Quotes / Working Through the Cold

Fan Works

Tom Thomas: "I'll be alright. I'm sure it's just a little cold."
Ben Hooper: "You're sure? I think you should take a sick day."
Tom: "Don't need it. I can't let a little sniffle stop me from saving lives."

— Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy, "Runaway Raft"

Janine Melnitz^note Or "Jeanie Melitz" as the writer thinks she's called.: "Egon, don't beat yourself up. Everybody gets sick once in a while. I'm sure you had a few colds yourself as a kid."

Egon Spengler: "Yes, but whenever I used to feel not well, my father said to me, 'Egon, if you get up and get dressed and go to school, you'll feel better.'"

Janine: "Did it work?"

Egon: "Most of the time, except for one or two occasions when I had a fever, and my mother had to pick me up."

Janine: "You never stayed home from school when you were sick, other than those times? What about chicken pox, mumps, or measles?"

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Egon: "Before getting in the shower, [my temperature] was 104 degrees."

Janine: "And you were up and about fighting ghosts? No offense, Egon, but that was pretty stupid of you to do that. In fact, that's the dumbest thing you've ever done."

— Under the Weather

Western Animation

"If you go to preschool with the flu, the other kids will catch it too, and you don't want that, do you?"

—Caillou's Mother, Caillou

"At the office, you passed it on to five other people and each of them took your cold home to their families."

—Common Sense, How to Catch a Cold

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