Is Cocomelon Based on the Watts Family? It Has a Tribute

June 2024 · 4 minute read

People have noticed that the ‘Cocomelon’ theme music mentions the kids from the Watts family, who were murdered. Here's how the display pays tribute.

Jamie Lerner - Author

The Netflix record-breaking display Cocomelon has change into considered one of the most well liked kids displays ever, and even certainly one of the most well liked presentations ever. Cocomelon broke the record for ultimate in Netflix’s Top 10 most watched shows the longest, and it is also crossing more strains as smartly. While it’s considered a display only for youngsters, there’s a nod to the Watts family in one in all its many songs. Parents who tuned in for the moment identified the Watts family's names in an instant.

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So, is it conceivable that Cocomelon has characters based on the Watts family murders, featured in Netflix's American Murder? That seems a bit counterintuitive, particularly for a show like Cocomelon, which is so fashionable as a result of it’s basically the secret to subduing babies with an hour of happily animated nursery rhymes.

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‘Cocomelon’ could be tied to the Watts family, however it’s not based on them.

When oldsters spotted the names of the Watts' kids, Cece, Bella, and Nico, as schoolchildren in one in every of the Cocomelon songs, they started to wonder whether Cocomelon is if truth be told based on the Watts family. Plus, Cocomelon’s reliable IMDb page’s handiest trivia reality is that, “Cocomelon is honoring the reminiscence of CeCe, Bella, and Nico Watts - whose lives had been stolen in 2018 through their father, Chris Watts.”

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Many Reddit threads have additionally brought up the question of if Cocomelon is based on the Watts family, and one user answered, “That episode was devoted to Bella, Celeste and Baby Nico (Shanann’s children). The creator showed that already.” However, they didn’t provide any links to confirm this. 

The Watts family murders that ‘Cocomelon’ is alluding to are indubitably not kid-friendly.

In 2018, one father did the unspeakable and murdered his spouse and two children, which are thought to be the Watts family murders. His spouse, Shannan, was once pregnant with their unborn son, who was to be named Nico. The news of Chris Watts brutally murdering his wife and two daughters, Bella and Cece, was once in all places, so that you can see the three names of the Watts youngsters together on a non violent youngsters display like Cocomelon is undoubtedly jarring.

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However, one Reddit user shared, “I really like the idea that this might be all of them taking part in thankfully, smiling and making a song in combination. It’s heartwarming to think about them together and satisfied.” That’s a very candy strategy to consider what many other folks stated freaked them out. Once it settles that possibly Cocomelon in reality is taking part in a tribute to the lives misplaced of those children, it’s uplifting to think of satisfied kids enjoying as their afterlife.

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‘Cocomelon’ is extra based on the writer’s family than on the Watts family.

The central characters of Cocomelon are a family, and because Cocomelon began in 2006, it no doubt was once not based on the Watts family, which became notorious in 2018. However, certainly one of the creators of Cocomelon, who tries to stick mainly underneath the radar, Jay Jeon, shared how he and his wife came up with Cocomelon to The Guardian.

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“We’ve attempted to create characters which can be lovely, likeable and universally relatable. We started to think of JJ, YoYo, and TomTom as our imaginary kids, and through the years, we built a family round them -- oldsters, grandparents, animal friends, college classmates.”

Jay and his wife began Cocomelon as a interest to entertain their son, and now, fifteen years later, Cocomelon is the most up to date display for youngsters. And paying tribute or mentions of death aren't new in nursery rhymes: Don’t you keep in mind “Ring Around the Rosie”?  

You can watch Cocomelon on Netflix and YouTube.

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