Cold Warriors

"Cold Warriors" 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.

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.

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, writing that "[t]hey are different stories".
 * 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".

Allusions

 * The title of the episode is a reference to the s and the.

Characters

 * Debut: Buzz Aldrin's head
 * Debut: The female CDC scientist
 * Fry
 * Debut: The guinea pig astronaut
 * Leela
 * Debut: The male CDC scientist