Screaming Gophers

The Screaming Gophers are one of the two opposing teams on Total Drama Island. It is sometimes considered to be the "superior" team over the Killer Bass since it won more challenges than the other team. The Screaming Gophers originally consisted of Owen, Gwen, Beth, Trent, Justin, LeShawna, Heather, Cody, Noah, Lindsay and Katie. In the episode Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Katie and Sadie, being inseparable, pleaded that they could be on the same team, and finally, Chris lets Katie switch to the Killer Bass and as a result, Izzy becomes a Screaming Gopher. The Screaming Gophers' logo is a green gopher standing upright with its fists drawn out. It is mounted on a pale yellow circle with a green ring around it.

The Screaming Gophers were undefeated until Dodgebrawl, when the Killer Bass defeated them three to five dodgeball matches due to Harold's figure skating skills. Noah becomes the first Screaming Gopher voted off the island because of his refusal to help in the dodgeball match and choice of reading instead. All the way up until If You Can't Take The Heat, the Gophers always had equal or more people on their team than the Bass. The final three were all Screaming Gophers (Heather, Gwen and Owen).

From Up the Creek to If You Can't Take the Heat, the Screaming Gophers lost three consecutive challenges over the Bass which decreased their numbers below those of the Killer Bass for the first (and only) time in the season's run. This was mostly perceived as bad luck from a cursed tiki idol that Beth unknowingly stole from Boney Island in Up the Creek, which lead to her elimination and three additional and retribution challenge wins for themselves (giving the Gophers a six-four advantage over the Bass at the merge). The teams were still relatively equal in team members for most of the game until Duncan, the final Killer Bass left on the show, was eliminated, leaving the final three all the members of the Screaming Gophers..

Original Members

 * Owen
 * Gwen
 * Heather
 * LeShawna
 * Lindsay
 * Trent
 * Beth
 * Cody
 * Katie
 * Justin
 * Noah

Additional Members
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Chris allowed one camper to switch teams, making a Killer Bass become a Screaming Gopher.
 * Izzy

Trivia

 * Throughout the entire series, original members of the Gophers are generally more successful in winning than the Bass' members. Examples of this include:
 * They win most of the challenges (both pre-merge and post-merge) in Total Drama Island.
 * Every one of the Screaming Gophers, excluding Cody and Noah, qualified to compete in Total Drama Action.
 * All of the Gophers, except for Trent, Beth, and Justin, returned for Total Drama World Tour.
 * Four out of the final five contestants (Owen, Gwen, Heather, and LeShawna) were Gophers, and the final three campers were all Gophers.
 * Thus, a Screaming Gopher managed to win the first season of Total Drama Island.
 * Another Gopher won Total Drama World Tour.
 * Also, if one counts the alternate ending of the Total Drama Action finale instead of the actual ending, then it can be said that a Gopher has won every season so far (as either version of the Total Drama Island finale would've still featured a Gopher winning).
 * The Screaming Gophers are the first team to win a challenge for the first time in the season. They are the first team to do so in the overall series.
 * If you count Katie as a Gopher, she's the only Gopher not in either season 2 or season 3.
 * For some reason, Ezekiel is not included in the "Killer Bass" Picture. Instead, he is seen in the "Screaming Gophers" Picture. There are several strange flaws with the picture besides this. Examples include:
 * Gwen is standing on air, and, since she is leaning over, her back seems bent out of shape.
 * Cody's shirt and pants are altered from the promotional picture, and his legs are very irregularly shaped.
 * LeShawna's earring is half-way colored.
 * Noah is not smiling in the picture, even though he was smiling in the main promotional picture with all of the twenty-two campers (even though it was more of a smirk than a smile).
 * Trent's shirt collar is missing.
 * The Gophers team is often seen to be able to work together in most of the challenges much better than the Bass. A good example is the very first challenge, in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2. In the second part of the challenge, the teams had to build a hot tub. Although it was probably just a one-time joke, the Gophers were seen to work together in almost perfect harmony, while the Bass couldn't do anything without conflict.
 * It is also worth noting that, despite the fact that the Gophers were the first team to experience the dreaded three-in-a-row losing streak, they still managed to come out on top by the time the teams were officially dissolved in Episode 15. As there were 12 challenge episodes that had the teams competing against each other before their dissolving in No Pain, No Game, the Gophers managed to win 7 of these challenges, with the Bass winning only 5.
 * Not So Happy Campers - Part 1 - Part 2: The entire team worked together to win both phases of the challenge, with Beth being the only chicken on the team when it came to the cliff dive.
 * The Big Sleep: Gwen stayed awake the longest (albeit, falling asleep barely a few seconds after Duncan, the last standing Bass, did), thus winning the challenge.
 * The Sucky Outdoors: Although the Bass team showed up first, they were missing two members (Katie and Sadie). The entire Gophers team showed up after this and won the challenge.
 * Phobia Factor: They mainly won this challenge due to the cowardice of Tyler and Courtney on the Bass team.
 * Who Can You Trust?: They started winning challenges again, starting with this one, mainly due to the fact that Beth was voted off in the previous episode, which probably removed the curse she had placed on her team. They also won due to DJ taking off his blindfold to see Bunny.
 * Basic Straining: Once again, Gwen was the last one standing in Chef Hatchet's boot camp, winning the challenge yet again.
 * And X-Treme Torture: LeShawna and Lindsay won two of the three phases of the challenge, thus winning the overall challenge for their team.
 * In addition, a majority of the challenges starting Episode 15 were won by former Gophers.
 * No Pain, No Game: LeShawna won Invincibility and a luxurious trailer.
 * Search and Do Not Destroy: Although almost everyone technically won the challenge, Heather won the greatest victory by winning the Invincibility Pass.
 * Hide and Be Sneaky: LeShawna won once again, winning invincibility. Heather also managed to win Invincibility for helping Chef hunt other campers.
 * That's Off the Chain!: Heather, yet again, won Invincibility.
 * Hook, Line, and Screamer: Gwen won Invincibility.
 * Wawanakwa Gone Wild!: Gwen won the prize of a gourmet dinner.
 * Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon, Haute Camp-ture, and Camp Castaways: No one won.
 * Are We There Yeti?: Gwen and Heather both won, and Duncan, the last Killer Bass on the island, was eliminated.
 * Thus, in the two episodes after that, a Gopher won.
 * The Screaming Gophers is considered to consist of more focused-on characters, in terms of screen-time and plotlines, than the Bass, and there are often more Gophers in the competition than there are Bass.
 * Every single Gopher has competed in at least two seasons so far, while three Killer Bass have been in only one season so far.
 * Out of all the episodes in Total Drama Island, Who Can You Trust? was the only episode where there were ever more Bass in the game than Gophers.
 * Out of the 15 contestants who competed in Total Drama Action, nine were Gophers while only six were Killer Bass. Get a Clue, Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen, and 2008: A Space Owen were the only three episodes to feature more Bass in the game than Gophers.
 * Out of the 15 original contestants who competed in Total Drama World Tour, eight were Gophers while seven were Killer Bass. In addition, there was not a single episode where there were more Bass than Gophers. As a matter of fact, the only episode in the season where there were even the same amount of Gophers and Bass in the game was Chinese Fake-Out.
 * Both characters who didn't have lines in their elimination episode in Total Drama Island were Screaming Gophers.
 * Beth was the last Screaming Gopher to be voted off before the merge.
 * Ironically, Beth, the lowest-ranking female, and the fourth lowest-ranking member overall, of the Screaming Gophers, was the highest-ranking female, and highest-ranking member overall, of her team in Total Drama Action. Interestingly, Beth was also the only female from her team to not make it to the merge in Total Drama Island.
 * Every character with four letters in their name was part of the Screaming Gophers. This includes: Gwen, Cody, Owen, Izzy, Noah, and Beth. None of the Bass' names have four letters in it.
 * Owen is the only male Screaming Gopher to compete in all three seasons.
 * Beth is the only female Screaming Gopher to compete in two seasons.
 * Every competitor on this team has competed in at least two seasons (unless you count Katie being a member of the team).
 * This team has six contestants who have qualified for all three seasons: Lindsay, Heather, Gwen, LeShawna, Izzy, and Owen.
 * Noah is the only former Screaming Gopher to never make it to the merge in any season.
 * Unless you count Katie who was on the team for two episodes until switching with Izzy.
 * All the girls in the final two of the first three seasons were all Screaming Gophers.
 * Trent and Noah are the only Screaming Gophers never to make the final seven of any season.