Horrid Henry's Christmas (episode)

== Synopsis ==
Christmas! Aaah! A time for goodwill for all men! And women, of course. But Henry's Christmas get worse when Stuck-Up Steve and Rich Aunt Ruby comes to celebrate.
== Plot ==
Horrid Henry and his family were at Toy Heaven. They were on a lift discussing about what they want for Christmas. When the family saw the toys, Henry gets on a train, but Mum and Dad tells him to get down. He finds a boom boom basher. Henry picks up the controller and activates the boom boom basher. It heads straight to the family, which made Peter yell, 'Noooo!!!', opening the title card.
Peter falls down on a ground as the boom boom basher turns left.
Henry then saw his best friend, Ralph, who wanted a galactic goo shooter, so he decided to get one too. Henry and Peter both told Santa what they wanted. Henry wanted a boom-boom basher and a galactic goo shooter. Peter gave Santa a present and said he wanted a dictionary, some seeds, a geometry kit, and stamps. 
Later on, Stuck-Up Steve and Rich Aunt Ruby visit Henry's house on Christmas Eve. Henry is unhappy about this, since Steve is much richer, lives in a big house, and has lots more toys than Henry and not to mention that Ruby gives him pairs of socks only but was still forced to help tidy up until he ended up making a mess with the hoover. Then Ruby and Steve shows up with presents but sees the mess of their living room. Steve comments "What a dump" but Ruby reminded him about being rude to poor people. 
Henry and Steve build a snowman as Peter carves his fairy sculptures in ice but they destroy it and ended up trapped in the snow. Peter leaves them before putting his broken ice parts on their heads and more snow falls on them again. The tree was decorated and the boys each hung their Christmas stockings then Peter tells Mum to get some snacks for Santa Claus. Peter told Henry and Steve that Christmas is about giving not receiving but they shouted at him to be quiet before hoping they will get the better presents in the morning. 
At 10 o'clock, Henry decides to sneak down to change two of the labels on the presents and tells the audience that he knows Steve needs socks more than him. As he gets up, he makes sure Steve is stuck to the bed, and cannot get up.
In the morning, Peter, Henry, and Steve were about to race down the stairs, when Steve loses his pyjamas due to the leg of the pants being stuck to Henry's bed, and he went flying down the stairs. Steve was embarrassed when Henry and Peter were laughing at him, as they found it funny, and he knew that Henry did that.
When they finally come down to open presents, all the cards had been mixed up, and no one, except Peter, gets the gift they had desired. (Fax machine was for Dad, dress top for Mum, Cello music was for Peter and a dried flower arrangement box was for Ruby). They did not know what to do until Peter convinced them all that Santa Claus must have mixed the presents up and Henry agrees.
Henry gets the galactic goo shooter he wanted most from Mum, despite being horrid and Dad shares his boom boom basher with Steve who gets first go on it. Henry fires the boom boom basher and everyone in goo who groan: 'Don't be horrid, Henry.' as he runs outside in the snow in his winter clothes. Henry shouts to the audience 'Merry Christmas, everybody!' and fires goo all over the camera, ending the episode.
== Characters ==
* Horrid Henry
* Perfect Peter
* Mum
* Dad
* Rude Ralph
* Moody Margaret (cameo)
* Singing Soraya (cameo)
* Anxious Andrew (cameo)
* Weepy William (cameo)
* Lazy Linda (cameo)
* Rich Aunt Ruby
* Stuck-Up Steve (first appearance)
* Santa Claus (first appearance)
* Fluffy
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
* Toy Heaven
* Steve's House (mentioned)
== Trivia ==
* This episode marks the first time someone else besides Henry shouts 'Noooo!!!' before it shows the title, that being Perfect Peter.
* This marks the first appearance of Stuck-Up Steve. Rich Aunt Ruby had previously appeared in "Horrid Henry's School Fair", as a background character.
* Some parts of this episode is part of "Horrid Henry's Winter Wish".
*This is the last episode to air in 2006.
*There is a strong implication that Dad had switched some of the labels before Henry did, so that he would get the Boom Boom Basher and Steve would receive the Fax machine, but Henry believed the Fax was a Boom Boom Basher and switched his labels for Steve’s. There isn’t any exact evidence to this however.
**If Steve got a dress that was supposed to be socks that were originally labelled to Henry, Henry was lucky he switched them as he would've been embarrassed if he opened up his original gift and found out it was a dress.
*This episode also shows Steve's ungratefulness as when Henry handed over a gift that Henry put Steve's label on, Steve just threw it away.
== Audiobook version differences ==
* Henry asks for a Gootastic Goolastic Goo Game instead of a Boom-Boom Basher. Henry doesn’t have interest in it, or either the Goo Shooter when Steve brags about what he’s getting. It’s unknown if Steve did get the latter two in the end, although he has a minor interest in Henry's goo game.
* As his gift was changed, the scene where Henry controls the Boom-Boom Basher and Peter yelling NOOOO!!! was removed.
* The Santa's Grotto scene is shortened, and Henry goes first. Peter doesn’t give Santa a present in this version.
* Extra sound effects are added to the scene where Henry combines his and Steve's houses.
* Some newly recorded dialogue from Henry is added in some parts.
* The scene where Peter is building an ice sculpture of an Angel is removed, although the sound effects remain, as a scene where Henry and Steve are throwing snow at each other.
* When Henry sneaks down, the scene where he hits a creeky stair and Fluffy is removed, shortening his sneaking.
* Henry has a “Eureka! That's It” moment involving the presents.
* Henry only changes the socks present around with Steve.
* The scene where Steve's pyjamas rip off is removed, but the sound effects remain.
* Dad's dialogue when he receives the Goo Game is dubbed over by Henry.
* Steve's present appears to be the socks, instead of a dress. In fact, it’s unknown what Mum got in this version.
* The Horrid Happy Christmas song plays at the end.
== Errors ==
* When Peter and his parents arrived at Santa's grotto, Peter is wearing mittens, but he didn't wear mittens in the beginning of the episode in Toy Heaven.
*When Peter cries after having his ice sculpture broken by Henry and Steve, his lips don't move.
* The labels on the presents appear to have already been muddled up before Henry switched them. The fax machine originally had a label with Steve's name on it despite Mum intending to give it to Dad. Although there may have been some implications that Dad swapped the labels before Henry did so that Steve got the fax machine instead of him, there is not enough evidence to say so.
*When Henry says 'Socks? It's not fair!' His eyes are crossed.
== Differences from the book ==
* The beginning scenes are different. The book starts with Henry trying to persuade Mum and Dad to buy him a Boom-Boom Basher for Christmas, while the episode starts with the family visiting Toy Heaven, the preceding scene to the book's opening scene.
* In the episode, while the family are tidying up, Henry loses control of the hoover, knocking Dad off his ladder and crashing into the Christmas tree. The hoover sucks in the tinsel, spinning the tree around and sending the decorations flying all over the room. None of this happens in the book.
* A scene is added to the episode during which Steve and Henry compete to see who can build the biggest snowman, and end up getting trapped in the snow.
* In the episode, it is implied that Dad swapped the labels before Henry did, in order to get the Boom-Boom Basher Aunt Ruby had bought for Stuck-Up Steve. This results in everyone getting the wrong presents, including Henry getting a fax machine Mum had bought for Dad. In the book, Henry just swaps the labels of his presents and Steve's.
* In the book, Peter asks Father Christmas for a dictionary, stamps, seeds, a geometry kit and cello music. In the episode, he asks for all that except cello music, which Aunt Ruby ends up receiving.
*In the episode, Henry plays a prank on Steve where he attaches a bungee cord around his bed to the leg of Steve's pyjama bottoms. The next morning when Steve runs downstairs, the cord pulls his pyjama bottoms off, exposing his naked bottom and humiliating him in front of his cousins. He doesn't do this in the book.
* In the book, Dad says that no-one is allowed to open any presents until they've eaten lunch and gone for a walk. In the episode, he willingly agrees to open the presents (because he switched the labels earlier to make sure he got a Boom-Boom Basher).
* In the book, Henry sprays Steve with his Goo-Shooter when Steve lunges at Henry for suggesting he should try on his new socks. In the episode, Henry sprays the Boom-Boom Basher when Steve drives it towards him, but accidentally covers the room and everyone in it in green goo.
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