First aired: 11/24/90
Written by: Sean Roche
Regular characters: Bill, Ted, Rufus
Guest characters: Coach Sweatsocks
Historical figures (& those they're based on): Abner Doubleday,
Harriet Tubman, Count Dracula (a la Jack Nicholson), Babe Ruth
Time periods:
Plot:
Bill and Ted are heading to school, admiring their new pump
sneakers which they have for gym class. They notice Rufus going
into the bowling alley nearby to rent all the shoes they have to
deliver to the Yankee soldiers who have missed a shipment of shoes. Bill & Ted offer their own pump sneakers to the cause as well.
In
gym class, they anger Coach Sweatsocks when they run through the
hurdles instead of over them and do not have their shoes. He
punishes them to polish his trophies, including his autographed
Babe Ruth baseball. They accidentally drop the Babe Ruth baseball
into some water, which washes off the signature. Seeking Babe
Ruth, whom Coach Sweatsocks said was a famous Yankee, and
remembering Rufus was delivering shoes to Yankee soldiers, they
head back to the Civil War where the only reference to baseball
they can find is a guy named Abner Doubleday, who is perfecting the
idea of the game. Bill & Ted get involved in a ball game between
the Yankees and Confederates, where they offer suggestions on how
to improve the game (such as only having four bases and using a
baseball instead of cannonballs). Unfortunately they only manage
to lose the baseball itself. Getting into their booth to escape
they discover a woman hiding inside, who introduces herself as
Harriet Tubman, who was leading a group of escaped slaves to the
North. Her short travel in the Circuits in Time inspires her to
build an underground railroad. Bill & Ted continue on, landing in
Transylvania. Their booth is accidentally taken by a hunchbacked
man who works for "The Count". Bill and Ted are then captured by a
mob of angry villagers, who want to drown them for being cousins of
Count Dracula. Rufus arrives to give the dudes back their shoes,
and helps them escape from their captors. They head to the castle
to retrieve their phone booth and find an irate Dracula angry
because he can't get any sleep in the new "coffin", which is the
boys ringing phone booth. The dudes pose as coffin repair men and
play a soothing tune for Dracula on the dial buttons. They then manage to
get Dracula out of the booth and continue on to Yankee stadium
where they hope to get some hot dogs. They are almost kicked out
by a policeman for not having tickets but manage to elude the man. To their surprise, they hear Babe Ruth being announced as coming up
to bat. They ask him for an autograph, but he doesn't have time
and so he gives them a small photo instead. The policeman catches up
with the dudes and throws them out of the park, where they crash
into a vendor's cart. Then man is trying to sell a new invention
he calls Blibber Blubber, which Bill & Ted soon realize is actually
bubble gum. They offer to trade the photo of Babe Ruth for some of
the gum, which gives the inventor the idea to market the new candy
with trading cards of baseball players. As the boys stand chewing
their gum, they hear the announcer inside the stadium relate that
Babe Ruth has hit home run number 60 out of the park. They are
thrilled to find the baseball also contains the Babe's signature. They hurry the ball back to the gym where Coach Sweatsocks is
thrilled to see they have cleaned his ball and have their shoes
back.
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