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Wednesday 13

Wednesday 13 is the stage name of Joseph Poole (born 1976, Lexington, North Carolina), horror-punk frontman of Murderdolls with Joey Jordison and solo artist behind Transylvania 90210, Necrophaze, and Mid Death Crisis.

Wednesday Addams

Wednesday Addams is the morbid daughter of Gomez and Morticia in The Addams Family, created in Charles Addams's 1938 New Yorker cartoons, named from the 'full of woe' nursery rhyme in 1964, and played by Lisa Loring, Christina Ricci, and Jenna Ortega in Netflix's record-setting 2022 series Wednesday.

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)

Wednesday Addams as portrayed in Netflix's Wednesday (2022–), created by Gough and Millar with Tim Burton, starring Jenna Ortega; a psychic teen detective at Nevermore Academy, record-breaking hit, two seasons.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 Columbia debut LP, produced by Tom Wilson, a folk-revival album of two voices and a guitar that sold about 2,000 copies until its acoustic 'The Sound of Silence' was electrically overdubbed and hit No. 1.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie is a Scottish nursery rhyme by William Miller, first published in Whistle-Binkie (1841), about a nightgown-clad figure checking that children are in bed by eight o'clock.

Wee-Bey Brice

Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional enforcer on HBO's The Wire, played by Hassan Johnson. Chief hitman of the Barksdale organization, sentenced to life without parole in 2002, father of Namond, and source of the wee-bey.gif reaction meme.

Weebl and Bob

Weebl and Bob (The Everyday Happenings of Weebl and Sometimes Weebl's Friend Bob) is a British Flash cartoon series by Jonti Picking, first uploaded June 6, 2002, about two egg-shaped characters obsessed with pie; licensed by MTV UK as Wobbl and Bob.

Weeds (TV series)

Weeds is a Showtime comedy-drama created by Jenji Kohan, airing 2005-2012 in eight seasons. Mary-Louise Parker stars as widowed suburban mom Nancy Botwin, who sells marijuana in fictional Agrestic, California; theme song Little Boxes; 20 Emmy nominations, 2 wins.

Weeekly

Weeekly (위클리) is a South Korean girl group formed by Play M Entertainment that debuted in 2020 and is known for the 2021 hit "After School".

Weekend (1967 film)

Weekend (Week-end) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French-Italian satirical film in which a bourgeois couple drive from Paris to collect an inheritance amid apocalyptic traffic jams and cannibal guerrillas, famous for its 300-metre traffic-jam tracking shot and its closing "End of Cinema" title.

Weekend (2011 film)

Weekend (2011) is Andrew Haigh's British drama, also known simply as Weekend, about Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New), two men who meet in a Nottingham bar and spend one transformative weekend together; made for £120,000, it premiered at SXSW and holds a 95% Tomatometer.

Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as employees who pretend their murdered boss is alive.

Weekend at Bernie's II

Weekend at Bernie's II is a 1993 American black comedy sequel directed by Robert Klane, in which Larry and Richard use Bernie's voodoo-revived corpse to find embezzled money.

Weekend Beach Festival

The Weekend Beach Festival is a multi-genre music festival held each July on Poniente Beach in Torre del Mar, Andalusia, Spain, first staged in 2014.

Weekend in Guatemala

Weekend in Guatemala (Week-end en Guatemala) is a 1956 book by the Guatemalan writer and Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias, chronicling the 1954 CIA-sponsored coup that overthrew President Jacobo Árbenz.

Weekend in Taipei

Weekend in Taipei (台北追緝令; 周末狂飙) is a 2024 EuropaCorp action thriller directed by George Huang, written with Luc Besson, starring Luke Evans, Gwei Lun-Mei, and Sung Kang, shot fully in Taipei, grossing about $3 million worldwide.

Weekend Lover (周末情人)

Weekend Lover (周末情人, Zhoumo Qingren) is Lou Ye's 1995 debut feature drama, starring Ma Xiaoqing, Jia Hongsheng, and Wang Zhiwen; shot in 1993 Shanghai, censored for two years, released in weekend midnight screenings, and winner of the 1996 Mannheim-Heidelberg Fassbinder Best Director award.

Weekend Pussy Hunt

Weekend Pussy Hunt, also known as Comic Book during MSN development, is a John Kricfalusi/Spumco Flash web cartoon (2000) starring Dirty Dog chasing Cigarettes the Cat in film noir style; 12 of 14 planned episodes aired on Icebox.com before it folded.

Weekend Update

Weekend Update is Saturday Night Live's satirical news desk segment, running since the October 11, 1975 premiere; conceived by Chevy Chase and Herb Sargent, renamed SNL Newsbreak and Saturday Night News in the 1980s, and currently co-anchored by Colin Jost and Michael Che since 2014.

Weekend Warriors (upcoming film)

Weekend Warriors (Wochenendrebellen remake) is an upcoming Apple Original Films sports comedy-drama written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, starring Mark Wahlberg as a trucker touring all 30 NBA arenas with his autistic son, produced with Plan B and LeBron James's SpringHill; no release date announced.

Weekendavisen's Literature Prize

Weekendavisen's Literature Prize (Weekendavisens Litteraturpris) is an annual Danish literature prize awarded by the newspaper Weekendavisen since 1980, with readers choosing the winner from a shortlist.

Weekly Idol (주간 아이돌)

Weekly Idol (주간 아이돌, Jugan Aidol) is a South Korean K-pop idol variety show premiering July 23, 2011 on MBC every1, later on MBC M, known for Random Play Dance and 2x Speed Dance, hosted since 2025 by Monsta X's Minhyuk and Cravity's Hyeongjun.

Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine)

Weekly Shonen Jump (American magazine), launched as Shonen Jump Alpha by Viz Media on January 30, 2012, was the English weekly digital manga anthology replacing print Shonen Jump; renamed Weekly Shonen Jump in 2013 for same-day simulpub with Japan.

Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ)

Weekly Shōnen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ), Shueisha's weekly shōnen manga magazine founded in 1968, is Japan's best-selling manga magazine with 7.5 billion cumulative copies; print circulation fell to 985,000 in April–June 2026.

Weekly Shōnen Magazine

Weekly Shōnen Magazine (週刊少年マガジン) is Kodansha's weekly shōnen manga magazine, founded March 17, 1959 alongside Shōnen Sunday; it peaked at 4.4 million copies and now circulates about 283,000.

Weekly Young Jump (週刊ヤングジャンプ)

Weekly Young Jump (週刊ヤングジャンプ, Shūkan Yangu Janpu) is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha, founded in 1979 and weekly since 1980, on sale each Thursday.

Ween

Ween, the experimental rock duo of Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) and Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo) from New Hope, Pennsylvania, formed in 1984; known for the Boognish mythology, "Brown" aesthetic, and albums like The Mollusk and Chocolate and Cheese.

Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child is the first novel by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, published in 1964 and the first East African novel published in English.

Weeping Angel

Weeping Angels (the Lonely Assassins): quantum-locked Doctor Who monsters created by Steven Moffat, debuting in Blink (2007); they freeze to stone when observed and send victims back in time to feed on their unlived days.

Weetabix

Weetabix: British wholegrain wheat breakfast cereal brand, founded 1932 at Burton Latimer by Osbourne and MacFarlane, renamed Weetabix Limited 1936; flagship of Weetabix Food Company, a Post Holdings subsidiary since 2003, and the UK's number one cereal brand.