Danny McBride, do not step on that flaming bag on your doorstep.

The animal rights organization PETA has officially fired a warning shot in McBride’s direction over the alleged use of a real monkey in the fourth season of his HBO comedy series, The Righteous Gemstones. The primate — a capuchin, to be exact — can be glimpsed toward the end of last month’s trailer for the new season, cocking its head in a curious fashion and shoving an object in a character’s mouth.

In a statement shared with Entertainment Weekly, a spokesperson for PETA remarked that, “After seeing a trailer for The Righteous Gemstones that included a capuchin monkey, PETA primatologist Debbie Metzler appealed to creator Danny McBride to leave live primates out of the show and commit to never using wild animals in his productions again.”

The organization claims it never received a response, so in retaliation, “If the show airs with a live monkey, PETA is ready to send [McBride] a special delivery: a pile of ‘monkey poop’ for his dirty decision to exploit a real primate rather than use humane technology to create an artificial one — or dump the monkey scene altogether.”

It is not yet confirmed whether the capuchin in the trailer was a live primate or rendered via CGI. Reps for Warner Bros. Discovery did not respond to EW’s request for clarification.

A rep for McBride did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

The Righteous Gemstones follows the gaudy, often cringe-inducing lives of the Gemstone family, a clan of sleazy televangelists and megachurch pastors led by Dr. Elijah “Eli” Gemstone II (John Goodman). McBride, who created and co-writes the series, also stars as Jesse Gemstone, Eli’s eldest son.

The show has included several scenes featuring animals before, such as a season 2 moment in which Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) takes his son Harmon (Jeremy T. Thomas) to a pet store to adopt a dog, and a gruesome season 3 background scene in which a CGI cow is run over by a monster truck.

PETA took special exception to this use of a primate in the upcoming season of the series, promising, “The Crapture is coming for Danny McBride.”

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Metzler, who is also the organization’s senior director of captive wildlife, is quoted in the statement as saying that McBride, “Has all the advanced technology at his fingertips, but he chose to further exploit a suffering monkey who should be in a rainforest, not on a TV set.” The organization urges people to “skip this shameful show” and asks McBride to “reevaluate his crappy choices and rely on CGI and other cutting-edge tech for his future projects.”

The series’ fourth season, which premiered on March 9, will be the its last.

McBride announced the show’s final bow in January, saying, “The Lord spoke to me and said it’s time to wrap this sucker up… I have loved every second of working with this team for the past eight years, and there are some incredible payoffs, twists, and turns in store over the course of this wild final season.”