Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

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 mice brothers, Pixie (voiced by Don Messick) and Dixie (voiced by Daws Butler) and Mr. Jinks the Cat (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Marlon Brando).

In many ways the shorts resemble Hanna-Barbera's earlier better-known creation, Tom and Jerry, which also featured a warring cat and mouse (sometimes two) in a domestic setting. However without Tom and Jerry's more lavish budget for full animation, the Jinks team had to rely on funny dialogue and voices to carry the cartoon's humor. The cartoon was also less violent, and unlike the slightly sinister Tom, the headstrong Jinks was, in reality, not clever enough to pose much of a real threat to the mice. Unlike Tom and Jerry, there were many more times when Jinks would either share a good ending with the mice or actually outwit them himself, whereas the times Tom got the better of Jerry were much more rare.

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is also remembered for Mr. Jinks' rhyming but ungrammatical lament, "I hate those meeces to pieces!".

For the first nine episodes, the show featured a theme song with lyrics but from then on switched to theme tunes.

As with Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks would frequently talk directly to the audience, and discuss his plans to trap the "meeces".

DVD release
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 DVD Cartoon Network Cartoon Crack Ups.

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks in other languages

 * Brazilian Portuguese: Plic, Ploc & Chuvisco
 * 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 (Chūsuke to Chūta)
 * 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.
 * Czech: Pišta a Fišta (Mr. Jinks is called Fous, meaning Whiskers)
 * Polish: Pixie, Dixie i Pan Jinks
 * Turkish: Bıcır, Gıcır & Tırmık
 * Serbian: Piksi i Diksi

Other appearances

 * 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 opening title in 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 Yo Yogi!, Pixie and Dixie (voiced again by Don Messick and Patric Zimmerman) live in a cheese store run by Mr. Jinks (voiced by John Stephenson).


 * 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 parodying 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".