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1	* AbilityOverAppearance: In a 1991 interview, Ed Solomon said that Bill and Ted were originally envisaged as "fourteen-year-old skinny guys, with low-rider bell-bottoms, and heavy metal t-shirts" who were despised by the popular kids at school. Casting Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter changed the filmmakers' images of the characters because "once you cast Alex and Keanu, who look like pretty cool guys, that was hard to believe."
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: The first movie is set in Southern California, but was filmed primarily in Phoenix, Arizona.
3	* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Japanese dub features comedians Kazuo Fujii and Daisuke Koshikawa as the respective voices of Bill and Ted.
4	* CreatorBacklash: A minor case, as Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter remain very proud of the film, but they admit to some frustration at Bill and Ted being written as TheDividual with absolutely nothing to make them distinct characters. ''Face the Music'' even mocks it with them being completely incapable of talking about themselves as individuals.
5	* DawsonCasting:
6	** Playing seniors in high school, Creator/AlexWinter was 21, and Creator/KeanuReeves was 22. Diane Franklin and Kimberly [=LaBelle=], both age 25, played the possibly-middle-teenaged princesses.
7	** Missy, Ted's stepmother, is said to be a high school senior when Ted was a freshman, putting her age at around 20. Her actress, Amy Stock-Poynton, was 28 at the time.
8	** During filming, Dan Shor was 31, and Jane Wiedlin was 29. In real life, UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid was killed at 21, and UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc was executed at 19.
9	* DeletedRole: An early script had a random medieval guy tag along with all the historical characters. The end credits still mention James Bowbitch as "John The Serf".
10	* DeletedScene: Detailed [[http://www.billandted.org/movieseaomitted.htm here]].
11	* FakeAmerican: Ted Logan is played by the Lebanese-born Canadian Creator/KeanuReeves.
12	* FakeBrit: Diane Franklin (Joanna) and Kimberley [=LaBelle=] (Elizabeth) are Americans.
13	* FakeNationality:
14	** Terry Camilleri, who played UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, is Maltese-Australian.
15	** Toledo, Ohio-born Clifford David as the German-born Austrian Music/LudwigVanBeethoven.
16	** Chinese-American Al Leong plays the Mongolian UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
17	** Rod Loomis, a native of St. Albans, Vermont, plays the Austrian UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud.
18	** Wisconsin native Jane Wiedlin as the French UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc.
19	** English actor Tony Steedman plays the Greek Creator/{{Socrates}}.
20	* OrphanedReference:
21	** Bill and Ted asking the princesses to go to the prom with them is possibly a leftover from the original planned ending, where after getting sent to the present, the princesses accompany the titular duo to their prom.
22	** There 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.
23	* PlayingAgainstType: Profane, animated, and misanthropic comedian Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the calm, peaceful and optimistic Rufus.
24	* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film took two years to be released. It was filmed throughout spring 1987 for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but then the company went bankrupt, and the film would be shelved until a year later when Nelson Entertainment and Creator/OrionPictures picked it up. They also had to re-dub everything that was originally scripted as "1987" as "1988".
25	* StudioHop: The film struggled to find a distributor. Originally, Creator/WarnerBros tried to produce it with a budget of $10 million, but were unable to acquire funding. De Laurentiis Entertainment Group picked it up for a potential 1987 release, but they suffered financial issues and the film was in a state of limbo for a while. Ultimately, Creator/OrionPictures and Nelson Entertainment picked the movie up (many of DEG's executives had gone to Nelson, helping the film along). These days, the film belongs to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, which bought Orion in 1997 and obtained most rights to the Nelson library the year after, as part of their purchase of the Epic Productions catalog.
26	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
27	** Creator/RiverPhoenix and Creator/SeanPenn auditioned for Bill before Creator/AlexWinter was cast.
28	** Creator/PaulyShore screen-tested for the role of Ted before the casting of Creator/KeanuReeves.
29	** Music/RingoStarr, Creator/SeanConnery, [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]] and Creator/CharlieSheen were considered for the part of Rufus before Creator/GeorgeCarlin was cast.
30	** [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen]] said that he would have been glad to appear in the movie, but nobody asked him.
31	** The Three Most Important People in the utopian society were envisioned to be portrayed by Music/ZZTop. However, Solomon had connections to the E Street Band, The Tubes, and The Motels, and were able to get Clarence Clemons, Fee Waybill, and Martha Davis, respectively, for the Most Important People.
32	** At one point, the plot was to have Bill and Ted visit, and therefore accidentally ''cause'', all of history's greatest tragedies (the American Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague...).
33	** The time machine was originally a pickup truck, then a van. It was changed into a phone booth because the car might have made the movie seem too close to a ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' ripoff. Now it's just unintentionally close to the TARDIS in ''Series/DoctorWho''.[[note]]At the time, the series had only a cult following in the United States, and wouldn't become mainstream there until its {{Revival}} in TheNewTens.[[/note]]
34	** The original concept for the film was following Bill and Ted through an unrelated series of sketches, with the time travel story just one of several skits. Writer Chris Matheson's father, Creator/RichardMatheson, wisely suggested that the film focus entirely on the time travel idea.
35	** In the original outline for the movie, Rufus was a 28-year-old high school sophomore who befriended Bill and Ted. There was also a character named John the Serf, whom Bill and Ted picked up in medieval England.
36	** The film was originally called ''Bill and Ted's Time Van'', and ideas for time periods covered included everything from ancient Egypt to the Presidency of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. The idea seemingly involved more characters than just Bill and Ted going back in time, since in [[http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-and-ted-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-alternate-endings/amp/ an Entertainment Weekly interview]], Solomon said that at one point in the script one of the popular kids would have befriended UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (which Matheson says is more reflective of their attitude towards "the popular kids" than anything else).
37	** The presentation at the end of the movie would have just involved the historical figures lecturing the history class while Bill and Ted watched, and then they went to their prom and the movie ended. Alex Winter remarked that even while filming this ending, they were underwhelmed by it, so the whole thing was rewritten into the auditorium spectacle seen in the final film.
38	* WorkingTitle: ''Bill and Ted's Time Van''.

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