'''Basic Trope''': Stating the obvious. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle These are different ways this trope can be played:]]
* '''Straight''': Bob always states the obvious.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everything'' Bob says is ''so freakin' obvious'' that ''everyone'' should know it.
* '''Downplayed''': While exploring a mysterious place, Bob comments on something that may be obvious to us, but has more features than meet the eye.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob is such a [[TheDitz ditz]] that he can only state, well, the obvious.
** Alternately, Bob is a robot and was not programmed with an understanding of "obviousness", so he states the obvious without realizing it.
** Bob points out the obvious to emphasize something.
** Bob has been cursed to make only statements that are obvious to everyone.
** Bob is in shock.
** Bob's friend Charlie is being CaptainOblivious, forcing Bob to state the obvious.
** Bob's friend Charlie is blind and he is describing things to him to avoid him getting hurt or confused.
** Bob states the obvious as part of his thinking process because things make better sense to him when [[ThinkingOutLoud spoken aloud]].
** Bob is deliberately being CaptainObvious as a form of [[DeadpanSnarker snark]], or to direct mockery toward him.
** [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope Bob's lawyer advised him to state the obvious about his product]] to avoid a FrivolousLawsuit.
** [[ChildrenAreInnocent Bob is still a child.]] Things that are obvious to adults are still mind-blowing to him.
** While these things may be obvious to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bob]] and his co-pilot, they won't be to [[ApocalypticLog the NTSB replaying the CVR should anything happen]].
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob always states BlatantLies.
** Bob is ComicallyMissingThePoint.
** Bob always states the subtle or ''un''obvious. Only a few people can fully understand the true meaning of his words, without Bob simplifying what he says to them.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is watching the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl on TV with his {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, Charlie. Bob says, "[[SarcasmMode I am]] ''[[SarcasmMode not]]'' [[SarcasmMode watching the Super Bowl]]." Charlie is amused.
** While this may be an obvious fact nowadays, not so during Bob's days.
** [[MotorMouth "WhileTheFactsIStateMayBeObviousToThoseThatActuallyWatchTheseEvents,I'mStatingThemForThoseListeningToTroperFM…AndAliceShootsAndItGoesAcrossTheField…GOAL!"]]
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Bob continues, "I am not watching the Super Bowl; [[TheTreacheryOfImages I am watching a TV that is displaying the Super Bowl]]."
** What Bob said was, in fact, well-known even in his time.
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob is literally a superhero called Captain Obvious [[BlessedWithSuck whose only superpower is his unparalleled ability to point out the glaringly obvious]].
** Bob [[OneWordVocabulary can say only one word: "Air!"]], which everyone else knows they breathe.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob states the obvious to TheDitz Alice, who actually needs it to be stated to her, but when he's with more intelligent people he doesn't.
* '''Averted''': Nothing obvious is stated.
* '''Enforced''':
** ViewersAreMorons.
** The way the previous episodes of ''Bob's Journey Around The World'' were dubbed from Tropestani to English meant that the ''Bob Visits America'''s English To Tropestani scenes became [[DubInducedPlothole English To English scenes]].
* '''Lampshaded''': [[SarcasmMode "Gee, thanks, Bob! I really learned something!"]]
* '''Invoked''': Bob is actually very perceptive but uses the obvious statements as part of his ObfuscatingStupidity.
* '''Exploited''': Bob uses obvious statements to hide not very obvious ones when in company of people who should not known the latter.
* '''Defied''':
** Bob begins with "You know..." but Alice cuts him off and [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks if he's actually pointing out something the others can't see]]. He apologizes and shuts up.
** Bob himself just says, "I suppose you see the obvious." Everybody else indicates assent.
* '''Discussed''': "Next time Bob says something obvious, I'm gonna punch his lights out."
* '''Conversed''': "DrinkingGame: Take a shot every time Bob says something obvious."
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's friends lose respect for him every time he states the obvious, which makes Bob feels like he's in the wrong for doing so.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's friend Max consoles Bob, telling him that he doesn't have to feel bad for stating the obvious and that the so-called friends are just being {{Jerkass}}es; Bob feels better now.
* '''Implied''':
-->'''Carol''': Did Bob say anything useful?
-->'''Charlie''': Not really.
* '''Played for Drama''': [[OnlySaneMan Bob]] says, "IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace. It's dangerous," just before the FiveManBand goes to [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Valley of Death]]. When they get there, he points out all the remains of previous adventurers and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou creatures that look ready to eat them]] to the rest of his team. They all tell him that they know how dangerous it is and they're well-prepared ... right before they're all snatched away.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is an onlooking character in an update of ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'', and we're invited to laugh at how NakedPeopleAreFunny along with him.
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-->This is the end of the page.[[CaptainObvious This link goes back to Captain Obvious!]]
-->'''Alice''': Hey, you! Stop [[CaptainObvious stating the obvious!]]
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