Horrid Henry's Hike (episode)

It is based on the story of the same name from the book Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine.
==Synopsis==
Henry hates hiking, especially when there's a Rapper Zapper marathon on TV, so he decides to show his family just how dangerous the countryside can be.
==Plot==
Peter is watching a nature documentary, but Henry comes into the living room and tries to distract Peter. He buries Peter with a blanket so he can watch the 6-hour Rapper Zapper marathon. Then Mum opens the door and sees Peter and Henry. Peter tells Mum that Henry buried him, and Mum says, 'Don't be horrid, Henry!'. Mum presents Peter with some red wellies to cheer him up, and Peter asks if they could go for a walk so Peter can try them out. Mum says that is a great idea, but Henry doesn't want to go, so he says, 'No!' and then Mum tells Henry that they're going for a walk anyway. Henry shouts, 'Noooo!!!' opening the title card.
Henry checks outside if it is raining or snowing or hailing. Henry is angry that he is going to miss some of the Rapper Zapper marathon. Dad comes into the door and tells Henry it's time to go for a walk, but Henry, trying to push it, tells Dad he needs to watch Rapper Zapper. Dad doesn't consider this an excuse and tells him to get in the car. Henry is surprised by Dad's statement as the park is just down the road. Henry questions this to Dad and he explains that they are not going for just any old walk, but a hike in the countryside. Henry says, 'No' and tries to scare his family out of going by saying that they might get chased by man-eating chickens (Henry imagines his family getting chased by 5 Man-Eating Chickens). Henry asked if they can go around the block as that won't take very long and he won't miss too much of the Rapper Zapper marathon, but Dad said: 'N-O spells no..'. Henry was telling them they will be sorry (Henry imagines again of Henry's funeral where his parents walk up a hill weeping with his coffin, while Peter, Miss Battle-Axe, Moody Margaret and Weepy William follow mourning), but Dad told him to get in the car right away. Henry said that he 'lives in the city' and won't go, but Dad drags Henry into the car. 
When they park the car in the countryside, Peter gets out of the car and sees a Wood Pigeon. Dad tells Henry to get out, but he locks the door. Dad simply smiles and says that each step he takes is 5p off his pocket money until Henry catches up and starts counting. Henry reluctantly gets out of the car. Henry's family starts walking, but Henry is very annoyed. Peter found a Nuthatch, a rare bird and then tells Henry, but he missed it. Henry takes Peter's binoculars, and Mum tells Henry to give them back to Peter in an annoyed voice. Henry puts mud on the binoculars and gives them to Peter. Peter realizes there was mud while looking through it, and is disgusted. When Mum tells the boy to smell the fresh air, Henry thinks it's manure and says it's coming from Peter. Dad tells Henry to help Peter find something for his nature project. Henry sees a wasps' nest and shows Peter. Henry tells Peter to sing to the wasps because they won't sting if they hear his voice earn him too marks easily. Peter climbs up on the tree and started singing to the wasps, but Dad tells him to get down.
Mum is disappointed with Henry. She tells Henry to find something safe for Peter's project. Then Henry has an idea of making his family go faster. Henry goes quicker and races them as if he is enjoying himself, because once they get to the lake they can go home, and the family ran until Mum stepped in mud, and Dad tripped was and fell in stinging nettles, and then Henry tells Peter, 'Last one to the lake is rubbish!'. And then Henry zooms away. Then Henry sees the lake. The family then sing Frere Jacques. Henry later closes the gate and stops singing. He finds a bull behind a gate and figures that seeing a bull on the loose might speed up his family, and he opens the gate where the bull was. The bull chases them, and Henry told them to go faster. The all jumped over the next gate, and Peter's wellies fell off, but Henry caught them, then he says, 'Nah-Nah-Ne-Nah-Nah' to the bull. Mum told Henry to stop, but his eyes turned red. After the bull hits the gate, Henry falls off and lands on Dad. The wellies went on the bull, and he growled, and his eyes turned dark red. Everyone runs to the lake as fast as they can, while the bull broke the gate. They all fall in the lake. The family are soaking wet and coughing, then the bull shakes the wellies off his horns and leaves as Henry sneezes, which results in blasting a frog into the distance. 
At home, even though the family were not hurt, they have all got ill from falling in the lake. Mum says to Henry that next time they want to go for a walk, she and Dad might consider just going to the park. After Mum leaves, Peter angrily complains in a snivelling tone that his wellies are ruined, as they are soaking wet and scuffed. Peter also whines about not having anything for his nature project. Henry grabs the frog he blasted with his sneeze out of one of the wellies, and Peter is scared. Henry then pours out pond water from the wellie onto Peter's hair. Peter wails and runs out of the living room. Henry continues watching the Rapper Zapper marathon, ending the episode.
==Characters==
*Horrid Henry (first appearance)
*Perfect Peter (first appearance)
*Mum (first appearance)
*Dad (first appearance)
*Bull (only appearance)
*Weepy William (first appearance, silhouette in Henry's imagination)
*Moody Margaret (first appearance, silhouette in Henry's imagination)
*Miss Battle-Axe (first appearance, silhouette in Henry's imagination)
*Man-Eating Chickens (in Henry's imagination)
*Cow
*Man (talking on TV)
*Wasps
*Frog
==Locations==
* Henry's House
*Streets
*Countryside
== Trivia==
*This is the first episode where Henry screams: 'Noooo!!!' (in terms of production order, not broadcast order).
*This episode marks the first time when Henry has a 'Eureka!' moment.
*This marks the first episode with only just Henry, Peter, Mum and Dad in this episode, although Margaret, William and Miss Battle-Axe all appear in Henry's imagination as silhouettes.
*This is the only episode where Mum and Dad cry (just in Henry's imagination however).
*This was the first episode of the show to be produced, but the eighth episode to be broadcast.
**In Nicktoons' airings of this episode, it's listed as the first episode in Series 1 (because it was the first episode to be produced).
*The countryside doesn't seem to return in future episodes.
*This is the first episode to focus on the parents.
*This episode is similar to the Kipper episode, "The Long Walk"; both involve the main characters going for a walk in the countryside, and encountering a bull later on.
==Errors==
*When Peter complains about Henry burying him to Mum, the wall by the stairs are pink rather than green.
*When the family get to the countryside, Henry's hair looks slightly shorter than the previous shot.
*When Dad starts deducting Henry's pocket money by 5p each step, Mum's clothes are the same colours as Dad's.
*When Dad warns Peter about the wasps' nest, Peter's wellies are brown. This happens again when Mum sees Peter next to the wasps' nest.
*When Mum yells "How could you be so horrid Henry?!", she's not wearing her handbag.
*When Peter's wellies fell off, Peter's wearing socks, but when the bull stops at the fence, Peter's wearing his normal shoes.
*After Peter's wellies land on the bull's horns, the wellies do not appear when the bull headbutts the fence, and they reappear when he appears to have broken the fence down.
* When Henry takes Peter's binoculars, the grass is clean, but after Henry looks at the binoculars, manure automatically appears.
* When Mum and Peter got wet at the lake, Peter's hand changed red for a split second.
*When they got home feeling sick, Mum was wearing her pyjamas, but when Henry said, 'Yes, Mum', Mum is wearing her normal clothes.
*When Mum leaves the living room, Henry is wearing regular sneakers instead of his crocodile slippers.
*When Mum leaves the living room, she left the door open, but when Peter yells for Mum and leaves the room, the door is closed.
* At the end, when Henry yells, 'Go Rapper Zapper!', Peter's wellies have disappeared.
*When Dad is in the stinging nettles, his mouth disappears for a split second.
*When Mum and Peter fall into the lake while getting chased by the bull, her arms and Peter disappears for one frame.
*When Henry says "Man Eating Chickens", his mouth is out of sync.
==Differences from the book==
*In the book, it is said that Mum had been planning a family walk for weeks. In the episode, Mum buys Peter a new pair of wellington boots, and Peter asks if they can go for a walk so he can try them out.
*Peter's wellies are yellow in the book, but red in the episode.
*In the book, Henry and Peter fall into the lake after escaping the bull, when they fight over feeding the ducks and Mum and Dad jump in after them. In the episode, after they escape the bull, it breaks down the fence and chases them all down to the lake, and they fall in to escape from it.
* In the episode, Peter wants to find something for his school nature project. This isn't the case in the book. As such, the scene where Peter climbs the tree and sings to the wasps doesn't appear in the book.
*In the book, the bull is black and white. In the episode, it's brown with yellow eyes that turn red when it's angry.
*In the book, Henry wants to watch a Rapper Zapper and Terminator Gladiator match up. In the episode, it's a six-hour Rapper Zapper marathon.
*In the book, the family take a shortcut across the field containing the bull, who charges at them. In the episode, Henry lets the bull out of its field, who sees them and chases them down to the lake.
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Category:OAS Series 1