Unsatisfiable Customer: Difference between revisions

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Particularly notorious in restaurants, but really can pop up in any kind of sales establishment. This is the customer who ''expects'' that the customer is always right to the point that it reaches the extreme of "everyone on staff must be wrong."

There are at least four different types of [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]. These are as follows:

There are at least four different types of '''Unsatisfiable Customer'''. These are as follows:

# More picky than nasty. In a restaurant, this type of customer will make long, overly complicated orders that go to the point of ludicrousness, and will constantly send the food back if it's not to precise specifications.

# The bossy type. This type may not make overly complicated orders, but if any tiny little thing is wrong (in their view), that person will lash out at the poor waiter or clerk who has the unenviable job of being their server.

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Usually, this character pops up in comedy. Note that to qualify for this trope, the complaints must be completely undeserved in the eyes of the audience. [[Truth in Television]], and there are entire ''[http://notalwaysright.com/ sites]'' devoted to this. Because of that, [[No Real Life Examples, Please|any real life examples should not be put here]].

Not to be confused with the [[Fire-Breathing Diner]], who could have quite good reason to complain after he gets a drink of water. The [[Unsatisfiable Customer]] is usually not [[Nice to the Waiter]].

Not to be confused with the [[Fire-Breathing Diner]], who could have quite good reason to complain after he gets a drink of water. The '''Unsatisfiable Customer''' is usually not [[Nice to the Waiter]].

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* ''[[Little Britain]]'' has a recurring sketch where Mr Mann enters a shop (it's always the same set, but what the shop sells varies in every sketch) and begins asking for more and more ridiculously specific items from the shopkeeper, with varying degrees of success.

* In most of the "Two A-Holes" skits on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', the title characters play the role of unsatisfiable customers to a single [[Straight Man]] character, such as a salesman or a travel agent. Typically, the skit starts off with the Straight Man attempting to be polite and tolerate the A-Holes' inane behavior and bizarre demands, but ends with the Straight Man finally losing his/her temper and telling the A-Holes to go to hell.

* The French comedy show ''[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_(s%C3%A9rie_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9e) Palace]'' has a recurring sketch starring a pernickity customer at a Grand Hotel always calling for the director ([[Memetic Mutation|"Appelez-moi le directeur !"]]) for the littlest things, which has since [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Appelez-moi+le+directeur%22 spawned lots of imitation] ~~-- notably~~, a series of advertisement for an assurance company, originally using the same comedians. The director would always get the last word, often with a completely absurd explanation to whatever dysfonction in the Palace the client noted. For example, when confronted with a cockroach inside the hotel room, he argues that it's the reincarnated form of his poor, dead mother. The sketch invariably ends with the client [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|facing the camera and saying,]] "Je l'aurais un jour... je l'aurais !" ("I'll get him one day... I'll get him!")

* The French comedy show ''[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_(s%C3%A9rie_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9e) Palace]'' has a recurring sketch starring a pernickity customer at a Grand Hotel always calling for the director ([[Memetic Mutation|"Appelez-moi le directeur !"]]) for the littlest things, which has since [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Appelez-moi+le+directeur%22 spawned lots of imitation]—notably, a series of advertisement for an assurance company, originally using the same comedians. The director would always get the last word, often with a completely absurd explanation to whatever dysfonction in the Palace the client noted. For example, when confronted with a cockroach inside the hotel room, he argues that it's the reincarnated form of his poor, dead mother. The sketch invariably ends with the client [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|facing the camera and saying,]] "Je l'aurais un jour... je l'aurais !" ("I'll get him one day... I'll get him!")