Horrid Henry and the Awful Author

== Synopsis ==
There's only one solution when Henry discovers that his life story has been hijacked by an unscrupulous author who won't give it back.
== Plot ==
The episode starts at the mall where Henry, Peter and Mum are entering as they each take turns telling the audience about what happened this morning involving new slimes from the shop, Peter going to a book signing along with the big blue bat books and Mum said "Yes!", twice even though she rather be at home sitting with her feet up and a nice cup of tea while everyone else runs down doing the chores for once. After making their way up to the second floor, they saw a long queue at the book signing and Henry tries to walk away but Mum says someone needs to stay with Peter but Henry refuses the asked Mum why she can’t do it and she tells him not to be horrid.
And like that, Henry recaps what the audience are asking how he had to wait in the line with the worm but Peter tells him not to call him that while talking to Mad Martin. Henry shrugs and says he has no idea as an answer to the audience's question. The line is still going slow as Henry says '2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours' and Lisping Lily says that she loves him. Finally the boys made it up front but when Peter goes through, the security guard stops Henry and sends him out.
With that, Peter screams 'NOOOOOOOOO!!!' opening the title card. The scenes shows Henry and Peter back where they started again. Henry tries to think of a plan as Peter starts crying before saying that he better do or he'll be in big trouble when Mum comes back soon. Henry tells Peter stop crying while adding the worm part and gets told not to call him that. Suddenly, Henry gets an idea and tells Peter to keep crying so they can get in front of the queue. At home, Mum was unpacking the shopping as Henry complains to Dad about having to wait 6 hours to see the author who wrote Big Blue Bat. Mum says she was only for half an hour and Henry also mentioned that they have to wait another 3 hours while Peter admires her work.
Mum thinks The Author seemed very interested about what Peter was saying and he claims he was talking about Henry much for Dad's amusement thinking that's not true and Mum agrees with him but Henry says he is quite interesting sometimes. Peter explains that he told the author the time Henry dressed as the Dark Avenger scaring everyone into giving their sweets much for their parents' surprise. Peter also says Henry made everyone believe there was a shark in the pool. 
Then Henry stops Peter then explains to Mum and Dad that they're just stories and pulls him away by the arm but then Peter tells them the time Peter tricked Margaret into thinking Henry was in love with her. Mum was even more shocker but Peter tells her it's just stories like Henry said then the brothers walk away. When Henry asked Peter why he did that, he says they're good stories and one day someone will write a story about them. Henry will be rich and famous for sure but Peter says he'll be just famous not rich because it's his own life and the person writing gets the money. Henry didn't find that fair and Peter says 'Life's not fair' which is what he always say but he doesn't want Mum and Dad knowing everything about himself and still doesn't mind getting rich though. Peter tells Henry to be careful what he wishes for but Henry doesn't think that will happen.
The next day at school, A poster of a girl is hanged on the hall, Peter walks by telling the audience Henry can't say he didn't warn him because it's now several months later and all the students are gathered around looking at it. Mr Soggington tells them all to move along, reads the poster that says "The Adventures of Dreadful Deirdre, book like no other and featuring a character like no other" and wonders what she looks like but quickly says it's Henry, the horrid boy he hates but it's a girl. Speaking of Henry, he shows up but runs off again and Mr Soggington chases after him. In the science lab, Henry tells the audience that he doesn't mind getting detention when he knows why but when it comes to not knowing why, that's really not fair.
Mr Soggington comes in to tells Henry he can go now. Henry asked Sid a question why he got the detention and Mr Soggington says he should've thought it was obvious but Henry doesn't think so and he says that Henry is not Deirdre which is the reason. Henry walks on commenting that the school here gets more confusing by the day as Margaret who standing there asked how does it feel to famous but Henry doesn't have a clue about that question and she gives him the book that says The Adventures of Dreadful Deirdre. Henry says it's not his kind of book but Margaret claims it is and reads about Deirdre trying to trick the tooth fairy and win the egg and spoon race delcaring herself utterly brilliant, totally wicked. Henry angrily says those are his stories and that the book is written by the author of big blue bats. Margaret even mentioned there's even a rat in the book and Henry reads Dreadie's sidekick Fangle the rat, a unstoppable force of nature like his hamster, Fang and can't believe this. Margaret says 'Can't blame her for that!' to the audience and follows Henry.
In class, Ralph and Al look at the book of Deirdre which is Henry not horrid but Dreadful. Henry says the author stolen his stories but William comment she stolen his life and Margaret suggest he should sue although Henry doesn't that will work. Margaret makes the call on her mobile phone and the lady is shown claiming she represents Mrs Noise, silence M who doesn't like her very much at all. Margaret says she and the boys don't like very much at all either while Brian looking on his laptop nods in a agreement. The Lady says 'She should care because...' then Margaret asked Brian who says 'None of us are going to buy her books' and she says it to her. The lady tells Margaret she's not the first one to complain the author stole her stories and got lots of money then makes a deal by sending a contract saying they don't mind exchange for money as their way of thanking them. Henry thinks that's a great idea but Margaret says he's not signing, ends the call and told him 'Money can't buy you love'.
Brian still on his laptop says 'Gotcha!' and asked they fancy going to a book signing which they smile. Henry and Margret who wouldn't miss this for the world are in the queue with snotbags. Henry walks up to the Awful Author, says his name with Margaret adding 'Horrid Henry!' and they both throw the snotbags making them land on her head. The Author screams 'NOOOOOOOOO!!!' as Henry and Margaret high five each other knowing that there plan worked. On the way home, Margaret says they won't be hearing from Dreadful Deirdre for a while and Henry says 'Too right! Horrid Henry Rules, OK!'. Margaret says sometimes she and Henry make a good team which he agrees and they both call each other names as the episode ends.
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Lisping Lily
*Security Guard
*Mr Soggington
*Moody Margaret
*Aerobic Al
*Weepy William
*Rude Ralph
*Brainy Brian
*Awful Author (only appearance)
*Mad Martin (cameo)
*Lovely Lizzie (cameo)
*Nick's Dad (cameo)
*Nick's Mum (cameo)
*Crabby Chris (cameo)
*Kind Kelly (cameo)
*Lucky Louisa (cameo)
*Super Sue (cameo)
*Jolly Joe (cameo)
*Energetic Emma (cameo)
*Wonderful Wayne (cameo)
*Diana Dara (cameo)
*Greedy Graham (cameo)
*Anxious Andrew (cameo)
*Smelly Sam (cameo)
*Ashen Annabel (cameo)
*Sweet Sally (cameo)
*Windy Wendy (cameo)
== Trivia ==
*Some Series 1 moments appear in this episode like moments from "Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats", "Horrid Henry Goes Swimming" and "Perfect Peter's Revenge".
*The Adventures of Dreadful Deirdre is a parody of the Horrid Henry book series.
**When Margaret read the back of book, it mentioned Deirdre tricking the tooth fair and winning the egg and spoon race. This is a reference from "Horrid Henry and the Tooth Fairy" and "Horrid Henry's Sports Day".
**A rat named 'Fangle' is based of Henry's Hamster 'Fang', like most people mistaken Fang as a rat.
**The tagline 'Utterly brilliant, totally wicked' is a reversal of the tagline for the Horrid Henry books: 'Utterly wicked, totally brilliant'.
*The Author of Big Blue Bat and The Adventures of Dreadful Deirdre is based off Francesca Simon.
**When she shouts, 'Noooo!!!' after Henry and Margaret throw slime balls at her, she has Peter's voice. This is possibly due to budget cuts.
* Margaret mentioned about Dreadful Deirdre winning the egg and spoon race based on "Horrid Henry's Sports Day", although Henry did not compete in the egg and spoon race, Peter competed in it.
* Peter apparently knows about Henry's disguise as the Dark Avenger from "Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats", and the shark in "Horrid Henry Goes Swimming". However, there is no explanation as to how he knows about this, considering he was present in neither of those cases.
**This plot hole is similar to "Horrid Henry, Nothing But The Truth" where Henry threw worms at the Town Museum despite Peter not witnessing it.
*Ashen Annabel, Sweet Sally and Smelly Sam all appeared in front of Henry and Margaret in the queue for the author's autograph, having previously attended a book signing for B.B. Silver.
*It is unknown why Rude Ralph didn't watch the Awful Author book signing since he is Henry's best friend.
== Errors==
*When the Awful Author was about to scream, 'Noooo!!!', her blue scarf turned white for a second.
*"the" in the title card is in the wrong font.
==Gallery==
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== Video ==
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Note: This video has two episodes combined. You may want to consider watching the first episode.
Category:OAS Series 5