[dfwgator]

There name wasn’t “Thompson” and they were three of them, not two.

[EEGator]

For some reason I thought it was three white people...

[nuconvert]

They originally started out with 4 guys.

“The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson from Hergé’s comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.

[Disambiguator]

They were named after characters from “The Adventures of Tintin.”