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[[File:Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas.jpg|thumb|400px|Casinos come and go, but we'll always be welcomed to Fabulous Las Vegas]]
{{quote|''"We are treated to the customary [[Vegas Montage|CHARACTER WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TO VEGAS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW OF A MOVING CAR AT ALL OF THE EXTRAVAGANTLY DECORATED CASINOS montage]]."''
|'''[http://www.the-editing-room.com/21.html 21, The Abridged Script]'''}}
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'''Viva Las Vegas''' consists entirely of casino interiors (with rattling-change sound effects, although modern slots dispense credit slips), [[Vegas Montage|the Strip]], and possibly Fremont Street. And of course, every other person you'll meet is an Elvis impersonator who doubles as a clergyman or justice of the peace for quickie, no-questions-asked marriages. These many not be too far away from reality...
[[Television Geography]] is common when using Vegas, as are [[Brand X]] casinos, unless it's total [[Product Placement]] for a real casino or a company's family of casinos (most of the Strip is presently{{when}} owned by two companies, although several other companies have stakes in either Strip or near-Strip properties). The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign is the city's prime candidate for the [[Eiffel Tower Effect]], given that its image is in the public domain while the likeness of the hotels themselves are privately held. Still, some movies will inflict [[Monumental Damage]] on the resorts themselves.
Contrary to popular belief, prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, Nevada. By state law any prostitution outside of a brothel is illegal and a brothel must possess a state-issued license to operate legally. Every county is allowed a "local option" on whether to allow operations of brothels. However, the law immediately prohibits any county having a population over 400,000 issuing brothel licenses, which excludes Clark (encompassing Vegas) and Washoe (encompassing Reno) counties. The end result of this is that in Nevada's largest cities prostitution is illegal by default. From Vegas, one has to drive sixty miles north to Pahrump to find the nearest legal brothel. Of course, this doesn't prevent illegal prostitution from being rampant (much as it is in most other large cities).
A kind of [[Tourist Trap]], and destination of a [[Vacation Episode]], [[Road Show]], and [[Vacation, Dear Boy]]. Where things start in a [[Vegas Crossover]]. Usually involves at least one instance of a [[Vegas Montage]].
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