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, begged Chris to let them be on the same team, and after a while, 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 in challenges, losing only 5 challenges compared to the Killer Bass' seven.

The Screaming Gophers went undefeated for the first two episodes, until Dodgebrawl, when the Killer Bass managed to defeat them in three out of five dodgeball matches only after the Gophers had already taken the lead with two wins, winning the first two thanks to Duncan's prison tactics and the last one due to 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 an equal amount or more people on their team than the Killer Bass.

From Up the Creek to If You Can't Take The Heat..., the Screaming Gophers lost three consecutive challenges, which decreases their numbers below those of the other team 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 led up 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

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

Additional Member
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Chris allowed one camper to switch teams, making a Killer Bass alter into a Screaming Gopher.


 * Izzy

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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 won 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 on Total Drama Action.
 * All of the Gophers, except for Trent, Beth, and Justin, returned for Total Drama World Tour.
 * Every former Gopher has competed on 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 has made it to the final two of every season so far, whereas there were no former Bass in the final two of Total Drama Island or Total Drama World Tour.
 * Every former Gopher has made it to or past eleventh place at least once.
 * A Gopher was never one of the first two people eliminated from the show.
 * In each and every episode of the series, there was at least one Gopher competing, or (in the case of the Aftermath episodes) making some sort of an appearance.
 * The Screaming Gophers currently feature the highest amount of contestants who have competed in all of the first three seasons so far, tying with its Total Drama Action counterpart, the Screaming Gaffers. Both teams have six members in this category.
 * For the Gophers, those six are Lindsay, Heather, Gwen, Leshawna, Izzy, and Owen.
 * The Screaming Gophers have more members then the Killer Bass that have made it to the final four of a season, those members are Owen, Gwen, Heather, Beth, and Cody.
 * 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 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 and 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), 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.
 * 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 left 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? (with 7 Bass and 6 Gophers) In addition, the only three episodes where there was an even amount of each were The Sucky Outdoors (9 each), If You Can't Take The Heat... (7 each), and Basic Straining (6 each).
 * 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 (all three of these had 3 Bass and 2 Gophers). In addition, the only episodes where there were the same amount of Gophers and Bass were The Princess Pride (3 each), Rock n' Rule (3 each), Top Dog (2 each), Mutiny on the Soundstage, and The Aftermath: IV (the latter two both had 1 each).
 * 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 (with 2 each).
 * Thus, there has never been even one episode in the entire series that did not have a Gopher competing.
 * Former Screaming Gopher Heather arguably has the best performance of any other contestant in the entire series so far.
 * She has the highest amount of participation of any character in the series, with 66 episodes.
 * She has competed in all of the first three seasons.
 * She is one of only two contestants (along with Owen), and the only female contestant, to make it to the final three more than once.
 * She is also one of only two Screaming Gophers, and three contestants overall, to make it to the final five more than once. The others are Owen and Duncan.
 * She is one of only two contestants to have reached the final ten in every season without having to return (alongside Owen).
 * If the Total Drama World Tour alternate ending is counted, then not only has she won a season, but she is also the only contestant in the series to have beaten every other contestant.
 * Owen has the best performance of any male Screaming Gopher in the series, and has also reached several other milestones that no other Gopher or overall contestant has received. Examples include:
 * He is the only male Screaming Gopher to compete in the first three seasons.
 * He is the only male Screaming Gopher to have ever reached the final two of a season.
 * He is the only Screaming Gopher (and one of only two contestants overall) to make it to the merge in all three seasons, the other being Duncan.
 * He is one of only two contestants (the other being Heather), and the only male contestant, to make it to the final three more than once.
 * He is also one of only two Screaming Gophers (the other being Heather), and one of three contestants overall (along with Duncan), to make it to the final five more than once.
 * He is one of only two contestants to have reached the final ten in every season without having to return (the other being Heather).
 * He has the most amount of participation of any male in the series, and second overall, with 62 episodes.
 * 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.
 * He is the only former Gopher to have never received a symbol of immunity. He never received a marshmallow in Total Drama Island, did not compete in Total Drama Action, and never received a Barf Bag in Total Drama World Tour.
 * 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.
 * Beth is the only female Screaming Gopher to compete in only two seasons.
 * This is the only team Gwen and Izzy have been on in which they weren't the first member to be eliminated.
 * Former Screaming Gopher member Gwen currently holds the record for most challenges won in a single season (Total Drama Island), and also the most challenges won in all of the first three seasons.
 * The runner-ups of the first three seasons are on this team.
 * Owen, Gwen, Heather, Izzy, and Lindsay are the only members of this team to cameo in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * This team has more contestants who cameo in the fourth season than any other team in the series.
 * Owen is the only male member of this team to cameo in the fourth season.
 * Leshawna is the only member of the team who competed in the first three seasons to not cameo in the fourth season.