# What the...? It's Groundhog Day again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 2, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350 "2010-02-02T06:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/421 "2024-02-02T23:17:42Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Good evening. Tonight on ‘It’s the Mind’, we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu. That strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. Six years later, I can’t believe no one commented on this. Such an epic performance by Michael Palin! I laugh just picturing his face when he jumps at yet another repetition of the same moment. Also: > [@](#): > > Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? > Ralph: That about sums it up for me. An all-time great in a miraculous screenplay. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/422 "2024-02-05T06:03:05Z")
Phil: Ned Ryerson - I have missed you _so much_. [hugs him] I don’t know where you’re headed, but… can you call in sick? [keeps hugging him and rubbing his back] Ned: Uh… I gotta get going. [runs away] ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/423 "2024-02-09T00:37:10Z")
I actually saw “Groundhog Day” this year in the ER. And the Denzel Washington flick “Deja Vu”. (I’m OK, as far as I know but there were some troubling signs.) ---
**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:** [February 10, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/424 "2024-02-10T03:46:17Z")
I usually drink to World Peace. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/425 "2025-02-01T01:20:56Z")
The local news just reminded me the proclamation of punxsutawney phil was coming up. CHEERS! ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/426 "2025-02-01T01:38:20Z")
I gotta call Ned Ryerson and check the renewals on all my insurance policies. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/427 "2025-02-01T14:57:43Z")
And there is always someone who tries to spoil the party: > **[Scientists cast doubt on reliability of US groundhog’s weather forecasts](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/scientists-cast-doubt-reliability-us-groundhog-weather-forecasts)** > > Only 35% of Punxsutawney Phil’s winter predictions are accurate, while Staten Island Chuck’s forecasts have 85% accuracy ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/428 "2025-02-01T22:49:52Z")
I just learned groundhog mating season starts in a few weeks and ‘ol phil is just predicting he’s going to get laid. Shadow or no shadow. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/429 "2025-02-02T01:15:04Z")
My wife and I celebrated early by watching all the scenes with the “Pennsylvania Polka” by Frankie Yankovic (no relation to Al yet they have performed together). Then all the scenes with Ned Ryerson and Steven Tobolowsky is great in all of them. And finally, the scene where “Doctor Phil” (it’s just an honorary title) is auctioned to Andie McDowell for $383+ and poor Chris Elliot for “two bits” or a quarter. Such a great movie. Excellent screenplay and direction by Harold Ramis. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/430 "2025-02-02T03:03:19Z")
This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a _rat_. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to _mean_ something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You’re _hypocrites_, all of you! ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/431 "2025-02-02T15:38:00Z")
Too early for flapjacks? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/432 "2025-02-02T16:17:36Z")
What the heck is going on here? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/433 "2025-02-02T22:19:46Z")
I sure as heckfire remember you. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/434 "2025-02-02T22:31:38Z")
Shrove Tuesday is late this year, early March. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/435 "2025-02-03T00:39:05Z")
Phil: Ned Ryerson - I have missed you _so much_. [hugs him] I don’t know where you’re headed, but… can you call in sick? [keeps hugging him and rubbing his back] Ned: Uh… I gotta get going. [runs away] ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/436 "2025-02-03T01:40:01Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Too early for flapjacks? You posted that at 10:38am; they were probably cleaning up from all of the pancake breakfasts in town by that point. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/437 "2025-02-03T04:59:56Z")
Don’t mess with me, pork chop. What day is it? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/438 "2025-02-03T06:41:37Z")
Ted, I have the strangest feeling we’ve been through this exact same thing before. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/439 "2025-02-03T14:50:45Z")
I fell asleep last night in the middle of the movie, waking up exactly when Phil does on the last morning. So I had the same experience he did of “something is different.” ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350/440 "2025-02-03T17:02:15Z")
If you were Rita would you react the same way? From her perspective Phil is a jerk the day before. Then on GH Day he’s suddenly thoughtful, kind, and making ice sculptures of you and professing his love. Wouldn’t you be a little creeped out? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-its-groundhog-day-again/527350.md?page=23)