Horrid Henry Gets a Job

==Synopsis==
Dad forces Henry to take a Saturday job, but he recruits his classmates to do it for him. Meanwhile, Peter is proving that the early bird catches the worm.
==Plot==
The episode starts with Henry in the living room watching telly featuring Gross Class Zero with burping and farting loudly while eating snack mix when Dad comes in, sees him doing this, turns off the telly and he tells Henry it’s time he got a Saturday job. Although Henry recaps to him about the past few jobs that didn’t work out for him, Dad already found him a new job he won’t be able to wriggle out of showing a newspaper saying Park keeper which makes Henry scream Noooo!!!, opening the title card.
The next scene cuts to the Park where Henry is now in his park keeper uniform which he feels ridiculous then he asked why Peter hasn’t got something to do on a Saturday. Peter says he does which is researching his school project on worms and Henry mocks saying he’s looking at one right now referring to him. Dad takes Peter away after telling Henry to work hard and do everything he’s asked to do. Henry speaks up by asking Parky what he should do and he tells him to tidy the litter and the leaves but Henry says ‘You gotta be…’ then the scene reverts back to the house where Henry comes in all muddy and messy finishing his line ‘joking’. Henry says to the audience he aches, smells and never want to see another piece of litter ever again and that this job is too much like hard work.
The next day at school, Margaret, Susan, Linda, Al, Bert and Andrew are reading the notice board about a Saturday job with great rates of pay and must bring own gloves. They all go for it and Andrew wonders what kind of gloves then they see Henry walk past. Al asked him if he was going for it but Henry says he’s got a Saturday job already. Next Saturday, All his classmates stand attention as Henry marches up and down then asked Andrew what he’s wearing and he says ‘They’re mittens. Mum knitted them for me’ and Margaret shows Henry her gloves. To that, Henry says ‘Point taken’ and tells everyone it’s hello white lines and weedless flower beds but not litter and leave then asked if they are ready for their finest hour. At first, everyone says ‘Aye’ in a wearily voice but Henry shouts ‘I can’t hear you’ and they yell it louder much to his pleasure. Then Margaret asked Henry what he’ll be doing and he says ‘Just my bit’ before going inside the park hut. Through his binoculars from the park shed, Henry watches everyone all doing hard at work by cleaning, raking, tidying up and using a white line painting machine. Henry tells the audience he could make a gorgeous success of this business then imagines himself in a limousine wearing sunglasses and winking. Parky asked Henry if he should be helping out too and he shouts ‘It’s all in order, I’m job sharing’. Parky also asked for his tea but Henry whispers ‘Make your own’ then sees Peter in the flower bed and goes to find out what he's up to despite Parky asking for his tea.
Peter was using his magnifying glass to find worms when Henry appears and he tells him that the flower bee is a protected area home of the very red-saddled weed worm but Henry replies ‘This flower bed needs weeding. With one big weed needing special attention’ and transforms into a crow trying to shoo Peter the worm away. Henry tells him to get out of his park and Peter runs away to tell Dad. Just then, Henry sees only Susan raking and wonders where Margaret has gone off to finding this suspicious. Suddenly, Andrew comes over in pain telling Henry he picked up a stinger by mistake and needs a plaster so Henry takes him to the park shed where he finds Margaret with Parky having tea and biscuits together as the door hits Andrew on the nose. Margaret explains to Henry how Parky told her about his little job and gives him sugar. Margaret is job sharing and says that Parky agreed to let her share Henry’s job splitting the wages 50/50 but Henry says it’s his Saturday job and Parky comments how she makes the tea. Margaret tells Henry that they’ll supervising together but he can’t believe she stole his job by bribing Parky with tea then takes his binoculars and leaves.
Soon Henry and Margaret go head-to-head during a Saturday job assisting the park-keeper. Henry bribes his friends, Al, Andrew and Bert triple by making his offer triple whereas Margaret makes her offer to Linda quadruple and she gets on rolling.
Meanwhile Perfect Peter is still searching for the red-saddled weed worm planting his flag in the flower bed but Henry keeps telling him to get out of his park when he sees Margaret with his friends so he hurries over there on the double. As Peter gets hot and takes off his red sweater to keep cool, Henry tells Linda, who is still asleep, to put the lines on the football pitch Margaret tells the boys to roll down, but Henry tells them to roll where he tells them to roll. Margaret said to roll down there, but Henry refused and he said to roll up here. Unfortunately, the roller rolls down, and Henry and Margaret chase after the roller. The roller chases Linda who pushes the line machine around the pitch then through the park shed, smashes the door showing Parky in the toilet reading his newspaper and hits the tree damaging the flower bed, and Margaret tells Henry he's flattened his brother, Peter. Peter looks at the red-saddled weed worm, but Henry tells him he's supposed to be flattened. Henry and Margaret were about to make Peter pay for making them kneel down and feel sorry for him. Then Parky tells them that it's time for a little more job sharing again and they scream 'NOOOOOO!!!'. After all that hard work, Henry and Margaret got paid to do the job but then all their friends stopped them from leaving the park and Susan calculates that they owe them £355.67 each. With that, Henry and Margaret both scream, 'RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!', as Bert pushing their school friends on a wheel barrow and they chase after them, ending the episode.
==Characters==
*Horrid Henry
**Horrid Crow
*Dad
*Perfect Peter
*Anxious Andrew
*Lazy Linda
*Aerobic Al
*Beefy Bert
*Moody Margaret
*Sour Susan
*Parky
*Goody-Goody Gordon (cameo)
*Mum (mentioned)
*Andrew's Mum (mentioned)
==Trivia ==
* This is one of the seven episodes where Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret both lose. The others are "Horrid Henry's School Fair", "Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick", "Horrid Henry's Aquarium", "Horrid Henry and the Secret Club"," Perfect Peter, Popstar", and "Horrid Henry on TV".
*This marks Perfect Peter's first transformation in Henry's imagination, as a worm while he is chasing him as a crow.
==Errors==
*When Dad tells off Henry in the beginning, the snack mix was nearly empty, but when Henry says 'But Dad', the snack mix is back to its original amount.
*When Henry and Margaret scream, 'Noooo!!!', Parky and Peter disappeared.
* When Beefy Bert says 'I dunno!' after Henry asks him Andrew and Al why they won't do what he tells them to do, his mouth movements do not match.
==Videos==
File:Horrid Henry Gets a Job
File:Horrid Henry S02E05 Gets A Job
File:Horrid Henry - Horrid Henry Gets a Job - Videos For Kids - Horrid Henry compilation mix - HFFE
Category:OAS Series 2