History Main / CheesyMoon

* A Ritz Bits commercial from The 90s featured a box of Ritz crackers rocketing to the moon, in order to use the cheese to become Ritz Bits sandwiches... with cheese!

''[[TheStinger If the Moon is made of cheese]],''//
''[[MemeticMutation Then, Jupiter must be]] [[BaconAddiction made of bacon]].''

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* In an unpublished 1940s ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica story, a villain sends Johnny Thunder to get a piece of green cheese from the moon as one of several "impossible tasks." Thanks to Johnny's LiteralGenie, he manages to do it anyway.

* At one point in ''[[VideoGame/PajamaSam Pajama Sam 3]]'' you have to find out what type of cheese the moon is made of. [[spoiler: It's Bree.]]

* The MGMOneShotCartoon ''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.

* In an episode of the ''{{Rugrats}}'' the babies get into an old trailer, and think that they're astronauts on the moon. Phil and Lil find some old cheese in the garbage, and eat it [[ExtremeOmnivore (with no ill effects)]], thinking it's moon cheese.

* In an unpublished 1940s JusticeSocietyOfAmerica story, a villain sends Johnny Thunder to get a piece of green cheese from the moon as one of several "impossible tasks." Thanks to Johnny's LiteralGenie, he manages to do it anyway.

* An early [[MightyMouse Super Mouse]] cartoon has the hero cutting the moon slice by slice like a wheel of baby Swiss, letting them fall to Earth so his mice brethren can collect them.

* In the opening song of ''MerrilyWeRollAlong''[='=]s second act, a long list of maybes includes "Maybe the moon is cheese".

* An old Ronald McDonalds ad featured the mascot attempting to reach the moon to collect cheese for the restaurant's burgers.

* Speaking of Humongous Entertainment, there's also a brief scene on ''[[PuttPutt Putt Putt goes to the Moon]]'' that shows a few mice astronaut kids gnawing on the observatory - much to their mom's dismay. "But it's made of green cheese, Mom!"

* The premise of ''James Pond 3'' involves the BigBad hiring rats to mine cheese from the moon, which also possesses abundant quantities of other dairy products.

* In ''RevengeOfTheTitans'', many of the Moon Campaign's mission locations are named for different kinds of cheese, [[StealthPun disguised with the nomenclature of actual locations on the moon]]--for example, Mare Crisium (RealLife) and Mare [[http://www.latin-dictionary.org/caseum Caseum]] (in-universe).
* At one point in ''[[PajamaSam 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 ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', as well as in the space levels featured in the GBA title ''CrashBandicootTheHugeAdventure'', is pretty cheese-like.

* ''ArthurTheAardvark'': In one episode, Arthur is trying to buy Moon Boots. He imagines himself hopping straight to the moon wearing these. He then grabs a bit of the moon and tastes it, saying that it's green cheese all right!

* In ''Yogi's Ark Lark'', while the Creator/{{Hanna-Barbera}} cast are in space, Pixie and Dixie run by with a slice of cheese. Huckleberry Hound sees them and asks where they found it. He then makes a realisation and glances at the moon. Sure enough...

* An early [[MightyMouse Super Mouse]] cartoon has the hero cutting the moon slice by slice like a wheel of baby Swiss, letting fall to Earth so his mice brethren can collect them.

* The premise of ''James Pond 3'' involves the existence of cheese mines on the moon, along with abundant quantities of other dairy products.

* At one point in ''[[PajamaSam Pajama Sam 3]]'' You have to find out what type of cheese the moon is made of. [[spoiler: It's Bree.]]

* The "Moon Fondue" level in ''{{Spyro}} 2: Season of Flame'' on the GameBoyAdvance is comprised of green, cheese-like terrain and includes a race of mouse astronauts.

One of the common Moon myths in Western culture is the saying that it is comprised of "green"[[note]]originally meaning "young"[[/note]] cheese.

[[caption-width-right:250:Organic ingredients, naturally aged.[[note]]No, that's not PacMan.[[/note]]]]

* {{Nifflas}}' games ''WithinADeepForest'' and ''#modarchive story'' reference the trope (the former has an entire level set on the Lunar Cheese Extraction Factory), and one of his songs is also called "The Cheese in the Sky".