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** WordOfGod confirms that he was originally planned to be a young baby, but then he aged up. They tried to draw hair on him, but he wasn't recognizable, so they kept him bald.

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** WordOfGod confirms that he was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] planned to be a young baby, but then he aged up. They tried to draw hair on him, but he wasn't recognizable, so they kept him bald.

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* There seems to be such a difference in Gilbert's personality between the animated segments and the puppet segments. Animated he's very normal and catlike, puppet is wise and knowledgeable.
** Simple. His owner isn't supposed to know that he has some human-like qualities.
* What's with the Charlie Brown Haircut on Caillou? I mean no one else has hair like that. Or a lack of it for that matter.

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* There seems to be such a difference in Gilbert's personality between the animated segments and the puppet segments. Animated he's very normal and catlike, puppet is wise and knowledgeable.
** Simple. His owner isn't supposed to know that he has some human-like qualities.
* What's with the Charlie Brown Haircut CharlieBrownBaldness on Caillou? I mean no No one else in his family has hair like that. Or a lack of it for that matter.



** WordOfGod confirms that he was originally planned to be a young baby.
** This might make me a terrible person, but as a little kid I assumed he had cancer and was dying.

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** WordOfGod confirms that he was originally planned to be a young baby.
** This might make me a terrible person,
baby, but as a little kid I assumed then he had cancer and was dying.aged up. They tried to draw hair on him, but he wasn't recognizable, so they kept him bald.



*** It's impossible to have him represents all races, also their had to give a personality would you like it better if he was bland?
*** The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explanation is that it was just a design thing, but to be Watsonian, maybe [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata head-centered alopecia areata]]?
** Running the risk of an OutsideJoke here, but I thought the art style in ''Caillou'' was detailed enough to distinguish Charlie Brown's do (blond hair with a buzz cut) from actual baldness.
** As stated above, Caillou was originally drawn as a baby, but later aged up. They tried drawing hair on him, but he looked unrecognizable, so they left him with a bald head.
* How is Caillou slower paced than WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants? Never watched the show (Caillou) but looked it up on Netflix, and there are five stories per episode, while [=SpongeBob=] has two, so logically [=SpongeBob=] should be slower paced.
** Caillou has a very gentle, slow, slice-of-life pace. [=SpongeBob=] has a wacky, action-packed cartoony pace. While there are less shorts in [=SpongeBob=], a LOT more happens in the shorts. If that doesn't answer your question, just try watching an episode and you'll see what I mean. (Also, please, please don't be offended by me correcting the punctuation in your question. It's the only change I made, and it was just because I have a light case of OCD and such things really bother me.)
*** Thanks for the explanation. Just thought those psychologists might have faked the test for the creators of Caillou.
* Why do people say that Gilbert killed the dead bird in ''Caillou's Getting Older''? I watched the episode and saw no evidence that Gilbert killed it.
** The Mandela effect, maybe?
* Caillou's parents are commonly listed on the Internet as "Boris" and "Doris," but is there ''really'' any proof of this, or is it just an UrbanLegendOfZelda?
** On the off chance those actually are their names, they were most likely [[AllThereInTheManual only mentioned on a website]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes that never had that particular page archived]].
** I assume that it started as a joke in Website/GoAnimate videos that got mistaken for canon.
** Their names being Doris and Boris is actually mentioned on the Caillou website.
* Why can't the hatedom see that Rosie is actually the biggest crybaby in the family, not Caillou?
** Well, you see, with Rosie being younger than Caillou, it’d be more normal for her to be acting like this than Caillou (who alongside Rosie has very bad parents). ...does that make any sense?

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*** It's impossible to have him represents all races, also their had to give a personality would you like it better if he was bland?
*** The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explanation is that it was just a design thing, but to be Watsonian, maybe [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata head-centered alopecia areata]]?
** Running the risk of an OutsideJoke here, but I thought the art style in ''Caillou'' was detailed enough to distinguish Charlie Brown's do (blond hair with a buzz cut) from actual baldness.
** As stated above, Caillou was originally drawn as a baby, but later aged up. They tried drawing hair on him, but he looked unrecognizable, so they left him with a bald head.
* How is Caillou slower paced than WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants? Never watched the show (Caillou) but looked it up on Netflix, and there are five stories per episode, while [=SpongeBob=] has two, so logically [=SpongeBob=] should be slower paced.
** Caillou has a very gentle, slow, slice-of-life pace. [=SpongeBob=] has a wacky, action-packed cartoony pace. While there are less shorts in [=SpongeBob=], a LOT more happens in the shorts. If that doesn't answer your question, just try watching an episode and you'll see what I mean. (Also, please, please don't be offended by me correcting the punctuation in your question. It's the only change I made, and it was just because I have a light case of OCD and such things really bother me.)
*** Thanks for the explanation. Just thought those psychologists might have faked the test for the creators of Caillou.
* Why do people say that Gilbert killed the dead bird in ''Caillou's Getting Older''? I watched the episode and saw no evidence that Gilbert killed it.
** The Mandela effect, maybe?
* Caillou's parents are commonly listed on the Internet as "Boris" and "Doris," but is there ''really'' any proof of this, or is it just an UrbanLegendOfZelda?
** On the off chance those actually are their names, they were most likely [[AllThereInTheManual only mentioned on a website]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes that never had that particular page archived]].
** I assume that it started as a joke in Website/GoAnimate videos that got mistaken for canon.
** Their names being Doris and Boris is actually mentioned on the Caillou website.
* Why can't the hatedom see that Rosie is actually the biggest crybaby in the family, not Caillou?
** Well, you see, with Rosie being younger than Caillou, it’d be more normal for her to be acting like this than Caillou (who alongside Rosie has very bad parents). ...does that make any sense?
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** Their names being Doris and Boris are actually mentioned on the Caillou website.

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** Their names being Doris and Boris are is actually mentioned on the Caillou website.
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** Their names being Doris and Boris are actually mentioned on the Caillou website.

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