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!

Taking to Twitter on Saturday (December 9), Bill and Ted writer Ed Solomon revealed that the decision to name the movie's now iconic alien 'Station' originated from a drunken typo.

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

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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.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Well then i REALLY owe you an apology. 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." — Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) December 9, 2017

"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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