History Main / VivaLasVegas

** The episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" climaxes when Peter takes Chris to Vegas for a quickie ''conversion to Judaism''. Lois follows suit in a parody of ''Film/TheGraduate'' parody.

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%%* The Music/ElvisPresley movie ''Film/VivaLasVegas'', which features the eponymous song.

* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gravity Falls]]: {{The Stinger}} of “Soos and the Real Girl” is a [[https://youtu.be/JDwHor1h7L4 montage]] of Stan going on a trip to Las Vegas [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext with a novelty toy]] named Goldie, who is meant to look like a [[{{Prospector}} gold prospector]]. In the montage, they are shown gambling and [[HoYay getting]] [[CargoShip married]], among other things.

* There was a ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' commercial parody [[spoiler:about Atlantic City]] where a woman is stalked by Las Vegas.

* ''Tom Clancy's VideoGAme/RainbowSix Vegas'' and its sequel hit all the high notes of a MoreDakka tour of Las Vegas: Shooting your way through cacophonous casino floors, down the Strip, on Fremont Street, in a high-rise knockoff of The Stratosphere casino, and finally out to the Hoover Dam.

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* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gravity Falls]]: {{The Stinger}} of “Soos and the Real Girl” is a [[https://youtu.be/JDwHor1h7L4 montage]] of Stan going on a trip to Las Vegas [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext with a novelty toy]] named Goldie, who is meant to look like a [[Main/{{Prospector}} gold prospector]]. In the montage, they are shown gambling and [[HoYay getting]] [[CargoShip married]], among other things.

** In case you were wondering why Vegas got its first major league team ''in 2017''[[note]]For context, the city of Las Vegas was founded and incorporated in, respectively, 1905 and 1911, while professional sports first arrived in the West Coast and American Southwest with the relocation of the UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Rams]] to Los Angeles in 1946[[/note]] while many nearby major American cities (e.g., UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, [[UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} Phoenix]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Salt Lake City]], etc.) have had pro sports teams for decades, this trope was historically the main reason. To wit, the Big Four leagues (the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Major League Baseball]], UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation, and the National Hockey League), for decades, staunchly believed that Vegas' gambling culture would undermine the integrity of the game, and that the casinos (the main tourist attractions) would have offered too much economic competition for pro sports.

* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gravity Falls]]: {{The Stinger}} of “Soos and the Real Girl” is a [[https://youtu.be/JDwHor1h7L4 montage]] of Stan going on a trip to Las Vegas with a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext novelty toy]] named Goldie, who is meant to look like a [[Main/{{Prospector}} gold prospector]]. In the montage, they are shown gambling and [[HoYay getting]] [[CargoShip married]], among other things.

* [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gravity Falls]]: {{The Stinger}} of “Soos and the Real Girl” is a [[https://youtu.be/JDwHor1h7L4 montage]] of Stan going on a trip to Las Vegas with a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext novelty toy]] named Goldie who is meant to look like a [[Main/{{Prospector}} gold prospector]]. In the montage, they are shown gambling and [[HoYay getting]] [[CargoShip married]], among other things.

Compare ItCameFromBeverlyHills, TheCasino, MinigameZone, CasinoPark. Las Vegas' European equivalent is the FreestateAmsterdam. See also CasinoEpisode, which need not be centered around a specific RealLife casino. Related tropes include SinisterSouthwest or WeirdWest, which include using the American Southwest (where Las Vegas is located) as a setting for {{Horror}} or supernatural stories.

** In case you were wondering why Vegas got its first major league team ''in 2017''[[note]]For context, the city of Las Vegas was founded and incorporated in, respectively, 1905 and 1911, while professional sports first arrived in the West Coast and American Southwest with the relocation of the UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Rams]] to Los Angeles in 1946[[/note]] while many nearby major American cities (e.g., UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, [[UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} Phoenix]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Salt Lake City]], etc.) have had pro sports teams for decades, this trope was historically the main reason. To wit, the Big Four leagues (the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Major League Baseball]], UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation. and the National Hockey League), for decades, staunchly believed that Vegas' gambling culture would undermine the integrity of the game, and that the casinos (the main tourist attractions) would have offered too much economic competition for pro sports.

Compare ItCameFromBeverlyHills, TheCasino, MinigameZone, CasinoPark. Las Vegas' European equivalent is the FreestateAmsterdam. See also CasinoEpisode, which need not be centered around a specific RealLife casino.

** In case you were wondering why Vegas got its first major league team ''in 2017''[[note]]For context, the city of Las Vegas was founded and incorporated in, respectively, 1905 and 1911[[/note]] while many nearby major American cities (e.g., UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, [[UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} Phoenix]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} Salt Lake City]], etc.) have had pro sports teams for decades, this trope was historically the main reason. To wit, the Big Four leagues (the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague]], [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Major League Baseball]], [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation]] and the National Hockey League), for decades, staunchly believed that Vegas' gambling culture would undermine the integrity of the game, and that the casinos (the main tourist attractions) would have offered too much economic competition for pro sports.

Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDCCW5TSpU very little popularly associated with Las Vegas is actually located in the City of Las Vegas]], not the Strip, not the gigantic casino resorts, and not even the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign. They are actually located in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester; this was done intentionally to dodge paying municipal taxes. On the other hand, the [[https://www.stratospherehotel.com Stratosphere]] tower, which is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River and which can be seen from practically anywhere in the city (and which shows up on innumerable souvenirs of LV), and the [[https://downtown.vegas/live/downtown-visitors-guide/ Downtown district,]] which contains the [[https://vegasexperience.com Fremont Street Experience]] and most of the casinos seen in older features and series about Vegas, are firmly within Las Vegas city limits. However, there are two things worth considering about these loopholes: First, the city of Las Vegas proper is the seat of Clark County (whose local government would be in charge of collecting taxes on the casinos), and second, Vegas proper, Paradise, Winchester, and other surrounding suburbs and unincorporated communities collectively form the Las Vegas Valley, making [[MetaphoricallyTrue the name of this trope technically accurate]].

Another irony of this trope is that, while both in fiction and in RealLife, the Strip is a major attraction for ''tourists'', most locals in the Las Vegas area actually [[https://www.feelingvegas.com/do-las-vegas-locals-go-to-the-strip/ ''avoid'' going to the Strip on their time off]]. The reason for this is pretty simple: The fact that the Strip is such a major source of the local economy (and, therefore, employment), [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes they would feel less inclined to spend their free time at the Strip]].

''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' features the city of Las Venturas, a dead ringer for Vegas, as the third big city in the state along with [[HollywoodCalifornia Los Santos and San Fierro]].

* The ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' episode "Viva Lexx Vegas" avoids the formula: rather than gambling or marrying, the crew gets mixed up in a Mafia casino's cage-fighting, prostitution, and antiquities-laundering rackets. [[AlienAmongUs Naturally, they don't even realize anything illegal is going on.]]
* In an episode of ''Series/LieToMe'', Cal, Gillian and agent Reynolds go to Las Vegas to investigate the disappearance of a poker championship finalist. As Cal has a previous history of gambling (he was actually ''banned'' from the city of Las Vegas in the past), Gillian forbids him to gamble while they're there, so Cal has Reynolds do it for him instead.

* Al Bundy has to try to win prize money by facing [[ProfessionalWrestling The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling]] after Peg loses all their money on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.

* Danial Tammet, a real life mathematical savant visits Vegas (or maybe it was Reno) to see if he can count cards as well as the film ''Rainman''. [[spoiler:He gets a ''triple Black Jack'' by splitting up what would have been three 7s.]]
* The series finale of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' sees Zack and Kelly get married in Las Vegas, with pretty much every trope played to the hilt.
* A [[http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/05/great-commercialsjoyride-dream.html 2010 Kia car commercial]] had a bunch of toys (including a character from ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'') go to Las Vegas and cruise down the strip during a Super Bowl ad -- in defiance of an NFL advertising rule against showing casinos.
* In the ''Series/KnightRider'' remake, one episode has Mike try to bust a money laundering operation in Vegas, and KITT poses as a prize car in a casino. Meanwhile, Billy hooks up with a girl he meets at the bar and tries his luck to earn some money to help pay her out of debt.
** The classic series episode Goliath also took place in Las Vegas. Surprisingly there wasn't much gambling involved, besides computer poker games.
* On ''Series/{{Roswell}}'', a seriously stressed-out Michael attempts to drag Max with him on a getaway to Vegas; by the time they're ready to leave, the entire rest of the teenage cast has included themselves on the trip.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' sends Pete and Myka to Vegas to track down a pair of thieves who stole an artifact that can see the future (which they're using to get rich gambling).
* The main characters of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' all went to Vegas for two episodes to solve a crime. A different spin than the others because it's Reid's hometown (and, incidentally, also the hometown of his actor, Matthew Gray Gubler), although Prentiss ''was'' spectacularly [[HangoverSensitivity hung over]] at the start of the second episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQAApVYdFs Absolutely hilarious]].
* In the ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' episode "Big Daddy Calling", Albert is roughed up and has his hands broken by a vengeful casino owner. The rest of the crew come to Vegas to take revenge by robbing his casino.

* Season 3 ''Series/HannahMontana'' episode, "Jake...Another Little Piece of My Heart" shows the main characters at a hotel in Las Vegas.

* Parodied in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', where Reno, Nevada -- essentially the poor man's Las Vegas -- is treated this way. Reno calls itself "the biggest little city in the world"; on the show, it has an equivalent slogan to "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" in "Make the biggest little mistake of your life in Reno" (also a variation on the show's CatchPhrase "I've made a huge mistake").

* ''Series/{{Titus}}'': Subverted in an episode where Titus and his dad Ken are on their way to Las Vegas, but then their car breaks down outside of a road diner and they spend the rest of the episode dealing with a MaternityCrisis.
* ''Series/LAToVegas'' is a WorkCom for the aircrew/regular cast, and this for the passengers/rotating guests.
* ''Series/DeadlyClass'': The episode "Saudade" features the core characters going on a trip to Vegas for some fun. It's quickly complicated by Marcus [[MushroomSamba getting stoned on way too much acid]], Maria's psychotically possessive boyfriend Chico following the group, and the fact that [[spoiler: Marcus and Billy arranged the trip as a cover for killing the latter's father]].
* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' has "The Las Vegas Strangler," in which the guys go to Vegas to investigate a serial killer who authorities suspect is Hutch's BeleagueredChildhoodFriend.

* Music/ElvisPresley's "Viva Las Vegas", from the aforementioned movie.

* The Alan Parsons Project's album "Turn of a Friendly Card", pretty much in it's entirety.

* The penultimate level of ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' involves chasing the [[EvilChancellor evil Vice-President]] to Las Vegas, where you have a [[ClimaxBoss climactic showdown]] with him involving HumongousMecha, to the sound of slot machines [[StuffBlowingUp EXPLODING]].
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' features the city of Las Venturas, a dead ringer for Vegas, as the third big city in the state along with [[HollywoodCalifornia Los Santos and San Fierro]].
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' takes place in the aptly named ''Lost Wages'', where Larry is destined to lose his virginity before sunrise. The only way to gain funds in the game is gambling, so expect to do a lot of SaveScumming.
* ''Tom Clancy's VideoGAme/RainbowSix Vegas'' and its sequel hit all the high notes of a MoreDakka tour of Las Vegas: Shooting your way through cacophonous casino floors, down the Strip, on Fremont Street, in a high-rise knockoff of The Stratosphere casino, and finally out to the Hoover Dam.

* Every ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' game after the first has a "casino town" where you can gamble to get new equipment.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' takes place in a Vegas [[CaptainErsatz analogue]] by the name of Fortune City. Which is very similar to Vegas. The gambling, the giant hotels and malls...In fact, the only easily noticeable difference between Las Vegas and Fortune is the fact that Fortune has be [[ZombieApocalypse overrun by zombies]]. [[spoiler: The prequel establishes that Fortune City was a replacement for Vegas, the real thing having been overrun by the dead and firebombed into oblivion. The BigBad confesses to starting ''that'' outbreak in the main game.]]
* Glitter Oasis in ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi 3: High Roller''.
* In ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'', Wario visits the Shake Dimension, an alternate universe featuring analogues to several real places. Glittertown and Neon City are clearly based on Las Vegas, featuring lavish casinos and neon decorations. In one of these levels, it's actually impossible to collect as many coins as you need unless you stop to play at the slot machines.
* The third game in the ''Castle Cat'' franchise is set in one of them.
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', as part of its UrbanFantasy arc "EPISODE 4", travels to Las Vegas, Nevada for a level. The ARKS don't spend their time gambling, though (that's for the [[MinigameZone Casino Area]]), but rather beat down some Phantoms, ride MiniMecha, and fight ''a living Statue of Liberty replica riding a living Sphinx replica.''
* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' has a level clearly based on the locale, called Gambler's Gulch.
* Las Vegas is one of the cities featured in ''VideoGame/ProjectGothamRacing 3'' and ''4'', with its circuits going up and down the Strip with deviations that circle around the various casinos.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'' features Fortune Valley, a pastiche of the usual Las Vegas settings and the surrounding desert lands.
* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' has the mission "House of Cards," in which 47 has to assassinate a white supremacist using conflict diamonds to buy genetic technology from a Middle-Eastern billionaire and his flunky, both whom are also targets, in a hotel/casino. Right after, there's the mission "Dance with the Devil," where 47 has to kill rival assassins in a hotel down the street while there's a rave going on in the hotel's ballroom and penthouse floor.

* ''VideoGame/BigMuthaTruckers'' takes place in Hick County, but it features a few cities that are not indicative of such a place it resides in. One of them is Greenback, which is very Vegas-like, complete with casinos, nightclubs and the bright neon signs to go with it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' invoked this trope in "Viva Ned Flanders". Homer and Ned end up married to two waitresses; this plot point is revisited in "Brawl in the Family".
* The ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' Movie: The Return Of El Malefico The ending of the film took place in Las Vegas.
* Subversion: ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' has the cast go to Las Vegas for some kind of invention competition (long story), but they only visit a nearly abandoned hotel owned by one of the characters, miles from the Strip.

* Sibling series ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has a futuristic Vegas counterpart, "Las Venus."

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'', where the journey begins in Las Vegas, but Rover ends up at a farm.
* "[[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Viva Las Megas.]]" [[DestructiveSaviour It didn't end well.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when Cotton Hill escaped to Las Vegas due to not wanting to raise Didi's upcoming baby.
* The {{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}} go to Vegas in the special "Rugrats' Vacation". Unlike the series' other specials, it's somewhat [[MissingEpisode hard to find]]; this is probably (like many missing episodes) [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents related to its depiction of]] [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a certain magic act involving white tigers.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Las Pegasus (the setting of episodes "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E20VivaLasPegasus Viva Las Pegasus]]", "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E5GranniesGoneWild Grannies Gone Wild]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E16FriendshipUniversity Friendship University]]") is the kid-friendly equivalent. It's a giant, glitzy and noisy resort city, full of extravagant shows, themed resorts with indoor rollecoasters, and highly... flashy... personailities, but the real life city's defining feature -- gambling -- is conspicuous by its absence.

* Early in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Rosette and Chrono are sent on a mission to Las Vegas to save a girl that's been adopted by an owner of a casino. On the way, Rosette gets in trouble because she can't resist gambling on slot machines. (Funnily enough, this series is set during TheRoaringTwenties, and gambling wasn't even ''legalized'' in Las Vegas [[NewerThanTheyThink until 1931]].)
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~]]'' had an arc set in Las Vegas and showed the Paris hotel without naming it.

-->"Guess what, Vegas?! '''Joe Fixit's''' back in town!"

* In the ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' episode "Lightning Man", the protagonists journey to Vegas to find the titular villain's lair. No casinos are seen, though the fic doesn't lose an opportunity to comment on the strange people there.

* ''Film/VegasVacation'', obviously.
* The hero of the post-apocalyptic movie ''Film/SixStringSamurai'' spends the entire movie traveling to "Lost Vegas", the last outpost of civilization in America, to replace the recently deceased [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] as king.
* The rom-com ''What Happens in Vegas'' lives this trope.
* ''Film/HoneymoonInVegas'' (well, duh). Nicolas Cage loses $65,000 in a poker hand, but the guy he lost to is willing to look the other way in exchange for a weekend with his fiancee. Ends with Cage skydiving into Bally's with a bunch of Elvis impersonators.
* In ''Film/LeavingLasVegas'', Nicolas Cage's character goes to Vegas to drink himself to death.

* The first half of ''Film/PinkCadillac'' happens in Vegas.
* ''Film/LostInAmerica'', in which David doesn't find out that his wife Linda has a gambling problem until after she blows their entire savings, over $100,000, in a single night.
* The majority of ''Film/FoolsRushIn''.

* The entire plot of ''Film/TheHangover''. Complete with Mike Tyson singing "In the Air Tonight".
* Most of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. Not even Film/JamesBond is safe!
* ''Film/DestinyTurnsOnTheRadio'' presents a seedy mythic Las Vegas with Creator/QuentinTarantino as a sort of trickster god of luck.
* ''Film/OceansEleven'' and ''Film/OceansThirteen'' are about pulling a heist/con on a Las Vegas casino owner, the former for profit and the latter for revenge.
** And the original ''Film/OceansEleven'' (1960).
* ''Film/TwentyOne'' is about a bunch of MIT students who go to Las Vegas and make a lot of money via card counting.

* ''Film/TheGodfather'', both Parts I and II. Vegas is where [[MoeGreeneSpecial Moe Greene gets his special]] and where Fredo was caught [[MemeticMutation "banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!"]]
* When ''Film/{{Go}}'' isn't about a drug-dealing checkout clerk going to Vegas, it's about what his drug-dealing checkout clerk friends decide do while he's gone to Vegas. Gambling isn't highly featured for use of this trope (casino gambling, that is; the characters gamble in plenty of other ways,) and a fair bit of off-Strip Vegas is shown.
* The Music/ElvisPresley movie ''Film/VivaLasVegas'', which features the eponymous song.
* ''Film/{{Swingers}}'' starts with a Vegas road trip.
* ''Film/HostelPartIII'' transplants the ''Hostel'' series from Europe to Vegas.
* In ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies'', the JackassGenie heads to Vegas, due to it being the perfect wishing hotspot.
* In ''Film/VeryBadThings'', the guys travel to Vegas for the StagParty that goes horribly wrong.

* Buffy and Pike run off to Vegas in the end of the original ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' movie. It's explored more in the comics.
* The second half of ''Film/RushHour2'' takes place in Las Vegas where the two main characters infiltrate a casino.
* ''Film/RainMan'' has Charlie Babbit take his autistic brother to Vegas to raise some quick cash, to the beat of some SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
* ''Film/LastVegas'' involves the Flatbrush Four staging a bachelor party in Vegas. Drag Queens, notable Vegas locations, improbably gambling winnings, and Vegas weddings are all in order.
* ''Film/ThisIsNotAMovie'' takes place in Las Vegas, although most of it is filmed inside a hotel room that the main character sequesters himself in as he waits for TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* ''Film/RatRace'' begins in Las Vegas as a group of bored billionaires select a group of random gamblers/tourists, and tell them that the first to reach Silver City, New Mexico gets to keep a bag full of money stashed there.

* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' finds [[spoiler: Deckard]] hiding out in a post-nuke Sin City.
* ''Film/ThreeThousandMilesToGraceland'' begins with [[ElvisImpersonator four Kings]] pulling a casino heist.
* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' is a ZombieApocalypse movie set in Vegas, complete with a zombified [[StagParty bachelorette party]] and ElvisImpersonator, rabid zombified topless showgirls, a Music/{{Liberace}} impersonator, and landmarks like the replica Eiffel Tower getting [[MonumentalDamage blown up]]. The opening credits shows the typical Vegas life being wrecked by the zombie outbreak (set to a reprise of the song "Viva Las Vegas!" by Music/RichardCheese and Allison Crowe) while the main plot revolves around a heist as the protagonists are sent into the city's walled-off ruins to empty a casino's vault.
* The made-for-TV DisasterMovie ''Category 6: Day of Destruction'' opens with tornadoes destroying Las Vegas, with such sights as a Vegas wedding getting trashed (complete with the bride [[{{Fanservice}} getting her dress ripped off]] by the wind), a man getting sucked out of his hotel room just as he's about to have sex with the gorgeous woman he picked up on the casino floor, various casino resorts (all [[WritingAroundTrademarks fictional ones]]) getting destroyed, and a couple living in a trailer outside of the city getting rich when the storm dumps tons of money on them.

* The ''Literature/FinalDestination'' novel ''Dead Man's Hand''.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had the very well-known two-part Vegas episode where the friends travel to Nevada to visit Joey (who they think is filming a movie there) and also to celebrate Monica and Chandler's one-year anniversary. There, Joey meets a man with identical hands to him and tries to persuade him to go into business with him; Phoebe is stalked by an elderly "lurker"; Monica turns out to be an excellent gambler; Ross and Rachel get drunk, draw on each other's faces, and [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally get married]]; and Chandler nearly gets married to Monica, but the two decide against it when they see Ross and Rachel stumbling drunk out of the chapel.

* ''Series/ThePretender'', episode "Cold Dick". Wayne Newton appears in the final scene.
** The Season 1 episode "Curious Jarod" also took place in Vegas, but only "Cold Dick" was filmed there.
* Al Bundy has to try to win prize money by facing [[ProfessionalWrestling The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling]] after Peg loses all their money on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' had an episode where Dan and Roseanne go to Vegas with a couple of friends for their quickie wedding. After what was apparently hours of nonstop gambling, they go see Wayne Newton AND a Wayne Newton impersonator.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' did a Viva Las Vegas episode using Atlantic City instead, with Lily and Marshall not realizing till the last minute that AC doesn't share Vegas's quickie marriage laws.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has an episode set in Vegas, where Lois falls in love with a crooner played by David Cassidy.
* The ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas" has Monk and Natalie go to Vegas to solve a murder at the request of Captain Stottlemeyer (or rather, to help Stottlemeyer remember how he had solved the murder when he was drunk off his ass the night before), while Lieutenant Disher loses his savings at a blackjack table.

* In one episode of ''Series/SevenDays'' Frank marries Olga in Las Vegas, complete with Elvis impersonator. [[spoiler:Though it turns out it's not Olga...]]
* Two thirds of the way through the first season of ''Series/CrimeStory'', the action moves from Chicago to Las Vegas... where it stays for most of the rest of the series, moving SouthOfTheBorder for the last few episodes.
* Leonard, Raj, and Howard visit Las Vegas in one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', partly to get Howard's mind off a recent breakup. Leonard and Raj ''do'' wind up hiring a prostitute (willing to roleplay a "Jewish girlfriend") for Howard...but in a nod to reality, she only agrees after confirming that they aren't police.
** In another episode, Bernadette and Amy invite Penny to Las Vegas for a girls' weekend. However, Penny, normally the resident HardDrinkingPartyGirl, is more preoccupied with completing a sales report than taking part in Amy and Bernadette's drunken escapades, which includes dancing with male strippers. The following morning, while Amy and Bernadette nurse severe hangovers, Penny decides to go down to the pool by herself.
* Danial Tammet, a real life mathematical savant visits Vegas (or maybe it was Reno) to see if he can count cards as well as the film ''Rainman''. [[spoiler:He gets a ''triple Black Jack'' by splitting up what would have been three 7s.]]
* The series finale of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' sees Zack and Kelly get married in Las Vegas, with pretty much every trope played to the hilt.

* A [[http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/05/great-commercialsjoyride-dream.html 2010 Kia car commercial]] had a bunch of toys (including a character from ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'') go to Las Vegas and cruise down the strip during a Super Bowl ad -- in defiance of an NFL advertising rule against showing casinos.
* In the ''Series/KnightRider'' remake, one episode has Mike try to bust a money laundering operation in Vegas, and KITT poses as a prize car in a casino. Meanwhile, Billy hooks up with a girl he meets at the bar and tries his luck to earn some money to help pay her out of debt.
** The classic series episode Goliath also took place in Las Vegas. Surprisingly there wasn't much gambling involved, besides computer poker games.
* The Season 15 finale of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' took place in Vegas. It involved traveling from casino to casino, an Elvis impersonator in a wedding chapel, a visit to Cirque de Soleil, Wayne Newton, and counting out a million dollars in poker chips. The season also featured Maria & Tiffany, a pair of professional poker players. [[note]]Although by that time, they had already long been eliminated.[[/note]]

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "Three of A Kind", the second Lone Gunmen-centered episode.

* ''Series/FullHouse'' has one in season 4, "Viva Las Joey", where Joey has the opportunity to do a stand-up routine before Wayne Newton's concert.
** Also, the season 2 finale "Luck Be a Lady", although set in Lake Tahoe, is more like the traditional "Vegas" episode, where it features Jesse and Rebecca deciding (and later changing their mind) to elope, and the girls playing on the slot machines.
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In the final season Will and Carlton go on a trip to Vegas where, inevitably, they lose all their money and Carlton pawns their plane tickets leaving them stranded. They resort to entering a TalentContest run by Wayne Newton to try and earn enough money to get home.

* The Las Vegas tourism board currently reinforces this trope in its "What Happens in Vegas" ad campaign. This came as a much-needed breath of relief (and reality) after their [[DorkAge ill-advised attempt to market the city as family-friendly]] in TheNineties.

* Music/TheKillers' play this up in the music video for "The Man" with the all the stereotypical behaviors of Las Vegas leading to crushing failure. "Shot At The Night" plays this more straight, with the story of a hotel cleaner falling in love with a young man in the city.
** From Brandon Flower's solo career "Welcome To Fabulous Las Vegas" takes the trope and tells it with AsTheGoodBookSays style language painting the city in religious imagery, comparing the casinos to temples and the men who hand out calling cards for escorts to religious disciples.

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'''The principal characters [[RoadTripPlot journey to]] Las Vegas.''' At least one [[TheGamblingAddict has a gambling problem]] and will end up dead broke or winning a ton of money (bonus points if an urgent need for cash is why they go to Vegas). Most likely, one or all end up in jail and/or [[AccidentalMarriage married]]. It's possible that someone might host their friend's StagParty here. Don't be surprised if there's a DrunkenMontage or BingeMontage. Don't be surprised either to see Wayne Newton, the former teen pop star of the 1950s who popularized the notion of musicians relocating to Vegas in order to find steady work within the city's many high-profile night spots, and continued to perform off-and-on in the city well into the new millennium. If children are involved, expect some harsh MoodWhiplash when they confront adult themes for the first time, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity may or may not ensue]], although this story element has become obscure past the year 2000. In reality, Las Vegas has actually become much more open to people who do ''not'' gamble or who have kids, and they even have a ''support group'' people can call if they have a gambling problem!

Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naDCCW5TSpU very little popularly associated with Las Vegas is actually located in the City of Las Vegas]], not the Strip, not the gigantic casino resorts, and not even the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. They are actually located in the unincorporated town of Paradise and Winchester; this was done intentionally to dodge paying municipal taxes. On the other hand, the [[https://www.stratospherehotel.com Stratosphere]] tower, which is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River and which can be seen from practically anywhere in the city (and which shows up on innumerable souvenirs of LV), and the [[https://downtown.vegas/live/downtown-visitors-guide/ Downtown district,]] which contains the [[https://vegasexperience.com Fremont Street Experience]] and most of the casinos seen in older features and series about Vegas, are firmly within Las Vegas city limits.

* ''Film/{{Domino}}'' ultimately concludes the main character's HowWeGotHere story through the desert with a gunfight in the Stratosphere, that ends up with a helicopter attacking the tower (eventually crashing into the resort below) and one of the protagonist's friends sacrificing himself to blow up the entire observation pod, causing Domino to rapidly fall down the shaft in an ElevatorFailure. The real tower was used instead of a generic knockoff, though the MonumentalDamage was of course CGI and an accurate recreation of the restaurant level. Didn't stop them from calling it BasedOnATrueStory, though.

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[[caption-width-right:299:[[Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas "Wait! We can't stop here. This is bat country."]]]]

-->-- '''[[http://www.the-editing-room.com/21.html 21, The Abridged Script]]'''

* ''Film/LostInAmerica'' and the majority of ''Film/FoolsRushIn''.

Compare AlohaHawaii, ItCameFromBeverlyHills, TheCasino, MinigameZone, CasinoPark. Las Vegas' European equivalent is the FreestateAmsterdam. See also CasinoEpisode, which need not be centered around a specific RealLife casino.