History Quotes / Wedgie

-->-- '''Byron Alexander''', "[[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/ The wedgie's pop culture pull proves irresistible]]"

-> “Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”
-->-- '''Vicky''', ''{{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}''

->“Screen wedgies declined over the next twenty years, perhaps due to shame over their bullying origins or perhaps because {{high school}} {{geek}}s began to rule the world. “''{{Film/Revenge of the Nerds}}'' had truly been carried out in large scale with the rise of the tech industry” says Detweiler. “The era of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg might be the logical extension of one too many {{wedgie}}s. They have turned the tables. They have struck back. It’s been one long payback and perhaps the lesson has been learned”.
-->-- '''Byron Alexander''', "[[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/ The wedgie’s pop culture pull proves irresistible]]"

->“Screen wedgies declined over the next twenty years, perhaps due to shame over their bullying origins or perhaps because {{high school}} {{geek}}s began to rule the world. “{{Film/Revenge of the Nerds}} had truly been carried out in large scale with the rise of the tech industry” says Detweiler. “The era of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg might be the logical extension of one too many {{wedgie}}s. They have turned the tables. They have struck back. It’s been one long payback and perhaps the lesson has been learned”.
-->-- Byron Alexander, "[[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/ The wedgie’s pop culture pull proves irresistible]]"

* “Wedgies are commonly featured in popular works, either as a form of low comedy or as a behaviour representative of bullying. In such works, briefs are usually the type of underpants that are worn by the victim”
- {{Website/The Other Wiki}} describing this trope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgie

* “Bullying can involve pushing ,punching, kicking or other ways to hurt another person. It can also involve humiliating contact such as getting “pantsed” or given a {{wedgie}} or putting someone in a dumpster”.
- Suzenne Cugley, No More Bullies https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZNSWgL02c6QC&dq=wedgie+bully&pg=PP4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wedgie%20bully&f=false

* “The wedgied sometimes have their {{revenge}}. Those who’ve been particularly humiliated will frequently bear a grudge lasting until adulthood. Some brothers still don’t speak to each other, much. Some {{geek}}s ,now grown, show up to class reunions loaded for bear. The wedgie-resentful seem to have missed the universal point of the wedgie - that it comes from a charitable place as much as a hateful place — and so they cannot be comforted”.
- Hank Stuever, At School a Most Uncomfortable Subject https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/02/at-school-a-most-uncomfortable-subject/77ab96a0-7849-4ba5-b44d-33d8c30fcfdf/

* “When Laura tells Bart she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black and white fantasy sequence which is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.

- Nathan Rabin, reviewing {{WesternAnimation/The Simpsons}} episode New Kid on the Block.
https://www.avclub.com/the-simpsons-classic-new-kid-on-the-block-1798172942

-->-- Byron Alexander, "[[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/ The wedgie’s pop culture pull proves irresistible]]"


* “The next day two football players jump Peter at his locker each grabbing his arms so he can’t turn away and he can’t turn around either as Flash comes behind him and gives him a killer {{wedgie}}. Laughing as he walks away, Mary Jane appears and gives Flash an earful for treating Peter that way. “
-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{ComicBook/SpiderMan Loves Mary Jane}}volume 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

—> “Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”

-Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.

* “Screen wedgies declined over the next twenty years, perhaps due to shame over their bullying origins or perhaps because {{high school}} {{geek}}s began to rule the world. “{{Film/Revenge of the Nerds}} had truly been carried out in large scale with the rise of the tech industry” says Detweiler. “The era of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg might be the logical extension of one too many {{wedgie}}s. They have turned the tables. They have struck back. It’s been one long payback and perhaps the lesson has been learned”.

- Byron Alexander, The wedgie’s pop culture pull proves irresistible
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/

* “Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing [[Comic Book/SpiderManLovesMaryJane]]volume 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{Comic Book/SpiderManLovesMaryJane}} volume 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{Comic Book/ SpiderMan Loves Mary Jane}} volume 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{Comic Book/SpiderMan Loves Mary Jane}} volume 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{Comic Book/SpiderMan Loves MaryJane}} # 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

-Patrick Gaddow, reviewing {{Comic Book/SpiderMan Loves Mary Jane}} # 2. https://spiderfan.org/review/comics/spiderman_loves_mary_jane/002.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/22/wedgie-bad-grandpa-revenge-of-nerds/2917975/

* “Screen wedgies declined over the next twenty years, perhaps due to shame over their bullying origins or perhaps because {{high school}} {{geek}}s began to rule the world. “{{Film/Revenge of the Nerds}} had truly been carried out in large scale with the rise of the tech industry” says Detweiler. “The era of {{UsefulNotes/Bill Gates}} and {{UsefulNotes/Mark Zuckerberg}} might be the logical extension of one too many {{wedgie}}s. They have turned the tables. They have struck back. It’s been one long payback and perhaps the lesson has been learned”.

- Hank Stuever, At School a Most Uncomfortable Subject https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/09/02/at-school-a-most-uncomfortable-subject/77ab96a0-7849-4ba5-b44d-33d8c30fcfdf/

- {{Wikipedia}} describing this trope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgie

- {{The Other Wiki}} describing this trope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgie

“Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”

* Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.

* Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.

Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.

“Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.

“Here’s a physics lesson Poindexter. Undies plus gravity equals {{wedgie}}!”
Vicky, {{WesternAnimation/The Fairly OddParents}}.