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The Energizer Bunny is the marketing<br />

icon and mascot of Energizer batteries<br />

in North America. <strong>It</strong> is a pink toy rabbit<br />

wearing sunglasses and blue and white<br />

striped sandals that beats a bass drum<br />

bearing the Energizer logo. <strong>It</strong> is a *parody<br />

of the preexistent Duracell Bunny,<br />

still seen in Europe and Australia. <strong>It</strong> has<br />

been appearing in television commercials<br />

in North America since 1989.*<br />

The mascot is promoted as being able<br />

to continue operating indefinitely, or<br />

at least much longer than similar toys<br />

using rival brands’ batteries. The American<br />

Energizer commercials, produced<br />

by D.D.B. Chicago Advertising, originally<br />

began as a parody of TV advertisements<br />

for rival Duracell. In the<br />

Duracell ads, a set of battery-powered<br />

drum-playing toy rabbits (Duracell<br />

Rule 21: Choose the Alignment That Best Suits the Text<br />

Rule 22: Rules of Hyphenation 31

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