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Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)

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171:, ostensibly Tommy's father while on Earth. During one episode, Tommy announces he has retired from the mission, and starts behaving like a stereotypical old man, even hanging out at the old folks' home (where he poses as one of the resident's nephews). As Information Officer, Tommy is the smartest and most Earth-savvy of the Solomons, and he is charged with gathering information about humans, mainly from 221:
During the first three seasons, Tommy is often referred to resembling a girl in part due to the shoulder-length hair he had during the first half of the series; the phrase "cut your hair, you look like a girl" would sometimes be said to him after he offended a person with a particular remark, mainly
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has an exotic sexual behavior. For example, in one episode, at the bar where Harry works later in the series, there was a machine that tests how sexy you are. Whenever Tommy tries it out, he gets the lowest score ("cold fish"), while Harry constantly gets the highest.
266:. He has a lot of difficulty maintaining a relationship with any girl, as he is often forced to come up with plausible explanations for his family's bizarre behavior. Therefore, much of his relationships seem to involve him begging his girlfriend to not leave him. 246:. This gag concluded in season three's "Just Your Average Dick", when Tommy gets a haircut, as part of the Solomon family's attempts to become "normal" after his then-girlfriend August Leffler said that she thought the family acted strange. 29: 241:
to confront Dick about his decision to stay on Earth while the rest of the unit left for the home planet, also plays off the gag with Tommy showing Dick that he developed breasts after the three accidentally came too close to a
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by characters specifically appearing in that episode. The first such instance occurs in the episode "Ab-dick-ted", after Tommy sarcastically remarks on a "coin-behind-the-ear" magic trick Mary's brother Roy Albright (
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The episode "Will Work for Dick" plays off this gag as Sally (who spends her time during the episode recapturing the childhood she never had), has Tommy's hair styled (in two different instances) in
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boy. Despite having to act like a kid all the time, Tommy's real age shines through, particularly when he plays the role of mentor to High Commander
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In the episode "Dick'll Take Manhattan", in which Dick, Harry and Sally enter into an alternate universe, Tommy is the star of
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left the series during the final season, so the storyline has his character Tommy away at college.
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The major running gag of Tommy is that he is the "least" sexy of the alien colleagues, for
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Brains and Eggs
The Thing That Wouldn't Die (Part 2)
Bonnie and Terry Turner
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Extraterrestrial
Bonnie and Terry Turner
American
sitcom
3rd Rock from the Sun
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Earth
teenage
Dick
television shows
films
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Saturday Night Live
Dick
Sally
Harry
Bronson Pinchot
braided pigtails
beehive
Mary Albright
quasar
girlfriends
August Leffler
Alissa Strudwick

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