History PlayingWith / TwentyFourHourPartyPeople

** It's held at entertainment venue, the extras are there for other parties or just a good time.

** Alice and Bob have [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters lots of friends]], but only 5 that make regular appearances in-series.

** The writers want to [[ViewersAreMorons make sure people know it's a party]], by emphasizing the large number of guests.

* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob invite only close friends and/or relatives.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob only invite their closest friends and/or relatives.

* '''Conversed''': "I wish you could hire an army of {{Living Prop}}s to mill around in the background in real life"

* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob invite 5 close friends. Only 1 or 2 random people come.

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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Basic Trope''': A party or dance scene has [[LivingProp nameless extras]] as partygoers.
* '''Played Straight''': Alice and Bob throw a party. They invite their [[LimitedSocialCircle 5 closest friends]]...and, apparently, 35 casual acquaintances.

* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob have [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters lots of friends]], but only 5 that make regular appearances in-series.
** The five close friends they invited told ''their'' friends about it.

* '''Deconstructed''': A few of their more casual acquaintances invite a couple of friends, and ''they'' invite a couple of friends, and before Alice and Bob know it, the neighborhood is in their house, trashing the joint, stealing stuff, setting stuff on fire, making out everywhere, and forcing the cops to come and shut down the party.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice and Bob kick out the rowdier gatecrashers, while the rest of the guests have a fantastic time getting to know completely new people.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice, who are all these people?"

* '''Enforced''': The writers want to [[ViewersAreMorons make sure people know it's a party]], by emphasizing the large number of guests.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and Bob don't know any of these people, but behave as if they're best friends.
** Every last person in town comes to the party, as well as five birds, three dogs, and [[EverythingsWorseWithBears one bear.]]
* '''Played For Drama''': See "Deconstructed."

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* '''Played For Drama''': See "Deconstructed."

* '''Basic Trope''': Random party guests.

** Some of the friends brought dates or friends along with them to the party. (Whether or not AliceAndBob specifically said they could.)
* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob invite lots of people to the party, all people they know.

* '''Deconstructed''': A few of their more casual acquaintances invite a couple of friends, and ''they'' invite a couple of friends, and before Alice and Bob know it their house is full of complete strangers, stealing valuables, starting fights, and breaking things.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Some of the party guests are close friends or relatives, others are not.

** A ContinuityNod in a LongRunner with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* '''Played For Drama''': One of the random guests causes a problem.

* '''Deconstructed''': Because there's so many people, the food quickly runs out. Because of this, the partygoers get angry, and a huge fight ensues.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice and Bob hoard extra food and drinks, in case random guests come and the food and drinks run out because of the number of people.

** Alice and Bob don't have a party.

* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob only hang out with their LimitedSocialCircle and invite only those people in it to their party.
* '''Discussed''': "Who the hell are all these people?!"
* '''Conversed''': "Alice and Bob must be more popular than we thought!"

* '''Basic Trope''': Random party guests

* '''Enforced''': The writers want to [[ViewersAreMorons make sure people know it's a party]], by emphasizing the large number of guests.

* '''Invoked''': Alice and Bob are hoping to meet people in the town they just moved to, so they put up flyers advertising an open-house party and take out an ad in the church bulletin for said party.

* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob send invitations out, and all are rejected with people saying, "Alice and Bob who?"

* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob have lots of friends, but only 5 that make regular appearances in-series.