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Life of the Party
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For whatever reason, there is a party. Whilst a party is normally going to be a fairly festive affair in its own right, sometimes it just needs spicing up — this is where Life of the Party comes into play. This character will don lampshades (no, not that kind), dance on tables, swing from the chandelier, and generally party harder and wilder than anybody else. Sometimes this is done to signify just how awesome a party is, other times it can be to show that the character is immature or is acting inappropriately — say, by drinking excessively at a fancy, upper-class tuxedo party and hitting on the mayor's daughter. Sometimes there's an episode where this character shows up, and the other characters have "grown up", while this character hasn't, in which case they may be introduced as someone's Old Friend. Often this can be the Fratbro or Hard-Drinking Party Girl, but sometimes it's the quiet one who suddenly leaps out of their shell. Sometimes this is done to show a character overcompensating for a hidden unhappiness, which makes them a Sad Clown. Contrast with Lampshade Wearing, which is just someone killing the party. Unfortunately, despite our best intentions, trying to be this in Real Life generally backfires and ends in either humiliation or disdain from peers (or both). The 2005 film of the same name can be found here. |
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Happy Days: Arthur Fonzerelli, even after he jumped the shark. | |
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Guy Diamond is this in Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and for the plot of an episode he trains a Shrinking Violet troll into exceeding him. In the sequel series TrollsTrollstopia, they both run a recruitment drive to deal with the increased population from the other tribes emigrating to their village. They've even made a name for their group that literally is The Life of the Party. | |
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Sex and the City: A one-shot character used to be a party girl and is now married and pregnant. She actually considers her party years her Glory Days. Anothernote played by the strident blonde from 3rd Rock from the Sun is the Life of the Party somewhat gone to seed. She falls out of a skyscraper window midway through the episode... |
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Marry Me (2014): Annie's cousin Scooby. So much so that she and her dads compete to get him to come to their wedding. | |
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A nerd in Can't Hardly Wait turns into this when he drinks for the first time. | |
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Anothernote played by the strident blonde from 3rd Rock from the Sun is the Life of the Party somewhat gone to seed. She falls out of a skyscraper window midway through the episode... | |
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In Turning Red, Tyler's birthday party is dull verging on dead until Mei transforms into her giant red panda form. She gets the party going and makes sure everyone gets in on the fun. She's clearly a party animal. | |
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WOW Women of Wrestling calls Eye Candy this. | |
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Ted on Schitt's Creek shows up at Patrick's Slumber Party themed housewarming having consumed all of Alexis's fruity alcohol coolers and cheerfully ready to party. He strips down to his boxers and tank top to the admiration of pretty much everyone and enthusiastically joins the party games. His drunken kiss with David during Spin the Bottle prompts jealous irritation from Alexis and Patrick. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey in the novel Murder Must Advertise infiltrates the Bright Young Things' parties in an attention-grabbing harlequin costume. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Once, Odo gets stuck in an elevator with Lwaxana Troi, and he talks about how he tried to fit in years before, including trying to use his shapeshifting to impress people at parties. He doesn't like parties anymore. To hear people talk, Morn is a total party animal. We just never see it happen. |
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Zeala of Jinni Zeala, a genie who parties with his Bedlah Babes in a Flying Harem. | |
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Maison Ikkoku: Mrs. Ichinose, Akemi, and Yotsuya are always looking for excuses to throw a party, drink heavily, and sing loudly, no matter how much they are annoying their neighbors. | |
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Meredith from The Office (US). Until her hair gets set on fire at the Moroccan Christmas Party. | |
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Ivan Turbincă: The main character is an absolute party animal, and he exhausts demons with his constant partying. | |
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Power Gig: Rise of the SixString has the Riffriders: a clan that feels life is a non-stop party and that nothing should break your stride. Their clan home is an abandoned mall they converted into a multi-floor arcade/theme park with live bands playing every night. | |
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30 Rock: Jack grudgingly accompanies Liz to her high school reunion, where he's mistaken for the class popular guy — he doesn't correct the crowd, and enjoys his star status. | |
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Total War: Warhammer III: This is the characterization of Nurglings, energetic tiny demons who form different shapes and pull off stunts like a team of midget acrobats both in and out of combat, dancing, laughing, and even high-fiving along the way. | |
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In The Party, Peter Sellers' character becomes this somewhat unwittingly. | |
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In Futurama, Slurms McKenzie is the most absolutely pathetic deconstruction of this trope possible. He is contractually obligated to be an icon of partying long past being sick of it personally, and his only escape from partying is death. | |
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Long Duk Dong, in Sixteen Candles, subverting his Asian and Nerdy representation earlier in the film. | |
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Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral. | |
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Bluto from Animal House | |
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In Disco Elysium, the player character is this... or was, or used to try to be. Most people around him understand that his partying is just a euphemism for his irresponsible and destructive drinking and drug use, and it's clear that it hasn't made him happier, but there are definitely aspects of his lifestyle that have a kind of purity to them. Particularly, when the Horrific Necktie (who represents his party lifestyle) reminisces about how they met, the player can choose that trying the tie on made him feel happy, or young again, or that it didn't make him happy 'but at least I have a funny tie'. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's Superheroine spell has an alter ego form that makes him dress and act like the female embodiment of this trope even if he's nowhere near a party. | |
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Deconstructed with Kate in the musical adaptation of The Wild Party. Kate is a vivacious, flirty party girl who makes a grand entrance to the party, but by the end of the first act has lost the spotlight (and the men) to her friend Queenie. At the top of Act 2, she sings a veiled self-loathing song about her role as "The Life of the Party", invoking the trope name. | |
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One Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch has a man looking to be more attractive to people via motivational tapes, and the salesman offers a few until settling on "Life and soul of the party". | |
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In the What If…? (2021) episode "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?", the eponymous God of Thunder from Asgard has grown to be a party animal (since Loki was brought back to the Frost Giants and didn't grow to become a schemer) and brings parties and destructive merriment across the galaxy, accompanied by an array of aliens wherever he goes. It's implied his parties are so destructive that they destroy worlds, but this is revealed to be untrue, though they are still quite destructive. | |
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Expecting to Fall into Ruin, I Aim to Become a Blacksmith: When protagonist Kururi gets a pet dragon, Pubi, said dragon proceeds to be a Spoiled Brat who roams the countryside drinking, partying, and visiting hot springs, occasionally asking Kururi for money. | |
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Emperor Awesome from Wander over Yonder. Noted for throwing parties so wild that they destroy planets. Then moving right on to the next planet. | |
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Friends: Fun Bobby, who wasn't fun anymore once he sobered up. Gandalf the Party Wizard from "The One Where They're Going to Party!" |
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Hero House has Thor, who can get even a Wake pumping enough to have Gamera downing shots. | |
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