Screaming Gophers

The Screaming Gophers are one of the two opposing teams on Total Drama Island, the other being the Killer Bass. 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 far superior to the Killer Bass.

The Screaming Gophers were undefeated until Dodgebrawl, when the Killer Bass managed to defeated them in three out of five dodgeball matches, winning the first two thanks to Duncan's 'prison' tactics and the last one Harold's figure skating skills, which gave them their first win. 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.

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 took 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 member left on the show, was eliminated, leaving the final three contestants all members of the Screaming Gophers (Heather, Gwen and Owen).

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.
 * Every former Gopher has competed in at least two seasons.
 * Four out of the final five contestants (Owen, Gwen, Heather, and Leshawna) were Gophers, and the final three campers were all Gophers.
 * A Gopher won Total Drama World Tour.
 * Also, if one counts the alternate ending of the Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour 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).
 * Every former Gopher has made it to eleventh place at least once.
 * A Gopher was never one of the first two people eliminated from the show.
 * Although even if you count Eva's return, then a gopher was one of the first two people who got eliminated from the show.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The Screaming Gophers have six females and five males. This is the reverse of the Killer Bass.
 * 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 fifteen. As there were twelve challenge episodes that had the teams competing against each other before their dissolving in No Pain, No Game, the Gophers managed to win seven of these challenges, with the Bass winning only five.
 * 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 from episode fifteen were won by former Screaming 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.
 * In most of the series, there are more former Gophers in the game than former Bass.
 * In Total Drama Island, the only episode in which there were more Bass on the island than Gophers was Who Can You Trust? In addition, the only two episodes where there was an even amount of each were The Sucky Outdoors, If You Can't Take The Heat..., and Basic Straining
 * In Total Drama Action, the only episodes where there were more Bass than Gophers were Get a Clue, Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen, and 2008: A Space Owen. In addition, the only episode where there were the same amount of Gophers and Bass were The Princess Pride, Rock n' Rule, and Top Dog.
 * In Total Drama World Tour, there were no episodes where there was ever more Bass than Gophers. The only episode where there was an even amount of both teams was Chinese Fake-Out.
 * Thus, there has never been even one episode in the entire series that did not have a Gopher competing.
 * Owen is the only male Screaming Gopher to compete in the first three seasons.
 * Beth is the only female Screaming Gopher to compete in only two seasons.
 * This is the only team Gwen has been on in which she isn't the first member to be eliminated.
 * Every competitor on this team has competed in at least ten episodes so far, while three former Bass competitors have yet to compete in more than six episodes.
 * Owen is the only Screaming Gopher to make it to the merge in all three seasons.
 * Aside from Duncan, who is a Killer Bass.
 * This team has six contestants who have qualified for the first three seasons: Lindsay, Heather, Gwen, Leshawna, Izzy, and Owen. This is the reverse of the Killer Bass, which has five members.
 * Noah has the poorest performance of any Gopher in the series for several reasons, including:
 * He is the only former Screaming Gopher to never make it to the merge in any season.
 * He was one of only two Gophers (along with Cody) to not qualify for Total Drama Action.
 * He, along with Trent, is one of only two former Gophers to never make it to the final seven of any season.
 * All female members who have ever been on this team (excluding Izzy and Katie) have won at least one challenge after the merge in a season.