Duncan and Harold

This article is about the conflict between Duncan and Courtney against Harold

Overview
Duncan and Harold have had a long history of conflict since the beginning of the show. Duncan doesn't put up with Harold's geeky ways nor does Harold put up with Duncan's rebellious ways, and in Total Drama Action the conflict got worst since Duncan realized what Harold did to Courtney; Courtney and Harold have a bit of a conflict too, but with her on the opposite team, the conflict between them hasn't continued as much as that between Duncan and Harold. Still, the conflict between Duncan and Harold still remains. When Harold said Harold isn't a complete loser in Full Metal Drama, it seemed possible that their conflict could be resolved, but events past that episode have proved otherwise. They also decided to join an alliance with LeShawna in Dial M For Merger, but only in order to have a better chance at the prize money.The two immediately backed out of LeShawna's new alliance in Super Hero-ld in order to join Justin to form their new Guys' Alliance and voted LeShawna off the show.

In the later episodes of the season, Harold's dislike for Duncan intensified, especially after Duncan insulted LeShawna in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen. Harold tortured Duncan whenever possible, even hitting Duncan square in the jaw in the aforementioned episode. When Harold was eliminated in 2008: A Space Owen, the two remained on bad terms, but Harold managed to embarrass Duncan one last time before leaving. Their conflict is still unresolved.

Dodgebrawl
When Harold comes into the main lodge, he has a marker-drawn mustache on his face (revealed to be drawn by Duncan in Haut Camp-ture). Courtney tells off Harold when Duncan sits out most of the game due to his snoring, to which he snaps back that his snoring is due to the fact that he has a medical condition. Courtney also heavily criticizes Harold's weak dodgeball-throwing skills and forces him to sit out the game after his performance in the first round, even though he wants to actively participate.

It became apparent that Duncan's fierceness was needed to win the game, and so Harold was forced by Courtney to poke a stick into Duncan's nose (since he was the "weakest" team player left, in the event that Duncan was enraged enough to kill a camper as he so threatened, Courtney said Harold was the only one they could afford to lose). Harold is eventually allowed back into the game, due to Geoff pitying him, and saves his team, defeating overwhelming odds by dodging all of Owen's (the strongest player in the Screaming Gophers,) balls and catching the last one to win his team the game.

Not Quite Famous
Courtney didn't give Harold a chance to audition for the talent contest at first. The only reason why she allowed Harold to go later was because she was forced to let him perform, resulting in their team winning the challenge. His victory was so stunning that she even embraced him (She was likely caught up in the moment).

Phobia Factor
Harold shook his head out of disagreement when Courtney yelled at DJ for taking time about not conquering his fear of snakes.

Up the Creek
To bug Harold and Sadie, Duncan becomes their canoe partner. Courtney stated that Harold's arms are too skinny to push the canoe when the Killer Bass are devising a method to make it back to camp after Harold accidentally burns their canoe paddles for firewood.

If You Can't Take The Heat...
When doing morning exercises, Duncan is greatly disgusted by Harold leaving his underwear lying around when he sniffed the air, therefore, Geoff and DJ join Duncan in teaching Harold a lesson about leaving his underwear lying around by pulling a series of pranks against Harold. Geoff secretly steals one of Harold's briefs and DJ purposely spills water on Harold. Duncan, Geoff, and DJ put hot sauce on one of Harold's underwear. Geoff then feeds Harold with a sandwich containing Harold's underwear and Geoff says that he will return Harold's clothes if Harold admits that he leaves his underwear lying around. After the ceremony, Duncan, Geoff, and DJ drag Harold's bed to the dock while Harold was sleeping. Harold finally admits that he will never leave his underwear lying around when he wakes up naked in presence of the girls who are swimming in the lake. Courtney also teasingly greeted him as he woke up (along with LeShawna).

Basic Straining
This episode begins with Duncan and Geoff making s'mores out of Harold's underwear. Courtney was grossed out when one of the underwear s'mores were thrown at Courtney.

Duncan, aided by Geoff, also gave Harold a wedgie with a fishing hook, as well as tricking Harold into eating kitchen grease by telling Harold that it is apple juice, making Harold spit it back out. After Duncan and Courtney smuggle food from Chris' tent, Duncan uses some peanut butter to make a smiley face on Harold's bed. Geoff and Duncan laugh at Harold's reaction after he sees their mess and says that it was gross. When Harold sees Duncan and Courtney kissing, Harold gets upset and uses Courtney for revenge against Duncan for his constant pranking. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Courtney was voted off because Harold tampered with the votes.

Haut Camp-ture
Courtney spends the entire episode blaming Harold for her elimination. Harold is hiding from Courtney in the bushes, but Courtney eventually finds him and beats him up with a lamppost. Harold said that he hates Duncan and then listed all the pranks Duncan had pulled against him. He also said that what he did to Courtney was pretty heinous, but he was really upset with Duncan because he kept bugging him. He refused to vote for Duncan to win, although he is forced by Courtney to vote for Duncan to win. Noah enjoyed watching Courtney and Harold slap fight when Courtney accidentally voted for LeShawna, and when both fall in the pool.

Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!
Harold asks Courtney and Duncan if he can join them, but Courtney furiously rejects him, saying that he will only slow them down. Duncan also calls Harold a doofus in the Confessional Stall after Courtney ignored and turns down Harold.

Theme song
Duncan and Courtney kiss and are then seen smiling deviously with each other at Harold's misfortune when Harold is shot with seagulls by Duncan.

Monster Cash
Sometime after Chris said "action", Duncan threw Harold out of the vehicle they were in.

Beach Blanket Bogus
After the dance challenge and during the Screaming Gaffers victory beach party, Harold had Duncan kick sand at him for showing off his dance moves.

3:10 to Crazytown
Duncan trips Harold into a tub of water and laughs at his misfortune after Harold shows off his toughness before the first challenge. Duncan purposely landed on Harold when Harold successfully landed on the horse during the first challenge.

LeShawna starts to wonder why "That Punk-Haired, Skull-Shirted Wannabe" Duncan continues to pick on Harold. Harold has his entire body wrapped in rope and hogtied by Duncan when the Screaming Gaffers won the final challenge. Duncan shakes Harold out of the barrel he is bathing in. In the confessional stall LeShawna disapproves of what Duncan did to Harold. Duncan replies that he is paying Harold back for what Harold did to Courtney (in Basic Straining), as he finally figured out who was behind her wrongful elimination in Total Drama Island.

One Flu Over the Cuckoos
In this episode, LeShawna makes attempts to form an alliance with Harold and Duncan. Despite her attempts, Duncan just laughs at the idea, and Harold calls her 'nuts'. Harold also questions why LeShawna even talks to Duncan, saying he is a "worthless punk". Harold also said that he "absolutely refuses" to be in an alliance with him.

Throughout the episode, Duncan continues to irritate Harold, such as when he pulled down his pants during the first part of the challenge, when Duncan tramples Harold only to say 'whoops-a-daisy', and when Duncan attempted to take Harold's 'temperature' with a rectal thermometer. Also, when Harold reveals his full name in the confessional, and tells the camera person to not tell Duncan that one of his middle names is "Doris". However, Duncan finds out anyway, infuriating Harold. However, LeShawna steps in for Harold multiple times when Duncan antagonizes him.

The Sand Witch Project
The conflict continues in this episode. While the Gaffers are discussing who the Killer should be for this challenge, everyone agrees that Duncan should be the killer because of his acting abilities and plain scary personality, Harold agrees with them all by shivering and saying that he's terrified of Duncan on a daily basis. Harold tries to convince Duncan and the others that he is very skilled multiple times, but Duncan remains unimpressed, and often refers to him as insulting names such as "The Great Dorko" and "Harry Hood-"Weeny"". At one point, Harold purposely uses Duncan's soccer ball to perform a magic trick (in an attempt to scare the opposing team out of the tent, which was part of a challenge), after which Duncan proceeds to kick him in the groin.

Masters of Disasters
In the beginning of the episode, Duncan puts his share of Chef's disgusting food in Harold's bowl. During the flooding submarine challenge, Harold volunteers to pick the lock and boasts about his lockpicking skills. Duncan trips him and tells him to hurry up. Later, Harold criticizes Duncan about not looking like a big thinker, which causes Duncan to dunk Harold's head in the water.

Full Metal Drama
When the war challenge starts, Harold insists that he will be a valuable player due to his vast experience in online battles. Duncan mocks him so Harold says that he will defeat his foes with his "nun-yos", a portmanteau of "nunchakus" and "yo-yo". Duncan responds by sticking in a twig during Harold's spinning routine, with one of his yo-yos hitting him in the groin. Duncan calls him a loser and walks off laughing while Harold lies in pain. Throughout the challenge, Duncan picks on Harold no matter what he does, angering him even further.

When Harold and Duncan are trapped in the foxhole with LeShawna farting all over the place, Duncan is desperate to escape, but gets in a heated argument with Harold when they accuse each other of not being team players. Fed up, Harold forces Duncan into referring him as an equal by intimidating him with LeShawna's worsening farts. The two finally escape and then face the Killer Grips head on, as they are attacking the Gaffers.

Ocean's Eight - Or Nine
Duncan consistently picks on Harold throughout the challenges again. For the bank-robbing heist, he made masks from Harold's lucky socks, cut up his magazines, and slapped a portrait of Harold on Harold's face. When Harold notices Courtney returned, he said to Duncan "Good news, eh Duncan?" which Duncan then shoved him to the ground. Duncan also laughed at him along with Heather when Harold had a bra on after they crashed through a pile of clothing during the go-kart challenge.

Harold likely hopes to see Courtney make things miserable for Duncan, since he mockingly told him what a good thing her return was.

One Million Bucks, B.C.
Duncan throws a rock at Harold's shoes when Harold was explaining the uses of rocks. During the fire building challenge, Duncan tripped Harold and let "animatronic" prehistoric beavers drag him away. In the confessional, Harold admits that both he and Duncan equally hate hate each other.

Million Dollar Babies
Courtney glared at Harold when the pom-poms arrived. Then when Harold hugged Duncan, Duncan glared at him.

Dial M for Merger
Duncan calls Harold "Mister Ninja not so much." Harold says if Duncan could deactivate bombs as well as booby traps then they are dead. In the laser challenge Harold comments that Duncan is making googly eyes on Courtney then Duncan pushes Harold into a laser. In the bomb deactivating challenge, both blamed each other about not knowing how to disarm a bomb.

Super Hero-ld
Duncan puts a burrito (off-screen) in Harold's pocket after dinner, then kicks him in the butt. Justin intervenes in the fight and convinces Duncan and Harold to form a new Guys' Alliance because they were completely outnumbered by the girls. The two agreed to join him. During the superhero challenge, as Harold was getting ready to head over to complete the obstacle course, Duncan makes fun at Harold and jokingly tells him if he's using wind to get him through. Harold tells him that he is right and manages to complete it. After Harold tells him to top that, Duncan grabs him by the cape and threatenly tells Harold that his power is to creme dorks like him. As the Guys' Alliance plan on who to vote off, Duncan suggests on getting LeShawna sent home, but Harold refuses to vote with him and Justin. Harold even tells Duncan about their alliance with LeShawna and says to him that they should vote him off for treason. Duncan again threatens Harold due to the guys being outnumbered and plans on telling LeShawna that he picks his nose in his sleep. Harold tells him that he has substantial evidence at best while sticking out his mucus at Duncan. When it was revealed that LeShawna was sent home instead of Duncan, Harold tells her that he voted for her along with Duncan, Justin and Courtney. LeShawna then forgave him due to his mistake. As she heads over to the Lame-o-sine, LeShawna tells Harold to kick Duncan's butt. After she leaves, Duncan tells Harold that he got something in his pocket, then kicks him in the butt when Duncan put Harold's burrito in the back of his pants again and runs out laughing.

The Princess Pride
Duncan tries to impress Courtney by beating up Harold while she was singing. When Courtney blew an air kiss to Harold, Duncan grabbed it before it can touch Harold. When Duncan was fighting the dragon, he called the dragon names he would usually call Harold. Harold teamed up with Justin to help take down Duncan by having the dragon fall on him.

Get A Clue
Harold attempts to get Duncan's DNA and hand print with an elaborate trap but Duncan manages to avoid it and got Harold's DNA and hand print in the process. Harold tries to trap Duncan again in the confessional by dropping a barrel on him but Duncan caught it. When they tried to stop the train by throwing objects in the wheel, Courtney took Harold's magnifying glass and threw it in the wheel, breaking it. Duncan makes fun of him after they threw a soda and a pillow at the wheel, it flew back at Harold, covering him with feathers.

Rock n' Rule
Duncan gets annoyed with Harold acting like a rock star, he told Harold to "bite me" before the guitar challenge. During the red carpet challenge, when Harold was about to start, Duncan told Harold to hurry up using his middle name, Doris. This caused Harold to have a crying fit and run through and destroy all the cardboard cut-out of the fans and paparazzi. Harold looked at Courtney's voting device to see who she was voting for, until Courtney saw him and moved her device away from him.

Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen
In the beginning of the episode, Duncan filled Harold's bed with snails. During their training for the challenge, when Harold was punching a "Duncan" punching bag very poorly, Duncan yelled some insults to Harold to make him punch harder, the last insult was him telling Harold he kissed LeShawna which made Harold so angry he punched through the bag and choked Duncan with one hand. Right before the challenge, Chris put Harold and Beth in robot suit which are controlled by Duncan and Courtney. Duncan made Harold kick himself several times. On the Bonsai tree challenge, Duncan and Harold started to get along but Chris had Owen to sabotage their friendship in order to make the show more interesting. When Owen asked what Harold missed about LeShawna, Duncan laughed at Harold's response which caused Harold to take Duncan's glass of water, splash it in his face, then punched him in his face, knocking him out. This allowed him to win the challenge.

Duncan can later be seen sulking outside the tent while Harold indulges in his reward.



2008: A Space Owen
In the beginning of the episode, Harold filled Duncan's mattress with rocks, and throughout the episode Duncan's back was sore until he went in the Vomit Comet.When the competitors find out that the challenge is riding in the Vomit Comet, Harold apparently mocks Courtney for picking herself to go last. After Harold killed Duncan's tarantula, Scruffy, Duncan voted Harold off. When Harold departed the competition, Duncan shouted "Get on with it Doris!" This angered Harold, causing him to run up to Duncan and pull down his pants. Duncan admits he had that one coming.

Although the conflict remains unresolved, Harold seems to have more or less settled the score with Duncan to his own satisfaction.

Episodes Against
Although Duncan and Courtney are usually foes of Harold, there is a sometimes signs of a friendship between Duncan/Courtney and Harold.

Not So Happy Campers Part 1
When the Campers are eating Duncan is seen sitting next to Harold.

Dodgebrawl
Duncan compliments Harold's dodgeball playing after he wins the challenge, though he calls him a "skater nerd" after he compliments him (however, his tone is not malicious or disrespectful). Courtney also compliments Harold's "team spirit", though after that she tells him to wake up Duncan. Courtney was impressed in Harold winning the game as well.

Not Quite Famous
After doing great in beatboxing and single-handedly saving the team a second time, Courtney (along with Bridgette), runs to Harold and hugs him.

Phobia Factor
Harold cheers for Duncan when he faces his fear.

Basic Straining
When Duncan gave kitchen grease to Harold Courtney called Duncan and Geoff immature and the she hoped they were proud of themselves. But based on Courtney's Crush on Duncan she might have just said that as excuse to talk to Duncan and didn't really mean to defend The Dude

X-Treme Torture
Duncan high-fives Harold when he leaves the island.

Total Drama Action Picture Shoot
Duncan and Harold are by each other and hugging and they both seem happy and not mad about it, which may denote a friendship.

Beach Blanket Bogus
In the sandcastle building challenge, Duncan looks impressed with Harold's sandcastle. Later during the Gaffers' victory party, Duncan kicks sand in Harold's face, but he compliments his dance moves and it may be his way of respecting Harold.

Masters of Disasters
Duncan nods in agreement when Harold says he wishes DJ was still there. At the end of the episode, Duncan and Harold are shown happily clanking bottles of soda together during their victory celebration.

Full Metal Drama
In the beginning of the episode, Duncan reminds Harold about LeShawna lying to them. Harold later forces Duncan to admit to him that he isn't a complete loser and that he values a small portion of him that isn't a loser, altough Duncan probably just admitted to get out of the underground base. Later, Duncan and Harold cooperated in fighting off the attacking Killer Grips. Using LeShawna's blasts of bad gas as cover, Duncan buys Harold time to defeat all of the Grips with his "num-yos", and is thoroughly impressed by Harold's performance. Later, when they find that the chest they were protecting was empty, they wail in agonizing defeat.

Million Dollar Babies
Duncan and (especially) Harold have clearly shown too much sadness due to LeShawna's dissing that they're too sad to even diss each other. And they shared the confessional together, Duncan looks sorry for Harold when he admits he's still sad about LeShawna trash-talking about him, and Harold to even grab onto Duncan's chestal region, causing both of them to look shocked at each other (however, Duncan looked somewhat angry).

Dial M for Merger
Harold and Duncan helped LeShawna get through the lasers, then formed a "secret alliance" with her.

Super Hero-ld
When Harold refuses to vote off LeShawna, Duncan convinces Courtney to talk to Harold about voting LeShawna off. She convinces him that she could take him to the final four, also if LeShawna stays he'll be the first of the guys to go. Harold votes LeShawna off, but later regrets it.

Princess Pride
Duncan declared Harold the winner in the "Biggest Burrito" contest. Harold thinks Courtney's song was beautiful and requested a copy. Later he listened to it in the confessional and started singing. Courtney blew Harold, along with Justin and Duncan, an air kiss.

Get a Clue
Courtney managed to convince Harold on assisting her on trying to stop the train. Only by allowing him to still use his magnify glass.

Rock n' Rule
Harold admires Courtney's skills on playing the guitar.

Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen
Duncan and Harold got along better in this episode. While in the training, Duncan got Harold to his limit by saying he "had kissed LeShawna" and blew a left hook in his face. During the Bonzai tree challenge, Duncan helped Harold from spilling his cup, then thanking him for getting them this far in the challenge with his left hook. They later agreed to split the prize if they win and helped each other climb the mountain. But Owen's interference may have ruined their friendship.

2008: A Space Owen
Courtney, Duncan, and the rest of the contestants cheer for Harold after he stops one of the problems during the first part of the challenge.After Scruffy jumped onto Harold's face, Duncan got it off Harold's face. Later moment before the elimination ceremony, they can be seen sitting next to each other.

Trivia

 * This conflict was the second conflict of Total Drama Island after the Duncan-Noah Conflict.
 * There is a connection between this conflict and the Courtney-Duncan Relationship.
 * When Courtney returned in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, she showed no hostility towards Harold. However, they will most likely interact more later on.
 * Since Harold and Duncan got along to an extent in Full Metal Drama, this conflict might be resolved in the near future. However, their "getting along" was mostly caused because LeShawna had gas and Duncan was terrified enough to have a truce with Harold.
 * But it can be noted that Duncan and Harold shared a confession together which usually only friends do. It is also noted that Duncan and Harold agreed in it and the fact that Duncan's facial expression showed sorry to Harold because he's still in love.
 * On the promo for TDA, Duncan is seen with his arm over Harold and both are smiling happily. This indicated that their relationship would probably improve over the season and the two might in fact become friends. However, given the state of their relationship at the time Harold got eliminated, it would appear that this was not the case.
 * Both have made it to the Top 5 in Total Drama Action.
 * Both Duncan and Harold wear long sleeve shirts.
 * Both Duncan and Harold have facial hair.
 * Lately the conflict between Harold and Duncan is becoming more of a rivalry, since in 2008: A Space Owen. Harold pulled two pranks on Duncan.
 * Duncan has made it farther in the competition than Harold and Courtney in both seasons.