Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures [Season 2,] Episode 21: The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Phone Booth by AverageMansReviews

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures [Season 2,] Episode 21: The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Phone Booth  by AverageMansReviews

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5 things about this episode

Warning: there are flashing effects/other effects

Storyline/Captain Jonathan "John" Logan: these two components go hand-in-hand in this episode as we the viewers with Bill & Ted using their Telephone Booth go back in time to see what Captain Jonathan "John" Logan [Ted's Father] if he has the personality traits he has now backed then that he said he did and to see if Ted can learn from him; on both counts these are excellent [storyline and character developments,] because it uses a safe and reliable storyline format to show that this Father and Son often butt heads and usually there is a threat of Military School [Old Oaks Military Academy in Alaska] if Ted basically doesn't shape up, but on one hand in this episode it shows that Captain Jonathan "John" Logan used to receive a similar threat from his Father just a different place and location [Admiral Trench's Military Academy in Arizona] so this is learn behaviour and it is past down from Father to Son/may be daughter or non-binary; it has the potential to repeat itself if Ted doesn't stop the cycle with his children and on the other hand it puts across to Bill, the viewers and much more specifically Ted that he has so much more in common with his Father then what he thinks.

Baking with Science: we have Bill & Ted [posing as his Father in a Science/Chemistry class] as they accidentally make peanut brittle; this is good action and good comedy going hand-in-hand here.

This episode receives: 8/10, this episode is excellent; it has some real substance in it.

Now we have come to the end of this TV show; yes this Second Season has a positive run of Episodes to finish things off. But as the First Season has no negative Episodes to its name [mixed to positive;] it all stems from the strange reason from the very beginning of the Second Season Bill & Ted have a personality and IQ change for the worse.

Where in this Season for most parts they just come over as very annoying and crucially it changes their dynamic with Rufus; where it goes from what needs to be done, guidance, support and sometimes help in the First Season to essentially babysitting duty; yes for a very tiny amount it doesn't help things when we don't have Bill S. Preston, Esq. voice by Alex Winter, Ted 'Theodore' Logan voice by Keanu Reeves, and likewise Rufus voice by George Carlin; I should clarify this has very little to do with these performers [but it is worth pointing out, because these performers are these characters] and in fairness and balance Bill S. Preston, Esq. voice by Evan Richards, Ted 'Theodore' Logan voice by Christopher Kennedy and Rufus voice by Rick Overton do a solid job voicing these characters, but it also has to be said you cannot replace the original trio.

What this TV program needed to do was stay within its boundaries and not come up with this stupid idea of this new Circuits Directory [known as Squint.] I mean if they wanted a narrative for 8 Episodes, what they should have done is basically this; come up with the idea of it is the Final Exams of the school year and Bill & Ted have their Final History Exam and they are given a list of seven components of history they are failing by their teacher, so each week we have one adventure focused on one of these components and for the final week; Bill & Ted decide to go and do some last minute studying in history somewhere, but unfortunately their Telephone Booth breaks down; they try and fix it but Rufus just about gets there in time to give them a helping hand; so Bill & Ted just make it in time back to sit down in the class room to begin their History Exam and that's where we the viewers leave them with the camera spanning out to see/hear Rufus getting into his Telephone Booth with [breaking the fourth wall] looking at the camera with saying "Be excellent to one another." and then off he goes in his Telephone Booth [with that roll the ending credits] and I know I have discussed this already but this fits in here as well; changing the personalities of Bill & Ted including their IQ's for the worse [progress it but never regress it unless the rules/effects of time travel are in effect/consequences or an alternative Universe or Universes] or Rufus' personality change to compensate for Bill & Ted's change.