History WMG / BillAndTed

[[WMG: Wild Stallyns improved the future in a ForWantOfANail sort of way.]]

[[It Just Bugs Me]] Why did everyone apart from Genghis and Billy get arrested? Beethoven playing electric keyboards: you'd think the salesman would have been delighted with the crowd that had gathered and used it to his advantage. Joan of Arc taking over the aerobics class: why did mall security hand her over to the city police when this is something they typically handle?
Abraham Lincoln: when the photographer thinks he's wearing the studio's costume and Abe replies that he is the real Abe, is it so hard for the photographer, or the cops when they get involved, to check the inventory and confirm that Abe is wearing his own clothes? Sigmund and Socrates weren't even doing anything wrong but they end up running from the cops, who seem to have something against people whom they think are crazy historical cosplayers (viz. the elevator scene).
° When Captain Logan finds his son's tape recorder, why does he immediately assume it has something to do with his detainees instead of his son and his friend pulling a dumb prank, like they must have done previously?

[[WMG:Future Earth uses an AlternativeCalendar]]
Future people in ''Face The Music'' get the years the previous two movies were set wrong. The Rufus hologram said he first met Bill and Ted in 1989 when the first movie was set in '88. And the Great Leader says Bill and Ted's concert happened 25 years ago implying ''Bogus Journey'' was set in 1995 when Ted's comment about the princesses being in the 20th century for five years would set it in 1993.
The newspapers and magazines that appear in the end credits of ''Bogus Journey'' are alternatively dated 1991 and 2691. The 2691 issues are likely future reprints but maybe the 1991 issues are also reprints by future people who aren't used to the Gregorian calendar.
The year Bill and Ted unites the world could become Year 1 or 0 or else Earth now uses some UniversalUniverseTime alongside other planets.

[[WMG:Future Earth uses and AlternativeCalendar]]

Many people have wondered how the time machine used in the first film tend to drop them near historical figures in the past when all the phone booth's controls consists of entering in numbers to locations. Considering the phone book probably has individual years, the location would be considered in the coordinates. But close proximity to a prominent historical figure may not be considered in the coordinates (if it weren't true, then Bill and Ted wouldn't have been able to land at any random time, but major historical events to see such figures. For example, Bill and Ted would have been more than likely to pick up Abraham Lincoln either before, during or after his famous Gettysburg address, or before his trip to the Ford Theater where he would be shot, because those are significant moments in time). This troper suspects that the phone booths have technology that reads the user's minds on what their desired intent is. For example, Bill and Ted head back to the wild west to pick up someone, yet they happen to land next to a historical figure. In this case, Billy the Kid. Now, they couldn't know they would end up at a place where Billy the Kid was and it seems rather serendipitous that Billy shows up. However, they enter in the coordinates to the Wild West. At that time, Billy the Kid had become a pop culture icon due to the film The Young Guns the year before, and Bill and Ted would have had him on their mind, be it from history or from the film. So, when the coordinates were entered, the time machine scanned their heads and surmised they wanted to be in close proximity to a famous cowboy, leading it to pinpoint Billy The Kid's location in the past and dropped them in close to him. This would explain why when they dropped into Austria near Sigmund Freud, as they may have subconsciously remembered him from their history class.

Many people have wondered how the time machine used in the first film tend to drop them near historical figures in the past when all the phone booth's controls consists of entering in numbers to locations. Considering the phone book probably has individual years, the location would be considered in the coordinates. But close proximity to a prominent historical figure may not be considered in the coordinates (if it weren't true, then Bill and Ted wouldn't have been able to land at any random time, but major historical events to see such figures. For example, Bill and Ted would have been more than likely to pick up Abraham Lincoln either before, during or after his famous Gettysburg address, or before his trip to the Ford Theater where he would be shot, because those are significant moments in time). This troper suspects that the phone booths have technology that reads the user's minds on what their desired intent is. For example, Bill and Ted head back to the wild west to pick up someone, yet they happen to land next to a historical figure. In this case, Billy the Kid. Now, they couldn't know they would end up at a place where Billy the Kid was and it seems rather serendipitous that Billy shows up. However, they enter in the coordinates to the Wild West. At that time, Billy the Kid had become a pop culture icon due to the film The Young Guns the year before, and Bill and Ted would have had him on their mind, be it from history or from the film. So, when the coordinates were entered, the time machine scanned their heads and surmised they wanted to be in close proximity to a famous cowboy, leading it to pinpoint Billy The Kid's location in the past and dropped them in close to him. This would explain why when they dropped into Austria near Sigmund Freud, as they may have subconsciously remembered him from their history class. And, it also accounts for how they ended up in the future in the very chamber where the future people were waiting for them: they were desperate to get the hell out of medieval times that the time machine took it to it's default (the first) location it was formed when Bill accidentally typed in coordinates to the future when trying to get them out of there. So, the time machine's landing in proximity to historical figures isn't just random. This would also explain why the time machine is able to drop Bill and Ted in close proximity to their future selves in Face The Music (as they clearly didn't know where they would be in the 2, 5 and far future, but the booth clearly dropped them in, but the machine would know they wanted to see their future selves, so it would land them in close proximity to themselves after reading their minds). So, the phone booth time machine not only takes in time/space coordinates, but it scans the users' brain(s) for where they want to end up.

* Or, even better: Bill was sort of right about Missy hooking up with a son, but it turns out that for the next film, she's a MILF and has hooked up with Deacon Logan, Ted's younger brother.

There's a few noticeable continuity problems between the first, second and third films that can be easily explain when you take into account that each film not only takes place after the previous one, but on alternate timelines to one another. This would account for why the Circle K that Evil Bill and Evil Ted land at is suggested to be the same one but looks different and in a different location (there are noticeable burn marks on the ground that are typically made by the phone booths, which indicates that the Circle K they landed at is meant to be the same one from the first film). Other than the real world explanation that they weren't able to get the same actresses from the past film(s), this would account for why the Princesses look different for each of the three films. It also explains why the future looks different in all three films as well, as each one is on another timeline different from the last. And, since many people think that Lil Bill and Lil Ted were boys at the end of Bogus Journey and girls in the upcoming ''Face The Music'', the third film being on another alternate timeline would account for that (though, as mentioned above, both the babies in Bogus Journey, were in fact played by girls and Bill and Ted may have just been busy learning to play to notice that their wives had daughters instead of sons). The only thing that doesn't change is the fact that Bill and Ted are exactly the same in all three timelines (only getting older between each film).

There's a few noticeable continuity problems between the first, second and third films that can be easily explain when you take into account that each film not only takes place after the previous one, but on alternate timelines to one another. This would account for why the Circle K that Evil Bill and Evil Ted land at is suggested to be the same one but looks different and in a different location (there are noticeable burn marks on the ground that are typically made by the phone booths, which indicates that the Circle K they landed at is meant to be the same one from the first film). Other than the real world explanation that they weren't able to get the same actresses from the past film(s), this would account for why the Princesses look different for each of the three films. It also explains why the future looks different in all three films as well, as each one is on another timeline different from the last. And, since many people think that Lil Bill and Lil Ted were boys at the end of Bogus Journey and girls in this one, the third film being on another alternate timeline would account for that (though, as mentioned above, both the babies in Bogus Journey, were in fact played by girls and Bill and Ted may have just been busy learning to play to notice that their wives had daughters instead of sons). The only thing that doesn't change is the fact that Bill and Ted are exactly the same in all three timelines (only getting older between each film).

There's a few noticeable continuity problems between the first, second and third films that can be easily explain when you take into account that each film not only takes place after the previous one, but on alternate timelines to one another. This would account for why the Circle K that Evil Bill and Evil Ted land at is suggested to be the same one but looks different and in a different location (there are noticeable burn marks on the ground that are typically made by the phone booths, which indicates that the Circle K they landed at is meant to be the same one from the first film). Other than the real world explanation that they weren't able to get the same actresses from the past film(s), this would account for why the Princesses look different for each of the three films. It also explains why the future looks different in all three films as well, as each one is on another timeline different from the last). And, since many people think that Lil Bill and Lil Ted were boys at the end of Bogus Journey and girls in this one, the third film being on another alternate timeline would account for that (though, as mentioned above, both the babies in Bogus Journey, were in fact played by girls and Bill and Ted may have just been busy learning to play to notice that their wives had daughters instead of sons). The only thing that doesn't change is the fact that Bill and Ted are exactly the same in all three timelines (only getting older between each film).