Caillou
Since my great-aunt has begun taking care of Tess twice a week, she has had a little more television exposure than she might otherwise. My aunt cannot work our myriad of remote controls or the Tivo so when she gets there in the morning she pops on Sprout and leaves it there. This had me uneasy because I generally don't let Tess watch much of anything outside of Sesame Street. There are things on Sprout that I don't want her to see. For instance, I don't want her getting all caught up with Barney and his trippy, purple dinosaur ways...I don't want her bopping around with the Teletubbies or, God forbid, Boohbah, which I still can't figure out. But since my aunt is not electronically equipped to deal with television screening I just kind of deal with it. I know that she spends 90% of the time actively playing with Tess so she isn't stationed in front of the set all day anyway.
What I would like to know is why, of all things, this kid has fallen in love with Caillou?
I was making fun of this show long before Caillou wormed his big bald head into Tess' fancy. I don't know if you are familiar with it so I will give you a brief synopsis. We have Caillou, possessor of a stupid name, who looks like a poor man's Charlie Brown, his freaky shrieky little sister Rosie and his creepy androgynous parents Doris and Boris. His parents look exactly like each other save for mom's droopy boobs.
Caillou's main objective in life is to make loud, banal observations on everything. Everything. They have episodes such as, "Caillou rides the escalator!" "Caillou goes to the store with his mom and buys milk!" "Caillou gets a papercut!" He is incapable of speaking unless it is to whine. Loudly. If I were Doris and Boris I would be forced to get on my steel toed boots and shoot Caillou straight for the heavens...who knows, get him out of the family and maybe Rosie will turn out a little less annoying.
It is horrible. Horrible.
Tess loves it, which makes me question both her taste and my role in her gene pool. I simply cannot stomach this show and lately she wants to watch it all the time. I have strictly forbidden Caillou under most circumstances, she usually only watches it when I am trying to wind her down for a nap or if I am cooking something and don't want her to pull burning pots over her head.
Here are my questions about this show:
1. What the HELL kind of a name is Caillou? According to wikipedia it means either 'pebble' which Caillou is about as smart as a box of, or 'bald head' which is indeed an accurate observation which leads me to my second question.
2. How is this kid four years old without a strand of hair on his head? Could they not give the kid a couple of wisps, I mean even Charlie Brown had that little whorl in the back.
There is only so much I can take...an Caillou is really taxing me. If you know Sprout I urge you to check in Caillou and give me your thoughts...until then, I guess I am going to have to block Sprout just to give my pounding head a rest...
Why can't she watch Jakers? Love Jakers...
P.S.
If you can't tell, I got a new digital camera so I have been taking little videos here and there. Here is another one from the other day but if you haven't see her do Moon River yet you HAVE to check it out in the post below:
Talking with Mommy
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Caillou is Satan's spawn. The whining is enough to make me want to beat him and the people who created him senseless. Barney is an absolute pleasure in comparison. The Teletubbies make me want to shout with joy when up against Caillou. And why is he still bald when he's 4?
Maybe it's less offensive in French? I assume it's French Canadian.
It is French Canadian, I would assume that there must be something lost in the translation...although what that something is, I couldn't tell you...maybe they had a less annoying child to voice the part.
I have often wondered about the bald thing too. Once my son who was about five at the time asked if Caillou had cancer.
I'm glad someone else thought Caillou had cancer. I was thinking to myself one day before watching the show.."what a depressing show! who wants to watch something about a little cartoon boy with cancer!" But behold, he doesn't..he is just a highly annoying stupid little 4 year old.
P.S. I love Tess' t-shirt. You should do a spot light on it! lol
Ah yes, the "Vick makes me sick" shirt...an Aunt Cookie original, lol
I banned Caillou and that infernal whine back when my kids were that age.
I'm more of a Backyardigans man myself.
I dig the Backyardigans, they are pretty cute.
my son loves to watch caillou. i think i spelled it wrong.
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Okay...I don't prefer that Caillou show either...Ella doesn't watch it. She's a big Einsteins fan and also Backyardigans. She was doing some dance from the Einsteins the other day. Tess is so cute and insanely smart!
At least it isn't The Wiggles. Because that is like crack for kids. My kids watched it morning, noon, and night. And cried if I wouldn't put in a tape of it. Then my husband and I would end of singing songs or humming them at work. AND we got made fun of. But the good news is, she will get sick of it soon. The kids went through The Wiggles phase and it only lasted 1 year. Just 1 WHOLE DAMN YEAR OF SINGING D-O-R-O-T-H-Y DOROTHY THE DINOSAUR. I'm still bitter.
I LOVE THE WIGGLES. But, i also love Barney. Caillou is weird and gross. I like Sesame Street, but find Elmo highly annoying.
Tess is super cute and super smart. I gave up filming peanut for now because she always wants to look at herself in the viewer. There are only so many movies you can have of your kid making weird faces at themselves.
My kid sees Charlie Brown and thinks he's Caillou. The kid is obsessed like Tess. But I say better that than Barney. Barney drives me up a damn wall.
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