101 Reasons (One Per Minute) To Love “Groundhog Day”

51. The overzealous snowman-building redux. Geez, Phil, could you be any more fake? You used the word “humdinger” in a god damn sentence!

52. The slap track. Some dude probably has one of these on YouTube nowadays.

53. I love that such a Zen movie was filmed in a town called Woodstock.

54. The morning after. When Phil decides he has no chance with Rita, he looks like me on the most hungover day of my life times about 10.

55. The Jeopardy display of genius, complete with a swig of Jack.

56. “It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be gray, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.” Brilliant practical (he’s recording a segment) dialogue that echoes Phil’s current plight.

57. The destroying-the-alarm-clock montage. I think we’ve all busted at least one.

58. Why does Larry wear his stocking cap like the tip of a condom?

59. “Is there something I can do you for?” The classic unintentionally gay hick sexual innuendo.

60. Larry suggesting that Phil wanted to f*** the groundhog. That’s the beauty of subtext; our minds are a lot dirtier than a PG rating can allow the dialogue to be.

61. Murray’s stunt driver looks absolutely nothing like him. Not one bit.

62. The groundhog gives Murray more to work with acting-wise than MacDowell. He’s actually quite gifted. Since woodchucks only live about 10 years max, he’s probably in the afterlife chilling with his human equivalent, Marlon Brando.

63. “If you got a shot, aim high — I don’t want to hurt the groundhog.” probably not the meanest thing BDM said to brother Bill, but it has to be close.

64. The only other actual living thing he kills is a groundhog. How many of us would be so humane when put in his shoes?

65. Larry saying “he might be OK” after Phil drives a truck off a cliff and does a 100-foot front-bumper-first freefall into a canyon. He changes his mind only when the truck explodes into smithereens.

66. The suicide montage. You know he has been killing himself for a long time when he electrocutes himself with a toaster, steps in front of a truck and plunges off a tall building. Then again, an overdose wouldn’t have been very captivating.

67. “I’m a god.” After Murray’s Dr. Peter Venkman wanted Ray Stantz to say this in Ghostbusters, he finally gets a movie mulligan.

68. Phil rattling off everyone in the diner’s back-stories. Awesome way of proving just how long he has been there in entertaining lightening-round fashion.

69. Debbie and Fred. They aren’t just the Wrestlemania couple. Fred is now Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon.

70. You know how I know you’re gay? You paint toy soldiers. Who wants to bet this film inspired The 40-Year-Old Virgin painting soldiers.

71. The mean mullet on the dish-tray dropper in the diner.

72. The monologue where Murray makes us fall in love with Andie MacDowell…acting…in a movie. Sure, she is beautiful, but that’s quite a feat.

73. The card-in-the-hat trick. Be honest; you tried this with an entire deck after you saw the movie, then promptly quit after you missed the hat every single time. I did.

74. Call it creepy or sweet, but most of us fellas have watched the chick we love fall asleep…and whispered the things we wish we could say in real life to her while she was counting sheep.

75. I really wish there was a reel of all of Phil’s scenes at Gobbler’s Knob, either filming or preparing to film. The manic mood swings he has are amazing as Murray really runs the gauntlet of emotions. The man really deserved an Oscar for this performance.

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