Caillou: I don't condone smacking kids, but DAMN!

[LaraMN]

If my children were as perennially obnoxious as this whiny little brat, I'd be SO tempted.

[miss_american_pie]

1. Caillou is banned from this house

Prompting bigger kid to ask me to find him a nice mommy. :hi:

[LaraMN]

3. Smart on you.

"Maaahh meee! Rosie took my toy! Maaaa meee! I don't WANNA!" O.m.g. his screechy little voice grates on the nerves like coarse sandpaper.

[ulysses]

2. LOL!

Watching Sprout? :D

Me, I'm a Pingu fan...

[LaraMN]

4. Pingu is nuts.

It's far and away the wierdest of Sprout's offerings. Far more tolerable that the bald-headed harpie-child.

[ulysses]

8. Chris enjoys Teletubbies and Barney

much to my great horror. I guess he's still a baby, though. ;-)

[Taverner]

17. I love Pingu!!!

Totally abstract and bizarre - what else would you expect from the Swedes?

If you want really bizarre check out Boobah.

[LaraMN]

19. I dunno. Call me crazy, but I feel there's something slightly phallic

about this:

[Taverner]

20. Zing zing zing ZINGBAH!!!!!

Back when I was laid off, I used to pop Tavernertoddler in front of the TV after a few bong hits.

We both couldn't take our eyes off the set.

[LaraMN]

23. Tell me they don't shoot anything out the tops of their heads.

:rofl:

[Taverner]

24. No but they fart to fly

Honest!

[LaraMN]

26. Have you watched this?

The guy in blue is kinda hot and wears alot of spandex. :evilgrin:

[Taverner]

28. Yeah...it was a little too Cotton Candy Rave for me

and Tavernertoddler

[progmom]

32. i read somewhere he was an Icelandic Olympian

:shrug:

[TheMightyFavog]

37. I watched a few episodes of Boobah

I've come to the conclusion that the creators of the show must have gotten the idea from reading a book or watching a television program on quantum mechanics while tripping balls on a combinations of DMT, Shrooms, LSD, and Quaaludes.

[CanuckAmok]

33. I've said it before, and I'll say it again....

The strangest thing in Pingu.... and maybe in all of tv-dom.... is that the only business in Pingu's vollage is a French Horn Store.

Like, do they eat French Horns? Because there's no bakery to be seen. Not even a fish-head emporium.

:shrug:

[progmom]

14. we LOVE Pingu

[Taverner]

5. I HATE Caillou

total fucking whiner

[LaraMN]

7. And his parents are absolute wusses, besides.

I know it's *just* a cartoon, and I try to keep perspective, but that show makes it really tough.

[Taverner]

18. Those Canucks...I tell ya

But seriously, Calliou needs an attitude adjustment.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Never watched it myself, but my sister banned Caillou

from her house. :rofl: She says Caillou is the antichrist.

[LaraMN]

9. She's wise to do so.

I've banned Barney and Friends, but Caillou's getting REAL close...

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. You, me, Mrs. McLargehuge...

and any number of other parents who've experienced the awsome whininess of Caillou.

[seemunkee]

11. Tape PeeWee at night and replay it for the kids

[LynzM]

12. Banned from our house, as well.

Ever since I saw an episode while baby-sitting about 6 years ago, I swore that my child(ren) would never, ever watch this show. All he teaches kids is how to complain, whine, and pout about not getting their way, and it's not like they need any help on that front.

[TheMightyFavog]

39. According to Wikipedia...

Caillou was originally broadcast in French in Quebec...

Wait... from Quebec, complaining, whining, and pouting about not getting their way... Canadian DUers, Would I be mistaken if I were to say that this what the Bloc Quebecois does in Parliment every day?

[1gobluedem]

13. I hate Caillou

He is a sniveling, whiny brat.

[progmom]

15. you and progdad are in total agreement

for some reason he doesn't bug me to quite the same degree.

[deutsey]

16. I used to feel that way about the brats on "Barney"

They weren't whiney, just irritating.

Fortunately, my kids didn't get into Caillou.

[Taverner]

22. At least the Barney gang were polite

They always tried to be poilte and nice, even though it came off as forced and fake

Caillou is whiney and always says "BUT ITS NOT FAIR!!!"

Get a clue, Caillou. LIFE AINT FAIR!!!

[deutsey]

25. Well, life's not easy being Charlie Brown's bastard son

:evilgrin:

[MiniMandaRuth]

40. Geeze.... Old Charlie Brown musta hit some hard times...

To have a hand in THAT production.

[Book Lover]

21. I love Calliou!

What's wrong with him? Gee, I think it's a great show - I even like the musical bits. I think it shows kids that it's OK not to be perfect, and how you resolve frustration and anger.

[Broken_Hero]

27. never heard of this guy

is he on nickelodeon, or something?

[Book Lover]

30. PBS kids show

that centers on a 4-year-old, Caillou, and his circle (baby sister Rosie, Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, friends, schoolmates, neighbors, etc, etc). The normal sort of stuff happens to him - for instance he thinks the circus is today, but instead it's tomorrow, and he gets angry, and his family and he have to deal. I like the show and my child likes the show; I don't get the haters here. :shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. So why is this kid named the French word for "pebble?"

In honor of Pebbles Flintstone? Stone Phillips?

[Throd]

29. Bring on the John Wayne Gacy episode!

God, I hate that whiney little prick.

[Sequoia]

31. Indeed.

I don't like that Arthur either. Went to a school function when my child was in kindergarten and the Arthur charcter sat beside me and was looking my way before the program. Maybe it was someone I knew but I was creeped out. I know, I'm weird.

[Bombero1956]

36. not allowed at our house

My grandson Noah is autistic. For some reason he takes on some of the speech and mannerisms of some of the characters on the shows he watches. In the case of Caillou he whines and refuses to listen and he pouts. He even does the stinky speech from Lilo and Stitch. He's now into Thomas the Tank Engine and makes exaggerated facial expressions. At least those aren't as annoying as the constant whining. I read somewhere that the girl who was Caillou's voice died in 2003 in a car crash.

[TroubleMan]

35. Same here.

My son's too old for that now, but that was one whiny little brat.

[MiniMandaRuth]

38. I remeber staying home form school with the flu once...

After having slept about .01 hours all night, I was flipping the channels and I found a Canadian children's show.

In my condition, it just didn't look right. When I got back to school two days later, my friends asked me where I had been.

My response?

"Well... all I know is that I had the flu and I think I watched Canadian soft-core porn...."