Groundhog Day 2009 Re-release

If Groundhog Day were re-released in 2009, I think it would get a better public response if they used this HORROR version of the movie trailer:



Here are some of my favorite lines from this movie: And, yes, I did hand-type these after reviewing the entire movie script.

Phil: Somebody asked me today, "Phil, if you could be anywhere in the world, where would you like to be?" And I said to him, "Prob'ly right here - Elko, Nevada, our nation's high at 79 today." Out in California, they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some *very* overpriced real estate. Up in the Pacific Northwest, as you can see, they're gonna have some very, very tall trees.

Rita: Would you like to have dinner with Larry and me?
Phil: No, thank you. I've seen Larry eat.
[Phil abruptly crams hand into his mouth.]

Man on Stairs:Good morning. You off to see the groundhog?
Phil: I am.
Man on Stairs: Do you think it will be an early spring?
Phil: I'm predicting March.
Man on Stairs: Good guess. I think that actually is the first day of spring.

Ned: Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil: Hi, thanks for watching.
[Starts to walk away]
Ned: Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.
Phil: Not a chance.
Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil: Ned Ryerson?
Ned: BING!
Phil: Bing.

Phil: Did you turn pro with that belly button thing or what?
Ned: I sell insurance.
Phil: What a shock. [Dryly]
Ned: Do you have life insurance? Cause if you do, you could always use a little more. Am I right or am I right or am I right? Right?
Phil: I would love to stand here and talk with you, but I'm not going to.

Ned: Whenever I see an opportunity now, I charge it like a bull.
Ned the Bull, that's me now. [Makes bull-fingers and frolics in place.]

Ned: Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!

Phil: I make the weather! [thru chattering teeth]

Phil: [One-sided phone conversation in a country store) Don't you have a line you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? [pause] I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.

Ned: Phil?
Phil: Ned.
[Phil punches Ned in the face]

Phil: Don't mess with me, Porkchop.

Phil: Do you ever have deja vu?
Mrs. Lancaster: I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.
Phil: That's OK. Thank you.

Phil: You wanna throw up here, or you wanna throw up in the car?
Drunk fascinated with flapjacks: I think... both.

Phil: [Dressed as Bronco] That's be one adult and--
Girl: [Dressed as a maid] Two adults.

Phil: You weren't in broadcasting or journalism?
Rita: Believe it or not, I studied 19th-century French poetry.
Phil: What a waste of time! [Realizes his blunder] For someone else that would be an incredible waste of time. It was so bold of you to choose that. It's incredible. You must be a very strong person. [Crash and burn]

Phil: [after supposedly 100 nights of developing his "perfect date"] Golly, I want lots of kids! I want to adopt. I want to have my own. I want foster kids. I got this at Snowman City. Some kid threw a snowball at us! Come here! Let's have some fun! I wish these were my own kids! Are any of you up for adoption?

Phil: [Fed up with doing the News Report]
You want a prediction about the weather,
you're asking the wrong Phil.
I'll give you a winter prediction.
It's gonna be cold...
it's gonna be gray...
and it's gonna last you
for the rest of your life.

Phil: [Letting Phil, the Groundhog, drive] That's not bad
for a quadruped. You gotta check your mirrors, just the side of your eye...
...Don't drive angry!

Piano teacher: You say this is your first lesson?
Phil: My father was a piano mover. So.

Phil: [Well-rehearsed news speech]
When Chekhov
saw the long winter...
he saw a winter bleak and dark
and bereft of hope.
Yet we know that winter is just
another step in the cycle of life.
But standing here
among the people of Punxsutawney...
and basking in the warmth
of their hearths and hearts...
I couldn't imagine a better fate...
than a long and lustrous winter.
From Punxsutawney,
it's Phil Connors.
So long.

Phil: How was that for you two?
Larry: Man, you touched me.
Phil: Thanks, Larry.
Larry: Thank you.
Phil: I gotta go.

Phil: [Rushing to save to boy from falling]
Hold it, fella! What do you say? What do you say?
What do you say?! You little brat. You have never thanked me!
I'll see you tomorrow, maybe!

Old woman in car: Now what?
Old woman passenger: You've totaled it.
More optimistic passenger: It's only a flat tire.

Larry: People just don't understand what is involved in this. This an art-form! You know, I think that most people just think that I hold a camera and point at stuff, but there is a *heck* of a lot more to it than just that. Would you be at all interested
in seeing the inside of the van?

Ned: This is the best day of my life.
Phil: Mine too.
Ned: Where are we going?
Rita: Let's not spoil it. [Pats Ned on the cheek]
Ned: I got that! [Throws head back and makes a sensual Cat Purr]

Phil: [Wakes up on Feb. 3rd] Why are you here?
Rita: I bought you. I own you.
Phil: But why are you still here?
Rita:You said stay, so I stayed.
Phil: I said stay, so you stayed?
I can't even make a collie stay.
I gotta check something.
[backing away slowly] Stay...stay...stay.


What is your favorite line?


5 Best Trivia Questions from Groundhog Day:

1. In which city was the Pennsylvania Polka originated? The answer is found in the Polka song sung the morning of the festival:

Strike up the music
The band has begun,
The Pennsylvania Polka,
Pick out your partner
and join in the fun,
It started in Scranton
It's now number one...

(Scranton is also the the city in PA, in which the SitCom, The Office, is set.)

2. What are the names of the two drunk guys that ride on railroad tracks with Phil? The answer is found in the quote below:

Police: [Loud speaker] This is the police! Pull over immediately!
Gus: We're talking in here! [annoyed]
Phil: [headed straight for moving train] I'm betting he'll swerve first. [phil turns] I'm not gonna live by their rules anymore.
Ralph: I noticed that.
[Moments later, after the car crashes into a giant groundhog billboard]
Phil: Let me handle this. Three cheeseburgers, two large fries...[checks his passengers] two chocolate shakes and one large Coke.
Ralph: And some flapjacks.
Phil: [sincerely] Too early for flapjacks?

3. Who was Willard Scott? Clue--Phil references him in the quote below:
Rita: The wretch, concentered 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.
Phil: [Laughs to himself]
Rita: You don't like poetry?
Phil: I love poetry. I just thought that was Willard Scott. I was confused.

4. What is the answer (question) to the second jeopardy question, "Seneca is the largest of these lakes in West-Central New York."

Phil: What are the Finger Lakes?
Alex Trebek: Correct.

5. How much did Rita purchase Phil for on the final Groundhog Day? And how much was Larry subsequently sold for?

Answer: Three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents! And two-bits (a quarter).