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* Let's not forget ''[[Vegas Vacation]]''. Wayne plays a very bad man.

* ''[[Showgirls]]''.

* The hero of the post-apocalyptic movie ''[[Six String Samurai]]'' spends the entire movie traveling to "Lost Vegas", the last outpost of civilization in America, to replace the recently deceased Elvis as king.

* The hero of the post-apocalyptic movie ''[[Six-String Samurai]]'' spends the entire movie traveling to "Lost Vegas", the last outpost of civilization in America, to replace the recently deceased Elvis as king.

* The rom-com ''What Happens in Vegas'' lives this trope.

* ''[[Honeymoon In Vegas]]'' (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.

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* ''[[Destiny Turns On The Radio]]'' presents a seedy mythic Las Vegas with [[Quentin Tarantino]] as a sort of trickster god of luck.

* ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Ocean's Eleven and Thirteen]]''.

* ''[[21]]''.

* ''[[21 (2008 film)|21]]''.

* ''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun 3]]''

* ''[[The Godfather]]'', both Parts I and II. Vegas is where [[Moe Greene Special|Moe Greene gets his special]] and where Fredo was caught [[Memetic Mutation|"banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!"]]

* When ''[[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.

* There's also, you know, the [[Elvis Presley]] movie by [[Film/Viva Lasvegas|the same name]] and featuring the eponymous song.

* ''[[Sin City]]'' (the comics probably a little more than the movie) is based on Vegas, among other US cities.

* ''[[Swingers]]'' starts with a Vegas road trip.

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** Same thing happened in [[Will and Grace]] with Karen and [[Monty Python|John Cleese]] with guest star [[Jennifer Lopez]].

* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', Angel takes the gang to Vegas, where Lorne is doing a very Wayne-Newtonish show. Against his will. It's learned that Angel attended Elvis' Vegas wedding and that only one member of the Blue Man Group is human.

* An episode of ''[[Bones]]'' takes place in Vegas. One of the characters DOES have a (former) gambling problem (which, to be fair, was introduced long before the episode, yet not since) but it doesn't turn out to be a big deal, as he manages to control his urges.

* ''[[The Pretender]]'', 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.

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* The series finale of ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' sees Zack and Kelly get married in Las Vegas, with pretty much every trope played to the hilt.

* The ''[[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. [[Alien Among Us|Naturally, they don't even realize anything illegal is going on.]]

* A [http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/05/great-commercialsjoyride-dream.html 2010 Kia car commercial] had a bunch of toys (including a character from [[Yo Gabba Gabba]]) go to Las Vegas and cruise down the strip during a Super Bowl ad—in defiance of an NFL advertising rule against showing casinos.

* A [http://www.carlustblog.com/2010/05/great-commercialsjoyride-dream.html 2010 Kia car commercial] had a bunch of toys (including a character from [[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]) 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 ''[[Knight Rider]]'' 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.

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[PHD|Piled Higher and Deeper]]'', Mike went to Las Vegas hoping to get more funding for the university. He ended up married.

* In the [[Poker]] comic ''[[Plus EV]]'', of course.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' 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".

* Subversion: ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' 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.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' made at least one trip in the original series (plus in several spinoffs and the [[The Movie|live-action prequel movie]]) to "Rock Vegas", the prehistoric version of Las Vegas, complete with Stone Age casinos and entertainment.