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Slumber Party Ploy
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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 may talk to each other and find out that they've been lied to. |
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Skins: Pandora's mother is the 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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Dexter: Astor, Dexter's stepdaughter, shows up in Miami drunk after running away from her grandparents' house with her friend Olivia, who explains she lied to her mom that she was staying at Astor's in order to go on the trip. | |
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As Told by Ginger: Carl and Hoodsey lie to their parents that they are staying over each others' houses in order to tag along on the junior high field trip to the mountains for a skiing trip. However, Joanne later calls Lois to remind Hoodsey to take his nasal medicine before going to sleep. Lois is visibly confused since Hoodsey is supposed to be there with Carl until Joanne reveals that she was told that they are sleeping over at her house, thereby giving away to Lois that she had been lied to. | |
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Kenan & Kel: The two get stuck near the top of the CS Tower, and both realize that their parents won't know where they are since Kel told his parents he was staying over at Kenan's, and Kenan told his parents that he was staying over at Kel's. | |
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My Love Story!!: Yamato's mother calls friends to ask if she's with them since she hasn't come home yet. As far as her friends knew, Yamato was last seen on a date with her boyfriend Takeo. They assume that Yamato and Takeo are spending the night together and immediately invoke this trope to cover for her. | |
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She's My Knight: When Nikaido and Miyoshi find Mogami and Ichinose embracing in the gym shed long after school ended, they suggest telling their parents that Ichinose is at Miyoshi's house and Mogami is at Nikaido's. | |
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Bakemonogatari: A girl said she was sleeping over at a friend's when really she was off getting supernatural invisible snakes removed. | |
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Saved by the Bell: One episode has Zack, Slater, and Screech having a slumber party over at the former's house in order to sneak out to an over-18 club called "The Attic". Zack's mother eventually finds out what is happening and punishes all three of them. The "All in the Mall" episode has the gang (sans Jessie) camping out at the mall to buy U2 tickets. While Zack concocts a plan for them to call each other's parents and say they're sleeping over at the other one's house, they would all share a tent in a sporting goods store. Unlike the other time, they weren't caught, but still had to deal with plenty of other hijinks. |
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Animorphs: The standard excuse used in the series is that everyone is sleeping over at someone else's house. At least until they got the Chee (who can create incredibly advanced holograms) to fill in for them. The main difference is that the Chee are better-behaved than the Animorphs. Also, after Tobias got locked into Hawk form, they covered his disappearance by telling his uncle that he's staying with his aunt, and his aunt that he's staying with his uncle, when the two relatives cannot stand each other, and haven't talked in years. |
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Ultimate Xmen: Kitty is introduced while about to attempt this with two friends with each saying they're sleeping over at each other's houses. Her mom isn't fooled and already knows she is trying to sneak out to a boy's pool party. | |
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El Goonish Shive: In the "Sister" arc, in order to sneak into a Secret Government Warehouse, Elliot tells his parents that he's spending the night at Tedd's house. Tedd doesn't need to tell any lies as his dad is out of town at the time. | |
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The Hunt for Reactron: In a flashback sequence, Kara and Thara want to go on a dangerous camping trip which their parents will never allow. So Thara tells her parents she will be sleeping over at Kara's home (while the latter's parents are away), Kara tinkers with a robot butler so it says they are sleeping in bed if someone calls, and both girls set out towards the Fire Falls. | |
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Criminal Minds: In the season ten finale, Kate's niece Meg and her friend Markayla do this so that they can sneak out to meet a hot boy they've been chatting with online... who turns out to be a serial killer-victim trafficking ring. Kate and Markayla's mother's reactions (before the whole trafficking reveal) indicate that they've done this sort of thing before. Or at least that they're Genre Savvy enough to recognize the ploy. A quartet of boys pulls this, even leaving their cell phones at the appropriate house, in order to investigate a local legend. Their parents don't find out until no one shows up in the morning. |
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Hey Arnold!: Helga gets locked in Arnold's closet and can't leave without being seen (long story), so she calls Phoebe on a cell phone and tells her to call her parents and tell them that Helga is sleeping over at Phoebe's. | |
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