![]() ![]() In an advertisement for the AFL, three guys give someone a hanging wedgie for accidentally spilling one of their drinks.In a commercial advertising the Sega Sports Pack, a football player gets a wedgie from a player from the rival team.In the same commercial's alternate scenario, he's read the e-mail with the warning and the bully still tries to give the kid a wedgie before he reveals his briefs and mocking him afterwards for touching his butt.A Yahoo! ad has a girl warning her friend that a bully's looking for him, only for the bully to appear shortly afterwards to give the kid a hanging wedgie from his locker.A commercial for Klondike Bars features a man willing to let two of his co-workers give him a wedgie from both sides for one.When their dad finds out, he does the same thing to the teenager. ![]() In a Dairy Queen commercial, a teenager steals his younger brother's Kit Kat Blizzard and leaves him hanging by his underwear while he eats it.In a commercial for Sprint Unlimited, while two families are left hanging by the backs of their shirts, a poor kid somehow winds up hanging by his underwear.One of the commercials advertising Spider-Man: Friend or Foe has Spider-Man giving Sandman a wedgie to convince him to fight for good.A Superbowl commercial for Kia Forte has a fembot give a man an atomic wedgie before beating him up for smudging the windows of the car on display.A commercial for Stainmaster Carpet has a fly beating up a man and giving him a wedgie.In a commercial for Del Taco, an employee allows a customer to give him a wedgie to vent his frustrations about other restaurants ripping him off.In a commercial for Sling TV that compared cable companies to school yard bullies, a bully gives a customer a wedgie.He even winds up in a hanging wedgie at the end. All throughout a Safe Auto commercial, a guy gets wedgies by strangers for not having car insurance.In a Christmas Honda commercial, several kids give a Honda employee a wedgie in order to get him to tell them where the presents are hidden.In an advertisement for Fruit Roll Ups, a kid gets a wedgie from two elves after failing to read the Fruit Roll Ups fortune that would have warned him.In an old AOL commercial a teenage girl gives her younger brother a bouncing wedgie for not getting an A on her homework (that she made him do).While wedgies are indeed possible in real life, they can lead to accusations of harassment and even have the chance to cause serious injuries or death to the person on the receiving end, as detailed further in the examples' "Real Life" folder below, so refrain from doing this as a rule of thumb. They're more likely to happen if you're wearing Uncool Undies. Not to be confused with Negative Space Wedgie, which is about unexplained space phenomena that serve as plot points for the work. This variant is more frequently caused by an accident from the character or someone else's mishaps rather than another character deliberately doing it to them.Ī Sub-Trope of Groin Attack and Amusing Injuries. The Hanging Wedgie, in which the character is suspended from an object by their underwear.The Atomic Wedgie, in which the undies are pulled over the victim's head.The Melvin, in which the undies are yanked up from the front.In more dramatic works, though, they're often used as an example of serious bullying or harassment instead.Īlongside the regular version that simply involves yanking the undies from the back, there are several variations. Wedgies are used primarily in comedy works as a form of comedic underwear exposure, and have been included for fanservice at times. A staple of schoolyard bullies in fiction, it is sometimes also incorporated into the arsenal of tricksters and similar comedic fighters. The Wedgie is a classic prank, in which some poor sap gets their underpants forcibly yanked up and wedged between their butt by another person. Feel the wrath of the wicked Wedgie Woman! ![]()
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