That's right. Gay couples and interracial couples -- the last two TV-commercial taboo. I think I've actually seen both, but only an ambiguous, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it shot as part of a montage (mostly of more "traditional" couples) for some hipsterish product.
Might be my imagination, though. Has anybody else seen this? This is way OT, but I'm curious. I should probably start a new thread, but I'm not sure there's enough to say about it.
The real breakthrough will be when gay or interracial couples are in typical "Honey, what's for dinner tonight?" commercials.
Maybe you should really start a new thread?
Self-evident I haven't seen the commercial you're talking about. But I have seen Ennis and Jack used for advertisements twice. Yep! It were advertisements in magazines, but I don't know if there were any tv commercials with our boys.
The ads were for a car, a van or minivan from VW, the Touran. The general idea behind it was to promote a minivan
not to the typical minivan buyers, in particular families, but to other target groups. They did a whole series of ads along that line, Ennis and Jack were only one example.
Our boys were seen from behind on the hill were the "ain't queer" conversation takes place. Jack lying on the ground, Ennis still standing with the rifle in his hand. You know the shot. The slogan/caption was:
It's not necessary to have children in order to drive a Touran.
What a joy to see this ad
! This ad was also attached to the BBM DVD in Germany, I'll get my husband scanning it at his office and will show it to you.
I also saw a kind of "commercial" in a photo studio, were I had my picture taken. They always have examples of their work hanging on the walls and mostly they have albums you can skip though. The photographer were I was, had those albums in different categories: families, groups of adulds (friends, coworkers, etc.), siblings, couples and so on. In the album with couples there was a gay couple, too.
So the taboo is broken here. But still it's so rare that it caught my attention (well, Ennis and Jack would have caught my attention in any way
).