Sick Episode: Difference between revisions

The [[Sick Episode]] may also entail characters [[Working Through the Cold|having to work through their illness when they'd really rather be at home in bed with bowls of chicken soup]]. Or it may cover the remaining healthy characters scrambling to fill the hole left behind. In both of these cases [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity sometimes ensues]].

 

 

If the illness is caused by contact with evil, that's [[Allergic to Evil]]. See also [[Soap Opera Disease]] for diseases which are ultimately fatal and may or may not be used as [[Filler]]. Compare [[Hurt Comfort Fic]].

* "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.

* Played straight, averted and played with in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' where illnesses have been used seriously, mocked, faked and lampshaded.

** [[The Nth Doctor|Eight]] is put out of action this way in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' (in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe|Eighth Doctor Adventures books]]) for quite a while. Unlike Ten, he's physically incapacitated for about two months and coughs up black bile. ''And'' he has horrible hallucinations, his eyes eventually get black, cloudy stuff on them, and everyone thinks he's going to die. Although his illness rather ruins his own wedding, he doesn't die... no, [[Anti-Villain]] Sabbath [[Kick the Dog|kicks the dog]] rather a bit by saving his life by means of [[Meatgrinder Surgery]], [[Heart Trauma|ripping his heart out]] bare-handed, mostly because [[Organ Theft|he thinks it'll be useful]].

* ''[[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.

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