In 1965, the book was adapted as a record, narrated by Marvin Miller with music by Marty Gold and his orchestra. Hoober-Bloob waving his arms around, covering his ears, and yelling, 'Stop it! Stop it! I can't stand it! That world is a vastly cruddy, bloody bore!' It ended by cutting back to the base, with Mr. If you took on this job, you could be the world's greatest authority on tweetle beetle battlistics, if you study tweetle beetles and their ballistic characteristics'. Here, the skit was part of a job: that of a 'famous tweetle beetle statistician. The tweetle beetle skit was featured in The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS television special.

In 1996, Publishers Weekly noted that it was the 25th-best-selling hardcover children's book of all time, with 2.95M copies sold. Kirkus Reviews considered it an 'amusing exercise for beginning readers', but noted that the tongue-twisters made little sense when removed from the context of their illustrations. He then thanks an astonished Fox for all the 'fun' and takes leave. Finally, as Fox gives Knox an extended dissertation on 'Tweetle Beetles' who fight each other with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle on a noodle-eating poodle, a fed-up Knox interrupts and pushes him into the bottle, calling it a 'tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks'. As the book progresses, Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic dog) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end.

Fox in socks book