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Blessed Are The Cheesemakers
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Ah, The Power Of Cheese. It's just one of those Inherently Funny Foods that shows up quite often in the TV Universe and can be used for either good or evil.
Scooby Snacks for mice and rats (ironically, in real life, they don't have any affinity toward cheese, they prefer peanut butter).
The Trope Namer is a line in Monty Pythons Life Of Brian.
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Examples
Advertising
- The American Dairy Association's "Power of Cheese" Ads.
- Any snack marketed as "Cheese Flavored".
Card Games
Comics
- Asterix in Corsica features a Corsican cheese whose fumes ignite and blow up a ship.
- Another adventure, Asterix in Switzerland, shows the Romans indulging in a fondue orgy. Before long everybody is covered with sticky molten cheese.
- "He lost his piece of bread in the fondue a third time!" "Into the lake with weights tied to his feet!" Cue the Helvetians making comments about how filthy the Romans are, and Romans pointing out how annoying it is when these barbarians insist on cleanliness... But the "cuckoo clocks" take the cake.
- "Milk and Cheese"
- For those who haven't heard of it, it's a comic about two anthropomorphic "Dairy Products Gone Bad". Most of the time, they're shown delivering violent "justice" to aspects of pop culture.
- In the "Sandman" graphic novels, in "The Wake," Destruction requests some Wensleydale, and comments that Valhalla(?) practically ran on cheese.
Fan Works
- The Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic ''On the Highway to Healing''
 has a character who had been put in prison for several months escape, return home, and find that a moldering piece of cheese left behind in his refrigerator had grown, mutated, and become sentient.
Films
Literature
- Tiffany Aching from the Discworld novel Wintersmith is a very good cheesemaker, but the living, semi-sentient, mobile cheese was a mistake.
- Similarly, Mustrum Ridcully was briefly convinced Rincewind was, if not actually a cheese, a very good name for one.
- In the Thursday Next series (specifically First Among Sequels), there's a Cheese Mafia that specializes in delivering cheese so strong, it's considered toxic, a health hazard, and in some cases potentially deadly. Their strongest type is something called X-14, which must be kept in a lead container chained to the floor. It's very presence will set dogs barking for a wide radius.
- A ludicrously high cheese tax to pay for the ongoing Crimean War led to cheese-smuggling from the Socialist Republic of Wales, but no-one really takes this "crime" seriously unless the Cheese Mafia are involved.
- Alan Dean Foster's Codger Space, the sentience of the machines all starts when a drop of melted cheese interferes with the operation of the supercomputer that runs the plant where computer chips for virtually everything are made.
- The Stinky Cheese Man
- In Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu ponders philosophy:
What's good besides the wire? Cheese. Sleeping plates. Love (impractical). Wild skin dye jobs. Freedom, security, self-respect ** Just to clarify for those who've never read it "The Wire" has replaced drugs AND alcohol as an addiction; Basically a wire is dropped into the pleasure center of your brain and runs a constant (low) electric current. Even better: the tech for this ALRERADY EXISTS (it's used to treat extreme cases of depression)!
- In Treasure Island, the marooned pirate Ben Gunn has become absolutely obsessed with cheese.
- A quote from GK Chesterton:
The poets have very little to say on the subject of cheese.
- There is a book by the same title, featuring two character, Abbey Corrigan and Kit Stephens, who "In a series of fantastic coincidences, the two end up at the Coolarney factory, a meeting that will forever change their lives and the future of cheese."
- And Another Thing "Appease the cheese".
Live Action TV
Music
- The String Cheese Incident.
- Weird Al Yankovic makes numerous cheese references.
- @Planet Cool, the reason the Cheese Mafia exist is because of some absurdist duties on cheese. the reason for these cheese duties is never adequately explained.
- Sailing The Seas Of Cheese is an album by Primus.
- As "The Farmer In The Dell" taught us all in preschool, "The cheese stands alone."
- Combination Music and Anime: there's a song on the Code Geass soundtrack titled "Cheese." It's used for comedic sections, particularly the Giant Pizza Incident.
Radio
- Adventures In Odyssey "Wonder World" Jimmy and Lawerence try to escape from "Gorgonzola" the mutant cheese monster. Who turns out to be Donna.
- "Nova Rising", during a BTV pitch meeting, one of the writers comments how "Cottage Cheese" is funny and proceeds to chuckle at it. (It's heavily implied that he isn't much of a writer.)
Table Top Games
Tropes
Video Games
- Mario Kart Super Circuit has Cheese Land as a track.
- Cloudcuckooland in Banjo-Tooie has a Cheese Wedge, which is filled with noxious fumes.
- Neopets has the "Cheeseroller" game as well as the Cheese Shop Background.
- One of Toon rpg adventures features a new piece of equipment - a magnet made of cheese, which attracts rodents.
- Dwarf Fortress Lets Play, "Boatmurdered", for a while there was a distinct cheese motif in the art.
- "Apparently the two most significant historical events here in Boatmurdered are elephants and cheese. Take a close look at the cheese ones actually, they aren't even carvings of cheese, but renditions of some other image of a cheese. They're freaking homages!" (It turns out that this is because there was an artefact in the fortress that, for reasons unknown, had an image of a cheese on it.)
- It should be noted that dwarfs make their cheese not from cows, but from something called a purring maggot.
- May be it Casu Marzu
- It should be noted that cheesemakers are considered one of the worst immigrant professions, therefore cheesemakers will usually end up as haulers, recruits or test subjects for the elf drowning trap.
- Flint loves cheese!
- World Of Warcraft has the NPC Elling Trias, Master of Cheese, in Stormwind, who turns out to be a retired secret agent who left his career in defending his homeland to pursue his true ambition: to open a cheese shop.
- Conker's Bad Fur Day has a segment where you must load a mouse/rat with cheese, in order to kill it, and get a massive, female voiced brick off a gangster-talking smaller block, so you can reach a window... into a barn...
- In the Touhou game Undefined Fantastic Object, when mouse youkai Nazrin speaks, there's an accompanying speech bubble with cheese in it.
- Grilled cheese aspiration. Lifetime Want: Eat 200 grilled cheese sandwiches.
- One of the potential backgrounds for Worms Armageddon/Worms World Party has the landscape made of cheese.
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion contains a side quest for the Daedric Lord Sheogorath which involves the player convincing a small village armageddon is on the way by bringing about several "plagues". The first plague is causing the town to be overrun by rats, which is accomplished by placing a particularly stinky cheese in a cooking pot.
- Smelly cheese is required to activate a magic-transference machine at the climax of Kings Quest V
- In Fable 2, one of the random lines that an NPC will say is: "Do you like cheese? Me, I love a bit of cheese. Cheesy, cheesy cheese."
- The Curse of Monkey Island contains a massive wheel of nacho cheese, which Guybrush gets to use to tar a ships' hull and sacrifice to a Volcano God.
- Another wheel o' cheese makes an appearance in Tales, although sadly not as big.
- Text Adventure Game writer Emily Short provides this ranking of text adventure games based on their cheese content.
Web Comics
- Girl Genius and cheese.
- Questionable Content: "Truely, it is the deadliest of food groups"
- The Godlike being from Its Walky. It is referred to as The Cheese because he wears armor that looks a lot like cheese.
- "Cheddar monks" in Darths And Droids.
- Parodied in this webcomic strip, where even Cthulhu is no match for cheese.
- Kid Radd during the break the forth wall week, where Radd destroys the world with the power of cheese.
- It even includes an admonition that a certain number of universes are destroyed every day by people misusing The Power Of Cheese, so you should be careful.
- Parodied in Sluggy Freelance, when Torg is chasing a ghost. He notices that her name, Brie Meighsaton, is evocative of Brie cheese, and begins laughing that it's a really funny name and makes it hard to consider her scary. Then she scares him so much he runs and hides under a bed with the 4th wall caption "Behold the power of cheese".
- Sluggy Freelance also contains the formidable pizza chain House of Cheese, front for the evil organisation Hereti Corp. At one point they attempt to get rid of a fly problem by developing a cheese that is toxic to flies and not humans... resulting in pizzas covered in dead flies.
- Gordon Frohman of Concerned caused the entire Half-Life series plot to begin when he mixed up a block of cheese with the cheese-like alien sample for the teleportation experiment.
- A Running Gag in Order Of The Stick is the fondness hobgoblins have for cheese, specifically gouda.
- In The KAMics it made a nice distraction & was important to a summoning when combined with crackers.
- Subnormality confirms: everything's better with cheese!
- The incalculably powerful cuisine magic spell, the Fondue of Four Thousand Cheeses in Triangle And Robert.
Web Original
Western Animation
- Rufus on Kim Possible adores cheese, and our heroes visit a building that is literally made of cheese.
- He even insists that the meaning of life is cheese when asked by his descendants in an alternate future.
- And no, it is not a cheese-covered building.
- Again with Kim Possible, a cheese fountain is seen in "Trading Faces".
- Also Ron looking to retrieve a book on the History of Cheese.
- Cartoon Network once ran a block of Cheese-Related Cartoons, including:
- An episode of Dexters Laboratory featured "omelette du fromage". This means "Cheese Omelet" in Broken French.
- Wallace of Wallace And Gromit shares a bit of a cheese obsession, going so far as to build a rocket to the moon to collect cheese as well as not pursuing a relationship with a woman who was allergic to cheese. Yes, even Wensleydale.
- Dr. Doofenshmirtz briefly makes homemade Limburger cheese in Phineas And Ferb.
- Monterey Jack in Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers.
- The Unruly Hare. Elmer Fudd has Bugs Bunny at gunpoint.
Bugs: Only a rat would shoot a guy... (turns around)... in the back.
(Elmer starts to pull on the trigger)
Bugs: I reiterate: only a big, fat rat would shoot a guy in the back.
(Elmer shoots — a smoke cloud appears where Bugs was)
Elmer: (gloating) So I'm a big, fat wat!
Bugs (appears out of smoke, imitating Jerry Colonna) Ah! Have some cheese, rat!
(shoves cheese wedge on Elmer's mouth)
- "I am The Cheese! I am the best character on this show! I am better than both the salami and the baloney combined!"
- Another episode had the guys rescued from a fishing trip gone horribly wrong by a giant squid obsessed with their cheese bait.
- Though Invader Zim mostly avoided cheese jokes, the snuck one in to the final episode, where Gir is talking to Santa.
Gir: And a chair made of cheese, and a table made of cheese....
- In Danny Phantom, Vlad comes from Wisconsin, the state infamous for cheese. He's also been called "cheesehead" several times from various characters (as both an insult and reference to his love for the Green Bay Packers) and in an alternate universe, is a dairy farmer specializing in cheese.
- There is also the Dairy King. "Try the Gouda, it's dairy fresh!"
- Inverted in Chuck Jones' Cheese Chasers, where mice Hubie and Bertie, hung over from a cheese binge, realize they'll never be able to touch the stuff again, and decide to end it all by having Claude Cat eat them, even if they have to force him to.
- An American Tail: "There are no cats in America/ and the streets are paved with cheese."
- Played with quite often in the old Tom And Jerry cartoons.
- In the Boondocks Huey notes that 'you can't fight white supremacy with cheese'
- One of The Mask's enemies in the animated series was Gorgonzola, the Cheese Witch.
- Homer Simpson once spent the night eating 64 individually wrapped slices of American cheese.
Real Life
- The Uruguayan navy once broke through an Argentinian blockade by using old, hard edam cheeses as cannonballs.
- In 1935, an argument between two postmasters over whether limberger cheese was too smelly for a postman to deliver made national news. More info here.
- Diana Duyser's famous Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich
- An interesting example often used in anthropology to illustrate cultural differences concerns cheese. Namely that a French company trying to market their cheese in the US never quite got that americans generally don't view cheese as "alive" and tends to be grossed out when it is portrayed like that.
- "Say Cheese!"
- I thought it was just because of the vague smiling position of the mouth made by saying the word.
- This troper once saw a skit at a community theater, were a Cheese-flavored soda had The Axe Effect.
- The fact that so many snack foods advertise being "Cheese" flavored.
- Cheeseheads.
- Casu Marzu is the most infamous of the illegal cheeses. It's a fermented cheese which is infested with maggots which are actually able to survive passing through the intestine and can infest the eater. Naturally it's a delicacy.
- I've heard it's delish, too.
- Cheese is just plain tasty. A rich knifeful of brie on a crisp baguette? Heavenly. Swiss cheese on rye makes a terrific sandwich. And what's one of the iconic American comfort foods? Macaroni and cheese.
- It's even more iconic in Canada.
- You'd never know, with how we refer to it. Kraft Dinna again? Hoorah!
- Stereotypically associated with the French (see also Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys).
- Charles de Gaulle once observed "How can one govern a country that has 263 kinds of cheese?".
- Rumour has it that the Brits make more varieties of cheese...
- Britain does indeed boast an amazing diversity of cheeses, as many as 1200 distinct varieties by some accounts.
- Russian proverb about a well-off or generally successful person is "rolling like a cheese in butter".
- Apparently people who switch to a vegan diet are perfectly fine with it after a few months, except for cheese. This is because cheese has some enzyme that makes it addictive, Or So I Heard.
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