Best Buy's corporate elf screws co-workers

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Santa's newest elf, Kenneth, channels Steve Ballmer in a motivational speech to get Santa's workshoppers excited about providing tech support—even on Christmas Day—in this first of a series of Crispin Porter + Bogusky spots for Best Buy. The uptight management dweeb is voiced by SpongeBob SquarePants actor Tom Kenny, so his rah-rah ravings are hard to take seriously. Still, maybe the rest of the Vulcan-eared crew should form a union anyway. Of course, they can always tell him to go elf himself.

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