Caillou

"No! I don't want to make duckies! That's for babies!"

- Caillou, "Caillou Joins the Circus"

Caillou is the titular main protagonist of the Canadian animated TV series of the same name, and its 2016 reboot, mh:terribletvshows:Caillou's New Adventures. He is a 4-year-old boy who is the older sister of Rosie, and owns a stuffed dinosaur named Rexy. His interests include cars and dinosaurs.

He was voiced by Bryn McAuley from 1997 to 2000, then Jaclyn Linetsky from 2000 to 2003, and then Annie Bovaird from the same year afterwards until the original series' ending. In the reboot, he is voiced by Laurie Hymes.

Why Each Day, He Won't Grow Some More

 * 1) To start off the list, he is infamous for his constant whining and pointless temper tantrums. Most infamously, he had a meltdown after finding out that he was going to the circus tomorrow when he thought it was today. Not next week, not next year, but tomorrow . This obviously proves he cannot handle not going to the circus.
 * 2) * These temper tantrums got so out of hand that many parents complained about their children's behavior changing after they watched Caillou.
 * 3) * His second most infamous temper tantrum was in the episode Caillou's Teddy Shirt, in that clip of Rosie wearing his teddy shirt, he has to have a stupid meltdown all because of that. He even shouted at Doris really loudly that the whole house could hear him. And when Doris told him that it was too small for him, he just shouted back at her by saying ”NO! IT'S NOT TOO SMALL FOR ME!” when it actually was too small for him.
 * 4) His voice is grating, especially when it was provided by the late Jaclyn Linetsky and when he cries. It's even worse in New Adventures, where he sounds older than a 4-5-year-old most of the time.
 * 5) * On that note, his crying will most likely get on your nerves.
 * 6) He is selfish and often does not like to share.
 * 7) He is cruel to his little sister Rosie, even going as far as pinching her in the face in "Big Brother Caillou" (and he acts even more spiteful in the book version by biting her on the face).
 * 8) He became a Gary Stu in Seasons 4 and 5, despite being better behaved, he is given a blander characterization.
 * 9) * Modern Caillou (the Caillou with the yellow shirt) also isn't any better than Caillou with the grey shirt for a number of reasons which are,
 * 10) ** In "Caillou's Cross Word", he along with Leo calls Clementine "stupid" and hurts her feelings.
 * 11) ** In "Caillou and the Chores", he refuses to go outside to help his dad to work and instead just stay home just to play video games.
 * 12) ** In "Caillou's Prison Break", he refuses to eat his vegetables and eventually got grounded for it and then later on try to escape his room.
 * 13) ** Not helping matters is that Caillou would be reverted back to his Seasons 1-3 self in mh:terribletvshows:Caillou's New Adventures, where he's back to acting like a whiny spoiled brat.
 * 14) His design in New Adventures is pretty unappealing to look at.
 * 15) He rarely, if ever gets punished for his actions, making him a Karma Houdini.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) When he is not being bad, he is kind of cute sometimes, and there are some episodes where he is nice and helps out.
 * 2) He sometimes does teach decent life lessons about social skills and exploring the world.
 * 3) Despite his Gary-Stuish behavior in seasons 4 and 5, he is much better behaved on those seasons and doesn't throw tantrums as often has he did in the earlier seasons, although he would revert back to his Seasons 1-3 self in New Adventures.
 * 4) In New Adventures, despite reverting back to his characterization from Seasons 1-3, he does end up getting his comeuppance. To name two examples:
 * 5) * He got grounded for not listening his mom to not get off of the video game he was playing.
 * 6) * Another time he got grounded was for banging on the table, and for not eating his broccoli, and for trying to escape his room to play with his friends in the aforementioned "Caillou's Prison Break".
 * 7) It's possible that due to him being 4 years old, he doesn't really grasp the fact that it's not ok to act spoiled and selfish.

Trivia

 * When the book series started in 1987, Caillou was a baby, but when it was time for him to age up, the illustrator found that giving Caillou hair would've made him unrecognizable, thus explaining the character's baldness.
 * He along with Dora are both main victims of grounded videos made in mh:rottenwebsites:Vyond, mh:rottenwebsites:Plotagon, and Wrapper.
 * His misbehavior and unlikable behavior also caused him to spawn a parody series called "Caillou at 22" made by AOK and an apperence in a Family Guy episode named "Stewie's First Word".

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