28. Excellent Adventure, Bogus Journey, Face the Music

Phil, Jake and Jason continue their most triumphant endeavor to complete the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking all three Bill & Ted movies... their Excellent Adventure, their Bogus Journey, and the time that had to Face the Music.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Maybe don’t google “queef gleek” if you don’t want to come across some things you’d rather not come across.
• River’s Edge (aka “the darkest teen film of all time”) came out in 1986, three years before the first Bill & Ted movie. Parenthood came out later than Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, but still in the same year.
• We discuss the use of homophobic slurs in 80s pop culture, and settle on the idea that they’re “teachable moments”.
• Here’s the scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High where Jeff Spicoli talks about history, a precursor to Bill & Ted’s conversational style. Spicoli, for the record, is not innocent of using of homophobic slurs.
• Chino, California is 30 square miles filled with 88,000 people. Cows once outnumbered the people there, and Snoop Dogg was once in prison there (probably not at the same time).
• Wikipedia describes the Inland Empire as Los Angeles-adjacent. Chino-- more so Chino Hills-- would like to convince you that they're Orange County-adjacent. 
• Jason was pleasantly surprised that “punk” wasn’t the first thing that showed up when searching “poseurs”. 
• We briefly talked about Damon Runyon. Phil said that Bill & Ted's vocabulary is Runyonesque, but on further reflection he probably was wrong. Here's some discussion of Runyon, a colorful figure.
• Phil mentioned seeing George Carlin's act from before he grew his beard.
• All-time henchman Al Leong is featured in a lot of our favorite action movies, including as a Wing Kong Hatchet Man in Big Trouble in Little China.
• Here’s a video of the present-day comedic surfer bros that Jake mentions.
• Here's a blurry Pee Wee Herman in Back to the Beach (1987). Bird is, in fact, the word. 
• Here’s Jason’s favorite part of Bogus Journey, and here’s Jake's favorite part.
• We briefly discuss Jar Jar Binks, who famously said “Dis es nutsen!”
• Kim Cattrall ain't got time for a SatC reboot since she’s got a new (already cancelled) show called Filthy Rich. 
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde is, according to Jason, a cinematic masterpiece. Legally Blonde 3 drops in May of 2022. 
• Jake gets the name of the KISS song “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You II” wrong. He’s also wrong that it’s an original song.
• Speaking of KISS, the kiss scene from Dude, Where’s My Car? is less offensive than the hateful words in the Bill & Ted movies, but there’s still some problematic aspects to it.
• We surmise that battles of the bands are a thing of the past. Finally the bands are at peace with one another!
• Kettle Chips were founded in 1978 by Cameron Healy.
• There’s a lot of reference to the concept of “Oops! All…” in this episode. This is something we'll address in a later show but it's one of the fundamental ideas to understanding the world.
• What was Alex Winters up to between Bogus Journey and Face the Music? Among other things, he co-directed the 90s movie Freaked (Phil mistakenly calls it Freaks), and most recently directed a documentary about Frank Zappa.
• The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions both came out in 2003.
• We talked about Samara Weaving but we meant to say Brigette Lundy Pain. They were both great in Face the Music.
• Phil doesn’t see how the Weezer song The Beginning of the End is an interpolation of a Billy Joel song.
• Is Love and Monsters worth watching?
• Our TV recommendation for this week is HBO’s Barry. It features Anthony Carrigan, who is also hilarious in Face the Music.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula * Interview with the Vampire (movie) * time travel * parenting * toxic masculinity * San Dimas, California * Trading Places * The Last Starfighter * “Station” *