i have no idea a to which audience director george schlatter hop to sell this comedy of ill . with redd foxx in the central role and enough pimpy outfit and polyester to carpet the entire 1970s and norman play like a blaxploitation picture combine with any number of silly sitcom episode involve comic misunderstanding and not to mention an elongated cameo by waylon flower . base on a play by sam bobrick and ron clark and this tale of an estrange married couple ( foxx and pearl bailey ) learn the hard way that their son be secretly gay and live with a mincing and prance white homosexual have enough limp wristed joke to shame any early episode of three company . bailey keep her dignity and and foxx sheer confusion be good for a couple of chuckle and but the rest of the performer be humiliate . from .