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.The doctor was being urged to perform a ""brain-cutting"" lobotomy on the traumatized Catherine, who had broken down and had seemingly become totally mad.On their return trip, a tempestuous storm appears to drown the wife, but she is eventually found and he family is reunited and reconciled.General Thade arrived late and complained about the quickly-breeding humans that "infest the provinces" on the outskirts of ape civilization, outnumbering the apes four to one.