History Main / CartoonCheese

* [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] fans wear cheeseheads which are wedge-shaped, yellow like Cheddar, and holey like Swiss.

* The Green Bay Packers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesehead#/media/File:Cheeseheads_in_Stadium_(14819823518).jpg "cheesehead" hats]] are bright yellow wedges with holes in them.

Commonly seen as part of a LevelAte. Compare CartoonMeat, its equivalent for animal flesh, and EveryPizzaIsPepperoni, for this page and CartoonMeat combined with bread.

Commonly seen as part of a LevelAte. Compare CartoonMeat, its equivalent for animal flesh.

# It's full of holes, like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmental_cheese Emmental]] (from Switzerland) or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlsberg_cheese Jarlsberg]] (from Norway).[[note]]For the curious, it wasn't until 2015 that dairy scientists discovered that the characteristic holes in Swiss cheese are caused by microscopic bits of hay dust in the milk that disappear as the bacterial cultures feed on it.[[/note]]

# It's orange or yellow, like Wisconsin Cheddar. (And that cheddar isn't even that color ''naturally.'' The yellow color comes from annatto, a dye.)[[note]]''Real'' Cheddar as known in Britain is a very pale colour, like a bleached-out lemon yellow. Red Leicester, however, IS orange in colour.[[/note]]
# It's full of holes, like Emmenthal (from Switzerland) or Jarlsberg (from Norway).[[note]]For the curious, it wasn't until 2015 that dairy scientists discovered that the characteristic holes in "Swiss" cheese are caused by tiny bits of hay in the milk.[[/note]]
# It almost ''always'' comes in "wedge" form, as if it were cut from a cheese wheel, like Gouda, and not in block or cube form, like Havarti. Occasionally, the full wheel may be shown (sometimes with a piece already cut out).
# Less commonly, it has a very strong odor (producing [[VisibleOdor wavy 'scent lines']]). It may even stink, like Limburger.

* On the competition show ''Fake Off'', the team chosen to act out disaster-movie themes depicted the story of three mice whose pursuit of a piece of CartoonCheese was repeatedly interrupted by an earthquake, a shark's fin, a tyrannosaurus and an AlienAbduction (of the cheese).

* The old IBM game, ''VideoGame/AlleyCat'', featured levels where the eponymous feline tried to catch mice peeking out of the holes of a giant wedge of CartoonCheese.

* Most forms of bait in the Facebook game ''[=MouseHunt=]'' come in CartoonCheese-style wedges, even fantastical ones with crystals, seaweed, bits of metal or other weird stuff embedded in them.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' is yellow, rectangular, and full of holes. The show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, decided to include the word "Sponge" in the character's name specifically because he believed that, if he didn't, audiences would think he was an anthropomorphic block of cheese. This was lampshaded in the episode "Band Geeks" when the titular character is referred to as "the talking cheese."

Of course, in addition to Swiss and Limburger just being funny, there's a practical reason behind this trope as well, which is based on the RuleOfPerception. In a cartoon, a large, nondescript block of something yellow or white could be just about anything. A bar of gold? Butter? Lard? A white brick? Giving cheese these distinct traits helps identify to the audience that "Yes! This is cheese you're looking at." Of course, this works best if you don't ''name'' the cheese in question.

# It's full of holes, like Emmenthal (from Switzerland) or Jarlsberg (from Norway). (For the curious, it wasn't until May 2015 that dairy scientists discovered that the characteristic holes in "Swiss" cheese are caused by tiny bits of hay in the milk.)

* ''Mouse Trap'' has triangular pieces of it, collected by either placing one piece upon the trap or landing on certain other spaces. They don't come into play until the finale, where they can be used to try to move other players onto the cheese wheel where the cage will drop on them.

->''Cheese has holes.\\
More cheese = more holes\\
More holes = less cheese\\
[[InsaneTrollLogic More cheese = less cheese]]''
-->-- '''Unknown'''[[https://pics.me.me/cheese-has-holes-more-cheese-more-holes-more-holes-less-33746722.png]]

* The [[http://www.pixeljam.com Pixeljam]] online game Rat Race and Rat Race 2 both plays it straight and averts this, every single piece of cheese is uniquely shaped and colored, but there are a few suspiciously yellow, holey looking ones.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' has conveniently held this kind of cheese. This trope is international. This is most likely due to American (especially Disney) influence in early anime.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratz}}'', the cheese is explicitly Gouda, but it's shown holier than usual.

** Corsican Cheese manifests extreme Number Four characteristics, complete with fumes MadeOfExplodium that cause a ship to sink in ''Asterix in Corsica''.

** Corsican Cheese manifests extreme Number Four characteristics and is used to sink a ship in ''Asterix in Corsica''.

[[caption-width-right:317:Orangey-yellow wedge-shaped object with holes pursued by mice. That's indubitably Cartoon Cheese.]]

* A rather disturbing example appears in ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject 2: Buried In Time''. There's a commercial for a spray cheese product called "Cheese Girl", whose ConspicuousCG model has holes in the product and is colored yellow orange. (You need this item to propel yourself through space to reach a damaged space station).

* The cheese wedges that will summon [[MoneySpider Gold Mice]] in ''Videogame/LuigisMansion''.

* Referenced in ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': when our heroes come across a corpse riddled with holes, Polnareff compares the sight to "cartoon cheese in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''."

# It's orange or yellow, like Wisconsin Cheddar. (And that cheddar isn't even that color ''naturally.'' The yellow color comes from annatto, a dye.)[[note]]''Real'' Cheddar as known in Britain is a very pale colour, like a bleached-out lemon yellow[[/note]]

* Quite possibly the default in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry.''In one Gene Deitch cartoon set in the WildWest, a wheel of cheese in the store's display window labeled "Cheddar" is switched with "Swiss" after it gets shot full of holes.