I'm Debbie Elliott. "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men In a Tub" is on the docket today. In other words, it's time for another Reason Behind the Rhyme. (Soundbite of music) ...

The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. Rub-A-Dub-Dub was animated in a similar way, yet all the characters were anthropomorphic animals. It ran in 1983, completing 30 episodes.

Rub-a-dub-dub, there are toxins in my tub In a study released today by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and written up in the L.A. Times, 18 of 18 bath products tested contained traces of 1,4 ...