YMMV / Heckle and Jeckle

• Cult Classic: By proxy of being a Terrytoons creation, they’re pretty esoteric nowadays. However, their cartoons are often considered to be the studio’s best series for their funny Looney Tunes style humor.
• Fans Prefer the New Him: In "Rival Romeos," the duo dress themselves up to try and impress a dame (a fedora for Heckle; a boater, monocle, and pink bowtie for Jeckle). Some viewers wish that the cartoons had kept these accessories in subsequent episodes, as it made it easier to distinguish the two visually.
• Ho Yay:
  • They share a bed...or any bed for that matter
    • In one of the comics, they were trying to find a place to sleep for the night, and shared the spot together...even a park bench
    • "The Power of Thought" began with the two casually resting on their bed. In the same episodes, they were in the same bath tub.
    • In "Tin Pin Terrors," they had been disturbed from sleeping by a bowler above them. At the end of the episode, they wound up having to sleep in the same bathtub.
    • In "Miami Maniacs," they were casually chatting on the same bed
    • In "Bargain Daze," they started off resting in a Department Store couch bed display...for some odd reason.
    • Well, the list goes on.
  • The only way this is subverted is in "Rival Romeos," when the two are smitten by the same female and spend the episode trying to get rid of the other. Okay, so it was mostly Heckle trying to get Jeckle out of the way...unsuccessfully. In the end, they agree that they are both through with women "for good," only for a far more buxom female bird to strut by and start it up all over again.
  • It gets even more complicated knowing their prototype versions in "The Talking Magpies" were a married couple with at least one of them having a Gender Flip afterwards.
  • The start of "Happy Go Lucky" has the magpies holding hands (wings, in this case) while flying.
  • In "The Hitch Hikers," the two magpies avoid a couple of passing cars by holding each other close and having Jeckle jumping into Heckle's arms, respectively, with the former even flashing the latter a cheeky smile before being unceremoniously dropped, which visibly annoys Jeckle.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The short "Pill Peddlers," where the title speaks for itself, had the duo trespassing at a gym in an attempt to sell their miracle muscle pills. Today, we would call those pills steroids.
  • The comics would sometime feature various ethnic/racial stereotypes, complete with broken English or utter gibberish substituting for foreign languages. And let's not get into the way they're drawn...
• Viewer Species Confusion: Heckle and Jeckle are often mistaken for crows, even though they're actually magpies. This is an understandable mistake though—how many cartoons can you name that star magpies as characters?

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