Anonymous wrote:The names of his friends are stereotypical - Sarah is Asian, Andre is Black etc...

Caillou is the kid who grows up to be the annoying one upper know it all.

Are you kidding? Sarah is a Hebrew name. Duh!

Anonymous wrote:Just wait until she starts copying the whining.... That's when we told DS that Caillou was no longer on TV.

She tried. We cut it. I know she'll try again and we'll cut it again. Toddlers are toddlers and I've had a few of them before. They whine even if they don't know Caillou

The names of his friends are stereotypical - Sarah is Asian, Andre is Black etc...

Caillou is the kid who grows up to be the annoying one upper know it all.

Just wait until she starts copying the whining.... That's when we told DS that Caillou was no longer on TV.

I love him!

OP here and I looked it up and learned they wanted to have caillou to resemble every child out there so adding hair would stereotype him and they wanted to avoid that.

The show is about life through his eyes, that's why he's whiny and I love how they teach him to get over it. DD is not 2 yet and she knows the dialogues, songs, plays the games and all.

Never mind the hair-- whyyyyyyyyy is he so whiiiiiiiiiiny??

Hate when DS picks Caillou to watch!

Cailliou est un enfant terrible.

Anonymous wrote:The original storybook character was younger so it would not have been unusual to be bald.

This is it, the first books were about a 9 month old baby. The illustrators added hair when they made him older but he didn't look like himself. So they kept him bald comme un caillou.

The original storybook character was younger so it would not have been unusual to be bald.

He probably has alopecia. I think Caillou is french for pebble or stone. I remember looking that up once.

But everyone else on the show has hair.

Easier to draw bald than with hair.

Why is Charlie Brown bald?

Because he's a cartoon.

I'm so curious!