Submitted by Rachel (@honey.bunhwa)

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So, you’re a brand new ATINY. 

You’ve watched ALL their music videos, listened to ALL of their albums on repeat, and spent hours scouring over every little detail about the members on Kprofiles. 

But you’re still curious about them, and you have a craving for more knowledge about these eight powerhouse performers who, according to other ATINYs, are really just silly softies off stage.

If this sounds like you right now, you’ll be glad to know that ATEEZ actually dual-wields the titles of both “K-Pop Group” and “Great Entertainers”!

They have BUCKETLOADS of variety content on YouTube, and have been creating it since before their debut. So sit back and relax, man. (See what I did there?) Grab the popcorn, and get seated for ALLLLLL the wonderfully entertaining series these guys have to offer.

Here’s a list of some of their best content and a little bit about each one for those curious, starting from pre-debut to now.

1. KQ Fellaz USA Training

This pre-debut series follows ATEEZ — or as they were known at the time, “KQ Fellaz” — through a month-long training period in Los Angeles. Their task is to create their own song, music video, and choreography, which becomes their pre-debut song ‘From’. Here, we take a glimpse at the very, very beginning of their long journey to become the ATEEZ we know today. And just look how cute they were back then! (Not saying they’re not cute anymore, but just LOOK AT THEM!) This playlist contains compilation videos with some of the episodes combined into one, for some (mostly) ad-free viewing.

2. ATEEZ WANTED

This is ATEEZ’s first variety show after debut, where their challenge is to complete “quests” to become the “Pirate Kings” and get clues towards a mystery destination where their “treasure” lies. Each quest is unbeknownst to the boys until they arrive at their quest’s destination.

The members rise to the challenges of activities such as skydiving charades, (which created some hilarious facial expressions from the skydivers as well as some completely unguessable charades attempts), six members successfully doing 20 jumps in a row all together on one jump rope,  a game where they played rock paper scissors and whacked the loser on the head with a squeaky rubber hammer (don’t worry – the loser had a pan to protect themselves!) and much more silliness. You’re bound to love this one!

3. ATEEZ Treasure Film

ATEEZ Treasure Film is yet another variety show — except this one was filmed in Australia and Los Angeles. By ATEEZ. ATEEZ’s members were completely clueless about this show being a thing, until they walked out of recording an interview in Sydney to a van with their logo and the word “PRODUCTIONS” on the side. They yet again had challenges to complete, but on a grander scale — think ATEEZ Wanted but with a much bigger budget. As expected with these boys, this series WILL have you cracking up. (Apart from the challenge to call their parents and tell them they love them — that one may have you tearing up instead). At the end they meet ATINY in a park to record a dance video to their song “Dancing Like Butterfly Wings” and it’s beautiful. This one is only three episodes, but each episode is just under an hour each. Highly recommended.

4. Salary Lupin

Salary Lupin gives us a glimpse into what the members of ATEEZ would have been like if they were ordinary office workers rather than famous K-Pop idols. Well… Sort of. They pretend to work at a fictional company and play characterized versions of themselves as an employee, with given job roles and traits such as “neat” (Seonghwa) and “gamer” (Yunho). They have to figure out who the “spy” is amongst themselves while debunking false accusations of being the spy themselves, and somehow being office workers turns into all sorts of very unbusinesslike activities.

5. WANTEEZ

WANTEEZ is an incredibly silly series (like all of them to be honest) where ATEEZ are now students in a school. Very similar to Salary Lupin but the “younger” and possibly sillier version. Watch ATEEZ run away from hordes of students, run away from zombie students, run to the snack shop to eat a snack before running back to class as quickly as possible….. Actually, there’s a whole lot of running. It should have been called “RUNTEEZ” I think. But there is more to it than running. Like visiting “Grandma’s” house and getting sprayed with water if they laugh. And cooking.  And Wooyoung sexy dancing. This series is iconic.

6. ATEEZ Fever Road

In this variety show, which was filmed during Fever era, ATEEZ are yet again taken to a fancy house (yes, there’s a bit of a pattern here). This time they don’t even have the key to start with. First challenge: Find which of the many keys hidden around the property is the real key. Every morning, they wake up to the sound of drums and are told about their next mission. This series also shows scenes related to the extensive lore of ATEEZ in the episode’s intros, so anyone who’s interested in the storyline will love Fever Road!

There is so much content out there of ATEEZ that sadly, I can’t talk about it all here. However, I would highly recommend taking a look at this masterlist by @80Z___ , @A__FCB, and @dearmingki on Twitter/X. This quite literally has every, and I mean every ATEEZ video that’s ever been released to date. Seriously. But you have this blog as a starting off point in case that’s too overwhelming!

I hope that this blog was useful in teaching you about some of the wonderful and wacky variety shows that ATEEZ have starred in!