Horrid Henry's Holiday (episode)

"Horrid Henry's Holiday" is the twenty-sixth episode of series one of the Horrid Henry animated television show. 
== Synopsis==
Mum and Dad take Henry and Peter camping in France for a holiday, but this isn't exactly Henry's idea of fun. Can Henry make his parents and Peter feel the same way?
==Plot ==
The episode begins with Henry and his family driving in the car through a motorway in France. Mum, Dad and Peter are singing Frere Jacques, but Henry sings: 'Are we there yet?'. Peter is learning French from a book, so Henry asks him what's French for 'worm'. Just then, Henry spots Camp Le Fun, where Ralph went last year. He says it has three pools and 124 TV channels. He tells Dad to turn there, but Dad turns to the opposite direction, saying they're having a real camping holiday at the campsite instead, close to the joys of nature. Upon hearing this, Henry screams: 'Noooo!!!', opening the title card.
At the campsite, the family are putting up their tent. Henry asks where the TV and pool are, and isn't happy to learn that there's no TV and they have to swim in the lake. Finally, Henry asks where the toilets are. Dad initially says there are no toilets either, to the dismay of Henry, Peter and Mum, but reveals he's only joking and points to a rundown-looking cubicle. Peter is unsure to begin with, but Dad reminds him that this is real camping. When Dad asks Henry to hand him a tent peg, Henry takes the nearest one, belonging to the French Camper's washing line, causing the line to collapse. The French Camper picks up his washing and walks away, muttering to himself. Henry asks why can't they stay at Camp Le Fun, but Dad insists that comfy beds and hot showers are not real camping. Mum told Henry that they are staying here at the campsite and just enjoy himself instead of making a fuss about it. Henry growls and asked the audience if this holiday can get any worse.
Next, Henry, Peter and Dad go for a swim in the lake. Dad dives in first, but finds the lake very cold. Peter follows and encourages Henry to join him, but Henry refuses, because he thinks the snakes will get him. Dad tries to get Henry to go in, but Henry grabs on to a tree. When Dad tries to pull him off, they both go flying into the lake, much to Peter's amusement. Henry stands up, soaking wet and freezing cold, and says he hates nature.
Henry goes to great lengths to escape the campsite. Later that night, Peter wakes up in the tent after hearing a noise. Henry tries to scare Peter by saying it might be a werewolf. When Peter needs the toilet, he wants Henry to go with him in case he meets a werewolf. Henry locks Peter in the toilet and takes his torch to stand guard with it, because werewolves don't like light. Henry leaves Peter in the toilet and goes back to the tent, but he goes into the French Camper's tent by mistake. Henry and the French Camper both scream and the French Camper tells Henry to go to sleep. Henry apologises and runs back to his own tent, but bumps into Mum, who was looking for Peter. When she asks where Peter is, Henry suggests he's asleep. Just then, Peter appears and tells Mum what happened. Henry begs to be sent home, but Mum says, 'Oh no, you don't.', saying that Dad wants to be close to nature and that is what they are doing. Henry asks why can't they camp in their back garden, as it's also close to nature and has proper toilets (the second part being to Peter's approval). But Mum says 'Nonsense' because this is their holiday and takes Peter away with her. Then Henry has an idea: if they want to be close to nature, they're going to be close to nature!
The next morning, Henry dumps a shovel of manure outside the tent, which Dad steps in. When Henry walks by, whistling, Dad suspects Henry left it there. Then Henry lets the sheep from the next field loose on the campsite by opening the gate. Mum is trampled by the stampeding flock of sheep and when she goes back to the tent, sheep come running out, giving her a fright. That night, Henry makes Bunny look like a werewolf by attaching clothes pegs to him and scares Peter with its shadow from outside.
The next day, Mum, Dad and Peter are playing cards. Henry complains he's bored, so Peter suggests they go for a walk. Henry protests because it's raining but Dad says it's just drizzling and when Peter says he loves walking in the rain, Henry turns into a Tyrannosaurus Rex and throws the tent over Mum, Dad and Peter then goes to attack Peter, but is stopped by Mum. Henry refuses to go with them, so Dad tells him to collect firewood and make sure it's dry too.
Henry goes to the woods to collect the firewood, but is spooked by a bird and trips over a tree root. Henry comes running out of the woods and trips again, this time over a tent peg belonging to the French Camper's tent. He realises that there is plenty of wood right there and takes pegs from the tent and one from the washing line. The washing line collapses again and this time though, the French Camper is having a campfire. A pair of the French Camper's underpants that were on the line land in the fire. Frantically, he takes out the underpants and stamps out the flames, but is left with a hole burnt in them.
That evening, Henry and his family are enjoying a campfire with toasted marshmallows, using the wood (tent pegs) that Henry found. Dad remarks that was clever of Henry to find so much dry wood. When a thunderstorm begins, Mum declares it's bedtime. Later that night, the tent is flooded and everyone gets wet. In the morning, everyone's tents have collapsed. Peter is upset and wants to go home, admitting he hates nature and hates it at the campsite. Dad tells everyone to stay calm, but Henry notices the French Camper is very angry with them for ruining his holiday. The French Camper walks towards Mum and Dad, waving tent pegs and muttering angrily. Mum and Dad don't know what to do, so the family decide to go to Camp Le Fun after all like Henry requested.
At Camp Le Fun, Mum and Dad are relaxed. Dad realises that Camp Le Fun isn't as bad as he thought and Mum remarks how nice it is to see Henry and Peter playing together for a change. At the top of the water slide, Peter goes to ask Henry if it's deep at the bottom, but before he can finish his sentence, Henry nudges him down the slide. After hearing Peter's splash landing in the pool, Henry says: 'Now this is what I call real camping!', goes down the slide himself and makes a splash, ending the episode.
==Characters== 
*Horrid Henry
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad 
*Rude Ralph (flashback)
*French Camper (only appearance)
*Nasty Nicola (first appearance, cameo, unnamed at this point)
*Sheep (first appearance)
*Horrid Tyrannosaurus
==Locations ==
*France
**Campsite
**Camp le Fun
==Trivia== 
*This episode is the first time Peter dislikes something that's right.
*Nicola appeared in a cameo when it starts raining, and everyone's tents were collapsed, although her name had not been revealed at that point.
*Since Henry locked the door from the outside, it is unknown how Peter escaped from the toilet unless he somehow unlocked the door.
*This episode is the second time both Mum and Dad react to Henry transforming into a dinosaur, the first being a gorilla in "Horrid Henry's Hideo Video".
*This is one of the few episodes which contains scenes set outside Ashton. The ending of "Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend" is set at Old Trafford football stadium in Manchester, the ending of "Horrid Henry's Happy Family" shows Henry's family holidaying on Paradise Island and the end of "Horrid Henry's Vile Vacation" sees both Henry and Margaret’s family holidaying on a desert island.
*The campsite and Camp le Fun do not return in future episodes.
*This episode reveals that Peter has lupophobia (fear of werewolves).
*This is the fourth episode to focus on the parents, the third being "Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guests", the second being "Horrid Henry Goes to Work", and first being "Horrid Henry’s Hike". 
==Errors==
*In the tent, when Peter wakes up, he is wearing his pyjamas. However, when he says, 'What was that?', he is wearing his casual clothes (additionally missing his buttons from his white shirt). When he says that Henry is just trying to scare him, he is wearing his pyjamas again.
*When Henry lets the sheep out of the field, many more sheep leave it than there were first in it the moment Henry opens the gate.
*After the tent collapses, when Dad tells everyone to stay calm, he's wearing his pyjamas. In the next shot, when the French man walks towards them, he's wearing his casual clothes.
*Some of the raindrops appear to be moving upwards.
*When Peter asked, 'Can we go for a walk?', his right eye faces Mum, but his left eye borders the viewers.
*When Dad says "This is real camping!" Peter's trousers were brown.
*When Peter says "That's the toilet?..." His eyebrows are missing for a single frame.
*When Henry pushes Peter down the slide at Camp Le Fun, Peter's trunks were green.
==Differences from the book==
*In the book, Henry and his family travel on the ferry to France. This scene is omitted from the episode, possibly due to time constraints.
*In the book, Dad drives further past the campsite Henry wants to stay at to reach the planned campsite. In the episode, Dad turns to the opposite direction of Camp Le Fun to reach the planned campsite.
*Henry asking where the beds are on the real campsite is omitted from the episode.
*In the book, the campsite Henry wants to stay at has big tents which contain comfy beds, a fridge, a cooker, a loo, a shower, a heated swimming pool, a disco and a great big giant TV with fifty-seven channels, and Moody Margaret stayed there. In the episode, Henry wants to stay at Camp Le Fun, which has three pools and 124 TV channels, and Rude Ralph stayed there.
*A new character is added to the episode in the form of a Frenchman staying at the campsite, whose tent is situated near Henry's family's tent. Henry ruins his holiday in various ways, ultimately by using his tent pegs as firewood, causing it to collapse.
*The episode highlights Peter's fear of werewolves, while the book doesn't mention it.
*In the episode, Dad, Henry and Peter swim in the lake. In the book, Dad says they'll swim in the river, but this isn't shown.
*In the book, Henry annoys Dad and other campers by playing Killer Boy Rats CDs on his boom box. He doesn't do this in the episode.
*In the episode, Henry goes into the woods to collect firewood, but gets spooked and runs out. In the book, he doesn't go because he thinks the forest will be muddy and wet.
*In the book, the family are huddled inside the tent when Dad suggests going for a walk. In the episode, the family are outside playing cards when Peter suggests going for a walk.
*In the book, Dad attempts to cook baked beans on the campfire, but is stopped by the rain. In the episode, they eat toasted marshmallows on the fire.
*In the book, Henry and his family eat crisps and watch TV, but in the episode, they go to a water park at Camp Le Fun.
*At the end of the book, Henry says 'Now this is what I call a holiday!' while at the end of the episode, he says 'Now this is what I call real camping!'
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Category:OAS Series 1