I mean, the one thing the comic gets wrong is that we never really settled on a standard, there are like 36 different regional rodents that are used., my favourite being Wiarton Willie:

The story of Wiarton Willie dates back to 1956. A Wiarton resident named Mac McKenzie wanted to showcase his childhood home to his many friends, so he sent out invitations for a "Groundhog Day" gathering. One of these invitations fell into the hands of a Toronto Star reporter. The reporter travelled to Wiarton looking for the Groundhog Day event. None of the townspeople knew about a festival, but one suggested he check at the Arlington Hotel, the local watering hole. There the reporter found McKenzie and his friends partying and was invited to join them. The next day, the reporter lamented to McKenzie that he needed some kind of story to take back to justify his expenses. So McKenzie grabbed his wife's fur hat, which had a large button on the front, went out to the parking lot, dug a burrow in the snow and pronounced a prognostication (which no one remembers). The picture of Mac and the hat ran in the February 3, 1956 edition of the Toronto Star. A year later, about 50 people arrived for the festival.

Americans will use any unit besides the metric system /s

celebrate resurrection of man-god who allowed himself to be killed so he could save us, and immediately after resurrection he transformed into god-god and moved to the sky.

Man-god allowed himself to be killed to save us from the wrath of god-god. A being who was mad that the creatures he created weren't spending all day every day worshiping him exactly as he said to, after giving them the free will to do otherwise.

the eggs thing predates christianity, so these things weren't all invented at once. people just kept on adding more and more outrageous shit

He died so we dye

The word "celebtate" fits the comment surprisingly well!

EDIT: The celebtation is over. Now were back to merely celebrating. Ah well, guess that'll do.

Let us not forget about the Hare Club For Men, and that Saint Peter was, in fact, a rabbit.

Or Christmas, where we cut down trees to set up inside and decorate to celebrate said man-god's birth, except the date is nowhere near his actual birthday

Shepherds only really stay out in their fields during calving season, i.e. And in Israel, that's mid-December to mid-January.

But really, anything actually written about Jesus before the age of like 30, is likely completely made up during the Council of Nicaea in 325AD.

Before that, the Trinity wasn't fully mainstream, because Jesus was considered a created being and not god himself. At least by a large percentage of early Christians.

If we count years from the birth of Christ, shouldn't his birthday be January first?

Learning about Groundhog's Day!

Pretty sure hat guy predates Walter White.

Why do you think they named the movie and holiday "Groundhog Day"? From the rodents waking up from a months long coma? That'd be silly. It has always been about time loop.

Well, actually, we celebrate the guy becoming zombie three days after nailing him to wood.
Also, the guy is often called "the lamb".
So we naturally eat roasted lamb as a traditional celebration, while the bunnies hide colored eggs for us to search.

I mean, a guy sneaking into your house at night and leaving you “presents” under a tree you’ve cut down and brought into your house for no other reason has to be up there too, right?

And don’t get me started on how fucked up Thanksgiving is.

Hey, don’t blame the bunnies!!!

That's a little unfair. We also adjust our clocks forward one hour.

so most of them?

It's the difference between a cultural holiday and a federal one.

This claim is marked "citation needed" on Wikipedia :)

Thought the script said he repeated that day for million years. Just watch it last night always a joy.

If you've seen him at the US Open it's a conservative estimate

Drat, 6 more decades of fascism!

I always wanted that when I was a kid cause I wanted lots of snow. I live in a place with no snow, so it doesn't matter to me anymore (not believing in magical thinking aside). Anyway, good job Phil.