Line #35 WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks


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2	->''Pixie, Dixie, diddly-dum\
3	Are the best of friends\
4	Pixie, Dixie, diddly-dum\
5	Are friends to the end\
6	Pixie, Dixie, diddly-dum\
7	Sometimes enjoy a spat\
8	Pixie, Dixie, diddly-dum\
9	With Mr. Jinks the cat!''
10	-->-- '''Theme song'''
11
12	Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks was an animated series of shorts by Creator/HannaBarbera. These shorts occupied the middle slot on ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow''.
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14	In these shorts, Pixie and Dixie are two mice who have to deal with a {{Beatnik}} cat -- Mr. Jinks -- who lives in the house as well. And boy, does he hate those "meeces to pieces".
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16	Creator/DawsButler voiced Dixie and Mr. Jinks (the latter in a manner reminiscent of Creator/MarlonBrando), while the vocal actor for Pixie was Creator/DonMessick.
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19	!!This series provides, like, examples of:
20	* AccentAdaptation: The Mexican Spanish dub gives Pixie a Mexico City accent, Dixie a Cuban accent, and Jinks an European Spanish accent from Andalusia.[[note]]That would be the equivalent of the three characters speaking with Californian, Jamaican and Scottish accents respectively.[[/note]]
21	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Pixie and Jinks only wear bowties. Dixie only wears a vest with no shirt.
22	* AnimalJingoism: Naturally, cats and mice hate each other.
23	* ApologeticAttacker: Judo Jack repeatedly apologizes while body-slamming Mr. Jinks into the ground.
24	* AsianBuckTeeth: Judo Jack is a Japanese mouse with large buckteeth.
25	* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Jinks and his son exhibit an uncomfortable dynamic in the episode "Jinks Junior," primarily because the latter doesn't share his father's meeces-hating tendencies.
26	* BedsheetGhost: In the cartoon "Ghost With the Most," Mr. Jinks thinks he's killed Dixie, who was playing possum after being hit with a fireplace shovel. Dixie implements the bedsheet ghost disguise and proceeds to haunt Jinks. At the conclusion when he finds out the truth, Jinks turns the tables and makes Pixie and Dixie think he committed suicide out of guilt. Jinks dresses up as a bedshhet ghost as well.
27	* BorrowingTheBeatles: A 1965 commercial for Kellogg's Raisin Bran has Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks don [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] wigs and perform an impromptu concert touting the cereal.
28	* BoxingKangaroo: The short "Boxing Buddy" pitted Jinks against a boxing kangaroo, Ka-Pow. Similar to [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester and Hippity-Hopper]], Jinks thought Ka-Pow was a giant mouse.
29	* BuffoonishTomcat: Mr. Jinks often plays the block-headed fool in these episodes.
30	* CaptainObvious: Both Pixie and Dixie have a habit of announcing exactly what is happening during an episode.
31	* CatsAreMean: Played with. While Mr. Jinks hates those meeces to pieces, he acts more like a FriendlyEnemy to the resident rodents than many of his species do.
32	* CatsAreSnarkers: Jinks is a verbose cat whose dialogue mostly consists of withering snark and many a VerbalTic.
33	* CharacterCatchphrase: Mr. Jinks is frequently heard exclaiming "I hate meeces to pieces!"
34	* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: "Jinks the Butler" had Jinks charged with guarding the food of a fancy dinner party, only for the "meeces" to disrupt things. It ends poorly for Jinks, who is chased in the distance by the mansion butler, swatting Jinks with a broom.
35	-->'''Pixie''': I didn't know the butler could run so fast.
36	-->'''Dixie''': Neither did Jinks!
37	* CirclingSaw: In "Nice Mice", the two mice are trying to feed a kitten by swiping a bowl of cream from Mr. Jinks. In a rather intelligent use of this tactic, they use holes to cut off Jinks's escape routes before dropping him. To add insult to injury, Pixie pops out of a vent and snatches the cream as Jinks [[GravityIsAHarshMistress hangs in midair before falling.]]
38	* CivilizedAnimal: The three main characters are bipedal, wear accessories or limited clothing, and at times exhibit human behavior. However, Pixie and Dixie live in a mouse hole, and the three critters fulfill the antagonist relationship typical of their species.
39	* CountryCousin: In "Cousin Tex," Pixie and Dixie receive a visit from their cousin Tex, from Texas. Impressed with Tex’s size, Jinks decides to eat him, just to be defeated and ridden by the cowboy mouse. Jinks retaliates by calling his own cousin Pecos, but the latter was afflicted by a series of diseases that not only weakened him but made him shrink.
40	* CuteKitten: In the episode "Jinks Junior," Jinks has a son who doesn't follow in his daddy's meeces-hating footsteps.
41	* DeepSouth: True to his name, Dixie speaks with a pronounced US Southern accent.
42	* DubNameChange:
43	** In Japan, where ''Huckleberry Hound'' was broadcast on NET (the current Creator/TVAsahi), Pixie and Dixie are Chusuke and Chuta and Mr. Jinks is Doraneko. 'Chu' is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a mouse makes, while 'Doraneko' means 'stray cat'.
44	** In the official Hungarian dub, Pixie and Dixie are Inci and Finci, and Mr. Jinks is Kandúr Bandi.
45	** In the Italian dub, Mr. Jinks is called Jinxie to match the names of the two mice.
46	* EarWings: "Little Bird-Mouse" has Dixie learn to fly by flapping his ears.
47	* {{Expy}}: The characters can be seen as updated versions of earlier Creator/HannaBarbera characters WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry. Some of the episodes are in fact retreads of those from the earlier series.
48	* FakingTheDead: "Ghost With The Most" had Jinks clobbering Dixie with a fireplace shovel during a chase. Dixie fakes his death and dons a bedsheet for a ghost disguise which he uses to scare Jinks into subservience to Pixie. When Jinks catches on to Dixie's charade, he leaves a suicide note (faking his own death) and does the same ghost set-up to haunt Pixie and Dixie.
49	* FriendlyEnemy: An interesting trait that makes Pixie and Dixie distinct from other cat/mouse cartoons -- Pixie and Dixie are more often than not somewhat friendly to Jinks, who is generally a JerkAss but isn't exactly menacing, either. ''Tom and Jerry'' was known to do something like this as well, but with far less frequency. This would prove to be a favorite trait for Hanna-Barbera "chase" cartoons for years to come.
50	* GoodbyeCruelWorld: In "Ghost With the Most," Jinks thinks he killed Dixie acter clobbering him with a fireplace shovel (he really didn't—Dixie was playing possum). Dixie plays his own ghost to haunt Jinks, but when Jinks gets wise, he leaves a goodbye note indicating his own demise then pretends to be his own ghost to haunt Pixie and Dixie.
51	* GratuitousFrench: "King Size Poodle" had a runaway lion seeking Pixie and Dixie's help in hiding out from the zoo and from Mr. Jinks, who finds out a big reward is offered for the recapture of the lion. The two "meeces" disguise the lion as a French poodle whose French speaking consists of "coup de grace!" (which he mispronounces as "coop de grass" as opposed to the regular "coo de grah").
52	-->'''Jinks''': (''after the lion secretly ambushes him a second time'') Okay, I reiterates...what clobbered me? And don't give me any of that "cut the grass" stuff!
53	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Pixie and Dixie share the same mousehole and are invariably seen together.
54	* HomeEarlySurprise: A Gold Key comic has the mice making Jinks think he's late for his watchman job at a factory so he'll leave early and they can raid the kitchen. Turns out Jinks' early arrival at work successfully thwarted a robbery, so he got the night off and with fellow employees celebrated at home. Pixie and Dixie get a win themselves as they take advantage of the spilled crumbs and discards from the food.
55	* HumanKnot: In "Judo Jack", Jack applies his pretzel hold to Mr. Jinks.
56	* JapanesePoliteness: Parodied in "Judo Jack," where almost all of Judo Jack's sentences end with "please," or "prease," and he apologizes while beating up Mr. Jinks.
57	* JapaneseRanguage: The most frequent phrase of Judo Jack's vocabulary is "prease."
58	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his hating meeces to pieces, Jinks isn't always the world's worst cat to Pixie and Dixie.
59	* LikeIsLikeAComma: Jinks, like, talks this way, like, a lot.
60	* MagicalFlutist: "Pied Piper Pipe" has Mr. Jinks, inspired by the Pied Piper story, create a flute to torture the meeces with. They get back at him by placing a dog whistle in the flute so Jinks can get beaten up a nearby bulldog.
61	* MagicCarpet: "Jinks Flying Carpet" has Mr. Jinks obtaining a magic carpet that operates under the command "Chabunagunga."
62	* MisspellingOutLoud: In one episode, Jinksie explains to Pixie and Dixie that they are "M-I-C-E-S meeces" and he is a "K-A-T cat" and that he wants them "O-U-T-T out!"
63	* MouseHole: Pixie and Dixie live in a hole.
64	* NiceMice: While Pixie and Dixie can be vindictive or cruel at times, they're usually pretty well-behaved examples of their species.
65	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jinks's voice is reminiscent of Creator/MarlonBrando.
66	* PainToTheAss: In "Cousin Tex", the meeces' Texas cousin tries to brand Mr. Jinks. The cat tries trapping the three mice under a wooden box, but Tex uses a hot iron to burn through it and brands Jinks' behind while he sits on the box.
67	-->'''Jinks:''' Smells like, y'know, somebody's roasting an overcoat. '''''YEEEOOOOWW!!!'''''
68	* PerplexingPlurals: Jinks hates "meeces" to pieces.
69	* PintSizedPowerhouse: One-off guest characters Judo Jack and Cousin Hercules are both mice that are much stronger than their size suggests, easily able to lift and toss cats.
70	* PlayingPossum: "Ghost With The Most" has Dixie playing possum when Jinks clobbers him with a fireplace shovel, making a very paranoid Jinks think he's killed Dixie.
71	* {{Pluralses}}: Mr. Jinks the Cat always refers to "meeces" (IPA: ''misez''), not "mice", both double-pluralizing it and mispronouncing it. When refering to a single mouse, he'll call it a "meece". He usually gets other plural words correct, though.
72	* RhymeThemeNaming: Pixie and Dixie.
73	* RingAroundTheCollar: Like most Hanna-Barbera characters from this time, Pixie and Mr. Jinks wear an accessory around their neck (a bowtie in this case) to facilitate animation shortcuts. Similar to [[WesternAnimation/PunkinPussAndMushmouse Mushmouse]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears Shag Rugg]], Dixie averts this trope, as the vest he wears does not function this way.
74	* SignatureLaugh: Mr. Jinks has a distinctive "Hyuk, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk!" laugh, while Pixie and Dixie share a giggle when they're amused by something.
75	* TeamRocketWins: Also in line with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', there are several episodes where Jinks comes out smiling at the end of a short, either by reaching a truce with the mice or getting a LaserGuidedKarma victory when they get too vindictive.
76	* ThreeShorts: In both incarnations of the ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', these shorts appeared second out of the clutch of three presented.
77	* ValleyGirl: Like a certain Hanna-Barbera character to follow him (Shaggy from Franchise/ScoobyDoo), Jinks is a male example, seen most clearly in his {{Beatnik}} attitude and [[VerbalTic flaky manner of speech]].
78	* VerbalTic: Jinks has, like, his own set of, like, verbal tics, y'know.
79	* WeWantOurJerkBack: On occasion, either Jinks or the two mice get rid of their foe only to regret it later.

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