Barney & Friends became the bane of children’s TV in the 1990s and Teletubbies inherited that dishonor in the 2000s, but 2010s-era parental scorn belonged to Caillou . The animated children’s series debuted in Canada in 1997 and migrated to the United States 25 years ago — debuting on PBS Kids on September 4, 2000 — but good luck finding many viewers waxing nostalgic.

Caillou , you see, seems to be one of Canada’s most-despised cultural exports, perhaps surpassing Justin Bieber and Nickelback . In a 2017 column , the National Post ’s Tristan Hopper deemed Caillou “quite possibly the world’s most universally reviled children’s program.”

So what is it that rankles Caillou viewers so? After all, the show seems inoffensive enough at first glance. Based on picture

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