History Trivia / BillAndTedFaceTheMusic

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were supposed to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planned; however, it proved too time-consuming and costly, so the production team instead repurposed footage of Rufus from the first film, with Piotr Michael serving as a voice double. We do get a glimpse at what could have been due to a Wal-Mart commercial that involves old Bill and young Bill turning up at Wal-Mart picking up a call-in order (with young Bill looking like he stepped right out of 1989, wearing the same clothing as well).

* PosthumousCredit: Creator/GeorgeCarlin is still credited for his appearance as Rufus despite dying of heart failure 12 years earlier.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were supposed to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planned; however, it proved too time consuming and costly, so it was scrapped and instead a brief hologram of Rufus, made with stock footage and a voice double, is featured. We do get a glimpse at what could have been due to a Wal-Mart commercial that involves old Bill and young Bill turning up at Wal-Mart picking up a call-in order (with young Bill looking like he stepped right out of 1989, wearing the same clothing as well).

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/GeorgeCarlin, who played Rufus, succumbed to heart failure in 2008. Rufus appears through StockFootage as a hologram, and the new liaison from the future, Kelly, is named after Carlin's real life daughter in tribute to him.

* BTeamSequel: Dean Parisot directs the film this time around, while Mark Isham replaces Creator/DavidNewman as its composer.

** Jayma Mays and Erinn Hayes take over the roles of Princesses Joanna and Elizabeth.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were supposed to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planned; however, it proved too time consuming and costly, so it was scrapped and instead a brief hologram of Rufus, made with stock footage and a voice double, is featured. We do get a glimpse at what could have been due to a Wal-Mart commercial that involves old Bill and young Bill turning up at Wal-Mart picking up a call-in order (with young Bill looking like he stepped right out of 1989).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were supposed to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planned; however, it proved too time consuming and costly, so it was scrapped and instead a brief hologram of Rufus, made with stock footage and a voice double, is featured.

* AgeLift: Inverted. Billie and Thea should be close to 30 but are said to be 24. There seems to be a slight retcon. The events of the first film, previously 1988 are now 1989, and the events of ''Bogus'', which were an unspecified period of maybe about five years now happen in 1995.
** We don't actually know how old they are/should be. At the end of ''Bogus'' Bill & Ted left in the booth so they could learn to play. We don't know where or when they went to (other than it took at least a year, since babies). If the newborns stayed in ''Bogus's'' timeline then they should be closer to 30, but if they went back where/when they came from, they could very well be 24.

** In the Japanese dub, Creator/AkioOhtsuka reprise his role as the Grim Reaper from the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus''.

*** The Japanese dub is a quite interesting case: The titular duo are voiced by Creator/WataruTakagi and Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa respectively. The fun part of this goes with the fact that Takagi voiced ''Ted'' in the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus Adventures'', while Morikawa, who is the regular dub voice of Creator/KeanuReeves in Japan, dubs Ted for the first time.

** In the Japanese dub, Creator/AkioOhtsuka reprise his role as Death from the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus Adventures''.

*** The Japanese dub is a quite interesting case: The titular duo are voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa and Creator/WataruTakagi respectively. The fun part of this goes with the fact that Takagi voiced ''Ted'' in the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus Adventures'', while Morikawa, who is the regular dub voice of Creator/KeanuReeves in Japan, dubs Ted for the first time.

*** The Japanese dub is a quite interesting case: The titular duo are voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa and Creator/WataruTakagi respectively. The fun part of this goes with the fact that Takagi voiced ''Ted'' in the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus Adventures'', while Morikawa, who is the regular dub voice of Creator/KeanuReeeves in Japan, dubs Ted for the first time.

* RoleReprise: Returning from the previous films are Creator/KeanuReeves as Ted Theodore Logan, Creator/AlexWinter as Bill S. Preston Esquire, Hal Landon Jr. as John Logan, Amy Stoch as Missy and William Sadler as the Grim Reaper.

* RoleReprise: Returning from the previous films are Creator/KeanuReeves as Ted Logan, Creator/AlexWinter as Bill Preston, Hal Landon Jr. as John Logan, Amy Stoch as Missy and William Sadler as the Grim Reaper.

* ActorInspiredElement: Brigette Lundy-Paine identifies as nonbinary, while Wilhelmina wears androgynous clothing: a rashguard top for most of the film and a suit jacket at the wedding.

* ActorInspiredElement: Bridget Lundy-Paine identifies as nonbinary, while Wilhelmina wears androgynous clothing: a rashguard top for most of the film and a suit jacket at the wedding.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/GeorgeCarlin, who played Rufus, passed away in 2008. Rufus appears through StockFootage as a hologram, and the new liaison from the future, Kelly, is named after Carlin's real life daughter in tribute to him.

* AgeLift: Inverted. Billie and Thea should be close to 30 but are said to be 24. There seems to be a slight retcon. The events of the first film, previously 1988 are now 1989, and the events of Bogus, which were an unspecified period of maybe about five years now happen in 1995.

** Beck Bennett replaces Frazier Bain as Ted's brother, Deacon.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: In the film, while they don't say it outright. It's fairly obvious Rufus has passed on given the sad looks between Bill, Ted and Kelly when first discussing him and Bill and Ted's reaction to his hologram when going to meet the Great Leader. The character is also spoken about in past-tense as well.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill and Ted were supposed to travel back to the night they met Rufus for advice. A CGI recreation of Carlin as Rufus was planed, however it proved too time consuming and costly, so it was scrapped and instead a hologram of Rufus near the beginning was used instead.

* AgeLift: Inverted. Billie and Thea should be close to 30 but are said to be 24.
There seems to be a slight retcon. The events of the first film, previously 1988 are now 1989, and the events of Bogus, which were an unspecified period of maybe about five years now happen in 1995.