History Main / WildTeenParty

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* Alex's sister Sam holds 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.

-->'''Harold:''' "Holy shit! Kenneth Park, class of 2004!"

* ''FoxTrot'' featured an inversion of the trope: Similar to the bachelor party in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man", Peter planned to have a Halloween Party to which his dad granted him permission (mostly because Roger apparently forgot Peter's actual age), so they were all set up, only for it to turn out that most if not all of the invited people were freshman (barring Denise and Steve), and Peter was having a terrible time. The closest it ever got to playing the trope straight was when some adults arrived at the party and attacked Peter, and they weren't even invited in the first place (apparently they wanted beer at their party).

* One of the things that Lisa does for/to the boys in Film/WeirdScience, though having a magical reset button helps.

* ''Film/ProjectX'' is literally Wild Teen Party: The Movie, with this trope [[ExaggeratedTrope taken]] [[UpToEleven up to eleven]] and eventually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].

* Pierce throws one of these in one story arc in ''{{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).

** 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 making out on the hood of Stottlemeyer's car.
*** In fact, for the record, 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 a phone booth). 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, murder victim Stork Murray's girlfriend Kendra Frank, and an acupuncturist named Annie.

###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 gets me).
###He orders pizza with literally ''nothing'' on it - not even sauce or cheese!
###He has them drink sippy cups of juice before handing out the beer.
###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 the DesignatedDriver trope, Randy must be assigned the role of "designated drunk".

* In the video for the Beastie Boys' song "You Gotta Fight (For Your Right to Party)", a small group of nerdly types throw a (rather tame) party for themselves, which is then promptly crashed by a gang of punks.
* Snoop Dogg's video for "Gin & Juice" entitled "Homeboy Alone".

* There was also such a wild party in the ten-year anniversary (1988) video for the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated." The party in question is apparently crashed by a ''circus''.

* The neglected 1980 film ''{{Foxes}}'' (the directorial debut of Adrian Lyne, who went on to do ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'', ''9 1/2 Weeks'' and ''Film/FatalAttraction'') has one. Madge, who is dating an older man played by Randy Quaid, invites her friends over for a small party in his apartment on a weekend when he's out of town. Eventually, more and more people hear about it and show up, a fight breaks out, and the apartment is completely trashed.

* An archetypal example in Paul Zindel's ''The Pigman'' ends in tragedy.

* Happens often on MyLifeAsATeenageRobot

* The second episode of ''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 ''[[PlaceboEffect 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 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.

* ''{{Brick}}'' subverts the wild teen party in that there is a party, there are teens, and there is underage smoking and drinking, but it's a classy cocktail party, complete with live Jazz performance, in keeping with the 1940s noir theme.

* ''{{Superbad}}'': The climax of the film is set at one. Interestingly, the parents don't find out in either example. The whole plot revolves around three friends who are trying to get alcohol to the party. The plan (at least for one of the friends) is nicely thwarted when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the host of the party doesn't drink.]]

* Parodied in ''NotAnotherTeenMovie'': they begin setting up the party as the parents are leaving.

* Used in the 2005 remake of ''YoursMineAndOurs'', as part of the kids' plot to break their parents up.

* Subverted in ''DazedAndConfused'', when Kevin Pickford's plans are upset by the keg delivery guy showing up prematurely. Kevin's attempts at [[BlatantLies explaining it away]] does not convince his parents, who decide not to go on their vacation after all. There is still a Wild Teen Party; but it happens out in the woods, away from houses and parents.

* Cédric Klapisch's ''Peut-être''.

* The neglected 1980 film ''{{Foxes}}'' (the directorial debut of Adrian Lyne, who went on to do ''{{Flashdance}}'', ''9 1/2 Weeks'' and ''FatalAttraction'') has one. Madge, who is dating an older man played by Randy Quaid, invites her friends over for a small party in his apartment on a weekend when he's out of town. Eventually, more and more people hear about it and show up, a fight breaks out, and the apartment is completely trashed.
* ''{{Frostbite}}'' has the LovableJock John hold a party while his parents are out of town. At first it's pleasent enough, everbody seems to have a good time and the party is rather civilised. Then John turns into a vampire and the party becomes a vampireparty and they wreck everything.

See also YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb (which may occur at this), APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy. Take note that it doesn't necessarily have to deal with teenagers, but they are the most common occurances of the trope.

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* Literally ''everybody'' dancing and having a blast. As anybody who's actually been to a real teen (or, for that matter, adult) party will tell you, this is not TruthInTelevision. Usually, there are at least as many people calmly sitting around and talking (or standing alone and feeling left out) as there are people dancing and acting crazy. Also, the house could not ''possibly'' have enough room for everyone to dance and act crazy at once.

* 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 [[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.

Oh no, man! Your parents are here!

* The DeadKennedys 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, [[FetishRetardant 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".

* Usually, Cynthia Dale's parties in ''TheRubyRedTrilogy'' are pretty boring. Then ''everybody'' decides to spike the punch. Her parents are actually there, but they're as drunk as everyone else.

* A rare non-American example can be seen in ''[[http://www.neuillysamere-lefilm.com/ Neuilly sa mere]]''. [[TokenMinority Young Arab]] Sami has to live with his aunt, her French husband, and his French children, in Neuilly (President Sarkozy's place of birth). Near the end, Sami's cousin Charles organizes a party where there is a argument, trouble-makers arrive (and break everything), and then the parents return earlier than expected.

* Usually, Cynthia Dale's parties in ''TheRubyRedTrilogy'' are pretty boring. Then everybody decides to spike the punch. Her parents are actually there, but they're as drunk as everyone else.

*** In fact, for the record, 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 Monk deflects a beachball at while he's trying to find a phone booth). And at no point does anyone think Monk looks unusual by wearing a blazer and dress shirt. The only three women who are fully clothed and not engaged in any of this for the length of the episode are: Natalie, murder victim Stork Murray's girlfriend Kendra Frank, and an acupuncturist named Annie.

* Every Swedish teendrama has this. Many teenage viewers has critzied the portraials as being totally b***s**t most of the time.