Check Please by Jonathan Rand Vocabulary Flashcards

A set of vocabulary flashcards identifying the central characters and specific phobias presented in Jonathan Rand's play, Check Please.

Jonathan Rand

The author of the play Check Please.

Setting of Check Please

A restaurant or bar or café featuring two tables and four chairs.

Louis

A character characterized by Girl as a "self-centered tool" who doesn't listen and believes he has the face and body for acting.

Melanie

An intensive Chicago Bears fan who listens to a playoff game via an earpiece during her date and reacts violently to their loss.

Ken

A character who uses "creepy and nauseating" flowery language and claims to have been raised in the mountains of Guam.

Hygrophobia

The fear of dampness, cited by Phoebe as the reason she cannot eat shrimp scampi.

Porphyrophobia

The fear of the color purple.

Coprastasophobia

The fear of constipation.

Japanophobia

The fear of Japan.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The fear of long words.

Arachibutyrophobia

The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

Sitiophobia

The fear of food.

Anuptaphobia

The fear of staying single for the rest of one's life.

Deipnophobia

The fear of dinner conversations.

Mark

A character who attends a date wearing only a burlap sack, which he later identifies as Versace.

Pearl

A character who compulsively steals restaurant items including utensils, a glass, a plate, and eventually the tablecloth.

Tod

A young child who goes on a date with Girl and complains about classmates Katie Johnson and Courtney Shuler.

Brandon

A gay actor who dates Girl to "method-act straight" as preparation for a local production of Streetcar.

Stanley Kowalski

The character in A Streetcar Named Desire that Brandon is preparing to play.

Linda

An introverted character who brings her imaginary extroverted friend, Walter, on her date.

Walter

Linda's imaginary friend who dances like he is on fire and brings a monkey to the date.

Delores

A monkey character described as Walter's "seeing-eye monkey."

Matt

An extremely fast-moving date who plans a second date to a nephew's baptism and brings wedding dresses to the first date.

Mimi

A mime character who performs stereotypical actions like pulling a rope and battling harsh winds during her date.

Humuhumunukunukuapua’a’

A Hawaiian fish mentioned by Guy, the name of which triggers Phoebe's fear of long words.