A Most Excellent Roman Holiday

A Most Excellent Roman Holiday
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Premiere date	September 29, 1990
Run time	23:00
Starring	Keanu Reeves Alex Winter George Carlin Bernie Casey Peter Renaday Tony Jay
Music composed by	Chuck Loeb
Writer(s)	Wayne Kaatz & Gorden Kent
Director(s)	Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"A Most Excellent Roman Holiday" is the third episode of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures season one. It aired on September 29, 1990 on CBS. It was written by Wayne Kaatz and Gordon Kent, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Bill and Ted have to pass a Latin class to remain in the Wyld Stallions. To decipher a Latin phrase on a rare coin minted during the reign of Julius Caesar, they use their phone booth to travel back right to the source.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bill S. Preston, Esquire	Alex Winter
Ted "Theodore" Logan	Keanu Reeves
Vice Principal Ryan	Bernie Casey
Detective Logan	Peter Renaday
Mr. Preston	Unavailable
Missy Preston	Kimmy Robertson
Atilla the Hun
Latin teacher	Unavailable
George Washington (illustration)	N/A
Incan high priest	Unavailable
John Glenn
Three Most Important People	Tony Jay Unavailable Unavailable
Rufus	George Carlin
Aunt Dodie
Kashka	Unavailable
Brutus's friend	Unavailable
Brutus	Unavailable
Julius Caesar	Unavaliable
Centurion	Unavailable

Organizations

• Wyld Stallyns

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • California
      • San Dimas
        • San Dimas High School
        • Kozy Korner
    • Alaska (mentioned)
      • Green Military Academy (mentioned)
    • Latin America
  • Rome
    • Kishka's

Objects

• Circuits of Time Directory
• Time machine phone booth

Vehicles

• Chariots

Music

The theme song was performed by Randy Peterson and Kevin Quinn. The music was composed by Chuck Leob for Score Productions. Bodie Chandler was the director of music production.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 29, 1990 on CBS

Behind the scenes

• In the film the cartoon is supposed to follow, Ted's dad wanted to send him to Oates Military Academy, not Green Military Academy.
• One of the students is dressed similar to Spock, a character from the TV and movie series Star Trek.

Errors

• Vice Principal turns Caucasian twice: First, when Detective Logan tells Vice Principal Ryan to hit the floor, and the second time, when Mr. Preston warns the boys if they don't get passing grades, their guitars will be confiscated.
• Bill's voice comes out of Ted's mouth when he says, "These dweebs read Latin faster than we read English."
• When the First Most Important Person in the world speaks and the chair lifts up, he is white instead of black.
• Bill & Ted are missing their robes when the high priest puts his arm across their faces.
• Sometimes Ted will get white-colored sclera to show more emotion, but this seemed like a mistake when he ran across the table, and right before Bill tries to distract the lion by pointing out a bogus space shuttle.
• Bill & Ted lost their Incan robes without taking them off.
• Caesar's laurels change red twice: First, when he asks Brutus if there's something amusing, and secondly, when Bill & Ted are surprised to see Rufus, while Caesar waits for him to come up to him.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • August 13, 2013: TGG Direct releases Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures on DVD (Walmart exclusive).
  • October 1, 2013: TGG Direct releases Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures on DVD.