Trick Your Kids into Going to Bed Early with Netflix's Fake New Year's Eve Countdown

It’s an idea that parents will love and children will hate – if the kids ever find out about it!

Netflix has created a faux New Year’s Eve countdown starring King Julien, the lemur from the Madagascar films. The three-minute streaming Netflix video helps parents to convince their little ones that 2015 has come, put them to bed and then have a glass of wine and some adult time.

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The countdown, which also serves as a promo for the new Netflix show All Hail King Julien, has upbeat music and dancing animals, so the kiddos are sure to have a blast and get a good night’s sleep!

But parents should wait until the kids are out of the room to turn on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve – or Ryan Seacrest may blow their cover.