History Main / BirthdayPartyGoesWrong

** 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.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBerenstainBears'' episode "Too Much Birthday", based on the book of the same name, Sister Bear has a bad sixth birthday because she loses at musical chairs, her friends tease her for her shyness during SpinTheBottle, she doesn't get the prize for winning pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey because it's her party, the pony she rides on gave her a bumpy ride, the merry-go-round gives her motion sickness, and it takes her six tries to blow out her candles, which makes her friends claim she's going to have six cubs when she grows up and she only wants three.

* In the ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' book ''Dog Days'', exaggerated for Greg's birthday. His presents are lame, his birthday money is confiscated, his uncle's dog eats the cake, and his 'make-up' present of a fish is eaten by Rodrick's fish.

* In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' ''and Too Much Birthday'', Sister Bear has a bad sixth birthday because she was the first one out on Going to Jerusalem, picked first for Spin the Bottle, didn't win anything for Pin the Tail on the Donkey because it "wasn't polite", Freddy squirted her new new birthday blouse with his trick flower, the pony she rides on gave her a bumpy ride, she got sick from the merry-go-round ride and taking her six tries to blow out her candles, which made her friends claim she was going to have six cubs and she only wanted three. Thankfully, it comes around when she's told she hasn't opened any of her presents yet, and it was cake and ice cream time.

* The main plot of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' special "WesternAnimation/DWAndTheBeastlyBirthday" is started by D.W. having a lousy birthday party. It's raining outside, the cake isn't the flavor she wanted, the party guests are annoying her (although they don't know it), she didn't get the gift she really wanted, and her brother Arthur isn't attending. She goes to hide in an area beneath the stairs, where her imaginary friend takes her to an island called Ukubonga, which she enjoys. She soon gets tired of Ukubonga and realizes that her own friends are lame and that she should hang out with Arthur because he's more interesting; Arthur soon arrives with the present she was expecting, and she teaches him a song she learned on Ukubonga.

* 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.]]

* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Johnny and Mark have a falling out at Johnny's birthday party when Mark and Lisa flaunt their relationship. It ends with Johnny kicking everyone out, trashing his apartment, and finally being DrivenToSuicide and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday ending his own life on his birthday]].

* In ''Film/TheOmen'', Damien's nanny kills herself at his birthday party.

* ''WebComic/ScarletLady'': Mme. Bustier's birthday starts well enough, as all of her students have brought various thoughtful gifts... save for [[TheBully Chloé]], who instead sabotages Marinette's gift. Bustier's refusal to punish Chloé, coupled with her expecting ''Marinette'' to TurnTheOtherCheek and [[EasilyForgiven forgive her bully]] despite Chloé being [[TheUnapologetic smugly unapologetic]], causes Marinette to [[RageBreakingPoint snap]] and call their teacher out on her blatant favoritism and double standards. Bustier then gets akumatized into Zombizou, and by the time the dust settles, she's [[BrokenPedestal lost the respect]] of most of her "beloved students".

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', there is a flashback scene of Branch ruining several celebrations, where he shouts about the Bergens coming and tips something over a clown Troll who's present in all of them: a birthday party where he tips over a pile of presents, [[WorstWeddingEver a wedding]] where he tips over a cake, and [[TheFunInFuneral a funeral]] where he tips over the casket, letting the now-dead clown Troll roll out with a squeak noise.

''[[Radio/ThePennyDreadfulsPresent The Penny Dreadfuls Present: The Brothers Faversham]]'': Subverted. Augustus Faversham (Victorian Britain's greatest StageMagician) has become a children's entertainer in the twilight of his life. At the 5th birthday of one Sammy Sharpe, he has a fatal heart attack while hiding in a cake. Rather than ruining the party, it is held up by the boy's friends for years as the ''ultimate'' 5th birthday, as it involved a real-life dead clown.

''[[Radio/ThePennyDreadfulsPresent The Penny Dreadfuls: The Brothers Faversham]]'': Subverted. Augustus Faversham (Victorian Britain's greatest StageMagician) has become a children's entertainer in the twilight of his life. At the 5th birthday of one Sammy Sharpe, he has a fatal heart attack while hiding in a cake. Rather than ruining the party, it is held up by the boy's friends for years as the ''ultimate'' 5th birthday, as it involved a real-life dead clown.

* In ''Film/TheRoom'', Johnny and Mark have a falling out at Johnny's party when Mark and Lisa flaunt their relationship.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', "Strangeness on a Train"

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "Strangeness on a Train", it is revealed that Peggy's birthday parties have always been colossal disasters. This year she arranges a murder mystery ThemedParty on a train, but that gets ruined by Luanne accidentally revealing the ending and a broken refrigerator spoiling the food (plus no alcohol). Distraught, Peggy goes into the bathroom crying, Hank follows her, and [[SexForSolace they wind up having sex]] while everyone else is dealing with the ShoddyShindig. At first this uncharacteristic act leaves them both cheered up, but then the other guests discover ''evidence'' that someone had sex in there and decide that this is the new mystery to be solved. Hank and Peggy spend the rest of the train ride trying to destroy the evidence before people can tie it to them.

* ''[[Animation/KikoRikiAnimatedFilms KikoRiki. Deja Vu]]'' starts with the Riki gang preparing for Barry's birthday party, which they want to be peaceful. Unfortunately for them, [[RascallyRabbit Krash]] wants to make this party less boring and calls the Deja Vu Agency, who specialize in TimeTravel adventures, to send them across various time periods. It gets worse when Krash can't pay up and [[{{Jerkass}} Agent Mole]] 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 times]] and became much more competent as a result) trying to save the crew and go back home. Barry, for his own part, spent a week (two months in the English dub) with Dokko in the Middle Ages.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': 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]].

* {{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.

* ''[[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 Middle Ages.

* 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. [[spoiler:He relives the day one more time at the end of the book and nothing ends up going wrong, aside from him realizing that his sister ended up [[RetGone erased from existence]] -- but given how horrible she was to him, he's not exactly sad to see her go.]]