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[[Image:Futurama Comic 11.jpg|right|thumb|The Cure For The Common Clod]]
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'''US Issue Number''': 011<br />
'''UK Issue Number(s)''': 013<br />
'''Title Caption''': The Most Influenzal Comic of All Time<br /><!--These can vary between US and UK issues, add if needed-->
'''Published (US)''': January 23rd 2003<br />
'''Published (UK)''': September 23rd 2004
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==The Story==
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===Act I===
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] catches a disease while on a delivery. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] checks the shipboard medical books and diagnoses Fry with something thought to have been eradicated centuries ago; the common cold. At [[Planet Express]], Fry sneezes over [[Amy Wong|Amy]], Leela and [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] during a medical exam from [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]. The cure for the disease has been forgotten, and because the cold is so contagious Fry is quarantined. [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]] explains why he, [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and Zoidberg couldn't have been infected. They then watch in disbelief as Leela strips naked and jumps into a tree outside to gather acorns. She has reverted to her primal state due to the mutated cold virus, so has Hermes, who is still his normal bureaucrat self. They realise Amy may be infecting everyone else in the city, so they head to her sorority's lingerie rave. Amy never made it to the party, but had been spotted at the library.
 
===Act II===
They leave Fry in his bubble at the door and enter via the roof. In her primal state Amy is busy trying to prove [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%27s_hypothesis Riemann's Hypothesis], the Professor explains that this will take days and that she is contained. Satisfied that the city is safe, they exit via the front door, which sends Fry's bubble rolling into the city's water supply, where it splits open. The next day everyone is acting weird because of the virus. The Professor decides that he should use one of his doomsday devices. The others stop him when Amy returns feeling better after blowing her nose. She and other infected people are hacking up huge germs, these come together through reverse mitosis and form a single gigantic germ. Leela's mutant metabolism creates a germ that is an antibody, but it's too small. They enlist the [[Sewer Mutants]] to produce more antibodies, they agree because they believe the infection will be like a party (which it seems to be for them). The antibodies head to the surface and merge, where they destroy the giant germ. A ceremony is held at [[New_New_York#Citihall|Citihall]] to thank the mutants.
 
==Additional Info==
===Trivia===
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*The [[Australian Guy]] is seen amongst the crowd of infected New New Yorkers, implying that he's not a slave anymore. Also seen are the [[Omicronians]], who are on Earth for some reason. (the crowd 40 or so characters we've seen before and a few we haven't.)<!-- hence I'm not listing them here, a scan may be coming soonish -->
*The ship has it's own library.
*The Professor started the tradition of Lingerie Raves when he was in Kappa Kappa Wong.
 
===Quotes===
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*'''Amy''': You're just faking it because you want to weasel out of going to the all night rave my sorority is having at the lingerie warehouse tonight.
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*'''Raoul''': [on his head] Look at me! I'm a tripod!<br/>'''Leg Mutant''': [on Vyolet's head] So what? I'm a totem pole!
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===Questions===
*Who did that?
**Fry did.
 
===Alien Language Sightings===
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===Inside References===
*"Robots only get sick in crappy science fiction stories". This occurs in [[Fry and the Slurm Factory]] and this comic.
 
===Outside References===
*The title character of Where's Wally/Waldo is seen in the crowd.
*The start of the comic refers to ''Mad Magazine''.
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===Characters===
(In alphabetical order)
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*[[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Morris]]
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*[[Sewer_Mutants#Vyolet|Vyolet]]
*[[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
 
==Comic Credits==
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*Script
**[[Patric M. Verrone]]
*Pencils
**[[Tom King]]
*Inks
**[[Phyllis Novin]]
*Colors
**[[Joey Mason]]
*Letters
**[[Karen Bates]]
*Editor
**[[Bill Morrison]]
*Dr. Feel Good
**[[Matt Groening]]
 
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