Wyze’s new promo video for its Video Doorbell Pro features a flaming bag of dog poop

The standard promote for a video doorbell is: “You should see what’s occurring at your entrance door out of your cellphone so nobody steals your Amazon packages.” Sensible residence firm Wyze has gone a step additional, warning its potential customers: “You want a video doorbell so your neighborhood children don’t put flaming luggage of poop in your doormat.”

In a frankly hilarious video selling the new Wyze Video Doorbell Professional, the corporate invitations you to buy its latest doorbell so you may hold a watchful eye over the bonafide warfare zone that’s the basic suburban neighborhood.

The video opens with a soothing James Earl Jones-style voiceover discussing the magnificence of the American “Entrance Porch” as a younger boy runs joyfully alongside the trail to his entrance door. However as we zoom in, the kid is revealed to be a grubby little turd who’s taking part in Ding Dong Ditch on a soon-to-be indignant dad.

We see him pushing the Wyze doorbell frantically and peering menacingly in by the fisheye lens on the house owner’s Wyze app. As the person leaps up and chases the child down his entrance path, he clips a supply driver, who responds by kicking the bundle he was delivering onto the porch with all of the finesse of an NFL kicker.

Picture: Wyze

All of the whereas, the soothing narrator is telling us about the advantages of Wyze’s new doorbell — together with bundle detection and pet detection — as, on cue, the household’s small terrier runs out to assault the mail service.

Because the voiceover waxes lyrical on neighborly neighbors bringing by a basketful of freshly picked backyard zucchinis, the husband is pelted with eggs by a whole gang of neighborhood children. When his spouse comes out to avoid wasting him, a kind of dastardly children places — what we will solely assume by her face as she stamps it out — a bag stuffed with flaming canine poop on the doormat.

It’s clearly a send-up of video doorbell firm Ring’s personal advertising and marketing push, which is concentrated on how neighborly all of us are and the way we’re all searching for one another and our packages. Ultimately — unhappy as it’s to say — Wyze might be portray a barely extra reasonable image of the storied American neighborhood — and of why you may really need a video doorbell.