A character sheet for Caillou the Grown Up.
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Caillou
Caillou
- Voiced by: Rama Vallury
The protagonist of the series, Caillou is now a 22-year-old man who still lives at home and acts like a four-year-old.
- Abusive Offspring: He terrorizes his parents with insults, threats, and sometimes physical violence in order to make them do what he wants.
- Adaptational Villainy: While Caillou had plenty of moments of Jerkass behavior in canon, he also genuinely loved his family and could be surprisingly selfless. This version on the other hand has no love for anyone but himself (aside from maybe his mother, his grandparents, and his cousin Boue), causes others incredible harm, and will happily screw anyone over if it benefits him.
- Asshole Victim: In "Caillou in Quarantine", he's hit by a car and put in a full body cast. He deserved it after all the abuse he put everyone else through.
- Ax-Crazy: A borderline example: while he's normally not threatening, he will harm people in horrible ways when he doesn't get what he wants.
- Bald of Evil: He's bald and psychotic to where he's willing to harm people physically.
- Basement-Dweller: Not only does he still live with his parents as an adult, he is completely incapable of doing adult things like driving a car, cooking a meal, or even tying his own shoes.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, he may just come off as naïve, optimistic and childlike, but he is actually a sociopath who is willing to threaten and harm others just to get what he wants. It's even possible that his childlike personality is just a facade to manipulate people into giving him what he wants.
- The Bully: He loves to torment people weaker than him. This is best shown in "Caillou the Grownup Goes On Vacation", where he destroys a sandcastle that a couple of children have built. When the kids' father angrily confronts him, he throws sand in the man's eyes. When the father comes back later, he throws a knife into his eye.
- Casanova Wannabe: In "Caillou the Grownup Goes on a Date", he thinks the way he acts will appeal to women, and even imagines himself to be a really great kisser. The actual date ends up in disaster, with the girl getting fed up with his childish behavior and leaving before they even order.
- Catchphrase: Caillou has four. His most used one is "Daaaddy" to the point where Caillou says it at least Once per Episode. Running a close second is "Yahooo!!". The two slightly lesser used ones are him singing "I'm Caillou, that's me!" or just "I'm Caillou" to the tune of the Caillou theme song.
- Character Tics: Starting with "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving", whenever Caillou says "Daddy" in a drawn-out manner, his pupils go to the opposite corners of his eyes.
- Dirty Coward: He completely breaks down into tears whenever Boris demands him to get a job. As shown in the thanksgiving episode, He clearly loves getting on Boris' nerves, but whenever Boris snaps he will start making a scared face. He also screams like a scared little kid before getting hit by a car in the current final episode.
- Distaff Counterpart: "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving" shows that he has a cousin named Boue, who is very much a female version of him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Caillou zigzags this trope a bit. While a majority of Caillou's threats are in the presence of his mother, Doris, she's never addressed during them. He'll always say "Daddy" at the end of his threats (i.e. in "Caillou Goes on a Date" and "Caillou Goes On Vacation") but her name is never said. Caillou enjoys being around his grandparents and his cousin, Boue as seen in "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving", however it's likely that it's because his grandparents are of the Doting Grandparent variety who ignore and even find amusement in his inappropriate behavior(s) and Boue is his Distaff Counterpart in every meaning of the trope.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: In "Caillou the Grownup Goes on Vacation", he has the gall to crack an "Eye/I" pun after throwing a knife into the eye of a man who was trying to beat him in retribution for ruining his kids' sand castles at the beach.
- Faux Affably Evil: Caillou is the most cheerful out of his parents and Rosie, but that's mainly because his immaturity and selfishness have worn his parents down (and his psychosis has scared them) to where they have no choice but to give in to him. And he revels in this. Often episodes (like in the first "Caillou the Grownup", "Caillou's First Date", and "Caillou Goes on Vacation") will go like this: Caillou happily demands something from his parents with a smile, like a little kid asking for something who forgot to say please, Boris will decline. Caillou demands again, now getting angrier, and Boris once again says "no". At this point, Caillou will drop his Cheerful Child routine and threaten his parents with harm to either themselves or the house if they don't cater to his demands. His parents defeatedly comply. Caillou returns to his Cheerful Child act, even at one point in the first episode huggs Boris and saying he's the best with a mockingly nasty smile as though to say, "See how much easier things are for everyone when I get my way?" Yep, Grade A Jerkass.
- Flanderization: Played for Laughs as part of the premise. While Caillou in the original series was notoriously bratty, he had no malicious intentions and more often than not learned the error of his ways by the end of the stories (even if the episodic nature of the series made him prone to Aesop Amnesia) and his immaturity was at least trying to be an accurate reflection of real children. The adult version shown in Caillou the Grownup lacks any of his original counterparts' redeeming qualities, and his immaturity is highly exaggerated to depict him as a Psychopathic Manchild.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Some videos end with him threatening the audience to make them subscribe to the channel.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He throws tantrums at the slightest provocation.
- Hate Sink: There is absolutely nothing likeable about Caillou and he only gets worse and worse episode after episode.
- Hated by All: Almost nobody likes him at all. His mother's the only one other than his grandparents and cousin, Boue, who tolerates him, but even that's stretching it since it's clear she doesn't oppose his wishes out of fear.
- Idiot Houdini: He does stupid things that would get him into trouble or land him in jail in real life, but he always comes out relatively unscathed.
- Insufferable Imbecile: He's a complete moron who can't even tie his own shoes, and he's quite willing to hurt other people emotionally or physically to get his way.
- It's All About Me: As far as he's concerned, he's the only person in the world that matters, and other people exist solely to serve him.
- Jerkass: He's vile, spoiled, selfish, aggressive, whiny, immature, conceited, sociopathic, unremorseful and unsympathetic. There's not a single redeeming quality about him.
- Jerkass to One: Caillou is already quite the degenerate, but it's clear that most of his malice is aimed towards Daddy.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When Daddy calls him a monster Caillou says "I'm the monster you made, Daddy". He's not entirely wrong about this.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In the current final episode it’s revealed Caillou actually got Boris fired from his job. Boris starts yelling at him, and while you could argue that some people would start having remorse because they might start to come to the realization that they took their actions too far or of how much they hurt the other person, Caillou just stands there with this sassy look on his face, which then turns into a shit-eating grin when Boris decides he wants to wrestle with him after saying no a few moments earlier.
- Karma Houdini: He gets away with pretty much everything he does. Subverted in "Caillou in Quarantine" where he's hit by a car and put in a full body cast.
- Lack of Empathy: He's completely uninterested in the feelings of others and doesn't care how much he hurts them.
- Lazy Bum: Oh boy. He reacts to any suggestion that he should work with a violent and petulant threat.
- Misaimed Fandom: In-Universe, an AMA video has him refer to The Handmaid's Tale as his favorite comedy.
- NEET: He's still dependent on his parents for all of his needs.
- Never My Fault: Caillou never apologizes or even admits he was in the wrong for his selfish, manipulative and spoiled behavior. From screwing up his date by being demanding and entitled to crashing his car into Arthur's to throwing sand into a man's eye for being told off for stepping on two poor kids' sandcastles. He'll always push the blame on someone else with no hesitation or guilt.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Caillou loves to lean close to Boris and in later episodes tries to instigate wrestling matches and tickle fights with him regardless if Boris is up for it or not.
- Prematurely Bald: In the AMA episode, Caillou revealed that he doesn't have any hair because he lost it in an accident that involved filling his dad's closet with fireworks as a prank.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He's a 22-year-old man, but still acts like a four-year-old. He's also not above dishing out threats to his parents if they don't let him have his way. He makes Dora look responsible in comparison.
- Smug Snake: In the first episode, he imagines himself as an absolutely amazing businessman who works very hard and makes the company he works for the most money. But a few moments later Boris demands him to get a job and he completely breaks down crying and even threatens him into letting him go job free. Considering what kind of person he is, one could come up with the conclusion that he thinks he’s too good to work.
- The Sociopath: He has no regard for other people, only cares about what he wants and has no qualms at all about using threats to force his parents to submit to his whims. In the AMA episode, Caillou reveals other sociopathic traits such as a grandiose sense of self, impulsive and hedonistic behaviors, mooching off the generosity of others, and absolutely no ability to follow any life plan whatsoever.
- Spoiled Brat: An exaggerated example. He's a good example of what happens if someone's parents continue to pamper them well into adulthood.
- The Un-Favourite: His parents make it clear they prefer his little sister Rosie over him, and for very good reasons...
- Too Dumb to Live: In the current final episode, he dances around in the street and pays the price for it.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Caillou's appears to be pizza, as he childishly demands one in two different episodes. Though apart from the Pizza Night in "A Very Special Caillou", he's never actually seen eating it. But even in that episode Caillou himself didn't eat it because Boris bringing home the pizza and all that ensued after that was All Just a Dream.
- Villain Protagonist: He's a selfish, vindictive asshole who happens to be the main character.
Daddy/Boris
Daddy/Boris
Voiced by: Nick Gligor
Caillou's father and the deuteragonist of the series.
- Abusive Parents: It's implied his parents have been abusive towards him as a child, as he has been to Caillou now.
- The Alcoholic: Boris has become one in this series to the point where he not only makes a drunken scene at the dinner table in the Thanksgiving episode, but he now pours bourbon in his breakfast cereal in place of milk.
- Big "YES!": He lets one out when Caillou dies of a heart attack in "A Very Special Caillou". Unfortunately for him, it was All Just a Dream. Again. He does so again in "Caillou in Quarantine" after Cailou gets hit by a car.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: He is this to Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. Years of putting up with his son Caillou has turned him from a pleasant person to an ill-tempered drunkard who wishes his son was dead and lashes out at other people, even when they do nothing to provoke him.
- Dirty Coward: This is his Fatal Flaw; while he has every reason to stand up against Caillou or even kick him out, he just doesn't have the spine to go through with it.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most people call him "Daddy".
- Jerkass Has a Point: He may be a strict and stern father, but he's completely in the right about Caillou being a bad person who needs to grow up.
- Kick the Dog: By the "A Very Special Caillou" two-parter, Boris has started verbally and even physically lashing out at those around him who don't antagonize him. In "A Very Special Caillou" Part 1, he angrily shouted at Doris who was being patient and calmly asking him what was wrong and if he wanted to go to the store. He also argues and instigates a Curb-Stomp Battle on the sidewalk with his next-door-neighbor Mr. Hinkle, who was only trying to calm Boris down.
- Not So Above It All: In "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving" and both parts of "A Very Special Caillou", he's shown that when he acts drunk, he acts exactly like Caillou. Then again, he could've been pushed off the edge by years of misery from having to tolerate with Caillou, so it's easy to feel sorry for him. Not to mention, he was drunk.
Though it may be a bit harder to side with Boris when he lashes out at other people. - Only Sane Man: Whilst everyone else will give Caillou the benefit of the doubt (at least at first), Daddy is always the first one to notice that something isn't right about his sociopathic son and will try to call him out on his behavior the first chance he gets. Unfortunately, as the series goes on, while Boris still calls Caillou out on his selfish, childish and vile behavior, it's apparent that Boris' sanity is quickly deteriorating. Which leads to...
- Sanity Slippage: By the time of "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving", Boris' mental health and temper take a turn for the worse.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: A major subplot throughout the series revolves around Boris becoming gradually more fed up with Caillou, and the negative impact this has on his own behaviour.
- In the first three episodes, Boris is still a levelheaded and sensible adult who blames himself for raising Caillou into a spoiled Manchild, but he still clearly loves his son and is friendly and welcoming with other people, like Dora in the third episode.
- By the time "Caillou Goes on Vacation" takes place, Boris has completely lost any affection or patience with Caillou, and at one point even wants to help another man beat Caillou up.
- In "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving", Boris has started drinking and has become far more depressed and short-tempered, even openly saying that he outright hates Caillou now. During the climactic argument at dinner, Boris goes on a drunken rant at the family, prompting Doris to note that he's acting just like Caillou.
- In the "A Very Special Caillou" 2-parter, Boris' hatred for Caillou has become so strong that he dreams of Caillou dying and at one point he even tries to choke Caillou during a "wrestling" match. Boris' attitude and behavior towards others has also worsened, as he snaps at his wife and even gets into a fight with his neighbor, and unlike Caillou, they did nothing wrong to Boris to deserve it.
- The Un-Favourite: Much like Caillou is to him, he's this to his own parents. Ironically, his parents like their grandson more than him.
Rosie
Rosie
Voiced by: Jas Sams
Caillou’s younger sister.
- The Aloner: Rosie is seemingly distant from her family, even to the point of not accompanying them at their grandparents' house in "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving". However, with a brother like Caillou and the fact that the whole dinner went down in flames, perhaps was for the best. Zig-zagged in that maybe Rosie was off celebrating with a friend's family or her mom's side of the family instead.
- Aloof Ally: Rosie may not be the most cheerful or openly affectionate to her parents, it's been shown in the first "Caillou the Grownup" and in "Caillou Goes on Vacation" that Rosie will stand up for her parents against Caillou's brattiness without their asking, hesitance or incentive.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: She may have been one in her teen years if her moodiness and short-temper are taken into account, but who could blame her with a brother like Caillou?
- Daddy's Girl: Despite being standoffish, Rosie appears to love and respect both her parents, particularly her dad. One instance is shown in the very first episode when Rosie casually asks if she can vape in the kitchen, and after being asked by Boris to do it outside, she complies silently (but not before puffing some in Caillou's face on the way out). They also do shrooms in the backyard together the night before "Caillou in Quarantine".
- Fiery Redhead: Having no doubt been fueled by having to put up with Caillou acting like a spoiled, entitled 5-year-old for 20 years, Rosie's temper is about as short and fiery as her hair.
- Foil: Rosie is this for Caillou. Rosie is the youngest child of Boris and Doris, but is mature enough to take care of herself (most likely living at home for financial reasons). She also went to college and was successful enough to get a degree (as evidenced by her diploma being framed in the hall in the first episode) and is most likely employed or actively seeking employment. Personality-wise, Rosie is a Perpetual Frowner who mostly keeps to herself and doesn't bother her parents, but deep down is a good person who loves and appreciates her parents (and vice versa). On the flip side, Caillou is the oldest child, but is so immature and childish that he can't even tie his shoes (as shown in the theme song) and still needs to be tucked into bed ("Caillou Goes on a Date"). Caillou most likely never went to college, and never had a job and vehemently rejects one, happy to be The Thing That Would Not Leave for the rest of his life. In terms of personality, Caillou is almost always a Perpetual Smiler who constantly craves truckloads of love and attention from everyone around him, despite his toxic waste dump of a personality, especially his parents and grandparents, but he only loves them if they don't object to him and give him everything he wants and he doesn't think that anything his parents do for him is enough, and Caillou's father hates him and his mother is sick and tired of his behavior but does nothing about it out of fear.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rosie is a short-tempered, aloof young woman but it's clear she has a good heart and her parent's back as shown by her defending her parent's right to relaxation away from Caillou in "Caillou Goes on Vacation" and backing up her dad's claim about Caillou "not progressing" how they'd expected and hoped, albeit by rudely calling Caillou "the worst".
Mommy/Doris
Mommy/Doris
Caillou's mother.- Morality Pet: Doris is this to Caillou to a degree. Caillou shouts at, threatens, manipulates and embarrasses Boris almost all the time, but he never appears to target her. She's in the presence when Caillou turns to threatening after being denied something he wants, but Caillou only focus on and ends the threats with Daddy. He never once says Doris' name or even looks in her direction. Caillou and Doris also talk nicely towards each other whenever they interact one-on-one, so it's likely Caillou has at least some love and respect for her.
- Parental Obliviousness: Inverted. She seems rather oblivious to Caillou's actions, or at least doesn't attempt to call him out on it. However, she knows Calliou's not acting right and is likely only not doing anything because she's too afraid to or because she thinks discipling Caillou like Boris does now will only make Caillou worse.
- Took a Level in Cynic: A subtle example. In the first few episodes, Doris tolerates and doesn't even seem to notice Caillou's unstable, childish behaviour and the negative effect this has on her husband. By the time "A Very Caillou Thanksgiving" takes place, she's more openly disapproving of Caillou, and also calls out Boris when he starts acting just like their son.Grandma: (after Caillou pours the mashed potatoes down his own pants) That's really funny, Caillou!
Doris: (deadpan) No, it's not. Don't encourage him. - Women Are Wiser: She's more sane than her husband, likely because Caillou doesn't abuse her as much. She also calls Boris out whenever he resorts to emulating Caillou's psychopathic behaviors and puts her foot down when Boris physcally hurts Caillou knowing that just adds fuel to the fire.
Grandma and Grandpa
Grandma and Grandpa
Boris' parents.- Abusive Parents: At the end of their debut episode, Grandpa physically attacks and beats Boris.
- Extreme Doormat: After cooking a beautiful Thankgiving dinner for the family, they decide on a whim to order a pizza just because Caillou and Boue want one. Even when both Boris and Jim tell them not to give in to these demands, Grandma still insists on ordering a pizza, finally triggering Boris' temper.
- Grandparental Obliviousness: Grandma and Grandpa are shown to be even worse enablers than Doris was in the first few episodes, seeing Caillou's manchild behaviour as completely harmless and continuing to spoil both him and Boue. While Doris' submissiveness to Caillou is heavily implied to be out of fear, Grandma and Grandpa seem blissfully ignorant of their grandson's blatantly toxic attitude, genuinely believing him to be a good boy.
- Hypocrite: Despite allowing Caillou and Boue to be bratty and rude the whole day, Boris rightfully telling them off prompts Grandma to call the police and Grandpa to physically beat Boris.
Boue
Boue
Caillou's cousin, a similarly immature grown woman who also still lives with her parents.- Canon Foreigner: Boue is an original character created for Caillou the Grownup, and does not appear in the original series.
- Charlie Brown Baldness: A rare female example. She has several strands of hair on top, and that's it.
- Bilingual Bonus: Boue means "mud" in French in keeping with the Theme Naming.
- Bratty Food Demand: In the Thanksgiving episode after Caillou rudely rebuffs Grandma's turkey and demands pizza, Boue joins in shortly thereafter with a desire to be a "pizza pilgrim".
- Distaff Counterpart: She's clearly intended to be a female version of Caillou, to the point where she even has her own title card.
- Hate Sink: The only thing that makes her better than Caillou is that she only appears in one episode.
- Jerkass: Much like her counterpart and cousin, Caillou. Although since she's only made one appearance so far, only time will tell if she's a full-blown Jerkass of a Psychopathic Woman Child like her cousin, or a relatively functional if still immature young woman who's easily influenced by Caillou's bad behavior.
- Unfortunate Names: As stated above, Boue's name is literally the French word for "mud" or "sludge". Is it any wonder she turned out like she did?
Cousin Jim and Susan
Cousin Jim and Susan
Boue's parents.- Canon Foreigner: Along with their daughter, they don’t appear in the original series.
- The Alcoholic: Implied. Boris mentions that Jim attends AA, and after taking a drunken Boris' side during the argument at dinner, Jim asks if he can share some of the whisky.
- Flat Character: They only appear in the Thanksgiving episode. Susan does not speak at all, and most of Jim's dialogue is talking about how much he hates the womanchild their daughter has grown into.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Jim looks just like his brother, Boris, but with a beard.
Other characters:
Becky
Becky
A girl Caillou goes on a date with in the second episode.- Everyone Has Standards: She may be a Nice Girl, but she's completely disgusted with Caillou's childish tantrums. Their date lasts less than a minute before Becky leaves.
- Nice Girl: She seems very mild-mannered and accepting of Caillou until he starts demanding pizza at the restaurant like a violent brat.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She leaves before they order because she can't stand Caillou's bratty behavior.
