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An asshole anchorman is sent to a little town to do a fluff story on Groundhog Day, but karma bites him in the ass when the town gets snowed-in.

A fantastic movie not just for the usual things, but for the execution of its idea. Unlike so many movies that have its elements, this one stays grounded and accessible. This movie is well-loved and highly recommended.

• This movie has its title because it’s set on Groundhog Day.

• The writers and producers of 12꞉01 – (1993 movie) believe their work was plagiarized by this movie.

• Everything Wrong With Groundhog Day in 19 Minutes or Less

  • by CinemaSins

• The Real Answer to Groundhog Day’s Biggest Question (ep. 1)

  • by Christopher Bingham

• 2021-08-25 – Remaster
• 2018-03-28 – Harold Ramis’ commentary

• Watched more than once before.

2021-08-25 – Remaster ∞

• 1:00 —

  • Chroma key, in blue.
  • Weather presenter
• 2:30 — I’ve seen lots of sex and violence in PG and PG-13 rated movies from the 1980s.
• 2:45 — Home Shopping Network.

• 4:45 —

  • Swallow
  • San Juan Capistrano, California
  • https://www.missionsjc.com/history/
  • See also When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano – (1940 song), by The Ink Spots
• 5:15 — Blood sausage
• 7:00 — Pelvic tilt
• 8:15 — Blizzard

• 8:30 —

  • Punxsutawney Phil
• 9:45 — Chit chat
• 10:45 — I don’t think this is Case Western Reserve University
• 11:30 — Life insurance
• 11:00 — Shingles
• 12:15 — “Gobbler’s Knob” always struck me as a weird thing because of the phrase “Knob Gobbler” (cocksucker).
• 13:00 — Hicks

• 13:45 — Groundhog

  • They’re also flashing the crowd.
• 15:30 — There’s no way someone would be dressed like that in a can like that in weather like that.
• 20:45 — Déjà vu
• 25:15 — He goes to bed at 4pm? Wow.
• 26:00 — The redhead was walking in front of him again. In fact everyone is acting earlier, because he didn’t delay in his morning routine this time.
• 28:30 — X-rays
• 30:00 — Lobster
• 30:15 — Is the glass half empty or half full?
• 31:00 — Drunk driving
• 32:00 — Seat belt
• 33:30 — The train would be braking..

• 36:45 —

  • Cholesterol
  • Lung cancer
  • Love handles

• 37:00 —

  The wretch, concentred all in self,
  Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
  And, doubly dying, shall go down
  To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
  Unwept, unhonored, and unsung

  — Sir Walter Scott

• 39:15 — Gaslighting and Social engineering (security)

• 42:45 —

  • Theatre
  • Costume party
• 43:30 — “Do you feel lucky” is from Dirty Harry and is a reference to the movie they just saw.
• 47:15 — World peace
• 49:30 — 19th century French poetry

• 50:00 — See also https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/a-propos-de-bill-murray-and-french-poetry-in-groundhog-day/

  La fille que j’aimera
  Est comme un vin
  Qui se bonifiera
  Un peu
  Chaque matin

• 50:15 — French language

• 58:00 —

  • Jeopardy! (we hear Alex Trebek)
  • Chapala
  • Guadalajara
  • Mexico
  • Seneca River (New York)
  • Finger Lakes
  • Titicaca
  • Lake Geneva
  • The Rhône
• 1:00:30 — Gourd
• 1:01:15 — That guy was pretty far away when he was running after Phil.
• 1:01:45 — “Pervert” is zoophilia reference.
• 1:04:30 — That guy was talking over his recording; bad filmmaker.

• 1:05:00 — PG, but with suicide.

  • 1:01:00

• 1:06:45 — Catholic school

  • 12 years!
• 1:08:45 — Rhinestones
• 1:23:45 — Flat tire
• 1:29:45 — Homemaking

• 1:33:15 — Snow cone

2018-03-28 – Harold Ramis’ commentary ∞

I’ve seen this a few times, so I’m going to watch it with Harold Ramis’ commentary track.

• 2:00 — Groundhog Day
• 3:45 — ASCAP
• 4:00 — Gandhi – (1982 movie)
• 4:15 — National Lampoon’s Vacation – (1983 movie)

• 4:30 —

  • Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – United States
  • Woodstock, Illinois – United States
• 5:00 — The David Letterman Show – (1980 show)
• 5:15 — The Object of Beauty – (1991 movie)

• 6:15 —

  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Clarence Darrow
• 7:45 — Crystal Lake, Illinois – United States

• 8:00 —

  • I Got You Babe – (1965 song), by Sonny & Cher
  • Spec script
  • Zen Buddhist
  • Caddyshack – (1980 movie)

• 16:00 —

  • Snowmaking
  • Ritter(?) fans
• 17:45 — Hustler
• 19:00 — Disc jockey
• 22:$5 — Pennsylvania Polka – (song), composed by Zeke Manners and introduced in 1942 by The Andrews Sisters in Give Out, Sisters – (1942 movie)
• 26:00 — She should have walked by much later, and not even be seen, since normally he would have chatted inside quite a bit.
• 27:00 — The Second City – (1959 .. thing)

• 28:00 —

  • Rick Ducommun
  • Rick Overton

• 29:00 —

  • David Pasquesi
  • Psychology
  • McDonald’s
  • Lake Michigan

• 30:00 —

  • Virgin Islands
  • Piña colada
  • Sea otter

• 31:30 —

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Zen Buddhist
  • Yoga
  • Christian fundamentalism
  • Psychoanalysis
• 32:00 — Flapjacks
• 32:30 — Strange.. the director should just be able to describe the scene and have the car people come to him with a few more-informed suggestions.

• 37:30 —

  • Walter Scott
  • Willard Scott perhaps.
  • Egocentrism
• I took a break and continued watching the next day, but then I got bored and wasn’t paying attention.
• 56:00 — Adoption
• 1:06:30 — The various wounds remind me of stories from Grigori Rasputin.
• 1:07:30 — Multiplicity – (1996 movie)

• 1:12:30 — Poems for Every Mood – (1933 book), by Harriett Morton

  • ASIN B000NWLM6Q
• 1:17:00 — No, nobody would figure the music is coming from the radio, because that particular device is associated with different music, plus the quality of the piano is entirely separate from the sound of the device and what it would sound like in the room. It sounds like an association with the newspaper-reader in the background, associated with his posture and character, as though Phil is trying to see through his perspective.
• 1:19:00 — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – (1934 song), by Sergei Rachmaninoff

• 1:25:30 —

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
  • Loyal Order of Moose
• 1:29:00 — WrestleMania
• 1:31:30 — X-Men – (2000 movie)

• 1:35:00 — Journal of Object Relations Therapy

  • See Object relations theory

• 1:38:00 — Nat King Cole