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* Parodied in a [[That Mitchell and Webb Look|Mitchell and Webb]] sketch with ''The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine''.

* Illya Kuryakin catches a cold about halfway through the ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' episode "The King of Diamonds Affair." ("I've been fighting a headache and a cold. Personally, I prefer THRUSH.") It's not important to the plot in any way, and it doesn't impede his later [[Big Damn Heroes]] rescue of Napoleon Solo; its only apparent purpose is to make him miserable. [[Russian Guy Suffers Most]]...

** On a few occasions, we see scenes from the future where Londo, soon before his death, is ridden by a constant cough. Once this is established, we occasionally see Londo coughing in the present to remind the audience of his fate. Mind you, his death is via ''strangulation'', not as a result of his illness.

* In the "Sontaran Strategem"/"Poison Sky" two-parter of Doctor Who, Donna uses her Magical Temp skills to deduce that no one in the factory has ever been sick, which becomes the first sign that something is quite wrong.

* Carl Wheezer of ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' is an inversion of this.

* Macy of ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'' is an almost perfect inversion of this.

 

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