PERFORMER | Jerry Nelson Tom |
Dave Goelz Dick | |
John Lovelady Harry | |
DEBUT | 1976 |
Tom, Dick, and Harry are a three-headed monster who had a major role in episode 119 of The Muppet Show and made brief appearances in episode 120. Referred to as a "triple-header" in the literal sense, Kermit mentioned the trio by name in the latter episode ("I can't have every Tom, Dick, and Harry walking backstage. Hi, Tom. Hi, Dick. Hi, Harry.")
It is possible that Dick is the female of the group. When asked which of them is the leader, Tom looks to his left (to Dick and Harry), saying "He is." Dick looks to her right, to Tom, saying "He is." Harry, looking at his right, to Dick, says "She is." However, Dick's scrunched face reaction to Harry's line, as well as Kermit's reaction line, "In fact, they've got lots of problems", could imply that Harry is wrong about Dick's gender.
The trio make a background appearance in The Muppet Show Comic Book: Pigs in Space, where they are seen arm-wrestling Bender from the science fiction series Futurama, but instead of green fur and green (Tom), pink (Dick) and blue (Harry) faces, they appear in the comic with white fur and yellow faces.
Tom, Dick, and Harry make two brief appearances in Muppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm. They first appear in the prologue, in which Scooter and Kermit discuss whose job it was to communicate to the three-headed monster that they would not be appearing in the book. They later pop up in "The Eagle, the Mouse, and the Wedge of Cheese", to the confusion of the narrator.