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18->''"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', or 'You're very tall', or 'Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?'"''
19-->-- ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1''
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21Any line in a movie or show that tells us what it was we just saw. "He got away!" [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi "It's a trap!"]] "They are ''shooting'' at us!" You know ShowDontTell? This is Show, ''Then'' Tell.
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23Distinct from AsYouKnow in that everyone in the audience and the cast do, in fact, know this.
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25This is common in children's shows, where it can help the young viewer to make the association between what's being shown and what's being told. It is also seen in {{Reality Show}}s, when participant monologues are interspliced with clips of the events they are talking about:
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27->"He started yelling at me." ''(shot of person yelling)''
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29Possibly a holdover from the days of the RadioDrama, where the medium required characters to describe the action for the audience. This behaviour would tend to make the actors sound really [[LargeHam hammy]] to listeners used to visual media, and many programs would play with and {{lampshade|d}} characters who do this.
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31Perhaps writers do this because they assume that ViewersAreGoldfish. In media such as older comic books and manga, this tends to go hand-in-hand with TalkingIsAFreeAction.
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33See also CaptainObvious, LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe, NarrationEcho. Contrast UnreliableVoiceover.
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35!!Examples:
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38[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
39* In ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', expect someone to remark on how the person we just saw take damage now has more damage.
40* The Digi-Destined in both ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' love to this a lot. They point out when a foe didn't receive any damage at all, when their Digimon partners revert to previous states... Just everything.
41* In some dubs of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when Frieza blows up Planet Vegeta, he takes the time whilst laughing like a maniac to describe how this sight fills him with joy, then continues laughing.
42** This is a constant trope on the whole series, especially when supporting characters watch a battle to death between the main fighter and the ArcVillain.
43%%* ''Constantly'' in ''Manga/InuYasha''. Along with heaping helpings of CaptainObvious.
44* This seems to be [[TheLoad Speedwagon]]'s only role during the first part of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Other characters have since then inherited this dubious mantle. And then the obvious about him was narrated. One example that has undergone MemeticMutation is a panel of Speedwagon looking afraid and shouting "GAAAAH!" while Jonathan, providing narration says "Even Speedwagon is afraid!" At one point, he also outright ''says'' "Speedwagon withdraws coolly" ''to himself'' early on.
45* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': The Narrator narrates the rom-com events of the story in the style of a shounen battle anime, but the joke doesn't translate particularly well, so a common complaint from Western fans is that the Narrator does nothing but constantly state the obvious. The English dub instead turned him into a LargeHam LemonyNarrator, a move which [[{{Woolseyism}} proved very popular]].
46* This trope alongside AsYouKnow is an [[SignatureStyle incredibly common signature part]] of the anime works by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino. It is not uncommon for characters to narrate things that are happening that the audience can clearly see or them narrating on what other characters said just moments before.
47* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGORUSH'', [[TheHero Yudias]] has a habit of shouting the amount of damage he's just taken whenever he takes damage.
48* The first episode of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' appear to be a slice-of-life school anime, and then suddenly time freezes, the real world vanishes in an explosion of light, and the protagonists find themselves transported to a mysterious pastel-coloured forest. Then a voiceover from Yuna informs us that "this was the very moment that our lives changed forever."
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52%% The works of Amar Chitra Katha, an Indian publisher of educational/religious children's comics, are full of this.
53* Over the top parodied in ''Pyton!'' magazine's "Stuporman" comic: One frame shows Lex Luthor in a mech, announcing that he's going to "Take over the world!", while a fleeing bystander screams "Aiee! Lex Luthor is taking over the world!" while the protagonist looks on and muses that Lex Luthor seems to be trying to take over the world. The narrator points out that Lex Luthor, the villain, is often trying to take over the world, while an arrow box pointing at at Lex clarifies that he is trying to take over the world. The next frame shows the comic's editor, asking the artist if they've made the point clear enough, since their readers are very, very stupid.
54* All the time in older ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' issues. The writers and layout artists apparently suffered from the unfortunate delusion that every panel had to have dialog in it; they don't really ''lose'' this particular delusion, but at least they learn to make the dialog semi-meaningful instead of this trope.
55* Frequently occurs in [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] comic books. A caption will say, "Captain Whizbang overtakes the locomotive!", while in the same panel Captain Whizbang says or thinks, "Got to--overtake--the locomotive!", and the art shows Captain Whizbang--guess what?--overtaking the locomotive. The trope carried over into the [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] as well. Since the [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]], this has become a DiscreditedTrope, and a likely contributing factor to the DecompressedComic.
56* Played for [[RuleOfFunny parody purpose]] in ''ComicBook/SergioAragonesMassacresMarvel'' and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Comicbook/DoctorDoom.
57-->'''Narration:''' Seething with fury, the Human Torch unleashes a torrent of fireballs...\
58'''Doctor Doom:''' They can ''see that'', [[BreakingTheFourthWall you idiot writer]]!
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61[[folder:Comic Strips]]
62* The comics that Jason writes in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' have this trope heavily. Justified, given that he's only about ten or eleven.
63* In the early 20th century, it was not unusual for a comic strip to have captions below the panels to explain what was already obvious from the illustrations and dialogue. See [[http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2010/08/obscurity-of-day-hazel-heartbreaker.html Hazel the Heartbreaker]] (1910-11) as an example.
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67* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': While on his way home from school, Lincoln narrates to the audience everything they just saw.
68* The author of ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'' tends to spell out everything, such as outright telling the audience how a mirror-based monster has the power to reflect attacks right back after it's been shown to the audience multiple times already.
69* FanFic author Creator/JusSonic uses this trope a lot in most if not all of his work. It's so bad in ''Fanfic/CurseOfTheDemonPony'' that the person who's currently doing an audio reading of it said that he should try to stop bringing it up so much because then it would be "restating that it's restating the obvious".
70* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' has a running gag where Joey keeps announcing "Here we are at the (place of interest)" to everyone else's great annoyance.
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74* The American dub of ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheBigFight'' has a narrator who narrates everything the viewers are already seeing. The original French version and the British dub don't have a narrator.
75* Ben Reilly in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' does this while patrolling, poking fun at comic-book narration. [[NinetiesAntiHero Plus, he seems to think it's cool.]] His reaction to landing in an alleyway [[PortalDoor filled by an interdimensional portal?]]
76-->Now I'm here, in the alley. There's something unusual happening. Looking at the walls - those are normal - but there's something right in front of me...
77* Patou of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' has an awful habit of describing exactly what's happening at the moment, and even spoiling a few plot elements ahead of time, like Goldie's HeelFaceTurn. Not that the film is particularly deep, but he seems to believe ViewersAreMorons.
78* The recut versions of ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', in particular the Miramax cut, decided to make a few mute characters non-mute. How, you ask? By making them narrate their thoughts. However, the original director had already made sure that the audience would know what they were thinking. As a result, you get lines such as:
79-->"As Zigzag's guards were taking me inside the royal palace, I gazed upon the princess for the first time."\
80"Finally, I was free."
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83[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
84* The helpful narrator of ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'' tells us that Jesse James was missing one of his fingers. At the same time, the camera zooms in on one of Jesse James's hands and shows us -- yes, there's a finger missing. Thanks, Narrator!
85* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' pokes fun at the location titles in the previous installments with an establishing shot of the Guardians' ship floating in space accompanied by the word, "SPACE."
86* At least half of the 1974 movie ''Film/BlackLove'' consists of the narrator telling exactly (and rather unnecessarily) what's happening on screen. And it's not (supposed to be) a comedy.
87* ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' can be found guilty of this, with the narrator filling us in on every single development and telling the viewer everything that is happening. Then there is this part towards the end:
88-->'''[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds Grace]]:''' That's Moses!\
89'''Narrator:''' "That's Moses!" she said, jumping out of the car.
90* ''Film/Dune1984'' is rife with this, including but not limited to: the internal monologues of one-off characters, characters describing exactly what they have just done/ are doing/ are going to do shortly, and infodumps a plenty.
91* The beginning of ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' has a bit of this: onscreen text explains that Earth is an overpopulated WretchedHive, while Elysium is an idyllic space station where the rich hide from the masses, but the accompanying flyover visuals and first couple of scenes make all this perfectly clear.
92* ''Film/ExecutionersFromShaolin'': At the end of the film's climatic final battle, after Hong has defeated Pai Mei and avenged his father, the film then helpfully states, "A combination of Tiger and Crane styles is what finally defeated Pai Mei." As in, the ''exact same'' style the audience sees Hong training for the past entire hour or so of the film. [[ViewersAreMorons Just in case the audience doesn't get it]].
93* ''Film/IndependenceDay'': An exchange like this takes place when Hiller and Levinson try to escape from the enemy mothership after setting up the bomb that is meant to destroy it. Some airships are pursuing them during the escape sequence:
94-->'''David Levinson:''' They're chasing us!\
95'''Capt. Steven Hiller:''' Oh, really, you think?
96* A large part of ''Film/IndestructibleMan'' is spent with the narrator talking over everything to the point that it might as well have been an audiobook. Surprisingly, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel and the 'Bots]] didn't even touch this aspect during their review.
97* From ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
98-->'''Henry Jones Sr.:''' Those people are trying to kill us!\
99'''Indiana Jones:''' I KNOW, DAD!\
100'''Henry Jones Sr.:''' Well, it's a new experience for me!
101* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' spends a great deal of time with Katara describing what's happening on screen as we watch it happening.
102* The narrator in ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' often explains what is happening on screen, even things that are blatantly obvious. The biggest offender is when Matilda goes to school for the first time and the camera shows us the school; he explains that the school is a building with children.
103* Gets pretty annoying towards the end of ''Film/MissionToMars'' when the characters enter the Face on Mars and are shown a holographic animation about the history of the OnceGreenMars and how the Martians sent a ship to seed the ancient Earth with life before leaving to another galaxy after Mars was devastated by an asteroid impact. The visuals speak for themselves clearly, and yet, bordering on ViewersAreMorons territory, the main characters watching the holograms need to spoil the scene with CaptainObvious observations like "One stayed behind!", "They seeded Earth!" and such.
104* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movie, when Vincent openly has a gun to Jane's head.
105-->'''Jane:''' He has a gun.\
106'''Frank:''' I... can see that.
107* Sometimes used in ''Film/TheNutcrackerAndTheFourRealms''. During a ballet about the magical realms shown to the main character, it keeps cutting away for Sugar Plum to explain what each act is about, even though the costumes and staging make it obvious. (The backup dancers wearing florals and the stage being covered in flowers would seem to suggest that, indeed, this part is about the Land of Flowers.)
108* Used for a gag in ''Film/PootieTang'': Trucky's narration eventually catches up to the present day, resulting in his voice-over redundantly narrating a conversation between Pootie and himself as they're having it.
109* The localization of ''Film/SantaClaus1959'' gave the movie a narrator who routinely alternates between this and [[AndThatsTerrible condemning whatever naughty things the characters did]]. ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' naturally mocked its predictability.
110* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' spends a few good minutes setting up the Emperor's plan, complete with the delightful reactions of the pilots as they stumble right into it... and then Admiral Akbar declares, "[[MemeticMutation It's a trap!]]"
111* ''Film/TwelveToTheMoon''. A member of the crew [[CaptainsLog records the momentous events]] of the first Moon landing. Unfortunately this becomes a CaptainObvious [[CaptainsLog Log]] for the audience.
112-->''[While being bombarded by meteors]'' "We are constantly being bombarded by falling rocks."
113* Some [[DVDCommentary DVD Commentaries]] fall prey to this trope, with filmmakers offering little more than obvious descriptions of what's plainly happening on screen. For example, Creator/WilliamFriedkin's commentary on ''Film/TheExorcist'' has been described as "''The Exorcist'' for the visually impaired".
114* Dorothy narrates Toto's escape in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. "He's getting away! He got away!"
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117[[folder:Literature]]
118* The first few books in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' have a pretty bad case of this when it comes to character descriptions. Harry ''always'' tells us that he is a wizard, even though it's mentioned on the blurb. He tells us who Murphy is, even though we've known that for more than four books. He repeatedly tells us how he's tall and lanky. And so on. And obviously, many long-running book series are guilty of this. They obviously write it that way so that if someone obviously starts reading the series without reading book one, they will obviously not be lost.
119* Creator/HarryHarrison's "Literature/TheFourthLawOfRobotics":
120** As a humour technique, the narration often restates dialogue text before/after a statement from a character. The first incident occurs when Dr Donovan tells (young) Dr Calvin about his "pressing errand", which is to tell her that he's seen evidence that a robot has robbed a bank.
121--->I grabbed my mind by the neck and shook it, remembering my pressing errand. "I have a pressing errand, which is why I have burst into your office like this."
122** The narration also frequently contrasts the dialogue, providing an immediate contradiction to the claim made by a character. Since the narrator is Donovan, the contrasts often serve to highlight how he has gotten older since the tales written by Dr Asimov.
123--->"It is hard for a robot to sneer," the robot said, sneering, "but I spit on your ofay attitudes."
124%% * The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series is notorious for this. Bella is quite an unobservant narrator of her own story, so half the time she doesn't notice what should be completely obvious to the other characters and/or all the readers. %%Unclear - If she doesn't notice the obvious, how does she narrate it?
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128* Justified in the Stop Motion Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', so that everyone knew what was going on in [[spoiler: Abed's delusion]].
129* In ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', the title character provides narration which frequently strays into this territory.
130* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
131** This was a common staple of classic ''Doctor Who'' since it was essentially recorded live, "as is." If there's a SpecialEffectsFailure, at least the companion screaming "It's gestating!" will get the point across to the audience. It also provides a handy cue to the video technician to start playing the filmed inserts. A certain amount continues into the modern day, with WordOfGod explaining that it's to make sure the audience is clear on what's happening (which, in a series as bonkers as this one, may be a fair concern).
132** During "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" the protagonists are chased through time by a group of Daleks in their own time machine and make a brief stop on a sailing ship, and when the Daleks show up they fight and kill the crew before resuming the chase. The camera then pan over the now deserted ship before stopping on the name plate, which reads "Mary Celeste". That's kinda funny, right? Cut to inside the TARDIS, where Ian tells Barbara that the ship was, in fact, the Mary Celeste. Maybe the writers were afraid the audience looked away at the wrong moment.
133* As excellent as ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' mini-series was, it sometimes failed to avoid this trope. It's especially noticeable in the first part "The Even Chance". It feels like the writers or producers had little faith in their actors. For instance, Hornblower had to fight hard to gain his division's respect. After their first battle, Styles comes to thank him for taking care of their injured fellow sailor and Hornblower praises his men's conduct. Styles thanks him, smiles a bit and salutes him. Hornblower looks pleased and proud, and then says: "A salute! Well, that a start, I suppose." Nothing what the audience didn't see; plus his face said it much better.
134* Parodied to death in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' with "The Gift Shop Sketch".
135* A small example in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', when the characters play a game at a bar that involves guessing which hand a quarter is under. After all but two of the hands are eliminated, Roy states the obvious: "The quarter's either here or here."
136* A staple of incompetent documentarian Roy Mallard on ''Series/PeopleLikeUs''. Sometimes his narration uses ''exactly'' the same words that his interview subjects use seconds later (though the narration was ''added'' long after the people spoke those words.)
137* Surprisingly common in ''Series/StargateSG1'' and its spin-offs. There are countless occasions when the gate will activate, a ship will emerge from/go into hyperspace or start firing weapons...and then a character will proceed to tell us that the gate just opened/a ship exited/entered hyperspace/the enemy is firing on us!
138* Various {{Tokusatsu}} series have tons of moments where a MonsterOfTheWeek runs away from combat, upon which one of the main characters exclaims, "It got away."
139** The later seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' were especially bad with this, particularly ''[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Samurai]]'' through ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Ninja Steel]]'', which was during the second period when Saban owned the franchise.
140* Played with in one scene on ''Series/TheYoungOnes'':
141-->'''Vyvyan:''' Look, here comes the postman.\
142'''Mike:''' Vyvyan, why do you keep telling us what's just about to happen next?\
143'''Vyvyan:''' [[NoFourthWall Because it's a studio set]], Michael, [[BehindTheBlack and they can't afford any long shots]].
144* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' has The Ruby Reds and The Do-Wop Penguines, two sets of characters whose only roles in the show are to do this in the form of a short song. For example, when a toy told the others that the goblins escaped in the first episode, the former group sang "Not the goblins!".
145* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', when Detective Boyle finds himself slipping into this at a moment of great tension:
146-->'''Detective Boyle:''' Terry called him?! He's shaking Terry's hand! Now I'm just describing everything that's happening. What the hell's going on?!\
147'''Captain Holt:''' I do not know.\
148'''Detective Boyle:''' Now Captain Holt doesn't know!
149* Heartwarming and justified example: Fred Rogers frequently did this in ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', intricately describing what he was doing at any particular moment for the sake of visually impaired viewers. He reportedly picked up this habit after a young blind girl wrote in to the show admitting that she didn't know if he actually fed his fish when he did so at the start of episodes.
150* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "Disaster," Picard is in a turbo lift that suddenly starts falling. He shouts, "We're falling!" This doesn't need to be pointed out to everyone in the turbo lift, but it does help the audience figure out why the camera suddenly went haywire and everyone dropped to the ground.
151* ''Series/WellingtonParanormal''
152-->''(Minogue gets thrown behind some rubbish bins)''\
153'''O'Leary:''' We've got an officer down!\
154'''Minogue:''' ''(getting up)'' Officer back up!\
155'''O'Leary:''' ''(to camera)'' He's back up.
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159* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Lampshaded by Miss Brooks in "School Mascot":
160-->'''Miss Brooks:''' Well, as they used to say before television, let's go in.
161* A RunningGag in ''Radio/HamishAndDougal'' is Dougal doing this and Hamish [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how odd it is.
162-->'''Dougal:''' Well, here we are at the Laird's house.\
163'''Hamish:''' Why did you say that?\
164'''Dougal:''' It doesn't do any harm.
165* Spoofed in the ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' parody of ''Radio/TheArchers'':
166-->'''Victoria Wood as Susan:''' It's Joe Grundy coming in on his legs. Hello, Joe Grundy.
167* Creator/TheBBC RadioDrama adaptation of ''Literature/GuardsGuards'' handles this cleverly for the scene where the alleged king fights the dragon: Carrot can see over the crowd that's come out to watch the fight, but Vimes can't, so Carrot gives a play-by-play for his captain's benefit.
168* Deliberately exaggerated in ''[[https://clyp.it/fif3lyin This Gun That I Have In My Right Hand Is Loaded,]]'' a spoof radio play that is often used as a didactic example on how ''not'' to do radio.
169* ''Radio/TheFoundationTrilogy'': The closest thing to a {{Narrator}} in this broadcast are the recitations from the ''[[EncyclopediaExposita Encyclopedia Galactica]]''. The {{dramatization}} required changes to the dialogue to include many of the character actions that had been described by the third-person narration, causing characters to describe what they see happening to the character taking that action.
170* A monologue on ''Radio/TheNowShow'' by blind comedian Chris [=McCausland=] discussed the audio descriptions for films and TV, and that sometimes they fall into this category even if you can't see -- when you hear a door rattle and a voice say "Hi, it's Steve!", you don't then need to hear a voice saying "Steve enters the room".
171* No radio drama ever handled it better than Creator/OrsonWelles did with his famous ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast. Welles' decision to stage the show as a PhonyNewscast (for the first two acts, anyway; Act III is a reading from a diary) justified this trope InUniverse. Instead of characters narrating what they're seeing for an audience, radio broadcasters are describing what they're seeing as they would naturally.
172* ''Radio/DimensionX'': In "[[Recap/DimensionX21TheParade The Parade]]", an announcer is describing the scene of the eponymous parade. This is normal for parades over radio, and was intended to resemble the UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade.
173* A flu shot reminder PSA that runs in some markets uses the framing device of a man kneeling to propose to his lady, only to be overtaken with a coughing fit while trying to get the words out. We know that's what he's doing because the woman exuberantly declares "Oh, you're on one knee!" One need only picture the scenario in their head to realize just how awkward and unnatural a thing that is to say, but the fact that she almost ''has'' to say something to that effect to evoke the proper, instantly-recognizable visual shows that some ad concepts just do not work well in a non-visual medium like radio.
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177* ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' explicitly calls for this in the stage directions: one act opens with the title characters waking up in darkness to the very obvious sounds of the ocean, sailors shouting, ropes and timbers creaking, etc. Only when "the point has been well made, and then some" does Guildenstern helpfully declare, "We're on a boat!"
178* The majority of ''[[Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812 Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812]]'' consists of characters narrating their actions, thoughts and emotions in the first or third person ("I will touch you on the cheek," "I blush scarlet," etc.), due to a good deal of the libretto being taken wholesale from the [[Literature/WarandPeace source novel]].
179* Enforced by the way ''Theatre/JacobMarleysChristmasCarol'' is performed, with minimal costuming and sets and relying entirely on acting, narration, and lighting. This is necessary to describe characters and what's going on around them, with several characters finishing each other's sentences.
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183* The title character of ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' tends to do this. In the beginning, he tells us that it was dark as he drove in his dream while doing so. He hits a man on the road, talks about it...then while looking at the lighthouse, [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper tells the audience that he sees one in the distance.]]
184* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII'': Many units have a response to events like being attacked by a specific unit, but Captain Diomedes goes with this school of communication.
185--> [[MemeticMutation It is the BANEBLADE!]]\
186It is a STORMTROOPER!\
187It is the BATTLEFORTRESS!\
188It is the HIVE TYRANT!\
189Ah, a Warp Spider!\
190Brothers I am hit!\
191Brother I am pinned here!
192* As was a major criticism of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' because holy ''Christ'' [[ExpositionFairy Fi]] is bad for this. There are many points in the game where a character, a sign, your dowsing ability, the map, or obvious elements in the environment will flat-out tell you where to go or what you need to do next, and then Fi will [[ForcedTutorial unavoidably pop out and explain]], ''again'', what you were just told and add that there is "[[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect a 95% chance that you should do what you were just told to do]]." You could quite honestly remove almost all of her dialogue from the game and it would be no less clear what you were supposed to do.
193* Nall, hero Alex's resident ExpositionFairy of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', had a very bad habit of this, to the point that the game's official strategy guide [[SelfDeprecation came close to making a drinking game of it]]. He usually announces when you have arrived at a quest location or what the party has just witnessed.
194* ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'': Samus does this a lot in the game. Sometimes repeating what another character just said in monologue form so she can state her opinion on the subject or give a deeper analysis of the actions of another character, usually Adam.
195* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': Olivia, the game's ExpositionFairy, tends to narrate obvious facts. For instance, after you turn a valve to drain the water from a sewer, Olivia says "Oh! The water disappeared!" When you come across a broken bridge, Olivia says "Ooh! The bridge is out." When you beat the Ice Vellumental and it gives out a Bibliofold (as with the other three Vellumentals you've already fought), Olivia still says "It's the Ice Vellumental's Bibliofold!" and nothing else.
196* DummiedOut content from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Joker stating what day it is at the start of each day [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7qAfReyQ8 shown here]]. Was probably dummied out for good reason. Imagine hearing Joker state the day of the week with all the enthusiasm of a pencil pusher convention every few minutes for almost 100 hours.
197* This gem from ''VideoGame/Portal2'', overlapping with DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
198-->(''Chell lands right in the middle of a huge death trap'')\
199'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Well, this is the part where he kills you.\
200'''[[spoiler:Wheatley]]''': Hello! This is the part where I kill you!\
201CHAPTER NINE: THE PART WHERE HE KILLS YOU.\
202Soundtrack: The Part Where He Kills You\
203[[OverlyLongGag Achievement Unlocked: The Part Where He Kills You]]\
204[[OverlyLongGag Achievement description: This is that part]]
205* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'', the protagonist's partner Aogami will alert the player when they're about to walk into a boss fight by saying "I'm detecting a powerful demon ahead. We should proceed with caution." so they can save beforehand if needed (considering this series is infamous for booting you back to the title screen when you die, this is the series standard for fairly obvious reasons). Normally, this is fine because the boss is hidden from view until you trigger the boss fight. But in one late game boss fight against Zeus, Aogami will alert you even though you can see him well in advance and you went there ''specifically'' to kill him and steal the MacGuffin he's holding.
206* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'':
207** Can be invoked if you have no intention of disguising your alien sim as a human.[[note]]Being seen undisguised will embarrass your alien (which is potentially deadly in a crowd) unless you use satisfaction points to get the Shameless reward trait.[[/note]] If you parade your undisguised alien sim right in front of a non-alien, the pop-up message reads, "[[HelloInsertNameHere (Sim's name)]] has discovered that [[HelloInsertNameHere (alien's name)]] is an alien!" If the armored spacesuit with the glowing green TronLines wasn't obvious enough, the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation unearthly skin tone]] (blue, purple, [[LittleGreenMen green]] or even [[TheGreys paper-white]]) makes it even more obvious. The situation is even more hilarious if other sims [[FailedASpotCheck don't even notice your undisguised alien waltzing around right in front of them]] until the alien scans their brains.
208** Viewing a specific plant (e.g. "View apple tree") will cause your Sim to announce what kind of plant it is (e.g. "This is an apple tree"), as if you didn't already know from reading the action button.
209** A spellcaster who casts Inferniate to start a fire will cause a popup message reading "(Spellcaster's name) has discovered the fire!" [[https://youtu.be/u81EZ928Qp0?t=509 In the words of YouTuber Iron Seagull]], "No kidding! You made it yourself!"
210** If a pregnant sim goes to the hospital to give birth, a popup message can appear stating that they have learned that the sim performing the operation is a medical professional at the hospital.
211* ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' is usually reserved in its story telling despite the limited Visual Novel styled narration... for the main story. For gameplay tutorials and side quests, you'll be finding yourself mashing the A button to skip the rows of text that adds nothing except maybe tell you "go to this area to continue doing what you've already been doing this entire side mission". Unfortunately, there's no "skip cutscene" button for these instances.
212* ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'' uses a lot of PurpleProse, and at times even describes things as they are shown to the player.
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216* Parodied in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' when the Red team find an odd computer underground.
217-->'''Sarge:''' Huh, what's all this business?\
218'''Simmons:''' It looks like a bunch of computer equipment, sir.\
219'''Sarge:''' Excellent analysis, Simmons.\
220'''Donut:''' And it's attached to some kind of TV thing.\
221'''Sarge:''' So it is. Astute deduction, Donut.\
222'''Grif:''' It shows all different parts of the canyon. Look, there's our base!\
223'''Sarge:''' Ah yes, another incredible observation from the stating the obvious department! Thanks for nothing, numbnuts!
224* Creator/RoosterTeeth's short skit ''That's My Uncle'' does this naturally, being a parody of various anime tropes.
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228* ''WebVideo/ClimateTown'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5TbGvvluk 2 Minutes Of Fact-Checkable Climate Change Facts For Skeptics]]" Rolly points out that the video is two minutes of fact checking, or less if you click off before it finishes.
229* Justified. Whenever ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'' gets an achievement, the hunters always point it out, and use it as a clue to find where Dream is. Since the audience is in Dream's point of view, this is usually obvious.
230* Creator/{{Netflix}} shows have this [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools as a feature]] in the form of UsefulNotes/AudioDescription tracks so that the visually impaired can have an indication of what's happening on screen.
231* PlayedForLaughs in WebVideo/BillWurtz's video ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'', where he often uses repetition and emphasis in his narration.
232-->'''Narrator:''' "Thanks for invading our homeland!" Said the Jews, who are getting really tired of people invading their homeland.
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235[[folder:Western Animation]]
236* The 1960s era ''Adventures of Superman'' had the narrator state everything that was happening on screen as you were watching it, leading to such helpful narration such as "Superman hurls the rock into the volcano!" as you watch Superman hurl the rock into the volcano.
237* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes place AfterTheEnd where the Griffin family finds a shelter after the apocalypse. Turns out Music/RandyNewman is also there on a piano. He proceeds to narrate ''every single thing'' the Griffins do, as they do it. Lois decides to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get her family out of there]] after about 10 seconds.
238* Mocked in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', and served as a TropeNamer to boot, when the Robot Devil criticizes Fry's play for doing this:
239-->'''Robot Devil:''' You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! (Angrily) [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry THAT MAKES ME FEEL ANGRY!!!]]
240* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': At the end of the episode "Let's Play Spies", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] does this:
241-->'''Stumpy:''' [[spoiler: [[SanitySlippage Kaeloo's lost it!]]]]
242* Occurs a great deal in ''WesternAnimation/KingRollo'':
243-->'''Rollo:''' ''[paces around glumly for about 10 seconds, staring at the floor]''\
244'''Narrator:''' King Rollo was very sad.
245* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E15UncredibleJourneyHostAPalooza Uncredible Journey]]" is an episode mainly revolving around three pets who don't speak intelligible dialogue, with Rube as a CharacterNarrator. However, most of what he says is describing the exact things that just happened on screen.
246-->'''Rube''': Uh-oh, Mr. Plumber thought Tinkle was the broken toilet. He replaced him with a regular toilet and took Tinkle away.
247* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' has a somewhat infamous narrator who seems intent on explaining what a character is doing or how they are feeling, when the majority of viewers would very likely be able to figure it out for themselves without the narrator treating them like idiots.
248-->*loud alarm goes off*\
249'''Narrator''': Daddy Pig has set off the noisy house alarm!
250* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': The famous "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS3E10WackyDelly Wacky Delly]]" episode, where after Rocko, Heffer and Filburt finish photographing a ''Wacky Delly'' episode and are ready to get the film developed, Filburt announces, "We have to take the film ''out'' of the camera, and put it in the film can."
251* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooProject'' parodies the tendency of bad documentaries to do this, with Velma spending much of the short filming the others and giving [[SarcasmMode helpful]] commentary such as "Fred's setting up the tent!" ([[CaptainObvious after Fred has been doing so for over a minute]]).
252* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Often {{Lampshaded}} on the show.
253** When the title family [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand visited Itchy & Scratchy Land]] and were attacked by murderous robots, Lisa pointed out to Homer that the camera flash scrambled the robots' circuits immediately after said event. Homer reacted: "What are you, the narrator?"
254*** Similarly, in Treehouse of Horror IX, when Lisa announces that Snake's hair transplant is controlling Homer's brain. "Everyone's already figured that out," an irritated Marge replies.
255** "Well, here we are at the Brad Goodman lecture." -- "We know, Dad." -- "I just thought I'd remind everybody."
256* Between seasons 9-16 of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', the series was extremely guilty of this, making it look like head writer Sharon Miller thought kids were morons who couldn't follow the action onscreen and needed to be told ''exactly'' what was happening. It got even worse in season 13, when the narration not only continued stating the obvious, but also ''spoke in rhyme'' along with the characters (who had gained individual voice actors starting in season 13). Thankfully, this was averted starting in season 17, when Andrew Brenner took over as head writer, restoring the sanities of many older fans.
257* The Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' had extensive narration for literally everything that was happening onscreen. This was apparently due to the Japanese dub being aimed at a slightly younger audience than intended by Hasbro. Basically, whenever a character wasn't talking, the narrator more than likely was.
258* Mocked in ''WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum''. When the titular team shows up to save a bus full of children, one of the children inside the bus says "Look, it's Titan Maximum!", only to be chastised by another child, who asks why he pointed out something so obvious.
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