You Don’t Say?

Examples

Four-panel rage comic: a bored character is told, "I just figured out that the moon doesn't glow, it's the sun reflecting off it!" The final Nicolas Cage reaction reads "YOU DON'T SAY?"

The moon reflects sunlight

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Four-panel rage comic: a bored character is told, "I just figured out that the moon doesn't glow, it's the sun reflecting off it!" The final Nicolas Cage reaction reads "YOU DON'T SAY?"

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Four-panel rage comic: a character playing Mortal Kombat 9 is interrupted by a friend saying, "Water in the ocean isn't blue, Its the reflection of the sky!" The final Nicolas Cage reaction reads "You don't say?"

Ocean water reflects the sky

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Four-panel rage comic: a character playing Mortal Kombat 9 is interrupted by a friend saying, "Water in the ocean isn't blue, Its the reflection of the sky!" The final Nicolas Cage reaction reads "You don't say?"

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Nicolas Cage reaction image: empty. / You don't say?

empty. / You don't say?

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empty. / You don't say?

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A carrot bag with “INGREDIENTS: CARROTS” boxed in red, above the Cage-derived face and “YOU DON’T SAY?”.

The vegetable has issued a disclosure

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The label is useful packaging information, but the reaction pretends it has solved a mystery nobody had. A single obvious noun gets the full theatrical shock treatment.

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A game character tells Link, “Do you know what a store is? Let me explain: it sells many things, outsider.” Below, a green-hooded version of the reaction face says “YOU DON’T SAY?”.

A shop tutorial nobody requested

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The dialogue explains shopping as though the hero has never encountered commerce. Giving the reaction face Link’s hat makes the sarcasm come from the player-character himself: thank you, mysterious stranger, for explaining a shop.

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Samsung Galaxy S III advertisement with “Designed for Humans” circled, followed by the reaction face and “I THOUGHT IT WAS FOR MY DOG!”.

The dog will need a different phone

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A broad design slogan is deliberately read as a literal species restriction. The response invents an absurd alternative customer to make the original reassurance sound unnecessary. It is a caption joke, not a claim about the product’s capabilities.

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About & sources

An exaggerated face turns a seemingly surprised response into sarcasm: the discovery was obvious all along.

Date

Nicolas Cage contour reaction face; selected2011 marks the October rage-comic posting documented by Know Your Meme, not the1988 film or the older idiom.

History

Know Your Meme traces the expression to Nicolas Cage in the1988 film Vampire’s Kiss, distinguishes2009 video and reaction-still circulation, and documents a contour drawing in an October1,2011 Reddit rage comic. Its account credits LeechHax’s comic and vectorization by Aveilleux; this is an attributed archival account, not independently established priority. The selected2011 date marks that documented comic circulation, not invention of the phrase. The format answers obvious statements with mock astonishment. The film scene depicts workplace mistreatment; some historical posts use derogatory language, not reproduced here. Representative artwork only, not playable film or a complete comic archive. Film, likeness and drawing rights remain with their holders; attribution is not a license and public reuse permission is not established. Private research preview; no endorsement.

Know Your Meme — You Don’t Say? history
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