Horrid Henry's Sports Day (episode)

== Synopsis ==
It's sports day - Henry's least favourite day of the year, made worse when he finds out who he has to pair up with in the three-legged race.
== Plot ==
Horrid Henry and Rude Ralph are arm wrestling, but Miss Battle-Axe shouts at Henry and asks what she said about tomorrow. Henry's hopes school will be closed, and everyone stays home watching TV and eating sweets, but he’s wrong. She was saying tomorrow was Sports Day provides it doesn't rain. This horrified Henry and he shouted 'Noooo!!!', opening the title card.
Henry was home at the backyard tied up Peter and dancing around. Mum asked what was going on, Peter told her that Henry was doing the rain dance and himself being sacrificed. Mum tells both of them they had to go to bed while she's untying Peter. Henry was hoping it will rain tomorrow.
The next morning, Henry was explaining why he hates Sports Day and also butterflies to the audience. While Mum and Peter were busy in the kitchen, Henry was pretending himself having a tummy ache. He tells her he can't go to school today just because of a terrible tummy ache, and he thinks he needs to go to the hospital. Mum was thinking they don't need to operate, then Henry imagines a scary nurse (as in Miss Battle-Axe) who will operate him. Mum knows he was just pretending, so he can get out of Sports Day. Peter told him not to worry if he came in the last place again. Mum tells him not to think about getting sent home like last year. Peter said Miss Lovely thinks it's not winning that counts, it's how you play the game. Then Henry turned into an octopus and attacks Peter with sports equipment. Mum shouted, 'Don't be horrid, Henry!'. Mum told Peter his eggs are done, then she takes him to comb his hair. Henry switched the eggs, to the other eggs in the fridge that wasn't boiled.
While everyone in school was getting ready for sports day, Henry was eating his sweet treats. Al came by and told Henry sweet treats are bad. Al tells him he been training for the 400 Meter race, and his dad hasn't let him eat any sweets for a month. Henry said that's impossible, but Al said if he has the wind power. Henry tells Al to eat a gummy fuzzball. Al was feeling to eat one, but Miss Battle-Axe announces that the Three-Legged Race was about to begin. Miss Battle-Axe asked Henry where's his partner, so she chooses Margaret to be Henry's partner for the Three-Legged Race much to their dismay.
All the kids are waiting and ready for the Three-Legged Race. Margaret and Henry have a little argument, and they boss each other around. Miss Battle-Axe blows the whistle and everyone starts walking, but except for Henry and Margaret telling each other which way they're going. Margaret fell on the ground and Henry starts walking. Miss Battle-Axe tries to stop Henry, but he wasn't listening. Margaret tries to get up. She then grabs Anxious Andrew to try to get up but everyone falls to the floor. Miss Battle-Axe tells everyone this race is cancelled and tells Henry he's wrong if he thinks she's going to send him home. Instead, he's here all day. The rest has to follow her. Margaret finally gets up, but she tells Henry he’ll pay for this after she spits out the dust in her mouth. Henry explains to the audience that the trouble with sports day that brings out the worse in people.
When everyone is getting ready to race to the finish without dropping their egg, Miss Lovely gives Peter, Ted, Sam, Bert, Linda, and Soraya an egg. Miss Battle-Axe announces everyone in the race to go when she says 'Go'. Everyone else cheers for them. Ted then drops his egg and he's out of the race. Soraya slips on the broken egg and hers land on Linda. She drops her egg and Bert and Sam bot slip on it. Their eggs land on them. Peter wins the race but he shoots his egg after that. His egg lands on Miss Battle-Axe. She tells Miss Lovely and Henry this race also cancelled and no one leaves until she finds out who brought these eggs. Henry can't tell a lie and then he tells Miss Battle-Axe Peter brought the eggs. Miss Battle-Axe then tells Peter to go home.
Miss Lovely announces Bert, Andrew, Graham, Margaret, Henry, and Al to take their places for the 400 Meter Race. Margaret then tells Henry she's going to beat him and he never wins. Miss Lovely then makes everyone race to the finish. Henry notices a trophy and he imagines being the winner of every single thing in the entire world. After Al bets on his fuzzball gumball, Henry then decides to throw sweets to everyone in the race. They then eat the sweets. It's time for Henry to give Al sweets. He then crosses the finish line and everyone cheers for him. Miss Lovely gives Henry a trophy for winning the school's 400 Meter Race.
Back home from school, Henry sees Peter crying because he can't tell Mum he didn't win anything. Henry gives Peter his trophy, but the other one is his. He took the egg and spoon race trophy and tells him the race is cancelled. The trophy is now Peter's. He tells him he has to give him two weeks of pocket money to him making it a deal. Mum comes outside and sees Peter and Henry their trophy. She then kisses both of them. As Mum and Peter go inside, Henry then tells the audience what Peter said it's not winning that counts, it's how you play the game. He then shouts 'The winner!', ending the episode.
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
**Horrid Octopus
*Mum
*Perfect Peter
*Moody Margaret
*Miss Battle-Axe
*Spotless Sam
*Tidy Ted
*Aerobic Al
*Miss Lovely
*Sour Susan
*Beefy Bert
*Lazy Linda
*Gorgeous Gurinder
*Greedy Graham
*Weepy William
*Fluffy (cameo)
*Rude Ralph (cameo)
*Anxious Andrew (cameo)
*Jolly Josh (cameo)
*Singing Soraya
*Brainy Brian (cameo)
*Miss Oddbod (cameo)
*Queen (in Henry's imagination)
*Al's Dad (mentioned)
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
* Ashton Primary School
== Trivia ==
* This is one of the episodes where Henry secretly loves, cares and feels protective of his younger brother, Peter. The other three are "Perfect Peter Pumps Up", "Horrid Henry Trapped!" and "Horrid Henry is Too Cool for School".
* This is the first episode where Dad is absent.
* Al is the only student who didn't wear his sports clothes.
**He later wears his sports clothes in "Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend", “Horrid Henry Untouchable” and "Horrid Henry's Summer Camp".
* This is the first time Henry got a reward.
* Margaret seems to be happy when Henry gets his trophy reward.
* This is the first time Miss Battle-Axe's class is shown.
*Mr Soggington is absent in this episode, despite him being the only P.E. teacher in the school.
* Innuendo: When Miss Battle-Axe shouts 'And Henry! You horrid child, if you think I'm going to send you home! You're wrong! You are here all day!', if one looks closely at her trousers, she has a big camel toe. However, this is only on the DVD version, not the CITV version as in that version, it was edited.
* Miss Battle-Axe's name was revealed in this episode.
* When Mum tells Henry and Peter to go to bed for sports day, it's not even night. However, this could be because it is summertime in the episode.
== Errors==
*When Miss Battle-Axe says, 'Provided it doesn't rain, of course.', Spotless Sam and Tidy Ted are in the background, but in the wrong classroom.
*When Miss Battle-Axe blew the whistle and everyone started walking, in the background, Singing Soraya is not wearing her sports clothes.
**Also, Andrew looks a bit like Henry and William looks like Andrew.
*When Miss Battle-Axe yells, 'Who brought those eggs!?', an egg drip on her head has frozen.
*When Henry says, 'This is more like it.', his mouth isn't moving.
*In the three-legged race, when Miss Battle-Axe shouts, 'Stop!' the second time, Ralph and William are behind Henry and Margaret, but when Margaret grabs Andrew's leg, he and Susan are behind them.
* When Ralph cheers in the egg and spoon race, his hair has the same texture as Slimy Sammy's.
* When Ted drops his egg, Brian in the background has white shorts.
*When Miss Lovely announces the 400 Meter race, Margaret is in front of Henry. In the next shot, Margaret was behind Henry. 
**Also, Peter can be seen in the top right corner, even though he was sent home.
*When Miss Lovely said, 'Get set,' Andrew is missing in the sense shot.
*When Henry throws all of the sweets and they rain on the ground, Andrew's hair is brown.
* When Miss Battle-Axe sends Peter home, he was in his sports clothes. But when Henry comes home with his trophy, Peter is wearing his normal clothes but he didn’t carry a bag so it’s unclear how he got a change of clothes.
*When Henry throws a gummy fuzzball to Al, Peter can be seen in the background, even though he was supposed to have been sent home.
*When Spotless Sam and Beefy Bert slip on the egg on the ground, Bert has Spotless Sam or Goody-Goody Gordon's voice.
* When Al makes noises and hesitates when Henry throws him a sweet, his mouth doesn't move.
==Differences from the book version==
*The beginning scenes are different. In the book version, Henry already knew about Sports Day and remembers how badly he did the previous year, but in the TV version it begins with Henry and Ralph arm wrestling, and doesn't know it's Sports Day until the day before.
* A scene where Henry is doing a "rain dance" with Peter is added.
*The scene where Henry tries to pretend to be sick (with Mum not being fooled) is different. In the book version, it was shown that Henry tried doing that last year, but in the TV version it was done on the day of the event.
*Parents including Mum watch the Sports Day in the Book version, but in the TV version, no parents watch at all.
*In the Three-Legged Race, the teams are: Ralph/William, Josh/Clare, Henry/Margaret, Al/Linda and Dave/Bert in the Book version. In the TV version, they are: Al/Gurinder, Ralph/William, Susan/Andrew, and Henry/Margaret.
*In the book version, Peter drops his egg and it cracks, leaving him covered in egg. In the TV version, he wins and celebrates which sends the egg smashing onto Miss Battle-Axe.
*Henry laughs with Ralph about the eggs in the book version, but in the TV version, he watches with Miss Battle-Axe and Miss Lovely instead, and doesn't laugh at all.
*Peter tells Miss Battle Axe he brought the eggs in the book version, which makes Miss Battle-Axe send him crying to the Head. In the TV version, it is Henry who tells Miss-Battle Axe that Peter brought them, which she gets Peter sent home in a brief scene.
*The ending scene is different in both versions. In the book, Mum comforts Peter and is confused about the whole mix-up of eggs. In the TV version, Peter is seen sitting outside the house, upset that Mum would be sad he didn't win a trophy, to which Henry gives it to him for two weeks pocket money, and Mum is happy to see that Peter 'won again', not knowing what really happened.
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