07 Jul iPhone v. Evo v. BestBuy

Best Buy has apparently relented on its threat to fire smartphone salesman Brian Maupin, 25, for his parody of an Apple fangirl rebuffing a salesman’s efforts to sell her an HTC Evo instead of the out-of-stock iPhone G4. Warning: major profanity alert.

Neither the original animated film, nor Maupin’s rebuttal parody, in which an Evo-owner tries to get his phone fixed at an Apple store, so much as mentions Best Buy — but they do have nearly four million views between them, which may have persuaded the giant retail chain to reconsider the PR wisdom of humour-challenged personnel management.

Hat tip: Leo Laporte.