Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: (1989) is a comedy/science fiction film based on the idea of time travel. It is also a prime example of a buddy film.
The film was released by Nelson Entertainment and Orion Pictures, written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and directed by Stephen Herek.
In this hilarious slapstick comedy two teenagers from San Dimas California have to pass the history report of a lifetime. Bill and Ted's band Wyld Stallyans is the basis of the futures society and if
Bill and Ted don't pass the report they will be forced to split up and the world would be disastrous as we know it. Rufus (played by George Carlin) a messenger from the future comes to Bill (Alex
Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) in a time traveling phone booth to help with the report. Bill and Ted go back in time and take excellent historical figures like Billy the kid, Socrates, Joan of Arc,
Abraham Lincoln, and more to pass the report and save the future.
Having seen this film when it was first released three times and catching it every time it is on television, my psyche has adapted the phrase I Have Had an Excellent Adventure so let me share
one with you and then you too have many excellent adventures after being caught up in the film and life itself.
Anyone who has more than one dog, learns very quickly that in their own way territory or space is important, and that an Alpha !!**! does not normally get along too well with siblings, when in close
proximity, otherwise everything is just fine. Knowing this when our Shetland Sheepdogs come in for the night, the girls come into the den with me to watch animal planet and the boys stay in the
office area with my wife to watch every news show in existence as my wife flips channels and goes to split screens, while playing a game on her computer, not loosing track of anything for an instant,
even when our fur children are unruly.
But last night my tranquility was about to be tested as the den door opened and the four boys quietly filed in and in and instantly I knew by the looks on their faces, momma had fussed at them, and
the look on the girls faces, a question about territory or what are they doing in my space.
As the door quietly closed I braced for the inevitable, grew tense on the sofa where I normally recline to watch television gritted my teeth knowing that the climax of the show being watched
would be missed, and saying out loud, Lord why me.
Then a miracle. Star the Alpha !!**! did not bare her fangs nor did she move from the end of the sofa, Chloe did not move either to relinquish her favorite spot at the space where my head lay on
carefully stacked pillows.
Then one by one the boys assumed a spot on the sofa. Chloe's two tri's Connor and Kyle at the end of the sofa near their grandmother Star, Petey between me and the back of the sofa. Chase who is
fifteen moseyed over to me between the coffee table and sofa knowing I would lift him up to be placed next to my tummy with arms wrapped to keep him safe.
I really do not know how much time passed, but in a daze heard my wife pouring water in the kennel bowls, thinking that everyone was about to go to sleep in their own space and that I would then be
eventually summoned to bed where upon awakening the next morning, I would not have a crick in my back.
Awakening the next morning with a lick on my face by Chase, I found all of my fur children still in their respective places from the earlier time before and feeling quite refreshed, no crick in my
back and really bright eyed and bushy tailed.
I quietly got up, trying not to disturb the fur children, made some coffee, retired to the office to drink a few cups and awaken fully, then returned to the den. All of the fur children were still on
the sofa, not at the door where they would normally be waiting for momma to let them out to make one last statement for us to heed before they retired to their beds.
They quietly and in single file, no pecking order, followed me to the back door, I let them out and did not hear from them again for an hour or so until they sensed that my wife had awaken for her
morning tea and reading of the newspaper.
I was summoned into the breakfast room and my wife asked, "Did you have a good night with the fur children."
My reply, "I had an excellent adventure."
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