pixie and dixie and Mr. Jinks

[rainstorm46]

I think that pixie and dixie are one of Hanna Barbera's best cartoons. It is a little bit like tom and jerry in some ways. The characters are great and it is one of my favorites. I wish boomerang played it more often. Why is it underrated.

[Silverstar]

Because of the noticeable difference between limited animation and full animation. Many regard Pixie & Dixie as a cheap, cut-rate version of Tom & Jerry.

[Steve Carras]

I enjoy them! The show was rerun gfor many years in the early seventies, about fifteen years since it debuted in 1958 on the Huckleberry Hound show. ONly the pre-Hoy Curtin score episodes were shown, and btw, hello to Wile207, fellow HB score fan! Anyway, those were the 1958 to 1960 ones with the stock cues of John Seely and William loose, Spencer Moore, George Hormel, and Jack Shaindlin [plus the odd cue from the likes of Roger Roger [he was French, name was pronounced Roh-JAY Roh-JAY] and David Buttolph] and none of the Curtin scored ones unlike Huck and Yogi. Like Bugs and Daffy early in the early to mid 50s, for instance, Pixie, Dixie, and Jinksy [VELMA's too-repeated line was from JINKS!:)] had a off and on friendship [even on rare occasions Tweety and SYlvester, at least in comics and the original MGM Tom and Jerry's.] Daws Butler made Jinks the cat sound like anything from [in his recolleciton] young Marlon Brando to comic Frank Fontaine [think Pete Puma, and Huck's innefectual nemesis Leroy the lion,etc.].[And in another he does Frank Nelson, as in "EEEyessss" as the lion Huck hunt,s]

Pixie did NOT has a southern accent, despite what many have thought [voice by Don Messick[, instead, it was Dixie [Daws Butler}.:)

[Silverstar]

Pixie did NOT has a southern accent, despite what many have thought [voice by Don Messick[, instead, it was Dixie [Daws Butler}.:)

Funny, I never thought Pixie was the one with the Southern accent; I've always known it was Dixie. Makes sense, you know, Dixie = the South and all.

[Fibber Fox]

I think that pixie and dixie are one of Hanna Barbera's best cartoons. It is a little bit like tom and jerry in some ways. The characters are great and it is one of my favorites. I wish boomerang played it more often. Why is it underrated.

Hello, all. My first post here after viewing for some time. Nice to see Mr. Carras here.

I've always enjoyed these particular cartoons. There are several reasons.

1. Daws Butler as Jinks. Daws is a master of phrasing. Listen to how he plays with his lines. Daws is terrific. And he picked a great voice. Jinx is the real star of these and he wouldn't be as good if someone else did him.
2. Fun with numbers. Something I did as a kid was count the number of times Pixie and Dixie ran past the same table leg. Or chair. Or whatever. It like you're personally involved in the cartoon!
3. 5-F-20. This is the Jack Shaindlin melody known in the Langlois/Cinemusic library as Toboggan Run. For me, it epitomises the music in H-B cartoons before Hoyt Curtin wrote his stock library around 1960. You can't hear it without thinking of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

I can think of some Jinks cartoons I'd rather watch that some abysmal Tom and Jerrys (generally the later ones with annoying extra characters like little ducks and little French mice). And while the MGM cartoons have great character animation (and outstanding characterisation) at times, I just can't warm up to Jerry. Pixie and Dixie are not great personalities, but they're likeable enough and do a good job driving the plot.

F. Fox

[Steve Carras]

Hi, thanks for joining! Toboggan run was to me SELDOM heard outside HB, save a Gumby [which used a lot of the QUick Draw trilogy's chase themes]. "Racing Game". BTW As with others using this music, "My Three Sons" has had legal problems as well..[I posted something on Sitcoms Online]. [The "Blockheads blow up the bridge theme", used in a lot of the Augies, Quick Draws, and Snoopers, one of many circus themes, in Racing Game, is playing in my head..]

[Tay the Cat]

Because of the noticeable difference between limited animation and full animation. Many regard Pixie & Dixie as a cheap, cut-rate version of Tom & Jerry.

In my opinion, Hanna-Barbera made limited animation work very well.

I personally look forward to watching Pixie and Dixie on Boomerang each day, while I tend to avoid Tom and Jerry as much as possible. Can't stand them, honestly.

[Baltofan]

I enjoy them too.

[Steve Carras]

:) Say, can anyone invite Marty26, apparently a member here and on GAC over, as he enjoys that stock music and I wouid personally be honoured to email him, if anyone here will [Barb Herholzer, and others from there as well.:)]

Thanks!

[Fibber Fox]

In my opinion, Hanna-Barbera made limited animation work very well.

I think the cartoons .. the early ones, anyway .. were planned pretty well. Shots were varied so you didn't have a whole pile of talking head close-ups together. And while they used walk cycles, the characters walked differently, and that avoided any monotony on the screen.

F. Fox

[stephane dumas]

A bit of trivia, is in the French dub knows as "Pixie & Dixie" while Mr Jinks is named "Monsieur Jules", the French voice of Mr Jinks/Jules was provided by the same VA who did the French voice of Bugs Bunny, Guy Pierrauld.

[Eric Brown]

Just a little comment on "Silverstar's" trivia note about H-B characters neck apparel. As far as I could tell, the neckwear was provided in the charater design to have a break point where the head and the body could be animated seperately using a multi cell overlay. It is most notable as a slight color difference, given the the photo light must pass thru an addition cell even though the color on each cell may be identical. The same overlay technique can be seen when the eyes or arm movements are seperate from the base drawing.

As I recall, I think animator Ken Muse was the only one to animate the entire head when doing the classic H-B character eye blinks.

Check it out next time you're watching.

THANX

[Jayd]

I really like Jinksy's voice. He seems to use the word "like" a lot and uses the phrase "you know" a lot too. Sample Jinks line: "sardines are OK, they don't bite back like. We cowards have to stick together, you know." That is from one of my favourite episodes of the series, the one where Jinksy has goldfish fever and the meeces do what they can to prevent him from taking the neighbor's goldfish. My favourite overall has to be the one where Spacecat takes Jinks to his planet to punish him for chasing mice, but instead, Jinks teaches Space Cat that it is fun to chase them. Another great line is, "All of a sudden, sheeee, it got inclement like," and "He's just an imaginary from your pigment."

In a lot of episodes, Jinks and the meeces put their differences aside whenever one of them is involved in a crisis, like when Jinksy has it bad with canaryitis and wants the meeces to help him. Once the crisis is over, Jinks goes back to chasing them again. Jinksy may have hated the meeces to pieces, but I think he really cared about them.

And they were team mates on the Laff-a-lympics often appearing in events together. Jinks minus the meeces made a few appearances in Yogi's Treasure Hunt, including one where he helps Snag to be a movie star. I probably said too much but I really like these cartoons.

[Debbie]

Count me in as a fan of Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks. Yes, the idea was "borrowed" from Tom and Jerry, as were a few of the basic story ideas, but the timing and personalities of the characters were different. Mr. Jinks is one of those characters who is just fun to listen to their voice, like Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss.

[Jayd]

Count me in as a fan of Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks. Yes, the idea was "borrowed" from Tom and Jerry, as were a few of the basic story ideas, but the timing and personalities of the characters were different. Mr. Jinks is one of those characters who is just fun to listen to their voice, like Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss.

Not to mention Super Snooper and Blabber, another one of my favourites. Like Jinksy, Snooper often got words wrong. "What in carnation are you doing, Blab?" He even kind of looks like Jinks if he's not wearing his hat.

[KDevine7@msn.com]

I really like Jinksy's voice. He seems to use the word "like" a lot and uses the phrase "you know" a lot too. Sample Jinks line: "sardines are OK, they don't bite back like. We cowards have to stick together, you know." That is from one of my favourite episodes of the series, the one where Jinksy has goldfish fever and the meeces do what they can to prevent him from taking the neighbor's goldfish. My favourite overall has to be the one where Spacecat takes Jinks to his planet to punish him for chasing mice, but instead, Jinks teaches Space Cat that it is fun to chase them. Another great line is, "All of a sudden, sheeee, it got inclement like," and "He's just an imaginary from your pigment."

In a lot of episodes, Jinks and the meeces put their differences aside whenever one of them is involved in a crisis, like when Jinksy has it bad with canaryitis and wants the meeces to help him. Once the crisis is over, Jinks goes back to chasing them again. Jinksy may have hated the meeces to pieces, but I think he really cared about them.

And they were team mates on the Laff-a-lympics often appearing in events together. Jinks minus the meeces made a few appearances in Yogi's Treasure Hunt, including one where he helps Snag to be a movie star. I probably said too much but I really like these cartoons.
i also liked the episode where jinx had his friend arnold over to the house and had to protect pixie and dixie from him.a great line is "you'd think id remember a guy named arnold"

[Jayd]

Probably the best one is the one where Jinksy had to be nice to the meeces because that would determine whether he goes to heaven or to the other place. At the end, he learns that he has eight lives left and vows to spend the rest of his lives chasing the meeces.

Great line: "They're the fun ones!" or "Why you little meeces, I'll tear you to pieces!"