The children's channel Nickelodeon is featuring a bi-racial same-sex married couple for the first time in its cartoon series, "
The Loud House," Variety reports.
The couple, Harold and Howard McBride, are voiced by Wayne Brady and Michael McDonald, respectively; the episode shows the pair as they get their son Clyde ready for a sleepover with series star Lincoln Loud, Variety reports.
The couple's debut is Wednesday; an excerpt from the episode was posted to Twitter last week.
According to
Vanity Fair, Nickelodeon had hinted at same-sex romance before — at the end of "Legend of Korra," a series that aired from 2012-14, when the female characters Korra and Asami appeared to be couple. The last episodes debuted online, according to Vanity Fair.
The Disney Channel introduced its first same-sex couple on "Good Luck Charlie" two years ago, Vanity Fair reports that in the same year, Cartoon Network aired its first gay characters.