Rub-a-Dub-Dub



Rub-a-Dub-Dub is an English Nursery Rhyme with many variations. One of the most common is as follows:

"Rub a dub dub, Three men in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker. Turn them out, knaves all three"

The ryhme has been referenced several times in Muppet productions.


 * In episode 4060 of Sesame Street the Three Men in a Tub come to Hooper's Store to answer a want ad for help wanted. It turns out they've answered the right ad (for "Beefsticks, Breadsticks & Candlesticks"), but come to the wrong place.


 * In The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 3, Herry Monster, Cookie Monster, and Grover play the three men in a tub.


 * William Wegman posed some of his dogs as the Three Men in a Tub for Sesame Street.