Pinchbottom’s The Bawdy House

Dateline: Hollywood. The 1930s. It was the heyday of the Pinchbottom Motion Picture Company, the golden years when the studio produced their finest work: the madcap black and white comedies featuring the antics of the vaudevillian troupe The Pinch Brothers (also sisters). The last of these films, entitled The Bawdy House, was so salacious that some consider it singlehandedly responsible for the institution of the Motion Picture Production Code.

The Pinch Brothers (also sisters) are hired to save an ailing legit theater, which they accomplish by converting it into a Bawdy House, complete with ribald comedy, risqué magic, and of course, burlesque, burlesque, burlesque! But on opening night, everything goes wrong — buttons keep popping, pants keep dropping, and the schtick keeps getting schtickier. Can Nasto (Nasty Canasta), Porko (Jonny Porkpie), and their siblings Basto, Cadabro, Drunko, Gigo, Li’l Brooko, Litto, Naughtio, Neilo, Peeko, Rubo, Rayo, and Tiggo, get through the show with their clothes intact? No, they cannot.