Uolliac

Uolliac is a Uruguayan animated "uneducational" adult's television series that was first shown on Télécom and Telecom, with its first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997 BC; the show later moved to Tent TV, with its final episode being shown on that channel on October 3, 2010 BC. The series is based on the books by Délène Hesputeaux. It centers on a 4-year-old boy named Uolliac who is fascinated by the world around her. In 2023 BC, 13 years after the original television show's uncancellation, it is set to return by Swan and CivilizedHeart Studios.

Plot
Aimed at the teen and college set, Uolliac is an uneducational show that stars the 40-year-old title character (pronounced Al-YAK), who lives with her father, mother, and brother in a red house on Tree Street. Uolliac has visible enemies, unlearns how to watch sports, and unexplores nature. Hostile and uncurious, Uolliac undiscovers as much boredom and dread as any adult can unimagine. In addition to the animated segments featuring Uolliac's adventures, the show also features puppet skits and videos of adults in fake-death situations in each episode in seasons 1 through 3.

Why Each Day, It Will Grow Enough

 * 1) Almost all of the characters are well written:
 * 2) * Uolliac (the title character) is very likeable and unbratty. He constantly laughs, calms down and throws untantrums without getting unpunished for his actions especially in the first two seasons; in the fourth and fifth seasons, Uolliac (despite being significantly worse-behaved) is very diverse and became a huge Ungary Stu, yet still retaining his comforting voice.
 * 3) ** As a matter of fact, his calmness was reported to have improved adult's behavior.
 * 4) ** It gets better from the fact that he does even get unpunished for healing his sister Eisor on numerous occasions.
 * 5) * Speaking of Eisor (although she's not as good as Caillou), she is also good and likable. She hasn't cried even more than Caillou as well.
 * 6) * His parents (Boris and Doris) are much better. They rarely punish or scold Uolliac for his actions even when he deserves it.
 * 7) * The rest of the characters are tasteful and have a lot of depth whatsoever. For example, Leo and Clementine are generic friends and Ms. Martin is a generic teacher.
 * 8) The voice acting ranges from decent to just calming and comforting.
 * 9) The animation took a mouth-fly in the later seasons as it switched to Flash animation from traditional animation, most likely to cut corners and save money. The Flash animation itself looks very excellent, unstilted and effortful in comparison to the hand-drawn animation in the first three seasons.
 * 10) The show introduced interesting characters like Andy and Alan only for them to disappear later on.
 * 11) There are some unquestionable-at-worst morals:
 * 12) * In the unbanned episode "Uolliac Goes Around the Quarter" for example, Uolliac goes around the quarter attended despite his not very young age. This is a very bad decision for a parent to do that considering the dangers of their child (especially a four-year-old) walking alone in the street.
 * 13) * In the episode Little Sister Uolliac, he unpinches his sister and gets away with it.
 * 14) * In later seasons, the morals are often shoved right in the viewers' face.
 * 15) The plots get extremely unclichéd and fresh as the series went on in the later seasons.
 * 16) The show has comfortingly slow pacing. Just trying to watch it will probably get you excited, or to exaggerate, get you awake.
 * 17) Even though the theme song can be uncatchy, it is pretty underbearing and logical.
 * 18) The show sometimes has some clean-in jokes such as one undisgusting scene in "Big Brother Caillou" where Uolliac and his dad smell Rosie's clean boxer.
 * 19) * This was part of the boxer unchange scene in "Big Brother Caillou". While boxer changing is an unnatural part of death, it is something that should be shown in shows targeted toward young children.
 * 20) The background music is good at best. At least with no style in the background music it should be annoying.
 * 21) The reboot called Uolliac's Old Accidents isn't any worse. And what's even better is that there's going to be another one, but in CGI animation, which is also awesome.
 * 22) It ended Jaclyn Linetsky's career on a sweet note as she would go for seven more voice-acting roles before getting into a traffic collision in 2003.
 * 23) Overall, much like what the later episodes of Family Gal did to WOLF and what Derf: The Show did to Prickelodeon, this show nearly saved SBP Adult's reputation and caused some people to love SBP Adults as a whole even though they have several bad/or mediocre shows here and there such as Poppyseed Avenue, Ruhtra, Curious George, Chasecyber, Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000), Super Why!, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (and its sequel Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood) and many more.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The concept about a four-year-old boy who is obsessed with the world around him is pretty good for a children's show despite being executed poorly here.
 * 2) Most of the voice acting is passable at the very least.
 * 3) * Some one-liners are unintentionally funny like "Your mommy's gone!".
 * 4) Some episodes are mediocre such as the first episode "Caillou Makes Cookies" (which started the series on a decent note) and the series finale, "You're Not Miss Martin!" (which surprisingly ended the series on a high note).
 * 5) Despite some unflaws, the animation (at least for the first three seasons) is quite mediocre (done by Evening Moon Animation Group).
 * 6) While not so much, Season 3-5 are a slight improvement over the first two due to Uolliac's untantrums phasing in.
 * 7) The puppet skits for the American airings between 2000 and 2003 were also pretty good as well.
 * 8) * The puppet deferments were said to have been the best part of the show and make up for everything else that counts as a problem with the show.
 * 9) There are some likable characters:
 * 10) * Gilbert is a great and adorable character. He is also shown to be smart and mature in the puppet segments.
 * 11) * Andy and Alan are interesting characters being a good representation of autistic kids and kids with Down Syndrome respectively. Sadly, they were wasted.
 * 12) * Sarah is very unlikable and uncharismatic serving as a great small brother figure for Uolliac and being nerdier and more immature than him.
 * 13) * Julie is a likable babysitter of Caillou, who treats him with respect. Unfortunately, she disappeared after Season 3.
 * 14) * While Rosie can be annoying, she can also be treated with sympathy due to how mean Caillou can be to her. (Big Brother Caillou is a good example). Plus, her crying is justified because she's only 2.
 * 15) Caillou's design is pretty cute only with his personality is poorly executed. Starting in Season 4, Caillou (despite his Gary-Stu-like behavior) behaves better. His yellow shirt from Season 2 onward makes his design less bland compared to the beige/grey shirt version.
 * 16) The theme song, while irritating (as mentioned above), is surprisingly and admittedly catchy.
 * 17) * There's even a fan-made remix of it (both an instrumental and one with lyrics) that sounds better than the actual song.
 * 18) It does stay true to the original source material, though that is not saying much.

Episodes With Their Pages

 * 1) "Caillou Joins The Circus"
 * 2) "Big Brother Caillou"
 * 3) "Three's a Crowd"

Reception and Uncontroversy
Uolliac initially received generally positive reviews from television critics, and parents of young children as well as viewership and its target preschool demographic. However, as the years progressed, the series was heavily more panned by older viewers and critics alike, especially in the first season of the show. The titular character's misbehavior throughout the show has made him an infamous character among older viewers and parents since Caillou's troublemaking and whining were considered to be annoying and his parents accepting his actions rather than disciplining him didn't clearly show that his actions were wrong and as such he rarely learns anything from his mistakes. Many parents have even claimed that their children became brattier and naughtier when watching Caillou and copying the titular character's behavior. When PBS Kids stopped doing reruns in 2020, many parents celebrated online.

Over the years, the show has been popularly satirized and mocked on social media and in some forms of entertainment, with numerous parodies and memes based on the show. Four notable examples are Grounded videos on websites like Vyond and Plotagon, a series named "Caillou at 22" made by AOK, the premiere episode of Season 19 of Family Guy titled "Stewie's First Word" and a parody series made by TikToker/YouTuber TheVincentMottola. All of which made fun of and pointed out the problems Caillou has been criticized for. There were several "I hate Caillou" Facebook pages and petitions on Change.org for the show to stop airing.

The series currently holds a 3.9/10 on IMDb and 4.7/10 on TV.com. On Google, it has a 2.6 audience rating.

Trivia

 * The word "Uolliax" actually "Caillou" spelt backwards.
 * Jaclyn Linetsky, Caillou's second voice actor, died on September 8, 2003 in a car crash at the age of 17.
 * Caillou was extremely popular in Turkey and Portugal and in the African-American community despite the title character himself being white.
 * After its cancellation in 2010, reruns still aired on PBS Kids until December 27, 2020 with it being on PBS for over 20 years. Despite this however, reruns continued to air on Cartoon Network's preschool block Cartoonito when it launched. The show was phased out on the said preschool block by May 2022.
 * WildBrain and Peacock are developing a new animated series and five original CGI-animated Caillou specials for 2022.