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768. Escape from the Multicurse: Groundhog Day

🕑 Added 2024-09-20 13:00:15 +0000 UTC

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Scriptmonkeys

In some timestreams, such rapid positive engagement with my post causes me to upgrade my membership tier. I’m kidding. It’s every timestream!

Small Beans

You're not being an asshole! That was a great way to tell us that. You're the Besse.

Scriptmonkeys

Then I “hearted” my own comment to close the asshole loop—not to be confused with the sex toy.

Scriptmonkeys

Just to make sure the assholes are represented in the comments, it’s Herman Hesse (hess-uh) not “Hess”.

Jared Linder

Time loops function s a multiversal branch point, only we get to see a version where the person feels free to actually indulge in almost every option.

Ryan (Kanserus Bone Saw) Bowdish

Holy shit, Swaim. That was incredibly impressive.

Adam Ganser

Throwing me under the bus! Classic bad Abe opinion! Believe better things in videos Abe! 😎❤️

Small Beans

I definitely wrote maybe 2 of those, haha. It definitely was whoever was around and available. I think Adam wrote a few with me in the them because he took pleasure in making me do stuff in front of camera. Also, you were typically in the ones you wrote, so it's entirely possible I wrote the arguments you hated! - abe

Brian Smith

I find myself holding my breath every time Swaim is barding

Liam Thompson

You could, but it would likely be structured like Happy Death Day or Edge of Tomorrow, in that the stakes are avoiding a very bad outcome for yourself or others.

Anthony Gordon

Bravo, Michael Swaim

Steve Snyder

Another really good screen writer set up and pay off example that I think Abe would appreciate would be the cooler in Tremors. At the introductory scene at the beginning of the movie Chang points out that he thinks the bearings might be going out on his freezer, and Val is ready to take a look at it immediately while Earl has a schedule that he wants to keep to, which in the scene works to develop their characters, but later on it’s used as a reason that the Graboids figure out where everyone is and then break into the store. I always thought that was a real subtle good use of writing.

Steve Snyder

I really could’ve used conversations with you guys about 20 years ago when I was taking my humanities classes in college. I never really understood how to have conversations about art, but hearing Mike talk about art in an incredibly artistic fashion (rhyming) turns up my envy meter to maximum. I’m definitely gonna have to listen to more of these. No offense, but Abe being in them always made me hesitate to listen to these. Not for any good legitimate reason, it’s just that I disagreed with a lot of his takes in a bunch of Today’s Topics back at Cracked. He probably didn’t even write those, so it’s incredibly prejudice of me not to listen to his new stuff, I’m going to remedy that.

Steve Snyder

I had the same experience with my wife trying to watch Anchorman not too long ago. We both really remembered it being funny from way back in the day, sorely disappointed.

Oliver Allen

I'd say Palm Springs and that one episode of Stargate SG-1 don't involve ending the loops by doing things an exact way like Groundhogs Day. Maybe also those one episodes of Legends of Tomorrow and Supernatural too.

Philip Reinhardt

Yess! Been waiting for this one, can't wait to dig in later tonight

Small Beans

You! You're the one who is a nerd, Jasper!

JasperParse

Fucking nerds

Michael E McDaniel

the next few eps should be groundhogs day too, for the bit

Searcher

I'm not sure you could have a story about a time loop without the ~modern day. For most of human history, most people's lives were basically the same each day, surrounded by the same small number of people, doing the same tasks each day and each year over and over. You hunt and gather, you plant your crops, you know everything about the three dozen people in your hamlet. You need a sense of progress before you begin to fear repetition.

Colin Harrington

You mentioned how jarring it was that these characters from that time are such pricks. I felt the same way about anchor man recently. I loved that movie 20 years ago. But seeing that the joke is just “look how sexist we are! Isn’t it funny how overtly sexist we are and how evolved we all actually in real life and society?” I laughed at the movie for about the first 10 or 15 minutes cause of nostalgia, but it started to feel pretty dated pretty quick.