Horrid Henry and the Dinner Guests (episode)

==Synopsis==
An outraged Henry manages to wheedle his way into a special dinner evening, but comes face-to-face with a worthy opponent - Mum's boss, who turns out to be even more horrid than Henry!
==Plot==
Peter is in the living room playing his cello when Henry comes in and tells him he's going to watch Mutant Max but Peter told him there's no TV tonight because Mr and Mrs Mossy are coming for dinner tonight. After turning Peter's music book upside down, Henry makes a mess in the kitchen while getting chocolate mousse and Dad makes him clean it up. Dad also told Henry he'll be in bed when the Mossys arrive since it's a grown ups evening while Peter stays up to play the cello but Henry shouts 'THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!' opening the title card. 
As Peter was eating spaghetti, Henry begs Dad to let him stay up for dinner but he refuses to due to what happened last time showing two flashbacks of Henry pranking the previous guests. Although Henry promises to behave, Dad still told him he's going to bed early tonight. Henry cries 'It's not fair!' in despair while being carried to the kitchen table by Dad where Peter has already finished his tea.
Mum comes in wearing her evening clothes and asked Dad what he's cooking. Dad says salmon with lime, ginger and chocolate mousse for dessert. Henry tries persuading Mum to let him stay up and meet the Mossys but she wouldn’t allow that either. Henry protests that Peter's staying up and they'll have his favourite, chocolate mousse but Mum said Mr Mossy wants to hear Peter's cello and he'll be going to bed too. Peter says he's rather looking forward to an early night and understands grown up needing to be alone sometimes. Then Henry transforms into a dinosaur and attacks Peter, but Mum tells him not to be horrid and go upstairs to his room despite his protesting. The Mr and Mrs Mossy along with their dog, Hercules have arrived but then the doorbell makes Dad drop the chocolate mousse again. Henry watches from upstairs and tricks Fluffy into chasing Hercules around the house by calling him a mouse then he sneaks down to the living room and makes changes on Peter's cello book before going back upstairs.
Mrs Mossy manages to save their dog but says they should keep Fluffy lock up and Mum shrugs her shoulders. In his room, Henry complains to the audience about not being downstairs with everyone else when he smells the scent of chocolate mousse and says he's inviting himself to dinner. Henry sees Peter playing his cello not perfectly, heads to the kitchen, helps himself to the food and hears the cello but he doesn't think that's Peter playing it well. Henry sees Mr Mossy playing the cello and he tells Peter someone has tempered with his music. After being noticed, Henry runs back to the kitchen then sees Hercules here too and gives him a nut but leaves the last one in the bowl then he hears someone coming and hides before putting Hercules on the table. Dad and Mr Mossy come into the kitchen to found Hercules eating the nuts but Dad assured Mr Mossy it's just a few nuts but they were surprised that he could jump that high and thinks he enjoys a challenge.
After they leave the kitchen, Henry comes out of hiding and plans Operation Grizzly Grub. He enters the living room where his family and the guests are there. Mum told him he's supposed to be upstairs but Henry says he'd wanted to meet Mr and Mrs Bossy and offers her crisps (grizzly grub). Mum whispers to Henry 'Mossy not Bossy' and he asked if that's she used to call them much to her embarrassment. Mrs Mossy eats the crisps but she screams so Mum tells Peter to get her a drink and she spits it out in Dad's face. Peter brings Mrs Mossy a drink Henry pulled out earlier but then she spits on Mum's pink shirts and asked if she's trying to poison her. Dad takes Mrs Mossy to get cleaned up and Mum follows before telling Henry and Peter to go to bed.
While Peter goes upstairs, both Henry and Mr Mossy competed against each other by eating grizzly grub and drinking. When Mr Mossy burped, Henry gets the blame by Mum. Then Henry shows Mr Mossy his karate skills, but he gets thrown and Dad catches him. Mr Mossy calls his own martial arts, Mossykido and Mum takes Henry to bed. Although Henry wasn't going to bed yet, he sneaks back to the kitchen, sneaks the cider drink, ties it to Hercules' pet lead and gets him outside then calls Fluffy who attacks the dog hearing splashes. Then Hercules comes back inside as Henry wipes his hands. In the dining room, Mum, Dad, Mr and Mrs Mossy were together when Henry ruins the dinner by bringing the alcohol drink. Mr Mossy gives a smirk on his face and when Mum opens the bottle, it sprays everywhere in Mrs Mossy, Dad and Mum's faces except Mr Mossy who uses his hat and the drink hits Henry too. Then Dad sees smoke then yells 'The Salmon!!!' t and goes to the oven but Mrs Mossy leaves and takes Hercules with her. 
Mr Mossy told Mum and Dad he'd enjoyed it despite the trouble Henry caused meaning she's not fired. While Mum and Dad go after Mrs Mossy, Mr Mossy talks to Henry about the fact that they were similar when they were young and that his nickname was Terrible Timothy, but when he puts his hat on, he gets covered in chocolate mousse, which was put in by Henry. He says no one was better than him and laughs, ending the episode.
==Characters==
*Horrid Henry
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Mr Mossy (first appearance)
*Mrs Mossy (first appearance)
*Hercules (first appearance)
*Doddery Donald (first appearance, flashback)
*Old Olive (first appearance, flashback)
*Unnamed Male Dinner Guest (first appearance, flashback)
*Unnamed Female Dinner Guest (first appearance, flashback)
*Horrid Tyrannosaurus
*Mr Kill
*Fluffy
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
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==Trivia==
*In this episode, Mum wears a dark pink shirt and a golden necklace.
*This is the only episode where Mr Mossy speaks.
*This episode is the first appearance of Mr and Mrs Mossy.
**You can also count this as Doddery Donald's first appearance, but it's only a cameo in a flashback.
*This is one of few episodes to take place at night. The first being “Horrid Henry Tricks and Treats” and “Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter".
*This is the third episode to focus on the parents, the second being "Horrid Henry Goes to Work" and "Horrid Henry's Hike"
*This episode references Tom and Jerry, where Fluffy is chasing Hercules, Fluffy is also a gray cat like Tom.
==Errors==
*When Henry was cleaning up the pudding on the floor, the napkin was light yellow, but when the scene goes to Dad, Henry and Peter, it's blue.
*An inconsistency in this episode is Mum wearing her casual clothes and then her dinner clothes at some scenes:
**When Dad says, 'Oh no, the mousse! I'll have to make another one.'
**When Fluffy chases Mr and Mrs Mossy's dog and everyone runs out into the dining room.
**When Henry enters the living room with his Grisly Grub.
**When she says, 'I thought you were in bed.'
**In the flashback when Doddery Donald and Old Olive are about to sit down.
* When Dad and Mr Mossy are walking into the kitchen, the see through glass doesn't seem to show the hallway.
*When Mr Mossy takes his fedora off, his eyebrows disappear for a single frame.
*When Henry transforms into a dinosaur and attacks Peter, the spaghetti on the table is missing.
*When Henry complains he wants to stay up and wants to eat chocolate moose, the right chair moved up a bit.
*In addition to the above inconsistency, another inconsistency occurs of Mrs Mossy's wrists coat color.
*When Mrs Mossy was about to eat the Rotten Krispies, the wrists on her coat are dark pink.
*When Mrs Mossy yells, 'Are you trying to poison me?!', the wrists of her coat are back to their normal colors.
*When Mrs Mossy, Dad and Mum get out of the living room, for a few frames Henry's neck has no color.
*When Dad and Mr Mossy come in the kitchen, and Dad starts talking, his mouth isn't moving for a frame.
*When Mum was in the kitchen with Dad, she had Dad's sleeve for a split second when she was handing him the napkin.
*In the flashblacks the size and colour of the light in the dining room changes
*When Mum and Dad take Mrs Mossy to the bathroom, Henry's neck is uncolored.
== Differences from the book ==
* In the book, Henry beats Mr Mossy in karate, but in the episode, however, it is Mr Mossy who subdues him.
* In the book, Mr and Mrs Mossy are a late-middle-aged white couple, but in the episode, they are a younger black couple.
*Mr Mossy reveals his first name to be Timothy in the episode. In the book, it is given as Reginald.
*In the book version, when Peter gives Mrs Mossy a dungeon drink, she asks Peter if he’s trying to poison her and calls him a horrible child, then accidentally soaks everyone, which sends Peter crying to bed. in the episode version, she just asks Henry’s parents if they’re poisoning her instead, and Dad goes off to clean her up. Peter goes up to bed happily and tells the others that he hopes Mrs Mossy gets better soon.
*In the book, it's said that the last time Mum and Dad had guests over for dinner, Henry sneaked downstairs, ate the entire chocolate cake Dad baked for dessert, then vomited all over the sofa; and the time before that, put whoopee cushions on the guests' seats, bit Peter, and slid down the banister, breaking it. In the episode, the last time Henry put a whoopee cushion on the husband's chair, causing his false teeth to fly out and bite his wife's nose, making her wig fall off; and the time before that, replaced the meal under the serving dish with Fluffy, who when revealed, went on a rampage and scared the guests.
*In the episode, Mr and Mrs Mossy bring their dog with them. In the book, they either do not have a dog, or left their dog at home.
*In the episode, the salmon burns after Henry soaks everyone (apart from Mr Mossy and including himself) with the champagne bottle. In the book, it burns after Henry shows the guests his new karate moves, as the champagne bottle scene does not occur in the story.
*In the book, Dad cooks salmon wrapped in pastry with lime and ginger. In the episode, he just cooks salmon with lime and ginger.
*In the book, Henry and Peter are given a cheese sandwich for their supper, which Henry refuses to eat and demands pizza. In the episode, they're given spaghetti, which Henry doesn't complain about.
*In the book, Mum accidentally knocks the bowl of chocolate mousse on the floor with a tea towel when trying to fan the burning salmon, splattering everyone with chocolate mousse. In the episode, Henry drops the bowl of chocolate mousse when Dad catches him trying to eat some before the guests arrive. Henry is then made to clean up the mess, and Dad makes another bowl, which he drops when the doorbell takes him by surprise.
*In the book, Henry wants to do a show, but in the episode, Mr Mossy suggests that Henry do a show.
*In the book, Henry sings, pirouettes, juggles and does karate moves to entertain the guests. In the episode, he only does karate.
*The book ends with Henry ordering a pizza in response to Mum wondering what to do after the food is ruined, while the episode ends with Mrs Mossy walking out and Mum and Dad trying to persuade her to stay, and then Henry finally playing a trick on Mr Mossy that succeeds.
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Category:OAS Series 1