It was good to be Alex Winter in the early 90s. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the second entry in the franchise for which he is most famous, was a rousing success. Bill (Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) themselves were a cultural phenomenon, inspiring spin-offs across almost every form of media. There was a Bill & Ted cartoon featuring Winter and Reeves, and a live action series with different actors in the titular roles. The zeitgeist was so fully captured by the pair of good-natured if unambitious metalheads that they even popped up in video games and a DC Comics series. Sensing an opportunity to capitalize on his worldwide fame and unique talents as a comedic performer, MTV hired Winter, alongside collaborators Tim Burns and Tom Stern, to create The Idiot Box, a sketch comedy show wherein the sketches served as interstitials to the music videos the show featured. The Idiot Box ran for six episodes before its three-headed creative team turned their attention to an offer from 20th Century Fox to write and direct their own feature film.
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