"Bill & Ted's" Quotations

[Dave Wilton]

The script is available online:
http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/80schild/bill1.html

"Party on, dude(s)" is spoken by several people: Ted, a telephone operator,
a person from the future, and Abraham Lincoln.

The other key term is not "excellent" (which is used throughout the movie,
but is not a signature term), but rather "be excellent to each other." This
is also spoken by several people: Bill, Rufus, and Abraham Lincoln

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net
  http://www.wilton.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Fred Shapiro
> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:14 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: "Bill & Ted's" Quotations
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>
> I apologize for straying so far from the primary purposes of this list,
> but I suppose this one comes under the heading of catchphrases...
>
> The two big lines in the film _Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure_ are
> "Party on, dudes" and "Excellent!"  Can anyone tell me for each of these
> whether they are lines spoken by one of the two main characters
> exclusively, or are they sometimes spoken by one of them and sometimes
> spoken by the other?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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