Director-producer Wilder had purposely challenged the system with this gender-bending and risqué comedy, filled with sly and witty sexual innuendo (the "sweet" and "fuzzy end of the lollipop" represented oral sex), unembarrassed vulgarity, free love, spoofs of sexual stereotypes (bisexuality, transvestism, androgyny, homosexuality, transsexuality, lesbianism, and impotence), sexy costuming for the well-endowed, bosomy Marilyn Monroe, an outrageous and steamy seduction scene aboard a yacht, and a mix of serious themes including abuse, alcoholism, unemployment, and murder, among others.As they verbally quarrel and spar with each other, he is forced to confess his dishonest scheme to Tracy""s "withering glance.The camera cuts back and forth between views of Ethan and the expectant faces of the waiting family.[A folded Navajo blanket on a hitching post in front of Debbie moves to a hitching post in front of the house, and then disappears!] Lucy tells her brother Ben: "That""s your Uncle Ethan.The fifteen-year-old illegitimate Lucy entered her father""s life as an infant, handed to her father by one of his female conquests.