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{{trope|wppage=The moon is made of green cheese}}
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One of the common Moon myths in Western culture is the saying that it is comprised of "green"<ref>originally meaning "young"</ref> cheese.
This can manifest in many ways in fiction, often [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]]. For example, the moon may be depicted as made of [[Cartoon Cheese]] (possibly even a shade of green), and it may even be inhabited by moon mice (since [[Stock Animal Diet|mice love cheese]] and all that).
In [[Video Games]], this can overlap with [[Level Ate]] as applied to lunar settings.
See also [[The Man in
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== Advertising ==
* An old
* A Ritz Bits commercial from [[The Nineties]] featured a box of Ritz crackers rocketing to the moon, in order to use the cheese to become Ritz Bits sandwiches... with cheese!
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* [[Xanth]]'s moon is described as being cheese on the near side, honey on the far side.
* [[Stanislaw Lem]] had a short story where Moon accidentally ''became'' made of cheese.
* ''[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm The Gods of the Copybook Headings]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]:
{{quote|They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch }}
== Theatre ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* The "Moon Fondue" level in ''[[Spyro]] 2: Season of Flame'' on the [[Game Boy Advance]] is comprised of green, cheese-like terrain and includes a race of mouse astronauts.
* In ''[[King's Quest VII]]: The Princeless Bride'', during one chapter the moon falls out of sky into Falderal (a place based on wordplay and literal figures of speech) and it's revealed to be just a wheel of [[Cartoon Cheese]]. The player is tasked with finding some way of getting it back in the sky before they can leave the area.
* In ''[[Revenge of the Titans]]'', many of the Moon Campaign's mission locations are named for different kinds of cheese, [[Stealth Pun|disguised with the nomenclature of actual locations on the moon]]
* At one point in ''[[Pajama Sam|Pajama Sam 3]]'' You have to find out what type of cheese the moon is made of. {{spoiler|It's Bree.}}
* The moon seen in the "Midnight Run" level of ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped]]'', as well as in the space levels featured in the GBA title ''The Huge Adventure'', is pretty cheese-like.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'''s debut short film, "A Grand Day Out", revolved around the characters travelling to the moon to get cheese. The second short film, "The Wrong Trousers" later made a reference to it in a newspaper article mentioning how sales of "moon cheese" are soaring.
* ''[[Arthur
* The [[MGM Oneshot Cartoon]] ''Little Buck Cheeser'' is about a group of young mice who build a rocket to go to the moon because it's made of cheese.
* The ''[[Beany and Cecil]]'' cartoon "Beanyland" has the gang building a theme park on the moon - Dishonest John, already mining and selling the cheese there, tries to sabotage the place.
* In the ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon "Hits and Missiles", Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy visit the moon, which is actually made of cheese, and populated by [[Anthropomorphic Food| little cheese-men]]. Unfortunately, the Big Cheese who rules the place is [[The Caligula| a cruel tyrant.]] A dose of spinach later, and Popeye manages to turn him into crumbs.
* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'', the moon isn't made of cheese itself, but [[The Man in the Moon]] who lives inside it does have a lot of cheese. [[Stock Animal Diet|The mice who also live there like him a lot]], but he feels they only like him for his cheese.
== [[New Media]] ==
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