Monsieur Luke

Monsieur Luke is a Canadian animated action adventure comedy television series, created by Joe Feder. It first premiered on Gingo on April 1, 2006. The show is about a man named Monsieur Luke, who in each season grows up by a few years. In the first season, he is 10, and in the last, he is 25. Monsieur Luke goes on adventures throughout Canada (and in the last season, America). In the first season and the final episode Luke's main quest is to find his lost brother. Monsieur Luke was conceived by Joe Feder in late 2005.

The show was partly successful, and currently reruns on Gingo (Canada).

Premise
Monsieur Luke goes on strange adventures throughout Canada.

Setting
Season 1 takes place in rural Québec, but there are some elements of the urban part. Season 2 and 3 takes place in urban Québec and suburban Toronto. Season 4, the last season, takes place in the United States and Toronto.

Voice cast

 * Joe Feder as Xavier Q. Luke, a partly quiet man, who lives in Quebec, and later Toronto.
 * John Feder also voices Xavier Q. Luke (Season 1, some Season 2 - 4 episodes).
 * Geo G. as Jonathan Hakon, Xavier's next door neighbor and close friend.

Development
The creation of Monsieur Luke was a merge between 2 ideas Joe Feder had. In 2002, Joe Feder wrote an idea for a show, titled "Quincy Luke", a man who has very strange days in his neighborhood. Feder thought this seemed generic so he scrapped it. Later on, in 2005, Feder wrote a new project titled "Xavier," a young boy who lives in a barn with his 2 brothers, and goes on adventures in the fields around him. Feder disliked this idea as he thought that it would seem too similar to "Gabriel Garza," a show Feder had worked on before retiring from the show in 2001. Feder decided to merge these two ideas eventually, revising them in the process, and it turned into Monsieur Luke. He pitched the idea to Gingo, and they greenlit the show, with Nelvana being the production company.

Animation
The first 2 seasons were animated by DIC Entertainment. The last episode of the second season was animated by Cookie Jar Group, and the third season was a co-production between Cookie Jar Group and Nelvana. The show was solely animated by Nelvana in Season 4.

Episodes

 * Main article(s): List of episodes

Ratings
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Critical reception
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Controversy
The Parents Television Council complained the mature nature of the show compared to other shows on Gingo. Joe Feder responded (as stated in a 2009 episode of The Toon Hour) "...It's TV-PG for a reason. If Gingo was not fine with it, they wouldn't broadcast it in the first place." All of the TV-14 episodes were edited in their original broadcast on Gingo to fit the TV-PG rating. They were later broadcast uncensored on NightHouse.

Home media
Shout! Factory released the first season on DVD in early December 2006. The second season was released in January 2008, six months before the season finished airing on TV. The third and fourth seasons were released on DVD in early March 2011, one month before Season 4 premiered. A Blu-Ray release of the two seasons were released in June of 2011, which went out of print.