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![]() ![]() Later, during lunchtime in the cafeteria, the other students again taunt Jonathan as he tries to eat. Skip tries to tell Jonathan it was just a practical joke and to just laugh it off, but Jonathan is too embarrassed. After discovering all the doors are locked, he climbs a trellis leading into his room where he finds Skip rolling on the floor laughing. Mortified, Jonathan tries to get back inside. The other students begin to laugh and mock Jonathan for wearing girls' underwear. They head out of the dorm together until they get to the final door where Skip stays behind and locks the door. Jonathan doesn't have any, so Skip gives him a set from his dresser. Skip then takes off his bath robe, revealing a red bra and panties, then explains to the shocked Jonathan that it is tradition for seniors to parade around campus wearing only girls' underwear. Then, going up to his dorm he meets his roommate, who introduces himself as Squire Franklin Burroughs IV but tells him to call him "Skip". Upon first arriving at prep school, Jonathan Ogner is mocked for wearing his school uniform. In addition to being Lowe's second film (released four months after The Outsiders), it marked the film debuts of McCarthy, John Cusack, Virginia Madsen, Casey Siemaszko, and Lolita Davidovich. ![]() Class is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lewis John Carlino, starring Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, and Cliff Robertson. ![]() |