Are You Being Served? sharp-tongued, witty responses, along with his trademark catch-phrase "I'm free!", were enthusiastically embraced by many audience members, and the character evolved into a gay icon in popular culture. Despite this, Inman pointed out that Mr Humphries' true sexual orientation was never explicitly stated in the series, and David Croft said in an interview that the character was not homosexual, but "just a mother's boy". In an episode of the spin-off "Grace & Favour", the character is further described as neither a "woman's man" nor a "man's man" and as being "in limbo". The characters (Mr Humphries especially) sometimes broke the
Are You Being Served? (film) night, but a night of tent-swapping disturbs everyone. As Cesar is still after Mrs Slocombe, he goes into her tent to find Mr Humphries instead! After waking up the next morning, the Grace Brothers staff get a nasty surprise, narrowly surviving a gunfight between the revolutionaries and govt troops. During the gunfight, Cesar flees, taking refuge in the outside toilet which the staff accidentally attach to an advertising balloon sending him floating into the air . They are saved by a group of tanks that arrive on the scene; these prove to have been commandeered by Young Mr. Grace, who