Plot
Mr. Burns' Casino is about to get demolished, however, a confusion over whether demolitions are supposed to involve implosions or explosions results in the casino being blasted into a huge dust cloud. The family goes to the car wash to get rid of the dust, and when Homer is there, he sees that Ned Flanders gets a senior discount. Homer thinks Ned is lying and tries to expose him at church, but Ned truthfully proves he is sixty years of age. People are impressed that Ned looks remarkably young for his age, but when Ned says that he follows the three "c"s of success: clean living, chewing thoroughly, and "a daily dose of vitamin Church!", the rest of the town stops admiring Ned for taking care of himself, and begins to pity him for having never truly lived at all.
Ned reluctantly agrees with this and asks Homer to teach him the secret to his lust for life. This leads Homer to head towards Mr. Burns' Casino, but when Ned reminds Homer it is now defunct, Homer insteads takes Ned on a gambling trip to Las Vegas. Homer is confident about going there, but Flanders is nervous. When they arrive, they see Captain Lance Murdock (from "Bart the Daredevil") doing one of his stunts, and Homer chooses to volunteer, and survives. They wander into a casino called "Nero's Palace" and begin to play roulette. Ned protests against games of chance based on Deuteronomy 7, but Homer ignores him and takes the reference as a lucky number. They win, but immediately lose all they won. They then go to the casino's bar and get drunk, waking up the next morning in their hotel room married to two cocktail waitresses: Homer's new wife is named Amber, and Ned's new wife is Ginger. Homer finally realizes he got in over his head. While Homer fantasizes about bigamy, Ned snaps Homer back to reality by saying they were drunk and thus not of sound judgement to have such quickie, plastic weddings; also they are already married.
Homer and Ned try to escape from the waitresses, going on a wild rampage through the casino, until they are confronted by casino security, Gunter and Ernst (also from "$pringfield"), Drederick Tatum, Boomhauer, and the Moody Blues. They fail to escape the casino, and are literally forced out of the state before being told that they are not welcome in Las Vegas again. Homer and Ned head back to their real wives in Springfield by hitchhiking, only to be comically attacked by two hungry vultures on their way back.
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