History WebVideo / BeingTheElite

''Being the Elite'' is an original Website/YouTube series by {{professional wrestl|ing}}ers Matt and Nick Jackson, Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. The show was originally a vlog type series with fellow professional wrestler Wrestling/KennyOmega. Over time, the series began to mix blogging content with in-kayfabe skits which covered storylines involving their membership in the Wrestling/BulletClub, producing their first pay-per-view ALL IN, then their independence as Wrestling/TheElite, and their formation of the promotion Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling.

** Episode 137 has TheStinger where Wrestling/KennyOmega stresses over a difficult choice with Nick Jackson of Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. At the time of the episode's airing, Omega was a free agent and rumors were rampant that he would sign with WWE.[[note]]For bonus points, had Omega signed around the time the episode was taped, he would've probably had the chance to appear at the Wrestling/RoyalRumble.[[/note]] [[spoiler:The choice Kenny stresses over turns out to be whether to start playing the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]] remake of VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 as Leon Kennedy or Claire Redfield]].

** Whatever plans were in place for the Young Bucks[=/=]Hangman reconciliation storyline following ''All Out 2022'' were forced to be abandoned after the Young Bucks were suspended and BTE went on hiatus following a backstage altercation with Wrestling/CMPunk.

* ArtifactTitle: Zig-zagged - Originally, the series was the Young Bucks travel vlog. As time went on, the vlogs become more scripted in nature, and began to heavily feature other members of the Bullet Club, Wrestling/AdamCole And Wrestling/KennyOmega in particular; before effectively becoming the primary narrative vehicle for the Bullet Club as Cole left for WWE and Wrestling/MartyScurll joined in his place. As the group prepared for ''All In'', the cast expanded to include the Bucks’ friends from the independent scene; by the end of 2020, the original trio of Omega and the Bucks have effectively been reduced to extras with a larger focus being placed on other AEW acts. When AEW went back on the road in the summer of 2021, the focus shifted back to being the Young Bucks travel vlog whilst retaining a focus other AEW acts.

* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: During one episode, John Silver led some of the Dark Order to sing Cody's theme (to Mr. Brodie Lee's back), but only got the first line ("Adrenaline, in my soul") before going "Something something Cody Rhodes!"

* TeamMom: Trent's mom Sue is this to the AEW crew as well as her son. She bakes cakes for Wrestling/TheDarkOrder, and even the large, intimidating, violent, AtomicFBomb-dropping Mr. Brodie Lee doesn't stand up to her, even managing to [[{{Corpsing}} make him crack a smile]] when she fails to do Lee's signature paper-throwing to John Silver. He immediately throws John Silver under the bus instead.

** When the Dark Order were banned from vlog by the Young Bucks, they proceeded to make appearances on Wrestling/SammyGuevarra and Wrestling/EthanPage’s vlogs as they tried to find a new vlog to call home, before instead deciding to just blackmail Cutler into putting them back on BTE.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: One episode had the Beaver Boys trying to recruit Wardlow into the Dark Order, but got sidetracked when they (especially John Silver) couldn't stop gushing about his body.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Tired of Brandon Cutler asking them for bit ideas (and having no good ideas), the Best Friends and Orange Cassidy decide it would be easier to just murder him.

* OurSloganIsTerrible: Subverted. During Being The Elite's attempt to include public service announcements, there was the slogan "BTE is drug free, and that's the way to be!"

** Hangman Page wearing "full [wrestling] gear" in situations where the rest of BTE is wearing casual or dress clothes. Cody and the Bucks insist that he lose weight prior to AEW's ''Double or Nothing'' pay-per-view. The "full gear" gag was written into the Episode 141 intro. The same episode featured Page's "Full Gear Challenge". [[spoiler: It finally pays off in Episode 152.]]

* ArtifactTitle: Zig-zagged - Originally, the series was the Young Bucks travel vlog. As time went on, the vlogs become more scripted in nature, and began to heavily feature other members of the Bullet Club, Wrestling/AdamCole And Wrestling/KennyOmega in particular; before effectively becoming the primary narrative vehicle for the Bullet Club as Cole left for WWE and Wrestling/MartyScurll joined in his place. As the group prepared for ''All In'', the cast expanded to include the Bucks’ friends from the independent scene; by the end of 2020, the original trio of Omega and the Bucks have effectively been reduced to extras with a larger focus being placed on other AEW acts. When AEW went back on the road in the summer of 2021, the focus shifted back to being the Young Bucks travel vlog.

* {{Crossover}}: Several WWE superstars such as Wrestling/TheNewDay and Wrestling/ChrisJericho (pre-AEW) have appeared in the show.

* ArtifactTitle: Originally, the series was the Young Bucks travel vlog. As time went on, the vlogs become more scripted in nature, and began to heavily feature other members of the Bullet Club, Wrestling/AdamCole And Wrestling/KennyOmega in particular; before effectively becoming the primary narrative vehicle for the Bullet Club as Cole left for WWE and Wrestling/MartyScurll joined in his place. As the group prepared for ''All In'', the cast expanded to include the Bucks’ friends from the independent scene; by the end of 2020, the original trio of Omega and the Bucks have effectively been reduced to extras with a larger focus being placed on other AEW acts.

** The first several episodes don't have a video game or sitcom intro, just the Bucks and Omega chanting "The Elite". Wrestling/AdamCole was part of the show during his run in the Wrestling/BulletClub, but is considered "dead" by The Elite as of signing with [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] and forming Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra. In September 2021, Cole returned to the series in Episode 272 when he signed with AEW. The episode's title is "Back From The Dead".
** The early episodes also didn't have storylines exclusive to the show.

** Anna Jay pushing Stu Greyson and causing him to dramatically topple over furniture or objects. Lampshaded in episode 276 when, during a Dark Order reconciliation, he thinks something is missing just as she is about to do it again.

* {{Corpsing}}:
** Despite his famously lackadaisical gimmick, Orange Cassidy is prone to this, especially regarding the antics of the Best Friends.
** John Silver is prone to laughing when being yelled at by Mr. Brodie Lee, although Brodie tries to play it off as crying when he can.
** Blink and you'll miss it, but even Mr. Brodie Lee himself (along with pretty much the rest of the Dark Order) were subject of this when Trent's mom Sue failed to do Lee's signature paper-throwing at John Silver.
** Also during Dark Order segments, an attentive viewer will probably notice Anna Jay often ends up either turning her head or covering her face with her hand because she's starting to laugh.
** The Jackson brothers can't get through a Sour Boy segment without cracking smiles, despite calling him "the worst" every time he appears.

* '''BTE World Champion''': '''[[Wrestling/ThreePoint0 2point0]]''' since September 13, 2021.

''Being the Elite'' is an original Website/YouTube series by {{professional wrestl|ing}}ers Matt and Nick Jackson, Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. The show was originally a vlog type series with fellow professional wrestler Wrestling/KennyOmega. Over time, the series covered storylines involving their membership in the Wrestling/BulletClub, producing their first pay-per-view ALL IN, then their independence as Wrestling/TheElite, and their formation of the promotion Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling.

!!Starring the series:
* Wrestling/KennyOmega
* Wrestling/MartyScurll
* Wrestling/AdamPage
* Wrestling/CodyRhodes (as "Cody")
* Wrestling/TheYoungBucks
* [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Also]] Flip Gordon
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** The first several episodes don't have a video game or sitcom intro, just the Bucks and Omega chanting "The Elite". Wrestling/AdamCole was part of the show during his run in the Wrestling/BulletClub, but is considered "dead" by The Elite as of signing with [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] and forming Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra.

** Until Wrestling/AdamCole signed with [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]], the series primarily focused on the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and Cole. Shortly after Wrestling/MartyScurll joined Wrestling/BulletClub, the focus shifted to include Scurll, Wrestling/HangmanPage and Wrestling/CodyRhodes, before eventually expanding to feature other talents who weren’t members of Bullet Club that they were friends with.

* AbortedArc: Whatever the plans were for Wrestling/MartyScurll’s reintroduction following the rest of the Elite abandoning him to form Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling - with numerous teases that Marty held a big enough grudge to consider his former friends as being dead to him - were ultimately abandoned after Marty was implicated in the 2020 [=#SpeakingOut=] movement.

** In an early episode, the members of SCU are in London, England, admiring the scenery and how beautiful the landscape is... [[spoiler:that is, the landscape and scenery of South California, which they're appreciating via a phone, only to bash London for ''not'' being South Califirnia]].

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