the groundhog day project

in this bonus final episode, i list a few new things i noticed on my latest rewatch of #groundhogday before going through notes on the first revision of the script and realizing i still don't know what i'm doing now that this #timeloop is over. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

final thoughts about #groundhogday (minute 101) turn into a rant about politics and being a better person. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

as the credits roll in #groundhogday minute 100, i talk about song lyrics then i get into a long ramble about what i might do after this show is over (but don't worry; i warn you when it happens if you want to skip ahead) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil lifts rita over the threshold into the world in #groundhogday minute 99. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

first i complain about #groundhogday minute 98 ruining the magic of last minute then i get into a political rant because this episode is coming out on my birthday and i was not going to cut all that. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil confirms that it is no longer february 2nd, and i talk about what this means for his future in #groundhogday minute 97. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil realizes that the loop has ended and i suggest that the longer the loop has been going the worse this ending is in #groundhogday minute 96. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

nevermind the cynical takes, #groundhogday minute 95 is magical. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil's night with rita rides the line between creepy and magical in #groundhogday minute 94. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

larry is bought by pirates, ned might be a cat, and rita gets cold in #groundhogday minute 93. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

an auction in three parts: i'm sold in a fundraiser my senior year of high school, phil goes for more than anyone expects in a vicious bidding war, and larry is not getting the reaction he wants in #groundhogday minute 92. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

as the bachelore auction gets started, i get distracted one last time by extras--the punxsutawney king and miss punxsutawney, and daniel riggs--and there's a brief rant about capitalism in #groundhogday minute 91. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil gifts wrestlemania tickets, debbie has second thoughts... again, and felix can help around the house again in #groundhogday minute 90. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil and rita dance in #groundhogday minute 89, only to be interrupted by Sara and Gertie, Buster and his wife, and Fred and Debbie. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil jazzes up rachmaninoff and rita and mary dance like dorks in #groundhogday minute 88; i detail my piano teacher head canon and get into a rant about climate change and weather forecasters. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

nancy casually removes larry's hand, rita slowly walks through the crowd, and phil changes up the music in #groundhogday minute 87. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

larry has entered his proto-phil, sleazy stage; nancy escapes and meets rita in #groundhogday minute 86. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil finishes changing the tire and then shows up at a restaurant where buster green is choking on his lunch, the producer's wife needs a light, and the director's lawyer is watching in #groundhogday minute 85. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil saves a boy falling out of a tree, a girl getting hit by a truck (deleted scene), and three old ladies from a flat tire in #groundhogday minute 84. plus, phil disappears all day and rita does what? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

i've never read any chekhov, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing rubin's reference in #groundhogday minute 83. nor does it stop me from letting rubin defend his reference in his book, nor from quoting chekhov himself, nor from getting sidetracked describing the plot of the one piece of russian literature i've read as an adult--dead souls. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil gets the old man some food but still cannot save his life in #groundhogday minute 82. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

i don't like that phil calls him 'father', i don't like the nurse's tone, but i do like phil turning his attention to the old man in #groundhogday minute 81. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

phil has a nice piano lesson, a not-so-nice? interaction with ned, and doesn't quite get into his fight against homelessness yet in #groundhogday minute 80. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

coleridge's 'work without hope', ice sculpting, and conflating two different piano teacher scenes so i get weirdly confused in #groundhogday minute 79. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

diegetic sound; freejack and millennium; phil's reset, muscle memory, and what does phil actually learn to do in #groundhogday minute 78? plus, the names of characters that you probably don't know. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★