History Main / CartoonCheese

* Referenced in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders]]'': when the Joestar group come across a corpse riddled with holes, Polnareff compares the sight to "cartoon cheese in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''."

* The ''VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit'' racetrack Cheese Land is composed of nothing ''but'' this sort of cheese. ''Even the ground!''

* In the NES game ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', it's a health bonus.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', cheese comes in either cheese wheels (that are missing a wedge) or wedges that seem to be cut from a wheel. Both are pale yellow. In one quest this trope is played 100% straight when you steal a bright orange cheese wedge with holes and use the smell to summon rats from miles around.

%%* The cheese wedges that will summon [[MoneySpider Gold Mice]] in ''Videogame/LuigisMansion1''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overcooked}},'' cartoon cheese is one of your ingredients. In the first game, cheese is only used for making pizza, when typical cheeses used for pizza (like mozzarella and parmesan) are white. In the sequel, however, it also gets used for cheeseburgers, where it's more probable.

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* ''Partially'' averted in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes ''Cheese Chasers'' which opens with mice Hubie and Bertie at the end of a binge at a cheese warehouse, eating paths through a variety of cheeses. Later, though, Claude Cat, trying to get them to leave him alone, offers them some Cartoon Cheese.

* One ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' racetrack is composed of nothing ''but'' this sort of cheese. ''Even the ground!''

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

* In the ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' episode "Everything Explorers", Donkey Hodie and Purple Panda encounter a rock called the Swiss Cheese Stone that has characteristics of cartoon cheese, namely the yellow color and the holes.

In addition to Swiss and Limburger just being funny, there's a practical reason for this trope, 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 it these distinct traits helps identify it as cheese to the audience. Of course, this works best if you don't ''name'' the cheese in question.

* ''TabletopGame/MouseTrap'' 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.

# Less commonly, it has a very strong odor (producing [[VisibleOdor wavy 'scent lines']]). It may even stink, like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburger Limburger]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilton_cheese Stilton]].

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* Emmentaler cheese is probably the closest thing to Cartoon Cheese in real life. It's the Swiss cheese after which so-called "Swiss cheese" is named, it comes in wheels, and it's full of holes. It's not as bright a shade of yellow as in cartoons, however, and has a pretty mild taste & smell.
* In Sweden, this type of cheese (1 (yellow), 2, and 3 together) is a very common type.
* Jarlsberg, from Norway. The recipe has Swiss roots and it looks similar to Emmentaler, with a color ranging from off-white to light yellow. Like Emmentaler, it's pretty mild-smelling.
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* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheUnrulyHare''. At the end, Bugs tells Elmer Fudd that only a big fat rat would shoot a guy in the back. Elmer does so and says "So I'm a big rat!". Bugs appears out of the smoke from the shot and says "Ah! Have some cheese, rat!" and shoves a [[KarmicTrickster wedge of cheese]] in his mouth.

* An ''WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy'' cartoon dealt with the two about to follow dinner with a dessert of cheese (Swiss at that) only for a mouse channeling Groucho Marx to ingress and steal the cheese.

* An ''WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy'' cartoon dealt with the two about to follow dinner with a dessert of cheese (Swiss at that) only for a mouse channeling Groucho Marx ingresses and steals the cheese.

* In the ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' episode "Everything Explorers", Donkey Hodie and Purple Panda encounter a rock called the Swiss Cheese Stone that has characteristics of cartoon cheese.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheUnrulyHare''. At the end, Bugs tells Elmer Fudd that only a big fat rat would shoot a guy in the back. Elmer does so and says "So I'm a big rat!". Bugs appears out of the smoke from the shot and says "Ah! Have some cheese, rat!" and shoves a [[KarmicTricksters wedge of cheese]] in his mouth.

** Hell, Monty's name (Monterey Jack) is an actual type of cheese, as are the Cheddar (in Cheddarhead Charlie) and the Camembert (in Camembert Kate).

* The villlain "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Cheese]]" from ''WebComic/ItsWalky'' is a godlike robot constructed from a material that looks exactly like cartoon cheese( but is implied to be a golden metal pitted from aeons of use). Which gives him his name.

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

Subtrope of StockFoodDepictions.
Compare CartoonMeat, its equivalent for animal flesh, and EveryPizzaIsPepperoni, its equivalent for pizza.

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