Monk Little Dog Explained
Genre: | Comedy |
Runtime: | 3 minutes |
Producer: | Sandrine Hguyen Boris Hertzog Suhoon Kim |
Creator: | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac Kim Sung-jae |
Voices: | David Gasman Sharon Mann Matthew Géczy |
Country: | France South Korea |
Language: | None |
Company: | Kim's Licensing Timoon Animation SAMG Animation |
Network: | Canal+ EBS Cartoon Network |
Num Seasons: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 52 |
Monk Little Dog (;) is a series of animated shorts. The series was conceptualized by Kim Sung-jae, of Kim's Licensing, and produced by Timoon Animation and SAMG Animation. Season 1 of Monk Little Dog premiered on June 16, 2009[1] on Canal+ in France and ran until June 11, 2010.
In the UK the series was broadcast by the CITV Channel, ABC3 in Australia. In Indonesia, the series was originally aired by Global TV (now GTV) from 2011 until early 2012,[2] but later moved to RTV between 2014 until 2016. While on Latin America it was broadcast on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
Development
Monk Little Dog was originated from a series of storybooks with plasticine characters released in 2006, notable books include Monk's Mouth Country Trip (ko|멍크의 입속 나라 여행);[3] although its development as an animated series goes back to 2005.[4] The difference is this storybook series included one human character while Monk Little Dog does not.
Characters
Main characters
- Monk (voiced by David Gasman): He is the main protagonist of the series. He is an unlucky, but smart, good, lucky and cheerful bull terrier.
- Ding : A yellow english cocker spaniel - Monk's arch-rival and Kimmy's love interest.
- Kimmy (voiced by Sharon Mann): She is a pink poodle - Monk's crush and Ding's girlfriend.
- Ben (voiced by Matthew Géczy): He is a lazy dog. Monk's bestest friend who is always asleep.
Secondary characters
- Sushi: Kimmy's pet pussycat who hates and somethings loves Monk.
- Bubul: A gray pit bull who is Monk's best neighbour.
Recurring characters
- Bar: A funny and hilarous dog who he does not appear so much.
- Loo: A brown chow-chow.
- Mi-hie: a superhero and Monk's favorite character.
- Peace: A naughty and smart lebrel.
- San-say: a female dog who is a master of karate and kung-fu.
- Sally: It's Bubul's wife.
- Jimmy: An emo Old English Sheepdog who is Kimmy's cousin
- The Tweets: Are Monk's house owners.
- Mr. Beaky: Monk's pet parrot who only appears in "Monk and the Birthday Cake".
- Monk's parents (Nonk and Jonk): The father is identical to he, but with mustache and brown hat. The mother is similar to Kimmy, but mint blue instead of pale pink.
- Mimmy: A gold-amber-yellow poodle report similar to Kimmy, but light gold color.
- Len: It's Ben's dad who only appears on Monk's TV.
Notes and References
- Web site: Monk Little Dog • Season 1 • TV Show . en.series-tv-shows.com . 2016-04-09.
- Web site: Monk/Mong Little Dog - Christmas. December 10, 2011. YouTube.
- Web site: Monk's Mouth Country Trip. picturebook-museum.com. December 10, 2020.
- Web site: 유럽풍의 귀여운 강아지 캐릭터 멍크, 프랑스 앙시 페스티벌 경쟁 부문 진출. Newswire. 23 March 2005 . 16 July 2022.