Terry Denton

"*Wow, my picture is so good it even tastes like a banana!*"
—Terry talking about his banana drawing.

**Terry Denton** is the secondary protagonist in the Treehouse series. He is an expert at drawing, and caveman influencer.

## Personality

Terry appears to do very dumb things, such as eating a live slug and washing his underpants in the shark tank, and as a result seems to be rather dim-witted and strange. He also lacks basic common sense, such as how he loves Barky the Barking Dog. Despite this, he is very creative like Andy, is good at drawing, and is a positive dude. Andy always says he is annoying stupid and an idiot, but he really is as innocent as Andy.

## Biography

### Before the treehouse books

Terry was born to very overprotective parents. They were so protective that he could only eat mushed up food, he could not watch TV, and the only books he could read were about safety. Eventually Terry's parents thought that the world was *too* dangerous, so they strapped him into a safety chair in his bubblewrap covered room.

One night, while everybody was sleeping, an outlet plugged with too many safety devices caught fire. Luckily, Terry woke up. He knew that he was unsafe, so he grabbed his safety chair, and threw it at the window and smashed a big hole in it. And then he climbed through the broken window and stood on a large ledge outside of the building. This was by far the most dangerous situation the little boy had been in. Well, actually, it was the only dangerous situation he'd ever been in. He looked down at the ground below-a long, long, long way below. He looked back in his bedroom, which was now completely on fire. He knew jumping from the top floor of a very tall apartment tower was an extremely dangerous thing to do, but he knew that staying in a burning apartment was extremely dangerous too. Possibly even more extremely than jumping from the top floor of a very tall apartment tower. So he jumped. Down, down, down the little boy fell. . .but he didn't hit the ground. He hit a tree. . .and then bounced off that tree. . .into another tree. . .and then bounced off that tree. . . and hit another tree. . .and then hit a few more trees. . .before falling-with a big splash-into a nearby river. The little boy couldn't swim but as soon as he hit the water his emergency self-inflating underpants activated and away the little boy floated. . .down the river. . .and, eventually, far out to sea.

Once he met Andy, they sailed for days. They were captured by Captain Woodenhead 'the most terrifying pirate of all the seas' and turned into slaves, along with Jill who was also captured by Captain Woodenhead. They peeled potatoes, repaired the rigging, dug holes for his treasure, and cleaned the poop deck. Terry kept insulting him - Captain Woodenhead - and as depicted in the drawings, Captain Woodenhead heard what he said. One day, when they were cleaning the poop deck, Terry insulted Captain Woodenhead worse than before and Captain Woodenhead made them walk the plank. Andy challenged a fight to Woodenhead with his mop, and whacked Woodenhead's wooden head off. Andy, Terry, and Jill escaped by getting some sharks to chew the rope that the pedal boat that Andy was in was attached to, which they later put in the shark tank (Man Eating-Sharks) They escaped through a storm and when they made it safely to land, they found the pirate ship in pieces, which they used to build the Treehouse. Jill found an abandoned cottage nearby and found it just the place for her and her animals. Terry and Andy then lived in harmony living in their treehouse. Mr. Big Nose employed them for the monkey house. However they did not like this job because the monkeys were lazy and mean, so they became his favorite writer and illustrator.

### The 13-Storey Treehouse

In this book Terry painted Jill's favorite cat, Silky, yellow. Andy made him show his latest drawings, for ideas. However, his only drawing is of a finger. Then they get into a drawing competition. They drew knives, worms, and bananas. Obviously Terry won, but Andy got angry and tried to knock him out. But Terry knocked out Andy instead. When Andy wakes up they watch the Barky the Barking Dog Show. When they were just about to watch the Buzzy the Buzzing Fly Show (, Andy broke the TV, and Terry got a package full of sea monkeys from Bill the Postman. So Terry had to very precisely drip water into a cup filled with sea monkeys. One of the sea monkeys ate all of the other sea monkeys, and grew so big they had to throw it into a bathtub. Inside was a mermaid. Terry was so surprised, that he fell in love with the mermaid called Mermaidia. So he kissed her, but it turned out that she was really a monster. Terry was saved from a horrible fate by his Banana Enlarger Ray because it had a shrinking setting. Then he burped himself into a bubble, bought more sea monkeys, and growed them to become real monkeys. Soon they were attacking the treehouse, so Andy and Terry shot them away with a banana. However, the giant gorilla living on the island they shot the banana on got angry and attacked the treehouse. Then Silky and her friends came to the rescue and took the huge ape back to his island. Then Andy and Terry made their book and sent it to Mr. Big Nose.

### The 26-Storey Treehouse

Terry fed his sharks underwear in this book. They got sick so Jill had to operate on them. Captain Woodenhead came back and was going to destroy their treehouse. Terry thought they should go into the maze of doom, so they did. They found a skeleton which they thought was Bill the Postman but it was really a birthday card bandit. They got out of the maze by the help of SIlky and the 11 other catnaries but Captain Woodenhead followed them. But he fell into the man-eating shark tank before he could harm them.

### The 39-Storey Treehouse

In this book Terry is working on a secret machine on the top floor of the treehouse. Terry reveals it as their very own book writing machine called the once upon a time machine, so that they don't have to write it themselves. They turn on the book writing machine and it automatically writes their biography. Terry and Andy get into a big fight with the Trunkinator and get punched so hard they are launched to Cheese-land. When they get back, their machine has turned on them. Terry has a solution, they should rescue the infamous Professor Stupido from the dark side of the moon, and ask him to uninvent the machine. Terry injured his arm badly in the fight with the machine, so Andy has to draw a dot-to-dot rocket ship. Andy and Terry retrieve the professor from the moon and he uninvents the machine. However he gets so angry that he uninvents the whole universe, and even himself. Terry has a solution again. He makes Andy pull the Spooncil out of his nose, and redraws the universe. BUT... he also redrew the writing machine! They do not know it, but the machine has just finished writing their book.

### The 52-Storey Treehouse

Terry now trains ninja snails in this book. Mr. Big Nose has not called Andy and Terry on time, so they go out to his office looking for him. They find out that he is kidnapped by vegetables, and Jill is in a deep sleep. The only way to make her wake up is for her to be kissed by a prince. So they bring Jill and a carnivorous caterpillar to the court of Prince Potato. Terry served as the horse that Andy rode on. Prince Potato found out that they were humans so he threw them in the dungeon. In a little while, they were being boiled in a pot, but Vegetable Patty saved them. In the end they all got home safely. As a present for waking up Jill, she gives them a written copy of the 52-Storey Treehouse printed by the animals. That day is Andy's birthday, which makes Terry sad because he doesn't know what day his birthday is. He wasn't allowed to have a birthday with his parents, because they thought it was too dangerous. So Andy told Terry that they could share a birthday. The Ninja Snails deliver the book to Mr. Big Nose.

### The 65-Storey Treehouse

In this book, Terry swats the Ants away from Andy because the ants were about to kill him. Soon a letter came from Inspector Bubblewrap for a building permit for the treehouse. Andy thinks that Terry got it a long time ago but he really didn't. He met a guy that was selling see into the future peanuts. Terry bought them and traded them for the so called fastest horse in the world because he remembered that he was allergic to see into the future peanuts. He traded the horse for a French speaking goat, he traded the goat for a singing monkey. The mokey couldn't sing Happy Birthday so Terry sold it for a solid gold goldfish, but the goldfish was too heavy so he sold that for a mathematical mouse. However the mouse thought that 2 + 2 = 5 so Terry traded it for a preforming flea, but the flea wouldn't preform so he traded it for a magic bean. He was really hungry so he ate the bean and got an allergic reaction so he blew up but didn't die. After the Inspector checked everything in the treehouse for safety he said that it must be demolished. Terry suggested that he would go back in time with Andy to get the building permit. However Inspector Bubblewrap tagged along with them. So they traveled to prehistoric pond scum, dinosaurs, Cavemen, Ancient Egypt, a Colosseum chariot race, the super safe future, and the future's future. That's where they saved H.G. Wells from giant crabs. He helped them fix their time machine by showing Terry the peice of popcorn he accidentally dropped into the machine. So they returned to the present.

### The 78-Storey Treehouse

In the previous books, Andy and Terry were best friends, almost brothers in fact, but in the 78 storey treehouse that all changes. Mr. Big Shot (the director of the Treehouse Movie) does not think that Andy is interesting enough for his movie, so he hires a monkey named Mel Gibbon to be Andy instead. Terry does not know that Andy is very angry at him so he does everything that Mr. Big Shot wants him to do. Andy tries to warn Terry about the spy cows that are coming to steal their movie ideas but Terry doesn't believe him. Andy soon accuses him of being a chip thief. In the end Andy and Terry get into a big fight taking place in outer space, and Andy wins by chucking Terry into a black hole. At the last moment he pulls him out. Then they both apologize to each other, and Mel Gibbon was not in the movie. So they make their movie, little do they know that the spy cows have stolen all of their movie ideas!

### The 91 storey treehouse

In this book, Andy and Terry are constantly asking Madame Know-it-all questions. Little do they know that talking to Madame Know-it-all drains your brain of knowledge. Soon Mr. Big Nose calls them and asks them to babysit his grandchildren, Alice and Albert and the baby. Soon they get into many adventures involving whirlpools, sandwich submarines, and Banarnia. However, because Andy and Terry asked Madame Know-it-all too many questions, they become mindless nincompoops. Jill rescues them and teaches them everything they used to know, but Andy becomes a brainiac. Terry saves the day by whacking Andy on the head with a mallet twice. Madame Know-it-all is recognised as an evil mastermind by Terry, so they try to drive her out. But she uses her mind sucking turbans to suck out their brains. She was in the process of doing this, when Mr. Big Nose called and got so angry that his nose explodes. Madame Know-it-all is no more, and the Big Red Button is pushed, revealing the secret power of rainbows coming out of their noses.

### The 143 storey treehouse

Terry uses a fake word "Quazjex" and he says things wrongly for example: Have you tacked the pent and Have you acked the pax, Later he reveals his pet stunt axolotl Quazjex

## Love Intrests

It maybe possible that he has a crush on Jill, but is more likely that she has a crush on Andy. He also had a crush on Mermaidia, a mermaid, and wanted to live with her.

## Mistakes

Terry makes several dumb mistakes

Terry's stupid mistakes

## Trivia

* Coincidentally, Terry is better at drawing than Andy. It is unknown why, for Terry was probably not allowed to draw when a child. However, Andy probably was.
* Terry drew the whole current universe using his Spooncil.
* He has a tattoo on his torso that says I HEART PENGUINS.
* Terry hates vegetables, but he also feels sad for them.
* Terry has blond hair.
* It is currently unknown if his parents survived the fire.
* He has a town of Terry clones in Terry Town.
* He was favoured by the Andy's in Andyland in the 78 Storey Treehouse.
* Terry loves Pinnochio
* He might know Latin as shown in the 91 storey treehouse
* It has been referred to many times that Terry might just be a genius, as sometimes he has a really smart idea, but Andy rejects it and calls it dumb.

## Gallery

Andy and Terry drinking lemonadeTerry standing on Andy's head in a swimming poolTerry using Andy's head as a bowling ballTerry talking to birdsAndy, Terry, and penguins smashing fruitA fake ant Terry.Terry having an ice cream.Terry with Silky.

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