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Revision as of 00:27, 2 September 2011

Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 8 episode
Cold Warriors
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Fry's coughing infects the guinea pig with the common cold in the past, marking the start of Fry's science project.
No.112
Production number6ACV24
Written byDan Vebber
Directed byCrystal Chesney-Thompson
Title captionWE'RE FOLLOWING YOU, BUT NOT ON TWITTER
First air date25 August, 2011
Broadcast numberS08E11
Title referenceThe common cold and the cold warriors
Special guest(s)Buzz Aldrin
Tom Kenny
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"Cold Warriors" is the one-hundred-and-twelfth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fourth of the sixth production season and the eleventh of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 25 August, 2011 on Comedy Central. Fry's sneezing reintroduces the common cold to the world of the future, with devastating consequences.

Plot

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Production

During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Fry's guinea pig on 5 June and part of the storyboard showing Leela engaged in a broom fight on 6 June.

Two promotional pictures for the episode were released by Comedy Central Press.[1]

On 24 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring the Planet Express crew being put under quarantine.[2]

Image gallery

Reception

"Cold Warriors" was well-received by fans, and many considered it to be one of the better episodes of broadcast season 8.[3] However, it did not do so well on IGN, where it scored only 6.5/10.[4] "Cold Warriors" got a 0.7 rating from adults 18-49 and was viewed by 1.524 million, up about 142,000 views from the previous episode.[5]

Additional Info

Trivia

  • This episode's storyline is similar to that of the comic book "The Cure for the Common Clod". Writer Eric Rogers has commented on this via Twitter, writing that "[t]hey are different stories".[6]
  • This is one of four episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other three are "Fry Am the Egg Man", "Overclockwise" and "Reincarnation".
  • If one was to consider each of the movies as one episode rather than four, then "Cold Warriors" could technically be considered the 100th episode, rather than "The Mutants Are Revolting".
    • Alternatively, if the movies are canon, but non-episodic, "Cold Warriors" is the 96th episode.
  • This is the second episode in a row to feature flashbacks in between the episode, with the previous one being "The Tip of the Zoidberg".

Allusions

  • The title of the episode is a reference to the common cold and the cold warriors.
  • In the Flashback to 1988, Barack Obama is shown working as a pizza delivery guy.
  • Fry calling Josh Gedgie LL Fool J is a reference to American rapper and actor LL Cool J, while Gedgie calling Fry Grandmaster Phlegm is a reference to another rapper, Grandmaster Flash.
  • One of the images Wernstrom shows Nixon's head and Zapp is a Verizon coverage map.
  • The scene where the hovercopters cover Manhattan with a wrap is reminiscent of the scene where the helicopters cover Springfield with a dome in The Simpsons Movie.
  • The concept of Manhattan being cut from the planet's surface and taken into space is reminiscent of the novel Manhattan Transfer by John E. Stith.
  • One of the science experiments presented for the space launch involves Tang. Tang became popular in the United States due to it's association with NASA and the manned spaceflight programs of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Leela remembers that all ancient satellites were swept up as space junk in 2113 while Facebooking. Furthermore, the title caption mentions Twitter.

Continuity

Goofs

  • According to Wernstrom's diagram's for Nixon, the cold virus has not spread outside of Manhattan. However, both Morbo and Linda of √2 news have the cold, despite the location of their broadcast having been identified as Los Angeles in "A Big Piece of Garbage".
    • However, more recent episodes are showing their location in New New York.
  • Fry's father's story of when he was shot down over Korea and had to consume his interpreter implies that he fought in the Korean War, but it was established in "Roswell that Ends Well" that he was born in 1948.
    • Then again he once claimed that his ancestors fought commies in the revolutionary war so his historical knowledge is iffy at best.

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

  1. ^ Comedy Central Press | Futurama
  2. ^ Preview - Quarantine
  3. ^ "Episode Reviews: 6ACV24 - Cold Warrios". Can't Get Enough Futurama. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  4. ^ Canning, Robert (27 August 2011). "Futurama: "Cold Warriors" Review". IGN. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  5. ^ Seidman, Robert (26 August 2011). "Thursday Cable: 'Jersey Shore' Rises; + 'Burn Notice,' 'Suits,' 'Project Runway,' Rise Too". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  6. ^ Twitter: @erog23 (Eric Rogers)