Cayden is watching TV and I am on the laptop. He is watching a PBS show, Caillou. Have you seen it? Caillou is perhaps one of the most annoying little cartoon boys you could imagine. The voice...so painful.Anyway, what I cannot figure out is why is Caillou bald? He is obviously old enough to have hair. His younger sister, Rosie, has a moptop, so why is Caillou bald?
My theory: the show's storyboard artists are lazy. Why add labor-intensive details like hair to the main character? He is in every scene. At least Caillou has a line for a nose. While googling Caillou to see if I was spelling his name correctly I came across the show's home page where they had the frequently asked questions page. Guess what number one was...
WHY IS CAILLOU BALD?
Their response was less than satifactory:
Generally, for children, Caillou is a larger than life image of a preschooler. The fact that he is bald does not seem to bother preschoolers in the least. Not only do they never mention it, but when asked to think about why Caillou has no hair, our focus groups just laughed and replied: "He just doesn’t have any hair!"
Thank you PBS for dodging that one. If I went to the doctor and asked why I was bald and all the doctor could tell me was: "Well, it doesn't seem to bother other people" I would ask for my co-pay back.
During my Caillou "research" I came across some pretty amusing comments from viewers who compared his voice to nails on the chalkboard and Chinese water torture.
Ultimately, I am not too upset by the hair thing. I think I am probably more upset that I just spent the last hour researching a show about a four-year-old cartoon boy. There is an hour of my life I will never get back.
5 comments:
i am with you on the whole caillou thing. can't stand his show or his pbs webpage. Plus I hate his parents. But lincoln was in love from like 2 to 3 1/2. So happy I don't hear his voice anymore.
Caillou's whiny, bratty personality is what gets on my nerves. And I just always figured he was kind of a Charlie Brown look-a-like or something.
I don't get why it always looks like a dream sequence with the blurry edges. We will keep with our yo gabba gabba.
One question - is he easier to watch than Sid?
Daniel has come to the conclusion that all the kids from Sid the science kid are special ed kids. Check it out there's a really good yelly kid on there. Also Dragon tales is about a bazillion and ten times more annoying than Caillou. Too bad transformers isn't more educational...
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