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Charles Lampkin guest stars as Otis, the elderly owner of the shoeshine stand outside of the Harlem dry-cleaning store owned by George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley). When an upscale black magazine offers to do a story about George's business empire, he worries that Otis is too much of an old-fashioned stereotype to suit the magazine's tastes. It is up to Otis himself to serve George a few heaping helpings of humble pie.