YMCA Repackages Real People for the People

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The YMCA is the place to be. You’ll get a burn, you’ll make really awesome platonic friends, and sometimes clowns work out there. Maybe.

An art director at Preston Kelly sent us the above-linked (and below-embedded) spots for YMCA, which under the slogan “Real people. Real fitness” hopes to reel in new members that:

1. Don’t look like porn stars and/or Arnold Schwarzenegger in his 20s
2. Don’t make sex noises on the treadmill
3. Aren’t complete fitness bunnies

The natural result of this checklist of Things That May Potentially Turn You Off are these spots, where two workout buddies partake of YMCA’s fitness buffet while saying quirky “real people” things, like “It’s like a bear trap. Except it’s a people trap. And the people trap’s made of bears!”

Here is the part where you relate, because that guy is simple, and yet hilarious — like you! Don’t be ashamed; we’re relating too.

“Clown Shoes”:

“Foggy”:

“It’s Like”:

Picture of Steve Hall

Steve Hall

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