Tad Spencer

Tad is a short preppy. He has auburn hair styled almost in a pompadour, and brown eyes. He wears the standard Aquaberry sweater vest and tan slacks, and wears a gold watch. In the winter, he wears an Aquaberry sweater and black gloves

all of the Preppies are rich and, with the exception of Tad, most of them are Old Money. They are also snobbish, looking down on anyone below their class, and have a sworn rivalry with the Greasers for this reason. In an attempt to show their superiority, many of them speak in pretentious accents like Transatlantic and faux upper-class English. A running joke throughout the game is that the Preppies families have a long history of inbreeding, and as a result tend to have physical and mental deformities. For example, Derby is betrothed to Pinky despite the fact they are cousins and Pinky mentions that arranged marriages were between brother and sister until it was made illegal. Tad confesses that he has webbed toes, but "only on one foot", and that he has a brother in the Asylum.

The Preppies hang out at Harrington House on school campus, and some can be found in the library. A single Prep can rarely be found at the Auto Repair Shop tagging crude remarks about the Greasers, who will attack if they see a Prep in their territory but they outnumber the Lone Prep and knock him out. The male Preppies can only be seen in the Boys' Dorm if the fire alarm is pulled. Outside of campus they can be found around Old Bullworth Vale, and at the Boxing Gym as well as a single member in New Coventry egging buildings but the most common in doing this is Gord.

Their main weapon of choice is eggs, and many will drop them if knocked out. Some also occasionally use Cricket Bats.

The Preppies are very well-dressed, and can be identified by their Aquaberry vests—and by their sweaters in winter—and usually parted hair. The word "Aquaberry" is an amalgamation of two real-life British clothing brands, Aquascutum and Burberry. It is likely that the Preppies were based upon the Socs from S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders, based on their animosity with the Greasers. Earlier screenshots showed that the Preppies wore royal blue sweaters vest rather than the diamond-patterned Aquaberry sweaters.

Tad's father is clearly stated to be abusive to both Tad and his mother - Tad himself claims that his father taught him the meaning of pain. Some of Tad's dialogue includes apologizing to his father when physically bullied or beaten up ("I'm sorry, Daddy!") and threats regarding his father's fighting prowess ("I learned this move from my dad!" and "I'm going to pound you like my dad pounds me!"). His insult of choice is "dink."

Tad is one of the richest preppies, quite possibly behind only the Harringtons. His family's fortune apparently comes from Spencer Shipping, a shipping company owned by his father that runs out of Blue Skies Industrial Park. Their estate is in the middle of Old Bullworth Vale and is big enough that their garage has its own address. In the Bully Facebook, Tad said that his parents primarily chose Bullworth because it was so expensive, and that "high prices equal high quality."

Even by Preppy standards, Tad is very focused on his social standing. He aspires to take leadership of the Preppy clique from Derby, trying to instigate trouble between him and Bif and to dig up dirt on Derby's name. In free roam dialogue, he states that his father will be displeased "if this year ends without [him] on top"; this suggests that his father is pushing Tad somewhat into taking over the clique. He also has a particular grudge against the Greaser Peanut, and plots against him.

Tad is also troubled by his home life and family, particularly his overbearing and abusive father. He has a love-hate relationship with his father, both wanting to make him proud and to pay him back for the abuse and bad treatment (His father once stabbed him with a pitchfork after he made him a birthday cake). He sometimes mumbles about his parents and their domestic problems under his breath. He is also ashamed that his father is a self-made man rather than old money, and so he puts on faux-British pretentions to cover up this insecurity. It is also implied that the abuse and expectations given to him by his father has taken a toll on his self-esteem, with one line of his dialogue mentioning that he thinks he is too worthless to claim a position of power in the school.

Although Tad is not the only Preppie who is hinted to be inbred, he does have webbed toes on one foot. He also has an older brother who has no chin and is enrolled in the Happy Volts Asylum.