History Main / WildTeenParty

* ''Literature/IAmJ'' starts with one full of liquor, drug use, and sex, however J hates the party.

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' features just such a party, with the twist that it's ''super powered'' teens trashing the place. In addition, when he is busted, the main character actually accepts punishment for it.

* PlayedWith in ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'''s take on "Party Crasher". While Kim convinces his male classmates that they should take advantage of Adrien's ControlFreak father being away to visit the Agreste Manor and throw a party, and they play music loud enough to draw a noise complaint, the party doesn't ''really'' start getting out of control until Officer Roger arrives... and sees that the boys are plays foosball, insisting that he needs to show them the ''right'' way to play. From that point on, the house is increasingly flooded by ''adults'' who take the party into increasingly wilder territory, taking the series' tendency for [[AdultsAreUseless adults to be totally useless]] to a whole new level.

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->''Went to a party, I danced all night''
->''I drank sixteen beers and I started up a fight''
->''But now I'm jaded, you're out of luck''
->''I'm rolling down the stairs, too drunk to fuck''

* In a Canadian tire commercial, a teenager, cleaning up the mess after one of these, says, "[[InsistentTerminology It was a get-together!]]" The scene cuts to exterior shot of the house. Loud music, strobe lights playing on windows, couch sitting on lawn, dog barking in the background, kids yelling and laughing, sound of glass shattering, etc.
* An implied instance of the trope occurred in the [[https://youtu.be/MRzfQW80zs0 commercial]] for the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty1'' game: Some cops stop by a house due to reports of disruptive behavior in the neighborhood. They then ask for Mario, who then reveals himself. It then cuts after showing some gameplay footage to the cops escorting Mario to their squadcar by the arms, with his legs flailing and his protesting "But it'sa me, Mario!" before the cops sarcastically dismiss his protests with, "Yeah, tell it to the judge," strongly implying that he was going to end up arrested for the disruptive party.

* A French commercial for the national electricity company showed parents receiving a letter from the company offering them to adapt their bill to their needs, interleaved with shots of the teenage children throwing wild parties in the house. The commercial ended with the parents asking their children if they did not stay too late at night with the lights on while they were away, with the (obviously hungover) children answering that they certainly did not.

* In the ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' comic, Tesla Strong and Solomon the Gorilla try explaining to Tesla's parents that the devastated house (including a small jet aircraft in the living room) was actually the result of ''a super-villain turning the entire city upside-down''. They don't buy it, so Tesla grudgingly admits to throwing a party.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''
** Parodied in an issue 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.
** And played straight the time Peter ran away from home and asked Kong to stay for the night. Kong's parents were out of town, so of course there was a party some hours later. Uncle Ben shows up, and although he does not stop the party (not his house, and Kong's not his kid) he forces Peter out of it, which was equally humilliating.
* A mid-70s issue of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' had a ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' 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.

* The ''Film/CabinFever'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/CabinFeverPartingShot'' lives off this trope. The parties might be smaller than some of the other examples on this page, but the [[FiveManBand five attendees]] all party hard, and don't skimp on the AlcoholInducedIdiocy, [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex sex]], and [[NakedPeopleAreFunny shameless nudity]].
* ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': In the first "Daughters" Loop (Twilight is the alicorn queen of Equestria, the expanded CMC [[note]]Along with the original three, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara are now members[[/note]] are her daughters), Twilight withdraws to the heavens for a thousand years to do research. The CMC, left in charge of Equestria, decide to throw a millennium-long party/golden era of art and culture. They even take turns as the "designated ruler" who actually runs the country while the rest of them get drunk and party. The party ends with Twilight returning from the heavens to the horror and shock of her daughters. However, she's more amused than anything else, since Equestria ''did'' prosper under their rule.
* ConversationalTroping in the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' fanfic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18864466 Drink, And Be Merry]]", in which British heroine the Squire, taken aback to learn that the drinking age in the US is 21, and that none of the Team have ever broken it asks, "I've seen the movies with those red cups, and the pool parties where someone's parents have gone out of town for the weekend. That's an actual thing, right?"

* In the book ''Literature/GirlfriendInAComa'' by Douglas Coupland, the main characters attend a "housewrecker" party.
* The Kit Pearson novel ''Literature/LookingAtTheMoon'' has all the adults leaving the cottage to go to a wedding and leaving the older teenagers in charge. Bearing in mind that this is a children's novel set during WWII, no sex and no drinking are shown, though almost everybody over the age of sixteen seems to smoke. Unusually for this trope, everything goes according to plan and no one's caught, though the adults on their return do remark that the island is suspiciously clean and garbage-free.
* In one of his books Robert Fulghum tells the story of the kid who had a party when his parents were out of town, only to have somebody puke into the multigenerational family Bible. He had no recourse but to bury the thing in the backyard.

* ''Literature/BeforeIFall'': Samantha and [[spoiler:Juliet]]'s deaths are both accidentally caused by Kent's Wild Teen Party.
* ''Literature/TheBasicEight'': The narrator of Daniel Handler's first novel for grown-ups commits [[spoiler: Murder By Croquet Mallet]] at a booze-fueled party on Halloween.
* Before the events of ''Literature/{{Speak}}'', Melinda Sordino called the cops at one of these, which caused half the school to hate her. The reason she did it was because [[spoiler:she was raped]] but was unable to tell the operator what happened.
* ''Literature/TheRubyRedTrilogy'': Usually, Cynthia Dale's parties are pretty boring. Then ''everybody'' decides to spike the punch. Her parents are actually there, but they're as drunk as everyone else.
* [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]] describes one of these in a Lake Wobegon story in ''Leaving Home'', given by Roger Hedlund's daughters. Roger, however, refuses to spoil the kids' fun by being a stereotypical angry father.

* ''Literature/TheScream'' opens with one. It ends with [[spoiler: A massacre. Fifteen people die and a young woman is taken hostage]].
* The third ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' novel takes this to a whole new level. The teenagers aren't the only wild partiers -- their parents are also partying, as are their parents, and ''their'' parents. And not just as a multi-generational wild party, either: the party has been going on non-stop for '''four generations'''.

* ''Literature/IAmJ'' starts with one full of liquor, drug use, and sex, however J hates the party.
* ''Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World'': Author Vicki Myron mentions the time her daughter Jodi threw one of these. Among incidents, a vanity door in the bathroom got ripped off, and the cops got called twice but ''did nothing'' because some of the guests included the local football team. At least they tried to clean up afterward.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': A sign that the Mandrakes (which are human-like plants) are maturing is when they throw a wild party in the greenhouse.
* The plot of ''Literature/AskingForIt'' by Louise O'Neill is kick-started when protagonist Emma goes to such a party [[spoiler:and is gang-raped when she passes out after taking drugs]].

* In ''Literature/{{Mindblind}}'', Nathaniel's normalcy-obsessed dad forces him to go to a loud, unsupervised teen party, complete with a disco ball. Nathaniel drinks punch that turns out to be spiked with vodka, which reacts badly with his medications, rendering him almost catatonic for several days. In a rare moment of responsible parenting, Nathaniel's dad presses charges against the owner of the house, who turns out to have knowingly supplied his teenage son with vodka.
* In ''Literature/NickelPlated'', rebellious teen Jeff Rogers turns out to have been getting in fistfights for the entertainment of guests at teen parties. Nickel arranges for him to take martial arts lessons so he can use his talents for something productive.
* ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': While Eleanor is [[spoiler: running away from home]], she is taken in by Tina and Steve, who are throwing one of these in Steve’s garage.

* Then, of course, there's TeenageHead's ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Teenage Beer Drinking Party]]''.

* The Music/BowlingForSoup song ''Friends, Chicks, Guitars'' is an subversion. The song is about some guys who ''want'' to throw one of these, but their parties inevitably fizzle out because they failed to stock up enough booze (The title comes from the last line of the chorus, which goes "We've got friends, chicks, guitars, but no beer").

* Music/AntiFlag's 'Spaz's House Destruction Party'

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] and his friends have a wild pre-teen party in the song "Deep, Deep Trouble" from ''Music/TheSimpsonsSingTheBlues'' while the rest of the family is away at a boat show. It ends just as soon as the family gets home, and Bart realizes that he is again in "deep, deep trouble."
* The Israeli 1992 song "At Aunt's and Uncle's" by Danny Sanderson is about a person calling some friends to have a Wild Teen Party while his relatives are on a vacation in Greece. It was CoveredUp by Noa Kirel in 2017. The clip had some serious SettingUpdate; Danny called the friends using a rotary phone and a phonebook, while Noa used a smartphone, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw7KCMjvs6I and that's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EtqfxPt7p4 just the start]]. [[ValuesResonance The song itself required no adjustment]].
* In the video for the Music/BeastieBoys' song "You Gotta Fight (For Your Right to Party)", a pair of nerds throw a (rather tame) party for themselves, which is then promptly crashed by a gang of punks.
-->'''Nerd #1''': Do you like parties?
-->'''Nerd #2''': Yeah.
-->'''Nerd #1''': We can invite all of our friends and have [[FrothyMugsOfWater soda]] and pie!
-->'''Nerd #2''': Yeah!
-->'''Nerd #1''': [[TemptingFate I hope no bad people show up.]]
-->''[[DescriptionCut Cut to the Beasties yelling incoherently]]''
* Music/SnoopDogg's video for "Gin & Juice" entitled "Homeboy Alone".
* Aaron Carter's song/music video "Aaron's Party (Come and Get It)".
* There was also such a wild party in the ten-year anniversary (1988) video for Music/TheRamones' "I Wanna Be Sedated." The party in question is apparently crashed by a ''circus''.
* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s [[Music/GarageInc cover]] of "[[http://vimeo.com/9128706 Whiskey in the Jar]]" shows a few dozen Eighties heavy-metal girls trashing the ever-loving crap out of a UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Victorian.

* The song "Fire Island" by Music/FountainsOfWayne is a tender and low-key song about kids planning a party when their parents go away.
--> Driving on the lawn, sleeping on the roof
--> Drinking all the alcohol
--> All the kids from school will be naked in the pool
--> When our parents are out on Fire Island
* Music/AlessiaCara's "Here" is about a girl who goes to a mild one despite disliking such parties.
* One of the interviewees in Music/TalkingHeads' music video anthology, ''Storytelling Giant'', recalls trashing people's houses at these.
* "Townie" by Music/{{Mitski}} is a more dramatic take on the trope. The song describes the narrator's conflicting feelings about losing her virginity at an alcohol-fueled party in which all the boys are trying to get laid.

* Pierce throws one of these in one story arc in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''. After things get out of hand, Walt clears 700 drunken teenagers out of the house by standing on a chair and announcing "I'm an orthodontist and I'm not afraid to prove it!". It's also implied in the ending that, although they cleaned up most of the house, they still had more than enough of a mess exposed for his parents to find when they get home (namely, the gutters are completely unhinged). Also, apparently he only had to tell Brittney about the party: the TelecomTree did the rest.

* A Sunday strip in ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' shows a teenage Elizabeth throwing one (sans alcohol). Despite her and her friends cleaning up, Elly and John still found out using ''one popcorn kernel.''

* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'': The second act has a wild Halloween party that spirals out of control and culminates in Rich setting the house on fire.

* ''VideoGame/HouseParty2017'' starts off pretty quaint and low-key, but as you play, you can encourage the party-goers to get wilder. Also, they're technically college-aged.

---> '''Mr. Verres:''' The clincher was that crazed look you got on your face when I first suggested the party.
---> '''Ellen:''' That crazed look could have meant any number of things!
---> '''Mr. Verres:''' That doesn't help your case.

* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' got the girls' [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20101119.html slumber party]]. When two vampires, werewolf, [[SnakePeople melusine]] and succubus are brought together in a mood for shenanigans, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? Then, of course, someone finds a bottle of liquor... HilarityEnsues.

* ''WebVideo/TheGumdrops'': An episode features the aftermath of a wild college party involving only two people! To the degree that [[spoiler: there's a horse in the garden!]]

* In ''Literature/ThaliasMusings'', Thalia answers a mortal's prayer for comic inspiration by ordering him to throw one of these on Mt. Parnassus, which will infuriate Apollo.
--> '''Thalia:''' Call Pan and Dionysus to the Corycian Cave on the slopes of Mount Parnassus and host a feast.
--> '''Eustachys:''' A feast, Lady Thalia?
--> '''Thalia:''' Yes, a feast, a festival, a party. Not just any party, a party so awesome that Dionysus will wish it was his idea. Loud, crazy music; tons of wine; a huge bonfire; and, of course, the most uninhibited dancing imaginable. Oh, and do it tonight.
--> '''Eustachys:''' But if I do this on Apollo’s very doorstep -
--> '''Thalia:''' You can’t see why this is a good idea? Man, no wonder you can’t write comedy. [[http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/playwright-laureate/]]
* ''Series/CobraKai:''
** In "Different But Same," a milder variant occurs at the canyon where Yasmine was planning to have her birthday party, complete with lots of booze and the very type of crowd she loathes. Yup, Aisha decided to Strike First.
** In the second season, Moon decides it would be a good idea to bring the RivalDojos together under her roof for a little bonding session. The only thing keeping the MobWar from erupting there is the arrival of the cops.

* Before the events of ''Literature/{{Speak}}'', Melinda Sordino called the cops at one of these, which caused half the school to hate her. [[spoiler:She was raped]].

* ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': In the first "Daughters" Loop (Twilight is the alicorn queen of Equestria, the expanded CMC are her daughters), Twilight withdraws to the heavens for a thousand years to do research. The CMC, left in charge of Equestria, decide to throw a millennium-long party/golden era of art and culture. They even take turns as the "designated ruler" who actually runs the country while the rest of them get drunk and party. The party ends with Twilight returning from the heavens to the horror and shock of her daughters. However, she's more amused than anything else, since Equestria ''did'' prosper under their rule.

* The pool party turns out to be a G-rated version in ''Film/EighthGrade'': a horde of kids are throwing balls at each other, splashing water around, [[BreadMilkEggsSquick turning their eyelids inside out ...]] It is almost too much to countenance for the [[ShrinkingViolet mild-mannered protagonist]], Kayla, as she stands watching the mayhem from inside the house with [[OhCrap a look of horror]] on theface.

* The pool party turns out to be a G-rated version in ''Film/EighthGrade'': a horde of kids are throwing balls at each other, splashing water around, [[BreadMilkEggsSquick turning their eyelids inside out ...]] It is almost too much to countenance for the [[ShinkingViolet mild-mannered protagonist]], Kayla, as she stands watching the mayhem from inside the house with [[OhCrap a look of horror]] on her face.

* ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': In the first "Daughters" Loop (Twilight is the alicorn queen of Equestria, the CMC are her daughters), Twilight withdraws to the heavens for a thousand years to do research. The CMC, left in charge of Equestria, decide to throw a millennium-long party/golden era of art and culture. They even take turns as the "designated ruler" who actually runs the country while the rest of them get drunk and party. The party ends with Twilight returning from the heavens to the horror and shock of her daughters. However, she's more amused than anything else, since Equestria ''did'' prosper under their rule.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' episode [[HalloweenEpisode "The Halloween Bash"]], while his grandpa takes Haley out Trick-or-Treating, Jake decides to throw a party at the shop and invites both humans and magical creatures, reasoning that since it's Halloween, the humans will just think the creatures are [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself wearing elaborate costumes.]] In a rare twist, it's NOT Lao Shi who discovers the party, but the World Dragon Council doing a surprise inspection of Jake's training. They take the party as a dereliction of Jake's Dragon duties, and strip him of his powers as punishment...which becomes a problem when the Huntsclan captures the Council, and Jake has to save them. Which he does, by ''bringing the party to the Huntsclan's hideout!''
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' 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 [[SaveTheVillain help them stop the party]] before Father finds out; the KND are [[HonorBeforeReason honor-bound to agree]] since while the DCFDTL are technically their enemies, they are still kids nonetheless.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** The show 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.
** One episode implies Homer throws one of these every Mardi Gras, and it almost drove them bankrupt.
* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' TV series finds an ingenious solution to the fact that nobody in their right mind is going to leave a bunch of grade-school kids alone to begin with: the party takes place on a night when Lizzy Bruin has a baby-sitter. Who was told she was supervising a cute little sleepover and grows increasingly flustered as half the school shows up, leading to the 'trashed house' version. Interesting also in that the {{Aesop}} here applies to the parents as much as the kids -- the former shouldn't have just taken the latter's word for it that the Bruins were OK with a party. There was also a book of that exact same episode. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot Papa Bear points out that if parents had compared notes, the whole thing would have been nipped in the bud.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' had basically the same scenario as the ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' example above, except that it was non-alcoholic beer only because the only person who could have passed for 21 was also the resident [[TheDitz Ditz]].
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', 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.
** In a later episode, Mayor Creator/AdamWest tells Quahog's townspeople about his plans to throw one (despite West being in his 80s in real life) but warns them not to tell his parents. [[OhCrap They find out about it.]]
* Timmy from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' 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. 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.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] threw one of those too. The party ended in the two ways: Goddard cleaned the house and Jimmy's parents didn't notice, [[ItMakesSenseInContext but they forgot the velociraptor in the closet]], which his dad finds.
* The younger members of the team had one of these in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' after they lured Scott and Jean [[ShipTease out on a drive together]]. And then a gamer almost destroyed the mansion when he hacked into Cerebro, thinking it was a fancy computer game.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'':
** Macie finds herself hosting a pool party against her will for the high school French class -- because she accidentally revealed that her parents spent a lot of time out of town. The party isn't too wild but the girls have to deal with two {{Alpha Bitch}}es trying to de-bikini Courtney.
** Ginger attempts to invoke this in another episode to help a new girl feel welcome in town. Of course everyone thinks the girl is weird because she lives in a funeral home and nobody comes -- that is until a few high school kids hear it's in a funeral home and think it's incredibly cool.
** Ginger and friends crash one in order to shake off their 'nice girl' reputation. What's wild about this party is that it's on a school night -- and Ginger gets a [[SlutShaming rumour]] started about her after [[NotWhatItLooksLike a high school boy is seen giving her house keys back]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Pearl invites some of her friends over for a slumber party, and they watch TV and eat chips. However, Mr. Krabs, expecting a Wild Teen Party, sends [=SpongeBob=] to be a chaperone -- and [=SpongeBob=] inadvertently destroys the house himself. Pearl blames Mr. Krabs for this.
** In "Jellyfish Jam", the jellyfish invites others to a late-night party at [=SpongeBob=]'s, which lasts for 18 hours.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', Kuzco tries to persuade Malina to throw one while her parents are out of town. She refuses. In the end, he ends up throwing one. At her house. For a bunch of manatees. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': A party in the BeachEpisode turns into this after the host makes the mistake of inviting the four teenaged villains and annoying them enough to make them [[DisproportionateRetribution burn the place down]].
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Stoked}}'': The party that Lo threw that ultimately forced her to work at her family's surf resort for the summer (even forcing her to live at the staff house) was described as "an End-of-the-School-Year party gone wrong." To go into greater detail about what happened at the party:
** There were over a hundred teenagers at the party (most of whom were probably party-crashers) and, with the exception of the staff house (which houses the hotel's summer staff), the partygoers ended up trashing basically the entire hotel (including Lo's family's penthouse). And the entire hotel staff (including the entire housekeeping staff) was forced to clean up the aftermath of Lo's party.
** Broseph, a friend of Lo's who ends up getting a job at the hotel as a bellhop, had driven Lo's car into the hotel's main pool.
** After running out of firewood for this big bonfire they had on the beach, the partygoers ended up using the hotel's deck chairs in lieu of actual firewood.
** Lo's party attracted the attention of at least one newspaper, it ended up all over the local news and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were actually called in at one point (presumably to try and break up the party).
* {{Double Subver|sion}}ted by ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', 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 [[Series/KnightRider Michael]] could beat Series/{{MacGyver|1985}} 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'':
** This is double subverted in an episode. It was intended that Penny Proud invite everyone to her party, or at the very least her friends, but [=LaCienaga=] ended up [[PartySchedulingGambit 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 [[SeniorSleepCycle asleep the entire time]], only waking up when Oscar turns the TV off.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' 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 it's just for practice. Upon hearing the music, however, the ''entire NEIGHBORHOOD'' comes over, assuming it's one of her brothers' parties, which are awesome (Ferb informs Phineas, "When we get our own place, it'll be like this every day."). The entire thing leads to this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq6q77MUf8w song]]:
--> '''Candace:''' [[InsistentTerminology It's not a party, it's an intimate get-together!]]
--> '''People:''' ''(chanting)'' CANDACE PARTY! CANDACE PARTY!
** Long story short, Candace desperately tries to get rid of a party that she never wanted in the first place. And when her parents comes home early, it looks like the ContrivedCoincidence that always protects Phineas' and Ferb's inventions will protect her, too... but for once in the show's history, [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin it doesn't, and Candace is busted]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Bloo 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 after [[GRatedDrug getting hopped up on sugar]]. The typical result of the trope is {{subverted|Trope}} 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Terry's friend Howard throws one in the episode "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot". 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. [[DeadpanSnarker "The party peaked early"]], indeed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[ParentalNeglect theme of the show]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', the party actually ''isn't'' wild until ''the school's principal and teacher'' crash it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' featured one of these thrown at Hamton's house in "Hog Wild Hamton". Of course it wasn't his idea but Plucky's. Oddly, it's not the party goers who trash the place but a neighbor, Egghead, who does so out of retaliation for the noise the party is making which is disturbing his study time. Karma thankfully saves Hamton when [[ChekhovsGun a sweepstakes Hamton entered]] awards him and his family with a new house.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'' does this in the promptly named episode "Home Alone". Though in an aversion it's not Sharon who threw it, but her brothers who take advantage of the fact their babysitter had to leave them due to a family emergency. Sharon tries to be the responsible one doing the chores and whatnot. The one time she does try to loosen up and relax is when her mom [[HomeEarlySurprise not surprisingly comes back early from her vacation]]. Though her brothers get her off the hook by taking responsibility for the party, the most punishment Sharon gets is not getting the desired curfew extension she wanted.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Partysaurus Rex]]'' does this with bath toys. Rex helps to fill up the bathtub with water so the toys can have fun. They have fun all right, complete with light raves. Rex fills up the water with bubble bath and blocks the overflow drain with a sponge, causing the water to keep on rising. But then he realizes that means the water might overflow and leak into the hall -- not that the bath toys care. At one point, a toy police car arrives to control the situation, only to start having fun itself. After trying vainly to stop the rising water, Rex pulls out a stopper, which turns off the water, just as it reaches the top of the tub -- only to realize [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he accidentally turned on the shower]]! OhCrap...
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "The Show That Dares Not Speak Its Name" (originally titled "Cubix Rube"), Billy frees a demon from a Rubik's cube who frees other demons to have a party in Billy's house. When the demons are gotten rid of, Billy's mom assumes his dad did it.
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' had the Test kids throwing one of these. Because this was before Hugh's {{Flanderization}} in the later seasons, he lets them go through with it as long as they don't turn off the lights, but he almost crashes the party when they briefly do to hide Johnny after their experiment to make him look good backfires and leaves him disfigured.
* In the ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'' cartoon Tak has [[DemBones Party Juju]] throw a party in the village, but he also grants Tak's accidental wish for the party to never end, so they have to get Killjoy Juju to end it when the villagers keep almost getting themselves injured partying.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Summer decides to throw a normal teen party when her parents leave, and Rick decides to throw a far wilder extra-dimensional party at the exact same time, making Summer's party wild by association.
* Cornelia from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' is banned from having parties at her house because she once threw one that ended in their house being trashed.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode, "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E9KickTheBucketListPartyDown Party Down]]", Lori wants to avoid one of these by hosting a "sophisticated" party instead, but her adherence to "sophistication" sucks all the fun out of the party that Lincoln, Luna and Luan try to bring and her guests eventually excuse themselves. In the end, she gives in to her desire to just have fun and it still becomes this, with her guests and even parents joining in on the festivities[[note]]Though still no alcohol[[/note]].
** The episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS4E2PowerPlayRoomForImprovement Power Play with the Casagrandes]]" has Ronnie Anne and her family save energy only to find that the energy bill keeps getting higher and higher. By the end of the episode, Ronnie Anne learns the reason why: [[spoiler: Sergio the parrot keeps throwing late-night parties with the pigeons in the mercado]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E12FeedTheBirds Feed the Birds]]", the pigeons throw one of these after invading Mickey's house.
* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Disenchantment}}'' episode "Castle Party Massacre", RebelliousPrincess Bean organizes one of these in the Castle, since her father King Zog is ill and recovering in a spa. Meanwhile, Odval and Sorcerio host their own (separate) social gathering with their [[SecretCircleOfSecrets secret society]] in the castle basement. However, the party is soon crashed by ruthless [[HornyVikings Land Vikings]] who, due to some misunderstandings, mass-murder most of Bean's party guests.
* In ''Westernanimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'', Herc would receive friends Cassandra and Icarus at Phil's island as the trainer is away in a convention. Bacchus, the God of Wine, decides to barge in and convinces Herc to instead organize a full-blown Bacchanal, bringing along basically all of Herc's classmates to a party so wild that Poseidon, God of the Seas, decides to sink the island given the Bacchanal is not letting him sleep. To restore the place, Herc and the god Hermes need to go through a ChainOfDeals to get something Poseidon wanted in return for rising the island back -- and it goes through Phil's convention, though thankfully he returns just in time.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Played with in "Go Tina on the Mountain"; while the kids are away from home on an overnight field trip, Bob and Linda try to cut loose and end up throwing a huge party with some folks they met at a nightclub. It's the ''parents'' who have to hide the evidence of the party from the kids, to discourage them from trying the same stunt when they grow up.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' had a feline variant in "Saturday Evening Puss". While Mammy Twoshoes is at a bridge game with some friends, Tom invites some of his pals over to the house for a wild party that disrupts Jerry's sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'': In "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" where the boys are visiting a New York City museum, John warns his Beatle compadres about Greenwich Village where wild parties are quite abundant. Paul, George and Ringo sneak off to one at a Greenwich Village coffee house anyway.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', where Sabrina's attempted Halloween party is just dull because of Gem trying to sabotage it. It doesn't become a fun affair until her aunts arrive and use their magic.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' features an odd example in "Party Crasher". It starts with Adrien's friends taking advantage of Gabriel Agreste being out (though in reality he was in the basement [[spoiler:tending to his butterflies and checking on his wife]]) to show the normally shut-in Adrien what it's like to live it up at a party. Sure enough, there's loud music, and the guest list expands to include [[ContinuityCavalcade virtually every character with a Y chromosome to have appeared on the show at that point]] up to and including the Mayor of Paris. But it only really becomes a problem when an attempt to get more power for the speakers takes away power from [[spoiler:Emilie Agreste's life support systems]], prompting Hawk Moth to akumatize one of the show's few male characters who ''doesn't'' get invited into Party Crasher to shut the party down. In a curious twist of this trope, Gabriel ''does'' find out, but does nothing about it, as he can't tell Adrien he knows about the party without [[spoiler:revealing that he is Hawk Moth]].
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* ''Series/That70sShow'' had a few of these, particularly in the earlier seasons, including a kegger in the pool of an empty house and a "the parents are out of town" party at Donna's.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty 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.
* ''Series/WithoutATrace'' had one in season two that was so wild they were fined $3.6 million by the FCC.
* ''Series/DecisionesExtremas'': The episode "Mala jugada" starts with the aftermath of one in which a hungover Horacio has his face slathered in makeup, wearing a bra stuffed with toilet paper, and his jeans unbuttoned.
* ''Series/ElInternadoLasCumbres'': A BoardingSchool variation. After lights out, Amaia and Paz notice that there are no teachers or staff around and go off and wake up everyone at the dorms. They end up in the school underground tunnels, drinking and dancing, and in Paz's case, [[ThreeWaySex making out with Eric and Julio]]. Of course, they all get caught and punished harshly.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has had several. The third season episode "Our House" has a crisis which completes Sean's HeelFaceTurn. 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 ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' had several of these as well and almost all of them were at Lucy's house. Emma Nelson (of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'') was actually conceived at one of these parties.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''
** 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 Music/{{Anthrax}}": Only eight people attended (the band, Bud/Kelly/Marcy), supposedly only lasted one song, but utterly trashed the downstairs.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** In the season one episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS01E08Jitters Jitters]]", Clark Kent accidentally hosted, and managed to clean the entire trashed house in a few seconds with his SuperSpeed -- only to find [[HomeEarlySurprise his parents are back early]] and are standing in the door SarcasticClapping before explaining they called six times last night, and none of the six people who answered even knew a Clark Kent. However, they're soon distracted when Clark tells them about finding Jonathan's friend Earl Jenkins (who's since been taken in the hospital and is wanted for murder) in the loft.
** The season four episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E08Spell Spell]]" has another wild party (though this one was Lois's fault -- it was a surprise party for Chloe's birthday), and again Clark's parents find evidence of it happening. Again, they're somewhat distracted from it by more serious matters: namely, when Clark tells them about the witches he was dealing with the night before, and that magic can hurt him.
* ''Series/JoanOfArcadia'' 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 ''Series/TheWonderYears'' 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.'']]
* ''Series/{{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).
* ''Series/{{Glue}}'', penned by one of the writers on the above mentioned ''Series/{{Skins}}'', has two -- a small affair at a grain silo and a massive teen rave in the woods.
* The second episode of ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' 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 ''[[FakeHigh acts]]'' drunk. As it's also a parody of the over-the-top Anvilicious "[[CantGetAwayWithNuthin if you drink you'll]] '''''[[CantGetAwayWithNuthin 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 fairly reasonable party), many of the kids are clearly either bored (Ken) or overly self-conscious (Harris), 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. All up, it might be more accurate to describe this example more of a Moderately Engaging Teen Party rather than a Wild one.
* ''Series/TheOtherKingdom'' has one of these occurring in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" where Morgan wants to have a girls' night at Devon's house and invites a few friends over for a nice relaxing time. But thanks to some meddling from Astral and Brendoni, most of the teenagers of the neighborhood wind up getting an invite to Devon's house and the night out quickly gets out of hand turning into a house party which Devon can't keep under control, eventually giving in and becoming the party "Devo".
* The ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Reese's Party" has Reese mentioning this trope, and giving a foolproof plan to avoid the usual outcome of such parties: host the party on a ''Friday'' night, not Saturday, thus giving himself 1 day extra time to get rid of all the mess the party will cause. 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 ''Series/TheOC'', 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 ecstasy at Marissa's house. 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 ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' 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 [[HomeEarlySurprise 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.
* In ''Series/FamilyTies,'' Alex's and Mallory's party attracts gate crashers that include a kangaroo mascot kidnapped from a rival high school. The next morning, Steven explains to his kids just why he's so angry with them:
--> Parents are conditioned to expect a few minor mishaps when they go on vacation: a chipped dish, some spilled milk on the rug -- (''long pause'') There was a ''kangaroo'' in my ''living room''.
** It should be noted that this went a ''bit'' beyond an unsupervised party: Mallory had crashed their parents' car, so to pay for the repairs they turned the house into a ''bed and breakfast''. Though they managed to make their money back almost immediately, Alex didn't want to stop...
--->'''Alex''': [[ICanExplain I can explain everything]]!
--->'''Steven''': Oh can you? Can you explain the valet parking in the driveway?... The flashing "vacancy" sign in front of the house? The '''''billboard''''' ''on Route 41''?
* One episode of ''Series/HardcastleAndMcCormick'' 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 [[HomeEarlySurprise unexpectedly early]], natch), they come back to find that nearly everything in the house has been stolen. Even the ''furniture''. CantGetAwayWithNuthin with a vengeance.
* Rayanne had one of these in ''Series/MySoCalledLife''. 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.]]
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'':
** The straightest example is her college Halloween party, thrown behind her aunts' back. In trying to get her friends into the spirit of Halloween, she uses real ghouls from the Other Realm. Other ghouls hear about this and crash the party, turning it into one of these. Roxie ends up making a love connection with Frankenstein.
** In high school, Sabrina throws another Halloween party -- but this one with her aunts home. It's initially dull because Sabrina is trying to cover up all the Other Realm things going nuts. The party then kicks into gear when the others merely think the Other Realm stuff is AllPartOfTheShow.
* Happens in season 2 of ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' 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 ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' where Kate wants to throw a birthday party, but her cousin only invites her friends who proceed to 'deliberately' destroy things, orders a cake she wanted because she doesn't like chocolate like Kate, and actually forgot that day was Kate's birthday. Only Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo show up. Lizzie calls her mother to get rid of the out of control partyers.
* In ''Series/TheBrothersGarcia'' when the parents go out to dinner, Larry and George decide to throw a party but nobody wants to come. Lorena 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 three weeks and call it even.
* ''Series/SClub7'' 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.
* ''Series/HopeAndFaith'' had Sydney throwing a party while her parents were out. She and Hailey manage to clear everyone away and clean up before Charlie and Hope get home. They never find out.
* A variation in ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. When Screech's parents are away for the weekend, the boys have a small party with just themselves in his house. The girls crash and Violet accidentally breaks Screech's mother's statue of Elvis. Replacing the statue becomes the episode's main plot.
* On a Halloween episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', 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 Wilson, and that's when Tim and Jill walk in on the whole thing.
* In ''Series/FamilyMatters,'' 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 ''Series/GossipGirl''. 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. The party initially started out as a quiet affair, but Jenny wanted to get revenge on Serena, and told the eponymous Gossip Girl about the party -- knowing it would turn into this.
* A fairly mild example happens in ''Series/BlueWaterHigh''. Possibly unique in that the kids decide to come clean about it themselves rather than trying to cover it up.
* Although technically not a Wild Teen Party, ''Series/EvenStevens'' does have a similar issue where, while the parents had to leave the house for a bit, Louis actually uses the opportunity to use the house as a hotel as a fund-raiser for a ski trip. Louis (and eventually Ren, as soon as she finds out and ends up allowing it to happen due to a boy at the house) eventually ended up having to get the guests to leave early due to the [[HomeEarlySurprise parents coming home early]] (When the parents called to check up on Louis, one of the guests answered and, mistaking "Louis" for her husband rather than the guy actually running the hotel, responded that Louis broke his back [Beans had injured the other Louis earlier due to using boots to massage his back], and the woman mistook her for a woman that Louis may have actually been seeing while still married to her.). They would have gotten away with it, had one of the guests also not also happen to be one of San Fancisco's news anchors and more importantly reported on the "hotel" on the news the next morning with the parents watching.
* Averted , or rather realistically depicted, in ''Series/TheInbetweeners''. The boys wind up at two house parties in total. The first one is rather lifeless and nothing really happens (probably due in part to the host's parents being present, and waiting till 11pm when they can kick everyone out), bar Will hooking up with [[MsFanservice Charlotte]]. The second is a birthday party that the boys gatecrash and it's hardly wild, especially as the boys simply stand around not talking to anyone (quite possibly because they don't actually know some of the people there; the host points out that she didn't invite them because she doesn't really know them [[note]] sure, they all go to the same school, but with over a hundred kids in each year group, it's not like anyone's going to know everyone[[/note]]). Again, the most interesting thing that happens involves Charlotte -- Will catches her in bed with Patrice, and subsequently tells [[TheBully Donovan]] where he can find her, clearly hoping that he'll beat Patrice up.
** Actually this is very much TruthInTelevision (for the UK at least), as most British teen/student house parties never devolve into the over-the-top, pseudo-raves that are usually shown in the media. In general, it really is mostly sitting around drinking, listening to music and hoping you'll get lucky.
** Will narrates the pitfalls of this trope in "Home Alone", when he's worried that if he holds one of these, 4000 people will turn up and the roof of the house will end up being stolen.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Rachel Berry attempts to have one. Needless to say, it fails miserably-- until they break out the alcohol, that is.
* George in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' 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.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'':
** The former header image for this page was from "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert", which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin due to its natural setting]], has lots of lewd and out of control behavior going on when Monk accompanies Natalie and Captain Stottlemeyer to locate Stottlemeyer's son Jared, who has ditched school. Monk is horrified upon realizing what exactly he decided to tag along to, having thought when Stottlemeyer said the phrase "rock show" that he meant "geology exhibit". While waiting for Stottlemeyer and Natalie, Monk ends up making a very unsuccessful attempt to stop a couple from passionately making out on the hood of Stottlemeyer's car, yelling at them, "How old are you? There's no way you're 25!"
*** In fact, in every crowd scene, there are shirtless male extras or female extras who are literally only wearing their underwear or bikinis (for instance, the tan girl that Monk deflects [[ChekhovsGun a blue beachball]] at while he's trying to find the payphones). Strangely, at no point in the episode does anyone think Monk looks unusual by wearing a blazer, slacks, and a dress shirt. The only three women who are fully clothed and are never engaged in any lewd behavior for the length of the episode are Natalie and Stork's girlfriend Kendra Frank.
** Inverted, for laughs, in "Mr. Monk is the Best Man". Monk organizes Stottlemeyer's bachelor party. Unfortunately, Stottlemeyer discovers the hard way that allowing Monk to plan a party, period, is ''not'' the way to go. Where do we start?
###He somehow manages to stick a port-a-potty in the bathroom ("Monk, there's a bathroom in the bathroom!" "Where do you want me to put it, Mike? In the kitchen?" always is tickling).
###He orders pizza with literally ''nothing'' on it -- [[ExactWords not even sauce or cheese]]!
###He has them drink sippy cups of juice before breaking out the booze.
###When he does hand out the beer, he promises one for each. And when he says "[[ExactWords one for each member]]", he means it, because he gives one 12 ounce bottle for each attendee (12 total), meaning that, in an inversion of [[DesignatedDriver another trope]], Randy must be assigned the role of "designated drunk".
###Monk tells a joke about Stottlemeyer's failed relationships that turns cold before he even reaches the punchline.
###Finally, Monk ends up choosing for their bachelor party movie ''Film/BachelorParty'', a film that is implied to be unpopular with the other guys.
###The only time the party comes close to playing this trope straight is when Randy staggers in, drunk, asking who owns the Ford Crown Victoria parked out front that is painted a charcoal gray with flames on the side, and on the roof and windshield. This leads everyone to rush outside and find that someone has firebombed Stottlemeyer's car.
* ''Series/TheSteveHarveyShow'': 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 [[TheBully Coretta]], angry that no one attended her Sweet 16 party, crashes it. After the RecordNeedleScratch, 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 ''Series/TheCosbyShow''. 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 ''Series/{{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 [[TemptingFate 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.
** Martha (Rick's mother and Alexis's grandmother) throws even a wilder party, which is consistent with how Alexis is always a responsible one, and Martha is almost incompatible with the consept of "responsibility".
* In ''Series/TwoOfAKind'', Mary-Kate tries to throw a wild party while Kevin is out. Initially only three nerds show up. But after another party gets cancelled, the rest of the kids show up. They manage to get everyone home and avoid getting in trouble with a SarcasticConfession to Kevin.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': 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.'
* Averted in ''Series/ModernFamily'' 's third season "The Last Walt". Haley sets the party up by PlayingBothSides, getting permission from Gloria for a pool party at the Pritchett-Delgado house by telling her "her uncle" had agreed to chaperone. But instead of Cam or Mitchell, she tells Manny ''he'' 's the chaperone when the party starts. Unfortunately (for her), Manny takes that role seriously and keeps the party from getting out of hand.
* On one episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', this is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. Phil and Vivian go out of town and specifically warn Will not to do anything stupid while they're gone. Carlton then rents out the house so that the band Bell Biv Devoe can shoot their music video about a wild party. The house ends up being trashed (as if it was a real party), and Phil and Vivian decide to [[HomeEarlySurprise come back early]]. They end up spending all of the money from the rental on fixing up the house. In another episode, Will lies to his girlfriend Lisa so that he can go to one in college, and ends up catching Ashley making out with a college football player.
* Adam and Russell Parkinson, the two teenaged sons of Ria and Ben Parkinson of Britcom ''Series/{{Butterflies}}'' fame, throw one of these when their parents are away for the weekend. They manage to get all their friends out of the house and clean up virtually all the mess that was made by the time their parents arrive home, but upset their easily angered neighbor with all the commotion outside the house when the party disperses, and Ria ends up finding a hidden stash of the marijuana that was apparently enjoyed by all at the party. As a subversion, she ends up using the marijuana to forget her own troubles (after starting out angry at her sons for possessing and using the drug).
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Attending the Wild Teen Party is played as a rite of passage of sorts, with the free-spirited Lorelai proud rather than outraged when she finds out Rory's boyfriend and ex got in a fight over her, causing the cops to show up.
-->'''Rory:''' Jess and Dean got into the fight.\\
'''Lorelai:''' Over ''you''?\\
'''Rory:''' I was a contributing factor.\\
'''Lorelai:''' Was anyone hurt?\\
'''Rory:''' No.\\
'''Lorelai:''' And that's why the cops came and broke up the party?\\
'''Rory:''' Yes.\\
'''Lorelai:''' So not only did you ''go'' to a cop raided party, but you ''started'' the raid?\\
'''Rory:''' ''Yes''.\\
'''Lorelai:''' This fence is broken because of you? This crap is on the ground because of you?\\
'''Rory:''' What's your point?\\
''({{Beat}}.)''\\
'''Lorelai:''' ''(singing)'' Did you ever know, that you're my hero?\\
'''Rory:''' ''(exasperated)'' Oh my God.
* ''Series/SweetVicious'' frequently features the darker variant, like the Bacchanal in season one and the party that kick-started the plot where [[spoiler:Nate raped Jules.]] InUniverse, Jules notes that she used to love partying with the Zetas, but after she was raped, she couldn't see anything but the dangers.
* Alex's sister Sam holds one when they their parents go away in an episode of ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain''. Alex's attempts to take advantage of the 'loop year' to avoid disaster the second time, but just ends up making things worse. As usual.
* ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1987'': Evie use her powers to clean it up. Then, when her mom is back, the effects stop and home is messy again in front of the mother.
* ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' has a fairly mild example. Betty decides to throw Jughead a surprise party for his birthday with just friends. Cheryl and Chuck however want revenge on Betty and crash with armies of friends -- turning it into a wilder party. There's no property damage and the worst thing that happens is Archie getting drunk and Jughead getting into a fist fight with Chuck. They manage to clean everything up before Archie's dad arrives back home.
** Season 3’s MusicalEpisode (featuring the High School version of "Heathers: The Musical.") has Evelyn Evernever throw a party at The Farm’s home base that’s closer to this trope. While it’s still downplayed, there’s clearly alcohol and everyone sings "Big Fun".
* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
** Season 1 sees Steve throw a party at his house since his parents are out of town, which culminates in Nancy having sex with him. It also ends up being where Barb is abducted by the Demogorgon and killed.
** Season 2 sees Nancy, Steve, Jonathan, and Billy attend a Halloween party. The party has your expected hits, with a bunch of people dancing around, some snogging, Billy breaking Steve's drinking record, and a beer-bellied guy who exclaims "PURE FUEL. '''PURE ''FUEL!'' WHOOOO!'''" to Nancy by the punch bowl. Jonathan, who is pretty introverted and [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself is going as "a guy who hates parties"]], is clearly uncomfortable being there, only attending in hopes of getting some alone time with Nancy. Things deteriorate when Nancy, consumed by lingering guilt over the one-year anniversary of Barb's death, gets drunk, and ruins her shirt when Steve tries to cut her off. He takes her to the bathroom and she vents about Barb and their relationship, offending Steve to the point that he breaks up with her on the spot, and Jonathan has to drive her home and tuck her into bed.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': During her teenage years, Karen Page hooks up with a drug dealer named Todd Neiman and they sell drugs at colleges near Fagan Corners. The flashback, in the appropriately named season 3 episode "Karen", opens with Karen dancing half-naked at a frat party.
* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Malum In Se" ("Evil in Itself"), the death turns out to be the result of a wild university party being held by a student while his parents are out of the country.
* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E3ToodleFuckingOo Toodle Fucking Oo]]", Meadow has one of these in her grandmother's empty house after her grandmother dies. Tony has to break it up and square the cops.
* In ''Series/SpaceForce2020'' it ends up averted, but not for lack of trying. When [[TheHero General Mark Naird]] is away from home for several days because he's helping with a Moon habitat experiment created by his division's head scientist, his rebellious daughter Erin posts an invitation on social media for everybody at school to party at her home (immediately after reading Mark's note). Nobody ever arrives (because previous episodes showcased her as the FNG at school that nobody cares to know she even exists) and Erin has to spend the rest of the week alone and eating the 20 pizzas she purchased for the party.
* ''Series/CobraKai'':
** In the second episode of season 1, Sam throws a pool party at home with the popular girls from school while her parents are away at the country club. When her parents come home early and end the party, Daniel is mostly upset [[SkewedPriorities by the fact that the male guests stole and wore his bathing suits]].
** In the ninth episode of season 1, Aisha finds out that [[AlphaBitch Yasmine]] is throwing her birthday party at the beach via looking on her Instagram. Wanting revenge on Yasmine for her cyberbullying, Aisha and the Cobra Kais decide to beat her there and set up their own party, with copious booze, drama, and drunken fistfights. Yasmine is pissed, and tries to order them out via Kyler, so Aisha gives her a front wedgie. Sam has to be snuck over to the party by Robby to talk to Miguel since she's been grounded and her mother has confiscated her electronics, but a drunken Miguel misinterprets the situation and in trying to attack Robby, accidentally hits Sam.
** In the ninth episode of season 2, Moon throws a party at her house to mark the end of the summer break and try to get members of the [[RivalDojos Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do]] dojos to reconcile. Instead, the booze only serves to escalate the tensions, and it's only the arrival of the police to break up the party that prevents an all-out brawl from breaking out. During the party, Sam gets pressured into a drinking contest with Tory, which she wins, then drunkenly kisses Miguel after learning from Aisha that he returned Mr. Miyagi's Medal of Honor (which Hawk had stolen when he vandalized Miyagi-Do earlier in the season). The kiss is seen by Tory, who retaliates by challenging Sam to a fight at school.
** Subverted in the ninth episode of season 3. Sam gathers all the Miyagi-Dos at her house with the promise of a keg party while her parents are having dinner with Ali Mills and Johnny at the country club. Suspiciously, there are no other guests there and Sam appears to be stalling for time. Then Miguel turns up with Mitch and Bert, and Sam reveals she had them all gathered here because she thinks the reasonable solution to give Miyagi-Do's side of the karate rivalry the upper hand over the Cobra Kais is to [[EnemyMine ally with Eagle Fang]] (Johnny's new dojo, made from Miguel and other Cobra Kai students who Kreese rejected for not conforming to his ideals or being loyalists to Johnny).
* ''Series/SexEducation'':
** In the sixth episode of season 2, Otis wishes to have a small gathering for a few friends while his mother is out. After details spread, the event gets out of control and becomes a full blown party. Otis drinks heavily and drunkenly confesses his feelings for Maeve, leaving Ola feeling upset and rejected. Otis sleeps with Ruby, and his mother returns home to see the house covered in mess.
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': In the second episode of season 2, Davi throws a party while her mother is in India. She initially tries to invite just one of the boyfriends in her ongoing love triangle, but eventually decides to invite everyone and have a 'rager'. At the party, Fabiola and Eleanor assist in keeping Davi's boyfriends (Ben and Paxton) separate from eachother (see ''Main/TwoTimerDate''). After realising they're both dating Davi, she fesses up to them, resulting in Paxton storming out of the house. While arguing, he steps onto the road and is hit by a car. Ben remains inside, coping with Davi's confession. In the same episode, Eleanor first meets ex-Disney Channel child star Malcolm, and Eric's poor attempts to flirt with girls finally come into fruition.
* The ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' episode "Badfellas" sees Emma's BoyOfTheWeek Vincent throw one at the Ross' penthouse without her permission. The usual mess happens, Luke is used as someone's seat cushion, Ravi and Bertram end up trapped in a piano and a dumbwaiter, respectively, someone uses an antique vase as a football, and the whole thing serves to help Emma finally realize that Vincent is no good for her. The party is ultimately broken up when Jessie comes home and pins Vincent's arm behind his back (letting Emma take over for some catharsis).
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* An implied instance of the trope occurred in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sScj7MwjHBs commercial]] for the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty1'' game: Some cops stop by a house due to reports of disruptive behavior in the neighborhood. They then ask for Mario, who then reveals himself. It then cuts after showing some gameplay footage to the cops escorting Mario to their squadcar by the arms, with his legs flailing and his protesting "But it'sa me, Mario!" before the cops sarcastically dismiss his protests with, "Yeah, tell it to the judge," strongly implying that he was going to end up arrested for the disruptive party.

* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'':
** In the second episode of season 2, Davi throws a party while her mother is in India. She initially tries to invite just one of the boyfriends in her ongoing love triangle, but eventually decides to invite everyone and have a 'rager'. At the party, Fabiola and Eleanor assist in keeping Davi's boyfriends (Ben and Paxton) separate from eachother (see ''Main/TwoTimerDate''). After realising they're both dating Davi, she fesses up to them, resulting in Paxton storming out of the house. While arguing, he steps onto the road and is hit by a car. Ben remains inside, coping with Davi's confession. In the same episode, Eleanor first meets ex-Disney Channel child star Malcolm, and Eric's poor attempts to flirt with girls finally come into fruition.

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules'', the main character Gregory's older brother Rodrick throws one of these when their parents leave. However, Gregory is locked in the basement. When he wakes up and comes out the next morning, the house is in disarray. They end up even having to replace the bathroom door because someone drunkenly drew on it in permanent marker. Rodrick is found out a couple weeks later because someone accidentally took a picture with the family's camera.

* "Fanfic/TheMLPLoops": In the first "Daughters" Loop (Twilight is the alicorn queen of Equestria, the CMC are her daughters), Twilight withdraws to the heavens for a thousand years to do research. The CMC, left in charge of Equestria, decide to throw a millennium-long party/golden era of art and culture. They even take turns as the "designated ruler" who actually runs the country while the rest of them get drunk and party.

* An implied instance of the trope occurred in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sScj7MwjHBs commercial]] for the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' game: Some cops stop by a house due to reports of disruptive behavior in the neighborhood. They then ask for Mario, who then reveals himself. It then cuts after showing some gameplay footage to the cops escorting Mario to their squadcar by the arms, with his legs flailing and his protesting "But it'sa me, Mario!" before the cops sarcastically dismiss his protests with, "Yeah, tell it to the judge," strongly implying that he was going to end up arrested for the disruptive party.

* Averted , or rather realistically depicted, in ''Series/TheInbetweeners''. The boys wind up at two house parties in total. The first one is rather lifeless and nothing really happens, bar Will hooking up with [[MsFanservice Charlotte]]. The second is a birthday party that the boys gatecrash and it's hardly wild, especially as the boys simply stand around not talking to anyone.
** Actually this is very much TruthInTelevision (for the UK at least), as most British teen/student house parties never devolve into the over-the-top, pseudo-raves that are usually shown in the media. In general, it really is mostly sitting around drinking and hoping you'll get lucky.

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* ''Film/ProjectX'' is basically Wild Teen Party: TheMovie, with this trope [[ExaggeratedTrope taken]] [[UpToEleven up to eleven]]; without getting into details, just know that the protagonist's entire house ends up ''completely destroyed'' beyond habitability by the end of the movie. It also gets bonus points for the fact that it basically turned into a real party on set, as the extras allegedly stayed dancing even when the camera wasn't rolling. It's pretty much become the modern day TropeCodifier for wild teen culture in the 2010s. However, it should be noted that things only really get out of control when the college kids (IE young adults) crash the party.

* ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}: Early on in the film, Jimmy and his friends and love interest attend a party thrown by a Mod girl. Highlights include dancing to records, youths having sex in bedrooms and the bathroom and Jimmy doing donuts on the front lawn just before the hostess’s parents come home.