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See also [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb]] (which may occur at this), [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy]]. Take note that it doesn't necessarily have to deal with teenagers, but they are the most common occurances of the trope.
[[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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* ''[[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... with Children]]''
** 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 [[Anthrax]]": Only eight people attended (the band, Bud/Kelly/Marcy), supposedly only lasted one song, but utterly trashed the downstairs.
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* 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 with Nuthin'|if you drink you'll]] '''''[[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|die]]!!!'''''" messages that kids are generally bombarded with in these episodes, the episode also subverts most of the traditional Wild Teen Party elements -- nothing gets broken, the parents don't come home (and, so far as we know, never even find out about it), the house doesn't look ''that'' blitzed afterwards (at least, no more than you'd expect after a party), a wild fight ''looks'' like it's going to break out but cooler heads manage to prevail, nothing particularly bad happens to the 'drunk' kids and the cops are only called because the hostess secretly wants the party to end but doesn't want to look like a party pooper in front of her friends, so one of her brother's friends agrees to do it for her.
* The ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' episode "Reese's Party" has Reese mentioning this trope, and giving a foolproof plan to avoid it: host the party on a ''Friday'' night, not Saturday. Unfortunately, the party is crashed by a bunch of guys who turn the garage into a meth lab.
** 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.
** The Cohen house is also overrun with male strippers (also Haley's fault) at Julie Cooper's bachelorette party. This time there's a catfight!
** Then there was the girl who OD'd on Ecstacy at Marissa's house. All I can remember about that party is there was a really weak remix of "Daft Punk is Playing at my House" (itself a song about a Wild Teen Party).
*** That girl became a recurring character that season, who only existed to be a Wild Teen.
** And there seemed to be a permanent Wild Teen Party going on in Holly's beach house during season 1.
* In the ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' Episode "Drake and Josh Inn", Drake and Josh turn their house into an inn while their parents are away during spring break. It eventually spirals into a wild party that gets onto MTV. Their parents decide to come home early, but the partiers are scared off before they arrive. However, minutes later the parents get in trouble with the police for hosting a TV event without a license.
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* ''[[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.
* On a Halloween episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'', Brad's crazy friend Jason convinces him to throw one of these parties when Tim and Jill go out to an awards ceremony for local TV shows. In the middle of things, Brad goes out to the backyard fence to get advice from [[The Obi-Wan|Wilson]], and that's when Tim and Jill walk in on the whole thing.
* In ''[[Family Matters]],'' after Eddie invites a friend over while Carl and Harriet are away, a party erupts. Two rival football teams show up and argue. When they attempt to redo a disputed play from a past game a gravyboat goes through the window. There is mention of Jello in the bathtub, and Carl finds Urkel stuffed in the couch.
* Jenny's birthday party-turned-rager in ''[[Gossip Girl]].'' Pictures are tilted, Lily van der Woodsen's clothes are worn by complete strangers, people try to have sex in the van der Woodsens' bedrooms. Not to mention Vanya (the van der Woodsens' doorman) has to fight back complete strangers from coming into the van der Woodsens' building and the police have to bring Rufus and Lily back to said building to stop the rager.
* A fairly mild example happens in ''[[Blue Water High]]''. Possibly unique in that the kids decide to come clean about it themselves rather than trying to cover it up.
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* ''[[Glee]]'': Rachel Berry attempts to have one. Needless to say, it fails miserably-- until they break out the alcohol, that is.
* George in ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' finds out Carmen is at one of these when she leaves her IM up on the computer. He goes over, ends the party and takes Carmen home.
* ''[[Monk]]'':
** The Rock Festival in "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert" had several lewd and out of control behavior going on when Monk went with Natalie and Captain Stottlemeyer to locate Max Stottlemeyer due to his skipping school to go to the concert (Monk only went because he mistook it for a geology exhibit, to which Monk became horrified when he realized it wasn't.) Monk, when staying outside, also attempted to get a couple to stop making out on Stottlemeyer's car, only for it to fail miserably.
** Inverted in "Mr. Monk is the Best Man". Monk organized a Bachelor's party for Stottlemeyer. Unfortunately, allowing Monk to plan a Bachelor's party, period, proved to be a very big mistake, as he ordered pizza with nothing on it (which is meant literally, as in no sauce or cheese), had them drink sippy cups before handing out the beer, promising one for each (and, boy, did he mean "[[Exact Words|one for each member]]", as he gave one 12 ounce bottle for each attendee (12 total), meaning that, in an inversion of the [[Designated Driver]] trope, they had to appoint Randy Disher as the "designated drunk", Monk also installed a portapotty within the bathroom somehow, and also told a joke about Stottlemeyer's failed relationships that turned cold before he even recited the punchline for the first joke. Finally, Monk ended up choosing for their bachelor party movie ''[[Bachelor Party]]'', a film that was implied to be unpopular with the Police Force. It also ended with one of the cars being firebombed... by someone who wasn't someone at the party.
* ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'': Steve tells Romeo not to have one of these when he goes out of town with Regina for a conference. Ced and Lovita decide to have a party to celebrate Ced's having paid off his Hyundai, and override Romeo's pleas not to have it at Steve's. Of course the word gets out and practically everyone in Chicago shows up. Romeo frantically tries to keep the house clean during the party but the house gets trashed anyway. The next morning, Ced and Lovita come over to Steve's house to help Romeo clean up, but Steve comes home unexpectedly. Ced and Lovita quickly leave, leaving Romeo holding the bag.
** Another episode has Romeo tricking Lydia into having a party while she is housesitting for Steve who is on a cruise. The party is in full swing when [[The Bully|Coretta]], angry that no one attended her Sweet 16 party, crashes it. After the [[Record Needle Scratch]], everyone flees, save Romeo and Bullethead whom she forces to stay so that they can dance and have cake with her and Lydia. She also makes them clean up and forces Romeo to buy flowers for Lydia to apologize for tricking her. Finally, she takes Romeo's wallet and all of the money in it in exchange for not telling Steve about the party.
* Theo had one on ''[[The Cosby Show]]''. It was just supposed to be only eight people: Theo, his three friends, and their girlfriends. The word gets out on campus and everyone shows up and trashes the house. Cliff and Clair come home and sees the destruction, and as punishment, Cliff has Theo serve the homeless every weekend for six months as well as pay to repair the damages to the house.
* In an episode of ''[[Castle]]'', Alexis's plan to have a few friends over while her dad's out of town turns into a huge party when one guy invites the entire football team and another sends out a mass Facebook invite. When Alexis and her friend comment that the boy in question is kind of a loser and can't have many friends, Alexis says that [[Tempting Fate|there can't possibly be many people just waiting for an invite on a party]], a bunch of people show up. In a variation on the trope, Alexis acknowledges that her dad wouldn't care in the slightest about the party, and she successfully clears up by the time he gets back: Castle notices the absence of an ornament that got broken, but he's too hungover from his own wild party to ask too many questions.
* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'': Bertha attempted to hold a party at Charlie's house while Charlie, Jake, and Alan were away for a week at Las Vegas without Charlie's knowledge. However, it ended up being cut very short when it not only became apparent that they weren't going to Las Vegas after all (they had to cancel the trip after Jake caught an illness, implied to be the flu), but they also walked in on it after hearing the music from the party. Bertha immediately covered herself by saying "Surprise" in order to make it seem as though the party was intended for either Charlie or Alan harper.
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* 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 on the Tin|Teenage Beer Drinking Party]]''.
* [[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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== Web Originals ==
* In ''[[Thalias Musings]]'', Thalia answers a mortal's prayer for comic inspiration by ordering him to throw one of these on Mt. Parnassus, which will infuriate Apollo.
{{quote|'''Thalia:''' Call Pan and Dionysus to the Corycian Cave on the slopes of Mount Parnassus and host a feast.
'''Eustachys:''' A feast, Lady Thalia?
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** There was also a book of that exact same episode. {{spoiler|Papa Bear points out that if parents had compared notes, the whole thing would have been nipped in the bud.}}
* ''[[Clone High]]'' had basically the same scenario as the ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' example above, except that it was non-alcoholic beer only because the only person who could have passed for 21 was also the resident [[The Ditz]].
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', the FBI agents assigned to watch the Griffins' home while the family is in witness protection throw a wild party with all the other FBI agents.
* Timmy from ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' once threw one of these (despite not being a teenager), simply because it's what you're ''supposed'' to do when your parents are out. It included such people as escaped criminals, vikings and a walrus.
** 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.
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** 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.
* [[Double Subverted]] by ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', of all people. Our heroes actually want to host this type of party, and openly announce that they're having one. Unfortunately, the only person who shows up is the nerdy Stewart, who brings a couple of his friends. After some geeky conversation between Stewart and his friends over whether [[Knight Rider|Michael]] could beat [[MacGyver]] in a fight, the real party starts when the party is crashed by Todd, a local hoodlum who Beavis and Butt-Head idolize. He kicks Beavis and Butt-Head out of their own house, and proceeds to trash it after holding a wild party of his own. When Beavis and Butt-Head come back, Todd trenches their yard and tells them they owe him $50 for party supplies, before tearing off down the street. Beavis and Butt-Head, of course, are simply thrilled that Todd came to their party.
* ''[[The Proud Family]]'' double subverts this as well. It was intended that Penny Proud invite everyone to her party, or at the very least her friends, but LaCienaga ended up [[Party Scheduling Gambit|inviting everyone in the school]], and to add insult to injury, her friends end up stabbing Penny in the back when they make it seem as though they actually did intend to go to her party, when they actually just wanted to use their house as parking space for LaCienaga's party. She ends up having to make do with people who she didn't intend to invite, some of them technically were legitimate in crashing the party (the Gross Sisters used invitations that were thrown out to enter Penny's party), and it took some time (and Aesops) for Penny to accept them as guests. Of course, by this time, LaCienaga's party went into an unexpected halt, and they merged with Penny's party, although Penny was still not too happy with her friends, considering locking them out, but decided against it, but still planning to exact revenge on them with the hair-in-a-glass trick that she pulled earlier in the party. Furthermore, Penny's parents are involved from the very beginning.
** The episode where Penny has a sleepover plays this straight as Lacienaga calls everyone in their middle school to come over to the house. The party gets out of control just as Oscar and Trudy return home. Suga Mama is [[Senior Sleep Cycle|asleep the entire time]], only waking up when Oscar turns the TV off.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' offers us a subversion. The family's parents are going on a trip, but Candace ensures them that she's not going to have a wild party, just an "intimate get together". And that's....exactly what she does. She invites over a couple of friends. Stacy then suggests she invites just a couple more people over, which Candace hesitantly agrees to. Then her boyfriend Jeremy comes over with his band, saying they just want to practice some music. Again, she hesitantly agrees, saying as ''long'' as its just for practice. Upon hearing the music, the ''entire'' neighborhood comes over, assuming its one of her brothers' parties, and they're awesome. The entire thing leads to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq6q77MUf8w&feature=related song];
{{quote|'''Candance:''': Its not a party, its an intimate get together!
'''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 ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' throws a G-rated one while Madame Foster is out of the house for the day, it somehow ends with Mac running through the streets naked. The typical result of the trope is [[Subverted]] at the end: Madame Foster comes home and seems quite incensed about it...because the party was thrown without her. She gleefully moves onto the dance floor and the party continues.
* 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.
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