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* MockingMusic: The SaltAndPepper father and future son-in-law are driving along in steely silence to avoid talking about the big issue on their minds. Simon turns on the radio for a distraction and goes through a rote of such situationally ironic songs as "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul [=McCartney=] and Stevie Wonder, "Brother Louie" by Hot Chocolate, and "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, just as it's singing:

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* MockingMusic: The SaltAndPepper father and future son-in-law are driving along in steely silence to avoid talking about the big issue on their minds. Simon turns on the radio for a distraction and goes through a rote of such situationally ironic songs as "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul [=McCartney=] and Stevie Wonder, "Brother Louie" by Hot Chocolate, and "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, just as it's singing:
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* UnconfessedUnemployment: Percy finds out that Simon is guilty of this.

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* UnconfessedUnemployment: Percy finds out that Simon is guilty of this. Unfortunately, he doesn't learn the reason why until after he's used this information to break them up.
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* HeelRealization: After telling Theresa that Simon lost his job and succeeding in them breaking up since Simon lied to her about this, Percy later learns Simon actually quit his job upon learning that his boss is a bigot who disapproves of interracial marriages and realizes he's driven away a man who truly loved Theresa.
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It was released on March 25, 2005.

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It was released on March 25, 2005.
2005. Not to be confused with the board game of the same name.
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* DancePartyEnding: The final scenes and the credits are over Percy and Marilyn's anniversary party.



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* RaceForYourLove: A variation when Percy races to the train station to catch Simon before he leaves, having just realized that the reason Simon quit his job is because his boss made nasty comments about his relationship with Theresa.
* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Theresa gives Simon the boot after finding out that he lost his job and didn't tell her. Even when Simon clarifies that he quit rather than being fired, she's still angry when he won't tell her why. Percy later realizes that it's because his boss must have made offensive comments about his plans to marry Theresa.
* UnconfessedUnemployment: Percy finds out that Simon is guilty of this.
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--> '''And All the colored girls sang...'''

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--> '''And All the colored girls sang...''''''
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--> '''And All the colored girls sang.."

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--> '''And All the colored girls sang.."sang...'''
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A 2005 comedy directed by Creator/KevinRodneySullivan that has a black woman (Creator/ZoeSaldana) bringing her white boyfriend (Creator/AshtonKutcher) to meet her parents (Creator/BernieMac and Creator/JudithScott) who are surprised by them getting engaged.

It is a remake of ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.

The movie also stars Creator/HalWilliams, Creator/KelleeStewart, Creator/LawrenceHiltonJacobs, Creator/SherriShepherd, and Creator/RobertCurtisBrown.

It was released on March 25, 2005.

!Tropes for the film:
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Features Simon Green, a white man, dating Theresa Jones, a black woman, whose father (Mac) would rather have her dating a fellow African-American.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Like the original ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner, though the roles a reversed with a black woman with a white man.
* MockingMusic: The SaltAndPepper father and future son-in-law are driving along in steely silence to avoid talking about the big issue on their minds. Simon turns on the radio for a distraction and goes through a rote of such situationally ironic songs as "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul [=McCartney=] and Stevie Wonder, "Brother Louie" by Hot Chocolate, and "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, just as it's singing:
--> '''And All the colored girls sang.."

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