History Main / StagParty

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomagicVisit'': In chapter 5 of the second sequel, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', Celestia takes Luna to the bachelorette party she's set up, and while details are not given, it's implied to be wild (and Maxilla's is right close by). Pharynx and Swift-Pad, meanwhile, share one that Thorax set up... and he's left stunned when he finds out ''Thorax'' of all people is taking them to Canterlot's red light district for the event.

** In ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight'', Roland is treated/subjected to his own stag night, where the only criteria for success appears to be that the groom-to-be wakes up in a pig sty with no trousers on.

-->--'''[[TheHedonist Alfred Doolittle]]''', ''Theatre/MyFairLady''

* ''Film/AGuyThing'' starts with a bachelor party for Paul. Things get a little too wild for him, so he gives his "groom" hat to the best man and ends up chatting up an attractive dancer. The next morning, he wakes up and is shocked to find her in his bed. His fiancée Karen is on her way, so he kicks the girl out without even learning her name. She can't find her underwear. Paul later finds it and hides it in the toilet tank... only for Karen to find it and confront him. He makes up a terrible-sounding lie about buying the underwear for her in a bin at a local mart. She points out the underwear has clearly been used and calls the mart to check out the story. Luckily for Paul, the clerk immediately figures out what's going on (quoting the movie title to a customer) and backs up Paul's story, apologizing to Karen for the dirty underwear and offering to replace it at no charge. Things get complicated when he learns that the dancer is Karen's cousin Becky and that they didn't actually have sex (he passed out before his pants came off). Then Becky's obsessive cop ex-boyfriend finds out and starts harassing Paul (Paul ends up helping the [[InternalAffairs IA]] get him). Eventually, Paul realizes that Karen isn't really for him (luckily, his brother has been in love with her for years and jumps at the chance) and Becky's more his type.

* A G-rated version of this appears in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Empath's Wedding", where it starts off as the Smurfs' one last adventure with Gargamel in an [[{{Hologram}} Imaginarium]] fantasy setting, and then it turns into a beach dance party that most of Empath's fellow Smurfs (except for Tapper and Hefty) attend.

* On ''Series/Mash'', when Margaret marries Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Penobscot (of West Point!), the doctors hold a bachelor party for him in the Swamp. Father Mulcahy regales them with a story of the other "stag smoker" he attended - complete with a nun jumping out of an angel food cake.

* Since Batman and Catwoman getting married is the secondary focus, ''Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird'' naturally has this. Newsfeed of Selina's bachelorette party is shown in the first chapter. Planned by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, it involves her and the gal pals knocking over a toy store and going wild at a carnival. Meanwhile, ''three'' different parties for Bruce are planned by his work colleagues, Clark and the league, and Dick the wedding plannerzilla, which are all put a stop to by Scarecrow and [[spoiler:Hush]]'s EvilPlan. [[spoiler:In the end, Bruce decides a quiet moment on the shores of a private beach where the wedding is taking place is all the party he needs before heading to the ceremony.]]

Recently, it's been increasingly popular in comedy to show the guys trying to have a wild stag party, only to have it fall apart in a disappointing fashion. The stripper is over the hill, or a guy. The [[StripperCopConfusion stripper dressed up as a police officer is an actual policewoman]]. The car breaks down. Etc. Often, while the guys expect that the women are having something akin to a bridal shower or a Tupperware party, or that his fiancee is at home watching TV in her sweatpants by herself, they're having a bachelorette party as wild as what the men were hoping for.

Somewhat of a TruthInTelevision, although it rarely ever gets as serious as above. Also note that its DistaffCounterpart, alternatively called a Hen Party or Bachelorette Party, has also become common.
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Compare WildTeenParty. See JumpingOutOfACake for the stripper in the cake which is often included.

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* In ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'', Johnny convinces Reed to have a bachelor party (which Reed insists doesn't have strippers). They go to a club and Reed winds up dancing with some (clothed) women, which is mostly just an excuse for [[ConspicuousCGI silly-looking use of]] [[RubberMan his superpowers]] before Sue arrives with the movie's plot. He winds up quelling any anger she feels toward him by refusing to postpone their wedding for the possible danger, and she jokes(?) that she had a wilder bachelorette party anyway.

* {{Discussed}} in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' when Zara refuses to let her fiance have a bachelor party because "all his friends are animals."

* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding," where it's the bachelorette party for Natalie's brother's fiancée. Basically, the party has the women hiring a male stripper (in cop uniform), where he asks the hostess if [[ForeShadowing she has been a bad girl]]. However, it's cut short by Monk having to come to remove Natalie to handle a crime scene investigation elsewhere in the hotel. He also takes the stripper along, too, [[StripperCopConfusion having mistook him for an actual cop]].

* In ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'', shortly before Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman's wedding, Mr. Fantastic, under The Human Torch's suggestion, went to a dance club for their bachelor's party. Eventually the Invisible Woman and some of her friends stumble upon Mr. Fantastic talking it up with some of the female dancers.

** In the FlashForward episode "Lisa's Wedding," Bart comments that he met a woman at Lisa's fiancé's bachelor party.

-->'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''(Lisa stares)'' I had one in his honor. ''(Lisa continues to stare)'' I went to a strip club.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Homer Simpson attending a stag party where he, while drunk, danced with Princess Kashmir, an exotic dancer, an action that Bart stumbled upon while making his way back from the bathroom in the restaurant (ItMakesSenseInContext) and photographed. It's technically a deconstruction, however, as the host and his father clearly did not want that kind of party, and yet somehow managed to get them anyway.

* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill,'' Hank and his friends all apparently had the same bachelor's party: they sat around and played cards, and at some point managed to secretly put a ball and chain around the groom's ankle, which they thought was hilarious. They try to throw the same kind of party for Boomhauer's brother, but he winds up hiring strippers.

** In ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'', Roland is treated/subjected to his own stag night, where the only criteria for success appears to be that the groom-to-be wakes up in a pig sty with no trousers on.

* The final season of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has one for Barney that goes hilariously wrong - they have to stay in a small hotel in Atlantic City, watch ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth'', hire a clown for entertainment, the stripper is Barney's ex-girlfriend, get "the wrong [[Film/TheKarateKid Karate Kid]]" (a running joke in the series is that Barney considers Billy Zabka to be the true karate kid and the hero of the film), Barney goes gambling and [[ItMakesSenseInContext gives Marshall to Chinese mobsters as collateral]], and Robin breaks up with him. At the end, they reveal that [[spoiler:it had all been prearranged by the gang, up to and including Marshall's (fake) hand being cut off by the mobsters, in order to check everything off of Barney's Bachelor Party Checklist. Also, the clown was Billy Zabka, who stays for several more episodes afterwards]].

* C0DA by Michael Kirkbride, the sequel to ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, has one of these. It gets pretty weird, being in any way related to ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' lore. [[spoiler: Jubal, the groom-to-be, has recently had his hands removed and is visited by Almalexia, the Hist, Kynareth, Akatosh and Talos, who transforms into full-blown Lorkhan as they drunk-stumble from the club.]]

* Luke Skywalker's in ''ComicBook:StarWarsUnion'' erupts into a BarBrawl when some disgruntled moffs try to crash it. It's also kinda expected when Han Solo and another friend set it up at a seedy bar. It's G-rated, also.

* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Big Wedding," where it was a bachelorette party. Basically, the party had the women hiring a male stripper (in cop uniform), where he asks the hostess if [[ForeShadowing she has been a bad girl]]. However, it had to be cut short because Monk arrived to take Natalie, as one of the people at the mud baths discovered a dead body in one of the stalls, also taking the stripper with him ([[StripperCopConfusion having mistook him for an actual cop]], with the latter being at least familiar enough with cop-terms to understand the seriousness of the situation.)

* On ''RockosModernLife'', Filburt's friends throw him a bachelor party at an ice cream parlor. There's a (fully-clothed) woman dancing on top of the "bar," and everyone ends up with [[DrunkOnMilk an ice cream hangover]].