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There are ''hundreds'' of varieties of cheese in real life, in several distinct "cheese families." (Not bad for what is, bluntly put, spoiled (and sometimes moldy) milk.) However, regardless of anything else, almost ''all'' cartoon cheese has three main traits, plus an occasional fourth:
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Cheese which is ''not'' this strange amalgam of traits (well, at least the first three) is almost never present. The most likely trait to get skipped is the "stinky" part. Orange-yellow cheese that's full of holes is still everywhere.
Of course, in addition to Swiss and Limburger [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers|just being funny,]] there's a practical reason behind this trope as well, which is based on the [[Rule of Perception]]. 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.
Commonly seen as part of a [[Level Ate]]. Also see [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[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.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* When [[Superman
* Swiss cheese features frequently in ''[[Asterix]] in Switzerland'', for obvious reasons.
* ''[[Mortadelo Y Filemon]]'' has a painful aversion: An elderly woman mistakes a bar of soap for a piece of cheese that looks just like the soap (rectangular, not like a wedge) and gives it to [[Butt Monkey|Filemón]], who unknowingly eats it...
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Gonzo auditions with Yolanda, the dancing cheese. Gonzo just clicks his heels a bit, and the cheese does the fancy steps. Wedge of circular round? Check. Yellow? [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Yolandathedancingcheese.jpg Partial check].
* An episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' had Urkel create a ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' style video game with one character based on himself. One attack the character had was to yell "Have some CHEESE!" while throwing Cartoon Cheese at the opponent.
== [[New Media]] ==▼
▲== New Media ==
* 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.
* At one point, [http://moon.google.com Google Moon] (a map of the Moon with all the Apollo landing sites marked), if you zoomed all the way in, would change the background to green holey cheese.
* Green Bay Packer fans wear cheeseheads which are wedge-shaped, yellow like Cheddar, and holey like Swiss.▼
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Emmenthaler 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.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Stinky Cheese Wedge in ''[[Banjo Tooie]]'' is exactly what it sounds like: A giant piece of cheese, yellow and full of holes. It serves as [[Level Ate|part of the level.]]
* One ''[[
* ''[[Nitrome|Cheese Dreams]]'' features as its protagonist a sentient moon made of this stuff. More of it ([[Fridge Horror|hopefully not originally sentient]]) can be seen in liquefied form powering the mouselike antagonists' spaceship.
* Rare aversion: Except for the first game, the cheese in most ''[[Creatures]]'' games is a white wedge-shaped cheese, as is common for real-world cheeses.
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** Not because Jimmy demands ''cartoon'' cheese, see; because he demands ''Swiss'', and Sam only needs it to fool Jimmy long enough to get his phone back (it's an aversion, is the point being driven home here).
* ''James Pond 3: Operation Starfi5h'' was set on the moon, which is of course made entirely out of this kind of cheese. Interestingly, although most of the area names are puns on many different cheese varieties, all the levels are the same bright-yellow-holey stuff.
* In the NES game ''[[
* In a low-budget Expert Software game compilation, Cheesy Pursuit and Maze Race both have many kinds of cartoon cheese.
* The original ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' for the N64 had small chunks of this type of cheese hidden in each level as an [[Easter Egg]].
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* In ''[[Oblivion]]'', 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.
* ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' had apparently sentient Cartoon Cheese.
* One of the standard icons for [[World of Warcraft]] fits this trope (for example, the Completed Wine and Cheese Platter in the daily Dalaran cooking quest "Cheese for Glowergold"), but there are many different varieties of cheese. Darnassian Bleu, Dalaran Sharp, Alterac Swiss...wait a second. Alterac ''Swiss''? [[Call a Smeerp
* The [[MacGuffin]] in every stage of ''[[Transformice]]''
* The old IBM game, ''[[Video Game/Alley Cat|Alley Cat]]'', featured levels where the eponymous feline tried to ctach mice peeking out of the holes of a giant wedge of
* ''[[
* The cheese wedges that will summon [[Money Spider|Gold Mice]] in ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* [
* [[Karate Bears]] love [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/12/cheese-it.html cartoony looking cheese]▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Quite possibly the default in ''[[
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** In "Short Order Crooks", the cheese of choice is cheddar, so the color is right, given the annatto, but the holes...
** In "Mind Your Cheese And Qs", all the cheese is yellowed Swiss, while all the cheese being exchanged for gold is yellowed baby Swiss, judging by the hole size. Even though Monty smells Edam (which is yellow, but usually pressed into balls and covered with red wax) and brie (which is white and molded into a flat disc), this is all he finds in the vault. The brie which Rat Capone uses to lure Monty away from saving Gadget loses the holes, but there's that yellow again...
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* [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''[[wikipedia:The Unruly Hare|The Unruly Hare]]''. 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 [[Karmic Tricksters|wedge of cheese]] in his mouth.
* ''Partially'' averted in the [[Looney Tunes]] ''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.
* Lampshaded repeatedly in ''[[
* Limburger cheese examples:
** [[Flip the Frog]] in ''Chinaman's Chance''; the smuggler Chow Mein is easy to track because he's got smelly feet—even his ''footprints'' stink, and when Flip or his dog smell them, the image of stinky Cartoon Cheese is superimposed.
** [[wikipedia:A Ham in a Role|A Ham in a Role]]
** ''[[wikipedia:Pepe Le Pew#Relationship with Penelope Pussycat|Really Scent]]'': a female cat locks herself in a Limburger factory so she can match Pepe Le Pew's scent.
** ''[[
** ''[[wikipedia:Hoppity Hooper|Hoppity Hooper]]'' episode "Colonel Clabber" has a Limburger Cheese Statue.
* Swiss Cheese examples:
** "Babbit and Catstello" cartoon ''[[wikipedia:Babbit and Catstello#A Tale of Two Mice|A Tale of Two Mice]]''
** ''[[wikipedia:Maggie and the Ferocious Beast|Maggie and the Ferocious Beast]]'': Rudy the Mouse lives in a large wheel of Swiss cheese.
* Vlad Masters from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a Cheesehead and wore the cheesehead hat.
* Pinky and the Brain had a short in ''[[
* Done in ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''. In particular the episode "Power Mad", where ninja bunnies shoot carrots right through fairy Cosmo, riddling him with holes - he reappears later after the simulation with holes still in his body. Cosmo: "look I'm cheese." Also used in "Cheese and Crockers" where Crocker gains cheese powers - the cheese he uses are all orange.
* Averted in the [[Wallace and Gromit]] short, ''A Grand Day Out''.
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* Filbert from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' initially designed "The Cheese" character as a highly stylized version of this before Heffer redesigned him in "Wacky Delly".
* Shows up on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', during the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] episode.
* Justified in the [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] episode "Stuck in Ed". Rolf was drilling holes in a cheese wheel.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' built the ''CHEESETOPIA'' in the episode Remains of a Platypus, guess which shape and form it had?
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' once built the Cheese-Ray (which kept being brought up through the series) which turned items into yellow hole-filled cheese.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Emmenthaler 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.
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* In Sweden, this type of cheese
▲* [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-08-04 Concerned #178]: Frohman holds an orange item that he believes is "a delicious wedge of Bournes Pasturized (sic) Organic Chesire Cheese!" It's not really a wedge nor does it have holes because the artist only had so many 3D items to work with in his sandbox, and he chose {{spoiler|a human clavicle bone}}. The thing turns out to not even be cheese, but shades of the trope are quite present.
▲* Green Bay Packer fans wear cheeseheads which are wedge-shaped, yellow like Cheddar, and holey like Swiss.
▲* [[Karate Bears]] love [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/12/cheese-it.html cartoony looking cheese]
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