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* DidntThinkThisThrough: It apparently never comes to mind for anyone to simply ask, say one of the preserved heads of somebody who had ''lived'' through the times of the virus what the effects of the virus would be or how to treat it. All the more damning as even ''President Nixon'', rather than consider it, ''immediately'' goes right to the nuclear option despite living in such a time himself- and thus should know exactly what the ''common cold virus'' would be.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: It apparently never comes to mind for anyone to simply ask, say say, one of the preserved heads of somebody who had ''lived'' through the times of the virus what the effects of the virus would be or how to treat it. All the more damning as even ''President Nixon'', rather than consider it, ''immediately'' goes right to the nuclear option despite living in such a time himself- and thus should as such, would know exactly what the ''common cold virus'' would be.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: It apparently never comes to mind for anyone to simply ask, say one of the preserved heads of somebody who had ''lived'' through the times of the virus what the effects of the virus would be or how to treat it. All the more damning as even ''President Nixon'', rather than consider it, ''immediately'' goes right to the nuclear option despite living in such a time himself- and thus should know exactly what the ''common cold virus'' would be.
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* PlagueEpisode: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts spreads very quickly 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it is today, but the reactions to it...
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
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* ProperlyParanoid: While sealing off the town and ''shooting it into the sun'' was a bit extreme, considering both Amy and Zoidberg, the ''alien members'' of the crew, are seen getting particularly sick from it (thus showing the virus could still infect people regardless of the planet they came from- and as Zoidberg shows, could suffer ''worse effects than the humans''), the worry about the effects of the virus (particularly a ''millennium-old'' variant) is wholly justifiable. Farnsworth himself outright admitted he was living in ''mortal terror'' of some eventuality like this.
* PlagueEpisode: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts spreads very quickly 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it istoday, today (though it does seem to now cross over to infect ''otherworldly'' victims), but the reactions to it...
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] To be fair, however, they do have no idea how the ''one thousand year old'' virus could affect them now (especially as since it was eradicated, humans had lost ''all immunity to it''). The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
* PlagueEpisode: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts spreads very quickly 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it is
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] To be fair, however, they do have no idea how the ''one thousand year old'' virus could affect them now (especially as since it was eradicated, humans had lost ''all immunity to it''). The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
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* KarmaHoudini: Bender never gets any retribution for spreading the common cold around in New New York. Fry gets to take his punishment instead by getting beat up by the est of the Planet Express crew.
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-->'''Fry:''' It’s a good thing Gedgie won. My dumb experiment wouldn’t have lasted an hour in space, let alone 1000 years. Also, UsefulNotes/BuzzAldrin ran over my Guinea pig in the parking lot.
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''[[CouchGag We are following you, but not on]]'' ''Website/{{Twitter}}''
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* MisplacedRetribution: After news breaks out of the cold spreading to the rest of New New York, the rest of the Planet Express crew beat up Fry for being the one who had it first, even though it was Bender who spread the virus outside of the Planet Express headquarters by handshaking the quarantine workers with his mucus covered hands.
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* MisplacedRetribution: After news breaks out of the cold spreading to the rest of New New York, the rest of the Planet Express crew beat up Fry for being the one who had it first, patient zero, even though it was Bender who spread the virus outside of the Planet Express headquarters by escaping and handshaking the quarantine workers with his mucus covered hands.
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* MisplacedRetribution: After news breaks out of the cold spreading to the rest of New New York, the rest of the Planet Express crew beat up Fry for being the one who had it first, even though it was Bender who spread the virus outside of the Planet Express headquarters by handshaking the quarantine workers with his mucus covered hands.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Barack Obama was not living in New York during the winter of 1988, he was living in Chicago.
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* TakeThat: After Hermes gets sick, he remarks, "I've got a hankerin' for a useless remedy created by a schoolteacher," and takes some "[[BlandNameProduct Airbunk]]" tablets. This is a reference to the Airborne brand of dietary supplements, which are advertised as boosting the immune system despite little research backing up these claims.
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* ThePlague: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts like this in the 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it is today, but the reactions to it...
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* ToughLove: At the end of the episode, Fry's dad tells him that he's only so hard on Fry because he wants him to grow up strong and resilient.
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* NoodleImplements:One of the plans to rid Manhattan of the common cold is a plan called "Order 62," and, for some reason, at least one element of it involves a bunch of piranhas (but, according to Nixon, they don't have nearly enough piranhas to be able to execute Order 62).
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* NoodleImplements:One NoodleImplements: One of the plans to rid Manhattan of the common cold is a plan called "Order 62," and, for some reason, at least one element of it involves a bunch of piranhas (but, according to Nixon, they don't have nearly enough piranhas to be able to execute Order 62).
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* NoodleImplements: One NoodleImplements:One of the plans to rid Manhattan of the common cold is a plan called "Order 62," with and, for some reason, at least one element of it involving, for some reason, involves a bunch of piranhas (of which there aren't (but, according to Nixon, they don't have nearly enough of, according piranhas to Nixon).be able to execute Order 62).
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* ContaminationSituation: Fry has a dormant 20th C. strain of the common cold, which had been eradicated centuries earlier. It leads to the entire island of Manhattan being quarantined and then launched to the sun for good measure.
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* ContaminationSituation: Fry has a dormant 20th C. Century strain of the common cold, which had been eradicated centuries earlier. It leads to the entire island of Manhattan being quarantined and then launched to the sun for good measure.
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* FlashbackBPlot: The A-plot follows an outbreak of the formerly-eradicated common cold in New New York, while a B-plot flashes back to Fry entering a science fair planning to send an infected guinea pig to space to preserve the common cold. The plots come together when they need a sample of the cold for a vaccine, and they retrieve a sample created by... the kid Fry lost to.
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: The A-plot follows an outbreak of the formerly-eradicated common cold in New New York, while a B-plot flashes back to Fry entering a science fair planning to send an infected guinea pig to space to preserve the common cold. The plots come together when they need a sample of the cold for a vaccine, and they retrieve a sample created by... the kid Fry lost to.
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: The A-plot follows an outbreak of the formerly-eradicated common cold in New New York, while a B-plot flashes back to Fry entering a science fair planning to send an infected guinea pig to space to preserve the common cold. The plots come together when they need a sample of the cold for a vaccine, and they retrieve a sample created by… by... the kid Fry lost to.
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* NoodleImplements: Order 62 involves a bunch of piranhas (of which there aren't nearly enough of).
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* RedHerring: The audience is led to believe that Fry's guinea pig (who also had the cold) was sent to space in the Nerd Search satellite. Turns out it was Josh Gedgie's cold virus culture.
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* RedHerring: The audience is led to believe that Fry's guinea pig (who also had the cold) was sent to space in the Nerd Search satellite. Turns out it was Josh Gedgie's cold virus culture.culture.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Mr. Panucci’s delivery boy in the 80s is a black kid named [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack]].
-->'''Barack:''' Man, I have got to go back to law school.
-->'''Fry:''' [[ItWillNeverCatchOn I’m not gonna wind up a loser like that guy]].
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Mr. Panucci’s delivery boy in the 80s is a black kid named [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack]].
-->'''Barack:''' Man, I have got to go back to law school.
-->'''Fry:''' [[ItWillNeverCatchOn I’m not gonna wind up a loser like that guy]].
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* NoodleImplements: Order 62 apparently needs piranhas (and a lot of them too).
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* ArtisticLiscenceBiology: Professor Farnsworth declares that mankind lost immunity to the ravages of the common cold. Nobody is immune to the common cold, its mutation rate sees to that. He also is able to make a vaccine for it, also impossible for the same reasons (unfortunately).
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* ArtisticLiscenceBiology: ArtisticLicenceBiology: Professor Farnsworth declares that mankind lost immunity to the ravages of the common cold. Nobody is immune to the common cold, its mutation rate sees to that. He also is able to make a vaccine for it, also impossible for the same reasons (unfortunately).
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*ArtistiLiscenceBiology: Professor Farnsworth declares that mankind lost immunity to the ravages of the common cold. Nobody is immune to the common cold, its mutation rate sees to that. He also is able to make a vaccine for it, also impossible for the same reasons (unfortunately).
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* KillingForATissueSample: Farnsworth plans to grind up Fry in order to create a cold vaccine.
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* InsufferableGenius: Josh Gedgie, to the point of ordering pizza with the most complicated math possible and then mocking Mr. Panucci when he can't make heads or tails of it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gedgie unabashedly stole Fry's experiment idea, knowing that his nerd brains have a better chance at getting it through than Fry's dumbness would.
* KillingForATissueSample: Farnsworth plans to grind up Fry in order to create a coldvaccine.
vaccine. Fry soon figures out where they can get another cold virus, saving himself and disappointing Farnsworth.
* NoodleImplements: Order 62 apparently needs piranhas (and a lot of themtoo).too).
* ThePlague: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts like this in the 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it is today, but the reactions to it...
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
* RedHerring: The audience is led to believe that Fry's guinea pig (who also had the cold) was sent to space in the Nerd Search satellite. Turns out it was Josh Gedgie's cold virus culture.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gedgie unabashedly stole Fry's experiment idea, knowing that his nerd brains have a better chance at getting it through than Fry's dumbness would.
* KillingForATissueSample: Farnsworth plans to grind up Fry in order to create a cold
* NoodleImplements: Order 62 apparently needs piranhas (and a lot of them
* ThePlague: With nobody left immune to it, the common cold acts like this in the 31st century. The sickness itself is no more serious than it is today, but the reactions to it...
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: First by covering Planet Express with plastic wrap, then the whole city, then [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure throwing the city into the sun.]] The crew succeeds in escaping with some unintentional help from Zapp.
* RedHerring: The audience is led to believe that Fry's guinea pig (who also had the cold) was sent to space in the Nerd Search satellite. Turns out it was Josh Gedgie's cold virus culture.
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* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Fry gets a cold as a child when he falls into freezing water while ice fishing. It happens again in the year 3010, a time where the common cold has been eradicated, and Fry's dormant strain threatens to contaminate the whole world.
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* ContaminationSituation: Fry has a dormant 20th C. strain of the common cold, which had been eradicated centuries earlier. It leads to the entire island of Manhattan being quarantined and then launched to the sun for good measure.
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Fry brings back a disease to the 31st century that was thought to have died out long ago- the common cold. It doesn't take long for New New York to get the sniffles, but its salvation could be found in a science fair Fry was involved in during his high school days in the 20th century.
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* HurlItIntoTheSun: To deal with the outbreak of the common cold, Zapp Brannigan decides that all of Manhattan Isle should be thrown into the sun.
* NoodleImplements: Order 62 apparently needs piranhas.
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* HurlItIntoTheSun: To deal with the outbreak of the common cold, Zapp Brannigan decides that all of Manhattan Isle should be thrown into the sun.
* NoodleImplements: Order 62 apparently needs piranhas.
