"J.J" (Jimmie Walker) falls in love with "Marcy" (Ta-Ta Nisha) who attends the same high school. He brags about how wonderful Marcy is to his family and even goes as far as to get a "slave key" engraved so that he can propose to Marcy to go "steady". When Marcy asks J.J. to paint an oil self portrait of her, what J.J. does not realize is that Marcy plans to give the oil painting to her high school senior boyfriend George. When J.J. learns of this, he is heartbroken and wants to give up on love. "Florida" (Esther Rolle) convinces J.J. that there are other women out there to date. As soon as she says this, the telephone rings and one of J.J.'s girlfriends named Charlotte calls and they go out on a date which leads to the show's ending.