Screaming Gaffers

### Namesake:

Nod to Screaming Gophers but with a film-related profession, that is, a **gaffer**, a manager of electronic equipment used in executing lights on film sets.

### Highest-Placing Member:

Duncan (Finalist)

The **Screaming Gaffers** is one of the two opposing teams in *Total Drama Action*. Their symbol is a light green circle containing a green lightbulb with crossbones, surrounded by a green circular outline. The team members were chosen by the team captain, Gwen.

## Members

File:TDA DJ.pngDJFile:TDA Duncan.pngDuncanFile:TDA Gwen.pngGwenFile:TDA Harold.pngHaroldFile:TDA Heather.pngHeatherFile:TDA Leshawna.pngLeshawna

## *Total Drama Action*

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The Screaming Gaffers are formed in "Riot On Set." The team members were decided through selection by Gwen. She picks her friends Duncan, Leshawna, and DJ, chooses Heather under Leshawna's advice, and accepts the boasting Harold "if for no other reason but to shut him up." Duncan wins the acting challenge after his tearful performance, making the Screaming Gaffers the first team to win a challenge in *Total Drama Action*.

In "Beach Blanket Bogus," the Gaffers win a beached-themed party after Trent begins to throw challenges for Gwen. Trent continues his cheating in 3:10 to Crazytown, and he is later voted out after Justin discovers what he is doing.

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Justin and the other Grips convince Gwen to even the score with them and Gwen ends up keeping her end of the deal in "The Chefshank Redemption," where 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 a golden shovel over Harold's head, snapping it in two. This is 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.

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By "The Sand Witch Project," DJ's illegal alliance with Chef starts to wear on his conscience. 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 win, 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. Leshawna is disliked for many future episodes. By "Full Metal Drama," Duncan states he considers Leshawna already off the team. The team manages to win invincibility again after Duncan and Harold put their conflict aside to prevent the Grips from stealing the Trunk of Mind Blowing Secrets.

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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 the rest of the team has 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 Duncan, the Gaffers easily construct their getaway car and begin down the hill. The Grips almost pass them when they run out of gas, but the Gaffers still manage to win invincibility by pushing their cart towards the finish line.

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When Leshawna is released from the vault and Courtney appoints herself 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 is revealed he used a lighter, which was not a prehistoric tool, 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 is caught trash-talking the other contestants during her spa night, it is Heather who is sent home because Harold and Duncan accept Leshawna's apologetic cheer.

The Screaming Gaffers, along with the Killer Grips, are broken up in "Dial M for Merger," with Leshawna, Duncan, and Harold progressing to the merge.

## Trivia

* A gaffer is a manager of electronic equipment used in executing lights on film sets.
* The Screaming Gaffers are the only "superior" team in the series to have fewer members than the "inferior" team at the merge, due to the several amounts of reward challenges in the season, as well as due to two returns and one debut of the members of the opposing team.
* This team ties with Team Amazon for the highest amount of challenge wins out of any team in the series, with eight each.
	+ They are also tied with the Villainous Vultures for the second-lowest amount of losses of any team in *Total Drama* history, with three, behind the Mutant Maggots and the Waneyihtam Maskwak, with two each.
* With the exception of Harold, all the Screaming Gaffers members are eliminated irregularly in *Total Drama Island*:
	+ DJ is automatically eliminated.
	+ Leshawna is accidentally voted off by the eliminated contestants from Playa Des Losers.
	+ Duncan is eliminated by Chef Hatchet.
	+ Heather is eliminated due to a technicality from losing a challenge.
	+ Gwen is a finalist; therefore, she is only eliminated in Owen's ending.
* This also happens in *Total Drama World Tour*, with the exception of Leshawna:
	+ Duncan (before his return) and Harold both quit.
	+ DJ is the last person of his team and is eliminated by default.
	+ Gwen lost a tiebreaker challenge.
	+ Heather is a finalist; therefore, she is only eliminated in Alejandro's ending.
* This is one of two teams that has three members that were former or future finalists: Gwen (*Island*), Duncan (*Action*), and Heather (*World Tour*), with the other being Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot (Alejandro, Duncan, and Owen).
* All the female members (Gwen, Heather, and Leshawna) were originally on the Screaming Gophers, and all the males (DJ, Duncan, and Harold) were originally on the Killer Bass.
* Four of the five members of the final five in Total Drama Island are on this team.
* Harold was the only member of this team to not make it past the merge in Total Drama Island.
* Every member of this team made it to *Total Drama World Tour*, making the Screaming Gaffers the only team in the series to have all of its members return for another season.
	+ In addition, this makes the Gaffers tied with the Screaming Gophers for the highest amount of members to compete in all of the first three seasons, with six each.
	+ Furthermore, this team is tied with the Screaming Gophers, Team Amazon, and the Heroic Hamsters for the second-highest amount of members to compete in four seasons, with three, behind the Villainous Vultures, with four.
* The Screaming Gaffers is one of four teams in Total Drama who didn't have any extra members as a result of a switch or returning contestant, the other being Team Victory, Ferocious Trout, and Frogs of Death.
* Harold and Leshawna are the only members of this team who did not make a cameo appearance in *Revenge of the Island*.
	+ Additionally, the four members who did make a cameo appearance all did so in consecutive episodes.
* Every male member of this team has quit the game at some point in the series:
	+ DJ quits in *Total Drama Action* in "The Sand Witch Project."
	+ Duncan quits in *Total Drama World Tour* during "Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1."
	+ Harold quits in "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan."
* This is the second team featuring Duncan as the highest-ranking member, the first being the Killer Bass.
* This is the only team DJ and Harold have been on without Bridgette and Ezekiel.
* This is the only team that Leshawna has been on without Lindsay.
* This is one of only four teams to have all of its members make it to the merge at least once in the series, the others being the Killer Grips, Team Amazon, and the Villainous Vultures.
* This is one of four teams to lose a member in an episode in which they win the challenge, the others being Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot, the Mutant Maggots, and the Waneyihtam Maskwak.
* Leshawna is the only female contestant on the team not to compete in . Conversely, Duncan is the only male on the team to compete in *All-Stars*.

## Gallery

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