Screaming Gaffers

The Screaming Gaffers was a team on Total Drama Action. Their symbol is a green light-bulb with crossbones, surrounded by a green circle. They appear to be the counterpart to the Screaming Gophers of Total Drama Island, and are rivaled by the Killer Grips.

The team was picked by Gwen and consisted of herself, Duncan, LeShawna, DJ, Heather, and Harold.

In Riot On Set, Duncan won the acting challenge, making them the first team in Total Drama Action to win a challenge. In Beach Blanket Bogus, the Gaffers win a beached-themed dinner, after Trent began throwing challenges for Gwen. Trent continues his cheating in 3:10 to Crazytown, although he is voted off in this episode. Justin and the other Grips convince Gwen to even the score with them in this episode.

Gwen ends up keeping her end of the deal in The Chefshank Redemption, as she tries to slow her team down by convincing them she has cramps, and telling DJ and LeShawna not to work so hard. She tops it off by breaking the Golden Shovel over Harold's head, snapping it in two. This was one of the reasons LeShawna, Harold, and Heather voted Gwen off, removing her from the competition. With Gwen and Trent gone, the competition returns to normal, as the Gaffers win again in One Flu Over the Cuckoos. LeShawna then fake cries to get the team to vote for her to win the reward: a trip to a spa with a close friend. LeShawna also tries to start an alliance with Duncan and Harold against Heather, though this doesn't work out until Dial M for Merger when Heather is already out of the game.

By The Sand Witch Project, DJ's illegal alliance with Chef starts to get to him. After Chef helps the Gaffers win the first challenge, they must scare the Grips out of the Craft Services Tent to win invincibility. After Duncan and Harold's plans fail, DJ cooks one up that wins the Gaffers invincibility. And even though they did, DJ quits the game for his pride, setting the Gaffers one member back behind the Grips. Conflicts begin to rise in Masters of Disasters, when it is revealed that LeShawna fake cried to win the spa trip. And even though they won, LeShawna will be disliked for many future episodes. By Full Metal Drama, Duncan says he considers LeShawna already off the team. Lucky for her, they win invincibility, thanks to Duncan and Harold working together.

The Gaffers are once again on even footing with the Grips, with four members each, in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. They decide not to let LeShawna out of her vault, and instead go on to complete the challenge without her. Duncan is shocked to learn that Courtney will be returning to the game, on the Killer Grips. Thanks to him, the Gaffers easily construct their get away car and begin down the hill. The Grips almost pass them once they run out of gas, but the Gaffers still manage to win invincibility by pushing their cart towards the finish line.

With LeShawna out of her vault, and Courtney as the leader of the Grips, the Gaffers have to work harder during the challenges to keep up, especially in One Million Bucks, B.C.. Even though Duncan built his fire first, it was revealed he used a lighter (which was not a prehistoric tool), so the Grips get bigger bones during the duel challenge. LeShawna defeats Lindsay, Heather loses to Beth, and Harold and Justin tie. In the tiebreaker, Courtney tricks Duncan, and he falls to the tar, making the Grips the winners. The Gaffers lose again in Million Dollar Babies, since the Grips' cheer was sucking up to Chris, who was the judge. And even though LeShawna was caught trash-talking the other competitors on her spa night (Thanks to Courtney's PDA), it was Heather who was sent home because Harold and Duncan accepted LeShawna's apologetic cheer.

The Gaffers are broken up in Dial M for Merger, with LeShawna, Duncan, and Harold going on to the merge. LeShawna was sent home by Duncan, Courtney, Justin and even Harold in Super Hero-ld thanks to the new Guys' Alliance due to her being a big threat, which also caused the end of her short-lived alliance between her, Duncan and Harold. Harold was voted off in 2008: A Space Owen as he was about to reveal Owen's cheating as a traitor to everyone after he got eliminated, but fails as he gets dragged away from the show. In the season finale of Total Drama Action, Duncan takes home the million dollars by receiving more votes over Beth, making him the winner of Total Drama Action.

All of the former Screaming Gaffers move on to Total Drama World Tour.

Original Members

 * Duncan
 * Harold
 * DJ
 * Gwen
 * LeShawna
 * Heather

Additional Members
The Screaming Gaffers didn't have any extra members, being the first team in Total Drama to do so.

Trivia

 * A Gaffer is a head of electronic equipment used in executing lights on film sets.
 * The overall rivalry between the Screaming Gaffers and the Killer Grips parallels the preceding rivalry between the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass, as the Gaffers have more challenge wins than the Grips. Out of the eleven episodes where the two teams competed against each other before they were dissolved in Dial M for Merger, the Gaffers won eight, with the Grips only winning three.
 * Riot On Set: Although DJ refused to carry their filmmaking equipment up the mountain, Duncan's acting in the end won the approval of judge Chef Hatchet, and ultimately won the challenge for the Gaffers.
 * Beach Blanket Bogus: Duncan won the surfboard challenge, and LeShawna won the dance-off, winning the overall challenge for the Gaffers with a best two-out-of-three.
 * 3:10 to Crazytown: Duncan, Harold, and Gwen all managed to rope several of the Grips on their own before the whole team comes together to rope the remaining Grips, winning the challenge.
 * One Flu Over the Cuckoos: LeShawna went on to win the challenge for her team, and claim the spa prize.
 * The Sand Witch Project: The entire team came up with a strategy to outsmart Lindsay and scare the Grips out of the Craft Services Tent.
 * Masters of Disasters: Despite losing the first half, Harold managed to pick the lock in the submarine challenge and free the Gaffers (along with the Grips) from the flooding chamber before they all drowned, saving their lives and automatically winning the challenge.
 * Full Metal Drama: Harold, with the help of Duncan's ingenuity, manages to knock out all of the Grips (with the exception of Lindsay) and keep the Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets safe for the time limit.
 * And Ocean's Eight - Or Nine: The Gaffers made it to the bank teller first (at the expense of LeShawna) and got the money. When it came to building their go-kart, it was nearly perfect compared to the Grips' kart, and ran all the way down the mountain towards the finish line. Although it stalled briefly and the Grips got ahead, their kart fell apart just inches short of the finish line, and the Gaffers were able to push their kart over the finish line to win.
 * Despite the Gaffers' incredible performance as a team, hardly any of their former members won a challenge after the merge, with almost all of the wins primarily going to Courtney of the former Killer Grips. The only exceptions were Harold in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen, and Duncan in The Aftermath: IV.
 * The Screaming Gaffers is the only team containing the three remaining former Killer Bass members, Duncan, Harold, and DJ. The Killer Grips have only one Killer Bass member, Courtney (Although Izzy was on The Killer Bass for two episodes.)
 * With Gwen, who was captain of the Gaffers, gone, it was unknown who took her place. It is most likely that Duncan had took over as leader until the merge.
 * The first two contestants eliminated from the team have voted for or removed themselves from the game.
 * As of Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, the Screaming Gaffers have technically never lost a challenge, excluding The Chefshank Redemption (which Gwen technically threw the challenge in that episode), until One Million Bucks, B.C..
 * In One Million Bucks, B.C. the Gaffers lose their first challenge with no strings attached. Notably, the reason they lost both parts of the challenge was Duncan's fault.
 * The Gaffers elimination have went female (Gwen) - male (DJ) - female (Heather).
 * The pattern has been broken by LeShawna's (female) elimination in Super Hero-ld. It was later resumed by Harold's (male) elimination.
 * The Gaffers have three major conflicts in the series (Gwen and Heather, Harold and Duncan, and LeShawna and Heather).
 * DJ is the only person on the team to not end up in any sort of conflict. Although his reaction to LeShawna's lie has not been revealed yet, or he may have not cared.
 * In Total Drama Island, all the Screaming Gaffers (except for Harold) were eliminated irregularly.
 * Heather was eliminated due to a technicality.
 * LeShawna was voted off unfairly.
 * DJ got eliminated automatically.
 * Duncan was automatically chosen by Chef Hatchet to be eliminated, not his fellow campers.
 * Gwen was the runner up, so never officially got voted off.
 * The Screaming Gaffers is the first team to have less than four members making it to the merge. All other teams in the series so far have had four or more members making it to the merge.
 * LeShawna is the last female of the Screaming Gaffers to be eliminated.
 * Harold is the last male of the Screaming Gaffers to be eliminated. He is also the last Screaming Gaffer overall to be voted off since Duncan won the million dollar prize and he was never eliminated.
 * All the females from the Screaming Gaffers (Gwen, Heather, LeShawna) were originally on the Screaming Gophers and all the males (DJ, Duncan, Harold) were originally on the Killer Bass.
 * This team seems to be more concentrated on the male characters as the only member of this team left is Duncan; while the Screaming Gopher women were more concentrated as Owen was the only Screaming Gopher left in the top nine.
 * With Harold's elimination in 2008: A Space Owen, Duncan was the only Gaffer left and later won the competition.
 * He is also the last person on his team in both seasons.
 * Duncan was the final Screaming Gaffer and later the winner of Total Drama Action.
 * The only Screaming Gaffer who didn't make it to the merge in Total Drama Island was Harold.
 * He was, however, eliminated one episode before the merge.
 * The original captain of the Screaming Gaffers, Gwen, was the first Screaming Gaffer to be eliminated.
 * Duncan is the second person from a Screaming team to win a Total Drama Series season. The other person was Owen.
 * So far only males from the "Screaming" team have won of their respective season.
 * Even though the Screaming Gaffers have the most major conflicts in Total Drama Action, they win the most team challenges, paralleling from the Screaming Gophers in Total Drama Island.
 * All of the contestants of this team make it to Total Drama World Tour, making the Screaming Gaffers the first, and only, team in the series to have all of their members return to another season.
 * They are so far the only team in the Total Drama series to refuse a reward. They are also the first team to do so.
 * None of the Screaming Gaffers return to Total Drama Action after been eliminated, making them the first team in the Total Drama series to do so.
 * Due to Duncan quitting the competition in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1, all former Screaming Gaffers have been eliminated twice in the series.
 * All of the males on this team were seen nude in some episodes of the series.
 * Gwen is the only member of this team who hasn't shown any nudity in the show.
 * This is the only team LeShawna has been on without Lindsay.