Cheese is a running joke throughout the series with Charlie: he always eats an obscene amount of it, which gives him an overwhelming odor.
In the first episode of The Always Sunny Podcast, Charlie Day reveals that in real life, he is lactose intolerant and eating just about any amount of cheese makes him sick, so the bit about Charlie being obsessed with cheese is, in part, an inside joke based on that.
Quotes[]
- Dennis: Bro, will you please get out of here? You smell like cheese.
- Charlie: No, no. It's horse shit.
- Dennis: Well, whatever it is, it's terrible. Okay? So...
- Charlie: No, let's call it what it is. It's horse shit. I had it all over my hands...
- Dennis: The horse was eating a lot of cheese. I don't know what it is. Just you stink.
- [3x12]
- Charlie: I was eating the old cheese to test it. To see why the rats weren't eating it.
- [4x9]
- Charlie (performing for an audience): So, you guys, you ever eat cheese? Cheese is a funny thing, cheese is a strange thing. I always wonder, like, 'What is cheese? Where does it come fro- (starts dry heaving)
- [4x9]
- Mac: How much cheese have you eaten today?
- Charlie: How much cheese is too much cheese?
- Dennis: Any amount of cheese before a date is too much cheese!
- Charlie: I had a lot of cheese. I had a block of cheese...
- Mac: You ate a block of cheese today?
- Charlie: I was very nervous. I started eating cheese, man.
- Mac: Does that calm you down?!
- [5x5]
- Dennis: I want you to stay as far away from me as possible. You're standing too close to me as it is, actually.
- Charlie: Right. Okay...
- Dennis: Have you gotten into the cheese?
- Charlie: Ha-ha... There's a whole cheese section!
- Dennis: I bet there is.
- Charlie: I went nuts...
- Dennis: All right. Well, you stink.
- Charlie: Mm-hmm.
- [7x6]
- (Charlie notices a bowl full of cottage cheese in the Family Fight green room.)
- Charlie: Dennis, what is this enticing bowl of white?
- Dennis: This? Charlie, that...that's cottage cheese.
- Charlie: Cottage cheese? Like...cheese from some cottage? Whose cottage? Well, like, what is that, exactly?
- Dennis: How do you not know what it is? Aren't you like a cheese guy?
- Charlie: I'm not a cottage guy.
- [10x8]
Appearances[]
- Season Three: The Gang Gets Whacked (Part 1) (mentioned only)
- Season Four: Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life (mentioned only)
- Season Five: The Waitress Is Getting Married (mentioned only)
- Season Seven: The Storm of the Century (mentioned only)
- Season Eight: Charlie and Dee Find Love
- Season Ten: The Gang Group Dates, Charlie Work, The Gang Goes on Family Fight
- Season Twelve: PTSDee
- Season 14: Waiting for Big Mo