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8. Joel Munt's Big Deal Party

Roman is less than thrilled when he discovers the party is being thrown by his 'sell-out' writing partner who hired him to rub his face in the sale of his new spec script.

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Roman finds out they are catering a party for his old writing partner, Joel Munt ( Paul Scheer ), who hired Party Down just to rub his success in Roman's face. Roman finds out he sold his spec script for an adaption of a science fiction novel written by AF Gordon Theodore ( Dave (Gruber) Allen ). Now that Ron is back in charge, Henry goes back to his old ways by fooling around with Casey, now that they are back together. Kyle is excited to cater the party as plenty of producers are present, trying his best to get auditions.

Lydia mistakenly sniffs cocaine after given some in the bathroom and talks to Scott ( Andre Royo ), a film producer about ideas for his upcoming film. Roman spends the night trying to get revenge on Munt believing he is a sell-out, and succeeds when he is able to convince the author he will not stay true to the novel. Munt eventually apologizes to Roman for his actions and they begin thinking how to translate an unseen character from the novel to the screen while staying true to the novel. Though Munt ends up stealing Roman's idea which gets him back on board with the author.

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