Cheese

Cheese

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Cheese
Nickname(s)	Cowboy, Horsey, Yellow Man, Scary Yellow Man, The Yellow Scary Man, Señor Cheese, Horsey Man, Spirit, Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Bro, Brother, Baby, Master Cheese, Man, Ol' Buddy, Pal, Brainsucker, The Brainsucker, Foul Alien
Home	Louise’s house (formerly) Foster’s home for imaginary friends
Character information
Species	Imaginary Friend
Gender	Male ♂
Age	4-5
Birthday	2000
Professional Status
Like(s)	Chocolate Milk, Potatoes, Candies, Games and Cereal
Dislike(s)	Go-karts that go too fast, falling, things breaking, spiders, sheep, cake, lack of spoons
Personal Status
Relative(s)	Bloo (older brother; debunked)
Creator(s)	Mac (debunked) Louise
Media
First Appearance	"Mac Daddy"
Last Appearance	"Goodbye to Bloo"
Voice Actor	Candi Milo (Original Series) Tara Strong (in Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion) Takayuki Nezu → Kunihiro Kawamoto (Japanese)

Cheese is an imaginary friend from the Cartoon Network television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends who is voiced by Candi Milo. He made his first appearance in the episode "Mac Daddy." Cheese is known for often repeating words in frustration, quick succession, screaming, whining, or making loud noises. One of his most famous quotes is, "I like chocolate milk," which, as well as his namesake, is ironic because he is apparently lactose intolerant.

Appearance

Cheese is light yellow in color and somewhat human in physical structure in that he has a torso, two arms, two legs, and a disc-shaped head reminiscent of Pac-Man. His head is very large in proportion to his body, while his left foot appears to be backwards when standing still whether he is screaming, moaning or laughing. When not paying attention to anything, his eyes are either crossed or looking in two different directions. His pupils are red in color, one of which is slightly larger than the other. When he talks, his mouth opens in two different ways: like everyone else's in the show does or like a can lid opening.

Personality

He was imagined by Mac's next-door neighbor, Louise, but his debut episode was centered around the inaccurate belief that he had been imagined by Mac. He might have a variety of ailments, including gingivitis and athlete's foot.

Cheese is usually portrayed as very unintelligent, as he gets confused a lot of the time and doesn't pay attention or listen to others. He can also be very obnoxious at times to others. Due to this, most characters find him to be a nuisance. He often gives inconsistent information, such as referring to every beverage as "chocolate milk." He also does not seem to understand when other characters tell him that he does not live at Foster's, or when they tell him to go home. Simply put, Cheese acts like a mentally handicapped person in his own world and seems to be incapable of processing simple information.

However, Cheese may be smarter than he appears. In "The Big Cheese", Cheese is capable of constantly entering the house in some way, he memorizes the code to the security system based on the sound tones despite only hearing the code once, and he knew how to disable the new security system right after Frankie armed it.

Cheese likes a lot of things, including chocolate milk, potatoes, candies, games, and cereal. He also enjoys repeating the names of these items to everyone he meets. It is debatable that his catchphrase is "I like chocolate milk," as Cheese has uttered this phrase in all of his appearances on the show except for "Cheese A Go-Go" and "Goodbye to Bloo".

Cheese calls pretty much all liquids chocolate milk, so it can get confusing when he's asking for some drink other than chocolate milk. Another of his catchphrases could be his sucking in of breath followed by a deadpan "Okay." He is also known to sometimes announce "I pooted." Also, he is easily frightened by common objects such as cake, spiders, not having a spoon, and other assorted oddities.

Whenever frustrated or frightened, he screams at ear-piercing tones as seen in "Mac Daddy" when he, Bloo, and Mac went down a giant slope on a go-kart. Despite him loving chocolate milk, he (according to Mac) is lactose intolerant, and is therefore not allowed to have it, which is also ironic considering his namesake.

History

Cheese debuted in "Mac Daddy", where Mac is believed to have created him. When Mac leaves Cheese with Bloo, Bloo locks him up in the closet, but he somehow escapes. After Bloo looks for him, Mac reveals that Louise was actually the one that created Cheese--Louise explained that Cheese gets out sometimes and that he just made his way into Mac's apartment during the night, to Bloo's relief.

Cheese made a cameo in "The Big Picture", floating in the flood of chocolate milk in Goo's imagination.

Cheese next appeared in "Infernal Slumber", visiting a slumber party organized by Bloo at Mac's apartment on a school night, and when Terrence wakes up to tell his and Mac's mother about what is going on, Cheese jumps onto his face and tells him "Quiet, doggy! Shhhhhhhh!"

Cheese's next appearance was in "The Big Cheese", where, after constantly visiting Foster's and annoying the inhabitants while they are preparing for a news story, Mr. Herriman decides to install a security system to keep Cheese out. However, Mr. Herriman inputs the code at random with his back turned, meaning that when he later invites the entire house outside to demonstrate the system, they are all locked out, and the only one who knows the code is Cheese, who has memorized the code as a song. Goo eventually manages to coax the code out of Cheese, but in the process of doing so, the entire house is left in ruins, just as the news crew arrives. Frankie manages to turn the broadcast around and uses it to ask for charity. It works, and Foster's gets a new, top-of-the-line security system. Cheese then sets the system to "unarmed" and enters the house, to Frankie's annoyance.

His next featured episode was "Cheese A Go-Go", which was part of the Cartoon Network Invaded programming stunt in May 2007. Bloo thinks Cheese, saying "Gotta go..." ad nauseum through the episode, is an alien as seen from a tabloid magazine. In the last few moments of the episode, a voice from what seems to be an alien contacting Earth says "Cheese" over and over. This leads scientists to believe that Cheese is possibly an alien. In the following episodes of the microseries, which spread across several Cartoon Network shows, it was shown that the aliens misunderstood Bloo and believed he meant that actual cheese was on Earth.

Cheese also appeared in a retelling of "The Big Cheese", known as "The Little Peas". Peas tries to warn Frankie that Cheese is still in the house, leading to him being the only imaginary friend inside when the doors are locked. However, he eventually succeeds in opening the front doors, and when he gets outside, he convinces Frankie to turn the broadcast around and use it to ask for charity. Peas, as well as Frankie, is also annoyed when Cheese enters the house at the end.

In the series finale, "Goodbye to Bloo", Cheese moves into Foster's, as Mac moves to Louise's apartment. Because the new residence Louise will live in doesn't allow imaginary friends, Cheese becomes a resident of Foster's, arriving by announcing "Now we're brother roomies!", leading to all the Foster's residents screaming in horror. After Wilt says "I'm sorry, but this is not okay!", the opening animation used throughout the series is run in reverse, and Cheese closes the episode and the series having got the last word in by saying to the viewers "Okay, bye doggies!"

Abilities

• Photographic Memory - Can remember long series of numbers as shown in "The Big Cheese".
• Enhanced Flexibility - Can bend and stretch easier than the average person.
• Disease Survivability - Can survive the variety of diseases that he claims to have.
• Enhanced Strength - Despite his feeble looking appearance, while it was not shown, Cheese apparently has a great amount of strength as he broke through a door that was locked by Bloo.

Catchphrases

• "I like chocolate milk."
• "I like cereal!"
• "I like games."
• "Cocoa!"
• "Do it again, do it again, do it again, do it again, do it again!"
• 'Nother Game!
• "Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go..."
• Bunnies!
• "I'm a cowboy!"
• "Hi, doggies!"
• "I pooted!"
• "I have scurvy!"
• "I have gingivitis!"
• "I have athlete's foot!"
• "I'm a lady!"
• "Now we're brother ladies!"
• "Whee! (screams) Whee!"
• "Quiet, Doggie! Shh!"
• "Beep-bop-boop..." (he sings these words as lyrics to the tune of the song Mr. Herriman was typing onto the lock)
• "Bye lady, lady bye, bye, bye lady!"
• "Okay, bye doggies." (last line of the show)
• "I FOUND A CARROT!""
• "I like fishy crackers!"
• "I like this game!"
• "Candy candy candy candy candy... candy!"
• "Candy is broken!"
• Inhales* "Okay."
• "No! Chocolate milk!"
• "HERE'S MY HORSE!" *makes noises while he walks the horse on Bloo's head*
• "No..."
• "I like the fair!"

Episode Appearances

Season 2

• ”Mac Daddy”

Season 4

• ”The Big Picture”
• ”Infernal Slumber”
• ”The Big Cheese”

Season 5

• ”Cheese A Go-Go”
• ”The Little Peas”

Season 6

• ”Goodbye to Bloo”

Comic

• ”Fair Game”
• ”Lucha va Bloo”

Trivia

• Cheese's voice actor is Candi Milo in the series, but in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion and the XL version, his voice actor is Tara Strong (who voiced Terrence). He is an assist character in the game who screams loudly to do damage to enemies. In the XL version, he teams up with Billy and Mandy as their synergy partner. When Billy and Mandy perform their synergy attack, Cheese and Billy scream loudly to do damage to any opponents within range (and they can move around when they do it).
• Cheese has a liking for go-karts as seen in "Mac Daddy," and in the video game for Game Boy Advance, a level consists of finding parts for a Cheese go-kart.
• Cheese's head-mesh and smile bears quite a resemblance to that of Otto Osworth's from Time Squad.
• Cheese is featured in three Cartoon Network games, Cheese Quest, Wheeeee, and Utter Nonsense.
• Despite Mac stating that Cheese is lactose intolerant, he never showed symptoms whatsoever upon drinking chocolate milk.
• Goo (aside from Louise) is the only person to successfully understand Cheese due to similar eccentric behavior she possesses as well as having known and created lots of imaginary friends, thus being capable of understanding how to ease or get through to him
• Cheese briefly lives at Foster's in his first appearance "Mac Daddy" and moves in at the end of "Goodbye to Bloo", but in most bumpers and the video games, he is shown to already live at Foster's.
• Among the main characters, Cheese is one of the characters that never was arrested and jailed during the series. The others are Frankie, Goo, Terrence and Duchess.
• He, along with Goo and Terrence, didn't appear in any episodes that premiered in 2008.
• Judging by the 2008 Macy's parade, Cheese loves rickrolling.
• Cheese is greatly found vexing both in universe and by fans; primarily because of how odd he is.
• His golden trading card statistics in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Leapster game are:
  • Is NOT good to have at secret slumber parties.
  • Likes tinfoil braces.
  • Likes juice
  • Was created by Louise

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