Caillou Makes a New Friend (French Title: Caillou Se Fait Un Ami) is an episode from Season 1 of “Caillou”. This episode aired on March 27, 1998.
Plot[]
Grandpa has taken Caillou to the park. Caillou is playing in the sandbox when a boy named Jim comes over. He wants to play in the sandbox, too. Caillou plays with him. When Jim and Caillou have a tug of war over the shovel, Caillou falls on the sandcastle, knocking it down. Then he messes up the sandcastle some more. Caillou runs and cries and tells Grandpa about what happened. After telling his grandpa, Jim's mother and Jim both fixed the sandcastle. Caillou doesn't want to play on the sandbox anymore, and wants to go on the swing.
Caillou and Jim go on the swings and Jim wants Caillou to push him first, but Caillou doesn't want to; Jim won't let him go on the swings. Then Caillou decides to go on the slide but Jim ran and was about to go first. Fed up with Jim trying to get his own way, Caillou angrily tells Jim he doesn't want to play with him anymore and runs to his grandpa, crying.
When Jim's mother and Caillou's grandpa hear Calliou crying, his grandfather comforts him. Confused, Jim tells his mother that he's doesn't know why Caillou won't play with him; Caillou angrily and tearfully says Jim always wants to be first at everything. Jim's mother firmly reminds him, telling him that he has to take turns when he plays with other kids. Jim apologizes to Caillou, and they start to get along better and become friends.
Trivia[]
- Jim has made his only other appearance in the episode Caillou's Sailboat.
- Caillou also makes the same crying sound effect from "Caillou Visits the Doctor", "Caillou's Teddy Shirt", "Caillou Learns to Skate" and "Caillou Joins the Circus".
- Caillou cries twice in this episode; the only other episode where this happens is "Caillou at Daycare."
- Gilbert, Doris, Boris and Rosie are absent in this episode (they are not seen or even mentioned during the episode).
- The storyteller didn't tell the name of the story.
- This episode was banned due to Jim's behavior being a bit too intense.
- This is one of the few episodes where a character is reprimanded for their misbehavior.
Goofs[]
- Caillou calls Grandpa "Grandma" after Jim messes up the sandcastle more.