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- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, April/May 1983 (Premiere Issue), pp. 6, 14.
- ↑ Cotter, Bill (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. Hyperion Books. pp. 295, 582. ISBN 0-7868-6359-5.
- ↑ Mousercise is Unstreamable. The Stranger , May 11, 2021.
- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 14, no. 1, February/March 1996: p. 40.
- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 14, no. 3 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 2"), April/May 1996: p. 26.
- ↑ When Mousercise Brought Aerobics to the Disney Channel. Mental Floss , June 10, 2021.
- ↑ JPCMHD (April 4, 2016), JAPANESE COMMERCIALS | 2016 HIGHLIGHTS | WEEKS 12/13 , retrieved May 6, 2016
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