Harold Scott

Harold

Background information

**First episode**
"A Tale of Two Tables" (mentioned)"Overnight Success" (physical)

**Voice**
Wayne Brady

Character information

**Full name**
Harold Scott

**Other names**
Hare-Bear (by Howard)Mr. Scott (by all of the Scotts)Dad (by Sydney)

**Age**
Unknown (Adult)

**Relatives**
Howard Scott (husband)Sydney Scott (adoptive daughter)Gayle Scott (mother) Brenda (sister or sister-in-law)

**Friends**
TylerBradTriciaDr. LopezTiago

**Likes**

**Dislikes**
Sydney in dangerPartiesBeing overwhelmedHoward's beef bourguignonSeeing Sydney upsetMarlo misbehaving

**Quote**
"Great good heavens!"

**Harold Scott** is a supporting character in *TylerTales*.

Personality
Harold is more level-headed and collected than his husband. A pet name Howard has for him is "Hare-Bear".
Due to having completely different life experiences than Tyler, Harold often mistakes his comments for jokes and thinks he is very funny. He tends to use outdated slang and exclamations involving the word "great", such as "Great good heavens!", and "Great Betty Buckley!"
Harold used to play baseball when he was in college. He is still able to play but is obviously not as athletic as he used to be. Harold owns multiple sweater vests and bow ties in different colors, one of them being holiday-themed.

Biography
Season 1
Harold is one of Sydney's dads, and he is seen or mentioned in ten episodes of the first season.
He is first mentioned in "A Tale of Two Tables", in which Sydney helps Howard and Harold do their taxes, while Tyler calls her, via walkie-talkie.
In "Overnight Success", Harold makes his first on-screen appearance. In the episode, he walks Sydney over to the Scott family's house for a sleepover.
Off-screen in "Hand-Me-Downer", Howard and Harold go tandem biking and find Summer Peaches' lost BMX bike.
In "The Green House", Sydney tells Mrs. Johnson that her parents use solar panels and try not to burn any fossil fuels.
Harold and Howard are the focus of the episode "Attention Deficit". In this episode, it is revealed that Harold played baseball in college.
In "Tyler Scott: Girl Guru", Sydney says that Howard and Harold call her a great hugger and always compliment her "million-dollar" smile.
In "Roughin' It", Howard and Harold stay at the North Valley Bed & Breakfast while Sydney camps outside with Tyler. They give Sydney many modern appliances and supplies to use. It is revealed in the same episode that Howard and Harold once went on a safari. There, they camped out in a fancy tent with its own veranda.
In "The Waiting Game", Howard and Harold make Sydney wear a hazmat suit to Tiara Sparkles' sewage party.
After Sydney falls off the Tunnel of Love ride in "A Fair to Remember", the carnival manager asks "the parents of a soggy girl" (Sydney) to come pick her up. Howard and Harold do not make a physical appearance, but this line indirectly references them.
In "April Fools Rules", Sydney tells Tyler that she and her dads have to keep their bunny Marlo in a crate when she gets "feisty".
Howard and Harold's tandem bicycle appears in "Butterfly Effect", although neither of the dads were seen in the episode.
Their house and chairs once again appear without them in "One Flu Over TylerTales".

Season 2
Harold appeared in two of the three first episodes in Season 2. He was present for the series' holiday special "11 Scotts a Leapin'".
"Baby Steps" was another episode that focused on them. In it, Sydney thinks he and Howard are going to have another child. It ends up being a misunderstanding and they were actually getting another koala for her. At the end of the episode, Howard and Harold decide to go out together while they let Sydney practice her big sister skills.
In "The Whole Picture", it is revealed that Howard and Harold back up all of Sydney's childhood photos with their online cloud storage. Sydney also mentions that she and her dads hold acting sessions every Friday.
In "Kick the Bucket List", Howard and Harold surprise Sydney by going on an eight-day vacation in Hawaii. They go on a plane, visit a volcano, go sailing, and swim in the ocean. Throughout the entire trip, Sydney tries to trim down the list of activities she planned to do with Tyler over spring break. This leaves her distracted, so Howard and Harold have to continually save her from danger she is unaware of: they pull her away from lava when visiting the volcano, catch her when she nearly falls overboard on their sailing trip, and take a fish off of her head when they go swimming.
In "ARGGH! You for Real?", he and Howard become worried about Sydney throwing all her stuff and call Tyler to help them.
In "Health Kicked", Harold and Howard are shown to be competing in the Aberdale Ultra Extreme Ninja Competition. Later, they came by pulling their van with rope.
In "Yes Man", he is seen in a photo when Sydney calls Tyler with her laptop.
In "Tricked!", Sydney mentions that if candy is brought to the Second Scott House, her dads will it lock up and only bring out one small piece at a time.
In "Snow Way Down", Harold and Howard are the major focus in this episode, where Tyler discovers how overprotective they are. It is also revealed in this episode that whenever Howard makes his beef bourguignon, he doesn't really like it.

Season 3
In "Tripped!", it is mentioned that Sydney and her dads are taking care of the family pets.
In "White Hare", he and Howard are mentioned when Tyler tells Sydney that there are some things a man must do alone. Sydney then tells Tyler she said the same thing to her dad the first time she used the public restroom.
In "Teachers' Union", Sydney mentions to Coach Pacowski that he and Howard state there is a lid for every jar.
In "Pasture Bedtime", Sydney mentions that Harold and Howard check to make sure that re-applies her bug spray.
In "What Wood Tyler Do?", Harold and Howard appear in flashback while Sydney is being lifted into an ambulance after trying to inflate a balloon herself.
In "Absent Minded", Sydney mentions that she traded Harold or Howard's quiche for Mystabella's leftover pizza.
In "Game Boys", Sydney mentions to Tyler that her dads think they need one full day to completely unplug.
In "Middle Men", Sydney mentions that her dads watched a cop TV show the previous night.
In "Cooked!", he, his husband and daughter are eating at Brad's Table towards the end of the episode.

Season 4
In "Rocket Men", Sydney asks her parents to go to Space Cadets Experience, a one-week event taking place at a space camp. Harold and Howard are hesitant fearing that Sydney won't be able to take care of herself for a whole week. However, when they see how excited Sydney is, they agree to let her go. Later that night, Sydney calls him and Howard to come and pick her up from the camp. Feeling sorry for Sydney, they encouraged her to stay a bit longer, saying although they might not like it initially they'll eventually find something they'll enjoy. The next morning when the dads arrive at camp to pick up Sydney they notice that she is down and Sydney explains that she gave Space Camp a chance, while they did not enjoy them at first they now enjoy it. This speech makes the dads state that as long as they had fun, they can stay if they want, much to the boys' happiness.
In "Last Scott on Earth", Harold, Howard, and Brad go to look for Tyler and Sydney after they seemingly go missing after a storm warning.
In "Stall Monitor", Harold and Howard go to Sydney's parent teacher today conference they asks a lot of questions about classroom safety.
In "Exchange of Heart", when Sydney grows tired of Harold and Howard's overprotectiveness, she invites an exchange student named Tiago in their house.
In "Purrfect Gig", Harold and his husband Howard hire Rosie Bloom to look after their beloved animals during their absence, provided that she does not bring more than one person into the house. Despite this recommendation, Rosie Bloom invites Bridie and her brother Syd Surfboard to ask for help and advice about the pet-sitting. At the end of the episode, Harold was impressed with Bridie's work towards the animals and decided to give compensation to both her and Rosie Bloom.

Season 5
In "A Flipmas Carol", Harold consoles his husband Howard after finding out he got a Fluffy Souffle scam for new Christmas inflatable puppets.
In "No Bus No Fuss" Harold helps his husband Howard make the car safer and more protected by using various rolls of bubble wrap.
in "Resident Upheaval", Howard, Harold and their daughter Sydney go together to visit the "Sunset Canyon" retirement home to get to know him better, so that they can give Nana Gayle a suitable place.
In "Flying Solo", Howard and Harold go to see Sydney's first musical performance, along with aunts Pat and Hoda.
In "Dad Reputation", Harold is part of a band called the Doo Dads, which also consists of Kotaro, Brad and Rodney.

Other
Harold and Howard are mentioned in the compilation short "The Many Sides of Sydney Scott." In a 2016 live stream from the Cartoon Network Animation Studio Facebook page, Miguel Puga drew the Dads. They are also drawn by Chris Savino in a live stream from February 2017. Howard and Harold were mentioned by Tyler in an animated Facebook Live video in October 2017, when he talks to Sydney and says "Say hi to your dads for me!"

Appearance
Harold is a round man, with dark skin and black hair. His hair appears to be thinning and is very short compared to Howard's height and his hair. He wears a blue/teal sweater vest, with a black bow tie, and a light blue shirt underneath. He also sports a pair of jeans and brown loafer shoes.
In a live stream from Nickelodeon on February 2017, Chris Savino drew the Dads' original designs. Harold was shown to be bald and have no chin outline, but otherwise, his features were identical.

Trivia* The colors and styles of clothing that the Scott and Second Scott parents wear correspond with each other. Harold and Brad both wear sweaters and brown loafer shoes, and they both have thinning hair.
* Whenever the *TylerTales* social media accounts refer to Howard and Harold as Sydney's dads, "Dads" is capitalized as a proper noun.
* It is revealed that his surname was Scott before he was married, due to Gayle being his mother.
* Either Howard or Harold must have been a medical professional at some point or at least gone through medical school. It is mentioned that they give Tyler and Sydney their vaccinations in "Attention Deficit", so they must have easy access to medical equipment, and the license to administer that kind of medication.
* Howard only calls him Harold instead of Hare-Bear once, during a brief scene in "Attention Deficit", when Howard is really stressed out.
* Similarly to Tyler, when Harold says something loudly, he turns his head back so only his nose and mouth are shown.
* Harold is the only supporting character in Season 3 who doesn't speak.
* In "Dad Reputation" it's revealed that he can play the accordion.
* His name means "army ruler".
* According to the description from the "Love Out Loud" comic, he and his husband Howard have been together as a couple for 20 years (8 years before Sydney was born).