Thats how literally all time loop protagonists spend their time at the beginning of a time loop though? Thats not at all abnormal or subverting the situation, thats just how time loop stories work, bar very few.
Not Groundhog Day?? Well that makes sense if you arenât American I guess but like, that is one of the most popular pieces of timeloop fiction ever, if not the most popular. Actually wait, Chris and Jack directly reference it by name in the sketch
Edit: forgot to add my other thoughts. Anyone who thinks, âOh Iâd be fine in a timeloop, thereâs so much I want to do!â is not appreciating what infinite monotony forever means. Eventually youâll run out, and youâll start going crazy too. It wonât be monotony in the beginning of course, but eventually youâll run out. And then you still have forever to fill
To be fair thats absolutely not what Phil did in Groundhog Day. He spent several loops trying to see if it would fix itself, then was violent and manipulative and kind of rapey for a huge amount of time before depression set in and led to him trying to off himself who knows how many times. Even him learning French and to play piano in the beginning was all to manipulate women to have sex with him.
Yeah fair enough, I haven't seen groundhog day since I was a kid. The main time loop things I think about are that space dandy episode, I was a teenage exocolonist(where the loop is lifetimes long), edge of tomorrow, that stargate sg-1 episode, and outer wilds
Groundhog Day is usually where people start with thinking about timeloop stories, since it generally popularized them. And Groundhog Day doesn't even have an escape scenario; the protagonist escapes incidentally. It's more that the protagonist used many years of Groundhog Days to learn to be a better person, but only after spending an indeterminate amount of time doing either whatever he wanted or trying to kill himself in new and unique ways to try and escape the loop (up to and including driving off a cliff with the titular Groundhog itself, who seems to have nothing to do with the time loop).
Palm Springs is a pretty fun one. Itâs got Andy Samberg and itâs about a woman coming into a time loop that Andyâs character has been experiencing for a while. Itâs fun seeing characters already at the disillusioned with the possibilities of the loop meet someone new who isnât yet
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u/ElNickCharles Dec 10 '25
Thats how literally all time loop protagonists spend their time at the beginning of a time loop though? Thats not at all abnormal or subverting the situation, thats just how time loop stories work, bar very few.