History Main / DecadeThemedParty

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/TheLocals'': Because of the way they are dressed, Grant and Paul assume that Kelly and Lisa are on their way to 80s themed party and accept their invitation to follow them. [[spoiler:They later learn that the girls had died on their way to a party in the 80s, and are [[JacobMarleyApparel still wearing the clothes they were in when they died]]]].

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* In ''Literature/ABoyMadeOfBlocks'', Isobel invites Alex to a party based on TheSixties. Alex wears a suit that makes him feel like Film/AustinPowers.

[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]
* An episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' features an "80's Party". Dr. House comes dressed in late 18th/early 19th century garb because the invitation just said 80's, and didn't specify a century. Doubles as an ActorAllusion due to his role as the Prince Regent in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.
* There's an episode centred around an 80's party in ''Series/{{Hellcats}}''.

* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Balance of Power" has a flashback showing the characters at a party with a sign on the wall saying "Nostalgia Night 1990s". (The scene is set in the 21st or 24th century, depending on the {{Retcon}}s.) The so-called '90s themed party looks like a cross between TheSeventies (for example, the disco ball) and TheEighties (for example, the extravagant, campy clothes). Such cues and many more were taken from said decades because the episode itself was made in 1988.
* Several episodes of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' have featured the main characters attending high school dances themed after certain decades (called Decade Dances in-universe).
* In ''Series/KathAndKim'', Kath arrives in her everyday's clothes (which she hasn't changed since TheEighties) to an 80's themed party.

* An episode of ''Series/PerfectStrangers'' had Larry and Balki throw a 50's themed party where one of the guests was a hypnotist. He tried to hypnotize Larry into thinking he was Elvis, [[HypnoFool but wound up hypnotizing Balki instead.]]
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS10E1 Dance with the Dead]]", the village of Morton Fendle is obsessed with the now disused WWII airfield based there. They hold a 1940s themed dance that the Barnabys and Jones attend.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E03TheTattler The Tattler]]": Jake and Gina go to their 20-year ClassReunion with a dress code and a theme from their high school days. Jake and Gina revisit their DDC style, which means the Dope Denim Crew. They have baggy denim hoodies. Jake's wife Amy wears a cute floral dress, a pair of Doc Marten's, a black choker and a small backpack. Jake's friend from their ska band is implied to wear '90s outfits all the time.
-->'''Jake:''' Our 20-year high school reunion is tonight, and the party is '90s-themed, so we're dressing the way we did back then, AKA ''hella'' fresh.

* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has Raven discovering that the Chill Grill was previously a jazz club in the 1940s, and meets a woman who was once a famous singer. So she and friends throw a 1940s themed night and invite the woman to perform again.

* In the ''Series/FamilyTies'' episode "I Know Jennifer's Boyfriend," Jennifer has a 1950s-themed birthday party, with posters of Creator/JamesDean and an authentic '50s jukebox playing rock and roll.

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* The main characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' started holding TheSixties revival parties in the mid [[TheSeventies 70's]], when they were very recent history. In the same strip, the characters would parody this trope by having an end-of-decade party, coming as iconic moments from the decade that had just passed.

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* The second UsefulNotes/NintendoDS ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' title is set in a rock festival made of several of these, ranging from the 2000s to TheSeventies. However, the 2000s are split into "modern" and "2000".

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* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' had a 1970's themed dance (which annoyed Mingmei because she hadn't enjoyed the decade the first time around).

[[folder: Web Videos ]]

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'', "Realistic 80s Costume Party": Janie and Raph attend an 80s dress up party. Janie is excited because she loves popped collars, big 80s hair, dancing to music heavily relying on synthetizer and wearing leggings, but it turns out others find her generic costume offensive because literally millions of girls lived in the 80s.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Dance with the Dead", the village of Morton Fendle is obsessed with the now disused WWII airfield based there. They hold a 1940s themed dance that the Barnabys and Jones attend.

* ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'': Discussed. The kids wants to have a "Millenium" themed prom but it turns out another high school does that as well and they want to be unique. Their teacher suggests an '80s prom but they boo to that idea. (They choose "famous couples throughout history" after all.)

* An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had a 1930's Night being held at P3.

* From the 2002 Australian comedy ''Crackerjack'' about the elderly members of a lawn bowls club.

* The cover of one ''[[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie's Double Digest]]'' from the 2000s had the gang at a "retro party". Based on the clothes Betty and Veronica turned up in, we assume the party's organizers had TheSeventies in mind, but Archie shows up in a caveman costume, calling it "the ultimate retro look."

* ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'': A comic from the 1970s had the guys throwing a '50s-themed New Years party. Franklin is a holdout, declaring the decade "a drag", and as the story recalls their ''real'' '50s party some 15 years earlier, with its reckless drunkenness, sexual frustration, and violent, destructive juvenile delinquents, they decide to have a naked sex-and-drugs '60s-themed party instead.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'', "Realistic 80s Costume Party": Janie and Raph attend an 80's dress up party. Janie is excited because she loves popped collars, big '80s hair, dancing to music heavily relying on synthetizer and wearing leggings, but it turns out others find her generic costume offensive because literally millions of girls lived in the '80s.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Played for laughs. Rory attends a 2002-themes party which Olivia throws for her friend Lucy's birthday. The episode is set (and aired first) in 2007.

* '''Website/CollegeHumor'', "Realistic 80s Costume Party": Janie and Raph attend an 80's dress up party. Janie is excited because she loves popped collars, big '80s hair, dancing to music heavily relying on synthetizer and wearing leggings, but it turns out others find her generic costume offensive because literally millions of girls lived in the 80's.

* Buffalo, New York's [[https://www.worldslargestdisco.com "World's Largest Disco,"]] an annual seventies themed party that revolves around thousands of people dressing up in fashions from 1970s and turning a major metropolitan convention centre into ''one gigantic convention hall sized disco.''

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E03TheTattler The Tattler]]": Jake and Gina go to their 20-year ClassReunion with a dress code and a theme from their high school days. Jake and Gina revisit their DDC style, which means the Dope Denim Crew. They have baggy denim jackets. Jake's wife Amy wears a cute floral dress, a small backpack and a black choker. Jake's friend from their ska band is implied to wear '90s outfits all the time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'''s episode "Life in the Past Lane" (which provides the page image seen above), Jane is dating a guy, Nathan, who is obsessed with swing dancing and the styles and manners of TheForties. They go to a dance party and to a drive-by cinema meeting centered around said decade.