Ok, lets start out with the obvious, the kid is bald, there are only two reasons why a 4-year-old would be bald, parents interested in high fashion, and cancer. Caillou has cancer, once you realize this the show makes so much more sense, his parents are always super nice to him, during scenes in public places everyone in parks looks straight ahead, never acknowledging him, never staring at him.
When he gets in trouble, you see his parents snap, but almost immediately soften up and either give in completely, or send him to five minuets time out. Just a single look in their cartoon eyes brings you face to face with their realization of their sons mortality, they feel incredibly guilty doing anything to punish their kid becuase he has cancer.
Some of the saddest scenes involve Caillou fantasizing about what he wants to be when he grows up. Then his father being stabbed in the heart as he tells Caillou that he could do anything.
The Caillou tragedy doesn't end there, while typing his name into google to learn how to spell it, I clicked on the Wikipedia article, it turns out the girl who played Caillou died in a car crash.
This show is broadcasted in short, 5 minuet segments, along with live action segments that don't make any real sense. The actual animated parts of the show have a really weird off white soft focus around them, almost like they are a memory.
My theory on the show is, its a first person view of Caillou on his death bed, with his life flashing before his eyes, along with day dreams that would fill the mind of a four year old.
Caillou is about death.
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