In The Underpants, actor-writer Steve Martin adapted the 1910 social comedy by Gernam playwright Carl Sternheim into a hilarious, over-the-top farce centered on an unruly pair of knickers. Louise is a pretty young housewife in tum of the century Germany, whose frilly pantaloons accidentally fall to her ankles while watching the Kaiser's parade, setting in motion a zany chain of events. A foppish poet and a nebbish barber, both entranced by the brief glimpse of her underwear, vie to become Louise's lover. Her new-found fame terrifies her husband, thrills her neighbor and brings out her own parade of bizarre suitors.

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