Awesome / Groundhog Day

• By the end of the movie, Phil apparently goes to catch the one boy who falls out of the tree every single day.
  • Even though, as he notes, the ungrateful little brat has never once thanked him!
  "I'll see you tomorrow! ...Maybe!"
• And then there's the choking victim he rescues! But not just any choking victim at a restaurant: it's the mayor. Without Phil, there's a good chance the mayor could have died, and Phil just swooped in and saved the day like it ain't no thing. Just to top it off, right after saving the guy, he turns around and lights a woman's cigarette for her the moment she places it in her mouth. Phil the Clock King in his finest.
• Every skill Phil masters over time. Ice sculpting? Eventually makes an angel. Piano playing? Can do an awesome blues solo by the end. Hell, in a couple of deleted scenes, he's effortlessly dominating the pool table and the bowling alley.
• Phil's last, beautiful, newscast on the last day of the loop, after he sadly fails to save the old homeless man. Every other newscaster points their mikes to him as he embraces the groundhog's proclamation of a long winter;
  "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark, and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here, among the people of Punxsutawney, and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long, and lustrous winter. From Punxsutawney, it's Phil Connors - so long."
• An awesome moment for Comedic Sociopathy: "Ned?! [PUNCH]" (Also a Funny Moment.)
• The musical makes Phil's "perfect run" even more impressive by pointing out that any exercise he does is also reset with each day, meaning he runs himself to the same level of exhaustion to get it all done every time, yet he still keeps doing it all.
• This is half awesome/half tearjerker: when the old homeless man dies, and Phil asks to see his chart, and you realize the implication that he has every intention of achieving absolute mastery of medicine no matter how long it takes to save one old man he knows nothing about. He's gone from jerkass to moral Determinator.

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