Harold

Harold McGrady, labeled The Dweeb of the group, was a camper on Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass team. He is currently a cast member on Total Drama Action on the Screaming Gaffers.

Total Drama Island
Harold is a rather tall red-head who wears glasses, sports a goatee, and is deemed awkward. Although he is mostly called a nerd, he is unaffected by outside influence and considers himself a loner by choice. He has had some outdoor skills due to being a scout. He also took figure skating lessons. Harold highly resembles Napoleon Dynamite in the way that he talks, saying "Awesome", "Gosh!", and "Idiots!", and in his appearance.

In Dodgebrawl, somebody drew on his face and we learn that he has a medical problem, snoring out loud. Harold has shown to be the underdog of the Killer Bass, although he has proved on many occasions that he is able to save his team when they are suffering in certain challenges. The first occasion was in Dodgebrawl when he was the only person left on his team and caught Owen's ball, winning the point for his team and their first win overall. One episode later, he used his beatboxing skills to score perfectly on the Chef-O-Meter in the talent contest, earning another win for the Killer Bass. At the end of Not Quite Famous, Gwen asks him about his red ant farm and later dumps it into Heather's bed. It is appropriate that Harold has been labeled the underdog, since his most significant victories are ones he earned in situations where the odds were heavily stacked against him. Although he is afraid of ninjas, he showed no fear when he was forced to face his phobia in person while he was in the bathroom in Phobia Factor. Had he not accidentally knocked himself unconscious with his nunchaku, he likely would have faced his fear successfully.

In Up The Creek, Harold got paired up with Duncan and Sadie while riding the canoes to Boney Island. In Paintball Deer Hunter, Harold was a paintball hunter for the Killer Bass, along with Geoff and Bridgette. Bridgette didn't like the sign of this and Harold said that Heather was a deer and Bridgette was convinced to do it. Later, Harold, Geoff and Bridgette spotted the paintball fight between LeShawna, Heather and Beth and start shooting at the latter for fun just as the announcement that the hunt is over.

In If You Can't Take The Heat..., Duncan wakes up and notcies Harold's used underwear inches from him. Harold denies the underwear is his even though DJ points out his mom sewed his name on them and as Harold leaves to take a shower, Duncan, Geoff and DJ decide to teach Harold a lesson. Later, Geoff secretly picks up one of Harold's used briefs with a stick before going back to the kitchen and signaling DJ, who deliberately spills a bucket of water on Harold. Harold says "Smooth move, Dorkahontas." and Geoff says Harold better change. Later, Duncan and Courtney quibble but are interrupted by Harold entering wearing his thong underwear with nothing over them and wanting to know who took all of his shorts. Later, Harold is told by the guys to go back to the cabin for a pair of underwear and shorts but is unaware the guys have soaked the underwear with hot sauce and when he puts them on, he yells "My biscuits are burning!" and plunges into the lake shortly afterward. Harold enters the kitchen wearing pajamas but still refuses to acknowledge leaving his underwear around the cabin. Harold takes a bite out of a sandwich offered to him by Geoff and discovers his underwear in the sandwich and Geoff says they'll return his clothes when Harold admits to what he's been doing.

Later, Duncan, Geoff, and DJ drag Harold's bed to the dock while Harold is sleeping. The next day, Harold wakes up stark naked and at the boat dock in presence of the girls (Heather, Courtney, LeShawna, Lindsay, Bridgette, Gwen, and Sadie) who are swimming in the lake giggling at him and Harold shrieks with embarassment and covers himself with a pillow and says he'll never leave his underwear around again like before and begs for his clothes back. With that, he gets his shorts back and runs for the cabin to get dressed.

Duncan didn't prank him in Who Can You Trust? but in the following episode, Basic Straining, Duncan started to prank him again. In that episode, Harold emerges from the guys' cabin and demands to know who made s'mores with his underwear. Duncan and Geoff laugh in glee at this question and Courtney recoils in disgust when Harold throws the underwear near where she is standing. Later, Geoff uses a fishing line to rip away Harold's underwear, to Harold's consternation. After the first challenge, Geoff and Duncan give Harold a glass of apple juice that Harold discovers is actually kitchen grease. After Courtney and Duncan snuck some food, Harold finds a happy face made of peanut butter smeared in his bed.

He is primarily a target of Duncan's pranks. But when someone really get on his nerves, he will find revenge. He was the reason why Courtney was voted off by switching the original votes with forged ones that mostly called for Courtney to be voted off in order to get back at Duncan (who had just then gotten romantically involved with her). He later sees Heather's breasts on accident during a challenge, which leads him to fail the challenge and be eliminated. Unlike most, Harold was content with his loss (mainly due to being able to see bare breasts before he left) and reveals that he wrote a romantic haiku to LeShawna, revealing his crush on her. The two embrace in a kiss and he leaves the island.

At Playa Des Losers, Courtney is hunting him down after she learns about how she was eliminated. He asks Trent for food, which Trent concedes to, but Ezekiel considers him a "traitor". During the TDI special, LeShawna broke up with Harold, saying their relationship went too fast and the moment on the Dock of Shame was just a fleeting, emotional moment. Harold seems to have accepted the break up, though afterwards he promises he will win her over eventually and then rambles on in the Confessional stall about how they will possibly move in together (specifically in his mother's basement) when they are 30 years old. LeShawna so far seems unaware of his intentions. During the challenge to find the million dollar case, he befriended Heather after she opened up about her insecurities after being rendered alone like he currently was. It is debatable if an actual relationship will come from this, considering Harold is still determined to win over LeShawna (who hates Heather).

Total Drama Action
Harold is shown still trying to win LeShawna over in Monster Cash. It is implied in the future that Harold will spend more time bonding with Heather due to the fact that she remains unpopular with everyone else. Before Geoff was eliminated, Harold shared a bunk bed with him.

Despite Harold's claims to have keen senses to allow him to know when someone is nearby, he is completely oblivious to Chef Hatchet being right behind him in Alien Resurr-eggtion and is the first one to be shot down. Harold seems to have a deluded view of his relationship with LeShawna, even claiming that she is undressing him with her eyes; meanwhile, LeShawna claims in the confessional (quite confidently) that they are not meant to be. Harold is recruited on Gwen's team, the Screaming Gaffers in Riot On Set. Though he attempts to sell himself by informing everyone of his expert knowledge of movie-making and movies in general, no one seems to care and Gwen only chose Harold if only to shut him up. He was the last castmate chosen for Gwen's team.

In Beach Blanket Bogus, Harold is shown to think quite highly of himself and his bottom. Though he is in alliance with Heather, Heather still has no interest in speaking with him. Though Harold frequently speaks highly of himself in his confessionals, he is often met with failure, though he proves to be an expert sandcastle-builder during the second part of the challenge and surprisingly takes a leadership-like role in the project. Unfortunately, none of this visibly impresses LeShawna. He is the one who informs Gwen that Trent became obsessed with the number nine ever since Trent became interested in her. Duncan kicks sand into Harold's face after their team wins the competition, saying it was because he actually had wild dancing moves, but this would only foreshadow worse incidents to come between the two.

As of 3:10 to Crazytown, Duncan has gone back to his ways of regularly torturing Harold like he did last season, but this time he has a reason for it: he found out that it was solely Harold who got Courtney eliminated from Total Drama Island. While Harold continues to be a great asset to his team and again helps them win the western challenge in this episode, he is extremely susceptible to Duncan's pranking, which quickly gets LeShawna's attention. Though she has said that she and Harold were not meant to be, she is becoming angry at Duncan for picking on Harold.

In The Chefshank Redemption, Harold often complains about the prison challenge, and the people around him. After Gwen breaks a shovel over his back, he says that he is both scared and attracted to her, but quickly adds not to tell this to LeShawna, Heather, or Gwen. He, along with LeShawna, Heather, and Gwen herself voted Gwen out of the competition.

In One Flu Over the Cuckoos, LeShawna's liking of Harold becomes more apparent as she defends him from Duncan's antics. During the hospital challenge, Duncan pulls down Harold's pants and tries to stick a rectal thermometer in his mouth when he and all of the other castmates fall ill, and LeShawna sticks up for him both times. However, he refuses to join an alliance with her and Duncan, as he hates the latter bitterly. He is also the first character to reveal their last name: Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the Fifth. He's very embarrassed about the 'Doris' part.

In Masters Of Disasters, Harold reveals that he had to have his kidneys swapped because he had a rare kidney condition that had them in the wrong spots. Harold proves his worth by unlocking the hatch of the submarine during the second challenge, using the skills that he had picked up a "Picky Steve's Lock Pick Camp". This saved the entire cast from drowning during the challenge as the whole thing had gone horribly wrong. In addition, LeShawna still might have feelings for Harold, for when Owen was being sent to a hospital in the film lot, LeShawna snuggles with Harold, and when Harold says he has mad skills in unlocking codes LeShawna agrees with him.

In Full Metal Drama, Harold's rivalry with Duncan reaches it's maximum point as the two believe the other is useless as a team mate. Though Harold tries hard to show his skills, the Gaffers choose to follow Duncan's planning instead. During the third challenge, Harold and Heather attempt to hold back a major gas bubble LeShawna is putting out in an attempt to keep their underground ditch hidden. Ultimately the two fail and the team attempts to retreat. Harold blocks Duncan's way and orders him to admit that he is not completely useless (to which Duncan agrees in order to escape the gassed up hole). The Grips then charge to capture the Gaffers' chest, Harold prepares for battle with his Yo-Yo's armed. Duncan then forces some gas out of LeShawna, creating a smoke scree and allowing Harold to swiftly knock out the opposing team and win the challenge. Duncan and Harold then admit each others' good skills.

Audition tape
In his audition tape, Harold shows everyone his scout badges and then he plays his keyboard, which promptly falls over.

View Harold's Audition Tape

Camp TV


Like many others, Harold was originally a camper included in Total Drama Island's prototype version, Camp TV. He seemed to be a member of a trio that consisted of himself, Cody and Beth. He has a small role in the promo when he asks where his ant farm is, only to say "Nevermind" once Lindsay is running off and screaming while being covered by the ants. Harold's voice is much deeper, comical, and rather like Barney Rubble's from The Flintstones. Interestingly, the fact that he owns an ant farm is carried over into Total Drama Island. Harold's design doesn't differ from his current appearance today. The only differences in his appearance is that his shirt has writing on it instead of the hamburger picture, his pink undershirt loosely hung out from the bottom of his blue shirt and he had a pink collar instead of the small green turtle neck.

Trivia

 * Harold returns to Total Drama Action as a competitor.
 * Harold is one of the few characters to admit love for another character.
 * Harold's full name is revealed to be 'Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the Fifth' in One Flu Over the Cuckoos, insinuating his father is also named Harold.
 * Aside from Chris and  Chef, Harold is the only character so far with an official last name.
 * It is implied that Harold may have a crush on Gwen. In The Chefshank Redemption, he says he is strangely attracted to her after she hit him over the head with a shovel. Harold is the third character to be attracted to Gwen (the others being Cody and Trent).
 * He is one of the few characters to show a form of nudity, in If You Can't Take The Heat... when he wakes up floating on his bed to see all of the girls laughing at him.
 * He saved the Killer Bass from losing several times and continues to help the Screaming Gaffers in Total Drama Action, but he still remains unpopular.
 * Duncan, Geoff, and DJ constantly prank Harold (though given DJ and Geoff's personalities, they may be doing it as friendly competing).
 * Harold made an enemy in Courtney after rigging the votes to eliminate her in Basic Straining.
 * Harold (along with Gwen, Heather, and LeShawna) is the only character who played a significant role in winning challenges and/or immunity for himself or his team more than twice (in Dodgebrawl, Not Quite Famous, Paintball Deer Hunter, 3:10 to Crazytown, The Sand Witch Project, Master Of Disaster and Full Metal Drama).
 * He was the last camper to be eliminated before the teams were dissolved in Total Drama Island.
 * Harold was the last castmate chosen to be on the Screaming Gaffers team in Riot On Set.
 * He is one of the few characters to be seen cross-eyed.
 * Harold ties with Heather in having the most instances of receiving the final marshmallow during the Campfire ceremony: three times (in The Big Sleep, Who Can You Trust?, and Basic Straining).
 * Other than Beth, he was among the few characters who openly faced his fear without any signs of fear in Phobia Factor.
 * Harold is surprisingly one of the tallest characters in the show.
 * Because he has never been seen without his eyes open and glasses off, there has been debate as to whether Harold has normal or dotted eyes. When Courtney threatens him to vote for Duncan in Haut Camp-Ture His eyes are shown with a white outline, implying that his eyes are normal. However, this hasn't happened on any other occasion, so it is difficult to know for sure.
 * Since in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, he mentions to Chef Hatchet that he gets hypoglycemic if he does not get enough sugar daily. From this, it can be inferred that he has Type I Diabetes.
 * He and Ezekiel are the only characters who have picked their noses on-screen.
 * Harold seems to know some form of martial arts, having performed several poses thereof throughout Total Drama Island, although during said season, he appears mostly inept at it. He apparently has some kind of strength at it, though, as shown in Monster Cash (he knocks out Trent with a karate chop, though he may have just hit him in a vital spot).
 * Harold frequently talks about his "skills" and is very underestimated on the show. Many times, his "skills" win his team challenges or helps them in different ways throughout the game.
 * Harold owns an ant farm, which is dumped into Heather's bed in Not Quite Famous.
 * It is not clear whether Harold is a middle child or the youngest in his family.
 * Harold was the first one shown to bring his luggage to the Boat of Losers along with him.
 * Harold is an obvious knockoff of Napoleon Dynamite, though he more closely resembles Kip (from the same movie) in physical appearances.
 * It is noteworthy that Kip gets married to a woman named LaFawnnduh at the end of the movie; this parallels Harold's currently unrequited love for LeShawna (possibly implying that they will get back together; though this might more explain why he gained a crush on her in the first place as she is sometimes called LaFawnduh by Lindsay).
 * Harold is one of the two characters to have a friendly conversation with Heather without being in her alliance; the other being Bridgette in Brunch of Disgustingness (although Heather was obviously faking it to get Bridgette to join her alliance, to which she seemed to be oblivious about).
 * Along with Cody, Izzy, and Lindsay, Harold is one of the few characters who wet his pants. Like Cody, he did so unwillingly, and was ashamed of it.
 * Chris mentioned that the other two producers seem to hate him.
 * Harold has been hit in the groin more than any other male character on the show.
 * Harold and Izzy are the only characters to wear an outfit in their audition tape that they never wear during the show.
 * Harold seems to be ambidextrous.
 * He seems to be right-handed most of the time, but in 3:10 To Crazytown, he is seen writing with his left hand in the confessional stall.
 * He is one of 3 characters to suck their thumb (the others being Trent and DJ):
 * At the beginning of X-Treme Torture, he sucks his thumb while sleeping.
 * Harold is actually seen barefoot for a split second in 3:10 to Crazytown when Duncan tips over the barrel that Harold was bathing in. This is the first and only time so far in the series that Harold has been seen barefoot.
 * He has contracted more than 300 different types of diseases, but has been vaccinated by almost all of them.
 * In addition to trading cards and ninja merchandise, Harold also has a collection of teapots.
 * Harold accidentally revealed in a confessional that he wears a wizard's cape when playing solitaire.
 * LeShawna is trying to form an alliance with him and Duncan, but as of now, he has no interest due to his current feud with Duncan.
 * Harold is the only Gaffer to not be in the competition after the teams were dissolved on Total Drama Island. Gwen, LeShawna, Heather, Dj, and Duncan were all Gaffers that stayed in the competition.
 * Sometime after his elimination, Harold recorded a beatboxing CD, called Spittle Skills.