Geek Squad to the Rescue

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NEW YORK Crispin Porter + Bogusky is at it again, combining its two major creative fixations—scary plasticized heads and men—in “Mandroid,” a crazy-funny spot for Best Buy’s Geek Squad. “Okay, now you’re completely wireless,” the Geek Squad IT guy tells a woman in her kitchen. Before she can react, however, we hear a creepy voice saying, “Shuper! Shurf the Web!” The voice belongs to an even creepier corpus: a virtual man with pale skin and weird reddish bouffantish hair—a horror movie version of Clay Aiken.

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