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History reduced my mind to a dumping ground for facts, figures, and well-known events with no context or care, nothing to think about, nothing to debate, nothing controversial. It was sterile and lame. brand History is presented as an obstacle to be overcome, passed, and forgotten, or so it seems, at least in America, or at least at my school. But to Bill and Ted, history isn’t a drag, it’s a joke. Napoleon is a “short, dead dude,” George Washington is “the dollar-bill guy,” and Marco brand Polo is “just another brand water sport.” But, while poking fun at the way in which our culture has packaged and commodified history, "B&T’sEA" is also able to steer the audience away from such ignorant views to realize how a few every-day yet prominent historical figures were able to mold the world into what it is today. But, in the end, it’s still just an info-taining rip-off of "Back to the Future," albeit a good one. A crucial plot point created by the two writers of B&T is the threat of military school faced by Ted, sending the message that, without the proper background of world history in everyone’s life, a brainless droney military life (or at least some sort of government job) is sure to befall each and every human being, leaving the world a hopeless plane of gray eternity.
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