WEDGIE

A 'wedgie' is the practice of pulling someone's underwear up causing the underwear to ''wedge'' between the buttocks. It can be inflicted as a practical joke, or as a form of bullying, depending on the context and people involved, and can often be painful to receive. A wedgie can also happen when a person's undergarments get bunched up and "ride up" between the buttocks, causing discomfort and annoyance. This can be caused by bad posture, awkward sitting or tight underpants.

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Popular culture

★ The 'atomic wedgie', a wedgie where the rear waistband of the underwear is pulled over the receivers head, is a major plot device in the ''Seinfeld'' episode "The Library" and a frequent jest by Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of Car Talk.

★ In the videogame Bully you can step up to any boy or man and give him a wedgie. And in one cut scene you see a nerd called Earnest beeing given a wedgie that liftens him from the ground by a jock.

★ In the ''Dilbert'' comics wedgies are frequently used.[1]

★ In the animated cartoon on Cartoon Network ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', there is a bully named Sperg who often gives wedgies to children.

★ One of the slogans used for the Jetix show, ''Yin-Yang-Yo!'' is ''"Giving evil a wedgie!"''

★ In the animated show, ''The Mask'', the main hero used "atomic wedgies" as a weapon against his enemies, especially on Police Lt. Kellaway and his partner Doyle. This was taken from a scene in the movie where he did it to a gang leader.

★ In ''Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman'' there is one villain that gives wedgies, known as Wedgie Woman.

★ In ''Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey'', Bill and Ted give the grim reaper a wedgie (specifically, a melvin) to escape death.

★ In MTV's ''Beavis and Butt-head'' episode "Stewart's House", Stewart is given an "atomic wedgie", which included a cactus, rubbing alcohol and an electric mixer down the back of Stewart's wedgied tighty-whities.

★ The Nickelodeon show ''Salute Your Shorts'' used the word "Melvin" regularly to refer to a wedgie whence the underwear is pulled from the front.

★ Rapper Jim Jones often threatens to give people wedgies.

★ In ''The Simpsons'', bullies Nelson, Jimbo, Kearney and Dolph usually give wedgies to smaller and nerdier kids, like Martin and Milhouse, who also uses the term 'Rear Admiral.'

★ In ''Scary Movie 2'' Anna Faris gets a wedgie and in Scary Movie 3 Jenny McCarthy receives a wedgie from Pamela Anderson.

★ In the Nickelodeon cartoon ''Stickin' Around'', Bradley was always wedgied by Lance and Russell.

★ During flashbacks in an episode of "Titus," Christopher Titus complains to his father that, unless he delivers nickelbags of pot to jocks at school, they're going to give him wedgies; even if "[he hasn't] healed from the last one."

★ In RV (film) Carl Munro (Josh Hutcherson) receives a wedgie from the three kids playing basketball

★ In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Zack has to attend summer school and gets a wedgie because he's the smartest.

★ In the music video of Weird Al Yankovic's song ''White & Nerdy'', as Al sings that he has his name on his underwear, someone gives him a wedgie which exposes the waistband showing that indeed the name "Alfred" is written on it. "Alfred" is Weird Al's given name.

See also

★ School prank

★ Kancho

★ Pantsing

★ Bullying

References

★ Definition from the ''Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary''

External links

★ Bob the Dinosaur (from ''Dilbert'') described as ''King of the Wedgies''

★ Yahoo Bully Commercial