Wedgie / Live-Action TV

• According to Jim:
  • In the episode, "Rules of Engagment", Dana gives Andy a wedgie in order to get information out of him.
  • In the episode, "Belaboring the Point" Andy receives a wedgie from his sister Cheryl.
  • In the episode, "Trashed", Jim gives a wedgie to Andy in order to get him back into a childhood mindset
• Ace Lightning: In "The Unlikely Hero", Chuck uses his newly received Super-Strength to give school bully Wayne a wedgie.
• All That:
  • In one skit, an elderly security guard (Amanda Bynes) gives Jack Desena a wedgie when he tries to get past her.
  • Another skit has several nerds give Kel Mitchell a wedgie to celebrate him becoming one of them.
  • In the "Sunshine Sally" skit, the titular doll gives her new owner a wedgie.
• The Amanda Show:
  • In a Judge Judy sketch, a nurse portrayed by Nancy Sullivan is given an atomic wedgie by three kids attending the jury.
  • In another skit, a teacher, also portrayed by Nancy Sullivan, gets a hanging wedgie from a trio of cheerleaders after trying to give them detention.
• A.P. Bio: In "Tiny Problems", Helen accidentally gets her underwear caught in the zipper of her backpack, giving herself a wedgie. A similar gag happens later on when her underwear's caught on a miniature Statue of Liberty.
• Beauty and the Geek: In the Australian edition of the show, one challenge involves the titular geeks having to answer trivia questions while their underwear is attached to a hook and crank that gives them increasingly severe wedgies for every one they get wrong.
• Big Brother:
  • One of the first challenges of Season 11 involved the contestants having to endure hanging wedgies until there was only one person left hanging.
  • In Season 16, Nicole gives Zach a wedgie.
  • Season 25 has a challenge where the contestants must complete a puzzle while being given wedgies that occasionally lift them in the air.
  • In Series 11 of the UK edition of the show, while at the pool, Josie gives Sam a major wedgie in his swimsuit.
  • In Season 4 of the show's Canada edition, Kelsey gives Phil a wedgie while he's talking with Joel.
• The Brothers García: In the episode "Hot Today, Chili Tomorrow", Carlos and George give Larry a wedgie in order to toughen him up.
• Chelsea Lately: One skit has Chelsea give one of her male employees repeated wedgies as a form of exercise.
• Cobra Kai: In "Different, but Same", Aisha delivers a painful Minerva to Yasmine that ends up going viral on social media after putting up with so much of her bullying. Miguel later implies that he’s received wedgies and Demetri explicitly says he’s had “several back wedgies”.
• Cory in the House: In the episode "Making the Braid", Cory is grabbed by his stretchy underwear when he attempts to flee from a rival braiding business owner.
• Dani's House: In "Crush and Burn", Ben gives Jack a wedgie in an attempt to cure his hiccups.
• Degrassi: In "Islands in the Stream", JT gives Danny a wedgie while they’re fighting.
• Drake & Josh: In the episode episode "The Gary Grill", Josh receives a wedgie from an inmate shortly after he and Drake are released from jail.
• 8 Simple Rules: In the episode "Pauland", Bridgett gives Kerry a wedgie while chasing after her.
• In the British soap opera Doctors, Karen gives Zara a wedgie while the two of them are fighting after learning she's been sleeping with her son.
• Even Stevens: In "Ren-Gate", after Louis catches two bullies giving a kid a wedgie, he punishes them by giving them wedgies in return.
• The George Lopez Show: In the episode "George Nieces a New Media Room", George gives Max a wedgie after he hits on Veronica.
• The Goldbergs: In "Just Say No", Barry gives Adam a wedgie during a montage of him bullying his brother. A similar sequence occurs in "You Build It" when the two are forced to share a room.
• In the episode "Meet the Parrots" of Happy Endings, Penny tries to give her new baby bro Dave (Penny's mom and Dave's dad are together now) a wedgie, only to discover he isn't wearing any underwear.
• Gotham: In "Stop Hitting Yourself", one of Martin's classmates give him a wedgie while the others play keep away with his notepad. Later in the episode, he gives himself a wedgie and blames it on one of the other kids.
• The Haunted Hathaways:
  • In "Haunted Brothers", a now bad Miles uses his powers to give Louie a wedgie in his really stretchy underwear.
  • In "Haunted Duel", the school bully gives Miles and his friend hanging wedgies by a chandelier.
• The Haunting Hour: In the episode "Swarmin' Norman", the titular character receives a wedgie from a bully. Later in the episode, he uses his control over bugs to force the same bully to give himself a wedgie.
• Holly Oaks: In the September 11th 2015 episode of the soap-opera, Reenie gives her daughter, Porsche, a wedgie for insulting her.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: In "Honey, You're Living in the Past", a now teenaged Diane gives Nick a wedgie.
• I Bet You Will: One challenge has a man ask strangers to for wedgies and get paid a fixed amount per wedgie.
• iCarly: Near the end of the episode "iHate Sam's Boyfriend", Carly, Sam, and Freddie get back at Sam's boyfriend Jonah, who had previously tried to kiss Carly, by hooking him on the "Wedgie Bounce," which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and leaving him on it for two hours straight.
  • Sam gives Freddie a wedgie near the end of the episode "iWill Date Freddie", under the guise of coming up to hug him, much to Sam and Carly's amusement.
• Impractical Jokers: One Joe punishment ends with him asking a group of bikers he's annoying (via an exposé-style interview) to give him a wedgie; a request two of them gladly comply to.
• Incredible Crew: In one skit, Tristin gives himself an atomic wedgie for bumping into Jeremy.
• In Living Color!: In the skit "Lil Miss Trouble at the Museum", Edea randomly gives Parnell a wedgie.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: In "The High School Reunion: Part 1", in order to fit in with the popular crowd, Dee helps Tim Murphy give Charlie, Frank, and Mac hanging wedgies. In part 2, "The Gang's Revenge", they get back at Dee by giving her a massive thong wedgie.
• Just Beyond: In "Standing Up For Yourself", local bully Trevor gives a pair of students hanging wedgies.
• The Latest Buzz: In one episode of Amanda has her dad's assistant give Noah and Michael wedgies for betraying her.
• Listen Up: In the episode "Tony Whine-Man" during a flashback, Tony's bully Frank Varuzi gives Tony a wedgie and hangs him up in a tree, setting nails through his underwear into the tree with a hammer in the process.
• Life with Boys: In "Battling Bullies With Boys", nerdy new student Jimmy receives an atomic wedgie from school bullies.
• Lizzie McGuire:
  • In the episode "Lizzie's Eleven", Lizzie gives Matt a wedgie in order to get him to cooperate.
  • In "Election", Lizzie tries to convince a bully to vote for her, but gets intimidated by him after he gives a kid a wedgie.
• Mad TV: In the Crafty Girls skit "Rodeo", Denise gives Kendra a melvin to prove that she's naughty to a pair of boys. By the end of the skit, the two girls start giving each other wedgies while riding on their new dates' backs.
• Malcolm in the Middle: In "Kreylbone Picnic", Reese is given a hanging wedgie by the older brother of a nerdy kid he was trying to bully.
• Monk: In "Mr. Monk And The Panic Room", Sharona's son Benjy gets in trouble for trying to stop another kid from getting bullied, including being on the receiving end of a wedgie.
  Adrian Monk: What's a wedgie?
  Benjy: It's when they pull your underwear way up out of your pants.
  Adrian Monk: Oh. When I was younger, they called it something else.
  Benjy: What?
  Adrian Monk: An "Adrian."
• Mr. Young:
  • In "Mr. Younger Man", Echo, while filling in for school bully Slab, gives several nerds atomic wedgies.
  • In "Mr. Invisible", Adam gets a wedgie from an invisible Slab.
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: In the episode "Dares", Loomer gives himself an atomic wedgie under a dare.
• Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn: In the episode "Urban Legend Outfitter" Ricky and Dicky are left in hanging wedgies from their lockers.
• The Outsider: In the episode "Roanoke", Jack gives a guy a wedgie while in a bar fight.
• Quantum Leap: In the episode "Runaway", Sam, while in the body of a boy named Richie, receives two wedgies from Richie's bully of an older sister, Alexandria.
• The Really Loud House: In "Ro-Bro", Ro-Bro gives Lincoln a hanging atomic wedgie during the episodes' climax.
• Richie Rich: In "Meat the Camper$", the Abramowitzes give Murray an atomic wedgie.
• Roundhouse: In "Changes", Ivan and Seymour consult a "wedgie board" about their future. This involves them giving Ryan N. a huge wedgie and getting him to answer their questions.
• Saturday Night Live
  • In the "Spring Break '93" sketch, a male and female news reporter receive wedgies from several punks while reporting the news.
  • The premise of the "Wedgie Fever" sketch is that a contestant on the titular game show receives an increasing painful hanging wedgie for every trivia question he gets wrong.
  • In the "Little Brothers" sketch, Eli Manning gives a kid a wedgie for bullying his younger brother.
  • In the "Wooddridge High" sketch, a jock gives a nerd (Bobby_Moynihan) a wedgie in slow-motion as a cheerleader laughs at his expense.
• School of Rock: In "Minimum Wage", after catching a bully giving a kid a wedgie, she makes him give himself one.
• Scrubs:
  • In the second season episode "My Kingdom," JD is a victim of a hanging wedgie, courtesy of the surgeons.
  • In the fifth season episode "My Missed Perception," The Janitor gives The Todd a "four-story atomic wedgie" off the side of the hospital using The Todd's banana-hammock underwear.
• Seinfeld: The episode "The Library" has Elaine, George, and Jerry discussing the wedgie. At the end, George is given an atomic wedgie by an old gym teacher-who he had gotten fired for giving him a wedgie in high school.
• Shameless (US): In "Killer Carl", a montage of Carl causing trouble in his school includes him giving a kid a wedgie.
• Smack the Pony: In a skit for the show's Christmas special, the three leads individually show off their thongs to a new guy in their office in an attempt to impress him, with it ending with Doon Mackichan giving herself a shoulder wedgie in hers.
• Smallville: In the Season 9 episode "Warrior", Alec Abrams, now the superhero Warrior Angel, uses his newfound power to give a bully a wedgie.
• During the song sequence of the Sonny with a Chance episode "High School Miserable", there's a brief montage of school bully Martha giving Brady a variety of different wedgies.
• Stankervision: In "The World's Bravest Black Man" sketch, the titular character gives a wedgie to a member of the KKK trying to light a cross.
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: In "Summer of Our Discontent", Zack receives several hanging wedgies from his classmates at summer school for being perceived as a nerd.
• Supernanny: In "The Costello Family", Chaslyn gives her little brother Corban a wedgie.
• Titus: In "Hard Ass", a teenaged Titus tells his dad that the people he deals pot to will give him a wedgie if he doesn't deliver it do them. Later on, he ends up getting a wedgie from the prisoners he spent the night in jail with.
• The Thundermans: Link gives Matt a wedgie in the episode "Doubles Trouble", with Matt giving him one in return later in the episode.
• Unfabulous: In the episode "The B Word", Addie has an imagine spot where she gives Genna's new boyfriend a wedgie after learning he has a reputation for cheating.
• Veronica Mars: "In Wallace and Rashard Go to White Castle", Veronica sees Dick giving a kid a wedgie.
• Xena: Warrior Princess: In "The King of Assassins", when Joxer steps forward to stop Jett from continuing the assassination, Jett isn't impressed. When Joxer is seen next, he is found by Autolycus with hanging by his underwear on the wall.