Prancercise
May 29, 2013 3:20 PM   Subscribe

 
I don't get what the big deal is, this is just how I walk around everyday.
posted by The Whelk at 3:22 PM on May 29, 2013 [15 favorites]


Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
posted by mudpuppie at 3:23 PM on May 29, 2013 [6 favorites]


I like the bootleg Bob Seger riffs in the background.
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:25 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


You know what else is ideally induced by elation?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:25 PM on May 29, 2013


It's nice to see the Kids in the Hall back at work.
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:27 PM on May 29, 2013 [14 favorites]


I don't know. I mean, she seems pretty fit.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 3:30 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


She's from Coral Springs? I grew up there. Christ, I could have been her. Florida is a hell of a drug.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 3:31 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


We used to call this dancing.
And camel toes should have a cutoff of, say, age 30.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 3:32 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


Oops! My bad. Thought that said, "ideally induced by Kelation." The answer was, of course, "Metallica."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:32 PM on May 29, 2013


Laugh all you want but this lady is the Wu-Tang Clan of Florida.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:33 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


I missed that backstory link and I thought it must be Florida. Funny how Florida just looks like Florida.
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:33 PM on May 29, 2013


I just KNEW this had to be from Florida.

Florida is a hell of a drug

You ain't lyin'. I lived there for awhile. It's....different.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:33 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


Did anyone else mistake her for the opossum lady?
posted by Sophont at 3:33 PM on May 29, 2013 [3 favorites]


I'm pretty sure this was shot by the same people who made that John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Christmas video last year.

(This is actually better.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:34 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


I see her faux Seger and raise her a Bad Company: "Canter Get Enough of Your Love" perhaps?
posted by memewit at 3:35 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


"It's about Self-Expression. It's about Non-violence. It's about Conservation."
The insane used in the title on the 'backstory' link is unfair. Good for you prancing Joanna Rohrback, looks like fun.
posted by 0 answers at 3:36 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


The Doors: Horse Platitudes.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:36 PM on May 29, 2013 [3 favorites]


if you have ever wondered, "how do memes get started?"

wonder no more
posted by lampshade at 3:44 PM on May 29, 2013 [3 favorites]


After spending too much of time today reading about Liberace and then coming to this, my brain is officially broken. I can't even tell if I like this ironically or sincerely as a celebration of whatever it is or not at all.

It's the outfit that is really doing my head in. Everything else I can understand, but the fitted salmon jacket and white pants just make no sense. Except then I try to think about what I would suggest she wear and nothing else seems right.

(Better to be punching empty space than in your face.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:45 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


Prancercise LLC, which is a real company selling Rohrback's idea of imitating a horse to achieve your perfect bikini body, started publishing videos to YouTube five months ago.

Whoa. This is from now? I had just assumed it was from deep in the '80s.
posted by grapesaresour at 3:46 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


Prancercise: The Art of Physical and Spiritual Excellence. It's available on Amazon.

Helium tank sold separately.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 3:55 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


Wow, Maria Bamford is in the new Arrested Development season and now this, too!
posted by shortyJBot at 3:58 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


MCMikeNamara, it's the wig for me. It's too jaunty.
posted by maryr at 4:15 PM on May 29, 2013


Is she going to turn into a werewolf at any point during this?

Otherwise, what's the point?
posted by Pecinpah at 4:55 PM on May 29, 2013


There's a tinge of laughing-at-you to this that is kind of a bummer, even if it isn't all that surprising. Because despite how wierd it comes across she also seems so incredibly sincere and encouraging. I'm actually tempted to order the video, maybe some of her enthusiasm and niceness will rub off on me.

Lord knows I could use more of that in my life.
posted by Doleful Creature at 4:55 PM on May 29, 2013 [6 favorites]


I'm perfectly OK with the idea of doing this. I do very similar things myself. Inside. Where nobody else can see me.

Also am mildly curious about the technical details of the recording. Seems like you would need a golf cart with one person driving and one person staring backwards holding the camera and telling the golf cart driver faster, slower. She had accomplices. She probably picked them up in the parking lot of the home depot for 40 bucks day rate, but still. This was a team effort.
posted by bukvich at 5:00 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


Please: if you are going to do this, do not wear ankle weights! It puts stress on the knee joints and messes up your gait, which could lead to spine problems. Ankle weights are for stationary exercises only!
posted by fallacy of the beard at 5:05 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


They shoot Prancercisers, don't they?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:06 PM on May 29, 2013 [5 favorites]


oh god what am i watching

florida why
posted by elizardbits at 5:34 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


Her voice sounds a lot like Zek, the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance, (DS9)...
Joanna Rohrback invented Prancercise – "A springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse's gait" – back in 1989, but it never caught on. Perhaps it's because she was so ahead of her time that she created an exercise video you couldn't follow unless you had some sort of portable video playback device. Such is the price of being a visionary.
HuffPo

Now that technology has caught up.. she is back in the saddle!
posted by snaparapans at 6:06 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


Needs jazz hands.
posted by ceribus peribus at 6:06 PM on May 29, 2013


I was so sure this was a gag, but the PO box on the domain registration matches the one on her realtor's license. Unless the domain info is, itself, a goof. How deep is the rabbit hole? Or the horsey hole. Maybe.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:27 PM on May 29, 2013


Please: if you are going to do this

IF?
posted by yoink at 6:29 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]




It's the ® that really cracked me up. Prance around all you want. You can even do it with leg weights and risk a sprained ankle. But registering the word Prancercise? Not even Richard Simmons had that level of silly.
posted by BlueHorse at 7:17 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


OMG THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED IN A WOROUT.

I really hope it catches on so I can stop looking like such a buffoon.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:20 PM on May 29, 2013


Don't all horse-mad little girls do this? She just never stopped. Adding an Archie McFee horse mask would make it even better, though.
posted by Dreidl at 7:21 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


If I ever move to Florida I know what real estate agent I'll use.
posted by surplus at 7:39 PM on May 29, 2013 [2 favorites]


Please let this spawn a terrible meme with that plastic horse head mask from amazon. PLEASE.
posted by elizardbits at 7:43 PM on May 29, 2013 [6 favorites]


That this level of wack exists just sends me to my happy place.
posted by Salamander at 8:27 PM on May 29, 2013


That camel-toe. It cannot be unseen.
posted by BishopFistwick at 8:39 PM on May 29, 2013 [4 favorites]


That camel-toe. It cannot be unseen.

Great. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
posted by zarq at 9:12 PM on May 29, 2013 [1 favorite]


Right before I clicked on this post, I had sent a quick email to a friend, complaining about work/clients. I said that I was ready to do "anything" that would get me out of freelancing. So, this post kinda feels like a personal communication from the cosmos. But, I don't know if I'm being encouraged, tested, or simply mocked.
posted by she's not there at 11:48 PM on May 29, 2013 [3 favorites]


I grew up in this town. It is exactly this wack. It is completely unironic.

There are only four types of vegetation, all of which are represented in this video: strangler fig, St. Augustine lawngrass, bush ficus, and whatever that thing is with yellow edges. There are also palm trees and palm-tree-resembling-things, but those are not so much vegetation as immutable geologic features.

Everyone in Florida is a real-estate agent, or immediately related to one.
posted by casarkos at 12:04 AM on May 30, 2013 [4 favorites]


Archie McPhee should get someone who can actually dance, and can gracefully do the Joanna's Prancercise moves, then go to a park, put on a unicorn head, and make a video.

Instead they just had someone put on a unicorn head and jump around in the street, and said 'look at our (unfunny) Prancercise take-off'. Missed comedy moment. I'm hoping others will take up the challenge.
posted by eye of newt at 12:14 AM on May 30, 2013 [1 favorite]


It's all just variations on skipping. Can't fool me.
posted by vewystwange at 2:23 AM on May 30, 2013


I see her faux Seger and raise her a Bad Company: "Canter Get Enough of Your Love" perhaps?
posted by memewit at 11:35 PM on May 29


Or Foreigner: Trot Blooded.
posted by Decani at 2:40 AM on May 30, 2013 [3 favorites]


You know what else is ideally induced by elation?

Hitler?
posted by clarknova at 5:14 AM on May 30, 2013


Wasn't this the plot of an episode of Friends?
posted by schmod at 6:15 AM on May 30, 2013


That was a lot gentler and rhythmic somehow than I expected. I guess I was expecting something more like this.
posted by shelleycat at 6:42 AM on May 30, 2013


I am mesmerized by the camel toe.

I'm so glad I got out of Coral Springs.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 8:34 AM on May 30, 2013


I read this at first as Pancracise, from Pankration, so I thought it was boxing and submission grappling exercise.





But it isn't.
although she does sorta look like Ido Pariente with a wig on.
posted by Smedleyman at 8:50 AM on May 30, 2013


I read it as Pancrasize at first and was wondering how you're supposed to exercise your pancreas.
posted by shelleycat at 8:59 AM on May 30, 2013


I read it as Pancrasize at first and was wondering how you're supposed to exercise your pancreas.

Eat lots of sugar?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:25 AM on May 30, 2013


I've done all of these moves before. Usually, when I'm drunk. I think this is just something that comes naturally when you are born in Florida.
posted by galvanized unicorn at 10:08 AM on May 30, 2013


I'm all about workout routines that I don't need a class or a gym membership for, and due to spasticity, I can't jog or run. Laugh if you must, but Prancercise looks like it could actually work for me. And, truth be told, it's not like I'll stand out much from the rest of the weirdos here in Seattle.

Now to get a salmon suitjacket and some pearls. And a perm, because the higher the hair, the closer to God.
posted by spinifex23 at 11:18 AM on May 30, 2013


I feel like from this moment on, I will divide my life into two portions: before I saw Prancercise and after.
posted by fiercecupcake at 12:27 PM on May 30, 2013 [4 favorites]


My oh my, what a unique and freaky species were humans are. Also, there is no age a camel toe looks good, I'm thinking. It's not like 29.5 and The Toe's splendidly hip, but 31 and "OMG why"? Always a fashion and social don't. Yow.....
posted by but no cigar at 2:31 PM on May 30, 2013


So THIS is what my fitness instructor was imitating before class today. She had to stop because she was laughing too hard, so I was mystified. Prancercise. Good lord.

And the background music sounded kind of like the riff from "Werewolves of London," which added an extra layer of weird. Ah-oooooo!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 1:57 AM on May 31, 2013


Out of all of the disparate elements of this video, the on I just can't get over is the condition of the sidewalk. Look at that sidewalk! It's patched and rumpled and decidedly low-rent.

You would think a real estate agent would have a better handle on the concept of staging. Also, it seems inevitable that she would trip on camera and hurt herself.
posted by ErikaB at 7:59 AM on May 31, 2013


Doleful Creature: There's a tinge of laughing-at-you to this that is kind of a bummer, even if it isn't all that surprising. Because despite how wierd it comes across she also seems so incredibly sincere and encouraging. I'm actually tempted to order the video, maybe some of her enthusiasm and niceness will rub off on me.

Lord knows I could use more of that in my life.


Actually, I agree. I think these sorts of gentle workouts are a good idea, though I echo fallacy of the beard's concern about the ankle weights. Hey, whatever gets people up and moving around, honestly. And I am pretty sure I also look weird during my fitness classes.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:21 PM on May 31, 2013




Oh yeah. I’m not like a crazy person, I wouldn’t go skydiving or do anything unsafe, but I’ve always just lived and acted how I want. I know I’m not in style all the time, and my lingo might not be up to date, and right now I wear ankle weights all day long—but I always try to have fun and help people and do what I love.


All hail Joanna Rohrback and her attitude towards life.

(I am not snarking one bit.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:46 AM on June 4, 2013 [3 favorites]


Tell me I'm not the only person who originally though Joanna was a man in drag. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
posted by answergrape at 9:16 AM on June 6, 2013


Tell me I'm not the only person who originally though Joanna was a man in drag.

Well her voice did remind me of the Grand Nagus who is a male Ferengi in Star Trek: Deep Space 9
posted by snaparapans at 10:10 AM on June 6, 2013


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