Mr. Jinks

Mr. Jinks
Like, uhh... I'm just a cool cat, y'know!
Species	Cat (tabby)
Gender	Male
Member of	Yogi's Gang Yogi Yahooeys
Affiliation	Pixie and Dixie Huckleberry Hound Yogi Bear Boo Boo Bear Hokey Wolf Ding-a-Ling
Other relative(s)	One cousin, Snagglepuss Lion
Marital status	Single
Son(s)	One son, Jinks Junior
First appearance	P&D&MJ: "Cousin Tex" (1958)
Played by	Daws Butler (1958-85) Greg Burson (1991) Billy West (2018) Jeff Bergman (2021-present)
Yo, Yogi!
Wacky Races
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
Jellystone!

Mr. Jinks is an anthropomorphic tabby cat and the main antagonist of the Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks animated shorts of The Huckleberry Hound Show. His voice was originated by Daws Butler.

Jinks usually picks on the two mice, Pixie and Dixie, though he is sometimes a friend of the two.

Character description

Mr. Jinks is an orange, two-legged, slender cat with tan highlights on his feet, hands, the insides of his ears, and muzzle. The only piece of clothing he normally wears is his trademark blue bow tie.

In terms of personality, Mr. Jinks is very laid back, confident, fussy and high-strung. He speaks in a whimsical speech pattern, using beatnik slang and saying the word "like" in a majority of his sentences. He also makes a habit of using frequent grammatical and pronunciation errors in his speech, with the plural "meeces" being one example (instead of the correct plural, "mice"). As a house cat, Mr. Jinks is bully to Pixie and Dixie and is determined to catch and clobber the two mice; he even relishes on catching them for his own good. He can be quite irritable when it comes to Pixie and Dixie associated with him, especially since the two share the same habit of pulling pranks on him. Jinks is somewhat dimwitted to varying degress, either prone to falling on the duo's elaborate tricks, or smart enough to concoct an elaborate trap on the two. At the end of the cartoons, he would usually yells his catchphrase, "I hate meeces to pieces!", or some variation thereof.

Despite their rivalry, Mr. Jinks, Pixie and Dixie do have a soft spot for one another. Jinks doesn't exactly understand why he chases them, but he believes in the notion that "cats are supposed to hate meeces". Furthermore, he doesn't mean to cause any harm on the two in some instances, opting instead to take good care of them. In return, Pixie and Dixie care about Jinks deep down as well. But they also sometimes have a love-hate relationship with Jinks, where they can both be equally cruel to each other and will retaliate when provoked.

Appearances

TV series

• Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
  • 1.1 "Cousin Tex"
  • 1.2 "Judo Jack"
  • 1.3 "Kit Kat Kit"
  • 1.4 "Jinks' Mice Device"
  • 1.5 "Pistol Packin' Pirate"
  • 1.6 "Scaredycat Dog"
  • 1.7 "Little Bird Mouse"
  • 1.8 "Jiggers..It's Jinks!"
  • 1.9 "The Ghost with the Most"
  • 1.10 "The Ace of Space"
  • 1.11 "Jinks Junior"
  • 1.12 "Jinks, the Butler"
  • 1.13 "Jinks' Flying Carpet"
  • 1.14 "Puppet Pals"
  • 1.15 "Mark of the Mouse"
  • 1.16 "Dinky Jinks"
  • 1.17 "Hypnotize Surprise"
  • 1.18 "Nice Mice"
  • 1.19 "King-Size Surprise"
  • 1.20 "Cat-Nap Cat"
  • 1.21 "Mouse Nappers"
  • 1.22 "Boxing Buddy"
  • 2.1 "Hi-Fido"
  • 2.2 "Rapid Robot"
  • 2.3 "Sour Puss"
  • 2.4 "King Size Poodle"
  • 2.5 "Mighty Mite"
  • 2.6 "Bird Brained Cat"
  • 2.7 "Batty Bat"
  • 2.8 "Lend-Lease Meece"
  • 2.9 "A Good Good Fairy"
  • 2.10 "Heavens to Jinksy"
  • 2.11 "Goldfish Fever"
  • 2.12 "Pushy Cat"
  • 2.13 "Puss in Boats"
  • 3.1 "Pied Piper Pipe"
  • 3.2 "Price for Mice"
  • 3.3 "Plutocrat Cat"
  • 3.4 "Party Peeper Jinks"
  • 3.5 "Woo for Two"
  • 3.6 "A Wise Quack"
  • 3.7 "Kind to Meeces Week"
  • 3.8 "Missile Bound Cat"
  • 3.9 "Crew Cat"
  • 3.10 "Jinxed Jinks"
  • 3.11 "Light-Headed Cat"
  • 3.12 "Mouse for Rent"
  • 3.13 "High Jinks"
  • 3.14 "Jinks' Jinx"
  • 3.15 "Fresh Heir"
  • 3.16 "Home Flea"
  • 4.1 "Bombay Mouse"
  • 4.2 "Strong Mouse"
  • 4.3 "Mouse Trapped"
  • 4.4 "Magician Jinks"
  • 4.5 "Meece Missiles"
  • 4.6 "Homeless Jinks"
• The Yogi Bear Show
  • 4.17 "Yogi's Birthday Party"
• Laff-A-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan" (no lines)
  • 1.2 "Acapulco and England"
  • 1.3 "Florida and China" (no lines)
  • 1.4 "The Sahara Desert and Scotland" (no lines)
  • 1.5 "France and Australia" (no lines)
  • 1.6 "Athens, Greece and the Ozarks" (no lines)
  • 1.7 "Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina"
  • 1.8 "Egypt and Sherwood Forest" (no lines)
  • 1.9 "Spain and the Himalayas" (no lines)
  • 1.10 "India and Israel" (no lines)
  • 1.11 "Africa and San Francisco"
  • 1.12 "The Grand Canyon and Ireland" (no lines)
  • 1.13 "Hawaii and Norway" (no lines)
  • 1.14 "North Pole and Tahiti" (no lines)
  • 1.15 "Arizona and Holland" (no lines)
  • 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad" (no lines)
  • 2.1 "Russia and the Caribbean" (no lines)
  • 2.2 "New York and Turkey"
  • 2.3 "South America and Transylvania" (no lines)
  • 2.4 "French Riviera and New Zealand" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "New Orleans and Atlantis" (no lines)
  • 2.6 "Morocco and Washington D.C." (no lines)
  • 2.7 "Canada and Warsaw, Poland" (no lines)
  • 2.8 "Siam and the Moon" (no lines)
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt
  • 3.2 "Yogi's Heroes"
  • 3.3 "The Attack of Dr. Mars"
  • 3.5 "Goodbye, Mr. Chump"
  • 3.7 "Yogi & the Beanstalk"
• The New Yogi Bear Show
  • 5.38 "Bringing Up Yogi" (no lines)
• Yo, Yogi!
  • 1.11B "Of Meeces and Men"
• Wacky Races
  • 2.14 "The Trial of Dick Dastardly"
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1 "Yogi's Tummy Trouble"
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
  • 1.3 "Boo Boots"
  • 1.5 "A Coconut to Remember"
  • 1.6 "Grocery Store"
  • 1.7 "Must Be Jelly"
  • 1.9 "VIP Baby You Know Me" (no lines)
  • 1.11 "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby"
  • 1.12 "Ice Ice Daddy"
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.14 "Face of the Town!"
  • 1.15 "Catanooga Cheese Explosion" (no lines)
  • 1.17 "Gotta Kiss Them All" (no lines)
  • 1.18 "Jelly Wrestle Rumble!"
  • 1.19 "A Fish Sticky Situation" (no lines)
  • 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone"
  • 1.21 "Spell Book"
  • 1.22 "Lady Danjjer: Is It Wrong to Long for Kabong?"
  • 1.23 "Baby Shenanigans" (no lines)
  • 1.24 "Bleep!"
  • 1.25 "Yogi's Mid-Life Crisis" (no lines)
  • 1.26 "Jellystone Moon Platoon"
  • 1.27 "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove"
  • 1.28 "Business"
  • 1.29 "Pants!" (no lines)
  • 1.30 "Uh Oh! It's a Burglar!" (no lines)
  • 1.31 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Race" (no lines)
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy"
  • 1.33 "The Big Stink"
  • 1.35 "The Box Thief" (no lines)
  • 1.36 "Jailcation" (no lines)
  • 1.38 "Augie's Baby" (no lines)

Movies

• Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper

Shorts

• Cartoon Network Shorties
  • "Harasscat"

Comics

• Band-Wagon
• Laff-A-Lympics
• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
  • Issue #3: "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • Issue #1A: "Jellystone Dark"

Books

• Pixie and Dixie and the Make-Believe Mouse

Biography

Crossover Era

Yo, Yogi!

In the episode "Of Meeces and Men," Jinks runs a local cheese store, but constantly tries to remove Pixie and Dixie, due to the fact that they eat his cheese on numerous occasions. He later teams up with Dickie Dastardly and Muttley, to get rid of the two mice, which they eventually do. After numerous failed attempts of trying to get them back into the cheese store, Yogi is able to separate the teamwork between Dickie and Jinks, and get Jinks to allow the mice back in.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

In Jellystone!, he works as mayor Huckleberry's personal assistant. Unlike previous iterations, he is not paired up with, nor teamed up with Pixie and Dixie. In the episode "Business", Jinks reveals that he has romantic feelings towards Huck.

Development

Mr. Jinks—along with Pixie and Dixie—were created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as part of The Huckleberry Hound Show. They were both modeled after Tom and Jerry, respectively; though Pixie and Dixie are comprised of two mice instead of one. Despite the similarities between these cartoons and those of Tom and Jerry, they were less violent due to the budgetary restraints Hanna-Barbera had at the time. Likewise, more emphasis was put on making the cartoons rich in witty dialogue—as opposed to visual gags like in their previous work.

Mr. Jinks' vocal characterization was modeled after actor Marlon Brando (namely his role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire), although Butler had admitted that he likely began his Brando impersonation in his collaborations with Stan Freberg.

Gallery

Main article: Mr. Jinks/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• In some early episodes of Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Mr. Jinks would occasionally use the correct plural "mice" instead of "meeces" like in other appearances moving forward.
  • In "Pistol Packin' Pirate," Mr. Jinks could not tell the difference between the words "meeces" and "mooses," although he still makes the habit of saying "meeces" to refer to mice as usual.
• In "Jinks Junior," Jinks is implied to have a son, which also hints that he was married at one point.

In popular culture

• In The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "The Big Shot!," Stimpy becomes the co-star of Muddy Mudskipper, where they reenact one of the many chase sequences between Yogi and Ranger Smith, respectively. Muddy tells Stimpy to get his hand out of the picnic basket, while Stimpy spouts some random quotes like "I hate meeces to pieces!"
• In the Beast Wars: Transformers episode "Beast Wars (Part 1)," Rattrap says Cheetor's new beast mode looks tacky, which instigates an angry response that he'll cut meeces to pieces, something that Mr. Jinks said to Pixie and Dixie frequently.