Horrid Henry Runs Away (episode)

== Synopsis ==
Henry is angry that his pocket money gets taken away, so he plans on running away to find a better home.
==Plot==
The episode begins with Henry making his slingshot, while Mum tells him to come inside the house. He uses Mr Kill as the target. Inside the kitchen, Henry loses all his pocket money due to the following incidents (breaking two CD's, a china mug, Dad's little toe, being horrid to Peter in a total of 47 times (Peter makes it 48), and Miss Battle-Axe having to write three times complaining that Henry's been naughty, lazy and making farts on purpose). As for Peter, he’s been even more perfect than usual making his bonus is Henry’s pocket money. However, Henry earns two of his coins back as he promised he won't do anything horrid anymore. When Mr Kill hits Dad, Peter takes away Henry's coins causing Henry to transform as a snake and coil Peter. He is then stopped by Dad, sending him to his room after he says, 'Don't be horrid, Henry!'.
In his room, he finds two tokens for the dodgems. He plans that he will run away just for a little while to relieve his anger, yelling, 'I, Henry, will run away!', opening the title card. Henry tries to take a briefcase from downstairs but then Mum tells him go to bed as he kick the case back inside and tries again tomorrow.
The next morning, he tried to get a briefcase from downstairs, but he was called for breakfast. Henry tries again, but this time, Dad was there to mend a chair. He tried again, but this time, the Best Boys are having a meeting. Peter tells Henry that it will last all day. Henry could not stand it any longer. So he decides to get a suitcase and map from Ralph's house, along with some Gross Class Zero comics. He then puts everything inside the suitcase. Mum suddenly comes in and asks what Henry's doing. He says that Ralph just lent him some comics, and she then tells him not to stay up all night reading them. 
At dawn, he then plans on sleeping, but finds out it's daylight. He then tries to go down stairs but struggles as the suitcase is too heavy, causing Henry to trip. He then crawls and sneaks in the kitchen but suddenly finds out that Peter's awake. Henry then tells Peter that he's running away, and if he ever told Mum and Dad about it, he'll be sorry. Finally, Henry shouts: 'Goodbye FOREVER!', ending it a threat that Peter better not touch anything in his room.
As soon as Henry leaves, Fluffy suddenly follows him. Henry then tells her to go away.
Henry heads to Margaret's treehouse, but as he enters inside, he steps on Margaret's foot, causing her to wake up and scream, then they throw clothes everywhere until they smell pancakes coming from Henry's house.
Back at Henry's house, Mum and Dad have no idea where Henry is until Peter tells them. Mum and Dad were shocked hearing this news, so they started a search, but Henry was nowhere to be found! Then Henry and Margaret sneaked into the house, and Mum and Dad were shocked that Peter had lied to them when he won. When Dad opens the cupboard, the things that were too heavy for Henry to carry on his runaway trip fall out and Peter claims he was telling the truth along. Mum and Dad get angry to Henry and told him that he's in big trouble this time. Henry breaks the fourth wall by telling the audience that he's really going to run away tomorrow, ending the episode.
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
**Horrid Snake
*Perfect Peter
*Moody Margaret
*Dad
*Spotless Sam
*Mum
*Tidy Ted
*Rude Ralph
*Goody-Goody Gordon
*Fluffy
*Mr Kill
*Sour Susan (mentioned)
*Miss Battle-Axe (mentioned)
*Margaret's Mum (mentioned)
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
* Margaret's House
** Margaret's Garden
== Trivia ==
* Henry ran to Margaret's treehouse instead of somewhere in Africa.
* A meme that has become a trend of this episode is when Henry yells "Eureka! That's it! I'll run away!".
*The line "Ha, yuck! Who wan't to go there?" (said by Margaret) was cut on TV. This is most likely due to racism concerns.
*This episode shows that Mum and Dad genuinely care about Henry. When Peter reluctantly confessed that Henry had ran away, they are horrified. To the point that they run straight out of the kitchen calling for him, not caring what any of their neighbours might think of them. They are very relieved when they see Henry is alright, and when he says he only left the house to invite Margaret to breakfast, they think Peter lied and tell him off. However, when they see Henry actually did run away they get angry.
*When Peter cries after Mum scolded him, he uses the same teardrop sound effect from "Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats".
==Errors==
*At the beginning of the episode when Mum tells Henry to come inside, she smiles but sounds angry.
*After Henry says 'Did too!', there is a frame error on his mouth.
==Differences from the book==
* In the book, Horrid Henry was not having a good day. His younger brother, Perfect Peter, had grabbed the hammock first and wouldn't get out. Then Mum had ordered him to tidy his room just when he was watching Rapper Zapper on TV, and Dad was yelling at Henry about the letter Miss Battle Axe wrote. In the episode, Henry makes his slingshot, while Mum tells him to come inside the house. He uses Mr Kill as the target.
*In the book, Henry decides to run away after he is banned from TV, comics and sweets for a week after Miss Battle-Axe writes to Mum and Dad to tell them Henry poked William, tripped Linda, shoved Dave, pinched Andrew, made rude noises, chewed gum and wouldn't stop talking in class. In the episode, Henry decides to run away after he loses his pocket money for breaking two CDs, a china mug and Dad's little toe, being horrid to Peter 48 times, and Miss Battle-Axe writing to Mum and Dad to complain that he was naughty, lazy and farting on purpose.
*In the book, Miss Lovely wrote a letter to Mum and Dad to tell them Peter helped Gordon, shared with Sam, volunteered to clean the paintbrushes, picked up the balls in PE and tidied the classrooms without being asked. Miss Lovely also told Mum and Dad he is in the Good as Gold Book for the third time this month which is a school record and Dad told Peter at least one child in this family knows how to behave. In the episode, Dad tells Peter he's been more perfect than usual so he gives him Henry's pocket money as a bonus.
*In the book, when Peter tells Henry he really should think more about other people then maybe one day he will be in the Good as Gold Book, Henry snarls and leaps on Peter being primordial slime over a trapped insect. In the episode, after a catapult he made outside fires Mr Kill at Dad, Peter takes away Henry's coins causing Henry to transform as a snake and coil Peter.
* In the book, Henry leaves Mr Kill at home. In the episode, he takes Mr Kill with him.
* In the episode, Henry goes to Ralph's house to borrow a suitcase after repeatedly failing to retrieve his suitcase from the basement. In the book, he just uses his own suitcase.
* In the book, Henry runs away early in the morning. In the episode, he plans to run away after everyone goes to bed, but accidentally falls asleep and ends up running away the next morning.
* In the episode, Henry plans on going to Africa, however he is more specific in the book, naming the Congo as his destination.
* In the episode, Henry gets into trouble for attempting to run away from home. In the book, he gets away with it.
* In the book, Peter doesn't tell Mum and Dad that Henry's run away. As such, they don't realise he's gone, thinking he was still in his room and didn't come down for breakfast because he didn't want any. In the episode, Mum finds Henry's room empty and when she and Dad ask Peter where Henry is, he reluctantly tells them he's run away.
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Category:OAS Series 1