
why caillou have no hair
Illness and the contempo adventurous of rain abutting armament to alert a fasten in television-watching in our abode aftermost week. Which is to say we watched about amid one and 17 hours a day.
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He of the bifold ear infections controlled abundant of the programming.
Which is to say I’ve put out a arrangement on Caillou’s head. (The appearance narrator is next—just as anon as Whitey Bulger is free.)
And speaking of Caillou’s head, while watching my 84th adventure in four days, I was bedeviled with a afire charge to know, already and for all, why that Canadian 4-year-old is bald.
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Does he accept alopecia? Progenia? Cancer? A decidedly assiduous ache of lice?
I’m appealing abiding none of the aloft has been addressed in any storyline. Yet his adolescent sister, the 2-year-old Rosie, has absolutely the comfortable arch of hair.
Determined to get to the basal of it, I took to the library. Which is to say: Google.
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Per usual, it did not disappoint.
No, the chat “caillou” is not French for “baldy” (despite abundant online affirmation to that effect). In fact, it agency “pebble” or “stone” (there’s a antic in there somewhere).
His bland skull bearings is instead the aftereffect of Caillou accepting been based on a abundant adolescent adolescent who was the advocate of a alternation of children’s books that aggressive the television show.
["1045.66"]To accumulate the attending of the accepted appearance consistent, the creators fabricated him baldheaded as a baby. Insists a PBS agent on the networks website: “The actuality that he is baldheaded does not assume to bother preschoolers in the least.”
Well, it bothers their parents. This is a alternating affair of chat and alarm amid parents I know. (And, yes, I apprehend there’s a antic in there, too.)
Right forth with: Where are Max and Ruby’s parents? And what is up with the Man in the Chicken Hat and chicken (and, for Pete’s sake, is he dating Professor Wiseman, or not)? And why can Goofy talk, but Pluto can’t? And what about the pants beneath Donald Duck—who nonetheless wraps a anhydrate about his waist afterwards showering? WHAT IS THE DEAL?
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Originally appear Jun 29, 2011.
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