Line #28 WebVideo/EnterTheDojo


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Always re-stomp the Groin]]
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4	Ever wondered what would happen if the documentary crew from ''Series/{{The Office\|US}}'' visited [[Film/NapoleonDynamite Rex-Kwon-Do]]'s dojo?
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6	Enter Master Ken (Not [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ken Masters]]), Chief Instructor at the Ameri-Do-Te Dojo. Ameri-Do-Te is the most deadly martial art known to man and all other Martial Arts are '''[[CatchPhrase BULLSHIT]]'''. Enter The Dojo is a documentary/Web Series about Master Ken instructing his students in the ways of Ameri-Do-Te.
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8	Begin your training [[https://www.youtube.com/EnterTheDojoShow here]].
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10	This series includes examples of:
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13	!!Tropes:
14	* TheAce: Master Ken, of course. This is played with in the "showdown at the dojo" video where he is confronted by people he has pissed off and he proceeds to beat them up with ease, skills he hasn't really displayed in the seasons. Then it turns out the showdown was a movie within a movie and not real.
15	* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Master Ken, Billy, and Lin Da.
16	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Master Ken's grip on historical facts is tenuous at best.
17	* AsideGlance: Anthony employs this trope constantly. Occasionally, Master Ken will indulge in this too.
18	* BasedOnATrueStory: Matt Page based the show on his experiences trying to find a legitimate dojo after moving to Hollywood. Various instructors tried to teach him techniques like [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing the Groin Grab and Hurticane]] with dead seriousness.
19	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Cynthia usually comes across as being very girly and perpetually on the verge of crying. Piss her off, however, and she becomes downright creepy. Billy as well, his past consisting of violence and aggression come across as an {{InformedFlaw}} because throught the show he is patient, calm and loyal to Master Ken...until season four where he gets truely angry and upset out of jealousy that Todd's getting beaten up by Master Ken instead of him, and being passed over for a promotion soured him.
20	** Cynthia's normal persona appears to be masking something much darker: "Sometimes, I have evil thoughts and I used to tell them to my teddy bear, but then I thought it would turn him evil, so I stopped..."
21	* ButtMonkey: Todd who is actually of the iron variety.
22	** Anthony is the primary target of Ken's disdain during the show's actual episodes. Billy also suffers, but it's more due to his own stupidity and Ken's lack of concern for his well-being.
23	** Todd is on the receiving end of Ken's demonstrations in supplementary videos.
24	* CatchPhrase: "Bull shit!" "Best of all, worst of none"
25	* CloudCuckoolander: Most of the dojo's students. But Master Ken is king of them all with his belief that techniques like the Kill Face, Hurticane, and Thrust of Freedom make him the greatest martial artist alive[[note]]going so far as to award himself an eleventh degree black belt.[[/note]]
26	** Master Ken asks the class to identify their spirit animals and then tells them to embrace said animals' traits. The dojo being what it is, it quickly turns into an improv class for lunatics.
27	* TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: Master Ken has a technique he refers to as You-Jitsu, which involves the fighter trying to outsmart their own reflections in a mirror. When Anthony points out that physics dictate that it requires them to be faster than the speed of light for You-Jitsu to work, Master Ken proceeds to show that it is indeed possible to do so[[note]]Ken's reflection even gives the real one a DopeSlap[[/note]]. He is even somehow capable of teleporting as despite being in Anthony's line of site, he somehow appears behind him and chokes him out. His super-speed is shown again in the video "100 hits in one second!!
28	* {{Crossover}}: With WebVideo/AskANinja.
29	* ForbiddenTechnique: There are many deadly techniques in Ameri-Do-Te, but the deadliest has to be Kill Face. [[TheUnseen It cannot even be shown on camera.]]
30	* {{Gasshole}}: Billy in "Dance of Death" and in season four, he was arrested for farting at a security guard.
31	* GroinAttack: A staple of the slapstick humor on the show:
32	** The prime MO of Ameri-Do-Te and Rachel's specialty, as demonstrated in "Destroy the Groin".
33	** A sparring match between Billy and a student from a rival dojo consists entirely of groin grabs in "Kung Foolishness".
34	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyXhysmMNhE 100 Ways to Attack the Groin]]" is by far the most watched video Enter the Dojo has yet produced.
35	*** Now has a sequel, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwXuFwSiaU 101 Ways to Attack the Groin]]".
36	* INeedToIronMyDog: Anthony tries to get out of date with Fiona by saying he needs to drain his fish tank or his catfish will cough up another hairball. [[GroinAttack She kicks him in the groin for it]].
37	* {{Kayfabe}}: Internet commenters happily maintain the illusion that Master Ken is an inspiring teacher and that Ameri-Do-Te is the most lethal martial art known to man. The cast, on the other hand, will promote the show out of character.
38	* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Hurticane's intended effect: you should launch so many simultaneous attacks on your opponent that they can't adequately defend against them all.
39	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Rachel and Anthony
40	* OnlySaneMan: Anthony seems to be the only one in the dojo (bar the documentary crew) who realizes just how ridiculous Ameri-Do-Te is. He's only attending because it gives him the chance to snark at everything, though in season four his best one hit kill against someone is to befriend them and wait until they die of old age, even Ken is seemingly impressed.
41	* PinkIsForSissies: In "Kung Foolishness", Anthony tries to get out of sparring by complaining about stomach cramps. Master Ken has Anthony remove his orange belt and then gives him a pink belt, just like the ones worn by women in ancient Japan to "help soothe their lady pains."
42	* PsychoEx: Fiona is an emotionally unstable woman who's fixated on Anthony. Her appearance in Season 3 is treated like the reveal of a horror movie villain. Anthony actually grabs a weapon when she comes near him.
43	** Fiona has another ex whose dog she killed before burning down his house.
44	* PunnyName: Master Ken Poe: Kenpo is a type of martial art.
45	* RealityIsUnrealistic: The Groin Grab and Hurticane are techniques that were actually taught to Matt Page while he was looking for a dojo to train at by instructors who seemed to be sure of said techniques' usefulness.
46	** In fact, many Ameri-Do-Te techniques seen on the show are merely slightly[[note]]and only very slightly[[/note]] exaggerated versions of real self-defense techniques taught by self-proclaimed masters of dubious qualifications.
47	* StalkerWithACrush: It's revealed in "Dim Mack Daddy" that Cynthia's been closely monitoring Billy for a very long time. She even keeps track of his bowel movements.
48	* StatusQuoIsGod: Master Ken promotes the entire class (save Billy, who only gets a new brown belt) by one belt rank during Season 2's Christmas Episode[[note]]mostly because there was a sale on martial arts belts online[[/note]]. He demotes everyone back down to their original ranks before the next episode because they missed a class he'd scheduled on New Year's Day. Ken even goes so far as to give the documentary production crew white belts so that he can demote them to no belts when they dared to point out that no one could be expected to know that there would be class on a holiday[[note]]Ken even takes away the production van's engine belt.[[/note]]
49	** Billy takes a promotion test and succeeds in earning a stripe on his brown belt. It's never mentioned again and seems to have disappeared in subsequent episodes.
50	** Subverted as of season four where everyone bar Billy is promoted.
51	* TalkingHeads: In keeping with the documentary style of the show
52	* TimTaylorTechnology: Master Ken occasionally demonstrates that he does have a strong grasp of the fundamentals of the martial arts and would be a formidable fighter if he stuck with them. His overblown ego and obsession with complicated and fanciful techniques, however, takes Ameri-Do-Te several steps beyond practical.
53	* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Three Words: Thrust of Freedom
54	** Lampshaded by Anthony: "I can't think of a better way to stop someone from beating me up by violently humping them. I also can't think of a better way to get someone to kick my ass than violently humping them."
55	** The Hurticane, even more so.
56	** Many RealLife fighters and martial artists who appear find themselves giving each other and the camera "What the hell?" glances whenever Master Ken corrects their techniques.
57	* {{Yandere}}: Fiona, seen first in "Attack the Heart" and again in "Kung Foolishness".
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