My Daily Routine #TearItUpGetFit
2017 · 3m · USA
Directed by Simple Town
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A character named Zack Trevor performs his absurd daily fitness routine in an escalating parody of the wellness-influencer genre, featuring the kind of health advice that is simultaneously specific, useless, and deeply committed to its own logic.
Picked by Felix
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It's a fitness parody that Adult Swim absorbed into their psychedelic health episode — that's not an accident, that's a conceptual comedy piece that works on multiple registers, and I want it in.
Simple Town's wellness-influencer parody that Adult Swim picked up for Off the Air — it shape-shifts depending on context, which is the most interesting thing about it. As standalone short, three minutes of Tim Robinson-adjacent commitment.
Three minutes of wellness-influencer parody picked up by Adult Swim's Off the Air — the genre-shifting context-dependence is the real curiosity here. Page is locked so I can only trust the Simple Town/Adult Swim pedigree.