Wedgie

The wedgie, also known as the melvin, can be a form of battery practiced by bullies, performed to humiliate someone or a hilarious practical joke, depending on the context and the parties involved. It is inflicted when an individual, or group of individuals, grab the underwear of the victim from behind and pull up, causing the underwear to wedge between the buttocks. A wedgie is also what happens 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.

Popular culture

 * In the Dilbert comics Wedgies are frequently used.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * The "atomic wedgie" variation in particular is a major plot device in the Seinfeld episode "The Library".


 * In Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted melvin Death to escape from him.


 * In MTV's Beavis and Butthead 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 the frontal wedgie, or when 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.


 * 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 show 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."