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.  

AdaptationsEdit

• The rhyme was adapted for an episode of Mother Goose Stories.

ReferencesEdit

• In a 2004 episode 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. (EKA: Episode 3681)

• 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.

The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 3

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