Three Men in a Tub
Rub-a-Dub-Dub is an English Nursery Rhyme with many variations. One of the most common is as follows:
Adaptations[]
- The rhyme was adapted in an episode of Mother Goose Stories.
References[]
- In a scene on The Jimmy Dean Show, Rowlf the Dog researches the history of country music. He tells Jimmy Dean that he spent a whole day researching in the back room of country singer Ernest Tubb's record shop, where he claims Ernest was bathing with three of his Texas Troubadours. "I've never heard of such a thing," claims Jimmy. Rowlf replies, "You've never heard of 'Rub-a-dub-bub, three men and a Tubb'?"
- In The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 3, Herry Monster, Cookie Monster, and Grover play the three men in a tub.
- In Episode 2711 of Sesame Street, Luis contends with three men in a tub invading his bathroom. Performers of the men for this scene include Rick Lyon, Martin P. Robinson, and Richard Hunt.
- William Wegman posed some of his dogs as the Three Men in a Tub for Sesame Street. (First: Episode 3530)
- The Muppet Babies take on the rhyme in the Big Book of Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales.
- In the book My Name Is Grover, Grover says the rhyme is his favorite, and adapts it for himself, Big Bird and Elmo.
- In The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss book Who Are You, Sue Snue?, Sue Snue is imagining the jobs she could grow up to do. In a play on the nursery rhyme, she imagines being a butcher, a baker, or an ice cream cone maker.
- In the Farscape episode "The Way We Weren't," John Crichton asks D'Argo and Aeryn Sun how they should fix Moya so they "stop bobbing about like three men in a tub."
- 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. The men were respectively performed by David Rudman, Joey Mazzarino, and Tyler Bunch.
The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 3