Wha? Sandy Dennis in her Most Annoying period, and Lemmon starting his.

Uh, Pryor wrote his lines in that scene. The original (by Colin Higgins, he of the dreadfully overrated Harold & Maude) was apparently tin-eared and racist in the midcentury British way.

Yeah, only about 100 years.

Hiller let Richard Pryor rewrite a couple of scenes to save the movie, to his credit… THE IN-LAWS remains his crown jewel.

The film is not a comedy.