Caillou cancelled

[Babillygunn]

After 20 years Caillou has been cancelled. That show is a right of passage for all parents. It’s like a vision quest that you have to go on: every episode akin to sitting in a sweat lodge until hallucinations set in. He’s a 4 year old sociopathic jerk with a dad who looks like a cartoon version of Tucker Carlson after he raided Heathcliff Huxtable’s closet and acts like he’s been dining on a steady diet of Valium and Chardonnay. His mom is oddly attractive for a poorly drawn cartoon character and has the personality of Meredith Baxter Berney’s character from Family Ties. The Caillou Holiday Special, which seemed to run on a never ending loop on PBS from Halloween through President’s Day, is only tolerable if you watch it MST-style as my children started to do at age 5. (I’ve never understood why the mom breaks into song at one point in the special...it’s not even a
musical!)

Anyway, goodbye Caillou, you bald-headed four year old spawn of hell.

 

[Prison Mike]

I never heard of it until now, but I’m also not a parent...

 

[scarlet-witch]

Congratulations to all the future parents who will never have to go through this phase with their children. Those were dark, dark times.

 

[tzarinna]

Lord, I can hear the theme song in my head. Ugh.