How many times did Bill Murray relive the same day in GROUNDHOG DAY?

I'd always assumed that Bill Murray spent a few months at most reliving the same day in the 1993 comedy classic Groundhog Day. But it seems his ordeal was actually quite a bit worse than that!

Director Harold Ramis once remarked that Murray must have spent ten years or so trapped in Punxsutawney, given that he had enough time to learn how to be an ice sculptor, play piano, speak French, etc. Wolfgnards.com has broken it all down, with graphs and everything, to figure out exactly how many Groundhog Days Murray endured.

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More Muppets through the years!

Kermit the Frog is not the only Muppet who has changed quite a bit through the years. The Muppet Wiki actually has quite a collection of galleries showing how various Muppet characters have evolved over time, including Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and many, many more. It's fascinating stuff, but don't click over there until you have at least an hour to kill looking at pictures of foam rubber animals. (Seriously, never visit the Muppet Wiki on a day when you need to get anything done.)

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A visual history of Kermit the Frog

Kermit the Frog did not go directly from being a tadpole to the amphibious superstar we all know and love today! He's evolved quite a bit over the course of his five-decade career. The Muppet Wiki has an interesting gallery of Kermit through the years, from his weird, flipperless beginnings to his appearance in last year's hit movie The Muppets.

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MUSIC FROM SPACE: "Adventures in Success" - Will Powers

Feeling lost and directionless in life? Here's a very 1980s pep talk by Will Powers. Will Powers was actually the brainchild of celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who provided the creepy robot voice via a Vocoder. Her collaborators on the song included Sting and an uncredited Carly Simon. Apparently Goldsmith makes a cameo here as the lady playing the video game.

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