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Par-tay! Par-tay! Par-tay!
A mainstay of the classic teen comedy movie, but usually seen at least once in every [[
A popular variation of this is that the host only invited over two or three friends and the party just shows up out of nowhere. Someone they did invite brought one more person, and so did another. Then someone they never met shows up at the door. Fast forward ten minutes and a college football team shows up with a keg and there's somehow full disco lighting in the living room. [[Can't Get Away
The [[Wild Teen Party]] usually experiences at least one, and often more, of the following complications:
* The parents call home in the middle of the party "to check on things". The teen hosts must then either quiet the crowd down for the duration of the call, or come up with a believable explanation for the noise in the background. Even if the teens succeed in pulling off a perfect deception, the parents [[Can't Get Away
* Party crashers of various stripes. If it's not the varsity football team and their entourage descending on a party to which they weren't invited, it'll be punks or bikers running wild, trashing the place and carrying off cheerleaders.
* Stupid -- and potentially lethal -- stunts fueled by [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy|the excessive consumption of beer and other alcoholic beverages.]]
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However it runs, with whatever complications and ending, the [[Wild Teen Party]] usually ends in [[An Aesop]] about responsibility, maturity, and -- if the hosts were caught -- telling the truth to one's parents.
See also [[Youth Is Wasted
[[Truth in Television]], of course -- as any news reporter who wants to [[New Media Are Evil|take a pop at Facebook]] will tell you.
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* In ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]'', the crew decides to throw a party to relieve tension after a battle. It features a beauty contest and a competition to program the [[Humongous Mecha]] to dance. It ends rather poorly, though, being interrupted by {{spoiler|a news report declaring the ''Ryvius'' to be a terrorist vessel. Also, two people get murdered while everyone's distracted.}}
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation Divine Wars]],'' the crew was celebrating after the defeat of the [[Big Bad]]. What was supposed to be a standard party was made a bit more entertaining with Excellen and Lefina in [[Playboy Bunny]] outfits and Daitestsu's stash.
* There are a few parties in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[
* Parodied in an issue of ''[[Ultimate Universe|Ultimate]] [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'', in which Gwen persuades a moping Peter (who has recently broken up with Mary Jane) to go to a party under the pretext that it'll turn into one of these and be fun. They end up sitting in a corner, bored and miserable, whilst everyone around them has a really good time. Then the party really does turn wild, but that's more because a teen mutant starts blowing up cars with his mind and the cops get called than any of the standard reasons.
* A mid-70s issue of ''[[Playboy]]'' had a ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'' flashback story of a 1959 New Years party thrown at Phineas' parents' house, over his objections. Mom and Pop get home to find the place destroyed and their new car totalled.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Clueless]]'' has one of these near the beginning of the movie
* The film ''[[Weird Science (
* ''[[Brick]]'' subverts the wild teen party in that there is a party, there are teens, and there is underage smoking and drinking, but the atmosphere is calm and subdued in keeping with the 1940s noir theme.
* Though not involving teens, the ''next'' most ultimate wild teen party would be the toga party from ''[[Animal House]].''
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* A rare non-American example can be seen in ''[http://www.neuillysamere-lefilm.com/ Neuilly sa mere]''. [[Token Minority|Young Arab]] Sami has to live with his aunt, her French husband, and his French children, in Neuilly (President Sarkozy's place of birth). Near the end, Sami's cousin Charles organizes a party where there is a argument, trouble-makers arrive (and break everything), and then the parents return earlier than expected.
* ''[[All the Boys Love Mandy Lane]]'', in a minor subversion, manages to do this with only six people at the party, [[Final Girl|one of whom]] isn't even really engaging in the festivities.
* The trope is actually subverted in ''[[
* ''[[Teen Wolf (
* The beach party, I mean orgy, at the end of ''[[Psycho Beach Party]]'', a yearly event that Chicklet sneaks out to, even though there's a murderer around.
* The film adaptation of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]: Roderick Rules'' depicts Roderick's party on-screen, instead of leaving it to the reader and Greg's imagination. The family film is forced to water the teen party down to slightly loud music and a guy who eats whipped cream from the can. They do make the impressive mess as they did in the book.
* ''[[
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[That
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': "Dead Man's Party", in which Buffy's out-of-control welcome back party gets crashed by zombies. It's played with; the party was originally, as Giles planned it, just going to be a quiet affair to welcome Buffy home, but her friends overrule him and turn it in to one of these; ostensibly because they think it's going to be more fun, but ''actually'' because there's all sorts of tensions surround why Buffy left which, now she's back, they're all avoiding dealing with -- having the huge party is just an excuse to avoid her as much as possible while 'welcoming' her back. Needless to say, it gets ugly even ''before'' the zombies show up.
* ''[[Degrassi]]'' has had several. The third season episode "Our House" has a crisis which completes Sean's [[Heel Face Turn]]. The sixth season episode "Rock This Town," in a reversal, has the wild party at Emma's house, at Manny's urging -- but when the wild party starts, Manny is the one trying to keep order while Emma gets drunk and lets things rot. And it ends with the king of disasters: {{spoiler|One of the party-crashers ''murders'' a teen on impulse.}}
* The original ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' had several of these as well and almost all of them were at Lucy's house. Emma Nelson (of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'') was actually conceived at one of these parties.
* ''[[Married...
** In one episode, the party got so out of control that a TV reporter announces that authorities have resorted to starting "back parties" to try to contain it.
** "My Dinner With [[
* ''[[Smallville]]'': Clark Kent accidentally hosted, and managed to clean the entire trashed house in a few seconds with his [[Super Speed]] -- only to find his parents standing in the door applauding before explaining they called four times last night, and none of the four people who answered even knew a Clark Kent.
* ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' has God Himself request the party (but veto alcohol). The parents never find out, but the cops came by to shut everything down, much to Joan's relief. This ended up saving the lives of the police officers by {{spoiler|preventing them from being at a meth lab when it exploded.}}
* Kevin in ''[[The Wonder Years]]'' throws a party that gets crashed (apparently by just about every partier in town and then some) and he can't even clean up a fraction of the mess by the time his parents return home. {{spoiler|In a twist, he tries to fess up to them, but neither parent believes that straitlaced Kevin would do such a thing. Instead, they punish Kevin's older slacker brother Wayne whom they assume has bullied Kevin into taking the heat. ''And Wayne accepts it.''}}
* ''[[Skins]]'' is particularly known for these, to the point where [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skins+party "Skins party"] has entered the slang lexicon. There is one in just about every episode - either that, or the characters will wake up to the aftermath of one (as happens at the beginning of Cassie's S1 episode).
* The second episode of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' features a [[Wild Teen Party]]. In an odd twist of the "getting increasingly drunk" requirement, the booze at the party has been secretly switched with "near beer" by the worried younger brother of the girl throwing the party -- but everyone still ''acts'' drunk. As it's also a parody of the over-the-top Anvilicious "[[Can't Get Away
* The ''[[Malcolm in
** Subverted on ''Home Alone 4,'' where Francis tells his three hoodlum friends not to have a party at his house. They keep their promise, but still trash the house because the trio is so violent and destructive that they have the energy to trash the house in the same manner as a [[Wild Teen Party]].
* On ''[[The OC]]'', Ryan and Seth are subjected to Haley Nichol's New Year's Eve party, complete with skinnydipping and BYOB.
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{{quote| '''Alex''': [[I Can Explain|I can explain everything]]!<br />
'''Steven''': Oh can you? Can you explain the valet parking in the drive way?... The flashing "vacancy" sign in front of the house? The '''''billboard''''' ''on Route 41''? }}
* One episode of ''[[Hardcastle and McCormick]]'' does essentially this, even though the characters aren't teenagers; while Judge Hardcastle is out of town, his live-in parolee/sidekick Mark McCormick hosts a poker game that gets ''severely'' out of hand. When Mark has to leave to pick the Judge up from the airport (he got back unexpectedly early, natch), they come back to find that nearly everything in the house has been stolen. Even the ''furniture''. [[Can't Get Away
* Rayanne had one of these in ''[[My So-Called Life]]''. Word of mouth spread so far that someone invited her to her own party, not knowing she was the host. The party ended when Rayanne's mom came home, then went out again without noticing that {{spoiler|Rayanne had overdosed. Angela's mother stepped in and saved her life.}}
* Even ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' had a Wild Teen Party though she was in college when she threw it. She threw a Halloween party to try and get her friends into the spirit of the holiday, and used real ghouls. More ghouls showed up and trashed the party and Roxie started a thing with Frankenstein. Naturally her aunts got home. Sabrina threw another Halloween party earlier in the second season but her aunts were home and she was busy trying to cover up the magical termites and the talking furniture.
* Happens in season 2 of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' when Emma's parents are away and her mother's dolphin ornament gets broken. Also in "Bad Moon Rising" when Rikki trashes the house with her powers, Emma lies to her parents saying she had a party.
* A variation happens in ''[[Lizzie
* In ''[[The Brothers Garcia]]'' when the parents go out to dinner, Larry and George decide to throw a party but nobody wants to come. Lorenna happens to have a popular guy over that night however so they tell all the girls in school and the wild party ensues. Things get pretty crazy with toilet paper being thrown around the house and the father's antique crystal plate getting smashed. They clean up before the parents get home, but end up confessing. Larry's narration says that they keep on confessing to other things they'd been hiding and the parents are so stunned by all this that they just ground the kids for one week and call it even.
* ''[[S Club 7]]'' managed to pull this off when they were house sitting. Unfortunately for them the house is a mansion in LA and they can't even begin to clean up before the owner gets home. However the owner turns out to be a party man himself and continues the party through the day.
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== Music ==
* The [[Dead Kennedys]] practically skewered this trope the only way they can with the above-quoted "Too Drunk to Fuck". That's merely the first verse and all the other lyrics qualify, including shooting out truck tires, [[Fetish Retardant|clumsy oral sex]] and somebody "bawling like the baby from ''[[Eraserhead]]''". For good measure, the song ends with what's been aptly called "probably the most realistic vomiting effect ever committed to vinyl".
* Then, of course, there's [[Teenage Head]]'s ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Katy Perry]]'s song ''Last Friday Night''. Also, most of their parodies (such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaVQIu7i1Lc LastSundayNight].
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
** But not before [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-11-15 referencing] the trope. Mr. Verres then explains (with graphs) why he doesn't trust Ellen to keep things sane:
{{quote| '''Mr. Verres:''' The clincher was that crazed look you got on your face when I first suggested the party.<br />
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has the Delightful Children accidentally start a TV-Y7 version of this trope by trying to kiss up to teenagers. They're forced to ask the Kids Next Door to [[Save the Villain|help them stop the party]] before Father finds out; the KND are honor-bound to agree.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has occasionally featured this type of party, and the clean-up period afterwards, which usually involves an alligator and a man that sounds suspiciously like Charles Bronson.
** A recent episode implies Homer throws one of these every Mardi Gras, and it almost drove them bankrupt.
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** If I recall, he escaped trouble for two reasons: (1) He blamed it on Vicky, and (2) his parents would have been fine with it anyway if they had been invited.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' threw one of those too. The party ended in the two ways: {{spoiler|Goddard cleaned the house and Jimmy's parents didn't notice, [[It Makes Sense in Context|but they forgot the dinosaur in the closet]], so he ended up grounded for that}}.
* Happens often on [[My Life
* The younger members of the team had one of these in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' after they lured Scott and Jean [[Ship Tease|out on a drive together]]. And then {{spoiler|a gamer almost destroyed the mansion when he hacked into Cerebro, thinking it was a fancy computer game.}}
* In one episode of ''[[
* In ''[[The Emperor's New School
* ''[[
** Trash the place? They ''burned the house down''!
* ''[[Stoked]]!'': Lo's End of The School Year party at the hotel, which gets so out of control that it leaves her paying for it for the rest of the show.
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'''People:''' CANDACE PARTY! CANDACE PARTY! }}
** Long story short, she desperately tries to get rid of a party that she never wanted in the first place- when her family comes home early, it looks like the [[Contrived Coincidence]] that always protects Phineas' and Ferb's inventions will protect her, too....but for the first time in the show's history, it doesn't, and Candace is busted.
* Bloo in ''[[
* Terry's friend Howard throws one in an episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. The party goes south when his [[Yandere]] robot girlfriend interferes with his attempt to pick up other girls and starts destroying the house when he tries to break up with her. She ends up exploding, taking the house with her, just as Howard's parents come home, having run out of vacation money thanks to him using it to buy the robot girlfriend. [[Deadpan Snarker|"The party peaked early"]], indeed.
* In ''[[Unsupervised]]'' Gary and Joel were only inviting over two girls in an attempt to impress them. Of course, half the school decides to show up, but unlike most cases Gary and Joel aren't shown to suffer any sort of punishment from the parents, which fits in with the [[Parental Neglect|theme of the show]].
* ''[[The Cat in
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