The rich but prickly Captain has terrible luck in social situations (with a few notable exceptions) and is often on the losing end of heated confrontations with "the help" — waiters, retail clerks, secretaries, etc. Politically liberal and socially obtuse, the Captain is sensitive to offending others (such as the handicapped), but often does so inadvertently. He is a perpetual victim of not only his own petty neuroses and obstinance, which render him incapable of admitting fault and accepting blame, but also of fate and circumstance (which seem to actively conspire against him) and, on occasion, the over-sensitivities and easily-offended natures (sometimes to a ridiculous degree) of those he happens to encounter.
