Big Brother Caillou (Caillou)

"Big Brother Caillou" is the twelfth episode from the first season of Caillou. While "Caillou Makes Cookies" was the first Caillou episode, "Big Brother Caillou" is the first chronologically, which is considered rather prequel to "Caillou Makes Cookies". It was first aired on September 15, 1997 in Canada and then in 2000 in United States.

Plot
Doris got her pregnant where she went to the hospital and had a baby named Rosie. Despite that Caillou is a little boy, he has a big job that he is Rosie's big brother. He helps Doris, Boris and Grandma with his little sister Rosie and learns that sometimes it's fun just to be a little boy, too.

Why Caillou Is A Big Bad Brother

 * 1) The infamous and shockingly disturbing scene where Caillou pinches Rosie's face  so hard that she cries, Not to mention, the cry Rosie makes is disturbingly realistic. Oh yeah, where have we heard that before?, an episode that teaches kids not to do it, but they still do it and not listen, what a rancid moral, right?.
 * 2) *The book version of this episode is even worse, as he legit bites his sister's ear (for real). What the hell, Caillou?
 * 3) *On that topic, Caillou's angry face he makes when pinching Rosie's face which makes him look like a psychopath, is extremely punchable.
 * 4) *While pinching may not hurt us at all, babies can bruise and even bleed when pinched, or worse, be disfigured for good.
 * 5) Caillou is very annoying in this episode, constantly whining and jealous about his newborn sister.
 * 6) Caillou, like usual, isn't punished for his actions... not even for what he did to Rosie. Instead, his parents indulged his bratty behavior.
 * 7) Caillou's parents didn't even teach him a lesson about not being mean to his newborn sister or how they'll still love him no matter what. Thing that another preschool show did and in a much better way.
 * 8) Speaking of lessons, the moral is not only atrocious but is messed up, and could teach kids to "be jealous and hurt your newborn sibling, since you won't get punished".
 * 9) Several plot holes and errors; for some reason, Doris says at the beginning she'll be at the hospital today, but later in the next scene, the narrator says "a few days later."
 * 10) *Another error is that if you look closely on the cover of the book that the Grandma storyteller shows with Mommy holding Rosie, you can see she still looks like she is pregnant.
 * 11) *At the beginning of the episode, Caillou talks like a 2-year-old, but after he angrily pinches Rosie, he speaks in complete sentences like he usually does.
 * 12) *When Mommy shows Caillou his sister and says "This is Rosie," her mouth doesn't move.
 * 13) This episode is considered to be the worst episode in the entire series, behind "Caillou Joins The Circus", due to the reason mentioned above.
 * 14) The episode has one disgusting scene where Caillou and his dad smell Rosie's dirty diaper.
 * 15) *While diaper changing is a natural part of life, it’s something that shouldn’t be shown in the episode due to the show’s target audience being really young children.
 * 16) While the pinch scene was edited out on Cartoon Network's preschool block Cartoonito reruns in the USA, it was edited poorly. As the music cuts short, and Caillou is seen moving the chair and then after that it just cuts to him smiling.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The pinch scene, while still gruesome, is at least an improvement over what Caillou does in the book, as mentioned above.
 * 2) *Speaking of which, said scene got cut on Cartoonito reruns in the USA since they knew that scene is not good at all.
 * 3) Baby Rosie is cute and also a likable character, and sympathetic despite being pinched by Caillou.
 * 4) Good Ending: Caillou redeems himself and finally gets along with Rosie.

Reception
Big Brother Caillou was met with a very negative reception from critics and audiences, mainly due to Caillou's constant whining and the scene where Caillou violently pinches his sister face. The episode currently has a 2.2/10 on IMDb.com, making it the lowest-rated episode in the entire series. The episode was later banned from PBS Kids (formerly PTV) and Sprout (now Universal Kids) in the United States.

Trivia

 * This episode was the first episode of the overall series to be produced first but ended up becoming the 4th episode of the series in package order. It, however, was the first episode to air on television.
 * This is the only episode that took place when Caillou was 2 ½.
 * As said before, in the United States, this episode was banned from PBS Kids and Sprout in 2006 because Caillou violently pinched Rosie.
 * Caillou furiously pinching Rosie's cheek, however, is less harmful than what he does in the original book that the episode is based on, where he gets even more violent and angrily bites Rosie.
 * 24 years later, it aired on Cartoon Network's preschool block Cartoonito, however, the scene where Caillou pinches Rosie's face is edited out, alongside with Daddy asking Caillou to pass him the diaper.
 * This is to prevent the kids to do what Caillou did to Rosie, and to avoid scatlogical content.

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