Showing posts with label groundhog day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label groundhog day. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Happy Groundhog Day!

This one might just have to go out to my father:



Stephen Tobolowsky for the win!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Dad's take: IMDB goofs



"So I'm watching Groundhog Day, as I usually do, on Groundhog Day and it hits me--something's wrong; what is it? Well, in Punxsutawney on Feb 2, the sun doesn't come up until 7:28 in the morning (see http://www.sunrisesunset.com/calendar.asp) so how can Phil look out his window at 6:00 am and see the street with no snow on it bathed in sunlight? Excited, I go to imdb.com to figure out how to post this incredibly insightful error on the site and guess what? It's the first thing listed under Goofs. My one chance to be a geek and it's already taken.!

That's when I realize what geekdom is really all about,; it's epitomized by this "goof": "When Bill Murray gives the young couple Wrestlemania tickets, the girl, after calming down, responds with "We're going to be in Pittsburgh anyways." This movie came out in 1993, so they were either referring to Wrestlemania IX or Wrestlemania X, which were held in Las Vegas and New York City respectively, so there's no way they could have been Wrestlemania tickets. Either way, Wrestlemania's never been held in Pittsburgh."

Oh well. Love, Dad"