Awesome / Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

• Bill charging the knight when he thinks the man killed Ted.
  Bill: YOU KILLED TED, YOU MEDIEVAL DICKWEED!
  • Billy the Kid and Socrates pulling a Big Damn Heroes and saving Bill and Ted from being executed.
• The historical figures running amok in the mall, especially Billy and Genghis Khan for lasting the longest against the cops.
  • Joan of Arc straight-up pushes an instructor off a stage and takes over her jazzercise class. Her subsequent workout for everyone is so awesome and exhilarating that the crowd boos when security removes her.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven is introduced to synthesizers, immediately sees their potential, and is soon playing a symphony on several keyboards all at once in the music shop, attracting a huge crowd.
  • ...and the whole thing's set to Extreme's "Play With Me". Whether intentionally chosen or not, the song's intro incorporates Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Turkish March; a composer the real Beethoven held in sufficiently high regard that he composed variations on the man's music and used him for inspiration.
• Sigmund Freud psychoanalysing the police interrogator and driving him up the wall.
  Interrogator: Look, I want to know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud.
  Freud: Why do you insist I'm not Sigmund Freud?
  Interrogator: Why do you keep asking me these questions?
  Freud: (leans forward) Tell me about your mother.
• The scene with the future council. Words cannot describe. Sadly, the version of Robbi Robb's "In Time" that plays in this scene (with the awesome, awesome lead guitar) is commercially unavailable. It is up on YouTube, however, and there are multiple ways to extract an .mp3 file from the site.
• The scene with them breaking the Historical Figures out of jail. Never has anyone managed to portray someone effectively modifying history in real time in such an awesome way, effectively staging a group of distractions and even slipping a cue to their past selves into the distractions because they missed something in their original planning!
• The band's unofficial mantra "Be Excellent to Each Other and Party On" also qualifies. No matter how ditzy the guys are, it's hard to deny that this is a most excellent philosophy to live by.
• This music playing after Napoléon Bonaparte gets kicked out of the bowling alley and walks away with what remains of his dignity as he puts his hat back on.
  Napoleon: Deacon!
• The entire scene where they give the report. One of the great climaxes in film history, and if you're a history student (or just any kind of student), face it: you want to give a report like that. The kicker is getting Abraham Lincoln — arguably the most famous American president of all time — to give a speech that perfectly exemplifies what Bill and Ted's teacher wants from them, which is how these contemporary figures would regard San Dimas and the modern world. Lincoln heartwarmingly details that Bill and Ted are very good friends of him and the other figures they've recruited, and that the boys are dedicated to the very same proposition he is — which is Bill and Ted's very own motto.

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