Worst SC's in fiction

[cindybubbles]

Who do you think are the worst customers in fiction?

I nominate Cathy Andrews Hillman from the Cathy comic strip. I also nominate her mother because both of them seem to be serial returners.

Dilbert's mom would also be one, because of the time where she bought and returned a scarf 17 times.

[Jester]

All the customers in the Retail comic strip.

Oddly, Wile E. Coyote seems to be just the opposite of an SC: he keeps buying defective crap from the same company, but never complains to them.

[Kogarashi]

Oddly, Wile E. Coyote seems to be just the opposite of an SC: he keeps buying defective crap from the same company, but never complains to them.

That's only because he's mute (and usually too injured to write complaint letters).

[mjr]

William Foster (Michael Douglas) from Falling Down...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down

[Jester]

That's only because he's mute (and usually too injured to write complaint letters).

He's not actually mute. In most of the cartoons he doesn't speak, but in a few, he does, in a very educated and pompous manner. "Wile E. Coyote...genius" is probably his best known line, but certainly not his only one.

William Foster (Michael Douglas) from Falling Down...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down

One of my favorite movies.

Yes, Foster's actions make him an SC. But unlike the majority of SCs out there, his complaints that lead him to his actions are fairly justified. His rant in Whammy Burger is especially on the money.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Dracula. It's terrible form to try to take your lawyer as a hostage, no matter if you are negotiating an international real estate purchase.

[rvdammit]

All the customers in the Retail comic strip.

Oddly, Wile E. Coyote seems to be just the opposite of an SC: he keeps buying defective crap from the same company, but never complains to them.

Is he buying defective crap, or is he using it outside its design paramters. know he's effed it up, and moved on to the next plan?

[ComputerNecromancer]

Is he buying defective crap, or is he using it outside its design paramters. know he's effed it up, and moved on to the next plan?

Actually, all is explained in one cartoon. The one where he builds the huge catapult that goes wrong in several ways.

At the end the zoom in on the blueprints and you learn *why* Wle E. has so much trouble.


"Acme [something or other] - a division of Roadrunner Enterprises"

[Kogarashi]

He's not actually mute. In most of the cartoons he doesn't speak, but in a few, he does, in a very educated and pompous manner. "Wile E. Coyote...genius" is probably his best known line, but certainly not his only one.

Ah. I'd encountered him talking rarely enough that I figured it to be a fluke.

[lordlundar]

Ah. I'd encountered him talking rarely enough that I figured it to be a fluke.

It depends. When he's up against the Roadrunner he doesn't say a word. When he's up against Bugs Bunny is when he doesn't shut up about how great he is. Usually right before the trap he set up blows up in his face.

[protege]

"Wile E. Coyote...genius" is probably his best known line, but certainly not his only one.

I remember "Wile E. Coyote... Sooooooper genius" right before he gets blown to bit You'd think, after decades of chasing that damn roadrunner, that he'd be smart enough to let it go

[dendawg]

You'd think, after decades of chasing that damn roadrunner, that he'd be smart enough to let it go

Indeed he could....if, according to Chuck Jones himself, he weren't a fanatic.

[cindybubbles]

I have another one: the Wattersons from The Amazing World of Gumball.

Example: Gumball and Darwin caused Larry to lose his job at the supermarket by repeatedly challenging him to a lazy-off against their father. True, they weren't customers, but their actions resulted in them getting banned from the store. I also remember Anais being left alone in the shopping cart.

[Racket_Man]

From the Dune series Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Rich, intelligent, wilily, devious, evil to the core, a narcissistic, entitled, will kill/mame/torture if you fail or displease him, always gets his way and a nasty temper. and that is when he is in a good mood

[taxguykarl]

How about that asshole who got Judge Reinhold canned in Fast Times.
The SC was clearly scamming a meal; almost all of it eaten and he was unsatisfied, demanded a refund and needled and harangued Reinhold (who worked the kitchen at the time and was watching the front while his buddy used the bathroom) because he wouldn't dip into the till without proper documentation. Finally demanding the manager after Reinhold snapped.