History Main / CheesyMoon

* 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 had been {{Ret Con}}ned to resemble a desert with a clear blue sky above.

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

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See also TheManInTheMoon, the other common Western folklore about the moon.

* Referenced, but averted in ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'' of the Hero Story of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''; Dr. Eggman [[DetonationMoon destroys the moon]] simply [[DisproportionateRetribution because it was never made of cheese]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_is_made_of_green_cheese Wikipedia article: The moon is made of green cheese]] discusses the origin of the saying in greater depth. It's actually meant to indicate that someone who believes this is extremely gullible (an analogous modern phrase would be [[LandmarkSale "And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you"]]).

* The Man In The Moon in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode of the same name actually has cheese on the moon which Greedy helps himself to.

* In ''[[VideoGames/Noita Noita]]'' successfully navigating the cloudscape and the work above it will allow you to reach the moon. The cheese can be eaten like many other substances in the game, and hollowing out the moon's center will reveal hidden runes.

* In ''VideoGame/Noita'' successfully navigating the cloudscape and the work above it will allow you to reach the moon. The cheese can be eaten like many other substances in the game, and hollowing out the moon's center will reveal hidden runes.

* In ''VideoGame/Noita'' sucessfully navigating the cloudscape and the work above it will allow you to reach the moon. The cheese can be eaten like many other substances in the game, and hollowing out the moon's center will reveal hidden runes.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarryAndHisBucketFullOFDinosaurs,'' Harry and Charlie are arguing over what the moon is made of. Harry thinks it's made out of cheese, while Charlie thinks it's made out of peanut butter. They then head to Dinoworld and use a rocket to fly to the moon to see who's right. When they land, they discover that they're both wrong; the moon is actually made out of chocolate chip cookies.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarryAndHisBucketFullOFDinosaurs," Harry and Charlie are arguing over what the moon is made of. Harry thinks it's made out of cheese, while Charlie thinks it's made out of peanut butter. They then head to Dinoworld and use a rocket to fly to the moon to see who's right. When they land, they discover that they're both wrong; the moon is actually made out of chocolate chip cookies.

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* "The Power Of Cheese" mused that, for thousands of years people believed the moon was made of cheese. We landed on the moon in 1969, and checked if this was true. It was not. (pause) We haven't been back since.

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* The ''Toys/{{Uglydolls}}'' comic "Once in a Blueberry Moon" plays the idea of the trope with a different food. Tray, all out of food, constructs a plan to travel to the moon, which is a blue one, since she assumes it'll taste like [[TrademarkFavoriteFood blueberry pie]]. Eventually, she makes it to the moon, chomps out a bite, and reacts with disgust. [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch It's not blueberry pie, it's raspberry!]]]]

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* ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''. A crewman tells his pet monkey that the first thing he's gonna do on landing is carve off a hunk of that green cheese, only to get scolded by TheCaptain because they are on a [[ForScience serious scientific expedition]] to disprove such tales.

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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 it's 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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* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'', 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 CartoonCheese. The player is tasked with finding some way of getting it back in the sky before they can leave the area.

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* 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.

* In an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMilkyWay'' 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 ''The Flumps''. 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.

* 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!]]

* At one point in ''[[VideoGame/PajamaSam Pajama Sam 3]]'' you have to find out what type of cheese the moon is made of. [[spoiler: Depending on the game it can be either brie, cheddar, mozzarella, or Monterrey Jack.]]

* ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''. A crewman tells his pet monkey that the first thing he's gonna do on landing is carve off a hunk of that green cheese, only to get scolded by TheCaptain because they are on a serious scientific expedition to disprove such tales.