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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Captain Ron is a 1992 comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, starring Kurt Russell and Martin Short.The film opens with Chicago businessman Martin Harvey (Short) and his family—wife Katherine (Mary Kay Place), daughter Caroline (Meadow Sisto), and son Benjamin (Benjamin Salisbury)—discovering that they've inherited a vintage yacht that once belonged to Clark Gable. Traveling to the sunny island of San Pomme-De-Terre to claim the dilapidated vessel, the Harveys soon realize they need to hire someone to help them sail it to Miami so they can sell it.That "someone" turns out to be the bumbling, mischievous, eyepatch-sporting rascal, Captain Ron Rico (Russell). With his somewhat dubious nautical skills and excessively laid-back attitude, Captain Ron ends up taking the Harveys on a wild adventure around the Caribbean, managing to charm the rest of the family along the way even as he creates some serious tension with Martin himself.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Strip Poker
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Strip Poker: Ben learns the game from Captain Ron
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: San Pomme-De-Terre translates to "Saint Potato" (a mix of Spanish and French), and the name of the pirates' ship, "Albondiga", is Spanish for "Meatball".
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Fun with Homophones
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Fun with Homophones: Martin is dismissive when Captain Ron tries to warn him to look out for gorillas on an island, claiming they aren't a native species. He soon gets captured by a small ragtag army - Ron had been saying "guerrillas".
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Eyepatch of Power
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Eyepatch of Power: Captain Ron, though he's quite a departure from Kurt Russell's other one-eyed role.
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Spit Take
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Spit Take: Benjamin, upon learning of his parent's shower antics.
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Bratty Teenage Daughter
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Caroline. First, she’s getting engaged to her boyfriend when not even out of high school (said boyfriend is practically tailor-made to be her parents’ worst nightmare), then she’s sneaking off with every boy she meets on every island they visit, coming back from one such adventure with a tattoo. She’s also uninterested in pulling her weight on the boat.
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Major Injury Underreaction
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Major Injury Underreaction: Captain Ron says that he has broken his leg and that "the bone is about to push through the skin". Yet he limps just fine and barely has any reaction to it. It's a sign that he's actually faking it to help Martin be the hero for his kids.
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Heel Realization
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Heel Realization: Captain Ron when Ben tells him that compared to him, their dad is a screw up.
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CloudCuckooLander
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Captain Ron is a hard-drinking, womanizing, ex-Navy sailor-for-hire of questionable skill and judgment. Of course, he turns out to be right surprisingly often... When questioned about maritime right-of-way rules, he dismissively says, "Don't worry, they'll get outta the way." He learned this lesson from having previously been a helmsman on USS Saratoga. That their 40-foot sailboat is decidedly smaller than an aircraft carrier evidently hasn't occurred to him.
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Ruthless Modern Pirates
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Ruthless Modern Pirates: Martin, who had previously scoffed at the idea of pirates being a real thing, suddenly regrets throwing all of Captain Ron's guns overboard.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike:
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Walking Shirtless Scene
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Walking Shirtless Scene: Not only does Captain Ron spend most of the movie without a shirt on, he even spends a couple of scenes wearing only a snug little Speedo, and another scene shows him in his underwear, a pair of itty-bitty briefs. Good thing he has the physique for it, otherwise... Caroline spends most of the film in either a bikini top or tiny halter top.
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Shower of Awkward
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Shower of Awkward: When Captain Ron catches Martin and Katherine "playing 'hide-the-salami' in the shower." He rightly reminds them that the boat carries a finite supply of fresh water.
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Male Gaze
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Male Gaze: Captain Ron loves him some Katherine and Caroline...
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Both Captain Ron and The United States Coast Guard toward the end.
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The Alleged Car
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The Alleged Car: In this case, the alleged boat. It's in extremely poor condition despite the fact it previously was owned by Clark Gable. Probably because it's been in storage for decades.
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Waking Non Sequitur
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Waking Non Sequitur:
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Captain's Log
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Captain's Log: Martin starts a log of their adventures, but his jealousy of Captain Ron's easy charm with his family leads to it becoming just a book of complaints about everything Ron does. After Ron saves them from the pirates, Martin starts a new log which is much less crabby and notes that the previous log mysteriously got destroyed by the pirates.
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