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Horrid Henry used to be the posterboy of CITV, Having been made exclusively for the fact CITV was going to become its own full-fledged channel and it was going shut down its in-house production for making orginal live-action programmes in a matter of months, futher emphaizing the pressure on its originated animated programmes to entain its audience.

Horrid henry launched a few months after the launch of the CITV channel, it quickly became one of the channel most popular animated programmes, so much that it even got its own movie a couple years later.

On the other hand, the programme is infamous having animation and sound errors, most of which is more prominent in the first series, but thankfully the programme improves its animation and sound in the later seasons. Even the actual animation and sound errors itself are minor and insignificant and hard to notice at first glance.

Series 1-3 of Horrid Henry are the most memorable due to having hilarious, exhilarating and great moments in those episodes. The first theme tune of the programme was also catchy and memorable.

Series 4 and 5 whilst being good, is considered the weakest seasons of the programme as it introduced alot of changes. Series 4 introduced new intro scenes as well as having a completely different theme tune. Horrid Henry's behaviour and personality is completely changed, as well as the blaintant fact that Henry becomes surprising less Horrid and becomes a lot nicer to the people around him. The formula of series 4 is full of episodes showcasing simplistic slice-life episodes the whole programme from thenward out simply becomes a generic children's animated sitcom. Series 4 was also the last ever series of the Programme to air on CITV.

Series 5 does not improve on any of the problems that series 4 had instead even making some of those problems worse in some episodes of the series. Series 5 also switched networks and was only broadcast on Nicktoons UK. Nicktoons UK gained the rights of the programme in May 2018 so it seemed both channels were airing series 1-4 repeats of Horrid henry now, around the same time a fifth series of the programme was commissoned, and both channels were raring to go to broadcast series 5, however CITV fully lost the rights to the programme in January 2019 and as a consequence not only was CITV barred from airing the new series, it also was not allowed to broadcast anymore repeats of series 1-4 of the programme, effectively marking the end of an era for Horrid Henry on its time on CITV. The style of animation in series 5 slightly differed depending on episodes, some episode of series 5 was still animated in handrawn animation just like the older seasons, whilst other episodes was animated in flash animation instead probably due to lack of budget. The flash animated episodes are still good and not too downright bad, the flash animations causes changes the character's features and makes the movements of the character look too stitly and jilted and rigged. Series 5 was the shortest season overall probably because ideas could not be thought out for ten worth of episodes so the number of episodes decreased by ten, making it have 42 episodes in total when series 1-4 of Horrid Henry had 52 episodes each instead. Series 5 was full of bad to medicore episodes.

I saw this and assumed straight away it was an American product re-voiced for the British market.

But on inspection I see that its in fact a British production that could be re-voiced for the US market, maybe thats already happened? Genie in the House is based on a similar marketing concept. It happens to be made in the UK with British actors but could easily be sold in any market. Careful attention to universal themes strips it of any local relevance.

Its blandness and political correctness (a black nerd kid for instance, there seems to be one in every children's prog these days).

How does the commenter who thinks its not politically correct come to their conclusion?

I actually used to like this show when was 8. I always thought Henry was horrible and his parents were decent parents.

However, looking back I feel like Henry's reason behind his behaviour is the way his parents treat him. His mother is the worst parent in this case.

For example, in one episode, Peter said "good morning" to Henry. Then Henry said "Morning" (he was saying it respectfully btw) then his mother said "Don't be Horrid Henry". Like seriously, he just said morning to Peter without being Disrespectful and his mother was being mean. Oh and another example is that in another episode, his mother forces him to be in ballet while Henry wants to be in Karate. Keep in mind he doesn't like dancing. Like just why?

As for Silly Simon (Henry's Dad), he is way better than the mother because at least he doesn't force Henry to do stuff. However, Silly Simon is also bad at time.

For example, when Henry was in the toilet, Simon said "Henry you come out of the toilet now or I'll give all your toys away and you won't have any pocket money until your 94 and a half." But despite this, he is way better than the mother.

I still like this show but his mother is just disgraceful and trust me there are videos about this as well.

Overall the show is good. But not for children below 12. The way Henry pranks his brother Peter, Margaret and every other character is fun to watch. The reason why i gave 9 is because the same show looks completely different and better in Hindi. Weeks ago, i watched same episode in both English and Hindi simultaneously. And honestly, English version wasn't funny and some dialogues weren't good. For example in Halloween episode of season 1, Henry cuts Peter's hair just for fun. Their mother comes and in English version she says, "Don't be Horrid, Henry!" with a soft voice. But in Hindi, the same dialogue is 'Thappad padega, Henry' (you're gonna get slapped Henry) with angry and loud voice. I'm not saying that Hindi>English but the English voice acting isn't that good honestly.

Hoo, hoo, hoo, ha, ha! As soon as I so much as glance at this show I'm in hysterics - IT IS SO FUNNY!!! Horrid Henry (aged about 12) has got the most hilarious and horrid voice that's, if I'm to tell a lie, so, so soothing and done by a WOMAN (Lizzie Waterworth). The things he gets up to are unbelievable and so bad they're fabulous. I know he's nasty to his little brother Perfect Peter (aged about 7) and sometimes attacks him but, to be fair to the star, he completely brings it on himself provoking his big brother and being boastful. I don't know why Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret don't see eye to eye! They're so much alike and I think when it suits them they're work quite well together - a gruesome twosome! Despite all his dirty-work to cover up his actions everything always goes wrong for Horrid Henry; The Birthday episode sees him having a party for the BIRDS and no Lazor-Zap, just when he "Gets Rich Quick" by stealing his mother's perfume and his father's tennis racket and selling Peter he ends up buying all of them back and loses the money, when he plays hookie he ends up nursing his sick mother and Peter and keeping the house clean instead of playing computer games. I suppose that's his comeuppance for being horrid! I love it when at the end of an episode his horrid plans fail and he screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - it's so funny!