Mr. Jinks' Weighty Problem

Mr. Jinks may have been better in the little cartoons between the cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show than he was in the actual Pixie and Dixie cartoons.

After the show opening, and before the show closing, host Huck would appear in 60-second interconnected routines with the stars of the other cartoons in the half-hour: Yogi Bear and Pixie and Dixie with Mr. Jinks. Jinksie’s motivations are clear in every one of them. He’s out to get the meeces, but something always backfires.

One of vignettes takes place in a gym. In this one, Pixie and Dixie are pulling on weights to “get in shape for Jinksie.” Cut to Jinks with scissors to cut the wires (strong scissors!) to “bend them out of shape.” I really like the expressions here. Note the little tongue behind the “o”-shaped mouth.

Of course, you can probably guess what’s going to happen.



I honestly can’t tell you who the animator is here. It looks like Ed Love does the sequence before this with Yogi at the punching bag.

These mini-cartoons have been very nicely restored and you’ll be able to see them on the Huckleberry Hound Blu-Ray set.