I’m not going to bore you with details, but, yeah, Halloween Horror Nights: go. Always terrifying, this year bigger than ever, seemingly more monsters, blah blah blah. And I’m don’t mean to dismiss all that (seriously: go!), but there’s one thing that I’ve avoided on every visit until this year, and I regret never having checked out before: Bill & Ted’s Halloween Adventure.

Granted, I have an affinity for Universal Studio’s staged entertainment. The Waterworld stunt show, based on one of the most panned films of all time, is amazing even 18 years after it debuted. And we’re still mocked for being one of the few reviewers who loved their shortlived 2009 production of a “Creature from the Black Lagoon” musical (Universal even put one of our quotes on billboards about the show around town). But perennial favorite Bill & Ted was apeshit bonkers awesome (hoping Universal will put that on billboards around town).

Located on the Special Effects stage, Bill & Ted’s Halloween Adventure, besides being mindblowingly amazeballs entertaining, is also one of the stupidest shows we’ve ever seen. But gloriously so. I imagine if the writers of this spectacle had written it while NOT on meth, they’d have a classy Broadway hit. But instead they have a 45 minute comedic distraction from all the screams and scares from the rest of theme park that alone is worth the price of admission.

As for the plot… what plot? Something to do with Bill & Ted’s house landing on the Wicked Witch of the West, and them ending up in Munchkinland where the munchkins sing with the help of autotune, Kim Jong Un kills off every pop culture icon that has gained or lost relevency in the last year, and it Golem from Lord of the Rings turns out to really be Anne Hathaway. Toss in a half dozen highly offensive jokes, a cast of over 30 performers, a dozen elaborately choreographed dance numbers, and occasional pyrotechnics that will burn your eyebrows off even if you’re sitting in the back row, and pretty quickly you came for the haunted mazes.

Worst of all, the whole thing really has nothing to do with Halloween, save for the countless costumes exhibited throughout the performance. If anything, the whole production celebrates the carnival nature of Halloween, where all inhibitions are left at the door, and anything goes. As if this much fun deserves explaining.

Before I sat down for the show, which I saved for last at my Horror Nights visit, I thought it was going to be a low point in an otherwise awesome evening. Alas, saving it as the cherry on top of your scream filled evening is highly advised, but this show does fill up, so if you go arrive at least 15-30 minutes before the performance begins.

I didn’t take photos during the performance, but here’s a few shots from the rest of my evening at Halloween Horror Nights: