History Trivia / BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure

* FakeAmerican: Ted Logan is played by the Canadian Creator/KeanuReeves.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/AlexWinter and Creator/KeanuReeves respectively play Bill and Ted, as well as their time-traveling counterparts.

** Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 21, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 22. Diane Franklin and Kimberly [=LaBelle=], age 25 play the possibly-middle-teenaged princesses.
** Missy, Ted's stepmother, was said to be a high school senior when Ted was a freshman, putting her age at around 20. Her actress, Amy Stock-Poynton, was 28 at the time.

** Terry Camilleri who played UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, is actually Australian with Italian heritage, and was born in Malta. This sort of works though, as Napoleon was also of Italian heritage.

* PlayingAgainstType: Profane, animated and misanthropic comedian Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the calm, peaceful and optimistic Rufus.
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Creator/OrionPictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
* StudioHop: The film struggled to find distribution. Originally, Creator/WarnerBros tried to produce it with a budget of $10 million, but were unable to acquire funding. De Laurentiis Entertainment Group picked it up for a potential 1987 release, but they suffered financial issues and the film was in a limbo state for a while. Ultimately, Creator/OrionPictures and Nelson Entertainment picked the movie up (many of DEG's executives had gone to Nelson, helping the film along). These days, the film belongs to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, which bought Orion in 1997 and obtained most rights to the Nelson library the year after, as part of their purchase of the Epic Productions catalog.

** The Three Most Important People in the utopian society were envisioned to be portrayed by Music/ZZTop. However, Solomon had connections to the E Street Band, The Tubes and The Motels, and were able to get Clarence Clemons, Fee Waybill, and Martha Davis, respectively, for the Most Important People.
** Originally the plot was to have them visit, and therefore accidentally ''cause'', all of history's greatest tragedies (the American Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague...).
** The time machine was originally a pick up truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because it might have made the movie too close to a ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.[[note]]At the time, the series had a cult following in the United States and wouldn't become mainstream there until TheNewTens.[[/note]]

** The presentation at the end of the movie would have just involved the historical figures lecturing the history class while Bill and Ted watched, then they went to their prom and the movie ended. Alex Winter remarked that even while filming this ending, they were underwhelmed by it, so the whole thing was rewritten into the auditorium spectacle seen in the final film.

* ChannelHop: The film struggled to find distribution. Originally, Creator/WarnerBros tried to produce it with a budget of $10 million, but were unable to acquire funding. De Laurentiis Entertainment Group picked it up for a potential 1987 release, but they suffered financial issues and the film was in a limbo state for a while. Ultimately, Creator/OrionPictures and Nelson Entertainment picked the movie up (many of DEG's executives had gone to Nelson, helping the film along). These days, the film belongs to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, which bought Orion in 1997 and obtained most rights to the Nelson library the year after, as part of their purchase of the Epic Productions catalog.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/AlexWinter and Creator/KeanuReeves respectively play Bill and Ted, as well as their past selves.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter respectively play Bill and Ted, as well as their past selves.

* ChannelHop: The film struggled to find distribution. Originally, Creator/WarnerBros tried to produce it with a budget of $10 million, but were unable to acquire funding.

* CreatorBacklash: A minor case, as Reeves and Winter remain very proud of the film, but they admit to some frustration at Bill and Ted being written as TheDividual with absolutely nothing to make them distinct characters. ''Face the Music'' even mocks it with them being completely incapable of talking about themselves as individuals.

** Terry Camilleri who played Napoleon, is actually Australian with Italian heritage, and was born in Malta. This sort of works though, as Napoleon was also of Italian heritage.
** Toledo, Ohio-born Clifford David as the German-born Austrian Ludwig van Beethoven.
** Chinese-American Al Leong plays the Mongolian Genghis Khan.
** Rod Loomis, a native of St. Albans, Vermont, plays the Austrian Sigmund Freud.
** Wisconsin native Jane Wiedlin as the French Joan of Arc.
** English actor Tony Steedman plays the Greek Socrates.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Strangely inverted. The first movie is set in Southern California, but was filmed primarily in Phoenix.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The time machine looks like a pay phone booth, something that would go virtually extinct within 20 years of filming.
** Bill and Ted's brand of hair metal that would supposedly save future civilization went out of style only a few years after the film was released.

* ChannelHop: Stephen Herek stated that shopping the film for distributors was difficult; Creator/WarnerBros wanted to produce it within a US$10 million budget, but could not figure out how to fund it.

** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father, Creator/RichardMatheson (author of ''Literature/IAmLegend''), wisely suggested that the film focus entirely on the time travel idea.

** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of Richard Nixon. The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly interview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended Hitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film took two years to get a release. It was filmed throughout Spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
* TalentDouble: At the very end of the film when Rufus displays his guitar prowess, the camera cuts to a close-up shot of just his hands, which are those of guitarist Stevie Salas, who recorded the guitar licks heard throughout the film.

* TalentDouble: At the very end of the film when Rufus displays his guitar prowess, the camera cuts to a close-up shot of just his hands, which are those of guitarist Steve Salas, who recorded the guitar licks heard throughout the film.

** Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 21, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 22. Diane Franklin and Kimberly LaBelle, age 25 play the possibly-middle-teenaged princesses.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://billandted.wikia.com/wiki/Bill_%26_Ted%27s_Most_Triumphant_Wiki Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Wiki]].

* CelebrityVoiceActors: The Japanese dub features comedians Kazuo Fujii and Daisuke Koshikawa as the respective voices of Bill and Ted.

* FakeNationality: Terry Camilleri who played Napoleon, is actually Australian with Italian heritage, and was born in Malta. This sort of works though, as Napoleon was also of Italian heritage.

** Thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act, Bill and Ted would have been in less danger of flunking.

** Along with a lot of the more obvious stuff, the film would've been really short if Google was around in TheEighties.

** Missy, Ted's stepmother, is said to be a high school senior when Ted was a freshman, putting her age at around 20. Her actress, Amy Stock-Poynton, was 28 at the time.

** Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 22, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 21. Diane Franklin and Kimberly LaBelle, age 25 play the possibly-middle-teenaged princesses.

** Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 22, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 21.

* PlayingAgainstType: Profane, animated and misanthropic comedian Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the calm, peaceful Rufus.