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Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

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Genre
  
Cartoon

Original language(s)
  
English

Country of origin
  
United States

Running time
  
7 minutes per short

Created by
  
Joseph Barbera William Hanna

Voices of
  
Daws Butler Don Messick

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.

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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. Mr. Jinks was always outfoxed by the mice, and his trademark line was, "I hates those meeces to pieces!"

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 e Ploc e Chuvisco
  • Bulgarian: Пикси, Дикси и мистър Джинкс
  • 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: チュースケとチュータ (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 in the mirror he sees a mouse in the giant reflection of the mirror, That is resembled to Pixie and Dixie, 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 1998–2001 Hungarian gag dub Narancs, Tetves és Dugó.
  • References

    Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks Wikipedia