Horrid Henry's Haunted House (episode)

== Synopsis ==
Stuck-Up Steve tricks Henry into thinking the top floor bedroom in his mansion is haunted. Henry sets out for revenge.
== Plot ==
Henry is spending the weekend at Rich Aunt Ruby and Stuck-Up Steve's house whether he likes it or not, while his parents are away on holiday and Perfect Peter is having a weekend sleepover with his best friend, Tidy Ted. Henry doesn’t want to go because Steve never lets him play with his toys. The three flashbacks shows Steve making Henry playing with his old toys and little paddling pool. Dad told Henry ‘what do you expect?’ because he doesn't let Steve play with his toys either and Mum tells him to just be nice to his cousin for 2 days. Then Dad promises Henry that they'll be back to collect him on Sunday and he screams 'NOOOOOO!!!', opening the title card.
After his parents drop him off and drive away, Henry has brought along some dangerous toys including his Goo Shooter, a catapult, fake poo, snotslime, and a mousetrap in his rucksack, but Aunt Ruby confiscates them. Steve shows Henry his room, which is full of toys and he warns Henry not to touch a thing then closes his door. Henry transforms into a Frog, grabs Steve with his long tongue, swallows him up like a fly and turns to normal in his imagination. Steve then shows Henry where he's sleeping: the attic, which is apparently haunted. Steve shows Henry a stain on the floor and says that is where the ghost vapourised. Henry does not believe him though. As Steve leaves, Henry unpacks, telling the audience he's not scared but when he takes his clothes to the closet, the sideway door opens itself which made him a screams but he laughs sarcastically.
At supper, it is dark and stormy out, and Steve tells Henry that it was a night like that when the ghost first appeared. Suddenly the lights go out, and Aunt Ruby lights some candles, complaining that there has been another power cut. She then tells Henry the story of the ghost, a rich old man who hid his gold and checked on it nightly, but fell into the well and drowned one very dark night.
That night, Henry tells the audience that there are no such things as ghosts, but then he hears a spooky wailing coming from the wardrobe. He tries to make himself remember that he is not afraid of anything except injections and ghosts but the wailing becomes spookier and he tries to get out, realizing that Steve has locked him in. Trying to stay calm, he remembers that he is King Henry the Horrible, not afraid of anything. He goes over to the wardrobe and sprays it with his Goo Shooter, but finding nothing except an audio recording. Henry realizes that he has been tricked by Steve, and yells for revenge before laughing manically.
The next morning, Steve is puzzled to find out that Henry is not scared. They go out into the garden and they start fighting over who gets to play with Steve's toy plane until Henry grabs the remote control first. As Henry continues to fly it all around Steve, he starts backing up towards the well. He then disappears and starts to wail like the ghost of the rich man. As Steve bends over the well to investigate, Henry squirts him with green goo as a joke.
In the evening, Henry tells Aunt Ruby that he does not want any pudding and that he wants to go to bed. But he sneaks into Steve's room instead and lies waiting for him under the bed. When Steve arrives and gets into bed, he starts humming before turning the light out. Henry then starts to hum and growl, and Steve becomes frightened. Then Henry gives the mattress a great big poke, and Steve races out of the room screaming.
In the attic, Henry is laughing when he accidentally snaps a piece on the bedpost and opens up a secret passageway, revealing a dark tunnel. As Henry goes inside, the door slams shut and he slides down the path, into Steve's room where Aunt Ruby assures Steve that there are no such things as monsters. Suddenly, the wall opens up and Henry emerges, covered in dust and cobwebs. He is unrecognizable and Aunt Ruby and Steve run away, thinking that he is a monster. Henry sees the shelves of Steve's toys and he starts to play with them then laughs as the end credits roll.
== Characters ==
*Horrid Henry
**Horrid Frog
*Stuck-Up Steve
*Rich Aunt Ruby 
*Mum
*Dad
*Perfect Peter
*Tidy Ted (mentioned)
*Rich Old Man (story)
== Locations ==
* Steve's House
== Trivia ==
*This is the first time in the series in which Steve wears a purple jumper instead of a green one.
*This episode seemingly implies Henry's jumper was originally Steve's as said in his quote, 'That's a very nice second-hand jumper you're wearing.'
*The wailing ghost noises are on a cassette. They sound like somebody howling, but they sound more like Stuck-Up Steve than someone else. He may have recorded himself making the noises on the cassette before the evening, and then made sure the cassette would play at a certain time, as an intended prank on Henry.
*Steve’s attic is featured for the first time too.
== Errors ==
* When Aunt Ruby says, 'See you in the morning!', Steve's jumper changes from purple to green.
* When Henry hides under Steve's bed, there are wood planks underneath but when Steve gets into bed and Henry pretends to be a monster and whispers "Doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo", the wood planks are gone.
== Differences from the book ==
* At the beginning of the episode, Peter is in the car with Henry on his way to Steve's house. In the book, it's just Henry, Mum and Dad in the car, with Peter having presumably been dropped off at Tidy Ted's.
* In the book, Henry makes excuses to try and get out of staying with Steve. In the episode, he says he doesn't want to stay with Steve because he's so stuck-up and never lets Henry play with his toys.
* In the episode, Mum and Dad drop Henry off outside Aunt Ruby's, then drive away quickly before he can get back in the car. In the book, they drop him off and leave after Aunt Ruby closes the front door.
* In the book, Aunt Ruby is pleased to see Henry, gives him a 'great smacking kiss' and says he looks very smart. In the episode, she frowns at Henry after he calls her house a dump and confiscates his toys, but gets a mousetrap stuck on her hand.
* In the book, Aunt Ruby suggests Henry and Steve play in his bedroom until dinner's ready, and Steve says he'll show Henry where he's sleeping. In the episode, Aunt Ruby tells Steve to show Henry to his room.
* In the book, the attic has pink and blue flowered wallpaper and carpet. In the episode, it is undecorated, with wooden support beams and no carpet.
* In the episode at dinnertime, during a power cut, Aunt Ruby and Steve tell Henry the story of the ghost of the rich old man who previously owned the house. This scene isn't shown in the book, with the supposed ghost's origin not discussed. However, it is mentioned that the meal was dreadful and Steve was bragging about his expensive new clothes, toys and trainers.
* In the book, the audio tape is called Dr Jekyll's Spooky Sounds. In the episode, it appears to be a recording of Steve making ghost noises.
* In the book, Henry went ice-skating, to the cinema and played football. In the episode, Henry taunts Steve with his remote-control plane, then hides behind the well and pretends to be the ghost, then sprays Steve with his Goo-Shooter.
* In the episode, Henry accidentally discovers a secret passageway in the attic which leads down to Steve's bedroom. He falls down it and gets covered in dust and cobwebs. Aunt Ruby and Steve mistake him for a monster and flee the mansion in fright, allowing him access to Steve's toys. In the book, after Aunt Ruby tells Henry and Steve to go back to bed and leaves the room, Henry offers to swap rooms with Steve, to which Steve agrees, allowing Henry access to Steve's toys. It is said Henry left the cassette player under the attic bed, in revenge for Steve's trick.
== Video ==
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Category:OAS Series 1