Scandinavian Airlines System, Journey

A young beatnik gets off the phone after speaking to his waifish girlfriend and sets off to see her, requiring him to cross the country.

It becomes an epic adventure, where he starts off hitchhiking. He rides in a motorcycle sidecar and then gets picked up by a car full of drunken women who pour beer into him and gleefully throw his clothes out the window.

As he wakes up in the abandoned car, he's naked and steals a white dress from a clothesline. He then tries to get a ride in a truck, occupied by two stereotyped gay men--one a leather daddy and the other a 1970s gay clone with mustache.

The leather daddy, who has the young man across his lap, firmly grabs his butt cheek and then high-fives the driver as they enter a tunnel (a cinematic symbol for sex and suggesting rape).

The youth is later picked up by bank robbers, then the police, as he's put into jail. He escapes the prison and finally makes it to his girlfriend months later, who is now with two children and married.

The tagline: "Don't waste your life." The commercial's meaning is to take a plane, since it will get you there faster.

The representation of gay men is limited to a predatory sexual realm where the man is clearly overpowered.