History Recap / FilmRerollBillAndTedsExcellentAdventure

* InSpiteOfANail: Napoleon being taken out of 1805 doesn't really seem to be that big of a hiccup to history. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as pointed out by a professional historian on Reddit,]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/78it6o/how_bill_and_ted_kidnapping_napoleon_would_change/ Napoleon disappearing in 1805 would probably change history much, much more than what's shown in the campaign.]]

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Paulo's version of Napoleon speaks much better French than the one in the movie. (This is actually an InUniverse example too, since Napoleon was born in Corsica.)

** Rufus uses a taser as his WeaponOfChoice, much like [[Recap/FilmRerollBackToTheFuturePartII another time travelling mentor figure.]]

* DontTryThisAtHome: At the end of the first session, Paulo says that letting Bill and Ted go anywhere in time that the story or the players' whims take them was a lot of fun but that his advice to other [=DMs=] would be Don't Try This At Home.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Socrates. The boys ''do'' know how to spell his name, [[ItsPronouncedTroPay but they're unsure about the pronounciation.]]

Thus Bill and Ted - who misinterpreted the test requirements somewhat - set out on a quest to collect famous historical figures, and have them give a report on what they think about the 1980s. Unlike the film however, the time periods they visit are slightly different. Now they include places such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization Minoan Crete,]] UsefulNotes/FascistItaly and UsefulNotes/FeudalJapan.

Much like in the film, the story centers around two students - Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan - with aspirations of becoming rock stars. Unfortunately, they have fallen behind on their studies. Fortunately, the boys are given some unexpected aid from a time traveller named Rufus, who lends them his time machine.

* InSpiteOfANail: Napoleon being taken out of 1805 doesn't really seem to be that big of a hiccup to history. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as pointed out by a professional historian on Reddit,]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/78it6o/how_bill_and_ted_kidnapping_napoleon_would_change/ Napoleon dissapearing in 1805 would probably change history much, much more than what's shown in the campaign.]]

** This becomes a SubvertedTrope when the conspirator Bill and Ted meet in Fascist Italy thinks that he ''must'' have misunderstood them when it sounded to him like they said thar they had "Napoleon in the phone booth." Turns out that this is ''exactly'' what they meant.

* InSpiteOfANail: Napoleon being taken out of 1805 doesn't really seem to be that big of a hiccup to history. However, [[RealityEnsues as pointed out by a professional historian on Reddit,]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/78it6o/how_bill_and_ted_kidnapping_napoleon_would_change/ Napoleon dissapearing in 1805 would probably change history much, much more than what's shown in the campaign.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Bill's comment to Lydia after she steals all of the electricity in San Dimas (if not the world.)
--> '''Bill:''' [Most women] do not... [[DoubleEntendre plug into anything.]]

** The Series/DoctorWho references were almost inevitable. One particulary nice moment is Napoleon saying "allons-y" [[note]] French for "let's go," and the Tenth Doctor's CatchPhrase. [[/note]] before entering the phone booth-shaped time machine (which the players just start calling "the TARDIS" after a while.)

* InSpiteOfANail: As pointed out by a professional historian on Reddit, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/78it6o/how_bill_and_ted_kidnapping_napoleon_would_change/ Napoleon dissapearing in 1805 would probably change history much, much more than what's shown in the campaign.]]

** At the end of the first episode, when Paulo reads out a mail they got from a four-year-old fan named Joshua, Joz once again says [[Recap/FilmRerollETTheExtraTerrestrial "I'm four."]]

** This becomes a SubvertedTrope when the consparitor Bill and Ted meet in FascistItaly thinks that he ''must'' have misunderstood them when it sounded to him like they said thar they had "Napoleon in the phone booth." Turns out that this is ''exactly'' what they meant.

* FunWithForeignLanguages: In Crete, Bill and Ted communicate through a chain of translators -- Bill and Ted speak English, Napoleon speaks a bit of English and a bit of Greek, Socrates speaks Greek and a bit of Minoan. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

** Also, at the end of the campaign, Bill and Ted team up with themselves from 25 years into the future to take down the BigBad.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bill theorises -- with no evidence whatsoever -- that they are meant to save the world from an evil mastermind. By sheer coincidence, they actually run into -- and are tasked to defeat -- such a character later.

** Paulo's attempt at Ancient Minoan prompts one of the players to comment that it sounds like [[Series/AGameOfThrones Dothraki]].

* MistakenForSpies: In FascistItaly, Bill and Ted are confused for CIA agents sent there to kill UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. Instead, they end up saving his life by kidnapping him.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The most excellent snake fight. [[note]] Art by [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/7580pd/the_most_excellent_snake_fight_bill_and_ted_part_1/ AudiovisualNonsense]] [[/note]]]]