio Network Sports USA Media is the largest independent sports broadcasting radio network in the United States, specializing in live broadcasts of American football, specifically of the NCAA football Division I-A
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record eight Dutch players reaching the televised stages. Due to his fluent English, De Ruiter became a translator for one of these players, Christian Kist. Kist made an exceptional run by winning the tournament. De Ruiter has failed to qualify for any major tournaments since. Niels de Ruiter On the darts circuit his nickname is The Excellent Dude, which is a reference from the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". He is also known for using Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' as his walk-on music, which he plays air guitar as he enters the stage. He began playing darts in 1999, but
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gained popularity with a new generation of teens when he was cast as Rufus, the time-traveling mentor of the title characters in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", and reprised his role in the film sequel "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" as well as the first season of the cartoon series. He also played the role of "Mr Conductor" on the PBS show "Shining Time Station" and narrated the show's sequences of the American version of "Thomas & Friends" from 1991 to 1995, replacing Ringo Starr. On the first day of the assignment, Carlin was cross about recording his narration without
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because "...once you cast Alex and Keanu, who look like pretty cool guys, that was hard to believe". Originally, the time machine was to be a 1969 Chevrolet van, but the idea was abandoned as being too close in concept to the DeLorean used in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Instead, despite the similarities to "Doctor Who"s time machine, the TARDIS, the film's time machine was styled after a 1960s American telephone booth, though a newer model Ford van would be used as the rock concert "band wagon" for the sequel. In April 2013, Winter commented on Carlin's casting:
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Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure "Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure" brought the series many new gameplay elements, including candies that made the player shrink and grow, and cooperative multiplayer. The story is similar to that of the other Bonk games, putting the player character up against Evil King Drool and many new enemies in the Dinosaur Kingdom. Though two of "Electronic Gaming Monthly"'s reviewers commented that "Bonk 3" offers little new to the Bonk series, all four of them praised the two player cooperative mode, and all but one judged that the game maintained the Bonk series's tradition of excellent
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episode is a blue-and-silver model as first seen in 1963. Clara, upon deducing the Doctor's location and intent, says "Do not go gentle into that good night", the first line of the titular poem by Dylan Thomas. When the Doctor spies Clara and Missy, he plays the opening notes to Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman". The Doctor's playing electric guitar and teaching medieval people the term "dude" echoes the movies "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", films featuring two rocker teens who travel back in time – in a telephone call box – and teach
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Robert W. Cort Robert W. Cort is an American film producer. Since 1985 he has produced forty-eight feature films which have grossed over 2.5 billion dollars in worldwide box office. These include "Three Men and a Baby", "Cocktail", "Jumanji", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "", "The Cutting Edge", "Against the Ropes", "Runaway Bride", and "Save the Last Dance". Cort also produced "Mr. Holland's Opus" and currently serves on the board of directors for The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Cort’s HBO film, "Something the Lord Made", won three Emmy Awards, including the 2004 Outstanding Film Made for Television. The film also
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"Just One of the Guys", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", "The Scorpion King", "The Banger Sisters", "Used Cars", and "Raising Arizona" have been made there (as have many Westerns). The 1993 science fiction movie "Fire in the Sky", based on a reported alien abduction in the town of Snowflake, was set in Snowflake. It was filmed in the Oregon towns of Oakland, Roseburg, and Sutherlin. The 1974 film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", for which Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and also starring Kris Kristofferson, was set in Tucson. The climax of
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directing them to a prototype for the phone booth/time machine. Bill and Ted must take the device and find Death before he causes too much damage to the time stream. The two also must deal with jealous rivals, who do not accept that Bill and Ted's wives had freely chosen to marry. It was written and illustrated by Evan Dorkin. The story continued from the end of the second film, "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", which Dorkin had also adapted for Marvel Comics. In 2005, Slave Labor Graphics reprinted the series in two trade paperbacks. While the reprints did include
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Marjean Holden Marjean Holden (born November 3, 1964) is an American actress, stuntwoman and martial artist. Margaret Jean Holden was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 3, 1964, and attended Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University. Holden made her professional acting debut in 1987 in the feature film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". She has guest-starred in "JAG", "Tales from the Crypt", "", "La Femme Nikita", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Suddenly Susan", and "The Steve Harvey Show". She was featured in Steven Spielberg's "" and Jan de Bont's "", as well as other films including "Philadelphia Experiment II"
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Music from the Motion Picture Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Music from the Motion Picture is the licensed soundtrack to the 1991 Orion Pictures film "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". It was released by Interscope Records on July 9, 1991 on CD and cassette formats. In Japan it was released on August 25, 1991. Unlike the soundtrack to the film's predecessor, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", this soundtrack features music from artists well-known at the time of the film's release. Many of these songs, such as Faith No More's "The Perfect Crime" and Megadeth's "Go
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the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. By the late 90s Davis was again writing songs regularly, and then created a new incarnation of The Motels. She made her first solo album in 17 years entitled "So The Story Goes" and in 2005 joined Teatro ZinZanni for a two-month run in Seattle. She wrote music and helped create an album for this show. Two albums with The Motels and another solo album later, and in 2010 Davis created her first album for children entitled "Red Frog Presents 16 Songs For Parents and Children". Davis continues to tour and make albums
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worked with combat veterans, and received an award from the Military Order of the Purple Heart in 1996 for "caring about combat-wounded veterans and veterans as a whole". Marjean Holden Marjean Holden (born November 3, 1964) is an American actress, stuntwoman and martial artist. Margaret Jean Holden was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 3, 1964, and attended Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University. Holden made her professional acting debut in 1987 in the feature film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". She has guest-starred in "JAG", "Tales from the Crypt", "", "La Femme Nikita", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air",
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they had approved it for release. Ted Simons of the "Phoenix New Times" described "Electric Rock Music" as "an engaging collection of episodes and observations put to song." The "Chicago Tribune"s Rick Reger described the album as "excellent", and as far better as a whole than its well-known single, "Little Bastard." In contrast, "the Washington Post"s Mark Jenkins wrote that "Most of the album's songs are crisp and shapely, though there's no other track that's so exuberantly tuneful [as "Little Bastard"]." Jason Cohen of "Spin" wrote that "with "Electric Rock Music", the band has made the album of its life."
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direct. In March 2013, at the SXSW Film Festival, Winter confirmed progress on the film was still moving forward. In August 2013, when asked about a third film, Reeves replied, "There have been a couple of drafts [of a "Bill & Ted 3" script] and right now, we're waiting on the writers to come up with another draft. But we're all very excited." In an October 20, 2013 Reddit AMA, Reeves revealed that he has seen the script for "Bill & Ted 3", stating, "We are working on trying to get "Bill & Ted 3". There's a script and we
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