"Bill & Ted's" Quotations

[Jonathon Green]

>I associate the interjection "Excellent!" (along with "Party on!") more
>with "Wayne's World". See, e.g., the skit's first appearance on SNL on
>Feb. 18, 1989: <http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88mwaynesworld.phtml>.
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>--Ben Zimmer
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Note also

1982 M. Pond _Valley Girl’s Guide_ 55 _Excellent_—What dudes say instead
of mega major maximum brilliant, they just go, ‘Excellent, man.’

JG