Sick Episode: Difference between revisions

== Anime & Manga ==

* Used in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', when Kagome comes down with a severe cold. The main plot is put on hold while Kagome goes home to rest and the title character mixes up a disgusting "cure."

* ''[[Junjo Romantica]]'' has a chapter in which Nowaki was sick so of course Hiroki freaked out taking care of him. Slight subversion, however, because even though it was invoked for the cliche nursing tropes, the next day {{spoiler|Nowaki reveals he wasn't sick at all, just a little tired}}.

* Otani gets a fever in a chapter/episode of ''[[Lovely Complex]]'', so Risa shows up to help him out. {{spoiler|And then they have an [[Accidental Kiss]], when he passes out on her and their lips meet.}}

* On ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' both Godai and Mitaka broke their legs, so there was a series of episodes set during their recovery both in and out of the hospital.

** Twin to an earlier episode, when Kyoko was down with a sprained ankle, and everyone tried to help her out (empahsis on "tried").

** An Orange Islands episode left the Ash and Tracey paralyzed by Stun Spore, and Misty had to race to find the Salveyo Weed cure before James and Meowth (Jessie had run into the exact same Vileplume).

** And a Sinnoh episode had Dawn's Pachirisu come down with a fever, though this was from an electricity buildup (Pikachu had something similar twice before).

* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'' Kagami gets sick with a cold and is bedridden for an episode. Konata even visits her... to ask for her homework so she can copy it. Later Konata claims to have a spring cold, but Kuroi-sensei doesn't buy it. [[Cassandra Truth|She's really sick.]]

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a chapter in the manga where Tamaki is in bed with a cold. His fever also leads him to {{spoiler|kiss Haruhi's forehead, mimicking what his father had just done. He says it's all right because he's Haruhi's father and drifts off to sleep. After recovering he doesn't remember doing it.}}

* In ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'', Yotsuba gets sick the day her father was supposed to take her to a ranch to learn where milk comes from, leading to a meltdown and day spent in bed. No romantic hijinks, fortunately -- just more TV than usual. She finally gets to go a week later.

* One [[Patlabor]] episode revolves around Izumi having a bad toothache, and having to work through it (including putting on her helmet).

** The public bath episode, mentions that Kumagami is out sick (making Noa the only female [[SV 2]] member).

* [[Tokyo Mew Mew]] has two, first Ichigo gets a bad cold, later Purin gets a fever from pushing herself ''far'' too hard. The girl's only 12, after all.

* In ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', Takatoshi gets sick, and Shino presumes it's because he lent her his umbrella while it was raining, forcing him to go home without one.

* ''[[Michiko to Hatchin]]''. Michiko collapses while driving her scooter, and then tries to shrug off her fever by claiming she just has a very "hot body". Since she's on the run from the law, Hatchin has to enlist a shady back alley doctor/mystic to cure her.

* ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' has not one but two such episodes, giving each member of the show's central pairing a chance to care for the other. At the end of the first [[Sick Episode]], Van finally learns Wendy's name; in the second one, he opens up and talks about his past. Given that he's [[The Stoic]], it's a pretty significant breakthrough.

* This trope sees unorthodox usage in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' in an episode where the Le Creuset team is on leave at the PLANTs. While everyone else is going about their business unaware, Rau himself is curled up in his room, laid out with a mystery affliction. He's still expected to work, and no one comes to help him--even if those who cared about him knew, they wouldn't be able to do anything, after all. {{spoiler|Life just sucks like that when you're a clone.}}

* In an episode of ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Chika has a cold, and Nobue takes care of her part of the time. When she's gone, Miu pretends to be a doctor. When Nobue returns, Miu has ''her'' pretend to be a doctor while the girls who aren't sick take turns at pretending to be patients. Then Miu actually does get sick...

* [[Naruto Shippuden]] has a [[Filler]] episode in which Naruto gets a ''bad'' cold. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. (And Sakura ends up covered in [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|white snot]] more than once.)

* In [[Final Approach]] when Ryo gets sick this leads to the heroines realizing the girl they really need to compete with is not each other but his [[Brother-Sister Incest|sister Akane]].

* ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'' leaves this one for the finale. It is ''very'' [[Tear Jerker|Tear Jerking]] because [[Like You Would Really Do It|unlike if this were done mid-season]], there is a very real possibility that [[Downer Ending|the sick sister actually dies]]. {{spoiler|Thankfully, she doesn't. Cue [[Tears of Joy]].}}

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', most of ThunderClan became ill in ''Long Shadows'' with the deadly disease greencough; we see the healthy cats attempting to keep up with all the patrols and hunting, and cat after cat becomes sick.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 2 episode "Killed By Death."

* The 8th season ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Grissom's Divine Comedy" has Grissom come down with the flu. His rest is interrupted by a case on which the grand jury indictment of a gang leader hinges. Oh, and the flu is getting around to the others on the team too.

* "Mr. [[Monk]] Stays in Bed". And still has to solve the murder of the week and has a musical Get Well card that just won't stop.

* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' did this with one episode where Dorothy had what was eventually diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome. This wasn't done for laughs so much as it was to spread awareness about what was then a very misunderstood condition, but it counts because by the end of the episode she was medicated and feeling better, and the issue was never raised in the series again.

** There's also the episode The Flu, where they all get sick.

* The ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' episode "Flu Season". April ends up in the hospital and uses being Ann's patient [[Annoying Patient|as an excuse to torment her]]. Chris becomes obsessed with not getting sick, but comes down with the flu anyway. Leslie [[I Can Still Fight|keeps working and insisting that she is not sick]], despite being obviously ill to the point of having fever hallucinations.

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]:'' Kimberly is sick with a cold during season 3's tripart opener, "A Friend In Need". She has to stay behind resting while the other Rangers travel to Edenoi. However, Zedd and Rita send down a monster, forcing Kimberly to fight in spite of her illness. It's a tough fight, but the monster catches her cold and has to return to the moon so that Finster can cure it.

 

== Video Games ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* An episode of ''[[Daria]]'' features Daria being hospitalized due to a mysterious rash (which is caused by thoughts about her love interest Trent).

* There was a half-length episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' where Shego had to call in sick. It actually started with the Tweebs, then Kim caught it, then she passed it to Shego while they were fighting, so Shego caught it...by the end of the episode, pretty much the entire cast was in bed.

* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' has one, where Helga gets hysteria after reading a quack book on diseases (she fears she's caught [[A Worldwide Punomenon|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.

* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' - Ren falls ill, and it's up to Stimpy to take care of him. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' has Eliza get [[Ruptured Appendix|appendicitis]] in one of the holiday episodes. (Maybe Valentine's Day?)

* Sarah in ''[[Liberty's Kids]]'' gets smallpox for some time.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Sokka and Katara become seriously ill after being exposed to the storm in the previous episode, and Aang spends an episode trying to find a cure for them.

* 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.

{{quote| Eddy: [[Rule of Funny|*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 they symptoms of "Lacadaisy-Cathro Disease," and automatically becomes pale, weak, and sickly.

* ''[[Futurama]]'', "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.