Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that featured as a regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1961.
Plot
It stars two cute and cuddly twin mice children, the bowtied Pixie (voiced by Don Messick) and the vested Dixie (voiced by Daws Butler with a Southern American accent) and Mr. Jinks the Cat (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Marlon Brando). Mr Jinks is an orange tuxedo cat who is always outfoxed by the mice, causing him to utter his trademark line "I hates those meeces to pieces!" The show's plot itself and its characters were extremely similar to Hanna and Barbera's earlier, yet better-known creation, Tom and Jerry. The difference between these two cartoons were that the episodes of this segment always featured two mice instead of one like in Tom and Jerry, and the main characters always spoke, whereas Tom and Jerry were generally mute.
Episodes
Season 1: 1958â€"1959
Season 2: 1959â€"1960
Season 3: 1960â€"1961
VHS and DVD releases
In 1989, Hanna-Barbera Home Video released some episodes on the VHS release entitled "Pixie and Dixie: Love Those Meeces to Pieces", but it's now out of print.
The episodes "King Size Surprise", "Judo Jack", and "Jinks Jr." were released on another VHS tape by Hanna-Barbera Home Video in 1990.
On November 15, 2005, Warner Home Video released The Huckleberry Hound Show â€" Vol 1. Some cartoons are available on this DVD release.
The Heavens To Jinksy short is Available on the DVD Cartoon Network Cartoon Crack Ups.
Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks in other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Plic e Ploc e Chuvisco
- Bulgarian: ПикÑи, Ð"икÑи и миÑÑ‚ÑŠÑ€ Ð"жинкÑ
- Czech: Pišta a Fišta (Mr. Jinks is called Fous, meaning Whiskers)
- French: Pixie, Dixie et Jules
- German: Pixie und Dixie
- Hungarian: Inci, Finci és Kandúr Bandi
- Italian: Pixie e Dixie
- Japanese: ãƒãƒ¥ãƒ¼ã‚¹ã‚±ã¨ãƒãƒ¥ãƒ¼ã‚¿ (Chuusuke to Chuuta), (Mr. Jinks is called both Jinks and Doraneko)
- Polish: Pixie, Dixie i Pan Jinks
- Serbian: Piksi i Diksi
- Spanish: Pixie, Dixie y el Gato Jinks. The characters were dubbed in an unusual way, each one speaking Spanish with a distinct accent. Mr. Jinks had a strong Southern Spanish (Andalusian) accent, Dixie was Cuban and Pixie was Mexican.
- Turkish: Bıcır, Gıcır & Tırmık
Other appearances
- Pixie and Dixie made a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Christmas Special Casper's First Christmas.
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in The Yogi Bear Show episode "Yogi's Birthday Party."
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks made non-speaking cameos and in the opening title of Yogi's Gang.
- Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks were featured in the Laff-A-Lympics as members of the Yogi Yahooeys.
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in some episodes of Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
- Pixie and Dixie appeared in the "Fender Bender 500" segment of Wake, Rattle, and Roll driving a cheese-modeled monster truck called the Chedder Shredder. While Pixie was still voiced by Don Messick, Dixie was voiced by Patric Zimmerman.
- In Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, In episode of "Foul Play in Funland". When Shaggy and Scooby were in the Hall of Mirrors, Scooby sees a giant reflection of a mouse that is reminiscent of Pixie and Dixie in a mirror, shortly before Charlie the Funland Robot catches them.
- In Yo Yogi!, Pixie and Dixie (voiced again by Don Messick and Patric Zimmerman) live in a cheese store run by Mr. Jinks (voiced by Greg Burson). In "Of Meece and Men," Dick Dastardly and Muttley teach Mr. Jinks to act tough in order to get the two mice out of his cheese store causing the L.A.F. Squad to intervene.
- Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in the Boomerang short "Harasscat" (it was at first a Cartoon Network short up until 2004). Pixie and Dixie get a restraining order on Jinks for stalking.
- Cartoon Network had a bumper with Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks spoofing The Shining which was a Halloween eyecatch.
- In 1961, Mr. Jinks served as the UK mascot of Coco Pops.
- Pixie and Dixie make cameos in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episodes "Shazzan", "Juror in Court" and "The Death of Harvey".
- The series was parodied in the 1998â€"2001 Hungarian gag dub Narancs, Tetves és Dugó.
See also
- The Huckleberry Hound Show
- List of The Huckleberry Hound Show episodes
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
- List of Hanna-Barbera characters
References
External links
- Pixie and Dixie at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015.
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks at the Big Cartoon Database
- The Cartoon Scrapbook â€" Profile on Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks