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**However, more recent episodes are showing their location in New New York.
**However, more recent episodes are showing their location in New New York.


*Since Nixon is also from the 20th century, shouldn't he also know that the common cold is not an actual threat?
*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 Nixon may just want an excuse to overreact to something.
***It is said that the virus had died out and humans no longer have resistance to it, so his reaction may be justified and the virus may actually be a threat.
 
*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's That Ends Well]] that he was born in 1948.  


=== Characters ===
=== Characters ===

Revision as of 23:52, 27 August 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]

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 didn't do so well on IGN, where it scored only 6.5/10.[4] Futurama got a 0.7 rating from adults 18-49 and was viewed by 1.524 million, up about 142,000 views from last week. [5]


Image gallery

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.

Allusions

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.

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)