Horrid Henry Eats Out

It is based on the story Horrid Henry Dines at Restaurant Le Posh from the book Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine.
==Synopsis==
Henry is reluctant to dine out at a posh restaurant with Rich Aunt Ruby and Stuck-Up Steve, but with a little encouragement from Dad and a delicious plate of snails to look forward to, Henry decides to make the best of it.
==Plot==
The episode begins with Miss Battle-Axe taking Henry to his house to tell Mum that he disrupted the class. Mum asked him what he has to say for himself and Henry said it wasn't him then she angrily tells him to get inside. Henry was about to go to his room, but Mum and Peter told him that they’re all going out to dinner at a fancy grown-up restaurant tonight, but Henry refuses to go there and Mum said he’s going to take a bath and change his clothes now. This made him scream: 'Noooo!!!', opening the title card.
In the dining room, Henry is holding onto the radiator with Dad pulling his legs. Mum suggested they get a babysitter, but Dad says they're going out as a family. When Henry lets go of the radiator, he and Dad land on the chairs. Dad chases Henry to the bathroom where he takes the car keys and flushes them down the toilet.
Luckily Mum got spare keys in her secret box from the shelf and Dad carries Henry down the stairs.
Peter, Mum and Dad were excited to try new food although they don't like their least favourites. Henry only likes Whopper Whoopee burgers and still refuses to go out. So after putting Henry down, Dad makes him a deal: if he comes along, behaves and eat everything on his plate, he'll give him £2. Henry has a thought (normally he does this for free) and asked him for £3, but Dad tells him not to push it, and he shakes on it. Peter asks Mum what his reward is for being good, and Mum said goodness is its own reward as she helps Henry with his blue jacket confusing him.
As they were driving to Le Posh in the car, Mum says it's nice of Rich Aunt Ruby to invite them, though Henry doesn't think it'll be as good as Whopper Whoppee because they have real food. Mum also says that Stuck-Up Steve will there too, much to Henry’s dismay (A flashback of Steve buying all the comics in the shop with his driver carrying them and Henry is given a baby comic), although Peter says Steve is his favourite cousin.
As the family arrives, they saw a limousine and Rich Aunt Ruby comes out and greets them. Henry sees Steve too and scowls. They all went inside and Henry gives the man a piece of gum, they all look around the place. At the table, Henry told Steve that he's getting £2 for eating everything on his plate, and Peter interrupts him by saying he's getting nothing because goodness is its own reward. Simultaneously, the boys shout, 'BE QUIET, WORM!'.
Just then, Henry saw his teacher, Miss Battle-Axe and her mother, Mrs Battle-Axe inside, and he was amazed. He didn't think teachers had mothers! Everyone had their menus. Ruby talks in French, making it hard for Mum and Dad to understand what she's saying. Henry wondered if they know English and Steve says, 'It's a French restaurant, stupid!'. Then Mum, Dad and Peter suggested Ruby should order for themselves, but Henry decided to order for himself, and he asked if they have the hamburger and chips. The waiter tells Henry it would be on the lunch menu if they opened for lunch. Steve dares Henry to order escargots (snails) and tripe (sheep's intestines) if he's a chicken and Henry accepts and makes his order.
The waiter reveals Henry's order and Steve wants him to eat it, so Henry puts a snail on a fork, but his tongue is out. Then he remembers Dad saying '£2' to him and slurps them into his mouth and eats it saying 'tastes like chewing gum'. Steve couldn't believe it and Henry eats another, making Steve feel disgusted.
Miss Battle-Axe's mother was telling her to stop slurping and eat his vegetables when Henry comes over to them saying to them to have a scrumptious meal and walk away. Mrs Battle-Axe told her daughter that Henry has nice manners and believes he didn't learn those in her class. Henry comes out of the toilet and looks in the kitchen where two chefs are cooking. The waiter finds him and he told him that his cousin forgets to ask for some 'Le Sauce Posh' on his food and the waiter will inform the chef. Henry says Steve loves spicy food and to make sure they add at least five drops to his food. Henry says, 'YES!'.
Mrs Battle-Axe told her daughter to close her mouth when Henry shows up again then she says to him hoping her daughter is teaching him properly and Miss Battle-Axe angrily says 'Mother!'. Henry says she does and leaves. Mrs Battle-Axe was pleased in Henry, but Miss Battle-Axe told her that he's the most horrid boy in her class, and she asks 'Who's fault is that?'
The Waiter arrived with her dinner, but unfortunately Peter, Mum, and Dad have their usual order (squid, tomatoes and beetroot). Henry was proud of Ruby for ordering their least favourites. Henry's order is tripe, though Steve says he wouldn't even eat that for £2. Henry tries it and loves it and tells everyone to eat up. And that's what they did, then Henry asked Steve how his extra hot sauce is. Steve's face turns red and runs screaming bumping into the waiter. Water lands on Miss Battle-Axe, making her scream and jump up, but her mother tells her to sit down. Steve kept running around making a mess, then the manager takes him to the fountain and goes to tell Ruby to leave, so Henry's family decided to leave as well. Dad gives Henry £2 for eating everything on his plate as part of the deal and suggest they find real food.
Mrs Battle-Axe was proud of Henry, unlike his friend Steve. Miss Battle-Axe had enough and starts crying in despair. Outside, Henry says: 'Whopper Whoopee, here we come!' and laughs, ending the episode.
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Rich Aunt Ruby
*Stuck-Up Steve
*Mother Battle-Axe (first appearance)
*Miss Battle-Axe
*Waiter
*Doorman (only appearance)
*Restaurant Manager (only appearance)
*Eustacious (flashback)
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
* Le Posh
* Whopper Whoppee
==Trivia==
*This animation style is different in this episode. It's similar to "Horrid Henry Goes Swimming".
*This episode marks the only time Miss Battle-Axe cries.
*It's revealed that Peter doesn't like beetroot, Mum doesn't like squid and Dad doesn't like tomatoes. However, Peter and Dad's dislikes towards these foods do not seem to continue in the later episodes.
* It is unknown whether Henry actually liked the food or he was just pretending to annoy Steve and to get his £2.
**It is shown in the book that Henry genuinely enjoys the escargot, so it suggests Henry did enjoy the food in the show.
*This episode is the highest rated on IMDb.
*If Mum, Dad and Peter didn’t like their dishes, they could have easily done a three-way swap.
*Innuendo: When Dad tries pulling Henry off him holding the radiator, their position looks similar to that of "Doggy style" (a sex position). (NOTE: This is an interpretation. It's unlikely this innuendo was intended considering this is a children's TV Show, so it is unlikely they'd purposely add inappropriate things like this).
== Errors ==
*When Steve handed Henry the comic, the front page was a picture of a bat which was of Gross Class Zero, but the next shot shows a picture of a toy. This shows that Steve gave Henry a Gross Class Zero comic.
*When Rich Aunt Ruby kisses Mum on the cheeks, Peter's trousers are grey.
*When the family first arrives at the restaurant, Steve isn't wearing his dark green jacket. After their food is delivered, he wears it for the rest of the episode.
*When everyone was about to sit down, Steve's legs are layered over the table.
*According to Steve, tripe is sheep intestines, when actually, tripe is from a cow's stomach.
*When Henry tells the waiter that Steve really like spicy food, he never specified which dish Steve ordered and instead only refers to him as 'my cousin'. However, considering he was the waiter who took the orders, he might've known which dish Steve had ordered, and he could've told the chefs to add Le Sauce Posh onto his dish. However, this isn't totally possible as it would've been confusing which is Steve and which is Peter for him.
== Differences from the book ==
* The beginning scenes are different. The book opens with Mum on the phone to Aunt Ruby, while the episode opens with Miss Battle-Axe taking Henry home from school to tell his parents about his horrid behaviour, and they arrive home to the rest of the family getting ready to go out.
* In the book, the family go out for a meal to celebrate Mum's birthday. In the episode, the reason for going out is unspecified.
* In the book, it is stated that last time they took Henry to a fancy restaurant, he had a tantrum under the table and the time before that, he stole all the salt and pepper shakers and vomited over the people at the next table. No flashbacks of previous visits to fancy restaurants are shown in the episode.
* In the episode, Dad struggles to prise Henry off the radiator, and Henry then takes the car keys and flushes them down the toilet. Neither of this happens in the book, but Mum still suggests they get a babysitter.
* In the book, a restaurant called Fat Frank's is mentioned along with Whopper Whoopee. In the episode, only Whopper Whoopee is mentioned.
* In the episode, Mum tells Peter that 'goodness is its own reward'. In the book, Dad says this line.
* In the episode, Henry accepts Steve's dare and orders escargot and tripe. In the book, he only orders escargot, although Steve dares him to order tripe.
* In the book, the waiter reveals the restaurant's speciality to be stuffed tomatoes. In the episode, tripe is their speciality.
* In the episode, Aunt Ruby orders for everyone except Henry. In the book, Aunt Ruby only orders for Peter.
* In the book, the only interaction Henry has with Miss Battle-Axe and her mother is at the very end, when Mrs Battle-Axe asks her daughter 'Why can't you be as good as that boy?' and she turns around and sees Henry, who waves at her. In the episode, Henry engages Miss Battle-Axe and her mother in conversation several times throughout.
* A scene is added to the episode where Henry tells the waiter that Steve forgot to ask for some spicy 'Le Sauce Posh' on his food. When Steve tries his food, the spiciness sends him into a panic and he runs around causing chaos in the restaurant, leading the manager ordering them to leave.
* The endings are different. The story ends quite abruptly after Miss Battle-Axe sees Henry behaving himself. The episode ends with the family going to find some 'real food' after being ordered to leave Restaurant Le Posh. It is implied they went to Whopper Whoopee.
* In the episode, Dad gives Henry his £2 just before they leave Le Posh. In the book, he doesn't get his £2.
== Video ==
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