Discussion of the Bill & Ted franchise feels very timely – not only because a new instalment has been announced for release in 2020, but also because pop culture is currently in the midst of reckoning with the fact that many old favourites are actually deeply problematic.

Created and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted is a beloved franchise. When the first film, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (directed by Stephen Herek), arrived in U.S cinemas in 1989, it quickly spawned an animated television series, a live-action television series, video games, comic books, a musical, a cereal, as well as its own sequel...

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