Seaweed Stubbs

Seaweed J. Stubbs is a major character in the 1988 film Hairspray, its 2002 stage musical adaptation of the same name, and its 2007 film adaptation, again of the same name. He is one of the Negro Day detention kids and the older two children of Motormouth Maybelle, the other being L'il Inez.

He is played by an unknown actor in the 1988 film and Elijah Kelley in the 2007 film.