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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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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* When [[Superman|Superboy]] meets Super-Mouse, the latter is seen juggling with this kind of cheese.
* 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...
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== 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.
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* 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 Cartoon Cheese.
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* The cheese wedges that will summon [[Money Spider|Gold Mice]] in ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]''.
* In ''[[Dungeons of Dredmor]]'', at first you might think, looking at the wide variety of cheeses available in the dungeons (havarti, brie, blue, gouda, smoked applewood cheddar, parmigiano reggiano...), that this trope is [[Averted]]. Nope! Amongst all the different kinds of unique cheeses, there is one cheese known simply as "Cheese". It's yellow-orange and wedge-shaped, with holes in it.
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** "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 ''[[Animaniacs]]'' about the cheeses from around the world, and most of those were in wheel form. For the record: some cheeses don't have this shape at all, such the Cœur de Neufch?l, where "cœur" is the French word for "heart" due to its shape.
* 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.
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