viva ned flanders

This episode begins at the Montgomery Burns being demolished.  With the explosion, dust covers the car and Marge suggests that Homer should get the car washed. As Homer ignores her request Lenny pulls up and states that he should get it washed. When Homer takes his advice, Ned strolls in and gets half off because he is ‘Senior Citizen’.  Homer learns that Ned is 60 years old at the church. Everyone in the church claims that Ned has been wasting his life and Ned begins to attempt to start hanging out with Homer and learn to loosen up and have some fun. Homer preaches that Ned needs to live on impulse and decides to take him to Las Vegas. Homer begins gambling and Homer loses everything in Ned’s wallet. Homer begins stating that Ned should lose his common sense by drinking alcohol. In the morning Homer and Ned wake up in a hotel and do not remember a thing. Homer and Ned wake up to two women claiming they got married during the night. Homer and Ned decide to make a run for it but are then caught and thrown out of Nevada because they claim ‘Las Vegas doesn’t need their out of town money.’ Homer and Ned begin their journey home attempting to figure out a story to tell their wives.

When Marge tells Homer he should go to the carwash he ignores her, but when Lenny tells him that he should get it washed he does. This is funny because when it comes to manly material men generally do not take women’s opinions to matter as much as other men.  The entire trip to Las Vegas resembles the movie of the ‘Hangover’. Some of the one liners throughout the episode trace the ironic image of what Vegas is about. When attempting to ditch their new wives, the security officer says ‘Husbands mistreating their spouses, not in Las Vegas’. This is ironic because of the general rule of Vegas; “What happens in Vegas, Stays Vegas.”