Easy Step (video)

"Easy Step" is a Smosh video released on January 29, 2007 on LiveVideo and February 3, 2007 on YouTube and Smosh.com.

Original
''The revolutionary: Easy Step! In stores now.''

Current
''The Easy Step will revolutionize the way you perform difficult tasks such as walking and getting into bed! Order within the next 17 minutes for our special offer!''

Cast

 * Ian Hecox — Voiceover (voice), Satisfied customer, Tom Cruise
 * Anthony Padilla — Satisfied customer, "Smosh News" crew member (voice)
 * Unidentified woman — Easy Step transformation presenter

The Easy Step
The video begins with a voiceover (Ian Hecox), who introduces the Easy Step (item) as a way to help reach one's bed, car, or up the stairs, attributing its design to new technology originally developed for NASA. Illustrating this is a series of black-and-white clips of Anthony struggling to climb onto his bed, into his car, and even up his own staircase.

The voiceover continues, describing the various ways customers of the Easy Step, a cinderblock painted red with black text reading " EASY STEP ", will now be able to easily reach areas previously only dreamed of, including the aforementioned, bed, car, and staircase steps, as well as a telephone, toilet, and swimming pool. Illustrating this is a series of now-colored clips of of Anthony dragging the Easy Step cinderblock to his bed, using the Easy Step to reach his bed, using it to step inside his car, using it to start walking up the staircase, using it to reach a telephone, using it to reach the toilet while pulling his pants down to reveal his censored crotch, and using it to step inside a swimming pool, flashing a thumb-up gesture at the camera after each successful step.

The voiceover proceeds to describe how the Easy Step is the "perfect addition to any household", a quality he accreddits to the device's patented Swedish design that allows it to be durable while maintaining a light weight. Illustrating this is, contrary to the voiceover's claim, Anthony visibly struggling to lift the cinderblock and being forced to move it by pushing it atop a skateboard. Ian then explains how, thanks to the device's "ingenius structure", the Easy Step can be "transformed" into three different sizes, illustrated by an unidentified woman holding up the device for view: "short", or the cinderblock on its long side; "tall", or the cinderblock properly upright; and, "for those extremely hard-to-reach places", "grande", or the cinderblock on its short side, effectively doubling its height.

The voiceover claims that "everyone's raving about the Easy Step!", illustrated by Anthony using it to reach the top of a tall bush to trim it, then flashing another thumb-up as the camera zooms in on him. The voiceover presents another "satisfied customer", Ian (who is sitting on a couch, using the Easy Step in its "Grande" "transformation" as a footrest), who is only able to get in an "Uhh..." while making a "so-so" motion with his hands before he is interrupted by the voiceover, who, in a deeper voice, requests viewers to order the new technology, accompanied by clips of Anthony sleeping with the cinderblock in his bed and jumping off the cinderblock in his front yard to give a clumsy-looking thumb-up. Following that, the video switches to a scene parodying the slide shown at the end of television advertisements, with a lengthly paragraph of order information:

'''This product is no longer for sale due to the fact that we are now bankrupt after paying Smosh Productions to create this commercial. At first, it seemed like a bargain for us, but they found a picture of our CEO naked. Not only was he naked, but he was in a hot tub with Clay Aiken. Smosh Productions started making very strange demands such as free elephant rides and pictures of Helen Keller. Next they demanded that we dress in tight leather clothes and do the Macarena... At first we were ashamed to tell you the truth, we all found it to be pretty liberating. We realized it wasn't worth it when they requested we attend a Madonna concert with them. At this point we mutually decided that it was worth it to simply allow them to expose our CEO of his horrible secret. The next day we found our CEO dead next to a stereo system blasting Clay Aiken. Our CEO had 99% share of the company and when he died, all his money went to his cats. We are now looking for work. Please call us.'''

In the top right of the slide is a window with a clip a clip of Anthony accidentally tripping over his Easy Step and rocking on the floor in pain. Anthony's pained moans and groans are accompanied by piano music in the background as the voiceover urgers viewers to purchase the Easy Step, claiming a cheaper price than "imitation products" and offering a limited-edition talking picture frame of Owen Wilson if viewers call within the next few minutes. A second item is about to be offered to further entice viewers, but the commercial is interrupted.

Breaking News
Interrupting the Easy Step commercial is a "Breaking News" segment (by a news company whose logo was the Smosh logo over "NEWS"), hosted by Tom Cruise (Ian), who explains that the Easy Step has been recalled due to twenty-seven deaths related to the device. At that moment, Cruise receives word that he has just been fired, but he admits that he believes that he deserves to be fired as he cockily admits to sleeping with the producer's wife. Someone off-camera (voiced by Anthony) bluntly corrects Cruise by stating that he was actually fired for tardiness, a revelation that wipes Cruise's smirk off his face as he realizes that, before his own revelation, no one had actually known he was sleeping with the producer's wife. Staring around the studio in shock, "news music" is played as the video ends.

Trivia



 * This was the first Smosh infomercial; videos that serve as commercials for fictional products. Later videos of this format include "Runbrella (No. 1 MOTHER'S DAY GIFT!)," "The Harry Potter Pill," "Just Like Link," and "Easy Poop".
 * The news channel logo reads: "[Smosh Symbol] News"
 * When Anthony steps onto the Easy Step outside before the testimonial, there are Christmas lights hanging on the house. This video was uploaded in February, but could have been filmed in December or January.
 * During the scene including Ian as a "satisfied customer", Sparky can be seen outside.
 * The Easy Step later became a recurring item in Smosh videos, such as "Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig 3", "MOLESTER MOON", "HOLY CRAP! 2 BILLION VIEWS!", and a mention in "DOUCHE BOARD COMMERCIAL".
 * The Easy Step is currently in possession by Ian, as seen in the Smosh Pit video, "WE INVADED IAN'S HOUSE". It is one of the few items that he retrieved before Defy Media shut down.

Goofs

 * During the "Breaking News" segment, there is a constant green screen reflection on the glass table and around the edges of Ian.