Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we are talking about Groundhog Day,

and I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand.

Salutations. Writer Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. Editor Alex Cayeros. Hi.

Trisha, you were the one that brought up Groundhog Day and suggested we do it.

Why did you want to talk about Groundhog Day?

Well, in fairness, I was not the first person to bring up Groundhog Day.

You've been getting requests for Groundhog Day, and it is one of the most discussed

and analyzed screenplays ever.

Of all time. Yeah. There's a specific person on Twitter that for three years now has sent me a

tweet on Groundhog Day being like, Groundhog Day video today? And last year, I was like,

you need to tell me before the day. I can't just make the video happen. But he was excited this year to

see that we did it. I mean, it's such a delight. And it is a movie that people come back to

over and over and over again, not just because it's a holiday every year. So you are going to

remember that it's happening and that the movie happens. But it's just, it's just so joyful,

the experience of watching. Actually, last year, I and some friends watched it on Groundhog Day,

which was the first time we'd ever done that. Like, let's just download it and watch it on

Groundhog Day. And it's, it's just so good. It encapsulates so many insane things about, like, holiday, the holiday and like, just American holidays, which is totally bonkers. It's a pretty strange holiday.

Oh, my God. Yeah. It's the most, it's the most just kind of like, how did this even begin?

Yeah.

What's like the weird like pilgrim origin story of this?

Yeah, it also surprised me on the YouTube comments how many people were like, why is everyone, why is so many people posting about Groundhog Day today?

And it's like, because it's Groundhog Day. And I realized like, oh, I guess in other parts of the world, like, they don't know that's a real holiday.

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