Happy Birthday to You

## Stats

**Happy Birthday to You**, also known as *The Real Story of Happy Birthday to You*, is the 16th episode of the series *HBO Storybook Musicals* that aired on January 4, 1992. It is also the seventh episode of the *The Real Story of...* series by Cinar. The episode is based off of the nursery rhyme *Happy Birthday to You.*

## Synopsis

The residents in the Orderly Manor are about to eat eggs. When it is time to crack them, Olivia is making a "circus act" with her egg, and is stacking the silverware and dishes. Snitchgrovel, the manor secretary who is a "bad egg", says that she is being a child, and she states she is one, but her mother tells her that she is turning 10 in two days. Olivia takes a plate off the stack, causing the dishes to fall and also making a hole in the table when the egg falls. The eggs Snitchgrovel has gotten are hard as rocks. Later on, when the manor cleaners dance around with Olivia, Snitchgrovel scolds them to never play with Olivia again or they will be fired, and tells her to go to her room. He scolds a maid for finding a speck of dust on the table, and then goes into the kitchen and catches the cooks jamming and playing with the harmonica of Barnaby, a boy looking for a job. Snitchgrovel scolds Barnaby for the reason why the eggs were hard and something inside an oven burning, and tells him to get lost. While out and walking, Barnaby meets Olivia and her horse, Charlie, and shows them his harmonica.

Meanwhile, Olivia's mother and father are playing croquet. Lady O isn't sure what to get her for her birthday, so Snitchgrovel suggests putting her on a cruise until she is 12, but they call him mad. Lord O suggests asking Olivia what she would want for her birthday, so they tell Snitchgrovel to fetch her, who is in the stable. They discuss to Olivia what she wants, but she is unsure until she hears the harmonica playing again, then decides she wants a song. After a manor-wide musical number, Lady and Lord O ask Snitchgrovel to come up with the birthday song, which he agrees on. Later that stormy night, Barnaby and Charlie are in the stable as he comes up with a tune. Snitchgrovel comes inside and kicks him out, and also snatches his music sheet, but Charlie bites it and takes it away. Snitchgrovel had to come up with one himself, which was trouble for him. He decides to hold a music contest with the residents to see who can come up with a birthday song, but Olivia cries because she wanted to hear a song by Barnaby. Snitchgrovel tells her that he sent him away for good, causing Olivia to cry even more. Her parents are convinced that she wanted a friend instead of a song, and demand Snitchgrovel to bring him back. While Olivia cries in her room with her dog, they spot Charlie outside who knows where Barnaby is. Olivia goes out with Charlie to seek her friend.

The next morning, the residents panic because Olivia is missing. Lady and Lord O demand Snitchgrovel to go out and find her, and are convinced that Barnaby kidnapped her. Meanwhile, Barnaby hops on the top of a train and plays his harmonica, but he drops it and it lands right in a puddle in front of Charlie and Olivia. They go chase after the train, while a spot of mud blinds Snitchgrovel and his car, causing him to drive uncontrollably until the car lands off a cliff and in the middle of the track. Olivia, on Charlie, passes him, so he decides to meet them at the bridge. The bridge however, breaks, and the train is about to pass it. Snitchgrovel also can't get the car started as well. The driver quickly stops the train and it runs into the car, but it is pushed right on the edge of the broken bridge and above the river, causing Snitchgrovel to be stuck. Olivia and Barnaby reunite, but Snitchgrovel and the car fall into the rapids and is heading to a waterfall. Snitchgrovel promises he'll be good and so Barnaby pulls him out with a rope. After that, Snitchgrovel is now working as a farmer, Charlie has a new horse girlfriend, and Olivia is now happy with her new birthday song.

## Songs

* The Girlie Wants a Song
* The Birthday Contest Medley
* Happy Birthday to You

## Trivia

* This episode is no longer aired, nor even apart of HBO Storybook Musicals since 1998.
* This is the second episode dealing around a birthday, the other being *Earthday Birthday.*