History Main / CheesyMoon

* Played with in Graham Oakley's children's book ''The Church Mice and the Moon''. A small camera-carrying rocket to the moon goes astray and ends up in the church instead. At one stage the scientists see a camera image of the mice eating cheese and are overjoyed at this scientific discovery that the Moon is edible.

->''"They say the moon is made of green cheese!"''
->''"No! It's made of cake, candy, and ice cream!"''

* ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit'': Their debut short film, "WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut", revolved around the characters travelling to the moon to get cheese. The second short film, "WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers", made a reference to it in a newspaper article mentioning how sales of "moon cheese" are soaring.

* In a ''RaggedyAnn'' comic, Raggedy Ann and Andy (and a visiting astronaut doll) visit the moon and discover a crater full of green cheese while having to dodge real astronauts.

* In ''Yogi's Ark Lark'', while the Creator/HannaBarbera 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...

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

->"They say the moon is made of green cheese!"
->"No! It's made of cake, candy, and ice cream!"
-->--The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] lead characters of the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35i-n9Kefg "Silvery Moon,"]] 1933)

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* Present for a gag in a 1920's WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat sunday strip. Felix decides to help out a struggling cheese vendor by climbing a tower and pulling the moon directly out of the sky like its a wheel of cheese, which the shopowner gratefully chops up and begins selling. Unfortunately, he is arrested shortly afterward--the crime being that [[VisualPun he's selling Moonshine!]]

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

* In ''VideoGame/Mariokart: Super Circuit'', the Cheese Land racetrack is set on the Moon, made of CartoonCheese and inhabited by Mousers. (Gravity is the same as everywhere else though.) Averted when Cheese Land was brought back for ''Mario Kart 8'', as the setting has been changed to resemble a desert with a clear blue sky above.

* GoogleEarth's sister site, Google Moon (which provides photos of the moon's surface) at one time [[http://www.penmachine.com/2005/07/truth-after-36-years.html displayed a yellow cheese texture]] at its highest zoom setting (as an EasterEgg), although it has since been fixed.

* ''The Milky Way'' is an Academy Award winning MGM animated cartoon short subject. As "three little kittens who lost their mittens" explore a dreamland, space is made up entirely of dairy products (e.g., the Milky Way is made of milk and the moon is made of cheese).

* Played with in "Moon Shot", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlumps''. Pootle Flump dreams that he travels to the Moon, where he meets a pair of aliens who have come to the Moon for picnic. They're having green cheese sandwiches, they explain, which they had to bring with them because there's no green cheese on the Moon.

* In ''TheElectricCompany'' there is a sketch where Fargo North is an astronaut in space who receives orders to proceed to the moon. He protests that is impossible since the Moon is made of green cheese and his exasperated partner reminds him that he was told otherwise in training.

* Subverted in the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35i-n9Kefg "Silvery Moon"]], 1933, where the lead character suggests the old myth that the moon is made of green cheese, but his girlfriend insists that the moon is actually made of cake, candy and ice cream. Once they set foot on the moon, the latter is proven to be right.

-->--The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] lead characters of the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35i-n9Kefg "Silvery Moon"]], 1933)

-->--The two lead characters of the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35i-n9Kefg "Silvery Moon"]], 1933)

* 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!

* 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!

* A Ritz Bits commercial from The90s featured a box of Ritz crackers rocketing to the moon, in order to use the cheese to become Ritz Bits sandwiches... with cheese!