Trivia / Weekly World News

• Executive Meddling: The exec who took over didn't even like being associated with it.
• He Also Did: Folk Music Singer-Songwriter Bob Lind, whose "Elusive Butterfly" made him a One-Hit Wonder in The '60s, was a staff writer for many years (using the byline R. Neale Lind), and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.
• Recycled Script: Dotti and Serena's columns would occasionally reuse letters from previous columns with minor changes.
• Referenced by...:
  • Some media specializing in the strange, including Supernatural and Men in Black, cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.
  • Charlie's mom in So I Married an Axe Murderer also refers to WWN as "the paper" and the plot revolves around Charlie discovering that a featured article about an axe-wielding Black Widow just might be real, and he just might be dating her.
  • Stuey Gluck of Freaked is unable to get the major newspapers to print his story about Ricky being kidnapped and turned into a mutant, but WWN happily runs it for him. Becomes a Chekhov's Gun when the Feds finally come to the rescue because they read Stuey's article (they'd have shown up sooner, but apparently got sidetracked investigating a few other stories in the same issue).
  • One article◊ about Deathball 2000, a pinball machine that kills players who fail to score above a certain threshold, inspired Data East's pinball division to pseudo-defictionalize years later. WWF Royal Rumble promotes it as though it were their next game in the Attract Mode (if the option is enabled), and the company went so far as to create a fake translite◊ and put it on display at one Pinball Expo (with every other part of the machine obscured).