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Station is an alien who can split into identical twins. He plays bongos for the Wyld Stallyns . After the band disssolves, Station takes on the human form of Kid Cudi , becoming a world-reknowned singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer, before being summoned through time in putting the band back together.

Bogus Journey [ ]

After being requested a super intelligent scientist to create good robot versions of Bill and Ted , God sent unto them Station. Surprised by their alien appearance, Bill and Ted learn that Station is the most intelligent scientist in the universe. After being taken back to Earth by Death , Station, Death, Bill, and Ted go to a store to buy seemingly random electronics for parts to use. The twin bodies of Station then leap at each other and fuse together into one being. Then, in the back of the Wyld Stallyns van, Station (as one being) constructs Good Robot Bill and Good Robot Ted . The evil robots, seeing their good counterparts immediately accept their defeat and compliment Bill and Ted for their excellent plan and robot design before allowing themselves to be destroyed. Throughout the movie, many characters, including Evil Robot Ted and Evil Robot Bill will say Station's name almost subliminally. Behind the scenes this was an inside joke amongst the cast and crew, but in the plot of Bogus Journey this can be assumed to be a foreshadowing of Station's otherworldly level of consciousness.

Face the Music [ ]

Twenty-five years later, while using Rufus' daughter's Kelly 's time machine to recruit musicians from throughout history to join their band, Bill and Ted's daughters Billie and Thea meet up with Kelly and a randomly time-displaced Kid Cudi, only for all of them to be inadvertently killed by Dennis Caleb McCoy and sent to Hell . Despite supposedly only being a rapper, Kid immediately shows a nearly perfect knowledge and understanding of time travel when talking to Billie and Thea, impressing them both. Later, after Bill and Ted settle their differences with Death and have everyone restored to life in 2020, Kid instructs Bill and Ted that to repair reality, they must send out infinite copies of themselves through history to play their song with everyone else. As Bill and Ted depart, saying "Thanks Kid!", Kid crosses his hands over his chest and gleefully exclaims "STATION!". One theory is that this reveals himself to be Station (and explaining his advanced scientific knowledge). This may just be an inside joke left in for fans of Bogus Journey, or it could go along with the theory that beings of higher intelligence are somehow connected to Station and that this is a form of recognition amongst supremely intelligent beings (or in Bill and Ted's case, likely by destiny or circumstance). In any case, Bill and Ted turn to him, looking surprised by him, and yell his name back with glee, making the same pose.

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (film)
Bill & Ted Face the Music (film)
1 Wyld Stallyns
3 Ted Logan

Bill & Ted writer explains why Bogus Journey's alien was called Station

"Station started as a typo. "

bill and ted in hell in bill and ted's bogus journey

What happens when you write a movie and then edit the script while drunk?

Well, if you're Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey writer Ed Solomon, it means you make a typo which eventually leads to the lifelong harassment of your movie's actors. Whoops!

Hmmm. It's not quite an origin story worthy of a Marvel/DCEU hero, but we'll take it.

Solomon's confession came after Bill actor Alex Winter took to Twitter to reveal his confusion about the alien's name, after being bombarbed with it by Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey fans for more than 20 years.

"I bow before Ed and Chris' linguistic mastery," he said. "Although I never got Station.

"And now endure people yelling it in my face all day, all over the world. And I still don't get it."

In response, Solomon apologised and revealed how Station really came into being.

"Well then I really owe you an apology," he replied. "Station started as a typo.

"We deleted a scene (INT. POLICE STATION) & somehow 'STATION' was left dangling. We were so crazily punch drunk we started saying 'Staaaaaation, Stayyyyyshuuuunnnnn Stayyyyyyyyshun..' in a tinny 'Martian voice'."

And thus, Station was born.

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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Bill & Ted Face the Music , now in theaters and on premium video on demand.

Bill & Ted Face the Music brings back a few familiar faces from the franchise as Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) embark on a time-traveling quest to save reality. Fans see Ted's dad, Captain Logan, once again giving them hell for wanting to be rockers, as well as his ex-wife, Missy, who's now with Ted's younger brother, Deacon.

However, while the alien known as Station doesn't physically appear, the threequel finds a way of bringing them being back as a scientific symbol of inspiration.

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Station is a pair of twin aliens who Bill and Ted meet in Heaven in Bogus Journey when they try to find a way back from the afterlife. They want to stop their evil robot twins at the Los Angeles Battle of the Bands and Heaven is the avenue through which they must pass. God takes favor with them and so, Station joins Bill, Ted and Death as they go back to Earth to build benevolent robots to counter their wicked counterparts.

They go shopping, get parts and the twins then combine as one into a giant Station, using their highly-advanced intellect to build the bots that'll help the Wild Stallyns. The mission turns out to be a success and Station even ends up playing bongos with the band after the evil bots are destroyed and the day's saved. In fact, Station seems to be the catalyst for Wyld Stallyns playing on Mars in the credits of that film, a plot point that sadly isn't picked back up in this third movie.

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Regardless, while Station doesn't appear in the threequel, their role is taken over by Kid Cudi, who helps Billie and Thea as they time-hop to build a super-band to help their dads create the song that'll unite the universe and stop reality from folding onto itself. And he's very important as his knowledge of space and time is invaluable, even in Hell where they all got sent thanks to the killer bot, Dennis . He helps them plot a way using to get back home. Then, later on, he figures out a secret with the phone booth that makes the mission one that spans history.

While Billie and Thea get the band to create the song of salvation, Bill and Ted realize they need to get everyone in history playing instruments too, so once they're part of the song, true unity will be achieved. Kid Cudi reveals the booth actually creates infinite Bill and Teds and thus, they can split up and go to each timeline and distribute musical instruments. So, as wormholes open and the song reverberates throughout these many eras, Kid Cudi yells "Station!" as Bill and Ted get everyone playing. It's a nice nod to the alien scientists who proved to be important sidekicks, with Kid Cudi following in their footsteps.

Directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted Face the Music stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Anthony Carrigan, Kid Cudi, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving. The film is now in theaters and on premium video on demand.

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Trivia Orion Pictures, the film's distributor, was on the verge of bankruptcy months before the release of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and was in the process of selling off the rights to several films in an attempt to remain stable. Columbia Pictures looked into acquiring the film, but after careful consideration, Orion kept the film because they had faith in it.
Goofs When Death falls from the sky after Bill and Ted are resurrected, he hits the ground wearing black and white shoes, when he had been always seen in bare feet.

Grim Reaper : [rapping] You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

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Grim Reaper : Heh heh! Get down with your bad self!

Crazy credits "Be Excellent to Each Other and Party On."
Alternate versions The original script had many differences, some that were filmed but cut out. These scenes remain in the novel and comic book adaptions and bits heard in the soundtrack.
Connections Edited into The Frollo Show: Frollo Misses his Mother (2011)
Soundtracks The Reaper Written, Performed & Produced by Steve Vai Published by Sy Vy Music / OPC Music Publishing, Inc. Courtesy of Relativity Records

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