Wedgie

The wedgie is a joke maneuver or prank performed to humiliate someone. 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 could also mean when a person's undergarments get folded up and 'ride up' between the buttocks, causing discomfort and annoyance. Can be caused by bad posture, awkward sitting or tight underpants such as thongs.

Types

 * 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.


 * An atomic wedgie refers to when the assailant is able to pull the underwear over the victim's head, its common on tv animated shows as an example of Cartoon physics. An attempt of an atomic wedgie on individual generally results with the rippage of the underwear, either by the waistband or completely.


 * The term mervin refers to a wedgie that was popularized most notably by the early 1990s Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts. It first appeared on the second episode of the second season . In the show the victims underwear is being pulled from both the front and back, generally by a pair of indivuiduals, causing significant discomfort and humiliation.


 * The jock lock wedgie refers to when one or both of the victim's legs are bent up at the knee and the underwear waistband is pulled over their toes.


 * The hanging wedgie is a common variation used on tv shows, movies and tv commercials     Its performed by executing some form of wedgie, and then lifting the victim off the ground, and hanging the underwear onto some form of elevated hook device.


 * The half wedgie is when one side of the underwear (most commonly female panties) ride up on only one side of the buttocks causing an uncomfortable situation.

Other Uses
There exists a subculture of people -mostly teens- aroused by giving or receiving wedgies. This fixation holds its roots in sadism and masochism, and has only recently become recognized as a legitimate sexual fetish alongside some other school pranks. Within the wedgie fetish, the use of rope and tape is common to make the wedgie "pemanent" and more painful.

A wedgie may also be defined as a type of sandwich often served at pizza parlours and some Italian restaurants. Most commonly a Wedgie sandwich consists of two pieces of bread similar to pizza crusts that contain different meats and italian sauces. This could be considered a rough variation between a pizza and a calzone.

Wedgie is also a nickname used by Recumbent bicycle riders for an upright Bicycle.

Popular Culture

 * In the Dilbert comics Wedgies are used among other places.


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


 * In the animated show, The Mask, the main hero also used atomic wedgies as a weapon against his enemies, especially on Police Lt. Kellaway and his partner Doyle.


 * 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.