A new episode of the Netflix children’s show CoComelon Lane shows a small boy dressed in a tutu and tiara dancing for his two gay dads.
CoComelon Lane, a spinoff of the wildly popular animated CoComelon series, was released on Netflix on November 17. The show, which is geared toward toddlers, exploded on Netflix, quickly becoming the #1 kids show on the streaming platform.
The controversial clip from episode eight of the show went viral this week and quickly prompted backlash from conservatives.
The episode shows Nico, a small boy, taking family portraits at a photo studio with his two dads.
Netflix needs the full Bud Light treatment for this https://t.co/dj0IMFULjd
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 20, 2023
“Maybe I’ll be a bat or maybe a superhero,” Nico says as he looks at costumes. “Can you pick one for me? I want to look great.”
“We think the way you’ll look great is to just be yourself,” one of the dads responds.
“Who am I? I can’t decide,” Nico sings as he dresses up in a firefighter outfit and then a chef’s outfit.
“Something that we know about you, you love to get up and dance,” the dads sing in unison. “How about you break out those moves for your two biggest fans?”
Nico is then shown doing ballet moves in a tiara and tutu.
Nico holds the tiara and a propellor beanie trying to decide on one. He ends up wearing all the hats for the photo, including the tiara.
“I picked a lot of hats because I like to make people laugh,” Nico says.
The dads first appear in an earlier episode where Nico says, “One for Papa, and one for Daddy,” as he sets the dinner table with plates.
Several of The Daily Wire’s podcast hosts reacted to the viral clip of the show.
“Stop letting Hollywood indoctrinate your kids in gender garbage,” Ben Shapiro posted on X.
“Netflix needs the full Bud Light treatment for this,” Matt Walsh posted.
The Daily Wire’s cofounder Jeremy Boreing commented as well, noting that scenes in children’s shows like this one are why The Daily Wire started creating kids content.
“This is why we built Bentkey.com. Parents need options. Bentkey is the way,” Boreing posted.
Earlier this week, The New York Times ran an article criticizing “Chip Chilla,” one of Bentkey‘s shows, saying it includes “weirdly present parents.”
The show’s cartoon chinchilla father is a “highly involved father and unrelenting jokester who rarely seems to have to work,” the Times article said.
On Tuesday, Boreing slammed the Times article, which also criticized the father character in the Australian children’s series “Bluey.”
There are two kids shows that stand out to the @nytimes as problematic: Bentkey’s Chip Chilla and Bluey. And what’s so problematic? “Weirdly present” fathers.
Both fathers are derided as a “fantasy” for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip… pic.twitter.com/Y5E87h5x65
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) December 19, 2023
“Both fathers are derided as a ‘fantasy’ for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip Chilla is the far more offensive of the two because Chum Chum teaches ‘lessons about dead white people’ (read: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Neil Armstrong, etc.) and leads his kids in fun games and lessons as a way of establishing ‘male authority,’ Boreing posted on X.
“The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment,” Boreing added.