Surprising director's cut

In theatrical release version the three main stories are kept fairly separate and independent from each other; but in the original version, the stories were linked by the Cosby character, who rapes, in turn, Jane Fonda, Elaine May and Maggie Smith.

Test audiences found it disturbing, although the studios thought it might do well in the South, playing as it did to Negroes Raping White Women fears.