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:
An all-time great in a miraculous screenplay.
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]
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.)
I usually drink to World Peace.
The local news just reminded me the proclamation of punxsutawney phil was coming up. CHEERS!
I gotta call Ned Ryerson and check the renewals on all my insurance policies.
And there is always someone who tries to spoil the party:
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.
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.
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!
Too early for flapjacks?
What the heck is going on here?
I sure as heckfire remember you.
Shrove Tuesday is late this year, early March.
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]
You posted that at 10:38am; they were probably cleaning up from all of the pancake breakfasts in town by that point.
Don’t mess with me, pork chop. What day is it?
Ted, I have the strangest feeling we’ve been through this exact same thing before.
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.”
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?