By Kaiden Tran, Features Editor
The infamous children’s TV show "Caillou" has been indefinitely canceled, bringing its 22 years of airtime to an end.
Although the show had its final episode on Oct. 3, 2010, PBS, the station broadcasting the show, aired reruns for the past decade. However, it was "good riddance" when the show was pulled from TV screens. Looking at the show from an outside perspective, Caillou was outright not appropriate for a young audience.
“Caillou is a whiny, bratty child, and his show holds no educational value,” mother Kate McKenzie said in an interview with Today. “Children who watch this program tend to copy Caillou’s behavior. Whining, demanding, throwing himself on the floor kicking and screaming.”
The show’s main character, Caillou, is viewed by parents everywhere as a snotty and whiny brat who should not be the protagonist teaching or entertaining their children. The infants watching the show, not knowing better than to act like the person they see on the screen, will try to imitate Caillou because they believe that it is the correct behavior. The last thing a parent wants is to see their offspring act like a sociopathic gorilla, adapting and preserving that snotty attitude because of it.
Parents have suffered from their child’s adaptation of Caillou’s traits for too long.
“Parents are rejoicing that Caillou has been cancelled but for some of us it’s too little too late," Twitter user @singlebabymama tweeted. "The damage has already been done.”
Although parents are ecstatic to see the end of "Caillou," there may be some children who do not feel the same. Since they don't know any better, the children infatuated with the series may find it difficult to not see Caillou and his stories on the screen. Compared to how an average teenager may find it difficult to watch the season finale of "The Mandalorian," a child will have trouble when they realize that the bald menace isn’t on screen anymore.
“The disappointment of something ending is tough to experience,” Eric Rasmussen, Ph.D. said. “[A woman watching the final episode of a TV series] The tears poured down her face as she thought about not seeing her TV ‘friends’ again.”
Parents’ rejoicement of Caillou's cancellation is their proper reward for putting up with PBS’ ignorance as the television station allowed the educationless pile of garbage to run for an additional 10 years.
Caillou was very clearly not a good role model for children. However, PBS had glanced over the numerous complaints that parents have filed towards the show.
It is with great joy that #caillouiscanceled is now trending.
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