Screaming Gaffers

The Screaming Gaffers are a team on Total Drama Action. Their symbol is a green light-bulb with crossbones in 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 consists of herself, Duncan, LeShawna, DJ, Heather, and Harold.

In Riot on Set, Duncan won the acting challenge, making them the first team to win. 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 her team to vote for her to win the reward: a trip to a spa. LeShawna also tries to start an alliance with Duncan and Harold against Heather, though this doesn't work out until Dial M for Merger.

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.

With LeShawna out of her vault, and Courtney as the leader of the Grips, the Gaffers have to work harder to keep up, especially in One Million Bucks, B.C.. Even though Duncan built his fire first, it was revealed he used a lighter, 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. Currently, Duncan is the only Screaming Gaffer still in Total Drama Action. 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. As of now, the Grips are ahead in team members, as there are three original Grips still competing, as compared to the one original Gaffer competing.

Trivia

 * A Gaffer is a head of electronic equipment used in executing lights on film sets.
 * 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.
 * All the boys in the team were Killer Bass, while all the girls were Screaming Gophers.
 * 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.
 * Duncan is now the highest (the fourth) of Total Drama Island that's still in the Total Drama Action competition.
 * 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.
 * All of the female Gaffers were seen in their sleep wear at the beginning of the episodes that they were eliminated in.
 * In Total Drama Island, all the Screaming Gaffers (except Harold) were not eliminated regularly.
 * Duncan was voted off by Chef.
 * Heather was voted off due to a technicality.
 * LeShawna was voted off unfairly.
 * DJ got eliminated automatically.
 * Gwen was the runner up, so never officially got voted off.
 * LeShawna is the last female of the Screaming Gaffers to be eliminated.
 * All the ladies from the Screaming Gaffers (Gwen, Heather, LeShawna) were originally on the Screaming Gophers
 * This team seems to be more concentrated on the male characters as the only member of this team left is Duncan so far; while the Screaming Gopher women were more concentrated as Owen was the only Screaming Gopher left in the top 9.