Stag Party

I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong, the bells are gonna chime
Pull out the stopper, let's have a whopper
But get me to the church on time

— Alfred Doolittle, My Fair Lady

A guy has a wedding, and they usually throw a wild party as their last day as a bachelor before the wedding day. Often, it gets wild, often having a lot of beer and smoking. Sometimes, they'll also go to a strip club or hire a stripper for the party. Occasionally, the bride-to-be (or the wife of one of the invited, in some cases) will walk in on the party and be horrified at this aspect. Known as a Bachelor Party in the United States.

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 stripper dressed up as a police officer is an actual policewoman. The car breaks down. The stripper calls the best man to explain that she can't make it due to an illness/family emergency/flat tire/whatever else, and he doesn't have anything else planned. The entire party comes down with food poisoning from eating some bad shrimp cocktails. Etc. Often, while the guys expect that the women are having something akin to a bridal shower or a Tupperware party, or that his fiancée 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 Truth in Television, although it rarely ever gets as serious as above. Also note that its Distaff Counterpart, alternatively called a Hen Party or Bachelorette Party, has also become common. Compare Wild Teen Party. See Jumping Out of a Cake for the stripper in the cake which is often included.

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Examples:

Comic Books

• Luke Skywalker's in Star Wars: Union erupts into a Bar Brawl 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.
• X-Men: Gold: The Wedding Special follows Kitty and Colossus through their respective bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Comics Strips

• In one FoxTrot cartoon, Roger remarks reluctantly that he brought home a souvenir from a bachelor's party that he earlier claimed was boring where they drank and told jokes. It was strongly implied that Roger actually went to the Playboy Mansion and that he took one of the Playboy Bunny's rabbit ears, to which Jason, obviously not knowing what the ears were originally for, wore them to celebrate Easter.

Fan Works

• 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 Harley Quinn, 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 Hush's Evil Plan. In the end, Bruce decides a quiet moment on the shores of a private beach minutes before the ceremony is all the party he needs.
• A Diplomatic Visit: 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.
• A G-rated version of this appears in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Empath's Wedding", where it starts off as the Smurfs' one last adventure with Gargamel in an 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. The one that was thrown for Woody the woodelf prior to his marriage to Laconia, as recalled in "A Wedding To Remember", was more of a typical party where Duncan McSmurf had to carry Woody back to his house to rest when he got drunk on sarsaparilla ale.
• For the Glory of Irk: In one of the bonus chapters, Zim insists on throwing one of these for Dib and Lor, despite the fact that his grasp on the concept is flimsy at best and derived from movies. Perhaps fortunately, this never happens, as the group is distracted with infiltrating a Texmas parade to retrieve a stolen water filtration device.
• Hero and his fellow male Smurfs have one on the night before his wedding to Wonder Smurfette in the Hero: The Guardian Smurf story "Hero's Wedding". It's also G-rated, and it consists basically of a dance party.

Film — Animation

• In Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Genie tries to throw a bachelor party for Aladdin. The guy shapeshifts into a stripper and pops out of a cake, while snatching what's obviously supposed to be beer from the Carpet and calling him the "designated flyer".
• In Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Hugh tells Judy how he wasn't allowed to go to one for his best friend when he was younger because he was grounded for a week. He snuck out and attended anyway, much like Jimmy not being allowed to go to Retroland on account of it being a school night.

Film — Live Action

• ''Abominable: The weekend is an engagement party for Michelle at C.J.'s uncle's cabin. While Michelle half-jokingly asks if he knows they're going to wreck it for the most part it's just an afternoon and evening of friends sitting around and reminiscing, drinking occasionally but not to excess (aside from a sen where they briefly chase each other around with spray foam).
• The film Bachelor Party, which is about Tom Hanks's character trying to keep his fidelity to his future wife intact while enjoying the hell out of himself at the party with his sex-crazed friends. And, of course, dealing with his future wife's unwanted suitor.
• In Deadly Advice, Beth goes out on a hen night for one of the girls at the bank where she works. They go to a strip club in Bristol. By the end of the night, everyone is drunk, one girl is throwing up in her handbag, and the bride-to-be is in tears and wondering why she is getting married. Meanwhile, Beth has met Bunny, the stripper who will later move in with her.
• In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 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 a silly-looking use of 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.
• A Guy Thing 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. Then he learns that the girl is Karen's cousin. Whoops.
• The Hangover is about a groom, his two best friends, and his brother-in-law going to Las Vegas for one of these. The next morning, the groom is missing, the room is trashed, there's a tiger in the bathroom and a baby in the closet, their valet ticket comes back to a police car, and no one remembers what happened. The first sequel has the same setup.
• In I Think I Do (1997), Bob and some of the women join Carol at her hen party, where Carol and Bob both pay a male stripper for a lap dance.
• Discussed in Jurassic World when Zara refuses to let her fiancé have a bachelor party because "all his friends are animals."
• Kimmy vs. The Reverend: If Kimmy skips town to chase after the Reverend, Lillian throws Frederick a stag party. It involves karaoke at a seedy North Korean bar and devolves into treating Frederick's emotional issues.
• Last Vegas is all about Billy's friends trying to stage an epic bachelor party for him at the age of 70.
• The premise of Psycho Cop Returns is that the eponymous Killer Cop learns about a debaucherous bachelor party that's going to be held at an office building after the place closes down. To him, such lawlessness simply does not do and he goes there to kill people.
• At the start of Sam, the misogynistic title character attends his friend Steve's bachelor party. He leaves the party drunk and angry and ranting about women when he stumbles into The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday and his problems really start.
• Watson has his Stag Party planned by Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock really chose the location so he could find a fortune teller with ties to his latest case. He didn't even invite any of Watson's other friends and colleagues. While Sherlock is fighting off assassins, the only craziness that happens to Watson is getting drunk and brawling with other patrons over some gambling winnings that fell on the floor (courtesy of Holmes).
• In Stag, a stag party goes horribly awry when the drunken revellers accidentally kill a stripper and her escort. Most of this psychological drama centres on the men's attempts to reach a consensus on how to handle the situation and avoid police intervention.
• The Irish film The Stag is about a stag weekend in the country. The groom and his friends decide to have a relatively quiet hiking weekend, until the bride's brother turns up, causing hilarity to ensue.
• Stagknight is a Slasher Movie that has a killer in medieval armor killing people who are affiliated with a paintball-themed bachelor party.
• Very Bad Things features a stag party that goes horribly wrong and results in the death of a stripper.
• In Who's That Girl, Louden's excuse to Wendy is that he was attending his bachelor party the night before the wedding, when in actuality he spent the night in Mr. Bell's apartment with Nikki.

Literature

• Conversational Troping in the section on weddings in the Discworld spinoff Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. Nanny points out that the best man has a difficult job since part of it is to ensure that the groom turns up, looks smart, and is vertical, whereas the other part is to hold a party that guarantees none of these things will happen.
  • In I Shall Wear Midnight, 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.
• In Twilight, Edward has a "bachelor party" which really just consists of him and his brothers going hunting the night before his wedding (to offset the chance any of them would go crazy and eat the guests).

Live-Action TV

• The Big Bang Theory:
  • In "The Stag Convergence" the guys hold a bachelor party for Howard, which almost gets the wedding canceled when Raj's drunken recount of Howard's past sexual encounters gets posted online by Wil Wheaton.
  • In "The Bachelor Party Corrosion", the guys plan to give Leonard a belated bachelor party. It gets sidetracked by a flat tire that they try to replace and leads to the van burning down.
• Cheers: The gang hosts one for Sam in "One Last Fling", which goes just fine (drinking, porn tape) until Sam makes some embarrassing remarks as Diane hides inside the cake.
• In Chicago Fire, Mouch is forced by Trudy to have her brother Larry be his best man over his best friend Herrmann, who then starts planning what appears to be the most boring bachelor party ever (at least, to a non-nerd). Everyone goes along with this to support Mouch, except for Herrmann, who constantly complains. In fact, Herrmann claims that this is probably Trudy's idea to keep the bachelor party from getting too crazy. When everyone arrives to the hotel room, it turns out that Larry has actually thrown a crazy party with bikini-clad girls, music, and drinks. Not only was Herrmann in on the whole thing, but it was Trudy's idea.
• Chuck:
  • In "Chuck Versus the Broken Hearts", Chuck's team infiltrate Captain Awesome's bachelor party to get his key card to the hospital for a mission.
  • Chuck's own bachelor party in "Chuck Versus Agent X" wasn't that great either. First, Devon took the guys into a park called "Las Vecas" instead of Las Vegas. Then they got ambushed by Volkoff's agents since Devon mistakenly brought the laptop they're after.
• Doctor Who: The Doctor sneaks into Rory's Stag Party and jumps out of the cardboard cake. Hilarity Ensues.
• Everybody Loves Raymond: "The Bachelor Party", where Ray's idea of a good bachelor party is sitting in Robert's apartment playing cards with Gianni. When Debra, Marie, and Amy find out that was his party, they force Ray to throw a better one.
• FC De Kampioenen: The guys tried to have an all-out Bachelor party the night before the wedding between Marcske and Bieke in season 15, behind the backs of their wives and girlfriends. The women, however, found out and secretly rearranged their stripper and food services for themselves, sending the police after the men (for jokes). Unfortunately, this resulted in the men spending the night in jail. It gets turned around in the second-to-last episode of the series, where the men after some initial struggles end up having a fun time despite not being allowed to drink alcohol, while the women spend the entire evening bickering and having fights.
  • Of course, as far as the second party was concerned, they also had an important soccer game the next day and didn't want to drink alcohol, but their competitor spiked their drinks and sent some strippers at the party.
• Frasier offers to arrange the bachelor party for Daphne's fiance after the best man has to cancel. Daphne approves because she assumes that Frasier is so refined the party won't get too rowdy and will probably wrap up early. On hearing this, Frasier sets out to prove he can be "one of the guys" and arrange a wild night.
  Daphne: Honestly, why men have to celebrate getting married by having bouncing bosoms shoved in their faces. If I know Dr. Crane, your party'll be over by nine-thirty, we could all go out for dinner afterwards.
  Donny: Oh, that'd be swell.
• Friends,
  • In "The One With The Stripper" Phoebe lets it slip that Monica had a secret bachelorette party (in which she untied a G-string with her mouth) even though she and Chandler had agreed not to have one. To make up for it, she throws a bachelor party for him and pays for a stripper. Unfortunately, the only other person who shows up is Joey, and the "stripper" is actually a prostitute.
  • Phoebe's own bachelorette party doesn't go well either. Monica arranges a refined party with people drinking tea, and when she learns that this isn't what Phoebe wanted hires a male stripper at the last minute. He's played by Danny DeVito. The title of the episode is "The One Where The Stripper Cries".
  • In "The One With The Worst Best Man Ever", during the lead-up to Ross's marriage to Emily, he tells Joey he wants a low-key affair with no strippers.
    Chandler: Have fun planning your "mellow" bachelor party.
    Joey: There's gonna be strippers there. He didn't say anything about no strippers.
    Chandler: He just said "No strippers"!
    Joey: Huh. I chose not to hear that.
  • In "The One With All The Jealousy", Chandler is throwing a bachelor party for his cousin and asks Ross to come. When Ross asks why he's being invited to a complete stranger's party Chandler admits that his cousin has no friends and they're desperate to pad the guest list. Ross ends up befriending the stripper and arranging a playdate for their kids, something Rachel is very unhappy to hear about.
• In The Goldbergs, Barry wants a wild bachelor party like the one in Bachelor Party, which unfortunately proves impractical. Uncle Marvin takes him to a nightclub promising a wild time, but he and the JTP find it too loud and crowded. Eventually, they just go to the arcade and have a reasonably good time.
• In an early episode of Happy Days Richie and Potsie go to one for Potsie's cousin, who is a Marine. While they try doing stuff like drinking milk and olive oil to prevent getting drunk, it doesn't work.
• The final season of How I Met Your Mother has one for Barney that goes hilariously wrong - they have to stay in a small hotel in Atlantic City, watch An Inconvenient Truth, hire a clown for entertainment, the stripper is Barney's ex-girlfriend, get "the wrong 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 gives Marshall to Chinese mobsters as collateral, and Robin breaks up with him. At the end, they reveal that 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 while also making the night unforgettable (since, as Barney admits, the average guy's great bachelor party is just a normal night for him). Also, the clown was Billy Zabka, who stays for several more episodes afterwards.
  • Barney is notorious for throwing these. Ted attempts to arrange a more sedate affair for Marshall's bachelor party (seeing a boxing match and having a steak dinner) and even lies to Barney about their actual destination to keep him from meddling. Despite his efforts, Barney is still able to hijack the weekend and arranges for a stripper to meet them at the hotel. The stripper breaks her ankle just after starting her act but, after a trip to the hospital, she and Barney insist on finishing. We don't see the performance but by the time she's done nobody wants their steak dinner anymore. They're ultimately kicked out of the hotel after Barney leaves a lit cigar lying around which sets the room on fire.
• For one of Joe's punishments on Impractical Jokers, the guys tell him that he has to jump out of a cake at a bachelorette party. It turns out to be a Bait-and-Switch, however, and he jumps out in front of a gathering of elderly war veterans.
• The Interns: Sophia wants to throw her last party as unmarried girl, and asked her friends (Rita, Polina and Lyuba) to organise everything. At first, they had only lame and cheap plan. Then they tried to come with better one (after Sophia reacted on their plan like it was a joke, to maintain a secret), which costed much more, but after that Sophia revealed what she wants something "wild and crappy". They then asked Timur, who came up with actually good plan — but it was so expensive, they were unable to afford it. Fortunately, by that moment Gleb learned about their problems (from Timur), and canceled his own bachelor party to organise everything for Sophia instead.
• Lucifer (2016): "All Hands On Decker" focuses on the female cast throwing a bachelorette party for Chloe Decker. Ella suggests the idea but when she gets too busy with a case she passes planning to Maze, assuming that Maze's reputation as The Hedonist will ensure a wild party. Unfortunately, Maze is determined to make sure Chloe doesn't get cold feet about the wedding and arranges a party that's so safe even Chloe's nine-year-old daughter gets bored. Ella, Linda and Charlotte eventually hijack the party by hiring a party bus filled with booze and men. As tempers flare between Maze and Linda over their own issues Ella calls for the bus to pull over. While they, and Charlotte, are outside arguing the bus drives off with Chloe still inside.
• On M*A*S*H, 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.
• Monk: The 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 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, having mistaken him for an actual cop.
  • Played straight and deconstructed in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man," where Stottlemeyer let Monk plan the bachelor's party, and it was exceptionally bland, even leading to an inversion of the Designated Driver trope due to Monk only supplying one 12 oz. beer bottle to each guest (making 144 oz. total, as there were 12 people in attendance). The closest it got to being a serious party is when someone firebombed Stottlemeyer's car, something that an extremely drunk Disher reported to Stottlemeyer about someone illegally parking a charcoal-black car with "flames painted on the windows."
• The final scene of the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Glory Days" is Murdoch's stag night (the following episode being the one where the wedding happens). The normally teetotal Murdoch actually has a drink and, to his embarrassment, Bat Masterson arranges for an exotic dancer (but not a stripper since it's 1902).
• On NCIS, Jimmy Palmer's stag party gets used as part of a sting operation. All the drinks are watered down; unfortunately, Palmer Can't Hold His Liquor.
• Obliterated. The Squad are glad to see a bride-to-be and her friends have turned up at the wild post-mission party they're throwing. The lesbian member of the squad announces her intention to seduce the bride herself and succeeds—unfortunately she's reluctantly hauled away when they're called back to duty.
• Parks and Recreation gives us "Two Parties" which show Leslie's and Ben's before their wedding. Ann throws Leslie a typical bachelorette party with alcohol, lewd games, and a stripper dressed like Abraham Lincoln. It gets derailed when Leslie finds out Councilman Jamm has allowed a burger franchise to develop land she wants designated for a park and tries to stop construction by planting fake Native American artifacts in the ground while it's raining. Meanwhile, Chris throws Ben a more low-key bachelor party which consists of the guys playing board games and drinking beer. Once they're done, Tom suggests going to a trendy bar specializing in "molecular mixology" (they serve cotton candy that's beer, lotion that's scotch, etc.) It eventually transpires that none of the guys got to have a bachelor party before they got married so Chris decides to give them all one that night. Jerry gets a trip to his favorite ice cream parlor, Andy gets to practice with the Indianapolis Colts, and Ron gets to have an expensive steak dinner where they all meet Newt Gingrich. They thank Chris for the great night by giving him a "Best Best Man" trophy.
• Plebs: Aurelius has a truly disastrous stag do in "The Best Men", going through three successive Best Men in one night.
  • Marcus is sacked for leading the group on a ghost tour of Rome in an attempt to minimize expenses.
  • Stylax takes the party to a casino where Cynthia is working as a waitress but they're ejected after an incident that gets her fired. He gets sacked.
  • Balbus, Stylax's driving instructor, takes Aurelius to the "Wall of Glory," an unsavory alley wall with a series of holes in it, which is promptly raided by centurions. The gang escapes, but stick around long enough to see the wall opened up to reveal it's staffed by ugly old men.
• A Season 46 episode of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch where several men at a bachelor party sing about how cathartic it is to spend time with their guy friends while they get Raging Stiffies watching strippers. They actually spend so much time singing that they forget to actually do anything with the strippers.
• Schitt's Creek: Stevie throws David and Patrick a bachelor party that occurs in two parts. The first is a trip to an Escape Room, which was Patrick's suggestion and which he delights in. The Roses and Stevie eventually start to enjoy it, even though Johnny is stressed over a business call and Alexis is down about the state of her life. Later, they all have drinks at a local bar, with everyone feeling good.
• In the "The Sign of Three" episode of Sherlock, Sherlock and John go on a pub crawl as this. Both get drunk in a couple of hours. Sherlock had been pre-planning his alcohol consumption but John accidentally screwed up his plan by adding shots to their drinks.
• In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "You Are Cordially Invited", Bashir and O'Brien find out that a traditional Klingon "bachelor party" is about as much fun as you can expect from anything Worf suggests. Jadzia's party is more in line with the trope: the entire station seems to have been invited, there's a shirtless fire-dancing guy, the neighbors call security about the noise, and everyone goes home hungover.
• Tanked: The male staff of ATM threw one for Wayde the night before he renewed his vows with Heather for their 15th wedding anniversary. Redneck provided moonshine, and hilarity ensued. Almost everyone wound up with raging hangovers the next day.
• Wedding Season: Stag/hen dos are the wedding-related events in the flashbacks of the fourth episode.
  • Stefan was pulled from Anil's stag do. When Conrad suggests it was the typical strippers-and-coke wild affair, the flashbacks clarify it was a proper sit-down at dinner.
  • Katie was supposed to head to Las Vegas for her hen do, but it got cancelled. She convinces Stefan to go to Vegas with her instead.

Music

• In the music video for Jagged Edge's "Let's Get Married" (the original, not the remix), a man named Trent proposes to his girlfriend Sarah, who expresses some concerns that he's not really ready just yet because he has a habit of putting his friends and fun stuff before her. One of his friends throws him a wild bachelor party the night before the wedding, and Sarah is picking out her wedding dress.^note Even though dress-shopping would realistically be done several months ahead of the wedding, due to the time needed for the dress to come in and any fittings and alterations that need to be done. Sarah finally picks out the dress she wants and calls Trent to let him know and get some emotional support, but at that moment one of the strippers gets on his lap and hangs up his phone. Sarah, feeling very hurt, breaks off the engagement, leaving Trent looking at the ring and contemplating What Could Have Been on the steps of the church. The video rewinds back to the bachelor party, only this time Trent takes the call despite his friends' teasing and gives Sarah the reassurance she's looking for, and the wedding goes off without a hitch.

Theatre

• Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady leads a whole Crowd Song ("Get Me to the Church on Time") at a bar during his stag party. "There's drinks and girls all over London, and I've got to track them down in just a few more hours!"

Web Original

• C0DA is a very Loose Canon story by former The Elder Scrolls writer Michael Kirkbride. Taking place in the far distant future of the ES universe, it is only very tangentially related to ES lore and has plenty of Kirkbride's signature New Weird, Mind Screwy style. In it, 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.
• CollegeHumor has done this about bachelor movies contrary to what movies say. Just a plain old affair. No, seriously.

Webcomics

• Miss Abbott and the Doctor:
  • In a chapter appropriately titled "Wild Days", Cati Abbott's party has bowling, burlap sack racing, ball kicking, horse riding, jumping, pole climbing, rope tugging, kite flying, roller-skating, dart throwing, ziplining, face painting... basically every physical activity you can imagine.
  • Andreas Marino's party has the men trying to imitate Cati's, but Andreas' less wild lifestyle makes things less fun for him.

Western Animation

• The Adventure Time episode "When Wedding Bells Thaw" has the Ice King announcing that he's getting married and asks Finn and Jake to throw him a "manlerette" party.
• All Hail King Julien: "The End is Here", Julien throws a pretty wild one for Sage, but things don't really begin going south until Sage insists on a more traditional mountain lemur celebration that Julien doesn't execute very thoroughly wanting to get back to the normal party quicker.
• Bob's Burgers: Bob didn't actually have a bachelor party before his wedding, prompting Louise and Gene to throw him one in "The Grand Mama Pest Hotel". Despite their good intentions, it goes crazy. Even after the plan gets completely derailed by Linda's ban from the hotel, Bob and the kids both make reference to the bachelor party, complete with Bob calling Linda his fiancee to avoid confusing Bernadette.
• A Stag Party was a pretty big part of the premise of Family Guy's pilot episode "Death Has A Shadow." Unlike most examples, the major consequence of Peter going to a Stag Party doesn't involve losing his marriage or having a strained soon-to-be-marriage, as it is that Peter loses his job thanks to negligence via sleeping on the job.
• On King of the Hill, Hank, Dale, and Bill 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.
• One episode of Pasila revolves around Neponen renewing his wedding vows, which naturally involves Pöysti having to arrange one for him with three of his friends. They have plenty of experience for throwing such parties and know that while the generic "get drunk, do something stupid and risky that ends in a brawl" party has been done over and over again, it's what the party will ultimately devolve into anyway, as better and more unique ideas are ridiculously expensive and all the cheaper ones aren't worth doing. Pöysti still doesn't believe them and comes up with several unique ideas, but all of them are a combination of something extremely dangerous, physically impossible, utterly illegal or unrealistically expensive, forcing him admit defeat and go with the default option.
• ReBoot: When Bob and Dot prepare to get married in Season 4, Bob initially picks Matrix as his "Best Sprite", but then when Dot asks Matrix to walk her down the isle, leaving Matrix unsure what to do, Bob quickly switches best sprite duties to Enzo, freeing Matrix up. While the girls have a typically raunchy bachelorette party, the bachelor party that young Enzo planned more closely resembles a child's birthday party, complete with a clown.
• On Rocko's Modern Life, 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 an ice cream hangover.
• The Simpsons:
  • "Homer's Night Out" 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 (It Makes Sense in Context) and photographed. It's technically a deconstruction, however, as a.) the host and his father clearly did not want that kind of party, and b.) the rest of the episode is about Homer trying to teach Bart that treating women that way is wrong.
  • In "My Big Fat Geek Wedding", Edna has a wild bachelorette party at the Simpson house, consisting of Marge and many other Springfield wives with Duffman as a hired stripper. Skinner's bachelor party is less than wild as it only consists of him, Homer, Lenny, and Carl sitting at Moe's.
  • In the Flash Forward episode "Lisa's Wedding", Bart comments that he met a woman at Lisa's fiancé's bachelor party.
    Lisa: Hugh didn't have a 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.
• A G-rated version of such was held for Snoopy prior to his wedding to Genevieve in the cartoon special Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown. It consisted of Snoopy's male friends giving Snoopy a toast with root beer and attempting to have Snoopy drink a toast out of a slipper.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Referenced as a Parental Bonus. One of the settings on the Box of Truth is "Bachelorette Party".
  Box of Truth: Alright, ladiiies! Are you ready to— (gets setting switched)

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