Sick Episode / Western Animation

Sick Episodes in Western Animation Television series.

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• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters has the episode "The Gromble Soup", where The Gromble gets sick and his substitute teacher, the school cafeteria chef, is horrible to the students. So the monsters are going to get the ingredients for The Gromble Soup to cure him.
• Adventure Time:
  • The episode "Storytelling," Jake comes down with a flu-like illness, and sends Finn on a mission to go on an epic adventure, for the purpose of gathering material for an epic story to tell bedridden Jake. At the end, this results in Caretaker Reversal, when Finn catches Jake's sick.
  • "What Have You Done?" had all of the Candy Citizens coming down with the Freezer-Burn Flu.
  • In "Simon and Marcy," Simon had to search for chicken soup on post-war Earth to feed to a young, sick Marceline.
  • "Wizards Only, Fools" has Starchy sick in bed with a cold, and Princess Bubblegum going to Wizard City to obtain a cure.
  • The shorts "Rats Well That Ends Swell" and "Have You Seen The Muffin Mess" have Finn sick after kissing a rat bite on BMO's finger in the former.
• Invoked in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode, "Journey to the Center of Carl". Jimmy invents the Neutronic Sick Patch to make him and his friends sick enough to miss school, but remove when their parents aren't looking so they can have fun. Unfortunately, the sick patches dissolve into their skin, prompting Jimmy and Sheen to shrink themselves down to microscopic size and travel inside Carl's body to extract mitochondria from the virus and make a vaccine.
• In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Spaceman Sonic", Sonic and Tails visit an abandoned space station inhabited by a Slime Monster with a cold. As the Slime Monster's doctor advised him thirteen years ago to feed it, he tries unsuccessfully to eat Sonic and Tails. This episode's "Sonic Says" segment has Sonic advise both the Slime Monster and the viewers on how to take care of themselves when they get sick.
• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin: In "Tweeg Gets The Tweezles", Tweeg catches the titular disease, which turns him pink with blue spots, and L.B. has to ask Teddy, Grubby, and Gimmick to try to help him (since there are no doctors around). Subverted, in that he isn't actually sick, the strange coloration was actually caused by drinking water from the Rainbow Falls.
• Aladdin: The Series: In "Sneeze the Day," Genie catches a cold, leading to Power Incontinence and forcing Aladdin to go on a Find the Cure! quest for him. In the end he gets well, but Aladdin gets sick.
• Angelina Ballerina:
  • In an episode called "Angelina in the Wings", several students are unavailable, and are said to have the "mouse pox".
  • In a later episode, Gracie and Alice come down with an ambiguous disease called "The Sniffles".
  • In "Angelina Visits the Palace", Miss Lily catches a cold.
• In the Angels of Jarm episode "Missing Murali", Murali, one of the children who goes to Jarm's playschool, ends up sick with the measles and can't go to school. His dad doesn't let anyone enter their house out of fear that his measles will spread to others, so Ellie and the other children of Jarm's playschool work together to make him a big banner to cheer him up.
• Arthur:
  • In "Arthur's Chicken Pox", Arthur, and eventually D.W., get the chicken pox.
  • Downplayed in "Vomitrocious". Francine throws up, but she doesn't have a fever or any other symptoms and is fine the next day. The nurse thinks maybe it was a 24-hour bug, and the focus is on the humiliation of what happened, not the sickness itself. George also has a nosebleed in that episode.
  • Also downplayed in "Castles in the Sky". Brain believes to have a cold as he was sneezing and coughing, but it is unknown if he actually had a cold or if he was mistaken, and it wasn't part of the main plot.
  • Mrs. MacGrady gets a mild case of cancer in "The Great MacGrady".
  • In "Arthur's Knee", it is defied: Arthur is told that his injury may get infected so he goes to the doctor and it doesn't.
  • In "Buster's Breathless", Buster is diagnosed with asthma.
  • In "Double Tibble Trouble", the Tibble twins get sick.
  • In "Sick as a Dog", Pal gets ill from eating the wrong food.
  • In "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Jane and David (the parents) get sick. Chaos ensues. At the end Arthur sneezes, implying that he's getting sick too.
  • Mr Ratburn gets laryngitis in "Substitute Teacher Trouble".
  • Kate has an illness which involves red cheeks at the beginning of "Cast Away", however she gets better by the next scene.
  • In "Operation: D.W.!" D.W. starts having trouble hearing and needs an operation to drain fluid from her ears.
• As Told by Ginger not only has a sick episode, but in that episode, Ginger is bedridden and hospitalized by appendicitis.
• Atomic Puppet: The very first episode of the show was "Sick Day", in which Joey gets a nasty cold from mutant viruses created by Mookie to keep Atomic Puppet bedridden and allow Mookie to play "hero".
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • In the Season 1 Episode "The Blue Spirit", Sokka and Katara become seriously ill after being exposed to the storm in the previous episode, and Aang goes out to find a cure for them.
  • After the Lake Laogai incident, Zuko falls ill in "The Earth King". Iroh eventually reveals that the cause of his illness is because of the conflicts in his mind at the moment.
• Batman: The Animated Series: Batman has a cold during episode "Heart of Ice", the first that features Mr. Freeze, ironically. Although the chicken soup that Alfred gaves him turns out to be very handy at the end.
• Ben 10:
  • In the Ben 10 episode "Side Effects". Not only is Ben sick, but all of his alien forms are also affected by the cold.
  • This is continued later on in Ben 10: Alien Force where Ben once more gets a cold. Vilgax contracts it at the end.
• The Berenstain Bears: In the 2002 series episode "Trouble at School", first Brother, then Sister, get the flu.
• Betty Boop: In "Betty Boop's Ker-Choo", the title character gets a cold, but her only notable symptom is sneezing... which leads to her winning an auto race by sneezing so hard that she makes all the other cars crash.
• Bob the Builder: In "Wendy's Busy Day", Bob has a very bad cold so Wendy takes over the day's job for him. At the end of the episode, Muck starts sneezing.
• "Steve Gets the Sniffles" in Blue's Clues. However, said "sniffles" are his only symptom and they go away after eating vegetable soup.
  • The reboot's remake "Getting Healthy with Blue" has Josh having the same thing and eating vegetable soup.
• Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: Episode 17, Boo-Boom gets sick after falling into a river, forcing his animal friends to try and steal some medicine from a group of German soldiers. When that fails, they are forced to alert a German medic to Boo-Boom’s presence instead in hopes that he can, and will, help him.
• Caillou: In "Caillou is Sick", the title character gets chicken pox.
  • He also gets a sore throat in another episode after playing in the rain fully clothed, and with no raincoat or umbrella.
• Central Park: In Season 1 "Garbage Ballet", Paige is sick and thinks there are rats inside their home and tries to kill any while Cole tries to stop her. While trying to stop his mom, Cole eventually catches her illness. When Paige and Cole are in the basement, they see a swarm of rats eating their food and they run back upstairs. It turns out they imagined it when Owen reveals that he and the exterminator never found any rats down there.
• Charlie and Lola: "I'm Really Ever Not So Well," in which Charlie has to try to cheer up Lola when she has a cold and then he gets it. It was also adapted as a book.
  • Lola gets chicken pox in "I am Going to Save a Panda".
• Charlies Colorforms City: Charlie gets sick in the episode "Sick Charlie".
• Cleopatra in Space has an episode called "The Flu" , where Cleo has a mysterious illness that can be cured with quarantine. She thinks it's nonsense, but then everyone at school gets sick.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog: In "Get Well", Emily gets a cold.
  • She also gets a cold in the episode "Sniff Sniff" in the series Clifford's Puppy Days.
• Codename: Kids Next Door has had quite a few sick episodes, and some cases had the operatives Working Through the Cold:
  • By the end of "Operation T.O.M.M.Y.", all of Sector V ends up getting sick from the Common Cold, even after they defeat him along with Hoagie's mom, Betty and she gets to take care of them at Hoagie's house with the Common Cold.
  • In "Operation S.U.P.P.O.R.T.", Abigail (Numbuh 5) falls sick with the flu, leaving Nigel (Numbuh 1) and Hoagie (Numbuh 2) to look after her from enemy attacks.
  • "Operation P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.", which doubles as a Noir Episode, has a pinkeye epidemic going on around Gallagher Elementary School, where its unsuspecting victims are hit by water balloons loaded with the substance that causes it, and Fanny (Numbuh 86) would be among those victims. Private Eye Hoagie (Numbuh 2) later finds the culprit behind it: the school nurse, Nurse Claiborne, who'd been using the illness as the secret ingredient for her apple crumble! After the Kids Next Door exposed this operation, it is revealed in a later episode the school fired Claiborne, giving her no success to getting other nursing jobs anywhere in the country.
  • In "Operation S.N.O.W.I.N.G.", Nigel (Numbuh 1) has a cold during a snow day and to make things even worse, fourth grade president Jimmy is forcing everyone to go back to school for a special assembly to crown Lizzie as his queen. Nigel has to work through his illness to defeat him and rescue his captured teammates and girlfriend.
  • Also in the middle of the next episode "Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.", Abigail (Numbuh 5) ends up having chicken pox from her sister Cree with a chicken-pox gun, and then towards the end, Cree and the teenagers catch it, too, from a cannon that fires the said ailment, thanks to Maurice (a few years late, but he kept his promise to destroy the teens' source of pox).
• Craig of the Creek: In "Fort Williams", Craig contracts pink eye, rendering him unable to join his friends Kelsey and J.P. at the creek. To cheer him up, his mother helps him build an elaborate Blanket Fort for them to play in until he recovers.
• Crawford's Corner: In "Crawford is a Sneezer Pleaser", Crawford gets a cold.
• In the Cupcake & Dino: General Services episode "Everybody loves Kattycorn", Cupcake catches a cold, which he has most of the episode. By the time he gets over it, he's passed it to Dino.
• In the Animated Adaptation of Curious George episode "Monkey Fever", The Man with the Yellow Hat gets a cold leaving George to take care of him. In another episode, called "Inside Story", George is the one to come down with a cold.
• Dan Vs.: "The Common Cold" revolves around the title character, who has come down with a cold himself, going to the DCD to rid the whole world of the common cold.
• Doc McStuffins: Doc gets the flu in "Doctoring the Doc".
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood:
  • In "Daniel Has a Cold", Daniel gets a cold, which results in him having to miss Prince Wednesday's Birthday at school.
  • In "Mom Tiger is Sick", which is the sister episode to "Daniel Has a Cold", Mom Tiger catches a cold and Daniel and Dad have to take care of her.
  • Daniel and Mom Tiger also both get a cold in "Daniel's Neighbors Help."
  • Margaret gets sick in "Margaret's First Thank You Day", which results in Mr. Tiger having to take her home so she can rest and her missing the "Pin the Headlight on Trolley" game, the Thank You feast, and hanging the Thank You notes on the Thank You tree.
• Danny Phantom has a different take on the sick episode plot in that everyone but the hero (and his friend, but that's due to his Day in the Limelight position) is sick with a cold. Danny and Tucker end up catching it in the last stretch of the episode anyway.
• An episode of Daria features Daria being hospitalized due to a mysterious rash (which is caused by thoughts about her then-love interest Trent).
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Sarah comes down with a cold and Ed and Jimmy constantly bicker over who gets to take care of her, much to Eddy's annoyance. At the end of the episode, Edd catches it.
    Eddy: *as Ed uses a vacuum cleaner to clean Sarah's nose* What a sap! We're wasting the whole day!
  • The episode "A Case of Ed" is a subversion, as Double-D only believes himself to be ill. Double-D, a hypochondriac, worries himself sick by obsessively reading an encyclopedia of rare diseases- and Eddy and Ed join in the fun and tell Double-D how awful he looks. He believes he has the symptoms of "Lacadaisy-Cathro Disease," and automatically becomes pale, weak, and sickly.
  • Then there's "Laugh Ed Laugh", where the entire neighborhood, sans the three Eds, come down with chicken pox. With no kids to scam, Eddy goes insane.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • One of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, "The Fairy Flu", was all about Cosmo and Wanda getting an illness that causes them to lose control of their magic.
  • In the B-plot of "Presto Change-O", Mama Cosma comes down with a nine-hour flu, which makes her delirious and causes her say nice things about Wanda, whom she normally despises. Wanda takes advantage of the situation and has Cosmo take care of them both, much to the latter's horror.
  • "Open Wide and Say Aaagh!" starts with Timmy getting a sore throat, which makes his school day horrible, and proceeds into him going to the hospital for a tonsilectomy.
  • "Chicken Poofs" is about Poof catching the titular ailment that turns whomever he sneezes on into chickens.
• Fanboy and Chum Chum has the episode "Chicken Pox", in which Kyle has a magical version of the titular ailment, and Fanboy and Chum Chum are Nurses With Good Intentions. Then there is "Cold War", in which Fanboy and Chum Chum have, well, colds.
• Fireman Sam:
  • In "Lost Ring", Station Officer Steele is absent as he has got the flu so Sam must cancel his afternoon off.
  • In another episode, "Wicker Bear", James is unable to attend a Pontypandy Pioneers trip due to a cold.
• Franklin combines this with Halloween Episode where Bear suddenly has a cold and is sneezing on the day of Halloween. Unfortunately, he thought he could make it to the party and the haunted house that night, but he was feeling too sick to go.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
  • In "Bloooo", Mac and Bloo are outside playing in the rain and both catch severe colds. Bloo's symptoms and constant moaning cause Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco to believe he's a cannibal ghost. Hilarity Ensues.
  • In "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To", the actual events of the episode is that Bloo is sick with a nasty fever but still attempts to go to Mac's birthday party that's happening.
• The "Frozen Fever" short is both this and a Birthday Episode. Elsa ends up sick on Anna's 19th birthday but despite her fever Elsa tries to make this Anna's best birthday ever.
• In The Fungies! episode "Sick Day", Seth gets sick after staying up all night making a show-and-tell about bog. His older brother Pascal gets one too after being sprayed by a stinkbug at the bog.
• In Futurama episode "Cold Warriors", Fry comes down with a cold. No big deal, except that the common cold had been eradicated 500 years before, leading to a mass quarantine and a frantic search for a vaccine.
• Garfield and Friends:
  • In "Garfield Goes Hawaiian", Garfield catches the Hawaiian Cat Flu, a disease which causes him to dance the hula everytime something Hawaiian is mentioned. When Jon discovers this, he enters Garfield on a show about silly animal stunts, where the winner will get $1,000.00. On the night of the show, Garfield wants to be at his best health, so he takes his medicine, curing himself of the Hawaiian Cat Flu. When Jon tries to get him to perform, he ends up making a fool of himself. Fortunately, the audience finds what Jon does funny, and he ends up winning the money after all. At the end of the episode, Garfield catches the Alaskan Cat Flu.
  • In the U.S. Acres segment, "Swine Trek", Orson has a cold and the rest of the farm animals are trying to tend to him but he tells them all he needs is rest and isolation. He then proceeds to have a Dream Sequence, which goes Where No Parody Has Gone Before. After he wakes up, his cold is gone but now all the other farms animals have caught it.
• The 1951 Goofy cartoon "Cold War" has Goofy, in the role of George Geef, catch a cold while at work. He tries to treat it himself, but he only gets better when his wife nurses him to health in a very over-the-top way.
• In the Gravedale High episode "Long Day's Gurney into Night", Sid has a nasty cough and since there are no nurses at the school at the time, there's no choice but to take him to a human hospital, where it's revealed that he has tonsillitis. The other teenagers are worried about Sid and can't go to that hospital, but Max Schneider coerces them to go by faking being comatose. As a result, the teens seem to like the hospital.
• The Great North: In the Season 2 episode "Dip the Halls Adventure", Ham gets sick before he can finish his gingerbread house display. Judy, Moon, Wolf and Honeybee try to finish it, with disastrous results.
• The debut episode of The Hair Bear Bunch, "Keep Your Keeper," had the bears fooling head zookeeper Mr. Peevly that he had a disorder called "zoolirium" and that he had to take a six-month vacation.
• Handy Manny: Manny, and eventually Dusty, get colds in "Manny's Sick Day".
• Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs has "Achoo", where most of the characters get sick. The strange thing is each character had a different disease which they caught off each other.
  • Harry: Common cold.
  • Taury: Itchy spottitis (purple spots all over his body, they itch)
  • Sid: Heliumnes Ballonis (inflation and levitation).
  • Trike: A horn ache.
  • Pterance: Thermomoburstiosis (a high fever)
  • Patsy: Her neck grows twice as long.
  • Steggy: Doesn't get sick, but he has something of hypochondria through the whole episode.
• In the Hello Kitty episode "Changing Our Clothes", Mama White catches a cold, which makes for a minor subplot.
• Hero Elementary:
  • The episode "An Uphill Task" has Sara Snap get sick on the day of an invention fair that AJ is taking part in. He has a robot so that she can take part without leaving the episode.
  • In "Sneezitis Solution", Fur Blur has a cold.
  • "Schmubble Trouble" has Benny catch "Schmubbles", a cold-like illness that makes his bubble powers go haywire.
• Hey Arnold! has one, where Helga gets hysteria after reading a quack book on diseases (she fears she's caught Monkey-Nucleosis after being kissed by a weird organ grinder's monkey). She think she's going to die, and forgives all her friends on her "deathbed" and is about to confess her love to Arnold... until Pheobe corrects her.
• How to Catch a Cold:
  • Exaggerated in the original short where the main man is sick with a cold, plus he's also infected his wife, son, and five coworkers, his wife has infected three of her friends, his coworkers and his wife's friends have infected their families, and his son has infected six classmates. In addition, a businessman, a paperboy, and a two men on the bus are also seen with colds and the "ABC" segment shows three children with colds.
  • In the live-action version, Jeff the boy has a cold, but he's the only one sick (his brother had a cold last week, but he's better now). So Goofy taught him how colds are caused and how to stay healthy.
• In one episode of Ivick Von Salza: The Little Lumberjack, Ivick falls ill and Vigoras calls a doctor. The ribbiting crocodile, seeing this and seeing an opportunity to make money, jumps the doctor and takes his clothes. After curing Ivick and getting paid, the crocodile then reveals that he caught Ivick's sickness. After being visited by the doctor he jumped, the crocodile has to pay him the money that he got from Vigoras.
• Kaeloo: The episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses" had Stumpy fall sick and ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat to help him. Of course, they callously ignore him and focus on giving medical treatment to Quack Quack, who is perfectly fine.
• Katie and Orbie has "Sore Throat," where Katie catches tonsillitis, and "Chicken Pox Party," where she catches the chicken pox on Halloween.
• Kim Possible: In the half-length episode "Sick Day" (which provides the image in the trope's main page), a bad cold goes around. It starts with the Tweebs, then Kim catches it, then she passes it to Shego while they're fighting, so Shego catches it... by the end of the episode, pretty much the entire cast is in bed. While this is going on, both sides attempt to maintain control over an experimental ray device, though they are unaware of what it does. After the device gets destroyed, it is revealed the ray is a cure for the common cold.
• In one episode of The Koala Brothers, Ned catches a cold (which is his first one) and then Mitzi catches it.
• In the League of Super Evil episode "Mama Menace", Red Menace has a strange illness (implied to be a cold, but supercharged, and vomiting is a symptom), which prompts the League to call upon the titular character for help. Near the end, Red has recovered, and he and his mama team up to defeat the Monster of the Week.
• Let's Go Luna!: Papa Chockers is sick for most of the episode "Jolly Special Friend", preventing him from making lunch for Senor Fabuloso and his special friend. Luna and the kids fill in for him by ordering food from various restaurants and trying to figure out which one would work best, learning about the cultural diversity of the UK in the process since all the restaurants they visit specialize in assorted international cuisine.
• Sarah in Liberty's Kids gets smallpox for some time.
• Little Bear: "A Flu" (Little Bear gets the flu), "Between Friends" (Little Bear and Emily get the mumps), "Doctor Little Bear" (Mother Bear gets a cold), "Frog In My Throat" (Little Bear gets a sore throat and loses his voice), and "Pillow Hill" (Little Bear gets a cold). Also at the end of "Little Bear's Sweet Tooth", Little Bear gets a tummy ache from eating too much sugar, which results in him having to miss the rest of the Harvest Day picnic at the forest.
• Looney Tunes:
  • In "Naughty But Mice" (1939), Sniffles the mouse has a cold and goes to a drug store for a remedy. He takes a spoonful (human size) of a 98% proof cough syrup and gets completely sloshed. And it doesn't help his cold.
  • "Patient Porky" (1940) features a hospital room full of sick intakes; Porky enters to be treated for a tummy ache.
  • Hubie and Bertie take advantage of Claude the Cat's fear of getting sick to the degree that he's convinced he needs surgery. From 1950's "The Hypochondri-Cat."
• The Loud House:
  • The Loud House:
    • In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Lori comes down with the flu, which quickly spreads to the rest of the family. Lincoln and his uninfected sisters (save for Leni, who realizes her family simply wants and needs care while they're sick) treat the situation like a Zombie Apocalypse. By the end of the episode, every member of the Loud family has the flu (except Lana's pets), and Clyde comes over to take care of them while wearing a Hazmat Suit for protection.
    • In "Sister Act", while Lola and Lana have been switching places to get out of doing stuff one twin dislikes, but the other enjoys, they decide to dress up as each other so the former can get out of going to a doctor's appointment and the latter can get out of a dentist's appointment. This backfires on both of them the next day, because Lola catches a cold, rendering her unable to participate in a pageant, while Lana gets an abscessed tooth that hurts when she tries to eat the sundae she won from a recycling contest. Neither of those things would have gotten as bad as they did if Lola and Lana actually went to their respective appointments, because the medical professionals could have caught the early warning signs of their respective ailments and have immediately treated them before they got worse. The twins are forced to fess up to what they did to their parents since they initially thought that the doctor and the dentist failed to notice their obvious medical problems, and, after being scolded for their irresponsibility, they end up having to do the appointments they were trying to avoid in the first place so they can both get healthy again, with Lola stating she's not allowed back on the ribbon-dancing circuit until she produces a note from the Center for Disease Control.
  • The Casagrandes: For Carlitos in "Silent Fight". Carlitos has been sick with the flu and crying for over 24 hours, and at the same time, a feud between CJ and Carl erupts while they're playing El Falcon. Frida and Carlos, already exhausted with their youngest son's constant crying, warn their elder two sons if they awaken Carlitos again, they will be grounded for two months, forcing the brothers to continue their feud as quietly as possible.

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• On Madeline:
  • "Madeline and the Costume Party" has Madeline and all her friends catch the chicken pox, and to anybody who gets uneasy around chicken pox or mercury thermometers, this episode could practically SCREAM “Nightmare Fuel” for them.
  • Also, "Madeline's Christmas" had all of them (and Miss Clavel, and a mouse, and the doctor himself) except Madeline herself sick with a bad cold.
  • And of course the first special, based on the first book, had Madeline go to the hospital with appendicitis.
• What does Ms. Frizzle of The Magic School Bus do when one of her students (Ralphie) comes down sick? Why, take the class on a field trip into his body to learn about the immune system!
  • A variation is repeated in The Magic School Bus Rides Again, when Carlos gets sick, and Ms. Frizzle takes the kids inside him to learn about the immune system and eventually learn the difference between illness and allergies.
• Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies has "Healthy Habits" - Mama Mirabelle's son, Max, catches a cold and learns that it's important to rest when not feeling well and that everyone gets sick sometimes, even if they follow the healthy habits described in the episode's title.
• Martha Speaks:
  • In "Martha in Charge", Helen gets a severe case of laryngitis.
  • In "The Trouble With Teddy", Teddy eats a rock which makes him sick and he needs surgery.
  • In "Nurse Martha", Butterscotch gets sick and also requires surgery because he ate a sock.
• Meg and Mog:
  • Mog gets the mumps in "Mog's Mumps".
  • Mog and Owl catch colds in "Mog's Sneeze".
• In the Metalocalypse episode 'The Revengencers' (aka Sickklok), Nathan's suffering from a summer cold, which he gives to the rest of the band. They try some...unorthodox methods to get rid of it after the on-site doctor just advises them to relax.
• In Milly, Molly, Milly gets chicken pox on her birthday in "Spots and Stripes", Pepper the horse gets a fever in "Goodbye, Alf", Aunt Maude and the title characters get measles in "Biddy Bid", and several people get sick in "Aunt Maude". Downplayed in "Dog Walking Service". Humphrey gets chicken pox, but it's not a huge part of the plot.
• Milo has "Milo's Indigestion", where Milo gets indigestion from eating too many berries, too fast.
• Molly of Denali: In "Steam Bath Ch'oondaii," Layla is sick with a cold, which is a problem because her pilot exam is coming up soon. So, Molly creates a steam bath for her so she can feel better.
• Muppet Babies (1984) has "Scooter's Uncommon Cold," where the kids imagine themselves going into his body and learning about the immune system (similar to the above-mentioned Magic School Bus episode), and "Slipping Beauty," where Piggy catches the chicken pox and the others cheer her up by telling her the story of Sleeping Beauty. They hooked her up with a walkie-talkie so they could communicate with her since she was quarantine from everyone else.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • In "Three's a Crowd", Discord fakes having a strange kind of flu to get attention. He ends up getting another kind of illness for real by the end.
    • In "Hurricane Fluttershy", several background Pegasus ponies, including Thunderlane, get "the feather flu".
    • In "Hearts and Hooves Day", a background stallion has a cold, but he is only seen for about a second, during the song The Perfect Stallion.
    • Subverted in "A Bird in the Hoof". Philomena seems sick but it turns out that she's a phoenix and on her shedding cycle.
    • In one of the comics, Rainbow Dash gets the "pony flu", which is similar to chicken pox.
    • In another comic, all the ponies and Zecora get infected with a fungus, but Spike cures them.
    • In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom gets a disease called cutie pox which involves sprouting random cutie marks all over her body and compulsively performing the talents associated with them.
    • In "A Flurry of Emotions", a class of background foals get "the horsey hives".
    • The whole of "A Health of Information" revolves around Zecora getting sick with swamp fever, and Fluttershy in the role of the caregiver. Unlike previous such episodes, this one disease is quite nasty in that it can prove fatal, it has no known cure, and is quite contagious. Even Fluttershy herself gets sick.
    • Coco Pommel spends "The Saddle Row Review" battling a nasty cold.
  • My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: "A Little Horse" is about Pipp's friends taking care of her while she's sick, despite her insisting that she should continue with her livestream for Electric Blue.
• In the Nature Cat episode "Fall for Hal", Hal gets sick with a cold on his favorite day of the year, the first day of fall (the day he always goes on his First Day of Fall Scavenger Hunt). So Nature Cat, Squeeks, and Daisy plan to bring fall, and all the items on his scavenger list, to him.
• Ned's Newt has two:
  • "One Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in which Ned's parents get sick and he and Newton have to take on the responsibilities of the house.
  • "Fantastic Neddage" in which Ned gets sick with a cold and Newton tries to find a cure for it, leading to a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot.
• In the Numberjacks episode "The Dreaded Lurgi", Four, Six, and eventually Three, catch a disease called "lurgi" which means they feel bad and can't jump very high.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has the episode "Rad's Alien Illness", where Radicles is sick from the virus of Boxmore while K.O. try to cure him with medical conditions but failed. At the end, Rad wraps himself in a cocoon to get cure.
• The Owl House has the episode "Eclipse Lake", where Luz is sick with the common mold, allowing her new girlfriend Amity to take the spotlight.
• PAW Patrol:
  • "Pups Save A Show": Chase has a cold and has to miss out on the titular show. Marshall takes his place with predictable results.
  • The official one is "Pups Save A Sniffle", where all of the pups catch cold one by one. By the end, Rubble and Ryder are the only healthy ones left. Then Ryder starts sneezing...
  • "Parroting Pups" mixes this with Lost Voice Plot. Rocky loses his voice, so the pups have to train a parrot to operate his voice-activated Pup-Pack.
• In the PB&J Otter episode, "Otter Pox", Jelly catches the titular disease on her birthday. She and her friends try to come up with ways for her to participate in the festivities even though she is sick.
• The Penguins of Madagascar episode "Popcorn Panic" ended with much of the animals and the penguins themselves getting sick from eating too much popcorn in the zoo.
• Peppa Pig has "George Catches a Cold" (where George, well, catches a cold), "Pedro's Cough" (where first Pedro, then the others, have a vaguely-defined illness whose only symptom is a cough and it goes away instantly upon having some medicine which Tastes Like Feet), and "Not Very Well" (where Peppa gets a rash).
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • One episode had Candace bedridden due to a flulike illness, despite the series taking place in the summer. Her best friend Stacy takes Candace's usual role in the show of trying to bust the title characters, but gets sidetracked by how much fun she's having with them. Stacy ends up getting the same bug Candace has at the end of the episode.
  • The B-Plot of "My Fair Goalie" is about Dr. Doofenshmirz being so sick (again with a flulike illness) he can barely fight Perry.
  • Another episode has Phineas, Ferb, Baljeet, and Isabella all bedridden and playing the world's best video game. Buford wasn't really sick at the time, though, he was just lazy. He gets sick at the end anyway.
• Pororo the Little Penguin: "Crong's Stomach Pain" has Crong get food poisoning. In "Get Well Soon, Loopy", Loopy gets a cold. It's a pretty strange sort of cold. Fainting is a symptom and she got it from being drenched in water.
• Postman Pat: Julian and Pat get sick in the one where Jess breaks his leg. Everyone gets chicken pox in "A Spotty Situation".
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In the episode "Geshundfight", The Amoeba Boys' sleazy, but foolish plan to stand in front of the warning sign at Townsville Park all night with rain leaves them with a disease. When they infect the people of Townsville, the Powerpuff Girls have to find the antidote.
• Puppy Dog Pals: In "ARF-Choo!", ARF contracts a "Robo-Cold" due to not completing a reboot. In "The Soup Search", Bob gets a cold.
• Raw Toonage: In the Marsupilami short "Jungle Fever", Marsupilami tries to cure his sick purple gorilla friend, Maurice. And Maurice's sneeze blows Marsupilami to a lion who lies in a hammock. In the end both Marsupilami and the lion get sick.
• Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: While the main focus of the episode is on something else, Billie having a cold is an important subplot in “Building To A Bang”.
• Ready Jet Go!:
  • In the episode "Endless Summer", Carrot catches a cold and is unable to work on his and Celery's Earth report on summer activities. It's up to Mindy to take care of him.
  • In the episode "Sean Has a Cold", Sean is sick and Sunspot takes care of him.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: in the episode "Nurse Stimpy" Ren falls ill, and it's up to Stimpy to take care of him.
• R.O.B. the Robot: In "Space Virus Blues", TK is sick, so the gang brings her to the Fix-it Planet. Eventually, Orbit and Rob succumb to the virus and get sick as well.
• Rocko's Modern Life has "Flu-in-U-Enza" in which the titular wallaby suddenly comes down with the flu after waking up in the morning and the Enchanted Upchucks {who appear as half-eaten Anthropomorphic Food who Rocko puked out inside a toilet halfway through the episode) come up with a rather hot cure for Rocko.
• Rolie Polie Olie: Olie and Zoe somehow get sick in "The Poly Pox" despite being robots.
• Rugrats (1991):
  • In "Slumber Party", Tommy gets sick when Angelica leaves the window open during a sleepover, to the point he briefly hallucinates that his family members are figurines from his mobile. It even premiered the same day as the Ren and Stimpy episode "Nurse Stimpy" did!
  • In "Autumn Leaves", Chuckie is not actually sick, but apparently he was sick recently and he also believes the trees, which are changing their leaves, to be sick.
  • In "All's Well That Pretends Well", Angelica is a bit sneezy (she may have a cold, that is left unclear), and she tries to make the babies seem sick.
  • In "Chuckie's a Lefty", Dil has a runny nose, believed by Didi to be a cold, but it is not part of the main plot.
  • In "Chicken Pops", the babies all get a rash, which Lou diagnoses as chickenpox. This leads Angelica to lie that it will turn them into chickens.
  • In "No Place Like Home", Susie undergoes The Tonsillitis Episode, which leads to her having a dream parodying the Wizard of Oz.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series has Sabrina get sick with a disease called Witch-itis which involves green tongue, coughing, sneezing, and Power Incontinence. If untreated, it can lead to Hypo-germ-ia, which is giant germs attacking you.
• The Simpsons has had several, being a Long Runner:
  • "Bart's Dog Gets an F" has the subplot of Lisa catching the mumps.
  • In "Lisa Gets an A", Lisa catches a cold and gets addicted to one of Bart's video games, causing her to neglect her homework. She winds up cheating on the test.
  • "Selma's Choice" had Homer getting food poisoning from a rotten subway sandwich (which he still keeps trying to eat even afterwards), leaving only Selma to take the kids to Duff Gardens.
  • "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" has Maggie contract chickenpox, leading Homer and Marge to throw a "pox party" to help other children gain their childhood immunity... only Homer never gained an immunity, concerning Marge because the disease is much more dangerous in adults. Despite his best efforts, he ends up getting it.
  • "Marge in Chains" kicks off the plot with most of Springfield, and the entire Simpson family except Marge catching a nasty strain of flu from Osaka, Japan.
  • "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" has Marge afflicted with food poisoning for almost all of the screentime she spends awake, not counting flashbacks to the day before.
• In The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Sky Is Smurfing! The Sky Is Smurfing!", Papa Smurf comes down with an illness, and Brainy tries to take care of him, thinking that he just came down with the cold. As it turns out, Papa Smurf was having an allergic reaction to ash coming from a volcano that was about to erupt.
• South Park: In the episode "Death", Kenny comes to school despite having stomach flu and gives it to Mr. Garrison. The rest of the adults don't realize they caught it from him until they're in New York City protesting Terrance and Phillip. This works in their favor as the president of Cartoon Central gives in due to the stench of their diarrhea.
  • The episode "Chickenpox" starts with Shelly having, well, chickenpox. When the boys' parents learn the risks are higher for older kids, they decide to get their kids sick while they're still young, setting up a sleepover with the infected Kenny. Stan and Cartman get chickenpox, and when they learn of their parents' plot, they get back at their parents by infecting them with herpes. It also ends, naturally, with Kenny dying of chickenpox.
  • The subplot of "Cartmanland" has Kyle suffer from a fatal hemorrhoid, while "Cherokee Hair Tampons" has him suffer kidney failure. He also has a cold in "The Snuke", but this is barely plot-relevant.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The episode "Suds". SpongeBob comes down with a bad case of "The Suds," the sponge equivalent of the common cold. Not much fun for poor SpongeBob, who's feeling terrible throughout the whole episode, but antics ensue anyway, as expected.
  • "Karen's Virus" has SpongeBob and Plankton attempt to get rid of a computer virus that Karen caught.
• Stanley — "Sick Day Stanley", in which Stanley has a cold and can't go out to play baseball. He learns about the importance of getting rest when you're sick.
• Star Trek: The Animated Series: In one episode an alien blames Dr. McCoy for spreading a plague which killed his people. The symptoms of the plague were turning blue, then green, fainting, talking slowly and death. Then, another alien, along with all of the crew except McCoy, get the plague and McCoy finds out it's because of the aurora and cures them.
  • In Pirates of Orion Spock is seriously ill with choriocytosis, and spends most of the episode comatose in the sickbay after he collapses on the Bridge.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "The Deserter", Captain Rex gets shot in the chest and has to recuperate at a farm.
• The first episode of the Street Fighter American cartoon mixes this and Hostage Situation, since the Street Fighter group is tasked with rescuing some kidnapped scientists (including Guile's Canon Foreigner ex-girlfriend Cindy) who are working on the cure to a nasty virus... and then Ryu and other people contract the virus itself. But when Blanka gets hit with the virus and nothing happens to him, Cindy realises that his mutation made him immune and uses some of his blood to finally make the cure, saving Ryu and the other victims.
• Super Noobs: This trope is exaggerated in this show as most of the episodes in the series are technically sick episodes. This is because of an organism called the virus, which causes people and animals to turn into rampaging monsters once infected, technically making its hosts sick. Only special elite warriors called Virus warriors, which include the main characters can defeat the monsters and cure the virus hosts
  • The episode "License To Noob" has the Noobs' alien tutors, Memnock and Zenblock, come down sick with Swink eye, which is a highly contagious space oriented eye infection that causes near blindness until cured with special eye drops and forced Memnock and Zenblock to cancel their training session with the Noobs for that day and treated their condition like the common cold as they tried to make tea to alleviate their symptoms. The noobs had to get the eye drops for Memnock and Zenblock and its heavily implied that Memnock and Zenblock caught this illness through an intergalactic outbreak that started on the hive planet, where its queen and her entire people also had the illness at the same time.
  • Also in "Noobie Mama", Kevin admitted that he came down with the flu a month before, even going as far as showing a picture of himself with it, grossing everyone out.
• Tak and the Power of Juju: in "Bad Medicine" after Jibolba fails to cure the seasonal flu like he usually does Tak adds some Juju powder to the mixture, which cures the other villagers but instead leaves Tak with some unexpected results.
• Taz-Mania: "Feed a Cold". Allowing the Platypus Brothers to attempt to cure you is a spectacularly bad idea.
• An episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) shows Donatello coming down with a flu-like illness and having to sit out of a fight. Quickly turns into a Wham Episode when it turns out that he's been exposed to a mutagen that turns him into a mindless, violent, monstrous version of himself, and it takes several episodes to turn him back to normal.
• Tex Avery MGM Cartoons:
  • The short "The Screwy Truant" discloses the reason why Screwy Squirrel skipped school in the first place: he has the measles, and when Meathead the Dog, playing the role of truant officer, confronts him for his truancy, he, too, gets infected, as does the end title card.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • In "Henry Spots Trouble", Sir Topham Hatt's grandchildren, Stephen and Bridgett come down with a case of chickenpox. This causes Henry to worry about if engines can get it as well. He freaks out when he sees Thomas, Paxton, and Gordon with spots on their faces, which are revealed to be mud, dust, and paint, respectively. Towards the end of the episode, Sir Topham Hatt informs Henry that only people can catch chickenpox, but most people get it when they're young and get better quickly.
  • Sir Topham Hatt catches a cold in "Dowager Hatt's Busy Day", leaving Dowager Hatt to run the railway for him. However, she doesn't know what job to give what engine, and misnames the engines.
• The Tick: Tick has a cold in 'The Tick vs. the Uncommon Cold', despite being nigh-invulnerable. He gets over it, but ends up sharing it with poor hapless Arthur.
• In Time Squad, Otto gets sick with a cold, leaving the two incompetent time cops Buck Tuddrussel and Larry to help Benjamin Franklin. When they do find Ben Franklin, they help him invent the light bulb. Realizing that didn't help at all, they go back home to tell Otto what happened. Furious, Otto tells him that Edison was the one who invented the lightbulb and to quickly destroy the one they helped build, and that the mission was clearly about getting Franklin to help write the Declaration of Independence. They end up dragging the kid out of bed to recite the first paragraph of the Declaration to the founding fathers, right before passing out.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode, "Acme Cable TV", Buster and Babs come down with a case of the "Tiawan Flu", thus cancelling their original plans for the episode. They spend the entire day watching television, as Babs' parents have Acme Cable, and by the time they recover, they end up turning into couch potatoes.
  • Daffy Duck is revealed to be sick in the episode, "Henny Youngman Day". Although Daffy is never actually seen in the episode, Henny Youngman becomes his substitute while he's sick, and bores the entire class (except for Hamton) to the point of them leaving him.
  • In the episode, "Grandma's Dead", Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother, catches a cold and is forced to stay home from school. To pass the time, he watches a parody of Rear Window on his TV. Thanks to some shenanigans with one of Elmyra's pet hamsters, Duncan is under the impression that his next-door neighbor, Mr. Bump, killed his grandmother. Grandma isn't even dead in the first place.
• In the Tom and Jerry short "Polka-Dot Puss," Tom fakes being sick so Mammy Twoshoes won't put him outside. Jerry takes advantage of this by painting red dots on Tom's face and making him think he has the measles. When Tom catches on to the scam, he's ready to throttle Jerry—who was actually coming down with the measles.
• Total Drama:
  • "One Flu Over the Cuckoos" starts with a challenge themed around medical movies, but the contestants (barring Leshawna and Duncan) soon appear to come down with a deadly disease for real. However, this turns out to be a subversion- their symptoms came from staying up all night studying a medical textbook for the challenge and eating pizza laced with itching powder and laxatives.
  • An earlier Action episode, "3:10 to Crazytown," had Gwen sick with a cold, though this is largely irrelevant to her plot. Similarly, DJ had a nasty cough in the World Tour episode "Newf Kids on the Rock," though this was a bit more relevant as he's convinced drinking apple vinegar (part of their challenge he was otherwise trying to throw) will cure it.
  • The Spin-Off Babies show Total DramaRama has the more traditional "Germ Factory." Leshawna is absent from daycare because of a cold, so the other children try to get sick to skip school, barring Courtney who desperately tries to avoid getting sick so she won't miss school. Of course, Courtney does get sick at the end when Bridgette sneezes on her.
• Transformers: Prime: In "Sick Mind," Optimus Prime comes down with "cybonic plague," an engineered virus that will kill him unless Bumblebee gets the cure from Megatron's mind.
• In the True and the Rainbow Kingdom episode "Cosmic Sneeze", the Rainbow King falls ill with an illness known as the "Wachoogieboogies", where every sneeze causes the colors of the Rainbow Kingdom to change, and eventually fade. Thus, True and Bartleby must go on a quest to Find the Cure!.
• Tuca & Bertie:
  • "Yeast Week" has Tuca go to the hospital due to severe pain, which turns out to be an egg stuck in her fallopian tubes.
  • "The Pain Garden" reveals that Tuca suffers unexplained chronic uterine pain, and follows her as she tries to find answers for her condition during a flare-up so she can spend time with her boyfriend instead of being stuck in bed. She never truly finds out what the issue is, but opens up to seeking treatment at a proper hospital and tells her boyfriend about her issue.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: In "Law and Odor", Keswick is revealed to have caught a cold from licking a handrail at a hospital. When Dudley is unable to stop the Stink Bug from stealing everything stinky in Petropolis due to his super-sensitive nose, he gets Keswick to infect him so he can't smell anything and will be able to foil the Stink Bug's plan. At the end of the episode, Keswick recovers, but when he smells the Stink Bug's stench, he gets Dudley to sneeze on him, Kitty, and the Chief so they can get sick and won't be able to smell it.
• The Tutenstein episode "Near Dead Experience" is about Cleo getting a fever and Tut, being from Ancient Egypt, worries she'll die from it so he summons Imhotep to try and save her.
• U.S. Acres had two episodes in its animated adaptation, "Swine Trek" and "Bad Time Story". Besides those episodes, the comic was chock-full of sneezing comics, and Roy has a dust allergy in the storybook "Wade's Haunted Halloween".
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?: in Sickness, the Yogmans give Robot Jones a computer virus.
• In the first episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Velma comes down with a cold during the gang’s stay at a ski resort and sneezes throughout the episode. Scooby later uses her sneezes to trap the culprit in an avalanche when the culprit attempts to flee.
• We Bare Bears: In "Bear Flu", Chloe struggles to take care of the bears when they get sick from swimming in a polluted lake. Grizzly stubbornly insists he's not sick even as his condition worsens to the point he can't stand up straight, and Panda starts a minor panic that results in the CDC swarming the bears' cave when he becomes convinced he has the eponymous (and imaginary) "bear flu".
• The Wild Thornberrys: "Operation Valentine", which doubles as a Valentine's Day Episode, has Eliza get appendicitis.
• One episode of Wonder Pets! started off with Linny sick with a cold. When the Wonder Pets get the usual call for help, Tuck and Ming-Ming had to leave Linny behind, not sure of how to help the subject without her leadership. Conveniently, the subject happened to reside in the attic of the school the Pets live in, so Linny was able to guide them along somewhat.
• WordGirl: "Chuck E. Sneeze". Becky/WordGirl has a nasty cold, and Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy tries to avoid getting sick. However, he catches it when she sneezes on him. Fittingly, the episode teaches the words "avoid" and "contagious."
• Work It Out Wombats!: In "Special Delivery," Sammy is sick in bed with a cold. Malik tries to make him feel better by delivering ice cream to him.
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: In the final episode titled "Woozy Walden", Wubbzy, Daizy, and Widget find the said character home sick with the case of chicken-its (a fictional disease that makes him unable to talk, but can only cluck). But in the end, Doctor Flooey tells them that Walden just needs some rest, making Wubbzy and Daizy realize what Walden was trying to say the whole time.
• X-Men: The Animated Series has two of these:
  • A two-parter deals with the Legacy Virus and how it spreads among mutants. Cable has to figure out how to stop it. Like in the Street Fighter case, if someone immune gets hit, their blood will be the key to make a cure: in this case, that character is Wolverine.
  • The Christmas Special has a subplot where the youngest of the Morlocks, Leech, falls very gravely ill and the X-Men have to convince Wolverine to give him a blood transfusion.
• X-Men: Evolution has Kurt and Kitty both sick with the flu in “Sins Of The Son”. Kurt has Power Incontinence as whenever he sneezes he teleports and Kitty, unwillingly, gets dragged along for the ride.
• The X's: In "You Only Sneeze Twice", all of the family get sick after going on a mission in sub-zero temperatures, except for Tuesday, who was the only one who bothered to wear a snowsuit. The villains, with the exception of Lorenzo Suave, are also sick. The two healthy ones are nearly driven insane by their patients's constant whining and demands. Tuesday has caught the cold by the episode's end.
• The Yin Yang Yo! episode "Woo Foo Flu". Yin comes down with the aforementioned flu, and Yang has to take care of her while Master Yo works on a cure. Carl approaches this moment to capture Yin and exploit her reality-bending sneezes, and Yang gets himself sick with the Woo Foo Flu in order to save Yin from Carl. Then Master Yo gets the Woo Foo Flu at the end. The episode also provides the image for this subpage.

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