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4	-> ''We [[TotallyRadical totally]] play [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure!]] Scott is most triumphant! Joz is totally bodacious!''
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6	Episodes 30-31 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure the 1989 movie.]]
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8	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 traveler named Rufus, who lends them his time machine.
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10	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 FeudalJapan.
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12	Paulo Quiros has said that he struggled while planning this campaign, having difficulty reconciling the Bill and Ted universe - which runs on YouAlreadyChangedThePast - with the Film Reroll Role-playing games - [[OffTheRails where the plot can go in whatever direction it pleases.]] He eventually decided that the story is set in an AlternateUniverse. [[StableTimeLoop Our protagonists will always cause history to happen,]] [[AlternateHistory but it will not necessarily match up with our history.]]
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14	Starring Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Bill S. Preston Esq, Scott Aiello as Ted “Theodore” Logan and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.
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16	Followed by [[Recap/FilmRerollHalloweenII Halloween 2]]
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19	!!Tropes:
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21	* AccidentalMisnaming: After Napoleon begins a sentence with "To be frank...", Bill and Ted spend the rest of the adventure calling him "Frank".
22	** They also refer to King Minos as "Minus."
23	** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Socrates. The boys ''do'' know how to spell his name, but they're unsure about the pronunciation.
24	* ActorAllusion: Ted claims that when he grows up he wants to be a police officer and surf a lot and parachute out of an airplane. [[Film/PointBreak1991 Much like another character originally played by Keanu Reeves.]]
25	* AdaptationalBadass: Bill and Ted. Napoleon was already pretty badass in RealLife, but he probably didn't kill any giant serpents.
26	* AfterTheEnd: At one point, the gang ends in in the 61st century at the place where Venice once was. There is -- at the very least -- no traces left of the city itself, and the only survivor they come across is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot who begs to be taken with them as there is -- in her opinion -- nothing to see in that time period.
27	* AllMythsAreTrue: It turns out that both [[Myth/ClassicalMythology King Minos and his labyrinth]] really existed. (This might also be the case for [[Literature/TheTrojanCycle Achilles and Agamemnon,]] if the old man the boys spoke to is to be believed.)
28	* AllPartOfTheShow: Much like in the movie, the whole school believes that the historical figures are just actors. The boys' history teacher thinks that their Mussolini is terrifyingly accurate.
29	* AlternateRealityGame: To determine where the time machine would end up, Paulo Quiros created a program which converts a random eight-digit number into a date and a location ([[DevelopersForesight and yes, incrementing the number by one really does take you to the next day.]]) You can find it [[http://www.pauloquiros.com/timetravel.php here.]]
30	* AmazonChaser: Both Bill and Ted are excited to meet female samurai warrior Tomoe Gozen. Ted even asks her if she wants to go to the prom with him.
31	* AmbiguouslyBi: Tomoe Gozen is implied to have a crush on both Lydia and Ted.
32	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Any time Bill and Ted end up somewhere that they didn't go in the movie and Paulo didn't prep for.
33	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The story gets a new action-packed climax in which Bill, Ted, Bill, Ted, Tomoe, and Napoleon fight a Lydia who has grown to giant size.
34	* AttractiveBentGender: At one point Bill and Ted assume [[PaperThinDisguise paper-thin]] female disguises, and promptly attract a male admirer. They only just manage to get away.
35	* BeastInTheMaze: Not a Minotaur (as far as we know) but rather [[SnakesAreSinister a giant snake,]] which is eventually killed by Napoleon through decapitation.
36	* BigBad: Our heroes manage to antagonise quite a few people in this campaign, but Lydia is -- [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever literally]] -- the biggest threat, [[TrueFinalBoss and the last one they face off against.]]
37	* BigBlackout: Lydia causes one when hooking herself up to a modern power outlet. Turns out that she needed a ''lot'' more power to function than anyone expected.
38	* BottleEpisode: While the campaign has an epic plot with tons of locations and characters, it also only has three players, including the DM. This is the lowest number of participants since [[Recap/FilmRerollLabyrinth Labyrinth.]] [[note]] [[Recap/FilmRerollSpeed Speed]] technically had four, even if one of them never got involved in the actual plot. [[/note]]
39	* BrickJoke: When Bill and Ted bring Napoleon to the Eighties, he ends up in a tree. When they later lose him in Athens, they suggest to start looking in the trees. Both times, they call it "[Napoleon's] natural habitat."
40	* CallBack:
41	** When Bill and Ted find themselves in the Minoan Labyrinth, Joz decides to turn right, [[Recap/FilmRerollLabyrinth because turning left didn't work out very well the last time she tried it]].
42	** Joz says [[Recap/FilmRerollETTheExtraTerrestrial "I'm four"]] once again at the end of the first episode, when Paulo reads out a mail they got from a fan named Joshua who claimed to be a four-year-old. [[UnreliableNarrator (Though he also mentions going to work, so take this with a grain of salt.)]]
43	** Rufus uses a taser as his weapon, much like [[Recap/FilmRerollBackToTheFuturePartII another time travelling mentor figure.]]
44	** The players meet an AmbiguouslyEvil character [[Recap/FilmRerollTheWizardOfOz named Lydia.]] Though this time, she's ''not'' a RedHerring.
45	* ChekhovsGun: Lydia's blackout causes the school presentation to be delayed, allowing Bill and Ted to get there in time.
46	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Bill and Ted ask an old Greek man if he knows any historical figures, he mentions Agamemnon, Socrates and Platon. The boys think that he actually knew them personally, and get very sad when hearing that they're all dead.
47	* CrosscastRole: Joz Vammer plays Bill. This later becomes RecursiveCrossdressing when he and the rest of the gang disguise themselves as women.
48	* 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 with defeating -- such a character later.
49	* DescriptionCut: When a very angry King Minos shouts something, Socrates attempts to explain it to Napoleon. He tells the boys that it appears to be something about feeding them roast duck. Cut to them all being thrown in a dungeon, and Napoleon saying apologetically that "roast duck" and "prison" are very similar in Ancient Greek.
50	* DeusExMachina: Rufus has a tendency to appear when all seems lost and provide our protagonists with a way out of their problems. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's a time traveller trying to make sure history takes its rightful course. Paulo notes that he is making a roll, against higher odds each time, to determine whether Rufus will turn up when he's needed; and there is at least one point where Bill and Ted call for his help and he ''doesn't'' show up, leaving them to improvise a solution that makes things, at least in the short term, much worse.
51	* DirtyCoward: Mussolini, who makes not one but ''two'' attempts at taking the time machine for himself while leaving everyone else to die.
52	* DistractedByTheSexy: Napoleon is ''very'' fascinated by a statue of Athena.
53	--> '''Bill:''' [[ARareSentence There's a major babe -- a statue of a major babe down here, and Napoleon has been transfixed by the boob.]]
54	* 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... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, guess]].
55	* DreadfulMusician: Apparently, Bill and Ted's first attempt at creating a music video is... not very good. Again, Rufus insists that they ''will'' get better.
56	* EntertaininglyWrong: As in the film, Ted doesn't know much about history. For instance, he thinks that UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan [[Franchise/StarTrek tried to kill Captain Kirk]].
57	* EternalEnglish: Despite living in the 61st century, Lydia speaks modern English fluently. This is actually ForeShadowing the fact that she's an ageless android, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who might be much, much older than she appears]]. It is subsequently established that she can speak many languages fluently.
58	* EvilAllAlong: Lydia, whose plan turns out to be to TakeOverTheWorld.
59	* ExactWords: When the boys offer to take the robot Lydia -- whose batteries are running low -- to TheEighties to recharge, she says that she "will take the power from [their] time." Turns out that she meant ''all'' of the power...
60	* FunWithForeignLanguages:
61	** 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.
62	** 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 that they had "Napoleon in the phone booth." Turns out that this is ''exactly'' what they meant.
63	* InSpiteOfANail: Napoleon being taken out of 1805 doesn't really seem to be that big of a hiccup to history. However, 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.]]
64	* LookBehindYou: Ted tries this on the BigBad a couple of times; first it's the Goodyear Blimp, the second time it's Robbie the Robot. She falls for it both times, perhaps on account of not being human.
65	* MistakenForSpies: In UsefulNotes/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.
66	* MistakenNationality: Happens to everyone in the Japanese stadium Bill and Ted find themselves in, as they erroneously think that they've landed in China.
67	* MyFutureSelfAndMe:
68	** As in the film, Bill and Ted encounter their future selves the first time they meet Rufus.
69	** Also, at the end of the campaign, Bill and Ted team up with themselves from 25 years into the future (which would be in 2014, [[TwentyMinutesIntoThePast three years before the campaign was released]]) to take down the BigBad.
70	* NextSundayAD: PlayedWith. After dialing in the code [[ArcNumber "69696969,"]] the gang briefly ends up in a Japanese sport stadium on the 24th October 2018. For the players, this is just barely a year forward in time, but for the characters, it's TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
71	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Bill and Ted thinks that they've defeated Lydia once they've knocked her out of the time stream. Instead, it turns out that she's ended up in the native time of Rufus, where she's continued to cause chaos and destruction.
72	* OhCrap:
73	** Joz, on realizing that Bill and Ted have gatecrashed one of Mussolini's fascist rallies.
74	--->'''Joz:''' We. Are. Fucked. ''[as Bill]'' Nice, dude! Let's go up to that second level for a closer look!
75	** Joz again, on realizing that Bill and Ted have been mistaken for CIA assassins.
76	--->'''Joz:''' ''[cheerfully]'' We are ''fucked!''
77	* {{Omniglot}}:
78	** Napoleon can speak at least four languages, French, Italian and (a bit of) English and Ancient Greek. Needless to say, this proves itself useful during the adventure.
79	** Meanwhile, Lydia can speak ''[[ExaggeratedTrope all languages]].'' [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Though she can only help as long as she has enough power.]] And even she has trouble understanding Bill and Ted some of the time because, well, it's Bill and Ted.
80	* OnceMoreWithClarity: Future!Ted thanking Rufus for [[NoodleIncident saving Lady Tomoe]] sounds extremely random the first time, and the listener might forget about it completely (especially since the episodes were originally released almost a month apart.) However, by the time we see the scene from the future Bill and Ted's point of view, we have learned the context behind the line.
81	* PowerOfRock: The weapon used in the final battle. Rufus probably explained it best.
82	--> '''Rufus:''' I need you guys all to come forward in time -- to my time -- to use the power of rock and roll to defeat Lydia.
83	* {{Pun}}: In FeudalJapan, Bill and Ted meet soldiers who are capturing ''actual'' wild stallions. They completely miss the irony of the situation.
84	* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Lydia could pass as human unless you roll well on your perception check, although Paulo says that even if you took her for human you'd think there was something a bit odd about her.
85	* RunningGag:
86	** Bill and Ted always introducing themselves with the full "together we are Wyld Stallyns" intro -- followed by Ted adding some variation of "but that's not important right now".
87	** Bill and Ted making mental notes about bits of ancient or futuristic architecture that would look most triumphant in their music video when they get around to making one.
88	** Bill and Ted thinking that [[MilkmanConspiracy the phone company]] is behind everything.
89	** In the second episode, the very hungry Bill and Ted asking if there is pizza around, which there never is. (Eventually, they are more than satisfied with some Japanese jerky.)
90	* RunningGagged: The introductory catchphrase running gag gets paid off the last time Bill and Ted introduce themselves, to the audience that has gathered for a rock concert that will decide the fate of the world:
91	-->'''Bill and Ted:''' ...and all together, we are Wyld Stallyns!\
92	'''Ted:''' And you ''do'' need to know this!
93	* SamusIsAGirl: Ted was probably not expecting the evil mastermind to be a RobotGirl, given that he calls "him" a "dude." Then again, it was pure (bad) luck that he and Bill were even right about the ''existence'' of an evil mastermimd in the first place.
94	* ShoutOut:
95	** The Series/DoctorWho references were almost inevitable. One particularly 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.)
96	** Paulo's interpretation of Ancient Minoan sounds oddly like [[Series/GameOfThrones Dothraki]]. He mentions that this was a deliberate reference.
97	** When Ted rides to save Tomoe's life, Paulo Quiros says that [[Music/{{Europe}} The Final Countdown]] plays in the background.
98	* {{Squee}}: Joz's reaction to Paulo describing Napoleon's [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee shy fanboy reaction]] to finding himself in the presence of Socrates.
99	* StacysMom: Much like in the original film, both Bill and Ted have a thing for Bill's stepmom Missy.
100	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Bill and Ted in a stadium in Italy explaining that they are totally adults and would never drink irresponsibly.
101	* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked during a battle with a giant serpent. Joz mentions that she's being very good and avoiding innuendoes about wrestling with the snake, and Paulo responds by letting loose with as many innuendoes as he can think of.
102	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Bill and Ted are surprisingly unfazed about seeing telephone booths fall down from the sky. Though they ''are'' bothered by it, since somebody could get hurt if they were hit by one.
103	* WarIsHell: Bill and Ted are both affected by seeing a real battle for the first time, [[SubvertedTrope though both get over it pretty quickly.]]
104	* WhichMe: When Bill and Ted team up with their future selves to save the world, there are a few moments of confusion about who exactly the GM is talking about.

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