Check Displeased

In this episode, tomato and Sekrit discuss first jellies, then peanuts butter, for the full 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 22 seconds.  Read along with us: 3.6 PB&J | Blog  

I cut like 10 minutes of explaining Harvard Law School curricular minutiae out of this, you are so welcome. Read along with us: 3.5 The After Kegster | Blog

Cannot express the self-restraint it took for me not to write a "I hardly know her!" joke in this description, and because of that, I'd like to dedicate this episode to several other restraints (or lack thereof) we discuss herein: Shitty's new 'do; fandom's Fry Guy obsession; and, of course, Jack's cock ca -    Read along with us: 3.4 Home Opener | Blog

Do we have to? Read along with us: 3.3 Meet the Falconers | Blog

In an unprecedented narrative experiment that absolutely explodes the typical OMGCP comic strip, beloved side characters Ransom and Holster explain the concept of a "locker room," which is a place where people, including hockey players, can get undressed and then dressed for an athletic activity. Jack isn't in this strip but you really have to imagine his giant ass looks outrageous in a jock strap...

Sekrit and tomato answer the big questions...who is Tango? (No one.) Why does he matter? (He doesn't.) Did Jack and Bitty fuck in that truck? (Yeah, probably.) Plus the return of crowd-favorite segments Sekrit's Shardo Show and Chowder Infantilization Watch! Read along with us: 3.2 Taddy Tour  | Blog

WE'RE BACK, BABY!!! Sekrit and tomato explore WAGatha Christie and the British tabloid nightmare machine, Mr. Bittle's thousand yard stare straight through the fourth wall, and the logistics of...well, there's no other word for it...truckfuckin'.    Read along with us: 3.1 WAG | Blog

No. For this extremely special and unnecessary deep-dive, Sekrit and Tomato are joined by queerofcups , the author of a highly recommended fanfic , and one of those smart fandom people whose brain you'd love to pick? We did it, here in this episode. We cover everything from "what is criticism" to "why are some people so unhappy every time someone says Check, Please could be kind of better" -- and...

A tale as old as time - a story full of joy!  Barely even friends, then somebody bends (ha ha), when a man kisses a boy. Read along with us: 2.19 Goodbye for the Summer II | Blog   Transcripts (c/o jovishark ) coming soon to a website near you ! P.S. Thanks for waiting

I can’t believe Jack and Bitty did the thing! WHAT?! -- Ngozi Ukazu Read along with us: 2.18 Goodbye for the Summer I | Blog Transcripts (c/o jovishark ) coming soon to a website near you !

Alicia Zimmermann squeaking towards the Bechdel test finish line, Bad Bob's bangs, Bitty's bow ties, and Angels in America all in one episode? Sekrit and Tomato dive right in, not to mention they discuss one of the most important Check Displeased questions of all time: does Jack really, actually, literally want to fuck his dad?  Read along with us: 2.17 Graduation | Blog Transcripts (c/o jovishark...

A whirlwind tour of the waning days of Bitty's sophomore year: thematic haircuts, major appliance purchases, not involving your agent in major career decisions ... it can't possibly be sanitary to actually like put your mouth there, right? This was definitely written pre-Covid. Read along with us: 2.16 Kiss the Ice | Blog Transcripts (c/o jovishark ) coming soon to a website near you ! 

Here we have it - what we've all been waiting for. At last! At last! The love song of Ransom and Holster! Ransom and Holster would very much dare to eat a peach (if you know what I mean), and that's why Samwell Men's Hockey votes them in as co-alternate captains, despite zero indications that either of them even wanted a new position (if you know what I mean). Most importantly, Ransom and Holster...

Just when this story was getting good, it's time to stop worrying about that and go check on the little matter of who's going to live in Jack's room when he graduates??? Spoiler, it's Chowder. Love his adult braces but not sure what the point of this gesture is? Sekrit and Tomato break down what a "cinnamon roll" is and why it's kinda problematic that Chowder is one. Also, real talk, Jack should h...

Here we have it, folks: the very best strip of Check, Please!, right in time for our fiftieth episode! Sekrit and Tomato realize that Jack becomes ever gayer in his melodramatic sensibilities, question whether going into the NHL is the right decision for someone who has to tear off his jersey and cry in secret after a difficult loss, and once again celebrate Ngozi's concise, potent visual storytel...

Approaching their last game on Samwell Men's Hockey, ever, Jack and Shitty stare at the ice and wax philosophical about being in the moment, and "competitive fucking horticulture" -- you know, some early-to-mid-20s bullshit like that. Sekrit and Tomato touch on: things that have been tweeted about eight months ago that are only tacitly referenced in the actual comic; if Bitty is so small he could...

This one's loose, everybody - and not just because Tomato unknowingly had COVID while recording it, then edited it with one finger in her new oximeter. We start to think about Bitty's relationship to masculinity, fandom id, migratory slash fandom, and general twinkhood while covering two of the most important debates of all time - Pie vs. Crumble and Roaches vs. Attic. Plus, Sekrit explains the Ch...

In this diversion from the main story line, we see Shitty give Lardo dibs on his room at the Haus. Bouncing off of that, Sekrit and Tomato explore all things Shitty/Lardo, Lardo's continued lack of relevance and development, and most importantly, which new varieties of gummy candy to seek out. Wouldn't it be nice if this relationship were explored at all? We do it for you, right here in this very...

After a six month hiatus, Check, Please! came roaring back with this comic ostensibly about Lardo's naked dude art but mostly about Shitty getting into extremely unnaked Harvard Law School? Lardo runs from the room crying, Bitty (who's "never considered [himself] much of an intellectual") disdainfully calls the art on display "creative," and Jack climbs into a vagina - but only in subtext, so what...

In what proved to be the last comic for a while, ushering in a trend of hiatuses for OMGCP, Samwell Men's Hockey goes to practice on a frozen lake. If this were a different kind of story someone would have fallen in, but the most dramatic thing that happens here is Jack understandably hedges his romantic past to Bitty. Sekrit and Tomato chew on this lovely bit of introspection, and perhaps more im...

Kent Parson is a ghost. Or: Kent Parson is a trace of what could have been. Or: Kent Parson is innumerable iterations of collective memory. Or: Kent Parson was invented, then reinvented, by each new generation of Check, Please! fans. Or: Kent Parson has anime eyes and is two steps away from a magical girl transformation sequence and, by the way, is overwhelmed by Jack's big butt??? Sekrit and Toma...

This is the most infamous strip in the entire comic. How do you summarize that? Bye bye Kenny, it's awful hard to bear! GUESS WE'LL ALWAYS CARE. Read along with us: 2.9 Parse - Part III  | Blog Also, Tomato is offering to write fucking machine PWP fic for listeners who contribute time and volunteering to the Georgia Senate runoff elections -- or should we say "fun-off"? It is when Bitty has a fuck...

Kent Parson...how do we begin to explain Kent Parson? Kent Parson is flawless. He has a Calder, a Cup, and a silver Lexus. I hear his hands are insured for $10,000. I hear he does Canadian Tire commercials...in Canada. His favorite movie is The Mighty Ducks. One time he met a blonde pop idol on a plane, and she told him he was pretty. One time he punched me in the face...and it was awesome. Okay,...

Hey, U.S. listeners! Please vote. _/ _/ _/ This is the first of three strips that everyone wants to talk about. And why wouldn't they? We get to meet Kent Parson, the character generating so much hooplah. Sekrit and Tomato talk about how the final panels here tell readers to pay attention, speculate on how the narrative being set up here may not have been resolved in the comic, and contemplate the...

Jack and Bitty––Outstanding Twitter(pated) Piemaking. That's what OTP stands for, right? Tomato and Sekrit unpack Dr. Alice Atley's slightly dubious pedagogical strategy before trying to figure out whether Jack talking about himself to Bitty's rapt silence counts as flirting yet. Meanwhile, there's a hung jury as to whether puffing flour into someone's face is an effective romantic technique. Does...