Horrid Henry's Sick Day (episode)

== Synopsis ==
Henry plans to take a day off school pretending to be ill, but he instead finds himself playing doctor when everyone comes down with the dreaded lurgy.
==Plot==
Horrid Henry was sleeping in his bed when Mum yells at him to get up. Mum tells him that there is a spelling test today. Henry feels tired and remembers the last time he did on his spelling test (he failed because he didn't learn his spellings). Henry got an idea of pretending to be sick, so he used baby powder to pour it on water, he used his finger and put it all over his mouth. Mum came to Henry's room and saw Henry sick (pretending to be sick). Henry told Mum he doesn't feel well. Mum feels Henry's head and tells him he's feeling fine already. Henry walked up to the door and heard that Mum and Dad are talking about him being sick. Henry was happy that his plan worked. Mum came in and told him why he's not getting dressed. Henry said he was sick, but Mum was talking about Peter being sick. Henry asked 'Peter? Sick? No!' and shouts, 'That's not fair!', opening the title card.
Henry then asks why Peter is sick and not him. Mum tells him off and informs him that baby powder and water don't mix. Henry yells at Mum, demanding her to let him stay home. Peter then comes out of his room, in a queasy state, and then runs to the toilet and vomits. Henry imitates Peter's gagging, but Mum points out that he is not sick and must go to school. Then Peter comes out of the bathroom, and Mum announces that since Peter is sick, he will staying at home. Peter and Henry groan about this news.
While Henry is packing his stuff to go to school, he then picks up his smelly trainers, which in Henry's imagination, germs invade his room. The imagination ends, so Henry decides make himself sick by inhaling the stench of his trainers, causing him to rush to the bathroom and vomit offscreen. Mum sees him do this and tells Henry that he would be staying home as well. As Henry cheers, Mum says Henry can't play on the computer if he is sick. When Henry retaliates, Mum says if he is well enough to play, then he should go to school.
Later, Henry sits on his bed with some comics, bored. Then Henry tries finding ways to entertain himself but nothing he did helped. However, he then bounced a soccer ball with his legs. He asks the audience what's the point on being sick if you can't play on the computer. Later Henry yells he's hungry while Peter yells he's thirsty. Henry yells that his bed's too hot, then Peter yells that his bed's too cold. Henry and Peter then yell for Mum.
Later, Henry and Peter go to Mum and Dad's room to see Mum laying down in bed (they imagine that she's a huge germ and sneezes all them). Both of them say, 'Mum?'. Mum said she feels terrible and asks the boys to look after themselves. Henry asked if he could play on the computer and Mum says 'Alright' but then she asks for a glass of orange juice, and Henry groans. Then Mum asks him to get ice cream for Peter's throat, and Henry groans.
The scene cuts to the kitchen, where Henry squeezes orange juice, but then says 'Ouch!' as his eye hurt. Then, while Henry is scooping ice cream, the phone in the kitchen rings, and Henry answers the phone. Miss Oddbod answers and asks if it is Henry on the line. Henry lies that it is Peter on the line. Next, Miss Oddbod asks whether Henry's mother is there, as she wants to speak to her about Henry missing his spelling tests. Henry says she's not and he won't be coming back to school ever again due to having high temperature hurting his brain. Just then, the ice cream from the spoon melts on the kitchen floor. Henry says he has to go and hangs up.
Mum calls to Henry about her drink, then Peter calls about where is his ice cream. Henry groans and says that when he's king, only one person at a time is allowed to be sick which is himself. Then envelopes land on the floor beside the door, making Mum call, 'Henry? Is that the post?' and Henry groans. Henry bends down to pick up the post, but Henry loses his balance and drops the tray. Henry answers the door and sees the water man. Henry says Mum is sick, and then cleans up the mess as the man tells him to pass a message about making repairs and turning off the water for a couple of hours. Henry then continues scooping ice cream and pouring orange juice but tells Fluffy to stop licking everything.
Mum then asks Henry to fill the bath and everything with water, but Henry then leaves all the taps on. Then after she and Peter kept asking for more stuff they need, Henry turns into a gorilla and starts growling, but Mum calls Henry to answer the door once again, and the water man comes once again. He then tells him to make sure the taps are off and wishes Henry a nice day. When Henry hears no-one telling him what to do anymore he goes to play on the computer but hears a sneeze.
Dad gets home and tells Henry he feels absolutely awful and says he is going to bed. Henry tells him what happened today when Dad opens the bathroom door and the water overflows, flooding the house. Henry says that nobody turned off the taps, and says that he is so soaked and cold. Henry then sneezes, and says that he is really sick which is not fair. Henry then says, 'I want to go to school!', ending the episode.
==Characters==
*Horrid Henry
**Horrid Orangutan
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Fluffy
*Miss Oddbod
*Miss Battle-Axe (In Henry's Imagination)
*Ted's Dad (first appearance)
== Locations ==
* Henry's House
== Trivia ==
* The ending where the bathroom is flooded is possibly based on the ending of "Horrid Henry's Bathtime", where Henry and Peter both leave the taps on and Mum and Dad forget to put them in the bath, causing the house to flood.
* In this episode, the kitchen has a telephone, however, the telephone isn't seen in any of the other episodes.
* Mum stays in her pyjamas in this episode.
==Errors==
*When Peter yells "Mum! My bed's too cold!", his bedroom has Henry's colors.
*When Mum is shown sick, she has short hair, but becomes long again when she says "If you're not up to it, perhaps you should go back to bed".
*When Peter runs to the bathroom about to vomit offscreen, the bathroom door somehow opens on its own.
*When Dad leaves for work, Henry's bedroom door is missing its skull and crossbones flag.
*When Henry gives Mum the glass of orange juice, the glass is nearly empty, but when Mum tells him to fill everything, it's full.
== Differences from the book ==
* In the episode, Mum catches Peter's bug halfway through and goes back to bed, with Henry having to run around after her and Peter. In the book, Dad comes home from work feeling poorly and goes back to bed, with Mum having to run around after him, Henry and Peter, which results in her feeling tired and going back to bed herself.
* In the book, Henry and Peter argue about what to watch on TV, resulting in them being sent to their rooms. This doesn't happen in the episode, with Henry and Peter mostly staying in their rooms.
* In the episode, Henry receives a visit from a plumber telling him that the water is being turned off for maintenance, requiring him to fill everything. However, he accidentally leaves the taps on, flooding the bathroom after the water comes back on. None of this happens in the book.
* In the episode, Henry wants to take the day off sick to avoid getting into trouble for not doing his spelling homework. In the book, he wants the day off sick because he doesn't want to go to school while Peter gets to stay home and watch TV.
** Consequently, in the book, Miss Oddbod doesn't phone Mum to tell her about Henry missing his spelling test.
* In the episode, Henry sniffs his smelly shoes to make himself throw up. In the book, he just pretends he's feeling ill, and Dad gives in and lets him stay at home.
== Video ==
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Category:OAS Series 1