Visit Las Vegas (also nicknamed "Only Vegas" of "What Happens Here, Stays Here") is a series of ads promoting tourism in Las Vegas which began in 2003.
The commercials often feature people involved in Noodle Incidents or other hijinks in the Sin City, to hilarious results. Although the unexplained moments encompass most of the commercials, there have been other themes such as the "Summer is Vegas Season", which parodies the Christmas season.
The commercials are very popular and many of them can be viewed on YouTube.
What Happens in the Tropes, Stays in the Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: One ad has a limo full of women returning from a Bachelorette's party where everyone, save for the bride to be, begin to laugh at something that happened. Although she was initially irritated by their laughter, she soon joins in herself.
- Ambiguous Situation: One commercial has a man calling the front desk of his hotel to ask if his wake-up call can possibly go to a cell phone instead of his room. When questioned why, he vaguely answers that he may not be in his room at the time. What he planned to do to be elsewhere for the call and if the hotel can even honor his request is left unclear.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- One ad features a news reporter talking about how a popular resort is mysteriously deserted. Once she finishes her reporter, the camera trucks back to reveal that she was only wearing a blouse on top of her bikini, only to rip the top off, shake her hair loose and she and the rest of her party begin to have fun at the resort, having rented it out.
- Another ad has four girlfriends at another resort as the one friend shows the others all of their various escapades on her cell phone, as they display nervous expressions. The girlfriend then announces that she's going for a swim in the pool, which she does with said phone.
- Another ad had a group of guys running around and cheering while holding up a trophy, which leads to others cheering them and extravagantly celebrating their win. At the end of the night, one of the men puts the "trophy" back on a table in the lobby and the flowers back inside of it.
- Blackmail: A commercial has a man charging another man $75 for doing yard work at his house. When the man tries to remind him that the price for service usually $30, the worker offhandedly admits that he knows what he did in Vegas last weekend, after which the homeowner pays the newer price in compliance.
- Destroy the Evidence: One ad has a plane full of people with their own respective noodle incident, including a bride wearing a veil and with a nervous look on her face and another has a man meticulously pulling out the tape from a VHS.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: One ad had a woman try to meet up with her friends, only for them to either leave or give her a Disapproving Look. It gets to the point that everyone in Vegas begin to glare her down or walk away from her for breaking the cardinal rule: you never share what happens in the city.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: One ad has a man being with another man with devil horns as he keeps trying to goad him into bad or otherwise risky behavior. When the first man is later seen dancing with a woman at a club and the devil-man mouths "Close the deal!" at him, he looks across the room to the angel-man, himself flanked by two women, and also tells him to do it.
- Happily Married: Implied with an older couple who are going skydiving alongside a younger couple. While the younger couple is nervous and shocked by their lack of reservations, the older woman just brushes it off, saying that it's tame compared to their last weekend.
- Mistaken for Gay: Possibly in one ad where a man and woman are about to check in, the woman steps away to freshen up, the clerk also steps away to retrieve the keys, only for a different man to walk up beside the man, although they initially don't acknowledge each other. When another clerk comes by and asks if they were ready to check in, they both just stand by awkwardly and unsure of how to answer.
- Never Found the Body: One rare ad has a group of men at a restaurant bemoaning their one missing friend, who is implied to be this or Not Enough to Bury. It's surprisingly Played for Laughs, especially when they start making up excuses for what to tell the man's wife.
- Noodle Incident: The linchpin of the ads. Wildly varying incidents include several weddings, lying to loved ones about their trips and instant regrets.
- No Sympathy: An ad features a wealthy man and his butler/driver doing elaborate and expensive things throughout the day. When one of the activities is in an ice bar where everyone except for the butler has a warm coat, one of the women with the man mentions that he looks cold, which he was to the point of shivering, only for his boss to quickly dismiss it saying that he doesn't. It ends with the guys switching places, pretending all along to be wealthy.
- Shout-Out: One ad has two girlfriends giving out various aliases of famous characters, including Betty and Veronica and Monica and Rachel. The end of the ad had them encountering two guys doing the same, giving their names as Cliff and Norm (the latter even greeting them with "Hey...!")
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: One ad features a bride and groom getting married and the Reverend marrying them asks this, which garners several nervous looks or shit-eating grins from many people in attendance, including from the couple and the Reverend. After no one says anything, even he is skeptical and says "Oookay, moving on..."
- Stick-Figure Comic: Played with in one ad where a woman returns home from her trip to Vegas and showcases it to her husband via these, to his suspicions and confusion.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Played for Laughs in the "Enablers" ad, where they mention how the one friend involved them in various, unexplained hijinks in Vegas, including dying a woman's hair several colors and a man waking up inside of a claw machine.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Obviously. The ads showcase several tourists involved in various hijinks, noodle incidents and other tomfoolery while vacationing in the city.
- Wild Teen Party: One ad has a teenage boy attempting to hide the remnants of one when his parents come home. As the father asks what he did while they were away, the boy nervously says "Nothing". When the boy asks his Dad about what they did in Vegas, also replies with a nervous "Nothing" as they both briefly stare at each other before the Dad walks off.
- Only Vegas.