Throwback Thursday: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

 

Yesterday I happily blogged about the latest Bill & Ted adventure, Face the Music. 

Today, for Throwback Thursday, I'm taking it back to where this most NON-heinous saga all began with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Imagine, if you will, the late 1980s. The Internet, Siri/Alexa, and Smart Phones were still stuff of cheesy Sci-Fi. Nowdays, if you have a research project to do for school, you probably start by Googling the topic (amiright?), but back then... Well, you headed over to your local library and hoped they had the book or books you needed in-house. And you wanted to get there early, lest your more ambitious classmates check out That One Book ahead of you.

Of course there are still the procrastinators who goof off all semester and wait until the night before to do their project.

This is the situation in which we find our unlikely heroes, Bill and Ted. They're faced with the dilemma with cranking out an Ace presentation for their world history class. And they have to score top marks on this project. Otherwise they both flunk out of school and Ted's hardcore cop father ships him off to a military academy in Alaska. If that happens, the guys' band, Wyld Stallyns, is over before it starts. And trust me when I say that is a A Very Bad Thing. Because the fate of  this seeming mediocre garage band is tied to Life, The Multi-verse, and Everything as we know it. We're talking Worse Case Apocalypse here. That's a lot to ask of two lovable, but clueless doofuses. 

Maybe too much.

Enter Rufus, a time-traveling savior who is sent from the future to stage an intervention. He has one goal: Ensure B & T pass their class so they can remain together and carry on with their band.

And thus the adventure most excellent (and occasionally bogus) begins! With a time machine at their disposal, there's no way our heroes can fail...right? 

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is probably one of my favorite classic movies. Right up there with The Goonies and The Princess Bride. Sure, it's goofy, but you can't help but love it. Bottom line: It's just a lot of fun! Watch it again or see it for the first time (it's available for checkout in the Teen Area).

--AJB