Many don't know this about me, but I am a huge fan of the Bill and Ted series. For those who don't know or only watched the third movie around this time Spoilers.
Bill and Ted was a series of buddy adventure comedies starring Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esquire and Keanu Reeves as Ted Theodore Logan. It was the movie that put Keanu Reeves on the map years before he made it big as an action star on Point Break and The Matrix.
The series was as follows.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure:
Two well meaning yet dim-witted High School Slackers named Bill and Ted are struggling in school and trying to put their band Wyld Stallyns on the map. Ted is especially under pressure, because if he fails History class, his dad plans to send him to Military School. Running out of hope they meet a time traveller named Rufus, who comes from the future using a Time Travelling Phonebooth. He comes to help them pass history, by actually going back in time and watching it unfold. Using the machine, Bill and Ted decide to snag important figures. Figures like Socrates, William "Billy The Kid" Bonney, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Joan of Ark, Sigmund Freud and Joan of Ark. After a mishap or two, they pass their test with flying colors. As it turns out in the future, their band not only succeeds, but their music is so great that, it brings both the world and the universe peace. Still even after passing History, they have a long way to go. Still, they have a pair of babes from Medieval England that will stay by their side as girlfriends and bandmates at their most excellent time of need.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey:
Five years after the event of the first movie. Bill and Ted are still struggling with their music, but as luck would have it, they have been invited to compete in the battle of the bands. Should they win, they'll be put on the map as the rockstars they dreamed of being. Meanwhile back in the future, Rufus, is teaching history to future students, taking inspiration from the boys by bringing figures in. However before class can begin, his former gym teacher Chuck De Nomolos, has a sinister plan to be rid of the duo. See while they did unanimously bring peace, there are just some people who don't like their music. People like De Nomolos who are willing to go as far as kill just to be rid of it. They send two robot duplicates of the duo to kill them and ruin their moment in their place. Now normally in a situation like this, the protagonists do get out of it or barring that, the movie would end on a down ending, they would have been erased from existence causing the future to be evil. However it's wrong on both accounts.
For starters the robots kill them in the most Bill and Ted way imaginable:
Which btw explains very well why they didn't use the word in the third movie.
Second Death isn't the end of them:
After meeting and Melvining Death (Basically wedgied him and run off.), Bill and Ted desperately try to find a way to at least warn their girlfriends. However they fail twice. The first time, they tried possessing Ted's Dad. Since he's a cop, they think just telling them, that Bill and Ted are killed would get them to do something. Of course, that doesn't work. So they go to their mutual Stepmom/Former Classmate Missy, who was hosting a seance. However upon being mistaken for demons, Missy sends them straight to Hell. They try to endure it by looking at their own personal Hell's but when they couldn't handle a scary Grandmother (Also played by Winters), an angry Easter Bunny and a military school Colonel, who's wordplay would put Sergeant Hartman to shame, they try to flee. I love this part, because while I dislike Homophobia, I do think a certain F word is highly appropriate this one time and I'll tell you why.
Just when they escape their separate Hell's, the Devil demands they "Choose their Eternity." To which Ted responds "Choose your own, you Fag!!" causing him to be flinged down the corridor, with Bill chiming in "You ugly!! Red!! Source of all Evil!!" Now the reason why I defend this one is the following. Let's say Hypothetically there is a Hell and whether you deserve it or not, you're going there. You may as well let everything out even if you're the most tolerant person. As Red Foreman once said when he contemplated kicking Bob's ass in the afterlife "We're going to Hell anyway." Plus who can be more deserving of that title than the red guy that inspired Christians to go after Homosexuals in the first place.
Anywho, they make it out of Hell by challenging the Reaper. They beat him in games like Battleship, Electric Football, Clue and Twister. Which not only frees them from their demise, but allows them to command Death. With the help of Death, God and two Martian Technicians named Station, Bill and Ted race to the Battle of The Band, build two good robot versions of them which destroy their evil robot duplicates and face off against De Nomolos in a time game, which they win. However time is running out and they still don't know how to play. So they use the booth to travel half a year ahead of time, get married, have kids and learn to play their hearts out in a spectacular cover of Kiss' song God Gave Rock and Roll To You:
However while initially this was meant to be the final movie, fans wanted more. It took them 19 years to give us the epic finale we needed.
Bill and Ted Face The Music:
Now this one I expected to be funny, I did not expect it to be awesome. The movie itself takes place in 2020. 19 years after the events of Bogus Journey. After many attempts they failed to deliver on the song that is supposed to unite the universe. Not only that, but their marriage is on the rocks. After a visit from Rufus' daughter, they are given a deadline to finish the song lest the universe as we know it collapses. As shown when different people from different timelines have been shuffled around. They hatch a plan to go a few years ahead in time to get the song while it's finished. All the while their kids Theodora "Thea" "Little Ted" Preston Esquire and Wilhemina "Billie" "Little Bill" Logan, decide to help their dads out by doing what they did decades ago. Only their plan is to gather famous musicians to help them out. After many mishaps including but not limited facing their future selves and going to Hell again, Bill, Ted, Joanne, Elizabeth, Death, the Kids all reuinite on a highway and play their hearts out. As it turns out that while Bill and Ted are the figureheads of universe peace, they find out they wouldn't have succeeded without their kids help. Just as time runs out and the universe is on total collapse, Bill and Ted split themselves into infinite versions of themselves to travel through out time and space and have everyone and I mean EVERYONE, play the song that saves the universe, keeping the future intact. The movie ends with Old Bill and Ted having one last jam session before they die.
The song itself was called Face The Music:
When I heard this song, both the studio and the end movie version I was stoked. This literally felt like a world uniting song. In a way the world did unite. With so many uniting against a common enemy, it brought the world together the first time in a long time in a positive way, when the past decades were spent using the internet to bring the world together in the negative.
I implore everyone to listen and spread this song. And remember. Be Excellent To Each Other and Party On Dudes.