History Fridge / BillAndTed

* The guys seemingly violate SanDimasTime at the end of ''Bogus Journey'', but it can be explained if they switched places with themselves from 16 months in the future.
** Could also be that Rufus made up SanDimasTime purely to motivate the boys to finish their project on time. Doesn't seem to be applied anywhere outside of their project.
*** After all, their BODIES run on SanDimasTime, and they were, well, slackers, so Rufus had a good reason to convince them that they couldn't delay, or it would have taken many years to do it. They didn't figure out that they could have dialed one day back as many times as needed.
*** There's a scene that proves that Rufus made up SanDimasTime: The plan to set up the rescue of the historical figures. If what Rufus was telling the truth, that means Bill and Ted couldn't have gone back after report to be able to set up everything, including taking the keys from Mr. Logan.
*** Someone can trick out time and then return to the "correct" present — it would simply be one hour after they left, assuming it took them an hour to make the time-tricking preparations.

* Joan of Arc being picked up by Bill & Ted can either be considered FridgeBrilliance or FridgeHorror when looked at from her perspective. There she is, kneeling down in cathedral praying for guidance - then all of a sudden thunder and lightning appear above her head and with a bright light a clear glass confessional appears down in front of her with two strange beings offering their hands to take her to a trip to Utopia. There she sees a world where women are treated equally: there is so much peace that women train in regiments for fun: and she gets up on stage and has hundreds of people listen to her without any form of prejudice. Finally she gets sent back and tells everyone her story of meeting an angel and seeing heaven. It's no wonder they thought she was a heretic.
* The first film begins with Rufus explaining how utopian the future is, but he talks about how "bowling averages are way up, mini-golf scores are way down," and Earth has the best waterslides in the galaxy. It seems merely humorous that he would touch on such trivialities, but perhaps this shows that in Rufus's time, peace and prosperity have been known to the people for so long that they don't even care to mention it if someone asked what makes Earth good. Rufus rattles off hobbies and pastimes because life is just so good that it doesn't even need to be mentioned that there is no more war or environmental concern or other things more pressing to modern people.

* Why was the stage set-up and prepared with every prop they needed for their presentation? They engaged in RetroactivePreparation for anything they needed. That's where Gengis Khan got his pole-axe from. They made notes of what they needed and bam! it was there.
* Napoleon is shown devouring a gigantic ice cream sundae [[{{Greed}} (and unwilling to share).]] While ice cream was not widely known (or available) in the early 19th century, the real Napoleon was known to be very fond of it.
* Some have wondered why [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]] factor of the song, remember that young Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.
* The second film's credits detail the band heading off to Mars to headline a gig there. Why would they do that? Because Bill and Ted know that the ''Stations'' are from ''Mars''. Even better fridge brilliance kicks in when you consider that this is probably step one of how they spread harmony to the universe as suggested by Rufus; generating friendly music-based relations with technologically advanced Martians makes everything easier.

* For what is known for ''Bill and Ted Face The Music'', it makes sense that the start of the film has them not being the world-changing band that they were told they'd become. Many artists, be it music, film, literature or art, were often considered not good at the time of their works were made. Most famous artists are often considered great long after their careers are over, sometimes after their deaths. A great example is Vincent Van Gogh. When he was alive and painting, he couldn't sell any of his work because people thought he was a terrible painter. Only after his death did his artistic vision begin to be respected and influential.

* Of course Future!San Dimas is a utopia - this is a future in which God, heaven and a personification of Death himself are conclusively proven to exist, not to mention time travel (which was probably given to humanity by De Nomolos or Rufus in a StableTimeLoop). This probably goes some way to explaining just how Wyld Stallyns are so massively successful.

* Bill and Ted themselves may be relative idiots, but throughout the franchise they demonstrate their greatest strength; they're fundamentally likeable people who have a good talent for bringing people together to accomplish a greater goal. On their own, they're slackers, but time and again they go through Time itself to find the best people possible to achieve their goal.

[[AC: FridgeLogic]]
* In ''Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'', when the Evil Robot Usses reveal the [[{{Squick}} their robotic innards]], it causes many people to faint (even [[spoiler:the princesses]]), yet when the robots do this to the real Bill and Ted, the latter don't seem to faint at all. Immunity, perhaps?
** By this point, Bill and Ted are probably quite used to weird stuff happening to them. Of course, the princesses are technically time travelers as well, but still not nearly as used to weirdness as their boyfriends.
*** Also the boys are probably fans of Film/TheTerminator.
* Why would everyone go home before the last band played at the Battle of the Bands? The 'Battle' isn't over until every band plays, but apparently in San Dimas, people are content to see a few bands play, and then read about who won in the newspaper the next day.
** The same reason why people leave sporting events early. To try and beat the traffic and because they already think they know who's going to win.
* In "Excellent Adventure", the duo bring a number of famous people from history into the present. Four of these (Socrates, Billy the Kid, Joan of Arc, and Abraham Lincoln) had deaths that could have been prevented if they had known they would happen. By travelling to the future, they have been given the opportunity to learn about their impending deaths and possibly prevent them. Bill and Ted may have altered the course of history.
** It's properly a case of HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct. If they had learned about their personal futures offscreen, there would have been an offscreen conversation that says they have to go through with it anyway to prevent changes to the future.
** Even if said historical figures retain their memories of the time travel; all of them learned that they became '''famous throughout history.''' Socrates is pretty much the father of philosophy, Billy the Kid got the notoriety that he always craved, Genghis learns he successfully conquers most of Europe and Asia and dies of old age as the Khan, Freud's work becomes the basis of psychology, Napoleon also conquers most of Europe and establishes a successful empire (and he is still regarded as one of the master strategists of all time). The one who gets the rawest deal is Joan, but even then, her 'heresy' eventually results in elevation to sainthood. Since the movie is not cynical at all, apparently they are OK with how their lives turned out.
** Alternatively, Bill and Ted changing the past is part of the reason why the future is so awesome. The deaths of Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc, and so on, are all avoided in one way or another as a result of their time travel, resulting in a better "present" and a truly awesome "future." While the philosophy of the Wyld Stallyns helps to create the awesome future, maybe Bill and Ted changing history - unintentionally - did as well.

''Fridge/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''
''Fridge/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic''

** Alternatively, Bill and Ted changing the past is part of the reason why the future is so awesome. The deaths of Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc, and so on, are all avoided in one way or another as a result of their time travel, resulting in a better "present" and a truly awesome "future." While the philosophy of the Wyld Stallyns helps to create the awesome future, maybe Bill and Ted changing history - unintentionally - did as well.
* For what is known for ''Bill and Ted Face The Music'', it makes sense that the start of the film has them not being the world-changing band that they were told they'd become. Many artists, be it music, film, literature or art, were often considered not good at the time of their works were made. Most famous artists are often considered great long after their careers are over, sometimes after their deaths. A great example is Vincent Van Gogh. When he was alive and painting, he couldn't sell any of his work because people thought he was a terrible painter. Only after his death did his artistic vision begin to be respected and influential.

* For what is known for ''Bill and Ted Face The Music'', it makes sense that the start of the film has them not being the world changing band that they were told they'd become. Many artists, be it music, film, literature or art, were often considered not good at the time of their works were made. Most famous artists are often considered great long after their careers are often, sometimes after their deaths. A great example is Vincent Van Gogh. When he was alive and painting, he couldn't sell any of his work because people thought he was a terrible painter. Only after his death did his artistic vision begin to be respected and influential.

** Alternatively, Bill and Ted changing the past is part of the reason why the future is so awesome. The deaths of Billy the Kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc, and so on, are all avoided in one way or another as a result of their time travel, resulting in a better "present" and a truly awesome "future." While the philosophy of the Wyld Stallyns helps to create the awesome future, maybe Bill and Ted changing history - unintentionally - did as well.

* Some have wondered why [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that young Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that young Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that young Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

** Even if said historical figures retain their memories of the time travel; all of them learned that they became '''famous throughout history.''' Socrates is pretty much the father of philosophy, Billy the Kid got the notoriety that he always craved, Genghis learns he successfully conquers most of Europe and Asia and dies of old age as the Khan, Freud's work becomes the basis of psychology, Napoleon also conquers most of Europe and establishes a successful empire (and he is still regarded as one of the master strategists of all time). The one who gets the rawest deal is Joan, but even then, her 'heresy' eventually results in elevation to sainthood. Since the movie is not cynical at all, apparently they are OK with how their lives turned out.

* Some have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me", by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that young Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me", by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and initially traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me", by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Napoleon is shown devouring a gigantic ice cream sundae [[{{Greed (and unwilling to share).]] While ice cream was not widely known (or available) in the early 19th century, the real Napoleon was known to be very fond of it.

* Some people have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me", by Extreme, samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some people have wondered why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

* Some people have asked why [[Creator/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] is playing a [[Creator/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] song during the mall scene (the song played during the scene, "Play With Me" by Extreme samples part of Mozart's ''Piano Sonata No. 11''). Aside from the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome]] factor of the song, remember that Beethoven was a huge admirer of Mozart and traveled to Austria intending to study under him.

** Even if said historical figures retain their memories of the time travel; all of them learned that they became '''famous throughout history.''' Socrates is pretty much the father of philosophy, Billy the Kid got the notoriety that he always craved, Genghis learns he successfully conquers most of Europe and Asia and dies of old age as the Khan, Freud's work becomes the basis of psychology, Napoleon also conquers most of Europe and establishes a successful empire (and he is still regarded as one of the master strategists of all time). The one who gets the rawest deal is Joan, but even then, her 'heresy' eventually results in elevation to sainthood. Since the movie is not cynical at all, apparently they are OK with how their lives turned out.
[[AC: FridgeHorror]]
* God is a [[{{FantasticRacism}} racist]]! When the lads arrive at Heaven in "Bogus Journey", they set about trying to find the greatest scientist whoever lived to make the good robot thems. The GrimReaper correctly calls them out on assuming that the greatest scientist whoever lived was necessarily human. However, we soon see that the binary life form, Station (said greatest scientist) is the only member of his (if you'll excuse the earther-gender-pronoun) race there! In fact, he's the only non-human we see in Heaven, which can only imply that he's a sort of token member of his race or non-earthling allowed into Heaven (perhaps by virtue of being the greatest scientist ever), or at the very least that they are so few, compared to humans, that he's the only one that appears among such a large congregation of humans. Because if that were a representation of the proportions of races that exist in the universe, then it would be perfectly reasonable to assume the greatest scientist ever would come from Earth.