Par 9 is a comedy series by Curtis Leszczynski and Gus Johnson. 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 play themselves, the series gives Gus's character the name Rodney, Curtis is now Berrynote , and also features Eddy Burback as Keith.
Watch the original short here
, and the web series here
Tropes appearing in the original short:
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Andre is addicted to eating golf balls.
- Blackmail Backfire: Tyler tries to blackmail Kay with a sex tape to become manager of the golf course, but she somehow grabbed ahold of it.
- Cluster F-Bomb: The characters swear a lot.
- The Ditz: Curtis, who makes a really idiotic commercial.
- Golf Clubbing: Kay uses a golf club to beat up Tyler after he tries to blackmail her with a sex tape.
- I Banged Your Mom: 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.
- Kitschy Local Commercial: 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.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: 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?
- The Topic of Cancer: 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.
- Tyop on the Cover: Curtis's commercial implores watchers to "plese halp me" by coming down to "Curtises Canser galf extravaganza".
Tropes appearing in the web series:
- Actor Allusion: Noah is played by Tyler Klimek, who wrote the theme song. During the Diegetic Soundtrack Usage, Noah says he wrote that song.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Noah goes into a pet shop while he's supposed to be getting gas.
- Bandage Mummy: Dave, who got into a rollerblading accident. Keith and Berry try to make him play golf, which doesn't turn out so well.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: 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.
- Brick Joke: 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.
- Call-Back:
- 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.
- Chekhov's Gun: The characters try to get the bees out of the port-a-potty by using gas. In episode 4, Randal lights a cigarette inside that port-a-potty, making it explode.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Noah always seems to be clueless about what's happening.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Rodney listens to the opening theme in his car and hums along. Noah interrupts him by saying he wrote the song.
- The Ditz: Like Curtis in the original short, Berry comes off as the idiotic character by being unphased by eating poop.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: 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.
- It Was with You All Along: 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 he thought it was only for bees.
- Jerkass: Rodney swears at and chastises a pregnant hitchhiker for forgetting to fill up her car.
- Laser-Guided Karma: 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.
- Locked in a Room: Episode 3, the four guys get locked into the golf club's bar.
- Maternity Crisis: Subverted. A pregnant hitchhiker believes she's going into labor, but then she says it's a false alarm.
- Plot Allergy: Noah is allergic to bees in the first episode.
- Running Gag: In the first episode, Curtis eating poop fter Rodney asks him what a substance is.
- Scare Chord: Randal is given one in episode 4, with red light for added effect.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: The first episode of is about trying to get bees out of a portable toilet on a golf course.
- Space Is Noisy: 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.
- Stress Vomit: Rodney starts throwing up his ramen when a pregnant hitchhiker believes she's going into labor.
- Toilet Training Plot: Episode 3 starts with Rodney and Berry try to teach Noah how to properly use a urinal.
- Travel Montage: Noah travelling to the gas station. He walks down the road, wanders through some corn stalks, swims in a river, and gets distracted by a pets store.
- Visible Boom Mic: 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.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: 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.
