Horrid Henry and the New Best Friend

"Horrid Henry and the New Best Friend" is the thirty-seventh episode in series 3 of the Horrid Henry animated television series.
==Synopsis==
Henry finds a new best friend - Nasty Nicola. But that's not the friend he wants!
==Plot==
The episode begins with Miss Battle-Axe introducing a new girl to her class named Nicola. She sees that Henry was asleep, so Miss Battle-Axe shouts at him to wake him up. Everyone laughs at him when he woke up. Nicola chose Henry to be her new best friend for a day. With that, Henry screams, 'Noooo!!!', opening the title card.
His classmates whisper to each other saying Henry's got a girlfriend much to his annoyance. Nicola is thought to be nice at first, but she is later proved to be nasty like sermons. At break time, Henry meets his friends on the climbing frame with Nicola who doesn't want to skip with the girls so he suggest they play a game of Hide and Seek. While Nicola starts counting, the four boys hide behind the bins but she sees Bert and tip-toes over to them. Nicola just stood and listened to the boys' voices as they complain about the bins hoping she won't find them. The school bells rings and everyone goes inside including Nicola who left the boys hiding outside. In the classroom, Nicola tells Miss Battle-Axe where Henry is and she sends Margaret to get him. Nicola also tells Miss B that Ralph, Al and Bert are with Henry so she sends Susan to go with Margaret. 
After the girls find them, Henry and his friends are now putted in detention during lunch break. Meanwhile Miss Battle-Axe asked Peter and the best boys to look after Nicola for a while. Nicola frames and blames Henry for two incidents that she purposely did: picking one of Miss Oddbod's prized petunias from the flower bed and tells the headmistress. In the science room, Ralph sees Nicola through the window twice while holding Henry's lunch box and tries to tell him but Mr Soggington catches him then lets Al and Bert go but gives Ralph and Henry double detention making them miss lunch. Worst of all, Nicola steals the lunch of Andrew, William, Graham and herself, then she puts them in Henry's lunchbox prompting Miss Oddbod to say that Henry must be punished severely and gather the whole class to the assembly hall. 
Later, when Brainy Brian and Peter prove Henry's innocence to Miss Oddbod, they told her Nicola is the culprit. With that, Nicola screams, 'Noooo!!!' and gets suspended from Ashton Primary School. In the playground, Henry says that he prefers his old best friends and high fives them including the audience, ending the episode. 
==Characters==
* Miss Battle-Axe
*Nasty Nicola
*Horrid Henry
*Weepy William
*Sour Susan
*Rude Ralph
*Lazy Linda
*Moody Margaret
*Aerobic Al
*Perfect Peter
*Miss Oddbod
*Mr Soggington
*Anxious Andrew
* Brainy Brian
*Greedy Graham
*Singing Soraya (cameo)
* Jolly Josh (cameo)
*Gorgeous Gurinder (cameo)
*Beefy Bert (cameo)
*Stuck-Up Steve (cameo, most likely error appearance)
*Wheely Walter (cameo)
*Goody-Goody Gordon (cameo)
*Miss Lovely (cameo)
*Madame Tutu (cameo)
*Greasy Greta (cameo)
*Spotless Sam
*Tidy Ted 
* Unknown Students 
==Trivia==
*The storyline is entirely set in the school. This storyline resulted in the second absence of Mum and Dad, and nobody shouts, 'Don't be horrid, Henry!' in the episode either. However, Miss Oddbod shouts, 'Such a horrid boy!'.
*The Packed Lunch Room returned in this episode and also made its last appearance.
*The scene where Henry goes up in front of the whole school is extremely unrealistic to a real life school, as it is not right to shame a student for things with no real proof in front of lots of people.
* There are some unknown students and one mystery teacher in the background during the assembly room.
*In this episode the worst school punishment happens. Usually students are punished by being given detention or being sent to Miss Oddbod’s office, however in this episode Nicola gets suspended from school. She didn’t return until series 4 after her suspension was ended. Had Henry not been proved innocent by Brian and Peter, then Henry would have presumably been suspended instead.
*Nicola later returns in "Horrid Henry Does His Homework".
==Errors==
*Possible: Stuck-Up Steve appeared in the assembly hall, most likely erroneously as he is 14 and would therefore be in secondary school. However, it may have simply been a lookalike.
==Transcript==
==Videos==
Horrid Henry & The New Best Friend !
Category:OAS Series 3