# First story with the same plot as Groundhog Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352 "2016-07-08T02:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/41 "2016-09-04T21:27:41Z")
I missed this the first time round, but I’m surprised to not see any mention of Sisyphus. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/42 "2016-09-05T20:00:00Z")
_Christmas Every Day_ doesn’t look like a time-loop story to me at all; they’re not re-living December 25th, they’re just celebrating Christmas on December 26th, and the 27th, and the 28th… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/43 "2016-09-06T00:04:43Z")
It’s not a perfect time loop according to our modern conventions for the idea. But it’s clear that it is indeed Christmas every morning they wake up and that people are supposed to behave as if it were Christmas each time as if they had been waiting a year for it to arrive. The connection with the modern tale is good enough for me, even if the precise details are a little off. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/44 "2016-09-06T18:14:18Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > It’s not a perfect time loop according to our modern conventions for the idea. But it’s clear that it is indeed Christmas every morning they wake up and that people are supposed to behave as if it were Christmas each time as if they had been waiting a year for it to arrive. The connection with the modern tale is good enough for me, even if the precise details are a little off. Yes, the important thing it has in common with more modern time loop stories is that ‘Christmas every day’ is _not their choice_. It’s imposed by some outside force. It wasn’t a case of an entire society deciding to celebrate Christmas every day (though that’s in interesting concept in itself). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/45 "2016-09-07T04:53:38Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > …There really is no end to what might be said on the topic, so, yeah: one does have to call a halt somewhere. Or we could do it again tomorrow _all over again…!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/46 "2016-09-07T21:46:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Or we could do it again tomorrow _all over again…!_ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/47 "2016-09-08T02:11:02Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It wasn’t a case of an entire society deciding to celebrate Christmas every day (though that’s in interesting concept in itself). Three words; shoe event horizon. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/48 "2016-09-08T03:01:21Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > All these entries, and yet not a mention of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s [_All You Need Is Kill_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill) (2004), which was the basis for the Emily Blunt/Tom Cruise movie [_Edge of Tomorrow_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw61gCe2oqI) (2014)? Probably because those came way after Groundhog Day. But if we’re just throwing out timeloop stories willy nilly now, one I really like is the episode of Supernatural where Dean gets killed repeatedly, resetting the day each time. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/49 "2016-09-08T03:30:55Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Three words; shoe event horizon. Four words: I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352/50 "2016-09-08T20:56:58Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Four words: I don’t get it. Well, it seems I conflated the Frogstar Betans, and the Quarlvistans, so it’s especially lame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-story-with-the-same-plot-as-groundhog-day/759352.md?page=2)