First Sunday Zoom: It's "Groundhog Day"!

Little did Sarah and Nancy know, when they suggested the 1993 movie Groundhog Day for this month’s Zoom hang, how many other tributes the Bill Murray* comedy has inspired. Dave “Iowahawk” Burge (a.k.a., the funniest man on Twitter) posted a thread where he “analyze[s] the delightfully awful cars of Groundhog Day.” There’s Maggie Phillips’ 2022 piece for Tablet (from whence the fab above illustration comes), “Groundhog Day’s Christian—and Pre-Christian—Roots.” And let us not forget the ur 2006 text, Jonah Goldberg’s “Groundhog Day: A Movie for All Time.”

Join Smoke ‘Em’s First Sunday Zoom at 8pmET/5pmPT (link after the pay wall) to discuss the durable sweetness of the movie, which star wanted it to lean more philosophical, and a feud that began during filming and lasted 20 years. PLUS: Nancy gives us the origins of this day of the groundhog. ALSO PLUS: Many other things.

Watch out for that first paid subscriber break — it’s a doozy …

*Nancy re-watched the movie last night and noted, to a certain 10-year-old, that when the movie came out, her father had a big crush on Groundhog Day co-star Andie McDowell.

“Had?” responded said father.