History WesternAnimation / Caillou

** Caillou's third voice actor is Elena from ''ComicBook/MonsterAllergy''!

* MrImagination: Caillou developed into one in the fourth season, though these segments were discontinued in the fifth season.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In "You're Not Miss Martin!," the substitute teacher at Caillou's playschool, Ms. Shelley, repeatedly calls him "Kyle." Caillou is at first irritated by this and a number of things about her, but Mommy helps him to relate to her by reminding him how he felt on his first day of playschool. The next time she calls him "Kyle," he decides to be patient and politely remind her that his name is "Caillou." The final time she calls him "Kyle," it's the non-malicious variant, just to joke with him.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: There's a song segment once in every episode since PBS Kids picked the show up.

''Caillou'' is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by Creator/{{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. After new episodes of the program came to an end in 2010, a fifth season was slated to follow in 2011; the new episodes instead began airing in March 2013.

* MrImagination: Caillou developed into one in later seasons.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Rosie, because she's only around 2-3 years old. Noticeably, this habit was dropped in later seasons.

''Caillou'' (1997-2010) is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by Creator/{{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. After new episodes of the program came to an end in 2010, a fifth season was slated to follow in 2011; the new episodes instead began airing in March 2013.

''Caillou'' (1997-2010) is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by Creator/{{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. The show ended in October 2010. A fifth season was slated to follow in 2011; the new episodes instead began airing in March 2013.

''Caillou'' (1997-2010) is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by Creator/{{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. The show ended in October 2010. Supposedly a fifth season was to follow in 2011, but apparently the plan has been shelved.

* MerchandiseDriven: Like many {{Animated Adaptation}}s, it was originally created to sell the books but quickly spun out of control. Yeah, among tons of merchandise, there is even ''Caillou'' branded '''''shampoo''''' out there. For those who don't get it, [[DontExplainTheJoke Caillou is]] ''[[DontExplainTheJoke bald]]''.

* AwardBaitSong: ''Everyday'' from the credits of ''Caillou's Holiday Movie''. It was performed by a Canadian-French artist known as Marilou. While it has every single quality of an AwardBaitSong, it didn't even get nominated.

* WeddingDay: "Cailou's First Wedding".

''Caillou'' (1997-2010) is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by {{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. The show ended in October 2010. Supposedly a fifth season was to follow in 2011, but apparently the plan has been shelved.

** Also adored by Yumurcak TV in Turkey. Four air slots (with the first one being a double-bill one hour back to back) seven days a week. Also, commercials for Caillou merchandise can run up to 5 minutes long.

* ArtShift: The show switches between Gilbert, Rexy and Teddy in the animated segments and puppets in the other segments.

* EditedForSyndication: You can either get the show with the shorts strung together with extras and puppets in one long 30-minute episode, or as five-minute (later 10-minute) shorts. In Canadian markets where both are available, the 30-minute episodes are marketed as ''Caillou and Friends'' while the five/ten-minute episodes are marketed as just ''Caillou''.

* {{Licensed Game}}s / {{Edutainment Game}}s / {{iOS Games}}: About a dozen or so edutainment titles for the PC/Mac. There's also an iPhone audiobook app.

** There's also Andre, who is [[AndreTheGiant really big]] compared to the others.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Gilbert, Teddy and Rexy in the puppet segments.

''Caillou'' is an animated series based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. The series originally premiered as a set of 65 five-minute shorts in which the premise is that the Caillou stories are actually a story from books a grandma was reading to her grandchildren. In 2000, the series was picked up by {{PBS}}, and was revamped into half-hour episodes with three or four shorts strung together with puppet segments, a song and a "real kids" segment. Along the line, the grandma-reading-to-kids FramingDevice was dropped. However, when the fourth season rolled around, PBS made the decision to can the puppet segments. The show ended in October 2010. Supposedly a fifth season was to follow in 2011, but apparently the plan has been shelved.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: PBS Kids Sprout has taken to airing ''Caillou's Holiday Movie'' multiple times throughout non-holiday weekends, even though it is very much a Christmas-themed movie. This is done along with mini-marathon airings of regular ''Caillou'' episodes.

* TheBigGuy: Andre, literally, due to his large size and the fact that he's one year older than Caillou.

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar:In "Leo Hurts His Foot", Leo may be a little trooper on breaking his toe, and he barely cries over some circumstances, but what gets way past the radar is that everything on his foot is bandaged EXCEPT his toe. In real life everything on his foot, including his toe, should be bandaged. Another thing that gets past the radar is that he moves his toe without it hurting. In real life if he tried to move his toe, it might hurt.

** Rosie's second voice actor is Sheegwa from [[SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat]]!

** Caillou's first voice actor is [[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Anne Shirley]]!
** Rosie's second voice actor is [[SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat Sheegwa]]!
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Fern]] is their babysitter!

** As if the half a dozen episodes a day weren't enough, Sprout "celebrated" their airing of the newest season with a ''four hour marathon'', which basically made the entire ''day'' nothing but Caillou after it's regular hour's worth at noon and the evening showings.