phil and rita dance in #groundhogday minute 89, only to be interrupted by Sara and Gertie, Buster and his wife, and Fred and Debbie.

phil jazzes up rachmaninoff and rita and mary dance like dorks in #groundhogday minute 88; i detail my piano teacher head canon and get into a rant about climate change and weather forecasters.

nancy casually removes larry's hand, rita slowly walks through the crowd, and phil changes up the music in #groundhogday minute 87.

larry has entered his proto-phil, sleazy stage; nancy escapes and meets rita in #groundhogday minute 86.

phil finishes changing the tire and then shows up at a restaurant where buster green is choking on his lunch, the producer's wife needs a light, and the director's lawyer is watching in #groundhogday minute 85.

phil saves a boy falling out of a tree, a girl getting hit by a truck (deleted scene), and three old ladies from a flat tire in #groundhogday minute 84. plus, phil disappears all day and rita does what?

i've never read any chekhov, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing rubin's reference in #groundhogday minute 83. nor does it stop me from letting rubin defend his reference in his book, nor from quoting chekhov himself, nor from getting sidetracked describing the plot of the one piece of russian literature i've read as an adult--dead souls.

phil gets the old man some food but still cannot save his life in #groundhogday minute 82.

i don't like that phil calls him 'father', i don't like the nurse's tone, but i do like phil turning his attention to the old man in #groundhogday minute 81.

phil has a nice piano lesson, a not-so-nice? interaction with ned, and doesn't quite get into his fight against homelessness yet in #groundhogday minute 80.