Caillou (Seasons 3–5)

***Caillou*** is a Canadian educational children's television series that was first shown on Télétoon and Teletoon, with its first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997; the show later moved to Treehouse TV, with its final episode being shown on that channel on October 3, 2010. The series, based on the books by Hélène Desputeaux, centers on a 4-year-old boy named Caillou who is fascinated by the world around him.

## Why It Can Grow Some More

1. The show can often teach good messages for children, such as sharing and not saying rude words to anybody.
2. Caillou and Rosie are cute little kids, even though they're loud and obnoxious.
3. The show started to slightly improve in later seasons, especially seasons 3-5.
4. The theme song is pretty catchy, even though it is still annoying.
5. Top-notch acting, even though Caillou can be annoying, his actors put a lot of effort into their role as him, his parents' and friends' actors are also good.
6. Great animation in the last three seasons.
7. Okay development for Caillou, he starts out as a whiny, screaming toddler, but improves into a more down-to earth, mature everyday explorer, even though he becomes a Gary Stu.

## Bad Qualities

1. Seasons 1-2 and some episodes of Season 3 had a few cruel moments, such as Rosie getting tortured by Caillou and their parents never scolded him or Caillou himself getting tortured when it's not his fault.
2. Starting with Season 4, the puppet segments were dropped in favor of Media Updates/Overviews, which is weird.
3. Julie, Caillou's former babysitter, disappeared without explanation, even though Caillou's grandparents take over as supplemental caregivers to Caillou, but it looks like Julie is retconned out the show and series as if she never even existed in the first place.
4. Caillou is very controversial and unlikable most of the time, due to the title character's constant whining, temper tantrums, and bad behavior rubbing off on it's young viewers, unlike The Powerpuff Girls (1998) where Bubbles cries. However thus may be his parents' fault. He also can be a Butt-Monkey type-character (a character that gets abused for no reason). Caillou is also considered a Karma Houdini, who gets away with his bad behavior at times.
5. Despite the theme song being catchy, it can get on people's nerves at times.
6. Some of the quotes can be extremely annoying such as ***"Silly old car! Silly! Silly! Silly! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"***
7. “Caillou Joins the Circus“ and “Big Brother Caillou” are considered to be the worst episodes of the series. Also, "Caillou Joins the Circus" never aired on the now defunct PBS Kids Sprout network since it was banned for bad behavior.
8. Despite the fourth and fifth season being slight improvements, they still have their flaws, with Caillou becoming a Gary-Stu yet still retaining his annoying voice, morals being shoved down your throat, and the animation switching to Adobe Flash and becoming horrendous.

## Trivia

* Caillou's second voice actor: Jaclyn Linetsky died at 17 on September 8, 2003 where she, along with actor Vadim Schneider, were killed while driving in a Dodge Caravan, crashed into a semi-truck while driving to a set of the TV show: 15/Love.
* A GoAnimate web series: “Caillou Gets Grounded” has gotten popular on Vyond and YouTube, up to the point where it is more popular than the show itself.