December 07, 2006 Captain Obvious to the Rescue By Robert Tracinski. In my student days back at the University of Chicago, there was a campus comedy troupe modeled on Second City, their more well ...

Peters says he always found it to be pretty funny. The Captain Obvious mascot for Hotels.com also paved the way for Peters, who at first wasn’t sure what kind of captain he could portray himself as.

Captain Obvious went to the zoo in September of 2017 and back then I remember considering a few of the same animal-related idioms that showed up today. I figured that you’re more likely to see ...