Tag: being the elite

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Opening —

• The video opened with footage from The Young Bucks and Brandon Cutler at a Clippers game the night before Dynamite.
• Instead of a travel montage, we saw the Bucks enjoying the game from a private box. 
• Brandon’s camera spotted Konsuke Takeshita and Don Callis dressed in old-school LA Kings jerseys at the game and they were apparently getting kicked out by security. 

Matt Hardy & Ethan Page try to recruit Brandon Cutler to The Hardy Party —

• Things seem to be going better between Matt Hardy and Ethan Page. 
• They spoke with Cutler backstage this week and encouraged him to join The Hardy Party. Cutler will team with Page, Hardy, and Isiah Kassidy on Dark: Elevation this week. 

Matt Hardy turns into Broken Matt Hardy —

• After meeting with Page and Cutler, Hardy went to the bathroom where he morphed into his Broken character. 

“Smart” Mark Sterling commercial —

• Sterling bragged that while some lawyers are right most or some of the time, he is right all of the time. He then listed off a series of things he has been right about including MJF winning the title (and that everyone likes him), that Samoa Joe is untrustworthy, and that all polar bears are left-handed. 

The Dark Order discuss their recent recruitment drive and ignore Colt Cabana in the background —

• John Silver, Evil Uno, and Alex Reynolds discuss what qualities they are looking for in a new member. Colt Cabana is shown in the back, seemingly thinking they were talking about him but instead they walked up to John Morrison. Silver, Uno, and Reynolds asked Morrison to become “Johnny Dark Order.” He said if they are able to recruit the Bollywood Boyz then he’ll join too. 

Footage of Match 7 between The Elite and Death Triangle —

• Cutler’s footage from Match 7 between The Elite and Death Triangle is shown. 
• Matt Jackson showed off some of his injuries from the match in a post-credit scene. 

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Brandon Cutler is all alone —

• The Young Bucks are off this week and Kenny Omega was in Japan for Wrestle Kingdom. The weekly travel montage featured only Brandon as a result. 

Peter Avalon and Leva Bates have a “practice kid” —

• Now that Avalon has a grown-up haircut, he and Leva Bates are seeing if they are ready to have children. They decided to try with a practice kid, who just so happened to be Luther. 
• Avalon did not seem to enjoy the experience. 

The Hollywood Hunk goes Bollywood? —

• The Bollywood Boys approached Ryan Nemeth about giving up his movie career in Hollywood. They suggested he go Bollywood instead. 
• It took 90 seconds, but they eventually convinced Nemeth to come with them. 
• Nemeth would later promote his comedy show on Wednesday night. 

The Dark Order is recruiting —

• Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds, and John Silver discussed recruiting new members into the Dark Order.
• Silver and Reynolds noted that they are recruitment specialists and should lead the project. 
• Uno suggested recruiting Rick Ross, Satnam Singh, and The Bollywood Boyz. 

Promo for Ethan Page vs. Orange Cassidy gaming championship match —

• Highlights from the All Elite Arcade gaming channel are shown. Ethan Page and Orange Cassidy will square off for the gaming championship Wednesday on Twitch. 

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The Young Bucks stand-ins —

• This week’s travel montage was a little different. Instead of following Matt & Nick Jackson as they traveled to Dynamite and Rampage last week, we saw their stand-ins go through an eight-hour travel day. 

Hunk’s Hollywood Holiday —

• Nemeth’s video this week begins with his girlfriend crying because she has to film a video of him on Christmas. Nemeth is unsympathetic to her concerns. He offered her a milkshake. 

Brandon Cutler gives out Christmas cards —

• Brandon mentions that he met a family that has traveled to over 40 AEW events. They made cards for several wrestlers that Brandon then handed out during this segment. 

Leva Bates & Peter Avalon take LSD and have a second wedding ceremony —

• Bates and Avalon take acid and decide to have a second wedding ceremony, this one in front of the devil. Ryzin performs the ceremony. 

NBA on BTE —

• Daniel Garcia and Isiah Kassidy are back with another episode of NBA on BTE this week. They analyzed The Elite vs. Death Triangle best of seven series. 

Footage from AEW Dynamite —

• Highlights from Match five in the series between The Elite and Death Triangle are shown. 

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Travel montage —

• Before this week’s travel montage, The Young Bucks noted that instead of flying in the day before Dynamite as they normally do, this week they flew into Dallas the day of the show. The entire trip would only be 27 hours. 

Ryan Nemeth films moving graphics… poorly —

• Nemeth had great difficulty turning to his left in order to film moving graphics this week. He had no problem going right but seemed completely unable to turn to the left. 
• It’s been a difficult few weeks for him. 
• “Zoolander was based on a partly true story. Medically that’s a real thing,” Nemeth could be heard saying. 

NBA on BTE —

• Daniel Garcia and Isiah Kassidy gave an analysis of the seven-match series between the Death Triangle and Elite. Their report seemed to come before the fourth match took place, however. Both Garcia and Kassidy are predicting the Elite win the series.
• The video then switched to highlights from The Elite vs. Death Triangle match from Winter is Coming.  

Mark Sterling’s Class Action Lawsuit against the holidays —

• “Smart” Mark Sterling was back this week with a new commercial. 
• Sterling was able to get a cash settlement for Santa and saved Christmas!

The Young Bucks stand-ins film promo material —

• Last week, the Young Bucks hired 24/7 stand-ins. They were shown this week filming promotional material on behalf of Matt & Nick Jackson. 

Peter Avalon and Leva Bates’ first holidays as a married couple —

• Bates and Avalon exchanged gifts and Avalon said Bates can be an “Honorary Wingman.” 
• Cezar Bononi reluctantly agreed to this.  

The Elite head home —

• Come hour 27, The Young Bucks arrived home to Ontario, California. 
• They still had an hour’s drive left so the entire trip took 28 hours. 

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Travel montage —

• We opened this week with a travel montage as the Young Bucks make their way to Cedar Park, Texas for AEW Dynamite and Rampage. 

Brandon Cutler makes Pixar puns —

• Brandon Culter was shown to be very excited that a lamp similar to one from a Pixar movie was in his hotel room. This led to a series of Pixar-related puns that he was also quite excited about. It takes a while but eventually becomes funny.  

A very hard-to-lift dumbell —

• The Bucks, Brandon Cutler, Eddie Kingston, Dustin Rhodes, and others try to lift a very heavy weight but with little success. The only ones to really lift it were Satnam Singh and Nick Comoroto. Wardlow got it up a little too. 

The Young Bucks’ new contract perks —

• The Young Bucks talk with Christopher Daniels about having stand-ins that are available 24/7. 

Ryan Nemeth shirtless audition —

• Nemeth shoots an audition video this week. He was reading for the part of Jesse in Free Willy. The person behind the camera was concerned as the movie is very old and Jesse was an eight-year-old child. The two then debated the logic behind Nemeth recording such an audition video. As with Cutler’s puns, it takes a while but eventually does become pretty funny. 

The Young Bucks backstage —

• The Bucks are shown complaining about people pitching terrible storylines. 
• Brandon then entered and said he’d booked out an entire year of storylines to make him the top babyface in the company. His pitch was basically that he wins all of his matches, wins titles, beats Jon Moxley, Hangman etc. 
• The Bucks then called in their 24/7 stand-ins to listen to all of Brandon’s pitches.  

The Young Bucks and their choices in hamburgers —

• The Elite are shown with In-N-Out burgers at the end of the video and said that In-N-Out is so much better than Whataburger. 
• The after-credits scene then cuts back to Brandon telling the stand-ins more of his great storyline ideas. 

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Opening —

• This week’s video begins with backstage footage from Dynamite last week. The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega were shown deciding to attack Death Triangle during their entrance. 
• We then cut to the intro and a travel montage. 

NBA on BTE —

• Daniel Garcia and Private Party analyzed the Best-of-Seven series between Death Triangle and The Elite as if it was an NBA playoff series. 

Footage from AEW Dynamite —

• A montage of highlights from The Elite vs. Death Triangle on Dynamite aired. Kenny Omega was shown posing with a sign in the front row that read “Support Trans Kids. Trans Rights are Human Rights.” 

Ryan Nemeth teaches acting class —

• The Hollywood Hunk ran some acting classes this week. He helped a man named Milk create a video to send to casting directors. 
• Nemeth grew increasingly frustrated with Milk’s performance. 

The Young Bucks sign merchandise —

• Footage of the Young Bucks signing different types of merchandise is shown. 

Brandon Cutler as a lumberjack —

• Footage that Brandon Cutler shot while being a lumberjack during the Orange Cassidy vs. QT Marshall match on Rampage aired. 

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Opening —

• The video begins with the Young Bucks announcing a virtual signing with Highspots for December 1. 

The Young Bucks arrive in Chicago —

• The Young Bucks were shown in a lounge on Tuesday night and said they weren’t sure what kind of reaction they would get from the Chicago crowd that week. 
• We then cut to a travel montage. 

Colt Cabana promoting ShopAEW.com —

• Cabana was shown promoting items for sale at ShopAEW.com.

Ryan Nemeth goes hiking —

• Footage of Nemeth preparing a staged video of him hiking was shown. 
• Those behind the camera said he was “walking funny” like he had “fake knees or something.” Nemeth grew increasingly frustrated with their criticism. 

The Best Friends have a talk with Danhausen —

• The Best Friends were shown having a frank conversation with Danhausen. They asked him if he wanted to talk about being all satanic and carrying around a jar of teeth at Full Gear. Danhausen said he did not want to talk about it and then was that. 
• Trent Beretta then continued to promote his mom Sue’s book available on Amazon here. 

Footage from backstage at AEW Dynamite —

• Footage of Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks before they went out to the ring at Dynamite was shown. The trio agreed that if the crowd was being disrespectful to them then they would cheat in their match against Death Triangle.

AEW Dynamite footage —

• Much like they did with the “F–k CM Punk” chants from last week, the music stopped during this week’s episode as well to allow the “F–K the Elite” chants to be featured. They also included when the Chicago crowd chanted “F–k CM Punk” too, however. 

Thanksgiving breakfast —

• The Young Bucks, Rick Knox, Brandon Cutler, and Christopher Daniels all had Thanksgiving breakfast together and said what they were thankful for to close the video.