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* 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 {{w|Twitter}}, writing that "[t]hey are different stories".<ref> | * 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 {{w|Twitter}}, writing that "[t]hey are different stories".<ref> | ||
[https://twitter.com/#!/erog23/status/77557642377183232 Twitter: @erog23 (Eric Rogers)]</ref> | [https://twitter.com/#!/erog23/status/77557642377183232 Twitter: @erog23 (Eric Rogers)]</ref> | ||
*This is one of three episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other two are [[Overclockwise]] and [[Reincarnation]]. | |||
=== Allusions === | === Allusions === |
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No. | 112 | ||||
Production number | 6ACV24 | ||||
Written by | Dan Vebber | ||||
Directed by | N/A | ||||
Title caption | N/A | ||||
First air date | 25 August, 2011 | ||||
Broadcast number | S08E11 | ||||
Title reference | The cold warriors and the common cold | ||||
Special guest(s) | Buzz Aldrin | ||||
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"Cold Warriors"[1] is the one hundredth and twelfth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fourth of the sixth production season and the eleventh episode of the eighth broadcast season.
Story
Fry inadvertently reintroduces the common cold to 31st-century mankind.[2]
Production
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of a guinea pig in a spacesuit with a tiny USA flag on 5 June and part of the storyboard showing Leela engaged in a broom fight on 6 June.
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".[3]
- This is one of three episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other two are Overclockwise and Reincarnation.
Allusions
- The title of the episode is a reference to the cold warriors and the common cold.
Characters
- Debut: Buzz Aldrin's head[4]
- Debut: The female CDC scientist
- Fry
- Debut: The guinea pig astronaut
- Leela
- Debut: The male CDC scientist
References
- ^ JavieR (16 June 2010). "Name of a new Futurama episode: 6acv24 - Cold Warriors". The Futurama Point. Retrieved on 16 June 2010.
- ^ Countdown to Futurama: Guinea Pig Astronaut
- ^ Twitter: @erog23 (Eric Rogers)
- ^ Assignment X: Exclusive Interview: David X. Cohen of FUTURAMA gives the scoop on Season 6B – Part 1