Harold

**Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V** is a contestant participating in the shows of Total Drama series. On *Total Drama Island*, he was placed on Killer Bass and was eliminated in "The Big Sleep" with 2,959 votes.

## Personality

A skinny, awkward-looking guy, Harold takes immense pride in his numerous "mad skills". Although he isn't much to look at and is often disrespected by many of the other contestants, including his own teammates, Harold is actually an incredibly resourceful young man of many talents and has won several challenges, both for himself and his various teams, impressing others in the process. Harold's geeky interests, his somewhat poor personal hygiene and his know-it-all personality often make him an outcast among his fellow contestants and a perfect bullying target for some people, although he still gets to make many friends.

He has an interest in music, as evidenced by his skills in beatboxing, keyboard, and rapping. Harold is also known to be very confident in his knowledge and will not hesitate to correct other contestants, or even Chris if they present information that is false or inaccurate.

## Trivia

### Comparisons

* Harold is one of the ten characters whose full names have been revealed (Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V), the others being Alejandro, Brick, Cameron, Chris, Cody, Dakota, DJ, Lightning and Nichelle.
* Harold is one of the five contestants who have freckles, along with Courtney, Leonard, Rodney and Scott.
* Harold is one of the few contestants who are known to be able to play an instrument. In his case, it is the keytar and tuba. The others are Alejandro, Cody, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, and Trent.
* Harold is one of the few characters to have had his weight revealed (98 pounds).
* Harold is one of five contestants to speak multiple languages, the others being Ezekiel, Alejandro, Noah, and Sky.
* Harold is one of a number of contestants who wear glasses, with the others being Beth, Cameron, Sam and Scarlett.
* Harold is one of six characters known to role-play. The others are Leonard, Noah, Sam, Sierra, and Tammy.
* Harold is one of 13 male characters to have facial hair, with the others being Alejandro, B, Beardo, Chef, Chris, Damien, DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Sam, Shawn, and Wayne.
* Harold is one of three characters to have tan lines, with the others being Owen, Ezekiel, and Ripper.

### Competition

* Harold is the first male contestant eliminated.

### Miscellaneous

* Harold's guilty pleasure music includes Devo, Barenaked Ladies, and Blondie as confirmed by his voice actor.
* Throughout the series, Harold alludes to having many medical conditions and ailments:
	+ He has numerous allergies, though the only confirmed ones are crab apples and gummi slugs.
	+ Harold once mentions that he has contracted over three hundred diseases and been cured of most of them.
	+ Harold once stubbed his toe and waited in the Emergency Room for thirteen hours until a doctor finally told him that he wouldn't have to amputate, to which his brother called him an over-exaggerating, melodramatic fret-bucket.
	+ When Harold was born, his kidneys were in the wrong place, as his left kidney was where the right one should have been, and vice versa.
	+ He mentions that he gets hypoglycemic if he does not get enough sugar daily.
* Harold seems to know some form of martial arts. He has also shown proficiency with a few weapons, such as his nunchucks and yo-yos.
* Harold has learned several of his skills from camps owned by a man named Steve at various camps. To date he has mentioned:
	+ Magic Steve's Magical Magic Camp, where he spent three summers and learned the 'Phantasm Ball' trick (putting a sheet-covered soccer ball on a fishing pole).
	+ Picky Steve's Lock Picking Camp where he was captain and learned to open a combo lock.
	+ Inventive Steve's Junior Inventors Gizmo League, of which he was a founding member.
	+ Medieval Steve's Medieval Camp, who makes his favorite lunch stew.
	+ Sensei Steve's Feudal Japanese Summer Camp, where he learned everything he knows about Japan.
	+ Magic Steve's Circus and Aeronautics Camp, where he did a summer of animal training.
	+ He has also mentioned going to computer camp and pirate camp, though does not specify if they are Steve affiliates.
* Harold's favorite skills are all of them. It also hints that he believes in aliens, as he believes that keeping tin foil on one's head keeps them away.
* Harold that he owns a teapot collection and wears a wizard's cape while playing solitaire.
* Harold is shown to have a knowledge of Egyptian language, or at least the numbers.
* Harold considers his first job to be a paper route where he would deliver photocopied journal pages of facts he found on the internet, called the Harold Herald.

### References

* Harold appears to be a parody of Napoleon Dynamite sharing many similarities with him in terms of appearance, personality, and interests; such as both of them being considered sci-fi geeks, believing aliens, and knowing how to use nun-chucks. Harold also frequently says phrases like "Idiots" and "Gosh", which are reminiscent of phrases said by Napoleon.
* Harold's H-Bomb outfit is very much like Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G character's.