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* ''[[Animation/KikoRikiAnimatedFilms KikoRiki. Deja Vu]]'' starts with the Riki gang preparing for Barry's birthday party, which they want to be peacefull. Unfortunately for them, [[RascallyRabbit Krash]] wants to make this party less boring and calls the Deja Vu Agency, who specialize in TimeTravel adventures and send them across various time periods. It gets worse when Krash can't pay up and [[{{Jerkass}} Mole Agent]] threatens to leave his friends stuck in the past for eternity. The rest of the movie has him and Shark (his AlternateSelf, who spent around 10 years in [[OneMillionBC prehistoric era]] and became much more compitent as a result) trying to save the crew and go back home. Barry, for his own part, spent a week (two month in the English dub) with Dokko in the stone age.

* ''[[Animation/KikoRikiAnimatedFilms KikoRiki. Deja Vu]]'' starts with the Riki gang preparing for Barry's birthday party, which they want to be peacefull. Unfortunately for them, [[RascallyRabbit Krash]] wants to make this party less boringvand calls the Deja Vu Agency, who specialize in TimeTravel adventures and send them across various time periods. It gets worse when Krash can't pay up and [[{{Jerkass}} Mole Agent]] threatens to leave his friends stuck in the past for eternity. The rest of the movie has him and Shark (his AlternateSelf, who spent around 10 years in [[OneMillionBC prehistoric era]] and became much more compitent as a result) trying to save the crew and go back home. Barry, for his own part, spent a week (two month in the English dub) with Dokko in the stone age.

* ''Animation/KikoRiki. Deja Vu'' starts with the Riki gang preparing for Barry's birthday party, which they want to be peacefull. Unfortunately for them, [[RascallyRabbit Krash]] calls the Deja Vu Agency, who specialize in TimeTravel adventures and send them across various time periods. It gets worse when Krash can't pay up and [[{{Jerkass}} Mole Agent]] threatens to leave his friends stuck in the past for eternity. The rest of the movie has him and Shark (his AlternateSelf, who spent around 10 years in [[OneMillionBC prehistoric era]] and became much more compitent as a result) trying to save the crew and go back home.

* ''Film/Smile2022'' has Rose going to her nephew's birthday party and derailing things as DemonicPossession shows itself to her: the gift turns out to be Rose's dead cat, and as she sees a manifestation of the entity and yells to leave her alone, Rose ultimately falls back and through a coffee table, injuring herself profusely.

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* In ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons]]'' episode 93, it ironically ends up being Wolffy, the one having the brithday, who ruins his own party when he thinks the other wolves are having fun without him after having his special day seemingly ignored all day and trashes the event they've set up for him.

* "Happy Birthday" by Music/TheBirthdayMassacre — the very song the band (previously called Imagica) would later rename themselves after. If the lyrics are to be taken literally, it's about the protagonist and her friend showing up to a birthday party (implied to be the friend's) and filming themselves killing everybody present.

** Dewey's FreudianExcuse for high jacking the boy's birthday is explained in a series of [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks:]] Hal arriving late from golf to a previous birthday and not knowing who's birthday it is; Malcolm and Reese giving him a birthday beating (one punch from each, for every year that Dewey has reached); before he was shipped off to MilitarySchool, Francis and Lois spent the whole day having (another) loud argument during Dewey's birthday party.

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* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Johnny and Mark have a falling out at Johnny's party when Mark and Lisa flaunt their relationship.
* In ''Film/Demons2'', Sally is having a birthday party. First, she hates her hair style and dress. Then, her despised ex-boyfriend announces by phone he's showing up at the party, which leads her into a nervous breakdown. And finally, [[spoiler:a demon erupts from her TV, attacks her and turns her into a demon who in turn spreads the infection to all the guests, and then to most of the inhabitants of the building. What a party.]]
* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003'': Despite being grounded, the Baker children sneak into Dylan Shenk's expensive birthday party to which they were invited, causing their angered father Tom to go after them. Pure chaos breaks out, ending with Dylan getting hospitalized but still considering it "my best birthday party ever".
* ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'': In the shower, Ginny has a flashback of her mother's death: Her mother, a newly-inducted socialite, invited the Top Ten to Ginny's birthday celebration four years earlier. Instead, the group opted to attend Ann's party. Drunk, her mother drove to the Thomasons' house with Ginny, where she was humiliated by Ann's parents. Enraged, she attempted to drive across the raising drawbridge, resulting in a violent crash which ended in her drowning. Ginny, however, managed to swim to safety.

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': Film/JamesBond finds out the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Spectre]] meeting in Cuba is a birthday party for Blofeld, who [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll runs the organisation from his high security prison cell]] in Belmarsh via his {{electronic eye|s}}. What Blofeld didn't expect though is that Bond wouldn't die at the party but instead ''[[BoardToDeath the whole board of Spectre]]'' would, due to Dr. Obruchev reprogramming the Heracles bio-technological weapon to kill them all instead of Bond on Safin's orders.

* There's an [[UrbanLegends urban legend]] (sometimes told as a joke) known as "The Nude Surprise Party". In one version, a pastor brings all of his wife's friends and family together to his home to throw a surprise birthday party for her. He hears her in the shower of their master bedroom/bath and knocks on the shower door. "I'll be out in a few minutes," she tells him, and he leaves the bedroom. With the lights out, he and the guests wait outside the bedroom door. Suddenly the door opens and there stands the wife in silhouette, naked and dripping wet. "Come and get it while it's clean," she croons. The rest of the story can only be imagined. Other variations can be found [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birthday-suited/ here.]]

* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', Moriarty's attempt to throw a birthday party for Moran is a subtle version of this. It ends up making Moran aware of his own advancing age, and [[spoiler:Moriarty's poor choice of a birthday present for Moran and Moran's inability to come up with anything to say that could heal the resulting rift sums up how neither of them are really capable of a Holmes-and-Watson genuine friendship. It is implied that this helps lead to Moran killing Moriarty during the real events of the Holmes-Moriarty confrontation in "The Final Problem".]]

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch revolved around a surprise birthday party being thrown for Literature/SherlockHolmes (played by host, Creator/JeremyIrons), but he manages to ruin everything by first, revealing that he knows it’s a surprise party before everyone can jump out, deducing that the candles on his birthday cake are gag candles that can’t be blown out, and guessing everyone’s gifts before opening them. Eventually, everyone is left frustrated and tell him off, saying he could have at least pretended to be surprised instead of [[InsufferableGenius putting a damper on everyone’s fun]].

--> '''Melanie Martinez:''' She fell in love with someone, she threw a birthday party, invited him, and nobody showed up so she's just like absolutely insane.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobAndMargaret'' pilot, "Bob's Birthday", Margaret attempts to throw a surprise party for Bob when he comes home from work, only to find he's not only not in the party mood, he manages to badmouth every single one of the party guests, unaware that they're hiding in the living room and can hear everything. Things get even worse when he reenters in the living room pantsless in an attempt to get frisky with Margaret, and then the two of them leave to go out to dinner together, [[SomethingWeForgot leaving the guests behind.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'', the main character's birthday is ruined by his AnnoyingYoungerSibling, even falling face first into his own birthday pie. When he starts to travel back through time due to the titular ArtifactOfDoom, he's forced to relive the same day. While he doesn't make the same mistakes as the day before, his sister just messes it up some other way.

This trope is about ruined parties and the disappointed birthday person. See also a ShoddyShindig for boring parties and NastyParty for murderous ones. OnePersonBirthdayParty is a very lonely subtrope. NotSoForgottenBirthday is a variant when it all ends happily after all. SurpriseParty may be a reason why it goes badly because it's harder to coordinate everything. This can also occur during a ShockParty or ScarySurpriseParty... or even a BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty. DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob is when the party goes wrong for the entertainer. See also WorstWeddingEver, which is the wedding equivalent of this trope.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Bonky Fever" involves Mikey's tenth birthday, with Mikey [[GrowingUpSucks reverting to kindergartener-like behavior]] and becoming obsessed with Bonky, a [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] {{Expy}}. His friends are horrified among arriving at Mikey's birthday party (thinking he's snapped out of his phase) to see a bunch of kindergartners attending and the whole party having a Bonky theme. And then [[FromBadToWorse Bonky comes out to dance with Mikey and the kindergarteners]]. In a desperate attempt to bring Mikey back to normal, the rest of the gang pounces on Bonky and unmasks him to reveal Mikey's mother Mrs. Blumberg in a Bonky GoofySuit. Mikey claims his head hurts and he runs out into the backyard to be alone, and then one of the kindergarteners says to T.J. "Now we play Pin Tail on Big Kid!" and chase him.

* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'': Despite being grounded, the Baker children sneak into Dylan Shenk's expensive birthday party to which they were invited, causing their angered father Tom to go after them. Pure chaos breaks out, ending with Dylan getting hospitalized but still considering it "my best birthday party ever".

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the season 2 episode "Birthday Bash", the girls celebrate their birthday with all of Townsville. However, Mojo Jojo, Princess and HIM all seize the opportunity to attack and hopefully kill the girls with their "gifts" (Mojo sends a giant robot, Princess a missile, and HIM a giant, living pinata). The Amoeba Boys also make an attempt to harm the girls with Voodoo Dolls, but [[HarmlessVillain screw up as usual]].

** "Sweet Sixteen": Leslie tries to set up a birthday party for Jerry (whose birthday falls on the LeapDay) but as she's been overworking herself, multiple things fall through the cracks. She manages to bring Jerry to the party she's set up at Donna's family's lakeside house, but by then, everyone's either passed out asleep or looking for Andy and April's dog that ran off into the forest, with Leslie herself passing out asleep on [[SleepCute Jerry's shoulder]]. Jerry was nonetheless touched by her effort.

* {{Defied|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "No Spoilers": the kids (except Leni , because they think she'll spoil the surprise, and Lily) are making a surprise birthday party for their mother Rita. However, things don't work out: Lana uses toilet paper, gum, and brown balloons (which Lynn thinks look like poop) as decorations, Lynn's subs she provides are covered in BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce, Lola's cake is too sweet, Luan's jokes are all about Rita being old, Luna can't think of a song Rita would like, and Lisa has invited three men Rita doesn't like. However, this all happens before Rita gets home and when they realise things are going south, they get Leni over, who throws a successful party for Rita.

* In the cold opening for the first episode of ''Series/Reno911'', the sheriff's department attempts to throw a surprise party for Garcia. Startled, he pulls out a gun and shoots one of the deputies. We never see that deputy again.

* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' In season one, Audrey's friends in Haven throw her a surprise birthday party, at a mansion on an island outside of town. The owner of the mansion is revealed to be a shapeshifter, who decides to KillAndReplace Audrey, as the body he had been using was aging. Except, because Audrey is [[AntiMagic immune]] to the Troubles, he couldn't actually kill her, so he drains her energy and stuffs her in a trunk in the basement to slowly starve to death.

* In ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 93, it ironically ends up being Wolffy, the one having the brithday, who ruins his own party when he thinks the other wolves are having fun without him after having his special day seemingly ignored all day and trashes the event they've set up for him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Scrooge ''hates'' his birthday by default, regardless if it's a failure or a success, because he hates it when people celebrate he's older. This being Clan [=McDuck=], the party his great-nephews make to show him that it's going to be great ends up in failure when the shady party goers (really, his enemies) end up disappearing one by one. [[spoiler:Except he himself is ''sabotaging it'' from the shadows with the help of his long-departed butler Duckworth, who possesses otherworldly powers as a living ghost.]]