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Grim Reaper : [ rapping ] You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.
[ Twirls Scythe over his head and ducks so blade doesn't hit it ]
Grim Reaper : Heh heh! Get down with your bad self!
Grim Reaper : A hit. You have sank my battleship!
Dead Bill , Dead Ted : Excellent! Yeah!
Dead Ted : I totally knew he put it in the J's, dude!
Dead Bill : Good thinking, Ted.
Grim Reaper : You must play me again.
Dead Bill : WHAT?
Grim Reaper : Um, best two out of three.
Dead Ted : No way!
Grim Reaper : Yes way.
Grim Reaper : Don't overlook *my* butt, I work out all the time. And reaping burns a lot of calories.
Grim Reaper : [ to The Smoker ] See you real soon.
Grim Reaper : I believe Colonel Mustard did it in the study with the candlestick.
Dead Bill : Sorry, Death, you lose! It was Professor Plum!
Grim Reaper : I said Plum!
Dead Ted : No way! You said Mustard! Can we go back now?
Grim Reaper : Uh, best three out of five!
Dead Ted : I don't believe this guy!
Dead Bill : Best of seven?
Grim Reaper : DAMN RIGHT!
Dead Bill : Ted?
Dead Ted : What?
Dead Bill : Don't "Fear the Reaper"!
[ both of them do an air guitar ]
Grim Reaper : I heard that.
Grim Reaper : [ to God ] They Melvined me.
Grim Reaper : You have sunk my battleship.
Grim Reaper : Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, you're dead now, so shut up.
Grim Reaper : Englishmen, you're all so fucking pompous. None of you have got any balls.
Grim Reaper : You are all dead. I am Death.
Host : Well, that's cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn't it?
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (originally known as Bill & Ted Go To Hell ) is a 1991 American comedy science fiction film, the sequel to their Excellent Adventure . Like the first film, it stars Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esq. and George Carlin as Rufus.
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Ted [ edit ]
- [First glimpse of Hell] This is not like I expected at all! We got totally lied to by our album covers.
- [Using his ghost powers on his father] I totally possessed my dad!
Bill [ edit ]
- [Describing their experience in Hell] That was non, non non, NON- heinous!
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- Once... they made history. Now... they are history.
- Bill & Ted party on!
- It's a trip.
- Whoa dude! Pressed hams!
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- Keanu Reeves - Ted Logan; Evil Ted
- Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston, Esq.; Granny Preston; Evil Robot Bill
- William Sadler - Grim Reaper
- Joss Ackland - Chuck De Nomolos
- Pam Grier - Ms. Wardroe
- George Carlin - Rufus
- "Big" Jim Martin - Sir. James Martin
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The Death Scene In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Means More Than You Think
There's just no escaping Keanu Reeves . The ubiquitous action star had a major coming out party with the release of 1999's sci-fi blockbuster "The Matrix" and the franchise's subsequent entries only increased his star power. As audiences await the fourth "Matrix" film's premiere date more than 20 years after the first film's release, there's still plenty of Reeves' action movies to keep us entertained, namely the hard-punching "John Wick" franchise , of which he's been the face since 2014. But Reeves was on the Hollywood map long before the mega success he's enjoyed over the past two decades. He showed off his dramatic chops alongside Al Pacino in 1997's "The Devil's Advocate" and before that established himself as an action star with lead roles in 1991's "Point Break" alongside Patrick Swayze and 1994's "Speed" with Sandra Bullock.
Reeves, of course, has shown off his comedic side as well, playing an exaggerated cornball version of himself in 2019's "Always Be My Maybe." But it was a full 30 years before that film came out that he began playing the role of dim-witted Ted Theodore Logan, one half of the someday-we'll-be-great band Wyld Stallyns in the "Bill & Ted" franchise. The first film — 1989's "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," considered by many to be his breakthrough role — saw him team up with Alex Winter's fellow dolt, Bill S. Preston, Esquire, to put together a history project for the ages in order to avoid breaking up the band. The film's 1991 sequel continued the adventures of the charming goofballs, which were recently resumed in 2020's "Bill & Ted Face the Music." The movies are goofy in nature and chances are no one is dialing up "Bill & Ted" movies in their streaming phone booths expecting cinematic works of art, but it appears no one told the series' writers. Here's why the death scene in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" means more than you think.
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Believe it or not, the "Bill & Ted" writing team approach their work in a high-minded fashion. "As much as there's some really broad, light, silly stuff, there's a second level of humor that is very hip and sophisticated," producer Scott Kroopf told the New York Times in a 1991 interview just prior to the release of "Bogus Journey." Kroopf, who produced all three "Bill & Ted" movies, added that franchise writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon approached the script "with a very serious mind" and that silly comedic hijinks are not the entire aim. "There's a level of literary jokes running through the first one, and philosophical jokes through the new one. It's that feeling of having something that can operate on several levels at once — a good, fun ride in terms of a comic adventure, and then satiric or parody-style humor as an undercurrent," Kroopf added.
In fact, the scene in which the title duo first meet Death, the Grim Reaper (William Sadler), draws an intentional parallel to a classic title considered by many to be among the best in the history of filmmaking: Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." In Bergman's film, of course, the knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) challenges Death (Bengt Ekerot) to a game of chess. It's a fair bet that Bill and Ted aren't exactly polished when it comes to chess theory. Still, they must challenge the reaper to some form of competition in order to try to return to life. "And the games they play are Battleship, Clue, Twister," Kroopf told the Times. "So your life is on the line; you're playing with Death, but you're playing games that Bill and Ted know how to play. This is a clear parody of Bergman."
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Grim Reaper : [rapping] You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.
[Twirls Scythe over his head and ducks so blade doesn't hit it]
Grim Reaper : Heh heh! Get down with your bad self!
Dead Bill : Ted?
Dead Ted : What?
Dead Bill : Don't "Fear the Reaper"!
[both of them do an air guitar]
Grim Reaper : I heard that.
Grim Reaper : A hit. You have sank my battleship!
Dead Bill , Dead Ted : Excellent! Yeah!
Dead Ted : I totally knew he put it in the J's, dude!
Dead Bill : Good thinking, Ted.
Grim Reaper : You must play me again.
Dead Bill : WHAT?
Grim Reaper : Um, best two out of three.
Dead Ted : No way!
Grim Reaper : Yes way.
Grim Reaper : Don't overlook *my* butt, I work out all the time. And reaping burns a lot of calories.
Grim Reaper : I believe Colonel Mustard did it in the study with the candlestick.
Dead Bill : Sorry, Death, you lose! It was Professor Plum!
Grim Reaper : I said Plum!
Dead Ted : No way! You said Mustard! Can we go back now?
Grim Reaper : Uh, best three out of five!
Dead Ted : I don't believe this guy!
Grim Reaper : [to The Smoker] See you real soon.
Dead Bill : Best of seven?
Grim Reaper : DAMN RIGHT!
Grim Reaper : [to God] They Melvined me.
Grim Reaper : You will come with me.
Ted : Bill, we can't! We gotta get back to the babes!
Bill : Ted, we can't! We're dead, dude!
Ted : We gotta stop those evil usses! We gotta try!
Bill : [to Death] Excuse us, dude, but is there any way back?
Grim Reaper : You may challenge me to a contest, but if you lose, you will remain here in the afterlife forever.
Ted : What if we win?
Grim Reaper : No-one has ever won.
Grim Reaper : [he smiles terrifyingly]
Ted : [to Bill] Dude, we gotta ditch this guy.
Chuck De Nomolos : We are now transmitting on every television channel throughout the world!
English Family Member , English Family Member : My word.
Chuck De Nomolos : I want the whole universe to behold this transfer of power. No longer will our future society be based on the ideas and the music of these two fools! They will be based on my ideas, and my ideas alone!
[draws his gun on Bill and Ted]
Grim Reaper : You have sunk my battleship.
Bill : DUDE!
Ted : WHAT?
Bill : Hell Sucks!
Ted : Definitely!
[shouts]
Ted : NOOOOO!
Colonel Oates : YOU TWO-TOED, NO NOSED SALAMANDERS!
Evil Easter Bunny : [teasing Bill and Ted] Deacon's Easter Basket, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH!
Granny Preston : [laughs maniacally] HEH HEH HEH! HEH HEH HEH! HEH HEH HEH HEH!
Colonel Oates : COME TO OATSIE!
[charges Bill and Ted]
Evil Easter Bunny : [teasing repeatedly] Deacon's Easter Basket, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH, NAH!
Granny Preston : ALL I WANT IS ONE! RIGHT ON THE LIPS!
[charging Bill and Ted]
Bill : Ted, there's only ONE way outta here, man!
Ted : You're right, dude! We gotta play the Reaper.
Grim Reaper : [the Reaper enters Bill and Ted in the Darkness] Choose your game. But if you lose, you will stay here in hell, forever.
Grim Reaper : Ah! I love show business!
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“Over here , our bass player, the Duke of Spook, the Doc of Shock, The Man with No Tan, please say hello to Death himself, the Grim Reaper.” Alex Winter - Bill
“- Ted: Bill , what happened? - Bill : Ted, we're dead, dude. - Ted: No way! - Bill : Yes way!” Keanu Reeves - Ted Alex Winter - Bill
“- Beelzebub : Choose your eternity! - Ted: Choose your own, you fag!” Keanu Reeves - Ted
“This is not like I expected at all! We got totally lied to by our album covers.” Alex Winter - Bill
“- Bill : If I die, you can have my Megadeth collection. - Ted: But, dude, we're already dead. - Bill : Oh. Well then they're yours, dude.” Alex Winter - Bill Keanu Reeves - Ted
“- Ted: I can't believe Missy divorced your Dad , and married mine. - Bill : Shut up, Ted.” Keanu Reeves - Ted Alex Winter - Bill
“Very important, do not do your homework without wearing headphones.” George Carlin - Rufus
“Don't overlook my butt, I work out all the time. And reaping burns a lot of calories.” William Sadler - Grim Reaper
“- Ted: Are you sure about this? - Bill : It worked in The Exorcist. I and III!” Keanu Reeves - Ted Alex Winter - Bill
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William Sadler Answers Every Question We Have About Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
This story originally ran in 2020. We are republishing it in honor of Vulture’s Sequels Week .
The fun of the Bill & Ted movies comes from juxtaposition. Take two daffy metalheads from San Dimas, California, place them alongside disapproving parents, famous historical figures, or worshipful citizens of the 27th century, and watch the sparks fly. But it’s likely that the Wyld Stallyns front men will never have a better scene partner than Death (William Sadler), whom they encounter in the afterlife after being killed by their own robotic imposters in 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey . At first, Death’s appearance is one more pop-culture reference in a movie full of them — just like in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal , our heroes must best him in a game of skill if they want to save their souls. But then he sticks around, following Bill and Ted first to Heaven, then to San Dimas, revealing previously unseen layers: a childlike lack of sportsmanship, a fragile ego, some smooth grooves on the bass. (The film’s credits reveal he eventually left Wyld Stallyns to release a solo album but rejoined the band after it proved a critical and commercial flop.) “Many of Sadler’s laughs as the Grim Reaper come from simple physical cringing, as he conveys his embarrassment and lost dignity,” Roger Ebert noted in his review , which hailed the actor for providing “the funniest moments I have seen in any movie in a long time.”
The performance is even more surprising given that Sadler, a veteran character actor, has primarily made his name in dramas, playing either creeps (a rogue colonel in Die Hard 2 , a pedophile in Kinsey ) or authority figures (a sheriff in Roswell , the president in the MCU). Before Sadler reprises the role in the long-awaited Bill & Ted Face the Music , he spoke to Vulture about the origin of Death’s Czech accent, creating some of the character’s most famous lines, and bonding with George Carlin between takes.
I read that you started off as a stand-up. Yeah, back in high school. I called myself Banjo Bill Sadler. I told corny jokes and played a four-string banjo all over Buffalo at parties, conventions, and fire halls. I enjoyed it, but when I discovered acting, that seemed far more satisfying.
Why was that? Well, I was better at it. And I was reading the words of people much wiser and more experienced than me. The second play that I did, The Subject Was Roses — it’s a Pulitzer Prize–winning play about this dysfunctional three-person family — it just ripped my eyes open. I had so much to learn from these great writers that telling corny jokes and playing the banjo paled in comparison.
By the time you went out for Bogus Journey , how were you feeling about your career? When I started, I did about 11 years of theater before I came to Los Angeles to try to break into movies and television. And an awful lot of that was comedy. I spent a year and a half doing Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick on Broadway. I was steeped in that world, but when I got to Los Angeles, they took one look at me and said: villain . “You’re edgy, evil, cold-blooded … the guy who could murder you and then sit on your chest and eat a sandwich while you bled out.” It was all these despicable humans. But I was just breaking in, so I wasn’t going to turn my nose up at villain roles. And to be honest, they’re wonderful. If you can’t be the hero, it’s great to be the villain. So I was getting cast in that kind of role over and over again, and I started wondering, Will I ever get a chance to use this comedic side of myself? Then Bill & Ted came along, and I thought, Well, here we go. Let’s give this a shot.
You fought really hard for the role. Was that unusual for you? I guess I did. I had seen Excellent Adventure and thought it was terrific. The Reaper was an opportunity to make this wonderful transition, because the Reaper himself starts out as this scary figure. He’s Death, the most frightening image you can imagine. And then, almost immediately, as he starts to lose the games with Bill and Ted, he starts to unravel. And in the unraveling he becomes more human and more likable. I thought that was pretty wonderful, so I went for it. I put myself on tape with [casting director] Karen Rea, and I did the Czechoslovakian accent too. I told them ahead of time I was going to do an accent, and they said, “That’s probably not a good idea,” I think because they don’t think American actors do accents very well, but I knew I could nail that one because I had done it before.
How did you come up with the idea that Death should speak in a Czech accent? That, again, I drew from my theater background. I had done a play called New Jerusalem at the Public Theater, a Len Jenkin play, and there was an actor in it named Jan Tříska from Czechoslovakia. [ In Czech accent ] The way he spoke, everything was like this. I thought it was funny and appropriate, so I stole it.
Did Jan ever find out you were doing his voice? I don’t think so. I really should buy him dinner if I ever see him again. But he was just one of the actors in the show. He could read the phone book. It was just funny: The accent was always on the wrong syllable and so on.
So I did the audition with the accent and then I didn’t hear anything for several weeks. I think they went around putting other people on tape, looking at people like Christopher Lee and Christopher Lloyd. I mean, he’s Death; he’s thousands of years old. Finally, one day, I got a phone call from Karen Rea. She said, “Can you come in tomorrow and do the audition again? But go to a Halloween store and get some gray to put in your hair and black out your teeth.” I thought that was going to look awful, so I called the makeup man from Die Hard 2 , Scott Eddo, and told him my problem. He said, “Come over to my apartment.” So at seven in the morning, I showed up at his apartment, and he did this old-age makeup. He made me look like a believable 80-year-old man. I got in my car, drove to Orion Pictures and did the audition again, and that apparently worked. I was old enough. Which is ironic because the makeup that they ended up using was just a big white face and hollowed-out eyes. Age wasn’t really going to be an issue anyway.
Did people treat you differently when they thought you were an 80-year-old man? Apparently, after I left, one of the producers turned to Karen Rea and said, “He looks a lot older in person.”
I guess it was believable. It was believable makeup, but I think, at the end of the day, it was the fact that it was funny. Because it wasn’t all that funny on the page — or not obviously funny, anyway. I think that was the edge: that I found a way to make him silly.
What was Death like in the script? The game sequence was always there. I didn’t really bring anything to it except that silly Czechoslovakian character. I made him more vulnerable. I made him needy . At the end of it, when they’re admiring Station’s butt, I added that line, “Don’t overlook my butt.”
I love that he’s got such a wounded ego. Exactly. He’s been humiliated. They dragged him to Heaven and back down to earth and then, finally, they let him be a member of the band, and he’s the happiest person on earth. He goes on this really wonderful journey. That was all in the script; I just embodied it for them.
The director called you “unstoppable.” He said you came up with all of his favorite stuff in the movie. We were shooting in a hardware store one night, the sequence where we’re buying all the bits and pieces to make the robot. Once I got in this character, I couldn’t turn him off. I thought, Wouldn’t it be great if the Reaper walked by somebody who’s smoking and just said, “See you real soon,” and the guy panicked and put the cigarette out? I told Pete Hewitt, the director. He liked the idea, but they hadn’t cast someone to play the smoker. So he [played] the smoker. That’s Pete Hewitt. He said, “Bring the camera over here,” and two minutes later it was on film. It went like that: a really wonderful collaborative effort.
Were you a big Ingmar Bergman fan when you took the role? I had seen a number of his films. I think I may have seen The Seventh Seal . When I was a younger actor, I made it a point to watch the Bergman movies. I felt that was part of my training. The takeoff on The Seventh Seal , that’s all the writers, Ed [Solomon] and Chris [Matheson]. That was their humor — he’s not playing chess; he’s going to play Battleship and Twister and Clue .
I feel like that’s the Bill and Ted joke in a nutshell: You take a highbrow reference and filter it through these California dudes. It was brilliantly written. The other interesting thing about that sequence was that it was my first day of filming. The first day I had all the makeup and the robes, the first time I had met Alex [Winter] and Keanu [Reeves], it was the day that we shot the game sequence, “best two out of three.” There’s always some nerves around the first day, and I think the producers, the director, and so on, they were a little bit nervous that this was all going to work. I remember everybody gathering around the set as we shot the game sequences. Then, the next day, when they had seen the dailies, there was a noticeable relaxation. Everybody went, “Oh yeah, that’s going to work.” I could finally relax.
I’m curious: What were your impressions of Alex and Keanu? They were lovely to work with. We didn’t really socialize much. They were bigger stars at the time, even before The Matrix . I looked up to them. Also, there was this constant flurry of makeup folks and costume folks around my character because the white makeup kept getting on the black robes. So there was the endless picking and wiping and rubbing and then we would break for lunch. Everybody else would go and eat. I couldn’t lie down because of the bald cap and the makeup, so I ended up having to stay to myself, more or less.
Was that lonely? Yeah. I would love to have sat with the rest of the cast and the crew and eat. You know what I mean? You had to drink from a straw, and you had to be careful. It takes so damn long to get it all on that I was always really super-careful not to screw it up. In fact, by the time we got to the wrap party, there were people in the crew who didn’t recognize me. They had never seen me without the bald cap and the boots that made me six-foot-two. That was fun.
Tell me about those boots. They were probably six or seven inches. Very big but well designed. There was a bit of a rounded bottom so you could walk. You could roll through your steps. I practiced with them and got pretty good at it. It was harder the second time around, 30 years later. I wasn’t quite as athletic when the time came to do it again.
Do you have a favorite memory from the set? That opening sequence, the following day, when they had seen the dailies and everybody relaxed, I think that was one of my favorite moments.
Oh, why am I forgetting this? George Carlin! One of my favorite things on the set was getting to hang out with George Carlin for hours and hours. We would joke, talk about our families. I had been writing songs and performing them in coffeehouses around Los Angeles. I made a cassette tape with 12 of my songs on it, and I gave it to George. We finished filming and we said good-bye, and everybody went off and did other things. About ten years later, I was living in New York, and I got a phone call one morning from George Carlin. He said, “Bill, you remember that cassette you gave me of your songs?” I barely remembered, but I said, “Yeah, yeah.” He said, “I wore it out. Can you send me another one?” To this day, I honestly don’t know whether he was just using that as an excuse to get in touch with an old friend or if he actually played the tape so much that it broke, but I sent him another one. And then we lost him shortly thereafter. That was a wonderful memory from Bogus Journey .
What was Carlin like off-camera? He wasn’t “on.” He had a performance mode. If you’re just sitting around in chairs waiting for your scene, he’s relaxed. He’s having as much fun doing this as you are. We hit it off well, I thought. He was a lovely man, and we had lots of hours to kill on the set, which is unusual for comedians. I don’t think he did a lot of filmwork, so it was all a little strange to him. I think he enjoyed having someone to talk to.
I was reading the old reviews, and it seems like most of them spotlighted your performance as the best thing in the movie. Did that have any impact on your career? I guess the reviews helped. I remember one compared me to the best of Peter Sellers, and I thought, Wow . It was one of the highlight reviews of my career because I was such an enormous fan of Peter Sellers. But as far as it affecting my career, I don’t know that reviews actually do, you know? I mean, they help. It doesn’t hurt for people to be saying, “Oh my gosh, he was wonderful in that.” But careers are long and funny things. I went from Bogus Journey to The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile and so on. I didn’t get pigeonholed playing Death over and over, which was good. They never came to me and said, “Do you want to do Reaper Madness ?”
It’s interesting that you took the role to prove you could do comedy, but you didn’t end up doing too many straight comedies after that. If you watch Shawshank carefully, that funny side of myself, I can’t keep a lid on it. It’s a serious film, but I feel like I’m the comic relief in that.
Otherwise, I’m not sure why that is. It’s a funny thing. Careers are strange. I never got typecast as a comedic actor. You hear actors complain, “They won’t let me play anything serious,” or “They won’t let me do a romantic role,” or whatever. I think you try to find the joy in all of it whenever it comes down the river.
Thirty years later, the original films have held up. They still have a fan base; they’re getting a sequel. To you, why do you think these movies work? I think it’s the innocent optimism that Bill and Ted both have. They’re killed, they’re murdered, and they go to hell, and the two of them look at each other and say, [ Bill and/or Ted voice ] “Whoa, we were totally lied to by our album covers!” You’ve got to love somebody who stays as buoyant as that in the face of a calamity. They just embody a hopefulness that we could use right now.
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There were parts of "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" I probably didn't understand, but that's all right, because there were even more parts that Bill and Ted didn't understand. This is a movie that thrives on the dense-witted idiocy of its characters, two teenage dudes who go on amazing journeys through time and space with only the dimmest perception that they are not still playing video games. I missed the enormously popular movie that introduced these characters, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," and felt myself blessed at the time. But now I'm not so sure. Their "Bogus Journey" is a riot of visual invention and weird humor that works on its chosen sub-moronic level, and on several others as well, including some fairly sophisticated ones. It's the kind of movie where you start out snickering in spite of yourself, and end up actually admiring the originality that went into creating this hallucinatory slapstick. The movie begins far in the future, where students at Bill & Ted's University have the opportunity to chat personally with Thomas Edison and Beethoven, and to study such artistic classics as the " Star Trek " TV series. An evil overlord of time, named De Nomolos and played by that gravel-voiced, white-haired villain Joss Ackland , vows to rewrite history by destroying Bill and Ted (played as before by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves ). He has invented robots that look and act exactly like the two heroes, and are just as dumb, and he sends them rocketing back through time in a telephone booth. Bill and Ted are meanwhile trying to win a rock band contest with their own group, the Wyld Stallyons, which includes a couple of girl musicians they picked up in the 15th century. Startled by the appearance of their robot-doubles, they commence their own journeys through time and space in a desperate attempt to destroy them, save themselves, preserve the book of history, stay cool, and meet cute chicks. The funniest thing that happens to them is their showdown with the Grim Reaper ( William Sadler ), who looks just as he does in Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." In that film (as most of the audience for this one will probably not know), Death played chess with a medieval knight, with the knight's soul at stake. This time the dudes challenge the Reaper to a pocket video game, and beat him, even after he tries to weasel out with an offer of best of three. Death, having lost, has to accompany Bill and Ted on their journey and do what they tell him, and this leads to some of the funniest moments I have seen in any movie in a long time, including one where the Reaper does a little comparison shopping for scythes at the hardware store. One of the stops on the bogus journey is Heaven, created with great imagination and a lot of light and echoing sound effects and a most peculiar conversation with the Deity. Bill ands Ted handle this summit meeting, as they handle everything else in the film, like two dudes for whom "Pee Wee's Playhouse" would be too slow and intellectual. All of the actors (including George Carlin , who turns up in an important supporting role) have a lot of fun with this material, and it turns into more delicate fun, based on more subtle timing, than you might imagine. Many of Sadler's laughs as the Grim Reaper come from simple physical cringing, as he conveys his embarrassment and lost dignity.
Of Bill and Ted, I can say that I have not seen Alex Winter much before (he was in " Rosalie Goes Shopping "), but I have seen Keanu Reeves in vastly different roles (the FBI man in the current "Point Break," for example), and am a little astonished by the range of these performances. Like Sean Penn , who immortalized the word "awesome" in a Bill & Ted-like performance in " Fast Times at Ridgemont High ," he brings more artistry to this cretinous role than might at first meet the eye. Who is the movie intended for? Your basic "Bill & Ted" audience, for starters -- upward-bound young moviegoers looking for something one notch more challenging than " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ." But also for lovers of fantasy, whimsy, and fanciful special effects. This movie is light as a feather and thin as ice in spring, but what it does, it does very nicely.
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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
George Carlin as Rufus
Keanu Reeves as Ted
Alex Winter as Bill
William Sadler as Grim Reaper
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Bill and ted's 20 wackiest quotes.
Bill and Ted have had some truly excellent quotes throughout their long-lasting movie series and these are some of the wackiest!
After spending years in development hell, the third Bill & Ted movie finally hit screens. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprised their roles as the rock ‘n’ roll-loving slackers for Bill & Ted Face the Music .
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The plot saw the two classic characters middle-aged and married with children, tasked with writing a song that will save the universe while the fabric of the space-time continuum is torn apart. It may not seem like a movie that would have a lot of hilarious, wacky, lines, but it definitely does - and some of these became iconic Bill & Ted catchphrases and sayings for decades to come!
Updated on April 23rd, 2020 by Kristen Palamara: The Bill and Ted franchise started in 1989 with their Excellent Adventure that saw the two best friends and band members of Wyld Stallyns travel through time to pass a history project. The second 1991 movie was their Bogus Journey that saw the two have to fight robot versions of themselves. And the most recent movie, Face the Music, to finish the trilogy in 2020 saw the two have to write a new song to save the world. All of these outrageous and hilarious premises–with Bill and Ted interacting with wacky characters like legendary historical figures and the Grim Reaper–brought some memorable dialogue to fans.
Bill, Ted, And Socrates
"all we are is dust in the wind, dude.".
Bill and Ted meet multiple famous figures throughout history traveling in their time machine phone booth and one of those figures is philosopher Socrates. The guys try to communicate with him but there's a language, and intelligence, barrier.
Bill and Ted decide to try to "philosophize with him" and Ted decides to quote the song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, and it hilariously works. Clearly, just some good music is enough to overcome all barriers, in the end!
Failing Most Heinously
"we're in danger of flunking most heinously tomorrow, ted.".
Bill and Ted consistently keep up their particular language and word choice throughout the movie that makes them wacky and entertaining characters - and that is so recognizable.
Both Bill and Ted are upset that they're about to fail their history class and Ted might be sent away to military school if they fail because his father is done with him messing around. Early on, Bill says that they're "in danger of flunking most heinously" because of course they have to put their own spin on the quote and can't just say that they might fail.
There's A Clear Connection...
"ted, who was joan of arc" - "noah's wife".
It's well established in the first movie that Bill and Ted have a difficult time in school and this quote proves it. Ted isn't paying attention in class and his teacher calls on him to answer a question.
The teacher asks Ted to describe who Joan of Arc was and Ted stands up, dramatically puts his hand up, and takes a wild guess saying that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. Ted thinks of the biblical story of Noah building an Ark and guesses that Joan of Arc has something to do with that. This is the kind of adorable moment that fans love, though - because he's so enthusiastic about his idea!
That's One Way To React!
"you totally killed us, you evil metal d***weeds".
The second movie, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey , sees Bill and Ted trying to fight and defeat their evil robotic selves when they decide to take over the real Bill and Ted's lives on Earth.
Bill and Ted are so offended that the evil robot versions of themselves are planning to kill them and even more upset that they are killed by them and have to fight their way back to Earth. Bill yells this line when he's realized that they're dead and is annoyed about it - and it's truly hilarious that he's more annoyed about the situation than anything! It's a perfect line to sum up their priorities.
The Grim Reaper's Gym Routine
"i work out all the time, and reaping burns a lot of calories.".
Bill and Ted team up with the Grim Reaper in the second movie to try to reclaim their lives when they are killed and the evil versions of themselves take their place on Earth.
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The Grim Reaper turns out to be a pretty cool dude, as Bill and Ted would say, and he has some hilarious lines as well. The Reaper says that he's in pretty good shape because he has a regular workout routine, plus his reaping is a pretty good workout, too. If only he was seen at the gym...
Bill & Ted's Promposal
"oh, you beautiful babes from england, for whom we have traveled through time... will you go to the prom with us in san dimas we will have a most triumphant time".
Bill and Ted become great musicians in the future and help to shape society. In the meantime, they're still trying to get their band up and running. During their trip to the Middle Ages, they meet two ladies who they fall head over heels for.
They need to charm their way into their hearts. And what better way than with their lyrical rhyming skills? They ask the girls out to prom with a short song that has the two women giggling and blushing. It totally worked in the most excellent way !
Sir, Dude, Sir!
"yes, sir, dude...yes, sir, sir, dude".
Bill and Ted are in some trouble in the second film installment. Fans have noticed by now that their favorite word in the entire world is "dude." They can't help themselves, which makes this one quote even more comical.
They are met with Colonel Oats (Chelcie Ross), Ted's worst nightmare. Colonel Oats gets right into their faces and starts shouting commands. Bill ends up saying "dude" every time he says "Yes, sir," to the Colonel's unending frustration. It's a huge laugh-out-loud moment as Bill really and truly can't stop saying "dude," no matter the consequences.
What To Do When Meeting Socrates?
"i dunno. philosophize with him".
Meeting the philosopher Socrates would be considered a high honor for some. Thankfully, Bill and Ted are at least aware of who they are meeting. After conducting their introductions, Ted has no idea what to say next. Bill suggests philosophizing with him - which is a fairly obvious suggestion, but a good one!
This leads to the next quote where Ted says " All we are is dust in the wind. " Socrates is unable to understand at first so Bill and Ted proceed to iterate. Socrates is dumbfounded by the revelation - and clearly thinks he is in the presence of wisdom, thanks to this 'philosophizing'.
Musical Confusion
"iron maiden excellent".
This quote is especially wacky because of its misinterpreted connotations by Bill and Ted. They're in the Middle Ages, where they manage to upset some people and must be punished. The Evil Duke sentences them to the Iron Maiden. Seeing as Bill and Ted are from the future, they mistake Iron Maiden for the popular heavy metal band.
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They sound pleased because they are unaware they are referring to a steel torture device. Of course, the confusion isn't just funny, but ends up working in their favor. Confusion over why these strangers would be happy about a torture device ends up benefiting them.
One Way To Describe Genghis Khan
"this is a dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged china, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged oshman’s sporting goods.".
In the first film, one of the historical figures Bill and Ted bring back to the present time is Genghis Khan (Al Leong). According to the history books, Genghis Khan was the first emperor of the Mongol empire back in his day. His quest for land and power left him with a reputation as one of the most ruthless rulers ever seen.
A comical moment occurs when Bill and Ted introduce him at school. They recount his ability to rampage China but also the fact that he just rampaged a sporting good store. Genghis Khan's definitely true to his character, though we should be thankful he only ended up chopping the head off of a mannequin.
Bill & Ted Are Truly Wise
“the only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.’” “that’s us, dude”.
The Bill & Ted movies are a celebration of stupidity. Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan are two of the most idiotic characters ever created, but they’re also two of the most lovable.
When Bill reads this landmark philosophical quote by Socrates about the ultimate truth being that none of us know anything from his history textbook, Ted relates to it instantly. The Socrates scenes in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure are hilarious, bringing the unique blending of highbrow humor and lowbrow humor that makes the movies such a delight (it’s also the blend that defines the comic sensibility of The Simpsons ).
Testing Their Future Selves
“69, dude”.
Bill and Ted were an early template for such high school comedy pairings as Superbad ’s Seth and Evan – teenage boys with their minds in the gutter. When Bill and Ted encounter their future selves in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure , they’re skeptical and decide to test whether or not it’s really them by asking them to tell them what number they’re thinking of at that moment.
Without missing a beat, the future versions of Bill and Ted tell their past selves that the number on their minds is 69, which would also be on the mind of any other moronic teenage boy.
You Did What?
“i totally possessed my dad”.
Ted’s relationship with his father is central to his characterization in these movies. In the first movie, his dad threatens to send him to military school if he fails his history report and thus flunks the school year.
So, his dad is the reason why he really wants to get a good grade on that report and travels through the most memorable eras of history to gather the most memorable historical figures and bring them into his school for an oral report that his teachers and classmates will never forget. In the second movie, Ted’s ghostly presence possesses his dad.
Ted Isn't The Most Tactful
“remember when she was a senior and we were freshmen”.
In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure , Ted heads over to Bill’s house and Bill’s young, beautiful new stepmom comes in the room. As they leave the house, Ted reminds Bill that his new stepmom was a senior in their high school when they were freshmen – and now, she’s married to his dad.
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Ted also tells Bill that he thinks his stepmom is cute and reminds him that he once invited the girl who would become his stepmother to go to prom with him. As Ted keeps talking, Bill keeps telling him to shut up, until he eventually snaps and yells, “Shut up, Ted!”
What's The Opposite Of Heinous?
“that was non-non-non-non-heinous”.
It’s grammatically incorrect to use a double negative, but here, Bill uses a quadruple negative to describe his first time going to Hell. If it was “non-heinous,” then it wouldn’t have been heinous.
If it was “non-non-heinous,” then it would’ve been heinous. And so on and so forth until you unravel all four negatives to figure out that he is actually describing going to Hell as heinous. So, he didn’t need to use the “non” prefix four times before the word “heinous,” because all he was trying to say was that Hell was heinous. But that’s Bill S. Preston, Esq. for you.
Album Covers Don't Tell The Truth
“this is not like i expected at all we got totally lied to by our album covers.”.
This is Ted’s reaction when he first arrives at the gates of Hell and sees that it’s not at all what he expected. A lot of the pop culture references in the movies come from the rock ‘n’ roll music that Bill and Ted are obsessed with . That genre is controversial among the religious community for its depiction of demons, the Devil, and Hell.
The album covers Ted is referring to tend to portray Hell as a molten realm filled with fire and lava and skeletons playing electric guitars. In reality, it looks more like a scene from a surreal David Lynch movie.
Van Halen In The Future
“i do not believe we will get eddie van halen before we have a triumphant video.”.
Bill and Ted’s band, the Wyld Stallyns, has become a staple of popular culture. It’s one of the best-known fictional rock bands ever created . In one of the earliest scenes in their first movie, the duo bicker about how their band is going to make it big. They have a chicken-and-egg scenario to deal with.
Bill doesn’t think they’ll make it big until they get Eddie Van Halen on guitar, but Ted doesn’t think they’ll get Eddie Van Halen in the band until they make an awesome video, but Bill doesn’t think they should bother with a video until they have good instruments, but they won’t be able to afford good instruments until they have both an awesome video and Van Halen on guitar.
Let's Rock!
“the best time to be is now, and all’s we can say is...let’s rock”.
Bill says the first part of this quote and then Ted joins him for the second part to really give it some oomph in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey as they explain that over the course of their adolescent years, they’ve traveled to both the past and the future – as well as different dimensions, like Hell – and what they’ve learned is that the greatest place to be in the course of human history is, quite simply, “now.”
It's one of the quotes in the movies that is hilarious, but also surprisingly deep - as these teens learn how to be present, no matter what the time-traveling adventure.
The Best Advice From Bill & Ted
“be excellent to each other.”.
The world would be a much better place if everyone just followed Bill’s words of wisdom here. It’s a version of common idioms like, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” from the Book of Leviticus, but Bill’s version is much more accessible. It’s shorter, it’s simpler, and it uses the awesome word “excellent” from the title of the movie.
This is also something that sums up the attitude that Bill and Ted have - they may not be smart, but they are enthusiastic, always looking for a good time, and at heart, are kind. This is one of the thing that makes them such enduringly lovable characters - there just isn't a bad bone in their bodies.
What's Happening At The Circle K?
“strange things are afoot at the circle k.”.
Every movie has one line of dialogue that sums up the whole thing, and in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure , this is that quote. The titular pair are hanging out at the Circle K, their local convenience store when a time traveler shows up. This is Ted’s iconic response.
Bill and Ted’s dialogue always captured the teen culture of the ‘80s, with all the slang and inflections used by kids in that decade (albeit with added pontificating and the word “afoot”). It's part of what makes these quotes so enduring - they would never be said by anyone but Bill and Ted.
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The popularity of the first Bill & Ted film prompted Nelson and Orion to release a sequel two years later. Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), a rebel from Rufus's utopian future, wants to replace it with a militaristic Crapsack World . He plans to accomplish this by sending Evil Robot duplicates into the past, where they will kill the boys, then deliver a disparaging speech worldwide at a "Battle of the Bands" concert contest and destroy Wyld Stallyns' reputation forever.
With a minimum amount of effort, the robots succeed in killing off the two title characters. However, their spirits refuse to go quietly into the good night and face off against the Grim Reaper ( William Sadler ). While the evil robots make time with the guys' princess babes, the ghosts of Bill and Ted need to find a way to resurrect themselves, defeat the evil robot "usses" and stop Chuck De Nomolos. To do so, they must go through Heaven and Hell (literally, plus Kirk's Rock ) to face their personal demons and gather allies to their cause.
The second movie features the following totally metal tropes:
- Achievements in Ignorance : It's indicated in the ending montage that Death somehow won the Indy 500. On foot. ("I didn't know I could run that fast.")
- All Part of the Show : Everyone not directly involved thinks that the climactic battle is just a really elaborate stage show.
- And That's Terrible : Bill and Ted have to mug some people in Heaven, and they admit it was not a good thing.
- Artistic License – Space : The picture that accompanies the "Wyld Stallyns to Play Mars" has a picture of Jupiter's moon Io.
- Artistic License – Sports : The aforementioned Grim Reaper winning the Indy 500 on foot .
- Back from the Dead : Evil Robot Bill & Ted kill the originals, but they eventually come back to life after beating Death in a number of board games .
- Badass Creed : De Nomolos and his followers have a pretty impressive villainous one: "What is the fuel?" " FEAR! " "What is the engine?" " DISCIPLINE! " "What is the ideal?" " ORDER! " "And how do we achieve it?" " DEATH TO BILL AND TED! "
- Big Red Devil : The duo flag the attention of a gigantic one in Hell who sends them to live their own personal Hells.
- Bound and Gagged : The princesses by the Evil Robot Bill & Ted near the end, along with Unwilling Suspension since they're goign to drop them from the rafters after the show ends.
- Burger Fool : Off-screen, Bill and Ted work for "Pretzels and Cheese" in order to support the band.
- Butt-Monkey : Death of all people. He is repeatedly humiliated, first when Bill and Ted wedgie him to escape. Then he undergoes a series of embarrassing defeats at board games, is forced to appear before God in drag, suffers repeated comedic injuries on Earth, and finally he can't even catch a break when he becomes part of the band that saves the world. His solo albums fail spectacularly, and was also part of a lip-sync scandal. At least he won the Indianapolis 500 .
- The time machine arrives outside the Circle K, as in the first film, though without any particular reason this time (indeed, it's a different Circle K).
- Bill and Ted initially assume that the robots are future versions of themselves, referencing when they crossed paths with themselves in the first film.
- After Missy divorces Bill's father and marries Ted's, Bill can't think of anything to say, so he just repeats his Running Gag "Shut up, Ted" line from the first movie.
- Bill calls the evil robots dickweeds for killing them, referencing when Bill called a knight a "medieval dickweed" for apparently killing Ted.
- When Bill and Ted try to plead for their lives and tell the evil robots that they love them, the robots call them "fags," a callback to the first film, when Bill and Ted embrace, then call each other "fag."
- The boys again quote metal lyrics when asked to say something profound.
- When the camera pans down from the Builder's Emporium sign, you can see a sign further down for Oshman's Sporting Goods- the store that Genghis Khan "totally ravaged" at the mall in the first movie.
- The climax is again resolved by planning to go back in time to set things up after the climax is resolved.
- The Cameo : A number of musicians have cameos, including the members of Primus as themselves, "Big" Jim Martin of Faith No More playing himself Etc. referred to as "Sir James Martin of the Faith No More Spiritual and Theological centre" , and bluesman Taj Mahal as heaven's gatekeeper.
- Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven : When Bill, Ted, and Death go to heaven to meet the universe's greatest inventor, they find Confucius , Benjamin Franklin , Albert Einstein , and George Washington playing charades with Station. Someone can also be heard asking " Marilyn " how she got into show business.
- Chess with Death : Parodied by having Bill and Ted best Death in a number of modern party and board games until he finally admits defeat.
- Confusing Multiple Negatives : When made to believe that the princesses have broken up with them, Bill describes the situation as "non-non-heinous", i.e., heinous. He later calls his personal hell "non-non-non-non-heinous" which, yes, still adds up to heinous.
- Counter Zany : "How do we defeat evil robot usses?" "By building good robot usses to fight them!"
- Covers Always Lie : Parodied when Bill and Ted complain that rock albums inaccurately portrayed Hell. "We got totally lied to by our album covers, man."
- Creation Sequence : Station assembles the Good Robot Usses in the back of a moving van.
- The credits describe the crew as "awesome", "bodacious", etc.
- Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon appear as the two male members of the seance.
- Director Peter Hewitt appears as the smoker at the hardware shop whom Death talks to.
- Crystal Spires and Togas : Subverted, as we learn that not everyone is happy to live in a future founded by a pair of hard rockers.
- Curb-Stomp Battle : The "Good Robot Usses" created by Station own the "Bad Robot Usses" created by Chuck De Nomolos. They uppercut their heads off their bodies, and a follow-up punch to the torso causes them to explode. Surprisingly the Bad Robot Usses are perfectly ok with this. Evil Ted: Dude, we may have met our match! Evil Bill: Kudos to you, good human usses!
- Darker and Edgier : As is evident by the titles. 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.
- Death Is Gray : After Bill and Ted are thrown off a cliff by their evil robot twins, they appear as ghosts with gray skin.
- Defeat Means Friendship : After having lost every game to Bill and Ted, Death becomes their ally who also has to obey their orders.
- Despite having a number of lines in the first film, Bill's dad only has a single reaction shot in which he looks forlornly at Missy.
- Ted's little brother Deacon had a substantial sideplot in the first film, but never shows up in the sequel. He's acknowledged only in Ted's personal Hell, when Ted steals an Easter basket with Deacon's name on it.
- Bill & Ted in between the time they die and go to Hell. At times you can tell they're just wearing grey paint and greyscale versions of their clothing.
- Also with Colonel Oats in hell.
- It turns out that Death is actually a pretty nice guy once you get to know him, and the climax of the movie has him joining Bill and Ted's band.
- Bill and Ted also have a rather casual conversation with God just before returning to the living world.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? : When Bill & Ted are cast into an underground maze of doors containing their worst fears by the Devil, Ted is unimpressed by the big guy's taunts... The Devil: Choose your eternity! (evil laugh) Dead Ted: Choose your own, you FAG !! The Devil: (angry roar) (Ted is sent flying into a wall)
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? : "I can't believe we Melvined Death!" (high five)
- Do Not Adjust Your Set : De Nomolos commandeers the world's televisions to deliver his evil speech.
- 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. Dead Bill: Hey, Ted — Don't Fear the Reaper ! Death: I heard that!
- Drill Sergeant Nasty : Colonel Oats, the head and namesake of Oats Military Academy where Ted's dad is threatening to send him in the first movie. He's only mentioned in the first film; we first meet him in the sequel at a party and he's still offering a place for Ted at the academy . However, when the duo goes to hell, the first punishment they go through is being at military school where he's this trope in full force and demands that they "get down and give me infinity". Then again, they are in HELL...
- Earth Is the Center of the Universe : Mocked when Bill and Ted ask God for help in protecting their girlfriends, and are sent to meet the smartest man in the universe... who turns out to be two squat, large-nosed Martians. Or one big one, depending... Death: Did you assume that the most brilliant scientist in the entire universe would be from Earth ?
- Embarrassing First Name : At the end of the film, De Nomolos' first name is revealed as "Chuck". Which isn't really that bad a name, unless you're trying to be an Evil Overlord .
- Evil Knockoff : The duo's evil robot duplicates from the future.
- Evil Mentor : Subverted with De Nomolos, although the viewers are meant to think he was this to Rufus for most of the film. Rufus calls him "my old teacher" in the opening scene and the villain responds by calling him "my favorite pupil." Rufus later explains at the end of the film that De Nomolos was actually his old gym teacher.
- Evil Wears Black : De Nomolos and his soldiers all wear black.
- Exact Words : Just before using the Good Robot Usses to destroy the Evil Robot Usses, the real Bill & Ted say to the ERU's "Catch YOU later Bill and Ted!" The GRU's knock the ERU's heads off, and Bill and Ted catch them a few moments later.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials : Station. He even provides the page image. His nudity gets Lampshaded when the boys comment on his butt.
- Faint in Shock : The princesses reaction when Evil Bill & Ted reveal that they're robots.
- Famous, Famous, Fictional : Rufus introduces some guest speakers from the past to his students: Johann Sebastian Bach , Jim Martin and Ria Paschelle, a woman from the 23rd century who invented the statiophonicoxygeneticamplifiagraphiphonideliverberator.
- Fantastic Time Management : How Bill and Ted actually end up learning to play.
- Field Trip to the Past : Literally, after introducing guest speakers from the past, Rufus reminds the class about an upcoming field trip to Babylonia.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell : This is how hell appears when they first arrive: breaking rocks eternally under the watchful eye of Satan , as well as a chamber filled with many forms of Ironic Hell .
- Flowery Insults : Colonel Oats throws some fairly bizarre ones at them in hell. "You petty, base, bully-bullocked bugger billies!" "You're not strong, you're silky boys! Silk comes from the butts of Chinese worms." "I'll eat you up like the warm, toasty little buttercakes you are!" "You two-toed, no-nosed salamanders!"
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven : Well, more "Plastic Fluorescent-Backlit Clouds" Heaven, which the duo describe as "most atypical".
- Freeze-Frame Bonus : Some of the magazines and newspapers that appear detailing Would Stallyns' career in the credits are dated 2691. Maybe they get reprinted in the future.
- From Nobody to Nightmare : De Nomolos apparently went from a gym teacher to a terrorist leader and would-be world-conqueror, who planned to alter history so that the future would match his own - likely dystopian - political structure. A pretty big jump.
- At the Builder's Emporium, Death tells a smoker "See you real soon". After he passes by, you can see the smoker (played by the director) do a Double Take and quickly stub out his cigarette.
- The bizarre costumes of the people in heaven are often jokes in themselves, including one man who walks around heaven in a boxing outfit.
- Fusion Dance : The Stations can body-slam each other to form a larger, muscular STATION.
- Future Me Scares Me : Sort of. The duo quickly become afraid of what they think are their future selves, before it's revealed that they're actually evil robot doubles.
- Future Slang : "Station" is used as both a greeting and a positive adjective (in the fashion of "awesome"). Though at the concert at the end of the film, Ted says it can mean anything.
- God : Appears as a bright light in a roughly anthropoid shape who says very little.
- God Is Good : When Bill and Ted ask for help, he directs them to Station without question, even after they admit to mugging three people who had just ascended to heaven for their clothes.
- Graceful Loser : Evil Bill and Evil Ted of all people, when the Good Robot Usses charge them in the climactic concert. Not only do they congratulate the originals, but they seemingly concede defeat by tilting their heads back to give the Good Robots a better target. Evil Ted: Dude, we may have met our match! Evil Bill: Kudos to you, good human usses! Evil Bill and Evil Ted: Catch you later, Bill and Ted!! Bill and Ted: Catch you later, Bill and Ted!! (Good Robot Usses punch heads off Evil Robot Usses)
- The Grim Reaper : Starts off as a minor antagonist, but soon joins the guys. Later 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 . Later the Reaper does it to De Nomolos.
- 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 KISS . It's a very happy ending.
- In the future, Rufus brings Johann Sebastian Bach to his class.
- In heaven, there are various historical personages, including Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.
- Hollywood Board Games : Death is such a Sore Loser that he keeps asking the boys for rematches and when that doesn't work, asks to play another board game. They go from Cluedo to Battleship to Twister .
- Homage : The second movie parodies the Ingmar Bergman 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.
- How Many Fingers? : Parodied when Ted asks his evil robot how many fingers he's about to hold up. When the robot announces "three," Ted indeed holds up three fingers. The comedy is whether Ted only held up three fingers because the robot said so.
- Bill and Ted's long fall to Hell, which takes so long they begin playing "20 Questions" to pass the time. To be fair, it was a pretty short game: Dead Bill: Hey, you wanna play Twenty Questions? Dead Ted: Okay! I got one! Dead Bill: Are you a mineral? Dead Ted: Yeah! Dead Bill: Are you a tank? Dead Ted: Whoa! Yeah!
- When this film airs on television, a commercial break is often placed in the middle of this scene, which probably makes the whole gag funnier .
- If You Die, I Call Your Stuff Dead Bill: Ted. Dead Ted: Yeah? Dead Bill: If I die, you can have my Megadeth collection. Dead Ted: But, dude, we're already dead. 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. 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 and, of all things, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park - which featured KISS battling Evil Robot KISS. Seriously.
- 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.
- Kill and Replace : Evil Robot Bill & Ted are programmed to murder the originals, wreck their relationships, and ruin their performance at the battle of the bands. They even succeed, up to a point .
- Kirk's Rock : Lampshaded: Just before the boys meet the Evil Robots, they're watching that particular episode of Star Trek on TV. When the Evil Usses drag the boys up to the rock to kill them, we even get a recreation of the dramatic zoom out from Trek .
- Knight of Cerebus : The humor tones down a bit whenever De Nomolos appears. He's very straightforward and serious, though he ends up being not much of a threat in the end.
- 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.
- LOL, 69 : Bill & Ted have crossed out the number on their apartment door and spray-painted a large "69" next to it.
- Losing Your Head : The Evil Usses' version of basketball. They end up losing their heads for good thanks to the Good Robot Usses.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right : Chuck De Nomolos' motive.
- Manly Facial Hair : Bill develops a beard during his and Ted's 16 months of training as a way of showing how much they have toughened up, although the newspaper photos indicate he shaves it off later.
- May–December Romance : Missy and Ted's father, who's even older than Bill's father from the first movie. And then she hooks up with Chuck De Nomolos at the end of that movie. The girl Really Gets Around .
- Meaningful Name : Ms. Wardroe is actually a disguise of Rufus's .
- Men Can't Keep House : Bill and Ted's apartment is a showcase of this trope.
- Mirror Match : The Evil Robot Bill and Ted vs. the Good Robot Usses.
- Monochrome Apparition : When Bill and Ted are dead, they're grayish-blue.
- Mugged for Disguise : Bill and Ted do this to people in heaven!
- Ted mentions the princesses are celebrating their fifth year in the 20th century. They arrived in the first movie which was set in 1988 so Bogus Journey must be set in 1993 when it was released in 1991.
- The Great Leader's comment in Bill & Ted Face the Music about the concert happening 25 years ago would put Bogus Journey as happening in 1995.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain : Ties in with the Stable Time Loop . Chuck 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 .
- Obvious Stunt Double : At one point in Bill and Ted's apartment, Alex Winter steps off his mark and reveals the face of Keanu Reeves ' body double.
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You : Rufus mentions to the protagonists that De Nomolos was the sit-up champion of the 27th Century. At least that seems to be a compliment, it might have been meant as a goofy version of How the Mighty Have Fallen .
- Orifice Invasion : Played for Laughs when Bill and Ted's ghosts try possessing two men. They squeeze in through the ears. "I totally possessed my dad!"
- Overly Long Gag : When they get sent to hell. "Dude, this is a totally deep hole."
- Overly Long Scream : Bill and Ted fall down a pit to hell, screaming the whole way, but the pit is so deep that they eventually get tired of repeatedly screaming and start playing 20 Questions.
- Our Founder : Bill and Ted, in the future.
- Out-Gambitted : The climax of the film. Both sides' plans rely on the premise that they won the current battle in the present, which would allow them to manipulate time afterwards and rig the battle in the present to their favor. "The future belongs to the winner."
- Outside-Context Problem : No one, least of all Bill and Ted themselves, saw evil duplicates of themselves coming back to kill them, under orders from an attempted revolutionary with plans to turn the future Earth into a dystopia . But in turn, Evil B&T and De Nomolos likely didn't forsee B&T allying with the Grim Reaper and a duo of Martians to stop them, and constructing good robotic duplicates to defeat the evil ones.
- 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 : Exaggerated, as the effects of Wyld Stallyns' music are shown via a newspaper montage at the end of the film (set to KISS 's "God Gave Rock 'n Roll To You"): Wyld Stallyns Tour Midwest; Crop Growth Up 30% Bill & Ted Tour Mideast; Peace Achieved Stallyns Use World Nuclear Arsenal to Fuel Amplifiers Air Guitar Found to Eliminate Smog Bill & Ted Named Sportsmen of the Decade Rumored W.S. Split; DOW Drops 600 Points W.S. Split A Hoax - DOW To Record High Bill and Ted: The Movie Wyld Stallyns to Play Mars - "Station!"
- The patio table at the princesses' birthday is littered with Pepsi cans. They also hold Pepsi cans in the previous scene.
- An Establishing Shot lingers on the Builder's Emporium sign to make sure you know exactly which hardware store Bill and Ted frequent. Sadly, Builder's Emporium folded two years after the film released.
- Profound by Pop Song : Bill, Ted and Death try and get into Heaven and are asked to answer what the meaning of life is for entry. They answer by quoting "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison and it works!
- Really Gets Around : Missy was married to Bill's dad in the first film, but has left him and married Ted's dad by the sequel. She also flirts with Col. Oats, and the end credits reveal that she has left Ted's dad for Chuck De Nomolos.
- Retroactive Preparation : B&T manage to turn this trope into a martial art during the showdown with De Nomolos.
- Ridiculously Human Robots : The Evil Robot Bill and Ted, who can apparently get "full-on robot chubb[ies]" from looking at a picture of the guys' girlfriends.
- Robotic Reveal : Bill punching his robotic evil twin. "Oww! You're metal, dude!"
- Robot Me : There are Bill and Ted's evil robot copies from the future, and then Station improvises another robot Bill and Ted to counter them.
- Rule of Funny : The movie runs on this. Bill growing a ZZ Top beard in 16 months is the least implausible joke in the film.
- San Dimas Time : Interestingly, the sequel seems to throw this out by allowing Bill and Ted to spend 16 months to get guitar lessons, then return to the present to win the concert. One might assume that they have to jump 16 months into the future after they win the concert, but the news articles that display over the credits don't suggest that they vanished for 16 months after their first performance.
- Sdrawkcab Name : Chuck De Nomolos is this for writer Ed Solomon.
- Sdrawkcab Speech : Additionally, the exorcism chant is "Ed and Chris [Matheson, Solomon's co-writer] will rule the world", spoken backwards: D'lrow eht elur l'liw sirhc d'na de.
- The Death subplot is a direct parody of Death from The Seventh Seal .
- Bill and Ted watch the "Arena" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series , featuring Kirk's Rock . They are then taken to Kirk's Rock to be killed by the evil robots.
- Ted possesses his father, "Like from The Exorcist 1 and 3."
- The boys quote Poison 's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" when asked the meaning of life.
- Les Claypool of Primus wears a The Residents shirt onstage.
- Station is playing charades and miming the film Smokey and the Bandit 3 . Death guesses " Butch and Sundance: The Early Years ."
- Bill's waist-length beard in the very end is obviously a nod to ZZ Top .
- Something That Begins with "Boring" : Bill and Ted play 20 Questions while falling into Hell and waiting to land.
- Sore Loser : The Grim Reaper when he initially loses. It take several losses to the boys for him to finally give in to their demands.
- 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 Station has "an excellently huge Martian butt", Death says, "Don't overlook my butt. I work out all the time. Reaping burns a lot of calories." Bill and Ted visibly shudder at this.
- Stable Time Loop : Chuck De Nomolos is basically responsible for Wyld Stallyns' world fame, broadcasting their Battle of the Bands appearance to the world by accident in his attempt to Take Over the World . Also used tactically in the fight.
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien : Station, despite his (their?) goofy appearance.
- Tagline : "Once... They Made history. Now... They Are History."
- Technology Porn : Station's assembly of the Good Robot Usses is a Homemade Inventions version of this trope.
- Throw the Dog a Bone : Despite his Butt-Monkey status, Death finds himself enjoying the company of Bill and Ted and being part of the band. Given that much of his grim nature appears to cover up severe insecurity and loneliness, Bill and Ted are probably the first friends he'd ever had. Also, it's shown during the news montage that he managed to win the Indianapolis 500 on foot . His response? " I didn't know I could run that fast ."
- Time-Passage Beard : Bill and Ted have beards after returning from a 16-month guitar training sabbatical. Bill somehow managed to grow a ZZ Top beard in that time .
- To Hell and Back
- Took a Level in Badass : At the end of the movie, Bill and Ted use the time machine to take 16 months of intensive guitar training, going from being bad on a horrendous level to astonishingly good. Not to mention using and exploiting the Retroactive Preparation trope to its' fullest extent to stop De Nomolos.
- Treacherous Advisor : Parodied. Early on, Chuck De Nomolos is recognized by Rufus and calls him his old teacher. Turns out, he was a gym teacher.
- Trust Password : Double subverted; when the heroes' Evil Twins arrive, Ted is suspicious, but Bill convinces him to trust them. Then Ted trusts his robot counterpart after it passes a How Many Fingers? test.
- Unfolding Plan Montage : The main characters face off against the Big Bad , each telling their plans and how they enacted them, resulting in weirdness out-of-flashback as Bill, Ted, and De Nomolos, all have time travel devices.
- Unnaturally Blue Lighting : Bill and Ted are treated to this when they wake up in the afterlife, and later when they're in Death's chamber playing his games.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight : Nobody seems to find it odd when Station and the Grim Reaper are wandering through Builder's Emporium.
- Uranus Is Showing : Bill and Ted say they admire Uranus when complimenting God , then chuckle.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show : Even in a Darker and Edgier movie played for laughs, De Nomolos is far more evil than something you'd expect from it. (He has a little humor potential, but it's all Black Humor .)
- 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.
- Wedgie : The characters give The Grim Reaper one.
- The Whole World Is Watching : The villain De Nomolos causes all the world's channels to watch his New Era Speech , but Bill and Ted are able to defeat him and then their future selves play their music for all the world to see, which makes them internationally famous. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
- 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-Destruct Mechanism in Evil Robot B&T's heads and throw them to DeNomolos , killing him.
- The Next Sunday A.D. example above implies the movie is set in 1993. The newspaper and magazine articles that appear over the credits are mostly dated as the year of release, 1991. Some are dated 2691 but they're presumably future reprints.
- To make it more confusing, in Bill & Ted Face the Music (released and set in 2020) has the Great Leader saying the concert happened 25 years ago. Implying that Bogus Journey takes place in 1995.
- Xanatos Speed Chess : The final confrontation between Bill and Ted and DeNomolos.
- You Already Changed the Past : The entire climax is Bill, Ted, and Chuck De Nomolos performing dueling versions of this. 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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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey swings easily between childish and clever humor, and is good at both: a Bergman reference is quickly followed by an equally funny bit about Death's stinky feet. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter seem happy to be reprising their roles and even manage to add funny spins on Evil Robot Bill and Ted.
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Directed by Peter Hewitt. With Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland. A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
Grim Reaper: I heard that. -- Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper: [ to God] They Melvined me. -- Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper: You have sunk my battleship. -- Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper: Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say."
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American comedy science fiction film, the sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Like the first film, it stars Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esq. and George Carlin as Rufus. The film's original working title was Bill & Ted Go To Hell.
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (originally known as Bill & Ted Go To Hell) is a 1991 American comedy science fiction film, the sequel to their Excellent Adventure. Like the first film, it stars Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esq. and George Carlin as Rufus. This is not like I expected at all!
Grim Reaper: I believe Colonel Mustard did it in the study with a candlestick. Dead Bill: Sorry, death, you lose! It was Professor Plum! Grim Reaper: I said Plum!
The Death Scene In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Means More Than You Think. There's just no escaping Keanu Reeves. The ubiquitous action star had a major coming out party with the release of 1999's ...
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: Directed by Peter Hewitt. With Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland. A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
RIGHT ON THE LIPS! [charging Bill and Ted] Bill : Ted, there's only ONE way outta here, man! Ted : You're right, dude! We gotta play the Reaper. Grim Reaper : [the Reaper enters Bill and Ted in the Darkness] Choose your game. But if you lose, you will stay here in hell, forever.
Well then they're yours, dude.". "- Ted: I can't believe Missy divorced your Dad, and married mine. - Bill: Shut up, Ted.". "Very important, do not do your homework without wearing headphones.". "Don't overlook my butt, I work out all the time. And reaping burns a lot of calories.".
Bill: Ted, you're alive. Ted: Yeah, I fell out of my armor when I hit the floor. Bill: Bill: Be excellent to each other. Ted: Party on, dudes. Bill: Socrates - "The only true wisdom consists of knowing you know nothing". Ted: That's us, dude. Bill: Bill: That conversation made more sense this time.
William Sadler talks about "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," including the origin of Death's Czech accent, creating some of the character's most famous lines, and bonding with George Carlin.
What follows is a spirited journey through the afterlife as Bill and Ted try to rescue their girlfriends, save the future, and, oh, yeah, learn how to play the guitar. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey swings easily between childish and clever humor, and is good at both: a Bergman reference is quickly followed by an equally funny bit about Death's ...
In preparation for the upcoming release of Bill & Ted Face The Music, it's the perfect time to go back and revisit the original twin classics that started it all - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.Both movies star Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two dimwitted heavy metal fans with big dreams of becoming the world's most popular band.
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film, and the feature directorial 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, which partially spoofs The Seventh Seal, received mixed reviews from critics and made ...
Bill and Ted: 'cuse us dude. [Bill and Ted take their girlfriends to oposite sides of the pool] Bill: [Takes out a folded piece of paper from his pocket] I wrote this myself. Ted: [Also takes out a folded piece of paper from his pocket] I wrote this last night.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. There were parts of "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" I probably didn't understand, but that's all right, because there were even more parts that Bill and Ted didn't understand. This is a movie that thrives on the dense-witted idiocy of its characters, two teenage dudes who go on amazing journeys through time and space ...
The second movie, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, sees Bill and Ted trying to fight and defeat their evil robotic selves when they decide to take over the real Bill and Ted's lives on Earth. Bill and Ted are so offended that the evil robot versions of themselves are planning to kill them and even more upset that they are killed by them and have to fight their way back to Earth.
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. 1991. Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland. Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. Rating: PG. Runtime: 93 minutes. It is the future. Society has at last solved all its major problems, thanks to amiable lunkheads Bill and Ted and the inspiring music of their band, Wyld Stallyns.
Now, 29 years after the sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the actors are reprising their iconic roles and stepping back into their time-traveling phone booth for a new escapade in Bill & Ted Face ...
That's right, I'm talking about Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the 1991 sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) which sees our lovably dopey, time-traveling Valley bros sent to hell ...
Darker and Edgier: As is evident by the titles.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.; Death Is Gray: After Bill and Ted are thrown off a cliff by their evil robot twins, they appear as ghosts with gray ...
Tormented by Satan, the duo realize their only escape is to take Death's offer. They play games against him.