Let’s face it, there are few holidays out there as gloriously silly as Groundhog Day.
There’s a guy in Edwardian dress, replete with top hat and bow tie, and, at the absolute ass-crack of dawn, he yanks a sleeping rodent out of a tree stump and… somehow… predicts the weather.
On top of that ridiculousness, this all takes place in Punxsutawney: a town that’s smaller than 3.5 square miles in size, with only about 5,000 people, in a place called Gobbler’s Knob.
Yet, the one question you’ll hear over and over on February 2nd is, “Did the groundhog see his shadow?” because if he did it means one thing and if he didn’t it means another and no one can ever remember which is which (and we have no intention of clearing it up here).
Frankly, we’re surprised that it took Bill Murray until 1993 to make fun of it.
Yet, Groundhog Day is one of the most insanely funny films ever made. It’s a ridiculous premise built on top of a ridiculous actual event: meteorologist Phil Connors is forced to repeat the same day over and over, and that day just happens to be the most ridiculous day imaginable — Groundhog Day.
So, in true Bill Murray fashion, we asked the Brew Crew which day from their life that they’d want to repeat over and over and which Cape May Brewing Company beer they’d want along for the ride.