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When Sonic became a shoe commercial

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Corporate synergy reached its absolute peak when a blue hedgehog became a billboard for a chunky late-nineties shoe brand. Sonic aggressively ground on rails strictly to advertise a specific brand of footwear to impressionable teenagers.

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