Engadget humorously sends up a “fitness” Christmas present:
if you’re going to make children go through all the trouble of freakin’ exercise to obtain your sinister educational wares, we say you’ve gone too far. The new $100 Fisher-Price Smart Cycle … plugs directly into a television and allows its unwitting pupils to hop aboard the bike, fire away at the pedals, and attempt to steer into items on screen such as letters or numbers in an arcade-style racing game. Mattel even trotted out Richard Simmons to show off the wares

Smart Cycle from Fisher-Price corrupts our youth, must be stopped – Engadget
Took long enough for someone to twig into this idea….finally!