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1	* AcclaimedFlop: In spite of positive reviews, the Usefulnotes/Covid19Pandemic limited the film's theatrical reach, earning only $6.3 million out of a $25 million budget. Thankfully the VOD numbers compensated, with $32 million from the US alone in its first month.
2	* ActingForTwo: Creator/AlexWinter and Creator/KeanuReeves respectively reprise their roles as Bill and Ted, in addition to portraying their future counterparts.
3	* ActorInspiredElement: Brigette Lundy-Paine is nonbinary, while Wilhelmina wears androgynous clothing: a rashguard top for most of the film and a suit jacket at the wedding.
4	* AuthorsSavingThrow: Shortly after the film was announced, the director confirmed they'd be dropping the "fag" RunningGag from the first two films which has since fallen hard into ValuesDissonance.
5	* BTeamSequel: Dean Parisot directs the film this time around, while Mark Isham replaces Music/DavidNewman as its composer.
6	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: 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.
7	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/AnthonyCarrigan had to endure many hours getting fitted into his costume and prosthetics. Because it all covered his entire body and removing it was such a hassle, he resorted to removing the costume's gloves and plunging his hands in ice water between takes to try and regulate his body temperature.
8	* ExecutiveMeddling: The actors complained that it was hard to get a sequel made with Orion wanting to do a remake or a sequel/remake where Bill and Ted take a role similar to Rufus helping younger teenagers pass History and start a band.
9	* FakeAmerican: Australian actress Creator/SamaraWeaving played the most Southern Californian Theodora “Thea” Preston.
10	* FakeNationality:
11	** German-born Daniel Dorr plays the Austrian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
12	** Houston native Sharon Gee plays the Chinese Ling Lun.
13	* TheOtherDarrin:
14	** Jayma Mays and Erinn Hayes are the third set of actresses to play Princesses Joanna and Elizabeth.
15	** Creator/BeckBennett replaces Frazier Bain as Ted's brother, Deacon.
16	** Most foreign dubs had their voice actors replaced, due to the time gap between the last two films and this one:
17	*** In the Latin Spanish dub, the titular duo are voiced by Marco Guerrero and Dafnis Fernández.
18	*** 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'', while Morikawa, who is the regular dub voice of Creator/KeanuReeves in Japan, dubs Ted for the first time.
19	* PlayingWithCharacterType: Anthony Carrigan is best-known for playing murderers and psychopaths. His character is introduced as a coldly efficient murder bot, but he turns out to be a socially awkward dork named Dennis Caleb [=McCoy=] who annoys everyone with his existential crisis.
20	* PosthumousCredit: Creator/GeorgeCarlin is still credited for his appearance as Rufus despite dying of heart failure 12 years before the film's release.
21	* RealLifeRelative: Both George Carlin (Rufus) and his daughter Kelly Carlin (Head Technician) appear in the film.
22	* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally intended to release on August 21st, 2020, but then a bunch of other films changed their release dates due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The film was rescheduled first to August 14th, and then to August 28th to avoid conflicting with the rescheduled release of ''Film/{{TENET}}''. As August approached, surges in the pandemic across the United States led to many films being pulled from the schedule; it was ultimately decided that ''Bill & Ted'' would be rescheduled one more time for a limited theatrical release (mostly drive-ins) and a simultaneous debut on digital platforms on September 1st. '''And then''' it moved back to August 28th to avoid a head-to-head matchup with ''{{Film/Mulan\|2020}}'' after that film announced a September 4th digital release.
23	* RoleReprise:
24	** 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.
25	** In the Japanese dub, Creator/AkioOtsuka reprises his role as the Grim Reaper from the TV Tokyo dub of ''Bogus''.
26	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter spent years saying that they were eager and willing to make a third film. A screenplay was completed and went through several rounds of rewrites, and there was a production company willing to front at least part of the budget. Unfortunately, none of these were with the company that owns the actual rights to the franchise (that being Creator/{{MGM}}, who had acquired both Creator/OrionPictures and the library of producer Nelson Entertainment) and everything kept hitting a roadblock over who pays for what and gets how much of the resulting pie. Fortunately, it was announced on May 8, 2018 that [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cannes-keanu-reeves-alex-winter-reteaming-bill-ted-3-1107419 the third film is now in production for real]], although a release date wasn't announced at the time. [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/bill-ted-3-release-date/ On March 20, 2019]], the day that production had begun, Reeves and Winter announced that film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 28, 2020 (see ReleaseDateChange above).
27	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Fans were demanding a third ''Bill & Ted'' film and Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/AlexWinter were all for it. Unfortunately, the rights to the franchise were a tangled mess and it took years to sort out who owned what and how much money they'd accept to let the film be made.
28	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Brigette Lundy-Paine really looks like they could be Creator/KeanuReeves' daughter. The two share an uncanny resemblance and Lundy-Paine goes to great lengths to mimic Ted's every tic.
29	* SequelGap: There is a 29-year gap between this film and ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. The film lampshades this and makes it a plot point, showing how the duo went about their lives in the interim.
30	* StudioHop: Sort of. The first film was produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, but it went bankrupt and delayed the first movie's release; it was rescued by Creator/OrionPictures and Nelson Entertainment, who also co-produced the second movie. This one is also from Orion, but a revived version owned by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer (who had acquired Orion and partial rights to the Nelson assets in the late 1990s).
31	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
32	** 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).

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