Line #11 Trivia/BillAndTed


1	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AlexWinter and Creator/KeanuReeves auditioned for each-other's roles. According to Winter, Reeves was initially disappointed to not have won the part he auditioned for until Winter reminded him that the parts are essentially identical.
2	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Rufus is implied to have died at some point between ''Bogus Journey'' and ''Face the Music'', due to Creator/GeorgeCarlin passing away in 2008.
3	* FakeAmerican: Bill and Ted are technically All-American dudes, but neither actor is American-born. Keanu Reeves is a Canadian of mixed race[[note]]his mother is English and his father is an American of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, Irish and Portuguese descent[[/note]] and Alex Winter is British-American.
4	* IAmNotSpock: Averted with Creator/KeanuReeves, PlayedStraight with Creator/AlexWinter.
5	* OrphanedReference:
6	** ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' was originally going to have a random medieval guy called John The Serf played by James Bowbitch tag along with the historical characters. He was cut from the movie but was still listed in the credits.
7	** In ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', the Evil Bill and Ted say "Good luck getting to the concert!" to the originals; while it comes off as petty mockery, in the original script they actually followed up on it by siccing real-world versions of Bill and Ted's {{Ironic Hell}}s (the Easter Bunny, Bill's grandmother, and Colonel Oates) on the boys to try and stop them. This scene still occurs in the novelization and the comic book adaptation of the film.
8	* TheOtherDarrin: The princesses are played by different actresses in all three movies.
9	* ThePeteBest: There was originally a third guy called Bob in the original ''Bill, Ted and Bob'' improv sketch, but the comedian who played him lost interest.
10	* PropRecycling: A planned, but unreleased taking band car toy from the Creator/{{Kenner}} toyline was actually a repainted [[Series/KnightRider KITT]]!
11	** Insofar as a gimmick can be recycled without any actual parts being recycled, the Kenner figures' "squeeze the legs to activate features" gimmick was clearly copied from Kenner's earlier ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Super Powers]] [[Creator/DCComics Collection]]'' line.
12	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film was finally in pre-production]], and filming got underway a year later after Reeves was able to clear his schedule. The film finally arrived via video-on-demand on August 28, 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled an initial planned theatrical release.
13	* SequelGap: A 29 year gulf between ''Bogus Journey'' and ''Face the Music''. Reflected in-universe with the characters being in their fifties during the film.

Context Trivia / BillAndTed