Captain Obvious Aesop/Quotes

"You have to admire the people who sing [protest] songs, it takes a certain amount of courage to get up... and come out in favor of the things everyone else in the audience is against. Like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on."

- Tom Lehrer, "Folk Song Army"

"The general feel of artsyness makes me think Velvet Assassin is trying to make a point, but I'm not sure what that point is. Possibly that the Nazis were bad? Yeah, we figured that out around the Normandy Landings."

- Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation

"Time after time, Hollywood justs peddles out movies like The Pianist and The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas - all offering the groundbreaking moral that the Holocaust was bad!"

- Overhead rant on Oscar Bait.

"The lesson here is obvious: Don't hold loaded guns in exploding rooms."

- The Announcer, Myth Busters

"After Stalin's death, especially after XX Party Congress, a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union. [...] If antistalinism of Khrushev era still deserved some leniency since destalinization of the contry was underway, antistalinism of Gorbachev era deserves nothing but scorn. Everything is good in its season. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous."

- A.Zinoviev, The Russian Fate: The confession of a dissident

"So, you know, the lesson here is you should store your rocket fuel in good, sturdy containers. Did you really need us to tell you that?"

- Cracked, 6 Tiny Mistakes That Caused Apocalyptic Explosions