diegetic sound; freejack and millennium; phil's reset, muscle memory, and what does phil actually learn to do in #groundhogday minute 78? plus, the names of characters that you probably don't know.

the timing is all wrong with phils arrival at gobbler's knob in #groundhogday minute 77, but phil knows about a version of the prognostication that is not in the movie... and he's also taking an interest in larry as a person.

the time loop is watching, the clock offers infinity, baby steps, and phil's morning timing, with reference to happy death day and the map of tiny perfect things as well as a big old continuity problem in #groundhogday minute 76.

phil continues talking... to rita, to the time loop, in #groundhogday minute 75.

while rita sleeps, phil is genuine in #groundhogday minute 74.

rita falls asleep as phil has been reading poetry (but we only hear one line of a poem that isn't even in this book) in #groundhogday minute 73.

ego-death, infodumping, what you get, why the time loop is not 10,000 years long, and what i'd do with a time loop... #groundhogday minute 72.

in phil's room in #groundhogday minute 71, rita tries her hand at throwing cards in a hat and phil proclaims himself a jerk.

phil convinces rita with a note and i coin an alternative to a 'plot hole' - the 'background character hole' - in #groundhogday minute 70.

plus, does rita know who larry is?

phil knows about nancy, knows a tray will fall, and knows that rita likes the thighs of perfectly roasted chicken* in #groundhogday minute 69.

* that's a reference from the stage musical, not the movie.