"Bill & Ted's" Quotations

[Dave Wilton]

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> Just had a chance to refamiliarize myself with _B&T_. Interjectional
> "excellent" is used near the beginning of the film, uttered in unison by
> Bill and Ted and accompanied by an air-guitar flourish:

Yes, but the simple exclamation "excellent!" is neither original to, nor
especially emblematic of the film. "Excellent!" was in my vocabulary during
high school in the late 70s.

--Dave Wilton
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