History Recap / TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders

* CallBack: The Monty Burns Casino, introduced back in Season 5's "$pringfield", is demolished in this episode (and Lisa brings up the events of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E22TrashOfTheTitans "Trash of the Titans"]] when she asks why the casino -- which hasn't seen any action since "$pringfield" -- would be brought back if nobody wants it anymore). Its absence prompts Homer to take Flanders to Vegas for fun.

* CallBack: The Monty Burns Casino, introduced back in Season 5's "$pringfield", is demolished in this episode (and Lisa brings up the events of "Trash of the Titans" when she asks why the casino -- which hasn't seen any action since "$pringfield" -- would be brought back if nobody wants it anymore). Its absence prompts Homer to take Flanders to Vegas for fun.

!!!This episode contains examples of:

* SeriesContinuityError: Ned is said to be 60 years old, however previous episodes, most notably "Hurricane Neddy", had shown he was a a child in TheFifties with {{Beatnik}} parents, which would make him a baby boomer (born between 1946-64) and put him in his early 50s at most.

* SeriesContinuityError: Ned is said to be 60 years old, however previous episodes, most notably "Hurricane Neddy", had shown he was a a child in TheFifties with {{Beatnik}} parents, which would make him a baby boomer (born between 1946-64) put him in his early 50s at most.

* SeriesContinuityError: Ned is said to be 60 years old, however previous episodes, most notably "Hurricane Neddy", had shown he was a baby boomer (born between 1946-64), as he had {{Beatnik}} parents in TheFifties, which would put him in his early-50s at most.

* RhymesOnADime: TheMoodyBlues begin a rhyming piece concerning Homer and Ned's predicament and seeming cruelty of fleeing their Vegas wives until they decide to "can the poems" when it's "ass-whooping time".

* CurbStompBattle: Homer and Ned get their asses kicked by almost everyone in Vegas, including Drederick Tatum, TheMoodyBlues, and a white tiger.

* SeriesContinuityError: Ned is said to be 60 years old, however previous episodes, most notably "Hurricane Neddy", had shown he was a baby boomer (born between 1946-64), as he had {{Beatnik}} parents in TheFifties, which would put him in his mid-50s at most.

* SeriesContinuityError: Ned is said to be 60 years old, however previous episodes, most notably "Hurricane Neddy", had shown he was a baby boomer (born between 1946-64), as he had {{Beatnik}} parents.

This episode ends with the plot thread of Homer and Ned's new wives going unresolved; "Brawl in the Family" picks it up -- confirming that they never actually ''divorced'' them, trouble ensues when the wives arrive in Springfield to make their claims to the men.

* CallBack: The Monty Burns Casino, introduced back in Season 5's "$pringfield", is demolished in this episode. Its absence prompts Homer to take Flanders to Vegas for fun.

--> '''Homer''': Blame me if you must, but don't ever speak ill of the Program!
* IronicName: The floozies Homer and Ned marry have names reflecting the other's hair color (Amber being a redhead and Ginger being a dirty blonde-brown).

While at a car wash, Homer is perplexed at how Flanders could have gotten a senior citizens discount. The following day at church, he seeks to expose Ned but discovers that Ned is really sixty years old and yet hasn't "lived a day in his life". Depressed by this revelation, Ned decides to enlist Homer's help in living life on the edge as a part of the "Homer Simpson Program". They end up in Las Vegas where Homer encourages Ned to act on impulse and after a bender caused by a white-wine spritzer, Ned finds himself married to a flimsy cocktail waitress named Ginger. Homer finds himself in the same predicament with Ginger's associate Amber. Homer and Ned then try to find a way to escape them.

* AccidentalMarriage: Homer and Ned's drunken marriages to Amber and Ginger

* IronicName: The floozies Homer and Ned marry have names reflecting the other's hair color (Amber being a redhead and Ginger being a dirty blonde-brown)

* TheCameo: Ralph Steadman's caricatures of HunterSThompson and Oscar Acosta from FearAndLoathingInLasVegas drive past Homer and Ned, coming from Vegas with the Raoul Duke caricature complaining there are too many kids there.
* VivaLasVegas: The setting naturally

* OlderThanTheyLook: In this episode, it's revealed that Flanders is sixty. He apparently this through "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of Vitamin Church".

* RealMenCook: Apparently men spit-roast meat over their chimneys using tires as fuel for the fire.

--> '''Homer''': Welly, welly, welly. Mister Clean wants to hang out with Dirt Dingus [=McGee=].

--> '''Homer''': Blame me all you must, but don't ever speak ill of the Program!

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: "Blame me all you want but don't ever speak ill of the Homer Simpson Program!"

--> '''Ned''': Stop that!

* OlderThanTheyLook: In this episode, it's revealed that Flanders is sixty. He apparently this through "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of Vitamin Church".