Caillou has thrown his last tantrum. I couldn’t be happier

It’s been 18 years since I’ve had to sit through an episode of “Caillou,” but I cheered aloud when I read that the animated children’s show had been canceled.

I hated Caillou, the whiny, baldheaded boy at the show’s center, which also featured his suspiciously calm and lenient parents, Doris and Boris, longsuffering little sister Rosie, and Gilbert, the tormented family cat.

Much to my dismay, my young son loved the show.

“Please, can we watch something else?” I’d beg. Anything. Even “Barney & Friends.”

Caillou destroyed toys, pinched his sister and threw tantrums. Yet his parents were unnervingly patient. Caillou never faced consequences.

In one episode, Caillou covered the kitchen floor with mud. Not only did he not get in trouble, his dad took him to the library while his mom cleaned up.

( What? Give that kid a mop.)

“Growing up is not so tough, ‘cept when I’ve had enough,” Caillou sang in the show’s theme song.

(Oh, great. Now I have that irritating song stuck in my head.)

I know, he’s just a kid who’s four, who each day grows some more, and likes exploring. But Caillou ignored his parents (not that they seemed to mind) and pulled the cat’s tail. No way I’d let a kid like that come over for a playdate.

For years, parents complained about the show, signing petitions and writing to the stations that aired it.

Like me, they rejoiced that Caillou had been grounded.

“As divided as we are right now as a country on many issues, I think we can certainly agree on one thing: it was time for Caillou to go,” Kelly Phillips Erb wrote on Twitter.

“No one likes that whiney little tyrant!” Stacy Falgout Dowden wrote on the Parents Against Caillou Facebook page.

PBS, which had aired the Canadian series for 20 years, announced its cancellation Tuesday.

Finally, the little brat got what he deserved.