Note:
Because Universal Studios have been cracking down on both videotaping and photo
taking during the Bill & Ted Halloween show, we've been unable to locate a
video of the 2007 show in Orlando to review. However, Bill & Ted
returned to Universal Studios in Hollywood in 2007, and copies of that show have
turned up online, so the synopsis of the show here will be the one from
Hollywood and not Orlando, although we think the Orlando show was very much the
same after the introduction.
The Hollywood
Bill & Ted began the same way that the 2006 show in Orlando started, with
Jack Bauer from 24 coming out and assessing the situation then harassing a fan
from the audience for information about the show (a clever way to work in the
warnings and parental advisories.)
The opening
musical number features female and male dancers and singers dressed in Naval
uniforms a la the 40's and singing Christina Aguilera's song Candyman.
The three female vocalists perform the song a la the Andrew Sisters. Of
course they eventually lose the jackets and reveal skimpier outfits
beneath. The We Will Rock You theme starts in a kind of hip hop
variation. Clips from Excellent Adventure come on the screen and talk
about the mysterious phone booth. Footage shows the booth taking off and
onstage it descends and lands with the music Two Heads Are Better Than One
in the background. Bill & Ted exit the booth and introduce
themselves. They say they're happy to be back in "Smell A" on
the Fear Factor stage, although Ted notes how everyone must suspend their
disbelief for the show. Bill asks Ted what they do now, and Ted says they
totally wait for a villain to show up and try to take over the world,
"Which should happen in three . . . two . . . one . . . "
The lights go out and lightning appears above them. A female voice asks,
"Did somebody say evil?" Doors open and a bald figure stands
backlit in the doorway. "Dr. Evil!" Bill and Ted cry. The
person steps forward. It's Britney Spears with her head shaved! Bill
& Ted are afraid she's shaved their heads as well, but she assures them that
she didn't shave *that* part of their bodies. Bill & Ted accuse
Britney of going crazy and she says to blame the media. Britney then
introduces her celebrity princess drag team, Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan.
Britney asks if they found the bar and they explain they got lost in the Valley
and were almost arrested . . . again. Lindsey wants to know where the
"blow" is. When Britney tells her it's on the table, Lindsey
barrels through Bill & Ted to get to it. Lindsey snorts and says she
likes it, then falls down dead on the stage. Paris pulls a pink
defibrillator from her purse and brings Lindsey around.
Paris admits that
they've made some mistakes in their careers but with Bill & Ted's time
traveling phone booth they can go back in time and fix everything. Bill
says he will stop them and Paris threatens to stick him with a shiv.
Britney explains Paris has picked up some bad habits in jail. Lindsey gets
into the booth and takes off without the others. Dr. Doom arrives and
tries to speak to Bill & Ted, but they can't understand what he's
saying. Finally he removes his mask and says in a high-squeaky voice,
"I said 'Bill & Ted, you are gonna die!' Gawd, how hard was
that?" Bill & Ted spot someone else with bushy eyebrows coming
out of the audience and comment that he's not really that scary. The guy
introduces himself as Simon from Heroes, who says he steals superpowers
from others while eating their brains. Bill & Ted note that he can't
seem to pick up a pair of tweezers. Simon tells them to "Tweeze
this!" and slams his hands together, which knocks Bill & Ted's heads
together. Britney laughs that Bill & Ted are totally screwed.
Ted exclaims that
they totally need a most excellent hero to help them. "Did somebody
say hero?" a woman's voice calls from above. She then screams and her
body falls from above and onto the stage. It turns out to be the
Cheerleader from Heroes. She calls in to report she's fallen from
500 stories and still has spirit. Rocky Balboa appears in the audience and
tells her that he has spirit as well, then approaches the stage using a
walker. Rocky declares "Shave the cheerleader! Shave the
world!" The Cheerleader asks if he'd just said "Shave the
Cheerleader." Bill & Ted motion to their shaved parts and Britney
says she highly recommends it. Rocky takes a seat just in front of the
audience. The phone booth reappears and drops toward the stage as Ted
points out to Britney that they have backup. The door of the booth opens
and Leonidas from 300 exits. He announces he has brought an army of
299 Spartan warriors with him. When nothing happens, he looks into the
booth for his missing warriors. Ted suggests that they're probably in line
at a haunted house. The video screen shows a line of Spartans waiting at a
haunted house, wishing they had bought a "front of line" pass.
Leonidas is angry that they went ahead without him.
Lindsey suddenly
appears between Leonidas legs, crawling out of the phone booth in a drunken
stupor. Paris asks where the pirates are from Pirates 3 and Bill says they
can't parody the show due to legal reasons. Ted says that doesn't mean
they can't find a way around it. Jack Sparrow and Will Turner roller skate
out and start swordfighting, then Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
starts playing and the two dance and skate around the arena in a kind of Blades
of Glory way. Britney says the song is gay and Jack comments that her
head looks like the backside of a baboon. Will Turner starts screaming for
Jack to "Leave Britney alone!!!" Britney announces it's time to
kick some ass. Ted asks if this is where they're all supposed to run for
their lives and Britney says yes. Paris is standing by a large switch that
has a sign next to it reading "Danger - Do Not Touch - Power
Voltage." She asks what it does and pulls the switch. All the
lights go out and Paris says, "Hot!"
When the lights
come back on the James Bond theme starts playing and Dr. Doom is seen lying in
the middle of the stage with a knife sticking out of his chest. Britney
gives the order for her minions to kill the good guys and the chase around the
stage is on. Paris defibrillates Dr. Doom and revives him. After the
chase, Cheerleader is left alone on stage. Mike Meyers from Halloween
comes out and starts stalking her and she wonders "Whatever shall I
do?" She starts doing U.G.L.Y, you ain't got no alibi, You
Ugly! Mike Meyers stabs her in the shoulder and she screams, then
rejuvinates so she wants to record it on her cel phone. She explains that
she just got stabbed by some dick wearing a William Shatner mask. Mike
Meyers keeps stabbing her with no effect, so finally he twists her neck and she
falls to the stage. She gets up again and is upset until she feels his
biceps. She realizes he's kind of cute and tells him to fix himself a
drink while she slips into something more comfortable. After she exits, he
pulls off his overalls, revealing a t-shirt and boxer shorts and slicks his hair
back.
A news team
suddenly comes out in a Dateline-style version of catching sexual predators in
the act. The reporter asks if Mike Meyers know the girl is underage and he
shakes his head no. "Well, these chat blogs tell another story,"
the reporter points out. Mike Meyers stabs the reporter and chases the
news team off the stage with Cheerleader chasing after them yelling, "Do me
again!" Once they're gone, Ted says, "Well, at least the coast's
clear!" Bill says it sucks because they still don't have their
booth. They call to Rocky and hurry down to him, where they find him
asleep. "He's totally sleeping!" Ted realizes. "Well,
it's two o'clock in the morning, dude, we should be sleeping, too," Bill
points out. As they walk away, Bill suddenly grabs his head in pain.
"What is it, dude?" Ted asks. Bill explains his spider senses
are tingling. The black Spiderman comes down from above and Bill & Ted
exclaim, "Spiderdude!" Spiderman removes his mask and explains
that he captures the man who killed Uncle Ben. "Whoa, the rice guy's
dead?" Ted asks. They try to help him but he yells for them to get
away from them, that the black suit makes him extra emotional. He starts
to cry.
"Why am I so
angry?" Spiderman yells. "Well, it's probably because Spiderman
3 totally blew," Bill explains. "Shut up!" Spiderman,
"I must express my anguish! Dance!" He starts doing a
dance routine to a jazzy version of the old Spiderman theme. Everyone
comes out and joins him for a big production number. Near the end of the
number, poof of webbing comes out of Spiderman's butt. "Dude,
what just came out of his ass?" Ted asks. "The plot for
Spiderman 3," Bill answers. "Shut up!" Spiderman
yells. They end the musical number with a big finish. The booth
starts to smoke and a man steps out wearing dark glasses, a leather jacket and a
hard hat. Bill & Ted ask who he is and he explains in an Arnold
Schwarzenegger style voice that he's the "Exterminator" and he's there
to take care of their pest problem. They both point to Spiderman.
The man walks up to Spiderman and says he's seen this kind of pest before, then
squirts him in the eyes, making Spiderman writhe on the floor. "You
see, this particular species lures you in with an exciting movie trailer and
then attacks you with endless scenes of bull****." He continues to
squirt Spiderman with insecticide. Spiderman cries, "I hate
you!" and runs off the stage. "Dude, will be be back?" Bill
asks, mimicking Schwarzenegger again. "Definitely," the
Exterminator says seriously and explains that while the movies are making an
obscene amount of money he'll never go away. Ted gives the man Spiderman's
mask as a souvenir.
The Exterminator
starts to give Bill & Ted a coupon when Simon comes out and uses his powers
to steal the coupon book away. The Exterminator points out he has a whole
book of them and Simon doesn't have to be a dick. Simon is excited about
having twenty percent off. Bill & Ted ask what Simon wants and Simon
says he wants to eat their brains, invoking the audience's help in answering
their question. Bill points out that only zombies eat brains and then
their heads start to hurt. They wonder who can save them. Cherry
Darling from Grindhouse comes out with her metal leg. They ask what
happened to her leg and she says it was eaten by zombies. She's about to
use her leg like a cannon to blow up Simon, but he gets into the booth and takes
off. Bill and Ted try to stop Cherry from blowing up the booth, but
fortunately her aim is off and she misses. Bill asks Cherry to help them
get her booth back, but she says she has to refuel and walks off. Ted
comments that she's hotter than Bill's mom. Bill says, "Shut up,
Ted!" Ted comments that at least it's not the end of the world.
There is a loud growling sound and the arena shakes. A huge, lumbering
behemoth comes out of the audience. "Rosie O'Donnell!" Bill
exclaims. Rosie threatens to eat everything, roaring like a monster.
Bill and Ted
realize Rosie must be stopped. The Apprentice music starts to play and
Donald Trump rolls out on a Segway. Donald explains that he's come out to
kick Rosie's ass. They get into a wrestling bout. Rosie beats the
crap out of Trump and then rolls over him. They roll around on the stage
and continue fighting before I'm All Out of Love starts playing and the
two walk off, hand in hand, together in love. Bill and Ted wonder how
they're going to get their booth back and Bill suggests they ask some tech
dudes. They call to the back of the stage and ask the tech dudes if they
can get their booth back. "Okay!" the tech dudes answer, and the
booth is brought back down onto the stage. The door of the booth opens and
Britney steps out and says she's not finished yet. She says she went back
to prehistoric times to see if it's true. "If what's true?" Bill
asks. Lindsey steps out of the booth and answers, "If she's so easy a
caveman would do her." A caveman, like from the Geico commercials,
steps out wearing a suit and carrying a club. "Oh it's true," he
says, "She's easier than a Slezak." He clubs Paris in the face
and carries her off.
Bill and Ted tell
Britney to give it up, that it's over. She says she's going to use the
booth to fix her life and forget everything that's ever happened.
"The booth is ours!" Bill and Ted cry. "The booth is
mine!" Britney argues. "No, the booth is ours!" Bill and
Ted insist. Britney becomes furious and screams in an otherworldly voice,
"The booth is mine!" Lindsey cries that she's scared. The
Transformers theme plays and Bill says he knows that sound and that it's from
the 80's. The Transformer "Boothbot" (which is shaped like a
phone booth, and is in fact their phone booth) drops down on wires. Bill
& Ted are amazed that their booth is a Transformer. "Yes, and I
have feelings!" Boothbot says, "I'm sick of being used. Do you
realize how many people have been inside me just tonight?" "I
know how you feel," Paris says. Boothbot says he is there to help
Britney Spears transform her life. Britney says she's going to beat the
crap out of him and rip off his nuts and his bolts. As she's about to
attack him, the phone rings, which is located in the robot's crotch. The
robot asks if anyone will get it. Boothbot finally answers it himself and
says, "Mom, I told you not to call me on my private line!"
Boothbot then
says, "What? You've got Justin Timberlake? Well, sure, bring
him on down! We could use some dancing!" The phone booth lands
and Justin Timberlake exits, starting the big musical montage finale with
Britney, Avril, Fergie, the Beastie Boys and Gerard Way. During the very
last number, The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, the stage floor
spins. Bill & Ted urge the audience to "Be Excellent to One
Another" and to "Party On, Dudes!" They pants Rocky and
then tell the audience they love them and hope to see them next year.
Many thanks to
MonsterMaker
for originally posting the show on YouTube!
(Sadly his channel has since been terminated. Bogus!)
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