Funny / Groundhog Day

• "Well, what if there is no tomorrow?? There wasn't one today!...Hello?...Hello?!"
• "You little brat! You have never thanked me! ...I'll see you tomorrow! Maybe!"
• "Phil?! Phil?!"
  • "Ned?!" *punch!*
• "I have missed you so much. I don't know where you're headed, but... can you call in sick?"
• On the subject of Ned:
  Phil: So what happened, you turn pro with that bellybutton thing?
  Ned: Actually, I sell insurance now!
  Phil: What a shock.
• The last encounter with Phil has Phil buddying up with Ned, but when Phil and Rita want some alone time, Rita staves him off with a good heartened, "Let's not spoil it!" Ned then says, "Oh! I got that!" and does the most Narmy cat growl. It has to be heard to be believed.
• Incredibly, Phil's suicide montage, if only because of the rapid-fire pace and his outlandish methods.
  • Larry just doesn't seem to care at all in his multiple suicide attempts.
  Larry: [awkwardly] He was a pretty good guy... and I really really liked him... a lot...
• This exchange:
  Phil: It's the same things your whole life. "Clean up your room!", "Stand up straight!", "Pick up your feet!", "Take it like a man!", "Be nice to your sister!", "Don't mix beer and wine, ever!". Oh yeah — "Don't drive on the railroad tracks!"
  Gus: Uh, Phil... Th-that's one I happen to agree with...
  • Shortly followed, as an approaching locomotive looms in front of them, by:
    Phil: It's okay. I'm betting he's gonna swerve first.
  • And finally a policeman approaches their crashed car:
    Phil: Yeah, three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and one large coke.
    Ralph: And some flapjacks!
    Phil: Too early for flapjacks?
• Phil's first day when the rewind starts and this exchange:
  Phil: Do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?
  Mrs. Lancaster: I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.
• "Morons, your bus is leaving!"
• Phil kidnapping Punxsutawney Phil.
  Rita: Why would anyone kidnap a groundhog?!
  Larry: I can think of a couple reasons. Pervert.
  • And later, once Phil is on the road:
  Phil: (letting the groundhog take the wheel) Don't drive angry! You know, you're not bad for a quadruped.
• "What about the satellite? Is it snowing in space?"
• Phil's exchange with Ralph is simultaneously a CMOF and Fridge Horror:
  Phil: What would you do, if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
  Ralph: ...That about sums it up for me.
• "This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!"
• "Once again the eyes of the nation have turned here to this... tiny village in western Pennsylvania, blah bl-blah bl-blah. There is no way that this winter is ever going to end, as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's gotta be stopped. And I have to stop him."
  Larry: Real good, Phil. Real good. (aside to Rita after Phil storms off) He's out of his gourd!
• When Rita first reveals she majored in Nineteenth Century French Poetry, Phil can't help guffawing and exclaim, "What a complete waste of time!" He then awkwardly tries to make this into a compliment and fails miserably. We then cut to another loop where Rita reveals her major, and Phil responds by quoting a French poem. (It’s not actually 19th century, it’s a lyric by Jacques Brel, who was actually Belgian, but it still works.)
• "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over, and over, and over....?" What sells the speech is Ralph and Gus swooning over the imagery, as if to say, "Yeah, you had one day better than we'll ever hope to have in a lifetime."
• "HEY! If we wanted to run over mailboxes, we could let Ralph drive".
• The entire diner scene surrounding Phil's Gluttonous Pig stage. For example, when Rita quotes The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott, Phil chuckles and says he thought it was written by Willard Scott^note A jovial fat weatherman. Roger Ebert and other critics have commented that no one does gluttony like Bill Murray, such as when he stuffs an entire slice of cake into his mouth without chewing.
• Larry's reaction during the scene where Phil drives into a ravine:
  "He might be okay." (car explodes) "Well, no, probably not now." (films the explosion)
• For a little bit of Black Comedy, the montage of Rita slapping Phil day after day (sort of), even though it leads directly to his Despair Event Horizon.
• From the musical: All of "Stuck", where Phil goes to various doctors to fix his loop... only to be given outlandish solutions. At one point he goes to a cow pharmacologist, who offers him pills. Phil has to remind him that he is not a cow.
• After Rita buys Phil at the auction for $339.88, Larry jumps up on stage. After a lackluster response from the crowd, and no response at all from Nancy (whom he was hitting on), he is sold to one of the old ladies from the tire change. For a quarter. After seeing his bidder, Larry simply responds with "Oh, shit."
  • And before that, he looks abjectly humiliated when Nancy bids several times on Phil.
• One of the times Phil smashes the alarm clock, only for the speaker to still work and continue playing "I Got You Babe".
• The mayor's Skewed Priorities and Serious Business when the police have Phil at gunpoint during his kidnapping of the groundhog.
  Mayor Green: If you have to shoot him, aim high, I don't want you hitting the groundhog.
• "You gonna throw up out here, or you wanna do it in the car?" "I think... both."
• A little bit of Black Comedy: at the end of the film, when Phil wakes up on February 3rd, the radio is yet again playing "I Got You Babe"... only for one of the radio announcers to bemoan they're replaying it.
• When Phil first starts taking piano lessons (offering $1000 if they can start immediately), his teacher hastily kicks out the student she was already working with, who was heard just previously playing a very nice composition. The student's even more dismayed to hear Phil's very simple scale-playing as she walks away.
• When Phil is introducing people he logically should know very little if not nothing about, when Rita asks about Nancy:
  Phil: This is Nancy Taylor, she makes sounds like a chipmunk when she gets really excited.
  Nancy: HEY!
  Phil: (smiling as he's led away) It's true!