Mutt and Jeff - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• Mutt and Jeff, Texas, was a small community located at the intersection of State Highway 37 and Farm Road 14, near Big Sandy Creek, six miles from Winnsboro. The town was so named in the 1920s because of two area merchants, who reminded locals of the comic strip characters. The population decreased during the 1930s, and Mutt and Jeff, Texas, was abandoned by the early 1960s.
• The "good cop/bad cop" police interrogation tactic is also called "Mutt and Jeff".
• In rhyming slang, "mutton" is used as a shortening of "Mutt'n'Jeff", meaning "deaf".
• in Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker, when Jeffery Franken is going through various body parts, he refers to two mismatched breasts as 'Mutt and Jeff'.