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Each episode is structured around a different party they have been assigned to cater, with the lives of the affluent party hosts becoming entangled with the sad-sack lives of the caterers.
Despite great writing, great acting and a devoted (if small) following, the show was [[Too Good to Last]].
It was created by [[Veronica Mars|Rob Thomas]] and contains a mini [[Production Posse]].
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: For some of the series, Casey talks about how she's trying to get a spot in a Judd Apatow movie. In reality, Lizzy Caplan has been in several Apatow productions, and is part of his [[Production Posse]].
* [[Adam Westing]]: Steve Guttenberg plays himself as an almost cartoonishly cheerful and generous host, who takes a group of strangers under his wing for a night. {{spoiler|Then he steals one of their dates}}.
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* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: One of the people at "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party" is working on a movie called ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. It's a [[Buddy Cop Show|Buddy Cop Movie]]; one of the cops is a white racist and the other is a rapper.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Henry, Casey, Uda.
* [[Manly Tears]]: According to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207180228/http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/complete-oral-history-starz-comedy-party-down Oral History of Party Down], Adam Scott (Henry) cried when the show was canceled.
* [[Marijuana Is LSD]]: Roman accidentally eats three marijuana muffins and goes on some kind of cosmic journey of introspection in "Constance Carmell Wedding".
* [[Matzo Fever]]: None of the other male waiters are Jewish, but they all have the hots for the smoking Semite Casey Klein.
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