Captain Obvious

In Internet culture, Captain Obvious is a fictitious character inspired from comics super-heroes. His main super-power is the ability to state self-evident facts. The sentence "Thank you, Captain Obvious!" is sometimes used in order to sarcastically 'thank' someone who just stated something evident.

In popular culture

The Hotels.com website has a character in its television commercials, called "Captain Obvious" who says clearly obvious things, such as "Saving money on a hotel is the same as saving money on anything that costs money" or "This is a quote", as he proceeds to list various things that cost money.[1] The character, a thin, bearded man, is played by Brandon Moynihan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 David Gianatasio (February 27, 2014). "Hotels.com Recruits Captain Obvious, but Is One Gag Enough for a Campaign?". AdWeek. Retrieved 2014-03-06. In its first work for Hotels.com since adding the business last October, Crispin Porter + Bogusky goes the self-consciously wacky route by introducing Captain Obvious. As his name suggests, the new spokesman says lots of self-evident stuff to make the point that Hotels.com is the obvious choice for booking rooms. ... A 60-second spot finds the Captain sauntering through a swanky resort, noting, among other things, that, 'All-you-can-eat is a hotel policy that allows you to eat all that you can,' 'the hotel pool is usually filled with water' and 'gym is short for gymnasium.'
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