Screaming Gaffers

The Screaming Gaffers were one of the opposing teams in 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 consists of herself, Duncan, Leshawna, DJ, Heather, and Harold.

In Riot On Set, Duncan won the acting challenge after his tearful performance, 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 when Justin finds out that he is cheating.

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 through any means possible such as 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. Even though they won, DJ's conscience gets the better of him, and he 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. Even though they won, Leshawna is disliked for many future episodes. By Full Metal Drama, Duncan states he considers Leshawna already off the team.

The Screaming Gaffers are once again on even footing with the Grips, with four members each, in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. During the challenge, Leshawna ends up being locked in a vault, and they have to get her out. They eventually decide not to let Leshawna out of the vault and instead go on to complete the challenge without her. Duncan is shocked to learn that Courtney will be returning to the game, and will be put 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 the 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 into the tar, making the Grips the winners. The Gaffers lose again in Million Dollar Babies, and although Leshawna was caught trash-talking the other competitors during her spa night, it was Heather who was sent home because Harold and Duncan accepted Leshawna's apologetic cheer.

The Screaming 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 and resulting in the second time that a member of the Total Drama team beginning with the word "Screaming" in it's title.

All of the former Screaming Gaffers move on to Total Drama World Tour. Due to there being three teams third season, there is no definite counterpart of the Screaming Gaffers. However, given they were clearly the superior team, it is possible that their counterpart of Total Drama World Tour was Team Amazon.

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. The second is Team Victory.

Trivia

 * A Gaffer is a head of electronic equipment used in executing lights on film sets.
 * 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, Beth, or Lindsay, all on the former Killer Grips. The only exceptions were Harold in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen, and Duncan in The Aftermath: IV.
 * Not only that, but also, after the merge the Screaming Gaffers got eliminated fairly early compared to the other contestants, with the final four consisting of 3 former Killer Grips and only 1 former Screaming Gaffer.
 * The Gaffers have three major conflicts in the series (Gwen and Heather, Harold and Duncan, and Leshawna and Heather).
 * DJ is the only member on the team not to end up in any sort of major conflict.
 * In Total Drama Island, all the Screaming Gaffers (except for Harold) were eliminated without a regular elimination.
 * Heather was eliminated due to a technicality from losing a challenge.
 * Leshawna was voted off unfairly by the previously voted off contestants at Playa Des Losers.
 * DJ was eliminated automatically.
 * Duncan was automatically chosen by Chef Hatchet to be eliminated, not by his fellow campers.
 * Gwen was the runner-up, so she was never officially voted off.
 * All the females from the Screaming Gaffers (Gwen, Heather, and Leshawna) were originally on the Screaming Gophers and all the males (DJ, Duncan, and Harold) were originally on the Killer Bass.
 * The only Screaming Gaffer who didn't make it to the merge in Total Drama Island was Harold. He was, the last person eliminated before the merge.
 * All of the members of this team get eliminated before the merge in Total Drama World Tour except Heather (although Duncan returns). Coincidentally, Heather was the last Gaffer voted off before the merge in Total Drama Action.
 * All of the contestants of this team make it to Total Drama World Tour, making the Screaming Gaffers the only team in the series to have all of their members return to another season.
 * This team has the best record of all teams in the series with eight victories, despite only having half of their members make it to the merge while the opposing team had more than half of its members get to the merge.
 * Duncan is the only Screaming Gaffer to make it to the merge in all three of the first three seasons.
 * Duncan, Gwen, and Heather are the only Gaffers not to be a part of Team Victory.
 * Gwen is the highest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Harold is the lowest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Heather is the highest ranking member of Total Drama World Tour to be on this team.
 * Harold is the lowest ranking member of Total Drama World Tour to be on this team, unless one counts Duncan as being eliminated first.
 * Duncan is the only member of this team to also be a member of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot.
 * This is the first team to have an even amount of members without a switch involved.
 * The Screaming Gophers and Killer Bass both had twelve members because of Katie and Izzy switching.
 * Despite being on the same team, Duncan had apart of every single Screaming Gaffer's elimination post merge.