Their cat Chester, however, is convinced Bunnicula is a vampire and attempts to get Harold to help save the Monroes from the perceived menace.

Unluckily, Chester, who has an outrageously vivid imagination and a narrow mind, thinks Bunnicula is a real vampire and forces Harold to assist him to kill the rabbit.

Throughout the series, Harold is portrayed as good-hearted and sensible in his own way, though perhaps a bit slow ( which subjects him to rude nicknames given to him by Chester ), and remains unconvinced of Chester's belief that Bunnicula is a vampire regardless of some actual evidence that may support Chester's theories, however briefly seen or referenced.

Despite everything, Harold never stops thinking of Chester as his best friend.

( An apparent ' survivor ' of the purge Chester lead them on appears to try sneaking up on Harold at the climax of The Celery Stalks at Midnight, only to be spotted by Harold, who then asks Chester for a toothpick in order to ' kill ' the offending object.

Harold and eventually Howie disagree with Chester's methods, as Chester is often carried away with his imagination and narrow-mindedness.

) One of Bunnicula's apparent victims tries to sneak up on Harold at the end of the book, and it is left ambiguous as to whether or not Chester was playing a prank on Harold, though Chester seemed to be oblivious to the thumping noise the vegetable was making, or if this was indeed an actual attempt at an attack by a vampire vegetable.

For an unknown reason, he calls Harold and Chester " Uncle Harold " and " Pop ", respectively ; while Harold is perfectly comfortable with his nickname, Chester is still not used to his own.

Names like this seem to be a habit with her, because Harold and Chester were both called " Fluffy " for a short time.

He likes to share his snacks with Harold during his late-night readings, and is adored by Chester and Howie.

Harold the dog takes a liking the new pet, but Chester the cat remains suspicious.

Chester uses a book entitled The Mark of the Vampire ( both Chester and Harold can read ) as a reference guide for how to deal with the rabbit.

The Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan had been fighting for several years against inflation, which had peaked at 26. 9 % in the 12 months to August 1975, but wished to avoid large increases in unemployment.

They wanted to avoid the strong centralized authority of Harold Fairhair from which they had fled, but they also wanted to replicate the Norwegian tradition of laws and district legal assemblies ( Þing ).

" With the campaign theme: " Church, Family, Community ," support from Mayor Harold Washington – who donated $ 12, 000 to Gutiérrez – and the now 250 members of the West Town-26th Ward Independent Political Organization as volunteers, Gutiérrez bested Torres by 22 votes, a margin not large enough to avoid a run-off against Torres.

According to Harold Bender and several of his colleagues, the Anabaptists were " voluntaristic in religious choice, advocates of a church completely free from state influence, biblical literalists, non-participants in any government activity to avoid moral compromise, suffering servant disciples of Jesus who emphasized moral living and who were persecuted and martyred as Jesus had been, and restitutionists who tried to restore pre-Constantinian Christian primitivism.

In series 1, one of the running jokes is the company trying to avoid working on " The Sir Harold Dixon Account.

They moved to Finchley in North London, but young Harold travelled from there daily to his East End grammar school, to avoid the disruption to his education that a school transfer would have caused.

He handed Harold a key to the front door, and cautioned him against leaving it unlocked while they were out of the apartment.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.

Although Harry Brown's A Sound of Hunting had a run of only three weeks, Lancaster's performance drew the attention of a Hollywood agent, Harold Hecht, and through him to Hal Wallis, who cast Lancaster in The Killers ( 1946 ).

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

Gardner would rarely see Harold, who went on to study Law at the University of Oxford, but saw more of Bob, who drew pictures for him, and Douglas, with whom he shared his nursery.

Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother ( Vivian Pickles ) prescribes for him, and develops a relationship with a 79-year-old woman named Maude ( played by Ruth Gordon ).

The pair form a bond, and Maude slowly shows Harold the pleasures of art and music ( Harold is taught to play banjo ), and teaches him how to " the most of his time on earth.

# Letting his mother find him in her bathtub, throat and wrists slit and the mirrors drenched in blood: After this act, Harold sees a psychiatrist.

# Floating dead in pool: Harold floats face down, fully clothed, for an impossibly long time as his mother swims laps past him.

As the blast sends him toppling backward with a hole in his forehead, his mother snaps, " Harold!

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

With the help of his underling, Tim Stamper, Urquhart goes about making sure his competitors drop out of the race: Peter MacKenzie, secretary of health, accidentally runs his car over a protester at a demonstration staged by Urquhart and is forced to withdraw by the public outcry, while Harold Earle, secretary for education, is blackmailed into withdrawing when Urquhart anonymously sends pictures of him in the company of a rentboy he had paid for sex.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

However, Harold W. Attridge contends that John's status as a " self-conscious and deliberate forerunner of Jesus " is likely to be an invention by early Christians, arguing that " for the early church it would have been something of an embarrassment to say that Jesus, who was in their minds superior to John the Baptist, had been baptized by him.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

Harold Bloom suggests that the power of the poetic imagination, stronger than nature or art, fills the narrator and grants him the ability to share this vision with others through his poetry.

Though Paganini also commissioned from him Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra, he never performed it, and instead it was premiered a year later by violist Christian Urhan.

* Harold I Harefoot, king of the Anglo-Saxons ( 1035 – 1040 ), illegitimate son of Cnut, died in 1040 and his half-brother, Harthacanute, on succeeding him, had his body taken from its tomb and cast in a pen with animals.

While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.

Billy Connolly has had more than one devoted to him trying to ingratiate himself with the Queen ; Harold Shipman and Fred West got their own strip as rival neighbours trying to kill the old woman next door and trying to foil each other's plans ( Harold and Fred-they make ladies dead!

William argued that Edward had previously promised the throne to him, and that Harold had sworn to support William's claim.

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy – who was also made into a character in the film – sued the studio for displaying " vicious, untrue and false attacks " against him in the film.