The catering team from Party Down finds itself in a setting that many of them have been desperately seeking: a high-end Hollywood industry party. They are working at the home of Joel Munt (played by Kids in the Hall legend Kevin McDonald), a successful but pretentious comedy writer who is celebrating his "big break." The guest list is populated by the exact kind of Hollywood phonies, aspiring scriptwriters, and industry yes-men that our main characters despise—yet secretly want to become.
The climax of the episode involves a very expensive bottle of wine and a misunderstanding about who is allowed to drink it. The resulting chaos is a perfect distillation of the class warfare themes the show explores so well. party down s02e08 satrip