W in pop culture.
The way 1950s New York's Mad Bomber George Metesky wrote the letter w was a part of how he got caught. "His script was perfect except for the Ws. Instead of connecting Vs that would have been consistent with the rest of the letters, Metesky connected two Us, which Dr. James Brussel saw as representing women's breasts." (source: Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader.)
Aside from the famous sketch which sprouted this club, W was a featured letter in the very first "Sesame Street" in November 1969. Here are some more screens of the part which we care about the most.
I remember there was an issue of the comic book "Ren and Stimpy" where in the "Ask Dr. Stupid" page, someone had written that they found an M&M with a w on it and whether it was worth anything. There was no reply given, since it was after Dr. Stupid had left and his replacement had come in.
In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Born To Be Wild," SpongeBob rips a part of a biker's coat off. His hand covered the W in the "Wild Ones." SpongeBob and Patrick get the Krusty Krab worked up about the Wild Ones coming. At the end, the W was upside down and the bikers' name was actually the "Mild Ones."
At the beginning of the 1963 movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", a dying man tells a few people that $350,000 is hidden under a giant W. This is a picture of the giant W that they eventually find.
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in the 2008 movie called simply "W." There are a few other movies called "W", but this is the most successful one.
In the song "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie, the bench where you sit when you get drafted and had committed crimes is called Group W.
Wendy's is currently offering a delicious burger called The W. Try one today and be sure to order Water with it because water begins with w.
A Nintendo video game character named Wario wears a hat with a W on it. Wario, one of Mario's enemies, has had quite a share of starring roles of his own, most notably of "Virtual Boy Wario Land" for the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
W is also the name of a women's magazine published in the US. Visit their website here: W.
There is a book called "W, ou le souvenir d'enfance" or, in English, "W, or the Memory of Childhood." by Georges Perec, the author who wrote "La Disparition," the book that doesn't use the letter E.