Unsatisfiable Customer: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

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* A classic cartoon posted in countless places of business depicts an employee at the Complaints Desk confronting a sour-faced older female customer:

{{quote| ''"All right, Ma'am, suppose I refund your money, send you another one without charge, close the store, and have the manager shot -- would that be satisfactory?"''}}

 

 

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In the movie ''[[Waiting]]'', the staff does some nasty things to the food of a woman who endlessly complains about small flaws.

* Sally is like this in ''[[When Harry Met Sally]]''.

* At the beginning of ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', Victoria attempts the fraudulent variation while dining with Carroll, slipping a cockroach into her salad. The restaurant owner tells her that [[Genre Savvy|two other customers have attempted the same ruse]] and it's not going to work, but then the cockroach climbs up the leg of another diner, and during the resulting melee they're able to escape.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[True Blood]]'' have these quite often, with so many of the characters working in a bar. However, the first two scenes of the first episode of the first season are both spectacular examples of other kinds. First a grocery store intermezzo with a [[Jerk Jock]] and a redneck Vampire, then over to one of the main characters who quits her job at a hardware store because of one overly annoying customer.

{{quote| '''Woman:''' I made this in one of your pottery classes. It's terrible! ''(angrily smashes ceramic object on floor)''}}

* 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!")

 

 

== Puppet Shows ==

 

 

== Video Games ==

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Not Always Right]] is all about this trope. The actual site is at [http://notalwaysright.com/ notalwaysright.com/]

 

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote| '''Homer:''' Wait -- I changed my mind. Stack it in the order I'll eat it driving home.<br />

'''Bag Boy 1:''' Sir, please! I already bagged it by color, and in order of each item's discovery by man.<br />

'''Homer:''' ''(poking Bag Boy 1 with a french loaf)'' Hurry up! I can't stand here jabbing you all day.<br />

'''Bag Boy 1:''' That's it. On behalf of Sack Stuffers Local 199, I'm calling a strike! }}

** [[Jerkass|Bubblebass]] is so bad, he actually wound up sending SpongeBob into a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Bubblebass is more Type Four since he in fact hidden the pickles under his tongue the whole time ([[Noodle Incident|along with someone's car keys]]), either to gain a refund (and thus a free Krabby Patty) or just to [[Mind Screw]] SpongeBob [[For the Lulz]].

{{quote| '''SpongeBob:''' Did he take it?<br />

'''Squidward:''' Yep, [[Force Feeding|ate the whole thing in one bite]]. }}

* [[The Powerpuff Girls]]: In ''Not So Awesome Blossom,'' our carrot-topped little champion feels that she can't do anything right, runs away from home and eventually gets a job at a place called Hot Dog On A Skewer. The customers obviously see Blossom as inept in that job as she, being the only employee seen, cannot do three things at once (the capper having her throw a mustard bottle to the ground in disgust and having it squirt in her face).