Groundhog Day

We are going to be talking about Groundhog Day the movie and not that weird tradition with the overgrown rat....well, I guess we are technically talking about both.  Anyways, let's cut to the chase about why we are going to discuss this movie today.  Here is a quote from an interview that was conducted with actor Stephen Tobolowsky (he played Ned Ryerson) about the movie:

"So [Harold Ramis (aka Egon from Ghostbusters)] said that the entire progress of Groundhog Day covered 10,000 years."

Yup, you read that correctly, according to the director, Bill Murray's character was trapped for 10,000 years on Groundhog Day.  10,000 YEARS.  No wonder he kept trying to kill himself.  At some point, he must have thought he was in hell because living the same day over and over 3,650,000 times (I assume there were no Leap Years) would drive anyone insane.  At the same time, imagine all that you could learn if you lived to be over 10,000 years old.  In Bill Murray's case, he learned how to play the piano and sculpt ice with a chainsaw (which is awesome).  However, he also could have read every book that was available to him in the tiny town of Punxsutawny (I had to look  up how to spell that ridiculousness), mastered cool skills like sword fighting, and learn every sex position known to man (and make up new ones).  But still, 10,000 years is a long ass time and living out that life trapped on the same day would be torturous.

"This thing can predict the weather?  It doesn't even look like it can stand up on its own."