While cleaning out the attic, Mordecai and Rigby discover a small refrigerator containing soda from the 1984 Olympic Games, RadiCola. Before they decide to take it out back to drink it, they overhear Benson and Skips having a conversation through the vent. Skips is trying to convince Benson to take the day off, telling him that he works too hard. Mordecai and Rigby decides to take advantage of this by throwing a party. When the party starts to failing, they see an ad on TV about "Party Pete", a man who can help make any party more exciting, and decide to call him.
"Party Pete" contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Benson announces that Skips is in charge while he’s gone, which seems to suggest that Mordecai and Rigby's plan for a party are botched. But as soon as Benson is gone, Skips says, "This better be some party."
- Bowdlerization:
- The UK and Australian versions are heavily edited to remove Party Pete's pelvic thrusting, the rude language (like "Suck on this!"), and Party Pete's floozies shaking it for Pops' pleasure.
- In the UK, Muscle Man's line, "It takes guests with breasts and mine don't count," was changed to, "It takes guests with chicks and my mom doesn't count." The replacement line may look innocent (albeit a bit awkward, since it doesn't rhyme), but, considering the "My Mom!" jokes Muscle Man tells and how they paint the woman as a fat, ugly sleaze who is sexually promiscuous at best (and sexually depraved at worst), the edited line is actually no better than the uncut line. The only difference between them is that the UK censors don't want British kids to know about breasts (especially ones on an out-of-shape character like Muscle Man).
- Candlelit Bath: Benson has this to relax when he takes the night off.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Benson saves soda from years ago to drink later like one would save good liquor.
- "Everybody Helps Out" Denouement: The episode has a sweet ending where many of the partygoers help Mordecai and Rigby clean up before Benson arrives.
- Gone Horribly Right: Mordecai and Rigby give Party Pete more sodas so he can liven the party up. But when he gets TOO caught up in throwing fun in the place, he makes the party so wild that Benson happens to see what's going on from his apartment window view of the Park. This makes Mordecai and Rigby desperately try to shut the party down before he gets to the house.
- Hates Being Touched: When trying to get Skips to join in on the "festivities", Rigby grabs Skips' arm to get him up and dancing. He immediately swipes it away from his reach, saying "Don't touch me!" in a harsh tone.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: The way Mordecai and Rigby host the "party". In fact, when actual people arrive for the event, they see what's going on with the place and apologize, saying they thought there was a party, much to Muscle Man's amusement.
- Life of the Party: Party Pete.
- Not So Above It All: Even when Benson puts him in charge of the house, Skips is on board with Mordecai and Rigby throwing a party.
- Oh, Crap!: When Mordecai and Rigby discovers that the sodas that they used for their party belongs to Benson and he plans on sharing the sodas with them as an award for not throwing a party.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: As more people showed up for the party, centaurs started showing up. They even helped Mordecai and Rigby clean up the mess from the party before Benson arrives.
- So Proud of You: This is Muscle Man's response to Mordecai and Rigby after Party Pete turns the party upside down, saying that he was completely wrong about them being lame.
- The Un-Reveal: The episode ends without showing how Benson reacts to Mordecai and Rigby using up all his 1984 Olympic Games sodas.
- Wild Teen Party: Or more specifically, Wild 20-Something Party.
