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While the idea of a Bill and Ted live show isn't inherently terrible, there was something ... off about them in this production. "Alec Baldwin Twitter rant" off. The show finds Bill and Ted traveling to Oz (from that famous Halloween movie, The Wizard of Oz), encountering an assortment of pop-culture icons along the way, including Superman, who is turned gay by a witch and immediately takes off his clothes and starts dancing. A mentally scarring YouTube search reveals that "gay, dancing Superman" has been a staple of Universal's Halloween shows since at least 2006. (And yes, there's a Bryan Singer joke.)

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"Be excellent to each other" doesn't include sexual minorities.

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In addition to insulting gay people, Bill and Ted stand idly by while Disney's Wreck-it Ralph declares his intention to rape Nicki Minaj and then simply abducts her -- if you think a "wreck-it" joke about her asshole isn't involved, then you aren't getting just how loathsome this show is. Another example of the show's "edgy" material involves Michael Jackson coming back from the dead just to hit on Justin Bieber. Classic Bill and Ted!

We'll remind you now that Bill and Ted had an excellent cartoon and an excellent children's breakfast cereal. Perhaps we're supposed to believe that going to hell and back scarred them more than we knew, or that finding out you're the saviors of mankind when you're a teenager is just too much to handle. Or maybe, just maybe, the only message here is that whoever wrote this shit is a horrible person and should probably stay away from the inevitably depressing sequel.

J.M. McNab writes and podcasts for Rewatchability.com. You can also find him on Twitter.

Related Reading: Did you know that Doug is actually schizophrenic? Or that Betty Boop tortured and tried to kill a dog? And those are just American cartoons. It's when you go overseas that things really get nuts.

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