Life of the Party (Angel)

"Life of the Party" is episode 5 of season 5 in the television show Angel.

"Life of the Party"
Angel episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 5
Directed byBill L. Norton
Written byBen Edlund
Production code5ADH05
Original air dateOctober 29, 2003
Guest appearance(s)

Plot

As Halloween approaches, Lorne throws a Halloween party for all the firm’s clients and employees and even gets a reluctant Angel to invite a powerful demon lord, named Archduke Sebassis, to the party. During the gathering, Lorne's timely advice to his friends starts happening literally, leading to Fred and Wesley getting drunk after Lorne tells them to loosen up, Gunn to embarrassingly relieve himself to "stake out his territory", Angel and Eve to have sex, and even Spike and Harmony to have fun on the dance floor. The events lead to only more trouble when Lorne's empathic subconscious begins manifesting itself in a hulking demon (resembling a larger Lorne on steroids). The demon appeared as a result of Lorne's sleep deprivation after Lorne had Wolfram and Hart remove his sleep: an empath with long-term sleeplessness can write people's destinies instead of just reading them, and the empath's subconscious can physically manifest. The episode also reveals that Lorne is proud of his organizational skills, as he feels most of his other talents simply do not match up to what his friends can do.

The larger Lorne causes much violence before the gang restores Lorne's sleep, thus neutralizing the monster. The chaos and destruction has a positive side: the rank and file of Wolfram and Hart express the opinion that it greatly improved the party.

Continuity
  • The changes caused by Lorne's increased empath abilities have a similar effect to the spell cast by Willow in Season Four's Something Blue.
  • During the party montage following Artode's untimely demise in the bathroom stall, a green demon can be seen on the dance floor wearing the same tunic worn by El Eliminati in "Bad Girls."

Trivia
  • Lorne finds Angel hiding from the party in his office, watching a hockey game. Actor David Boreanaz is a real-life Philadelphia Flyers fan.
  • T.J. Thyne, who appears as a Wolfram & Hart employee, starred with David Boreanaz on Bones as Jack Hodgins.
  • This episode somewhat resembles (and might have been influenced by) a 1974 episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker entitled "The Spanish Moss Murders," in which a subject in a medical sleep study psychically creates a monster.
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