History Main / SlumberPartyPloy

* Early in ''Webcomic/JuvenileDiversion'', [[http://juvenilediversion.comicgenesis.com/d/20060908.html the boys used the "round robin" plot]].

* The Flea in ''ComicBook/PS238'', [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-02-07 here.]]

* In a ''HeyArnold'' episode where Helga got locked in Arnold's closet and couldn't leave without being seen (long story), she called Phoebe on a cell phone and told her to call her parents and tell them Helga was sleeping over at Phoebe's.

* On ''{{Skins}}'', Pandora's mother is the [[OnlySaneMan one parent]] who seems to be concerned about how drugs and sex will impact her daughter. Pandora gets around this by telling her mother she's staying over at Effy's house every time she's getting up to some bad behavior.

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* The Flea in ''PS238'', [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-02-07 here.]]

* On ''{{Dexter}}'', Astor, Dexter's stepdaughter, shows up in Miami drunk after running away from her grandparents' house with a friend.

* ''The Body'' by Creator/StephenKing. The boys claim they're camping in the field behind Vern's house but they're actually going into the woods to look at the body of a missing kid. Also happens in the film version, StandByMe.

** The Animorphs eventually stopped using this in favor of getting the [[RobotBuddy Chee]] to fill in for them.

* In one of the "BabySittersClub" books, the characters do this in order to find out who sent a mysterious necklace. Subverted in that [[spoiler: they eventually do hold a slumber party.]]

->"I'm telling my parents that I'm staying at Stan's house, Stan's telling his parents he's staying at Kenny's house, and Kenny's not telling his parents anything cause they're alcoholics and they don't care!"

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* In one of the "Baby-Sitters Club" books, the characters do this in order to find out who sent a mysterious necklace. Subverted in that [[spoiler: they eventually do hold a slumber party.]]

-->-- ''SouthPark'', "The Wacky Molestation Adventure"

If you've got a series whose main characters are kids, one of the first problems you run into is how to get them into wacky adventures without their parents finding out. So what do the kids do when they want to do something they know their parents won't approve of?

Say they're having a slumber party, of course!

Might take the form of Bob telling his parents he's staying at Charlie's house for the night, while Charlie tells his folks he'll be staying at Alex's, and Alex claims he'll be sleeping over at Bob's. By the end of the episode, the parents [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin may talk to each other and find out that they've been lied to]].

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* ''The Body'' by StephenKing. The boys claim they're camping in the field behind Vern's house but they're actually going into the woods to look at the body of a missing kid. Also happens in the film version, StandByMe.
* In one of the "Baby-Sitters Club" books, the characters do this in order to find out who sent a mysterious necklace. Subverted in that [[spoiler: they eventually do hold a slumber party.]]

** Unfortunately, it's karmic; after being [[PromotionToParent Promoted To Parent]], Buffy gets tricked the same way by Dawn.

* The Flea in ''{{PS238}}'', [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-02-07 here.]]

* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" the boys do this in order to attend the Raging Pussies concert without their parents knowing.

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* Used during the "sister" arc in ''ElGoonishShive''.

* In ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' a girl said she was sleeping over at a friends when really she was off getting supernatural invisible snakes removed.

** The {{Animorphs}} eventually stopped using this in favor of getting the [[RobotBuddy Chee]] to fill in for them.

* The standard excuse used in ''{{Animorphs}}'' is that everyone is sleeping over at someone else's house.

* Used on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':

* In {{Bakemonogatari}} a girl said she was sleeping over at a friends when really she was off getting supernatural invisible snakes removed.

Might take the form of Bob telling his parents he's staying at Charlie's house for the night, while Charlie tells his folks he'll be staying at Alex's, and Alex claims he'll be sleeping over at Bob's. By the end of the episode, the parents may talk to each other and find out that they've been lied to.

* On ''{{Skins}}'', Pandora's mother is the one [[OnlySaneParent reasonable parent]] who seems to be concerned about how drugs and sex will impact her daughter. Pandora gets around this by telling her mother she's staying over at Effy's house every time she's getting up to some bad behavior.

* On ''{{Skins}}'', Pandora's mother is the only one who seems to be concerned about how so much sex and drugs will impact her daughter. But Pandora gets up to just as much of it as her friends...by telling her friends she's hanging out at Effy's house whenever she's getting up to some bad behavior.

* In ''{{PS238}}'' [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2011-02-07 here.]]

* Early in ''JuvenileDiversion'', [[http://juvenilediversion.comicgenesis.com/d/20060908.html the boys used the "round robin" plot]].