Did anyone notice the Clarnella and Rose Christmas Party???

Actually, that was how swap parties were had "back in the day". (In the 60's and 70's.) They were called "key parties". The guys would put their keys in a bowl or hat and the women would draw a set. The owner of the keys they drew would be the person they would go home with that night. (Or off to the bedroom with or whatever.)

Now we use the internet to set up swingers parties, but this was a pretty common practice for them back then.

But I can see how other people would only see it as a drinking issue because that's what we do now. Swinger parties don't do the key thing much anymore.

That said, I'm more inclined to believe it was a key party as opposed to simple drinking responsibility but only because the people who wrote the script are probably old enough to remember *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* key parties.

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It was definitely a partner swapping key party. That was the joke.

According to Ron Howard, that was a reference to a swap party (which I understood the first and only time I watched this piece of trash). I guess he thought it was funny. I was appalled that this movie was advertised as a family or children's movie. They took something whimsical and pure and managed to turn it into a sexualized fantasyland. I was very disappointed in the entire movie.