A sock monkey is a cute stuffed toy made from socks and fashioned to look like a monkey. These stuffed animals are a fixture of folk art and kitsch. The iconic sock monkeys made from red-heeled socks emerged around 1932, the year the Nelson Knitting Company added the trademarked red heel to its product. This red heel gave the monkeys their distinctive mouth. Nelson was awarded the patent in 1955, and began including the pattern with every pair of socks. In 1958, the craft magazine Pack-O-Fun published "How to Make Sock Toys", a guide to making different sock animals and dolls with red heeled socks. The red heel sock is still in production by Fox River Mills.
Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks was a segment of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1962. It starred two cute mice, Pixie and Dixie, and a goofy (but kinda cute) cat named 'Mr. Jinks". The premise was basically Tom & Jerry times two. The series is most remembered for Mr. Jinks' trademark lament, "I hate those meeces to pieces!".
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