The Simpsons episode
"Viva Ned Flanders"
Episode no.	213
Prod. code	AABF06
Orig. Airdate	January 10, 1999
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Writer(s)	David M. Stern
Director	Neil Affleck
Chalkboard	"My mother is not dating Jerry Seinfeld"
Couch gag	A live-action hand spins a picture of the family, and the ink splatters.
Guest star(s)	The Moody Blues as themselves
SNPP capsule
Season 10 August 23, 1998 – May 16, 1999
Lard of the Dance The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace Bart the Mother Treehouse of Horror IX When You Dish Upon a Star D'oh-in in the Wind Lisa Gets an "A" Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble" Mayored to the Mob Viva Ned Flanders Wild Barts Can't Be Broken Sunday, Cruddy Sunday Homer to the Max I'm With Cupid Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers" Make Room for Lisa Maximum Homerdrive Simpsons Bible Stories Mom and Pop Art The Old Man and the "C" Student Monty Can't Buy Me Love They Saved Lisa's Brain Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
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"Viva Ned Flanders" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. It first aired on January 10, 1999. The Simpsons is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Network, becoming one of the first hits for the network, and is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed television shows ever produced. ... Image File history File links AABF06. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Mike Scully is a former executive producer of the Fox series The Simpsons (seasons 9-12, 1997-2001). ... David M. Stern is an american television writer. ... Neil Affleck is an animator on The Simpsons. ... Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Moody Blues were best known for fusing an orchestral sound with rock and roll, as seen in one of their most popular songs, Nights in White Satin. ... The Simpsons 10th season (September 1998 - May 1999) began on Sunday, September 20, 1998 with The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Lard of the Dance is the season premiere of The Simpsons tenth season. ... The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace is the second episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons. ... Bart the Mother is the third episode of the 10th season of The Simpsons, originally aired on September 27th, 1998. ... Treehouse of Horror IX is the fourth episode of The Simpsons tenth season, as well as the ninth Halloween episode. ... When You Dish Upon a Star is the fifth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Doh-in In the Wind is the sixth episode from the tenth season of The Simpsons. ... Lisa Gets an A is the seventh episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Mayored to the Mob is the ninth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Wild Barts Cant Be Broken is the eleventh episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons. ... Sunday, Cruddy Sunday is the tenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Homer to the Max is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Im With Cupid is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Make Room for Lisa is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Maximum Homerdrive is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Simpsons Bible Stories is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Mom and Pop Art is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... The Old Man and the C Student is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Monty Cant Buy Me Love is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... They Saved Lisas Brain is the twenty-minute episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo is the season finale of The Simpsons tenth season. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Network, becoming one of the first hits for the network, and is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed television shows ever produced. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

The episode is rare among Simpsons episodes because, like "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" and "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", it has a direct sequel. Who Shot Mr. ... For the Coen brothers film, see O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons second season. ...

Synopsis

Springfield is without a casino when Mr. Burns' Casino (see "$pringfield") is demolished. The family gets their car washed, and when Homer is there, he sees that Ned Flanders gets a senior discount. At church, Flanders admits to Homer that he is sixty years old. He says that he follows the three "c"s of success: clean living, chewing thoroughly, and 'a daily dose of vitamin Church!' Well, that...and the fact that he has never lived impulsively, and never really had any fun in life. The rest of the town stops admiring Ned for living so well, and begins to pity him for having never truly lived at all. Springfield is the fictional city in which the TV series The Simpsons is set. ... Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. ... Mr. ... $pringfield (full title: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)) is the tenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season. ... Homer Jay Simpson is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Ned Flanders is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ...

Ned reluctantly agrees with this and the Simpsons come to the Flanders home to cheer a depressed Ned up, and Homer tells Flanders that they are going on a gambling trip to Las Vegas. Homer is confident about going there, but Flanders is nervous. They see Captain Lance Murdoch (from "Bart the Daredevil") doing one of his stunts, and Homer chooses to volunteer, and survives. They wander into a casino "Nero's Palace" and begin to play roulette. Ned protests based on Deuteronomy 7 but Homer ignores the protest and takes the reference as a lucky number and they win. They then immediately lose it all but apparently, by the end of their gambling time, they luck out and end up waking up in a trashed hotel room littered with strange luxuries. Nickname: The Entertainment Capital of the World; Sin City Location of Las Vegas in Nevada Coordinates: County Clark Mayor Oscar B. Goodman Area    - City 131. ... Bart the Daredevil is the eighth episode of The Simpsons second season. ... Roulette is a casino and gambling game (Roulette is a French word meaning small wheel). A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. ...

Later on, Homer and Ned realize that they have married two cocktail waitresses: Homer's new wife is named Amber, and Ned's new wife is Ginger. The waitresses say that they are married to them, and prove it through a video tape. Homer and Ned try to escape from the waitresses, and go on a wild rampage through the casino, until they are confronted by casino security, Ernst and Gunter (also from "$pringfield"), Drederick Tatum, and the Moody Blues. They escape the casino, but are booted out of the casino, and say that they are not welcome to Las Vegas again. Homer and Ned head back to their real wives in Springfield by hitchhiking. (Minor Chrarcters. ... (Minor Chrarcters. ...

The episode would later have a sequel, which is rare for the Simpsons. In the episode "Brawl in the Family" the Vegas wives would return for their spouses, causing more problems for Ned and Homer. Brawl in the Family is an episode in the thirteenth season of the animated television series The Simpsons. ...

Trivia

• First appearance of the Vegas wives: Amber and Ginger.
• Homer correctly states Adolf Hitler's birthday as April 20 and identifies it with Barney's which is the same day in the scene where Flanders and Homer are at the roulette table. Because the Columbine High School Shootings were intentionally executed on that date, the line was changed in several rebroadcast versions to June 15, same as Lassie's (the line about Lassie's birthday was in the closed captions of the original version and the syndicated versions). The syndicated versions have the original line about Hitler's birthday.
• Ned's age is revealed to be 60. However, in "Hurricane Neddy", he is seen in a flashback from thirty years ago, when he was still a kid.
• The episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats" would reveal that Homer's Las Vegas wife, Amber, had died after overdosing while riding a rollercoaster. Thus, a funeral was held for her at the beginning of the episode.

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Goofs

• Ned cites Deuteronomy 7 as the source of the prohibition of "games of chance" but no such prohibition is found there. Verse 25 prohibits the silver and gold associated with idolatry but the primary prohibition of superstition is in Leviticus 19:26.

Cultural references

• The episode title is an obvious spoof on the Elvis Presley song "Viva Las Vegas", which even plays during the episode and during the ending credits.
• When Ned and Homer drive down the road to Las Vegas they pass two guys in a red convertible which spoofs Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• The poem quoted by Graeme Edge and Justin Hayward is a re-worked version of "Late Lament", the poem that follows "Nights in White Satin" on their Days of Future Passed album.

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Quotes

• Guy detonating the bomb: 4,3,2...
  Bart: All right, here comes implosion!
  Guy detonating the bomb: Implosion? But I thought you said...
  The Casino EXplodes

• Ned Flanders: How do you do it Homer? How do you silence that little voice that says "Think!"?
  Homer: You mean Lisa?
  Ned: No, I mean common sense!
  Homer: Oh, that... That can be treated with our good friend alcohol!

• Homer: Congratulations. Welcome to the Homer Simpson Program.
  Ned: So, what happens next?
  Homer: One day soon, I will come for you. And then the game will begin. Could be in the middle of the night ... could be when you least expect it. Or, whatever's good for you, I don't care.

• Homer: Argh, it's the Moody Blues!
  Graeme Edge: Cold-hearted Homer, ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life...
  Justin Hayward: Chips of red, and blue, and white, but we decide which...
  John Lodge: Can the poems, it's arse-whipping time!
  Ray Thomas: [pulling out a knife] I want fatty!

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External links

• SNPP on this episode