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=== The show displays examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[Adored Byby the Network]]: PBS Kids Sprout has taken to airing ''Caillou's Holiday Movie'' multiple times throughout non-holiday weekends, even though it is very much a Christmas-themed movie. This is done along with mini-marathon airings of regular ''Caillou'' episodes.
** Also adored by Yumurcak TV in Turkey. Four air slots (with the first one being a double-bill one hour back to back) seven days a week. Also, commercials for Caillou merchandise can run up to 5 minutes long.
** As if the half a dozen episodes a day weren't enough, Sprout "celebrated" their airing of the newest season with a ''four hour marathon'', which basically made the entire ''day'' nothing but Caillou after it's regular hour's worth at noon and the evening showings.
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* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Caillou's voice is always played by a female. [[Cookie Jar]] loves this trope.
* [[Crossover]]: Did a tie-in with the Montreal Biodome in the early 2000s.
* [[Depending Onon the Writer]]: Caillou can be a tantrum-throwing brat or gentle boy due to this. Also determines whether Rosie is an angel or [[Bratty Half-Pint]] to Caillou.
* [[Edited for Syndication]]: You can either get the show with the shorts strung together with extras and puppets in one long 30-minute episode, or as five-minute (later 10-minute) shorts. In Canadian markets where both are available, the 30-minute episodes are marketed as ''Caillou and Friends'' while the five/ten-minute episodes are marketed as just ''Caillou''.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** Caillou's first voice actor is [[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne Shirley]]!
** Rosie's second voice actor is [[Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat|Sheegwa]]!
** [[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Fern]] is their babysitter!
* [[Kids Prefer Boxes]]: One episode has Cailou's parents buy him a computer he can play on; he ends up liking the box it came in better.
* [[Licensed Game|Licensed Games]] / [[Edutainment Game|Edutainment Games]] / [[IOS Games]]: About a dozen or so edutainment titles for the PC/Mac. There's also an iPhone audiobook app.
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* [[The Other Darrin]]: The Caillou [[Compact Disc|CD-ROMs]] reused clips from the show but redubbed with new audio. For the puppet segment redubs, however, they were unable to secure Pier Kohl to record new lines for Teddy. A soundalike was used instead, and it's rather noticeable if you get straight to the game right after watching the TV series.
* [[Recursive Adaptation]]: Naturally, considering that the series started with books.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: ''Caillou'' is one of NTV7 Malaysia's victims, and it was only the first 65 shorts. After about 20 episodes were aired, the 40 episodes in the middle were dropped and then once the final five episodes had aired, it was quickly replaced by ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. NTV7 had not bothered with the subsequent seasons.
* [[Slice of Life]]: Yes, it's one of these shows.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Caillou himself in the earlier seasons.
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