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Müller, Mile High Club

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A romantic couple is traveling on a plane. It's clear they want to join the "mile high club" (sex in the air) and so she sends him off to the toilet to prepare.... a few moments later (as he's getting undressed) she stands up to make her way there too.

The hostess comes down the aisle with a trolley and offers the woman some food, of which there is a Müller yogurt. So to get rid of the hostess, she takes one but proceeds to eat it. Meanwhile, the guy is ready and waiting in the lavatory. He's nude, leaning to the cubicle door listening for his woman to come along. The woman, however, is now reclined and enjoying the yogurt as seductive music plays, apparently having forgotten their plan.

By now, there is a long queue forming to the toilet and so the male flight attendant comes along and knocks to see if anything is the matter. Overly anxious, the man throws open the door and the steward is dragged in -- the two look at each other as a smile crosses the face of the crew member.

The tagline: "There is mile high love...and there is Müller love."

Müller has spent £10 million ($14 million) on this campaign in the UK.

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Remus Raven
The use of a gay theme in advertising, being falsely portrayed in such a manner whether light hearted or not, is not acceptable.

Calder Falk
It's funny, I also slightly disagreed with the neutral rating, only I thought the opposite to comments made by another reviewer I thought the ad was more positive than neutral. "There's love (i.e the love between the 2 men) and there's Muller love." I thought that was rather sweet.

James Minter
I have to admit I was amused by the ad but not so sure it's as harmless or gay-neutral as the editor's comments suggest. It could also be interpreted to show a gay man (the steward) as quick to ogle a straight man and take advantage of his being caught with his pants down, so to speak. Do we have to make straight men any more nervous about having us in the same locker rooms as them?

Steve
Very cute!

Richard
Having seen this ad a few times on British TV, I disagree with the Equal rating it has been given. The smile the crew member gives the guy is more of a lusting, pervy smirk. To me, the ad kind of says that the yoghurt is so good you could let such a thing happen to your partner for it. Not exactly a gay friendly message, then.

Frank
This is a fun ad. It does have the stereotype of the gay flight attendant, but so what! It's often true. I like the fact that the gay man does nothing to set up the situation, but knows a good thing when he sees it.