Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Al Leong, Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
Two teenage slackers: Bill S. Preston Esq and Ted Theodore Logan use a time traveling phone booth to collect historical figures from the past in order to pass their school report.
Welcome to a new era in the Midnight Movie Club, I know we haven’t been going that long but we are already making changes, we’re honing our craft, we’re refining the magic. We are changing over to a primarily podcast based blog now.
We know this will disappoint some of you but there are a couple of reasons why we’re changing the format and you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out what they are.
I know.
Sneaky.
This week we are as promised, talking about the 1989 film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Whilst preparing for this podcast Dan realised that he actually has a page of original artwork from the Bill and Ted’s Excellent Comic Book which ran for 12 issues in 1991.
Look, he can even prove it:
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Al Leong, Alex Winter, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, George Carlin, Keanu Reeves
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Ooooh! Big Pig interstitial music!
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Ha, I posted that comment before I heard the whole podcast…
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Dan Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
@JJ Daddy-O, I’d never heard of Big Pig – don’t think they made it to the UK. I shall add it to the list of Australian Rock bands – INXS, Men at work, and …erm…
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Lee Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
@Dan, I don’t think that they were Australian, I mean they could’ve been but that would require fact checking to confirm.
OK so I went to Wikipedia.
Originated in London and moved to Australia and were big here for at least a couple of songs.
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Gotta say Dan, my mother wouldn’t explain the Oedipal Complex to me either. I wonder why…
I don’t know that I agree that Doctor Who didn’t take off in the US. It was certainly biggest in the geek community, but by the mid-eighties it was well known enough. By ’89 it had lost a lot (as it had everywhere), but it was the earlier popularity that eventually led to the ’90s film (which was unfortunate).
Hmmm… a 9? It’s an excellent film, but I don’t think I could go higher than an 8.
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Dan Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
@Jeff, As neither of us grew up in the US we were just guessing about the popularity of the good Dr.
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Lee Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
@Jeff, I just assumed that the US rejected Dr Who like they do with other good things, such as the metric system*
*Lee’s comments don’t necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Midnight Movie Club
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Jeff Reply:
January 15th, 2010 at 1:29 am
@Lee, hey, hey… be careful with that kind of talk. We could declare war on the MidMoClub, you know…
(though, I gotta tell you, I’m with you on the metric thing)
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You know, I had forgotten the Al Leong scene in She’s Having a Baby until you brought it up. Let’s just say, in retrospect, it is comedic gold, as he has a hissy fit and does something which in describing it won’t do it justice.
And the Brunette Princess (the one Dan described as having a bad accent rather than the one who did not have one at all), was played by Diane Franklin, who basically made her career playing women with accents. You may remember her as Monique from Better Off Dead.
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Dan Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
@MC, really, a career out of it? becauyse her English accent is absolutely awful.
I am really going to have to watch She’s Having a Baby again. I remember loving it.
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Jeff Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 7:11 am
@Dan, he didn’t say it was a good career…
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MC Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:55 am
@Jeff, indeed I didn’t.
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Lee Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
@MC, I don’t think I’ve actually seen all of She’s Having A Baby, I know I’ve seen some but not the Al Leong scenes as I would have remembered them – does he have the moustache?
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First of all, I hate the voice in the trailer. I like the trailer, but the voiceover just kills it.
Really great podcast.
Sometimes got into a bit of a rambling maybe, but it sure does make me want to watch this again *and it’s sequel..thanks Lee*
@ Dan do you’ve actually got that page on the wall somewhere or did Kerry make you put it away in a dusty corner.
Oh and you must have hated that 80s music
I wonder if you’ll end up watching a movie where you will disagree completely, would be funny
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Dan Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
@Arjan, I don’t think Lee and I could ever not ramble. It’s in our genes.
Would you rather the podcasts be shorter? Any feedback is appreciated.
I used to have it on the wall, but then we moved to a smaller house and it never got unpacked. Kerry is cool about having stuff like that up, and it’s leaning against the wall as I type waiting for me to get round to it.
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Arjan Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@Dan,
I don’t mind the rambling too much, it’s part of what makes it funny.
A bit shorter wouldn’t hurt, 55 minutes is quite long to keep being concentrated.
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Lee Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
@Arjan, LOL next week’s is going to suck for you time wise
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I have nothing to add to your review because I’ve never even seen the movie. Yeah, I said it.
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Dan Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 7:12 am
@Kevin Spencer, Never seen the Simpsons. Never seen Bill and Ted. what are you, some kind of freak??
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MC Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:26 am
@Dan, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8d43gpicI0
They showed that on TV BTW. For many, many seasons. Makes me ashamed to be Canadians it does.
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