Horrid Henry Goes to Work (episode)

==Synopsis==
It's Take Your Kid to Work Day and Henry is looking forward to a fun day of computer games. But, his dad (and his dad's boss) have other ideas!
==Plot==
The episode begins with Mum and Dad arguing about who's going to work with who. Henry says out loud that nobody wants to choose Peter and he tells on Henry. Mum tells him to take the tea set into the kitchen and leave his poor brother alone as Dad pats Peter on his head. In the kitchen, he fantasizes about Mum and Dad having fun jobs because their jobs were boring but he tells the audience the best thing is getting a day off school. He then drops the tea set, which gets smashed. Dad told him to clean the broken tea set then gives him a broom and that he would be going to work with him. Meanwhile, Peter will go to work with Mum. Henry's annoyed that they sell toothbrushes and toothpaste and he screams that he doesn't want to go to work, opening the title card.
When arriving in a lift, Henry accidentally pressed an emergency button. While firefighters cut a big hole to Henry's Dad's office. Henry kicked the cut out hole down, which hurt Bob hitting his foot. Henry's dad told him a fib for the first time! As soon as Bob met Henry, he seemed to like him and his attitude. Also as Henry met Bill, the first thing Bill said is that Henry has to do what he says. Henry could tell that Bill would be trouble and he is known as Bossy Bill. Bossy Bill orders Henry to make the tea by himself while he relaxes and tricks him into putting mustard and ketchup in the tea. Henry remembers to do everything they say. He put them in the tea and Bill also does it too.
When Henry and Bill arrive with the tea, the staff drank it, but it doesn't taste good. Bob asks who did it. Bill blames Henry for it, even though it was his idea and besides, he told Henry to do it and Henry reminded Bob that he said that he had to do what Bill says. Bob doesn't believe him and told Dad to keep his son under more control then sends both Henry and Bill into the toothpaste department. While putting toothpaste in boxes, Bill turned up the speed of the machine after Henry threatened to quit if Bill doesn't help. After Bill turned up the speed, the toothpaste boxes fall on the floor, destroying some of them. After Bill shuts off the machine, he squeezed a toothpaste tube at Henry. Henry then squeezed eight full toothpaste tubes at Bill as an octopus, which he got piled under it. Henry got the blame again when Bill tells their Dads. Bob then has a serious meeting with Henry and Dad along with Bill who wipes his face. Dad was very ashamed of Henry. Bill tells Bob that Henry’s trouble and not the sort person he’d employ when he takes over the company. Bob says to Bill he has to understand that some children don’t have his quality unbringing. Bob then decides to give Henry one last chance and tells Bill to take some documents with Henry to photocopy.
Henry tells the audience that Bill needs to get in trouble but wonders what. He got a 'Eureka' moment to tell Bill saying, 'Why don't we copy something horrid, and then hang the pictures all over the office?'. Bill then listened to Henry and he wanted to go first, with Henry denying it at first, but after remembering his plan, he let Bill go first. Henry then put the CCTV camera towards Bill and the photocopier with a broom. The staff laughed at Bill, and Bob was shocked when he saw Bill photocopying his bottom on screen. Bob and Henry's Dad came into the room and he asked Bill what's he doing. Bill tried blaming it on Henry, but he tells Bob that he told Bill not to do it, but he wouldn't listen (the same excuse Bill used twice earlier). Bob punishes Bill for humiliating him in front of his company. He sends him home, saying he'll deal with him later most likely punishing him for a very long time for this embarrassment as Henry and Dad give each other thumbs up. Bob later decides that Henry can amuse himself by playing video games on a computer for the rest day as his way of making it up to him for being harsh towards him and Dad says to Bob that boys will be boys no matter the quality of their upbringing. Henry says to the audience he ask his parents if he could leave school early as he was happy and having fun and mistakenly hitting Dad to the floor then laughs, ending the episode.
==Characters== 
*Horrid Henry
*Horrid Octopus
*Perfect Peter
*Mum
*Dad
*Big Bob (first appearance)
*Bossy Bill (first appearance)
*Gordon's Dad (first appearance)
*Dad's Coworkers (first appearance)
*Head of the Institute of Interglyco Genetics (cameo, first appearance)
*The Pink Monster (In Henry's Imagination)
*Background Characters (In Henry's Imagination)
*Pink Dragon (In Computer Game)
*Firemen
==Locations==
*Henry's House
* Tingly Toothbrushes
==Trivia ==
*This marks the second episode when Henry shouts something beside Noooo!!! before the title card being: 'I DON'T WANT TO GO TO WOOOOOORK!'
*This is the first time that Henry was accused of things that he didn't do.
*This episode marks the first appearance of Bossy Bill in the show.
*This is the first episode Moody Margaret is absent.
*This is the second episode to focus on one of the parents, the first being Horrid Henry's Hike.
==Errors==
*When Henry said: 'Of course, you know best, Bill sir.', the CCTV camera is facing towards them.
*When Henry sprayed Bill with toothpaste after he turns into an octopus, the door is closed. When Dad comes in and tells Henry off, it is already opened.
*When Henry said: 'All right!', his mouth movements did not match.
*When Henry said: 'No way', his mouth movements didn't match.
* When Bill says "Like what?" when he and Henry are in the photocopier room, the camera is facing the other direction.
*When Henry says 'Huh' after Bill says his dad's the boss and there is nothing Henry can do about it, Henry's mouth doesn't move.
==Differences from the book==
*In the book, Bill tells Henry to put salt in the tea instead of sugar. In the episode, he tells him to put ketchup and mustard in the tea.
* The scene where Henry and Bill answer the phones is replaced by toothpaste-packing in the episode.
*In the episode, Dad's boss is called Bob. In the book, his first name is not given and he is instead referred to as 'Big Boss'.
*In the book (or at least the audiobook), Bob and Bill speak with American accents, but in the episode, they speak with Scouse accents. It's possible that in the book's universe, they are from the United States but living in the United Kingdom due to Bob's job, whereas in the episode, they're from Liverpool but living in Ashton.
*In the book, Henry first suggests that he and Bill make horrid faces and photocopy them, then when Bill points out that they'd be recognised, Henry suggests photocopying their bottoms instead. In the episode, Henry suggests they photocopy their bottoms from the start.
*In the book, Henry runs to Big Boss's office to tell him that Bill's in trouble. In the episode, he turns the CCTV camera around to show Bill photocopying his bottom, making Bob a laughing stock in front of his entire company.
*A scene is added to the episode where Henry presses the alarm button in the lift, resulting in he and Dad being cut out by firefighters.
==Video==
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Category:OAS Series 1