Unnecessarily Cruel Rejection

Seiko Taniguchi: Kiriya...
Kiriya Irizawa: Who are you?
Seiko: I'm sorry, did I surprise you...? I'm Seiko Taniguchi, from the eighth-grade Sakura class... Please, read this...
Kiriya: What.
Seiko: You're Kiriya, so you might be used to getting letters and things, but...
Kiriya: What is this? I don't really understand.
Seiko: I-it's my random request, so I know this might be an inconvenience to you, but...!
Kiriya: What the heck are you urging me to do? Give me a break.

— Futari wa Pretty Cure

Being rejected can hurt, but some people go out of their way to be hurtful when rejecting someone. The reasons for said cruelty can vary; the rejector could be a sadist who likes the idea of crushing someone's feelings. Maybe the rejector looks down on the one they're rejecting and takes offense or amusement that the target of their rejection thinks that their good enough to be their friend/lover. Maybe they simply don't care about letting the rejected down gently and their cruelty is a result of a Lack of Empathy rather than malice. On rare occasions, the rejector is a good person whose rejection is too blunt and/or insensitive to their confessor's feelings.

The cruelty itself can take a number of forms; the most basic form involves the rejector insulting and/or laughing at the confessor for thinking that they would actually want to be friends/go out with them. If the confessor gave the rejector some kind of gift, expect the latter to destroy or throw it away in front of the confessor instead of, say, giving it back. Some especially cruel characters might make it seem like they accepted the confession, only to reject them anyway. Some might even go so far as to further humiliate the confessor by telling others about how the "loser" confessed to them. If the confession was a marriage proposal, the rejector might reveal that they were using their lover for fun and/or that they were cheating with another person.

Some stories will have the rejector experience karma, with platonic examples suffering via an Unrequited Love Switcheroo having the old rejector pining after the person they rejected, who has moved on and often found a Second Love. Platonic examples will have the rejector be a Fair-Weather Foe who suddenly wants to be "friends" with the person whom they spurned, only to have their "friendship" spurned in response.

Compare Abhorrent Admirer, where the audience can easily see why they're vehemently rejected (though it still may or may not be unnecessarily cruel). Often a case of Kick the Dog done by an Intentional Heartbreaker. May involve a "Reason You Suck" Speech. Overlaps with Rejected Marriage Proposal if the rejector turns down a marriage proposal in a cruel way. May overlap with Disproportionate Retribution. Contrast Not Good with Rejection, where a character commits cruel acts in response to being rejected. Also contrast Break His Heart to Save Him.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• The first scene in The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
  Rentarou: Asakawa-san, I like you. Please go out with me...!
  Asakawa: Aijou-kun, you're... such an outgoing person. You're even friendly to a fault, and I like that about you. ...But for some reason, I feel like throwing up just imagining you as a lover. I'm sorry!
  Rentarou: [bawling his eyes out] AND NOW I'M THE ONE WHO WANTS TO THROW UP AFTER HEARING A RESPONSE LIKE THAT!!!
• Ah! My Goddess: The t.v. series opens with Keiichi trying to ask out Sayoko, only for her to laugh in his face, tell him that, among other things, he was just too short, and completely reject him. Worse yet, she didn't even remember doing this, because once Keiichi is with Belldandy, Sayoko tries to ask him out, wanting what Belldandy has, only for Keiichi to remind her, gently, of the way she'd turned him down, saying he was fully aware that she didn't actually love him for him. The irony is his earnestness and sincerity are actually starting to win her over, but so long as Belldandy is there, she knows she can never have him.
• Amagami SS: Two years before the start of the series, Mika Makihara asked Junichii to meet her at a certain spot on Christmas Eve, where she planned to reject him in front of a group of their friends to humiliate him. One of her friends, Risa, learns of this and tells her that he wanted to meet at another location, causing her and her friends to wait for him in the wrong place. This still results in Junichii being stood up, and going into a deep depression on Christmas Eve, and he still hasn't fully recovered two years later.
• Futari wa Pretty Cure: Episode 18 features the resident Chick Magnet, Kiriya Irizawa, receiving a love letter from the Cures' classmate, Seiko. Due to his profound lack of social skills, he coldly excuses himself from the situation. The next day, Seiko and her friends try to give Kiriya the letter together, and he tears it in half, right in front of them!
  Kiriya: I don't have any business with all of you. Go away!
• Jujutsu Kaisen: Played for Laughs. Todo has a Fantasy Sequence in which he confesses to his favourite idol Takada-chan, only for her to rip his love letter in half in front of him and tell him she's in love with someone else.
• Discussed in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War when Tsubame comes to Kaguya for advice regarding a love confession she received and Kaguya (acting as Ishigami's Romantic Wingman and attempting to crush any of his potential rivals) tells her that the best thing to do is to turn down the boy as harshly as possible so as not to give them false hope. Then she learns that the boy in question was actually Ishigami, causing her to make a very panicked 180 in her advice.
• Kyou No Asuka Show: Zigzagged. A young man tries to ask out Asuka, but in so doing he goes into a huge degree of self-deprecation, telling her that he has no good points, that he's plain and short. She asks him, "Imagine you were going to purchase an electronic good. Now imagine the clerk saying, 'This doesn't have a lot of features and it performs badly. But if you'd like, please buy it.' Would you purchase it?" The boy says he wouldn't. She says, "You're trying to sell me a product you don't believe in. I think that's really rude." However, she then adds, "Tell me your merits." He says he's good at school, third in his grade, and an 8th dan at calligraphy. She tells him those are legitimately amazing things and he should lead with those. She still turns him down, after that. First impressions, and all.
• My Love Story!!: Played with. Makoto "Suna" Sunakawa frequently rejected girls who were interested in him, starting way back in kindergarten. All of the girls he rejected were girls liked by his best friend, Takeo. We're treated to a montage of him telling off girls with such phrases as "I hate you", "You're gross", and "Not interested". However, it turns out that he felt he had a very good reason to reject them coldly. He knew that his best friend, Takeo liked them, but more than that, he knew that each and every one of the girls had badmouthed Takeo behind his back. He's much kinder to girls who like Takeo and even offers one girl, Saijou, a shoulder to cry on when Takeo gently turns her down because he was already in love with Rinko Yamato.
• Revolutionary Girl Utena:
  • Saionji posts the love letter sent to him by Wakaba on the school bulletin board for everyone to mock.
    Saionji: Oh, I remember. For that incredibly stupid... I mean, for that cheerful letter, the best thing to do with it... was use it to give everyone a nice laugh.
  • When Shiori finds out about her friend Juri's crush on her, she delights in tormenting Juri about it, both by verbally mocking Juri and parading her new boyfriend Ruka in front of her. As Shiori has always been envious of Juri, holding Juri's unrequited feelings for her over Juri's head makes Shiori feel powerful.
• School Rumble: Eri Sawachika is approached by a guy who wants to ask her out, and she interrupts him to ask him if he prefers curry or meat and potatoes. He answers the latter and asks if she was planning to cook a meal for him. She laughs in his face, saying she wouldn't dream of such a thing. Then he asks if she'll go out with him and she responds with a cheerful smile, "Of course not." Harima calls her out on it, later, telling her, "You shouldn't be so hard on a guy when he's trying to confess his feelings. Times like that, he'd be willing to do almost anything." He does a Pet the Dog moment with her later that episode after he finds her alone in a Gray Rain of Depression when her father has to jet away on business after promising to have dinner with her. Harima provides her an umbrella, saying, "If you're not going too far, I'll walk with you. At least part of the way."
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Ms. Chono is a beautiful yet sadistic woman who invokes this trope by going on marriage meetings with guys for the explicit purpose of turning them down. Despite this, she doesn't take it well when guys reject her.

Comic Books

• Wesley Dodds: The Sandman: After Dodds ingests a faceful of his own sleeping gas, he has nightmares in which he's forced to confront everyone he's ever hurt. Among his past victims was a young woman he met at university who asked him out on a date. Instead, he mocked her in front of his peers in order to look more impressive.

Comic Strips

• Dilbert: One strip has Dogbert giving women advice on how to reject guys who ask them out, and he recommends using different tactics based on how much of a loser the guy is. The last one states "but for the truly pathetic, it is acceptable to use sadistic and malicious lies". This is illustrated by a woman telling Dilbert "Wait by the phone. I'll call sometime before Saturday to let you know."
• Peanuts: There’s a running gag of Snoopy's fantasies of being a bestselling author being brought crashing down by publishers very harshly and often sassily rejecting his scripts.

Fan Works

• My Hero School Adventure Is All Wrong As Expected: Hikigaya was turned down by a pretty girl during high school, but he's actually used to that. What bothers him is that despite the girl in question presenting herself as a hero, and in fact applying to the hero course at UA, nonetheless she went above and beyond in making it clear that him asking her out was absurd, contributing to his Broken Pedestal view of heroes and heroics in general.
  I was subsequently used as a target of ridicule, mocked behind my back and occasionally to my face in order to reinforce her place in the pecking order, to insulate her from any losses of social capital that might have occurred from her giving the school loser the idea that he might have a chance with her. I had admired her for being kind to everyone, for being generous and helpful, for being someone that even a cynical person like me could admire as a good person. And then she decided to drag me through the dirt, tell all of her friends how creepy I was for hitting on her, and laugh at me for thinking that I could apply to the same hero school that she did.
• Scarlet Lady: Played with in this comic's version of Dark Cupid: Kim does not care about Chloé (he is in love with Undine and falls for her much earlier than in canon) but Chloé is so self-absorbed that she sees Kim standing on a bridge with chocolates waiting for someone, automatically assumes that it has to be her, and storms up to Kim and gives him the same cruel put down while constantly interrupting him trying to correct her (which leads to him accepting becoming Dark Cupid to kick Chloé's butt).
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost in Gotham: Invoked. In "Crush(ed)", Duke becomes interested in a girl at his school named Ana. Dick asks him why he doesn't just ask her out. Duke invokes this trope. Given how badly Sally Avril rejected him when he asked her out, Peter agrees with Duke. The trope ends up averted when Ana clearly has feelings for Duke as well, and they date for a while. Unfortunately, they've broken up by the end of the chapter.

Films — Animated

• Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa: Ricky gives his teddy bear (which is a a gift from his late mother) to Nicole the Alpha Bitch as a Christmas present. She yells at him for giving her something so "nasty" and later throws it in the trash.
• Regular Show: The Movie: Rigby's college rejection letter tells him to his face that they had a record low number of applications the year he tried and still didn't want him. It goes on to insult his work ethic and literacy on top of that, all delivered in professional faux-polite diction.
  "From the Admittance Office of College University, Dear Rigby, we regret to inform you that you have not been accepted into this Fall's freshman class at College University. Though College University is a massive school, and it was a record year for how little applications we received, the admissions committee simply could not find any reason to include you in our enrolling class. The deans were obliged to select among candidates who clearly could do the minimum work required at C.U. We hope you can understand our situation, if you can understand this letter at all. But rest assured that we did not make this unanimous decision on a whim and as a result, we are not able to consider any appeals to this decision, so don't even try. Though our school motto is "The College for Everyone", sometimes college isn't for everyone. We thank you for your interest in C.U., but again, to reiterate, we won't be seeing you anytime soon. Or ever. Sincerely, the Admissions Board at College University."

Jokes

• The "The worst she can say is no" meme format runs off overly harsh rejection on someone asking their crush out. The original punchline is the understated but hurtful "Ew".

Films — Live-Action

• Napoleon Dynamite: Pedro asks Summer, the school's Alpha Bitch, to be his date to an upcoming school dance via a handwritten, carefully folded note. Summer returns a note of her own, which when unfolded just reads "NO" surrounded by dozens of exclamation marks.
• In Never Been Kissed, Nerdy reporter Josie remembers her disastrous high school prom where a popular boy she liked accepted her date. When going outside to wait for him, though, he emerges from the sunroof with his actual date, a pretty and popular cheerleader, and pelts the poor girl with eggs all while yelling how stupid she was to think he'd actually be seen with her as she cries and runs away.

Literature

• Mother of Learning: Zorian's longtime friend, Taiven, who's much more outgoing than him, once encouraged him to be more assertive in his love life. When he then asked her out, she took it as a joke and laughed in his face. During the loop, she learns that he was serious, and is horrified.

Live-Action TV

• Played for Laughs in The Golden Girls episode "The One Who Got Away". Blanche discusses a former would-be suitor, a Big Man on Campus from college, who repeatedly rejected her advances. At one point, he even had the school band spell out "Maybe Some Other Time, Blanche" to her.
• House of Anubis:
  • In one episode, Amber believes that Jerome is her secret admirer, King Tut. She tries to let him down softly... only for him to start loudly laughing at her, mocking her for believing that, and then humiliating her in front of everyone else by announcing that Amber just asked him to prom. Amber is thoroughly hurt by this.
  • After overhearing that Patricia has a crush on him, Eddie attempts to speak to her, "forcefield lowered", and ask her on a date. She isn't ready to acknowledge her feelings yet, though, and doesn't take kindly to this. She responds to his earnest confession by insulting him, insisting that she hates him, and forcing him to retreat back behind his own wall, prolonging the Belligerent Sexual Tension.
• Kamen Rider Fourze: The first episode starts with Kengo walking to school when a classmate comes up and hands him her love letter. Without out even opening it, he declared it a "waste of time" and chucks it off the bridge they're standing on. Cue new transfer student Kisaragi Gentaro, who comes barreling in from out of nowhere, berates Kengo for being a jerk, and then jumps off the bridge to retrieve the letter.
  Gentaro: "Hey! Are you crazy? Who does that?! She wrote you a letter! Read it! Don't ignore her feelings for you! If you wanna reject her, do it after reading the letter! Show some respect!"
• Kamen Rider Zero-One: Exploited. Episode 23 is about a woman named Chiharu falling in love with the Matckmaking-type Humagear Matchmaker Enmusubi. The bot plays along until the wedding reception, in which he launches into a "The Reason You Suck" Speech so toxic that not only does the show have to comically censor it, but The Ark is attracted by the malice of the tirade and hijacks the Humagear into a Magia. However, this was Just as Planned: The latest Raider was Chiharu's childhood friend Teruo — he was in love with her and she couldn't see it. Getting himself deliberately hijacked by The Ark and forcing all parties into the open was the only way Enmusubi could get the couple together. It works!
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Subverted. Ned is dared to ask Missy out on a date with everyone expecting her to cruelly reject him. Everyone is caught off guard when she actually accepts.
• The Sister, Sister episode "Inherit The Twin" has two boys (actually Kenan and Kel in a guest role) orchestrating a feud between Tia and Tamera with the former's journal as revenge for humiliatingly and loudly rejecting their advances. Granted this itself was only because the two would not take a hint in the first place ("We'd like to break you down gently....BUT WE CAN'T!").
• Son of a Critch:
  • In a familial, rather than romantic example, "Halley's Comet" sees Suzanne and Greg fighting for custody of their kids, with Greg planning to relocate to Cape Broyle. They gather all their kids together and demand that they all decide who's staying with Suzanne and who's going with Greg. To a man, the boys all side with Suzanne, telling Greg that they need their mom and he's an idiot to think that they would side with him. This backfires on Suzanne, as her favorite, Fox, can't stand seeing her dad humiliated and promises to go with him. This ends up having greater consequences in the next season, as Suzanne blocks Fox from going to Cape Broyle and Greg sues her for custody.
  • In an unintentional example, "My Funny Valentine" sees Mark put in a Betty and Veronica situation when, just as he's preparing to sign a valentine for Fox, he gets a call from Cara, a past crush, who tells him that she wants him to be her valentine and take her out. Mark mentions that he's going to a family dinner for Valentine's Day, which Cara misinterprets as an invitation to join, and he doesn't correct her. The dinner is, predictably, a disaster, as Mark's parents don't especially like Cara (and his mother outright hates her because she's not Fox), and then Fox turns out to be a waitress at the restaurant and thus calls Mark out for giving her a proper valentine if he wasn't going to take her out on a date, thus letting Cara know that she wasn't his first choice. By the end of the night, Cara is understandably humiliated and pissed, and angrily tells Mark that he should have just said "no" when she called and asked him to be her Valentine.
• In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Subspace Rhapsody", Spock unwittingly triggers this when he asks Nurse Chapel why she never told him about her being accepted by a fellowship of scientists lead by Dr. Korby. In response, she sings "I'm Ready", basically telling him that she's going and if they have to break up, cool. This really devastates Spock and solidifies his role as The Stoic.
• In the 1983 mini-series adaptation of The Thorn Birds, after having an affair with Father Ralph, Meggie leaves her boorish, inconsiderate husband Luke who never even attempted to satisfy her in bed. Her last words to him are, "You complacent, conceited, self-centered bastard! You can't make love for toffee!"

Music

• Barry and the Bookbinders recorded the novelty song "2 Hot 4 You Pt. II" (there is no known "Part I") about a hesitant young man being goaded by his friend into asking a girl for a date ("The worst she can say... is 'No'!"). Her response is three verses of napalm-class burn. "You ugly, stupid, zit-faced scum / You asked me out? You must be dumb / Well, you can beg until you're blue / But you're not even fit to lick my shoe."
  Guy: (returning to his friend) Uh... she didn't say 'no.'

Theatre

• Hamlet: In Act 3, Scene 1, Ophelia is ordered by her father to meet up with Hamlet and return his letters to see if he'd gone mad over his love for her. When Ophelia tried returning the letters to Hamlet, he denies having written them and instead claims that he never loved her in the first place, going on a misogynistic tirade, slut-shames her, and tells her to go to a nunnery. Depending on how that line is interpreted, Hamlet might've told Ophelia to become a prostitute as "nunnery" was Elizabethan slang for a brothel. Regardless, Hamlet's rejection is a contributing factor to Ophelia going off the slippery slope and drowning in a brook, which was implied to be a suicide.

Video Games

• Divinity: Original Sin II: The Red Prince can talk his way past the Royal Fire Slug in a unique way — by flirting with her and proposing a royal betrothal. When she accepts, he has the option to mock her for believing he would ever marry such a grotesque creature. She goes very quiet and then fights to the death.
  Red Prince: *Sigh deeply and say you were hoping she'd have understood your sarcasm by now. You don't intend to marry an animated pile of sludge born from some demonic slug's rectum.*
  Narrator: The creature falls silent and still for a long... long moment.
  Royal Fire Slug: I see.
• You can do this as Video Game Cruelty Potential in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, should you not be engaged by the end of the first year. Whoever has at least six hearts and enough affection will be offered as a choice to come in and propose (or Rock and Cecelia if you have no affection with anyone), and they'll ask to marry you. You can immediately turn them down, in some cases with very cold replies such as "I'd prefer to live alone" for Nami (who has nowhere to go). Doing so, however, results in a Non-Standard Game Over (as the rest of the game hinges on you getting married and having a kid you raise).
• In Persona 4 during Ai Ebihara's 3rd. social link one of the students awkwardly asks her out on a date which she bluntly rejects by insulting him. The Player Character can Lampshade this in one of the dialogue options but doing so will reverse the social link with her.
  Ai: Ha, are you kidding me? Have you looked in a mirror recently?
  Player Character: That was downright cruel...

Visual Novels

• The Song of Saya: Upon hearing Yoh's Love Confession, Fuminori Sakisaka gives her a Big "SHUT UP!" after hitting his Rage Breaking Point of having to deal with his "agonisa" for over three whole months. He even goes as far as to Kick the Dog by telling Yoh that he always hated her after she tried confessing how much she cared about him and takes sadistic pleasure in making her cry despite also knowing that she's not truly a hideous flesh monster (from his perspective) trying to hurt him.

Web Animation

• Ao Haru Manga Library: Reiko invokes this trope in an unusual way; when her Childhood Friend Keiichi confesses to her, Reiko rejects him harshly, saying that her reputation will be ruined if she dates an "introvert nerd." The unusual part comes from the fact that Reiko actually likes Keiichi but rejected him because she believes that Keiichi will think she's easy if she says yes immediately. Her plan was to accept his second confession, but it backfired because Keiichi decided to move on and date another girl rather than continue pining after Reiko.
• Etra chan saw it!: Back in middle school, Tokusa had a crush on Yuzuriha and eventually decided to confess to her. Yuzuriha and her friends laughed at Tokusa for his youthful appearance and short height. To twist the knife further, they told the other students about it, and almost all of them make fun of Tokusa.
• Manga Rabbit HoméNoba: Tayumi rejected her boyfriend Kazuma's marriage proposal by calling him an idiot and revealing that she was cheating with Kazuma's best friend Aito and wants to marry him instead.
• Sekai no Fushigi: Back in high school, Kaito confessed his feelings to Mei Samejima, who responded by telling everyone in class that Kaito told him he wanted to kiss her, which they made fun of him for.

Web Original

• If you see a meme that starts with "The worst she can say is no," one of these traditionally follows it.

Web Videos

• A five-second short film called "The Worst Thing That Could Happen" has a girl tell a guy she likes him, only for him to reply "Ewwww" and walk away, leaving her devastated.

Western Animation

• BoJack Horseman: In "Old Acquaintances," BoJack's old costar Bradley contacts BoJack to work on a Horsin' Around spinoff with him called Ethan Around, starring Bradley's old forgettable character Ethan. BoJack doesn't want to do it, but dithers on telling Bradley because he hates confrontation and Bradley has staked so much on this new show. When Bradley shows up to BoJack's New Year's party, BoJack's publicist Ana rejects the show for BoJack in a characteristically cruel manner (while still taking Bradley's gift champagne). BoJack is visibly uncomfortable as she does this but can't manage to interrupt her.
  Ana: He doesn't want to do your show. BoJack is about to win an Oscar. Why do you think he would want to do your soon-to-fail sitcom about the further adventures of a carb-faced nobody? You are not a television star. You have no talent and I am forgetting your face even as I'm looking at it. Pack your bags. Go back to Nowheresville. Thank you for the champagne. Best regards, Ana Spanakopita.
• Family Guy: At the beginning of the episode "Fresh Heir," Chris asks Peter Griffin if he wants to spend time with him, to which Peter says no. Chris then points out that he promised he would go fishing with him the other day. Peter then bluntly tells him that he was just lying so that he would go away. However, he then tells Chris that if he leaves him alone, he'll give him $1,000,000, and of course, Chris accepts.
• Miraculous Ladybug: Chloé Bourgeois kicks off the plot of "Dark Cupid" when she rejects Kim's confession by uploading an embarrassing photo of him with a bag on his face and telling him that her heart is "saved for someone more awesome than you."
• This is shown to be Amity Blight's worst fear in The Owl House episode "Enchanting Grom Fright" when she goes up against Grometheus the Fear Bringer, who shifts into the form of her crush Luz Noceda, takes the note she was going to give them to ask them out to the school dance out of her pocket, rips it in half in front of her and then lets the crumpled pieces drop at her feet. The actual confession doesn't go that way, as by the time she actually works up the nerve to ask her out half a season later, Luz is crushing on her just as hard. Because of all the embarrassment Luz had to go through to ask her out, she doesn’t accept, so Amity acquiesces to Luz having the moment.
• Phineas and Ferb: Discussed. When explaining how badly her asking out Jeremy could turn out to Stacy, Candace Flynn thinks that Jeremy would laugh in her face, with everybody else present also laughing at her, and the world exploding. An unamused Stacy says that's clearly just a worst-case scenario.
• In the South Park episode, "Tsst", Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan offers to tame Cartman's Spoiled Brat personality. While he succeeds for a while, the progress is blown apart when Liane, smitten with Cesar, asks him out on a date. While Cesar isn't intentionally cruel about it, being portrayed as The Spock the whole episode, he matter-of-factly tells her he's not interested or even cares about her because she's just a client, and politely leaves an absolutely gutted Liane back to latching onto her son for company.
• In the very first episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man, Peter Parker asks Sally Avril on a date. Sally responds by laughing at and mocking Peter in front of everyone.
• Steven Universe. In "Love Letters", Jamie the mailman writes a florid love letter to Garnet asking her out on a date. However, Garnet, a lesbian who's already in a relationship made of her two Gem halves, responds with the bluntly honest letter: "No. The end. Forever. And even after that. Yours truly, Garnet". Steven and Connie, trying to let down Jamie more softly, replace it with a nicer letter of their own but Jamie gets the wrong message and thinks it's flirting. Eventually Garnet clears up the misunderstanding in a talk with Jamie where she apologizes for being so harsh to him while making it clear she's not interested.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: "Prom-ise Her Anything" has Montana Max being asked out by Elmyra. Monty has been forced on the date by his parents, noting that Elmyra's parents were friends of hers. Then he spots Dizzy Devil's date, an attractive woman named Mitzi, and he tries to steal her away, prompting this exchange between him and Elmyra.
  Monty: You're what's the matter! You're a complete waste of space! You have a personality that rivals spore mold! On the evolutionary chart, you rank someplace between head cheese and toaster ovens! You're a cruise to nowhere! A null, a void, a zero!"
  Elmyra: Just what are you trying to say?
  Monty: I don't like you! Read my lips. I don't like you!
  • After this leaves Elmyra devastated, it is very cathartic when Mitzi basically throws Monty's words back in his own face.
    Mitzi: Dizzy's a kind, sensitive, caring person, which is more than I can say for you, you nasty, little, money-grabbing wart! You're the most obnoxious twerp I've ever met! You have a personality that rivals spore mold!
    Monty: Hey, just what are you tryin' to say?!
    Mitzi: I. don't. like. you.

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