History Main / SurpriseParty

* ''[[ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Tim's step-mother is able to arrange a last minute surprise party for him when she and his girlfriend Stephanie realize he's forgotten it's his own sixteenth birthday.

* Chili's boss Momo has one thrown for him near the beginning of ''Film/GetShorty''. Unfortunately, when you're already skittish about sudden surprises and you have a bad ticker, [[DiedOnTheirBirthday a surprise birthday party isn't quite so joyous an occasion]].

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', you and Socellia throw one for Russo during his second Friendship Event to cheer him up and assure him that despite his parents abandoning him as a baby, he still has people who love him such as [[ParentalSubstitute Socellia.]]

* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'' has the episode "The Birthday Bag" in which Miss Brooks' friends plan a surprise party at the Conklin's house. Unfortunately, Miss Brooks turns up an hour too early. HilarityEnsues.
* In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E10Parallels Parallels]]" on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the senior staff of the ''Enterprise D'' throws Worf a surprise party for his birthday after he comes back from a bat'leth tournament. The party manages to catch him off guard, because Riker lied to him and told him that there wasn't going to be a surprise party. However, the story is about Worf shifting through various parallel realities, and whether or not there was a party varies based on which reality he's in. When he returns to his proper reality, it turns out that Deanna Troi talked Riker out of throwing the party because she didn't think Worf would like it, but the two end up spending some time together over champagne in Worf's quarters.
* On ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
** In the opening of "Twisted", one of these is held for Kes's second birthday (Kes's species, the Ocampa, matures very quickly but is exceptionally short lived) though she's mostly just confused by it at first because the surprise party isn't a tradition in her culture.
** In "Latent Image", Ensign Jetal enters the messhall but the lights won't turn on. She contacts the Chief Engineer on her commbadge, only to hear B'Elanna's voice in the darkness saying, "Err...go ahead Ensign, or should I say... ''SURPRISE!"''

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* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "The Lives of Others" presents a memorable variation as Castle, stuck in the house with a broken leg and going a little stir crazy, is convinced that [[RearWindowInvestigation he sees a murder in an apartment across the street.]] Finally Beckett goes to the apartment in question to confront the supposed killer, only to have him pull a carving knife on Beckett while Castle watches from his window. Castle (on crutches) joins Ryan and Esposito at the apartment, breaking down the door and staring into darkness...only for the lights to go on and Castle's family and friends shouting "Surprise!" Beckett staged the whole thing as a birthday present for Castle.

* One point of ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' has Sonny participate in a surprise party for a fellow officer. Just before the party occurs, the other officer cries about how miserable his life is. He and his wife are estranged, his daughter is on drugs [[spoiler: and she later dies from an overdose]]. When the party occurs, the other officer is embarrassed but rather honored.

* Early in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', Kirk and [=McCoy=] celebrate Kirk's birthday in a low-key manner a few days early because he doesn't really like to celebrate on his birthday, what with it being the day his father died also. At the end of the film, however, [=McCoy=] ends up hosting a large surprise party on ''Yorktown'' with most of the major ''Enterprise'' crew.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim's step-mother is able to arrange a last minute surprise party for him when she and his girlfriend Stephanie realize he's forgotten it's his own sixteenth birthday.

* WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} and his neighbors throw one for Lydia in ''[[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} The Bug Princess]]'', to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the day he and she met. The party itself is played perfectly straight, although it then leads into a somewhat dubious flashback of exactly how they did meet.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]," Pinkie Pie throws a great party for her pet's birthday, and then invites all of her friends to an after-birthday the next day, only to be on the receiving end of IHaveToWashMyHair and INeedToGoIronMyDog excuses for why everyone can't come. She eventually blows up and then throws a party by herself with various [[CompanionCube Companion Cubes]], until Rainbow Dash insists that she come to Sweet Apple Acres, where it turns out that she and the others have set up a surprise party for her. Pinkie had forgotten her own birthday.

** There's an episode where the gang somehow thought it a good idea to hold a surprise party for Oliver Queen, who reacts exactly as you'd expect to a dark room full of lurking people. Fortunately no one gets badly hurt...