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EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989):

Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and George Carlin.

The basic plot of the story is that two teenagers, Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Winter) and "Ted" Theodore Logan (Reeves), are on the verge of flunking history, which would 'cause them to flunk school entirely and not graduate. Well, if that comes to be, Ted's dad would send him to military school and their band, Wyld Stallyns, would never come to be. In the event that happens, then the future wouldn't become the peaceful exsistence it was meant to be. So, 800 years into the future, one man, Rufus (Carlin), takes a time machine (the phone booth), through the circuits of time to get Bill and Ted on the right track. Rufus leaves the phone booth behind for them, and the two travel through the past picking up famous historical figures (Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and Billy the Kid, to name a few), in order to learn about history, first hand, and pass their final exam (an oral report on an historial figure, what they were like, and basically use that knowledge to come up with how they would feel about the present, (in a nutshell)). Well, the guys, of course, succeed and Rufus even gets the two princesses from Medieval England (right before they had to marry those "royal ugly dudes").

BOGUS JOURNEY (1991)

Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, and William Sadler

The sequel follows events after Bill and Ted have graduated and are preparing for the Battle of the Bands contest. The two princesses are a part of the band now, and Bill and Ted also propose to them (with 10 cent gumball/plastic rings, but they were in the 15th century, sure it's fancy for them). Anyway, once again, way back into the future, while Rufus is teaching history (which is done by grabbing historical figures from the past, including the dude from Faith No More, and presenting them to the class), his old gym teacher HATES the society built upon Bill and Ted, and therefore made evil robots of Bill and Ted to go back in time and kill them. Well, they succeed, and Bill and Ted are greeted (not the right word, but I'm using it) by the Grim Reaper (Sadler). they ditch him, and try to contact the phsyical plain (haunt), but that backfires and they are sent to Hell. When they realize there's only one way out, they call on the Reaper and get out of Hell, and play lots of games to beat the Reaper and get two scientists from Heaven (aliens who go by one name "Station"), and get them to make good robot versions to take out the evil robot Bill and Teds once they were brough back to life (b/c they beat the Reaper). They make it all in time to the Battle of the Bands, beat the robots, beat Rufus's old gym teacher, and travel forward to finally learn how to play guitar and make it in time to perform in front of, not just San Dimas, but the whole world (the gym teacher De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) controlled all the communications around the world before getting arrested in the end).

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There was a cartoon series, first aired on CBS and was produced by Hanna-Barbera (the team behind Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, Jetsons, and more), before DiC got ahold of it and it aired on newbies FOX Saturday Mornings, and FOX even had a live action series, that was a complete failure. The franchise even branched into comic form, brought to us by Marvel.