Caillou (Seasons 3-5)

Caillou is a Canadian animated television series that was first shown on Télétoon and Teletoon, with its first episode airing on the former channel in 2004; the show later moved to Treehouse TV, with its final episode being shown on that channel on October 3, 2010. The series is based on the books by Hélène Desputeaux. It centers on a 4-year-old boy named Caillou who is fascinated by the world around him.

Why It Is Mixed

 * 1) This show has been hated by parents and critics alike from the first two seasons (1997-2002) but there were some okay moments in the last three seasons (2002-2010).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Starting with season 4 (2006/2007), the puppet segments and live-action kid segments were removed in favour of Media Updates/Overviews, which is weird.
 * 2) Julie, Caillou's babysitter, disappeared without explanation, even though Caillou's grandparents take over as supplemental caregivers to Caillou, and it looks like Julie is retconned out the show and series as if she never even existed in the first place.
 * 3) Caillou, despite being significantly better-behaved (as mentioned above), is a huge Gary Stu, yet he’s still more loud and obnoxious than he was previously.
 * 4) The animation took a nose-dive as it switched to Flash animation from traditional (hand-drawn) animation, most likely to cut corners and save money. The Flash animation itself looks very horrendous, stilted, cheap and lazy in comparison to the hand-drawn animation in the first three seasons (1997-2003). Though the season 4 episodes animated by Mercury Filmworks look pretty good.
 * 5) The morals are often shoved down the viewers' throats.
 * 6) The theme song is still annoying and cringe-inducing.
 * 7) The plots are extremely clichéd and stale as the series went on to these seasons.
 * 8) The characters are still generic and bland.
 * 9) Most people still find Caillou's voice annoying.
 * 10) There are still times when Caillou was selfish because of Rosie. Here are some examples:
 * 11) * Caillou takes a book from Rosie and ends up ripping one of the pages in "Caillou the Librarian".
 * 12) * Or when Caillou was taking back his toys from Rosie and never letting her play with them again, just because Rosie scratched Caillou's bike by accident in "That's Mine!".
 * 13) The CGI animated revival special is awful, due to Rosie acting like a bully, even if Caillou actually improved himself (though he reverts back to becoming a Gary Stu).

Good Qualities

 * 1) Caillou, despite his Gary-Stu-like behavior, is better behaved, making him less unlikable than he was in the past 2 seasons.
 * 2) Some likable characters:
 * 3) * Andy and Alan are interesting characters, being a good representation of autistic and Down Syndrome kids respectively, but both are sadly wasted.
 * 4) * Gilbert is a great and adorable pet character.
 * 5) * Julie, Caillou's babysitter, is a helpful older sister figure to Caillou and Rosie, before she abruptly disappeared after season 3.
 * 6) There are still some decent episodes here and there (despite being bland and mediocre).
 * 7) The theme song (despite being cringe) is surprisingly and admittedly catchy.
 * 8) The animation in season 3 was still decent as it was still hand-drawn before seasons 4 and 5 switched to flash.
 * 9) The puppet segments (with live-action kids) in season 3 was still good before they were dropped the next season.
 * 10) While not much, seasons 3-5 are a slight improvement over the first two due to Caillou's arguments/tantrums phasing out.
 * 11) The concept about a four-year-old boy who is obsessed with the world around him is pretty good for a children’s show despite the poor execution here.

Trivia

 * The Caillou book series started production because Christine L’Heureux (the creator of the Caillou books) wanted to help children develop their own unique personalities while learning to live in harmony with the world around them. Despite this goal, Caillou, the titular protagonist of the series was considered a bad influence among young children who thought that he was a role model.

Comments
People believe his show got canceled in 2021 from PBS Kids, but actually, it got canceled in 2010, meaning that the PBS airings of that show were just reruns. They need to know the difference between canceled and taken off the air, now that many people are confused about when Caillou got canceled.

-- 20:40, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Caillou was cancelled in 2010

-- 22:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Stop stereotyping Vyonders. Some Vyonders are good

-- 19:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)