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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* RunningGag: In the first episode, Curtis [[IAteWhat eating poop]] after Rodney asks him what a substance is.

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* RunningGag: In the first episode, Curtis [[IAteWhat eating poop]] after poop fter Rodney asks him what a substance is.

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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* TheDitz: Like Curtis in the original short, Berry comes off as the idiotic character by being unphased by [[IAteWhat eating poop]] and
* IAteWhat: Curtis tastes a substance on a barn door and then on his arm to see if it's chocolate, but in both instances it turns out to be poop.

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* TheDitz: Like Curtis in the original short, Berry comes off as the idiotic character by being unphased by [[IAteWhat eating poop]] and
* IAteWhat: Curtis tastes a substance on a barn door and then on his arm to see if it's chocolate, but in both instances it turns out to be
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* ActorAllusion: Noah is played by Tyler Klimek, who wrote the theme song. During the ThemeTuneCameo, Noah says he wrote that song.

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* ActorAllusion: Noah is played by Tyler Klimek, who wrote the theme song. During the ThemeTuneCameo, DiegeticSoundtrackUsage, Noah says he wrote that song.



* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Rodney listens to the opening theme in his car and hums along. Noah interrupts him by [[ActorAllusion saying he wrote the song]].



* ThemeTuneCameo: Rodney listens to the opening theme in his car and hums along. Noah interrupts him by [[ActorAllusion saying he wrote the song]].

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* BeeAfraid: The first episode of is about trying to get bees out of a portable toilet on a golf course.


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* ScaryStingingSwarm: The first episode of is about trying to get bees out of a portable toilet on a golf course.
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The series follows four main characters as they try to save the West Bend Lakes Golf Club from financial ruin. The original short features four friends played Curtis, Gus, Tyler Klimek, and Andre Leszczynsk dealing with golf manager Kay Shaffer. While in the short the characters [[TheDanza play themselves]], the series gives Gus's character the name Rodney, and also features Eddy Burback as Keith, Curtis as Berry[[note]]this is how he spells his name in episode 4[[/note]].

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The series follows four main characters as they try to save the West Bend Lakes Golf Club from financial ruin. The original short features four friends played Curtis, Gus, Tyler Klimek, and Andre Leszczynsk dealing with golf manager Kay Shaffer. While in the short the characters [[TheDanza play themselves]], the series gives Gus's character the name Rodney, and also features Eddy Burback as Keith, Curtis as is now Berry[[note]]this is how he spells his name in episode 4[[/note]].
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Noah.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Noah.Noah always seems to be clueless about what's happening.
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* TheDitz: Curtis, who makes a really idiotic commercial.



* TheDitz: Like Curtis in the original short, Berry comes off as the idiotic character by being unphased by [[IAteWhat eating poop]] and



* ToiletTrainingPlot: Episode 3 starts with Rodney and Barry try to teach Noah how to properly use a urinal.

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* ToiletTrainingPlot: Episode 3 starts with Rodney and Barry Berry try to teach Noah how to properly use a urinal.
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''Par 9'' is a comedy series by Curtis Leszczynski and WebVideo/GusJohnson. Curtis made the original ''Par 9'' short film for his senior project, and Gus led the [=KickStarter=] campaign to expand the premise of the original short into a four-part web series.

The series follows four main characters as they try to save the West Bend Lakes Golf Club from financial ruin. The original short features four friends played Curtis, Gus, Tyler Klimek, and Andre Leszczynsk dealing with golf manager Kay Shaffer. While in the short the characters [[TheDanza play themselves]], the series gives Gus's character the name Rodney, and also features Eddy Burback as Keith, Curtis as Berry[[note]]this is how he spells his name in episode 4[[/note]].

Watch the original short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2MLsh-3_Rw here]], and the web series [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQkHs2MD9g0&list=PLN19XiUtShUbBV4ds3wyvOgdDjHMihe-v&index=1 here]]

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!!Tropes appearing in the original short:
* BizarreTasteInFood: Andre is addicted to eating golf balls.
* BlackmailBackfire: Tyler tries to blackmail Kay with a sex tape to become manager of the golf course, but she somehow grabbed ahold of it.
* ClusterFBomb: The characters swear ''a lot''.
* GolfClubbing: Kay uses a golf club to beat up Tyler after he tries to blackmail her with a sex tape.
* IBangedYourMom: Tyler tells Curtis that he had sex with his grandmother, Kay.
* {{Jerkass}}: Curtis refuses to serve a customer because he doesn't want to be a bartender.
* KitschyLocalCommercial: Curtis's commercial for the golf course includes an emotional appeal to help him by going to "Curtises Canser Galf extravaganza", complete with explosions and an overlayed with a transparent American flag.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kay delivers one to Curtis.
--> '''Kay''': Curtis, as a grandson, you suck. I don't love you, you have been nothing but crap for me all these years. Have you ever done anything, anything at all to help me out? Have you? What makes you think you're gonna change now?
* TheTopicOfCancer: Parodied. Curtis makes a commercial for the golf course where he shaves his head because he believes that's what you do when you have cancer.
* TyopOnTheCover: Curtis's commercial implores watchers to "plese halp me" by coming down to "Curtises Canser galf extravaganza".

!!Tropes appearing in the web series:
* ActorAllusion: Noah is played by Tyler Klimek, who wrote the theme song. During the ThemeTuneCameo, Noah says he wrote that song.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Noah goes into a pet shop while he's supposed to be getting gas.
* BandageMummy: Dave, who got into a rollerblading accident. Keith and Berry try to make him play golf, which doesn't turn out so well.
* BeeAfraid: The first episode of is about trying to get bees out of a portable toilet on a golf course.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: During the port-a-potty explosion sequence, we cut to Gus and Curtis on their computers. Gus asks what that exploding noise, and Curtis explains he's working on episode 4's explosion.
* BrickJoke: In episode 2, Dave escapes from Keith and Berry in a golf cart, and in the last episode he can still be seen driving around the course.
* CallBack:
** Gus's character in the second episode of mentions finding a baby in Randal's shed.
** Noah thinks a gas can in the car is only for bees, not for the car itself.
* CatchPhrase: Noah saying "I'm allergic" in the first episode.
* ChekhovsGun: The characters try to get the bees out of the port-a-potty by using gas. [[spoiler:In episode 4, Randal lights a cigarette inside that port-a-potty, making it explode.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Noah.
* IAteWhat: Curtis tastes a substance on a barn door and then on his arm to see if it's chocolate, but in both instances it turns out to be poop.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Rodney says there's nothing that could stop him from attending a Scuba convention, but then Kay stops him. Rodney manages to sneak out anyway.
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Rodney runs out of gas and tasks Noah with going out and getting some from the gas station. Noah returns and informs him that there's gas in the car, but [[CallBack he thought it was only for bees]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Rodney swears at and chastises a pregnant hitchhiker for forgetting to fill up her car.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Rodney reprimands a pregnant hitchhiker for forgetting to fill up before leaving the house. He drives a little further and then runs out of gas.
* LockedInARoom: Episode 3, the four guys get locked into the golf club's bar.
* MaternityCrisis: Subverted. A pregnant hitchhiker believes she's going into labor, but then she says it's a false alarm.
* PlotAllergy: Noah is allergic to bees in the first episode.
* RunningGag: In the first episode, Curtis [[IAteWhat eating poop]] after Rodney asks him what a substance is.
* ScareChord: Randal is given one in episode 4, with red light for added effect.
* SpaceIsNoisy: Discussed in episode 4. An astronaut asks if he heard a port-a-potty explosion in northwestern Wisconsin. Ground control replies that there's no sound in space.
* StressVomit: Rodney starts throwing up his ramen when a pregnant hitchhiker [[MaternityCrisis believes she's going into labor]].
* ThemeTuneCameo: Rodney listens to the opening theme in his car and hums along. Noah interrupts him by [[ActorAllusion saying he wrote the song]].
* ToiletTrainingPlot: Episode 3 starts with Rodney and Barry try to teach Noah how to properly use a urinal.
* TravelMontage: Noah travelling to the gas station. He walks down the road, wanders through some corn stalks, swims in a river, and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny gets distracted by a pets store]].
* VisibleBoomMic: The camera pans up in episode 3 and the mic is clearly visible. We can even hear the camera crew asking the boom operator to get the mic out of the shot.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Rodney asks Keith that he got such a stupid name, and Keith explains that a bread truck driver named Keith took his pregnant mother to the hospital.

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