Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is one of the three segments of The Huckleberry Hound Show. This show was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions between October 2, 1958, and October 13, 1961, and consist of 57 episodes.
Plot
The cartoon series stars two mice, the bow-tied Pixie and the vested Dixie, and Mr. Jinks the cat who is always outfoxed by the mice, causing him to utter his catchphrase "I hate meeces to pieces!"The show's plot itself and its characters followed the same basic concept as Tom and Jerry, the film series Hanna-Barbera had developed for MGM; because Hanna-Barbera were constrained by the smaller budgets for television, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks emphasized verbal humor to compensate for the more limited animation compared to the more physical comedy used by the mostly mute Tom and Jerry shorts.
Cast
- Don Messick as Pixie
- Daws Butler as Dixie and Mr. Jinks
Home media
In 1989, Hanna-Barbera Home Video released some episodes on the VHS release entitled "Pixie and Dixie: Love Those Meeces to Pieces".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–Vol 1. Some cartoons are available on this DVD release.
The "Heavens To Jinksy" short is available on the Cartoon Network Cartoon Crack Ups VHS and DVD.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Plic e Ploc e Chuvisco
- Bulgarian: Пикси, Дикси и мистър Джинкс
- Czech: Pišta a Fišta
- French: Pixie, Dixie et Jules
- German: Pixie und Dixie
- Hungarian: Inci, Finci és Kandúr Bandi
- Italian: Pixie e Dixie
- Japanese: チュースケとチュータ,
- 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 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 as brother and sister.
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in the Christmas special Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper.
- 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.
- Pixie and Dixie appeared in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "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.
- Pixie and Dixie were going to have a cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but were later dropped for unknown reasons.
- In Yo Yogi!, Pixie and Dixie live in a cheese store run by Mr. Jinks. 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 Cartoon Network/Boomerang short "Harasscat". 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 1998–2001 Hungarian gag dub Narancs, Tetves és Dugó.
- Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in DC Comics Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special #1 as captured animals alongside other Hanna-Barbera characters.
- Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks appeared in Jellystone! with Mr. Jinks voiced again by Jeff Bergman and Pixie voiced by Jenny Lorenzo. Dixie is a girl in this series and appears mute. Mr. Jinks works as Mayor Huckleberry Hound's personal assistant and the mice are mentioned to own a candy store.