Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon television series that featured as a regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1961.
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 trademark line "I hates those meeces to pieces!" The show's plot itself and its characters followed the same basic concept as Tom and Jerry, the film seriesHanna and Barbera had developed for MGM; because Hanna and 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.
Episodes
Season 1: 1958–1959
Season 2: 1959–1960
Season 3: 1960–1961
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.
''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
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.
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.
Pixie and Dixie were going to have a cameo in 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.
