Trivia / Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

• Acting for Two:
  • William Sadler portrays Death and the Australian man watching the Battle of the Bands on television.
  • Alex Winter plays Bill, his robot counterpart, as well as his own grandmother.
  • Keanu Reeves plays Ted as well as his robot counterpart.
  • The uncredited Frank Welker primarily voices Station (using his Darkseid/Dr. Claw/Soundwave voice for the combined Station), but he also voices Satan (also using a variant on the aforementioned voice) and the Evil Easter Bunny.
• B-Team Sequel: Stephen Herek declined to return as director, because he thought it was "almost a parody of a movie that was already a parody".
• Creator Backlash: Joss Ackland saw his role as this. In an interview with the Radio Times, he claimed the reason he took the role was because of a bet between him and a family member.
• Deleted Scene: Detailed here.
• Fake Brit: William Sadler's brief cameo as an Englishman ("My word").
• Orphaned Reference: The Evil Bill and Ted say "Good luck getting to the concert!" to the originals; while it comes off as petty mockery, in the original script they actually followed up on it by siccing real-world versions of Bill and Ted's Ironic Hells (the Easter Bunny, Bill's grandmother, and Colonel Oates) on the boys to try and stop them. This scene still occurs in the novelization and the comic book adaptation of the film.
• The Other Darrin: Diane Franklin and Kimberly Kates, who played the princesses in the first film, are replaced by Sarah Trigger and Annette Azcuy in this installment.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Marni Joan Bakst and Sadler Colley Bakst play members of an English family with William Sadler as the father. They are Sadler's real-life wife and daughter.
  • Thomas Edison's actor was the father of the man who played Mr. Logan, Hal Landon.
• Throw It In!: According to a 2018 interview, Station came about because Matheson and Solomon were working late editing the script. While deleting a line that read "Interior — Police Station", they accidentally left the word "Station" behind. Because it was 3 AM and they were kind of loopy from lack of sleep, the duo decided it was an Inherently Funny Word and spent an hour saying nothing but "Station" over and over. They came to the conclusion that they couldn't not include the word in the movie, and it ultimately evolved into "We're gonna have a Martian named Station".
• What Could Have Been:
  • At the concert, the evil B&T would repeatedly kill them, but use the fact that they beat Death at so many games to get resurrected.
  • De Nomolos was originally going to die at the end and go to hell with the evil Duo, where they annoyed him for all eternity.
  • In an early draft of the script, Rufus was the villain.
• Word of God: The Evil Robot Usses were supposed to kill Bill and Ted at the Battle of the Bands, whereupon the boys would invoke their wins against Death to get resurrected. This part does appear in the comic book adaptation of the movie, which was based on an earlier draft of the script.
• Word of Saint Paul: Alex Winter was asked what happened to the good robot versions of Bill and Ted. He replied that they became a break dance touring group and are currently working in a coastal hotel in Estonia.
• Working Title: The original title was Bill and Ted go to Hell but was changed because of American objections to the use of the word "hell".

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