“Never Forget” is a series of short articles that aim to free specific film, television, and video game characters from the eternal damnation that is pop-culture limbo.

Scott Scanlon was a character on the first season of Beverly Hills 90210. Scott and David Silver were nerdy best friends until David became a social climber and pretended to actually be attracted to Donna (aka Admiral Ackbar) in order to be accepted by all her cool sideburn adorned friends. Quickly, Scott went from “featured”  to “recurring” as the other, better looking and vapid characters proved to be more popular. Scott did get an episode that focused on David bribing his rad friends to attend Scott’s lame Western themed birthday party. Things were looking up for Scott when David convinced Kelly and Brenda to form a Scott sandwich during a dance sequence at his party. Later on, Scott went into his father’s office looking for matches to light his birthday candles only to find the ultimate cowboy accessory, his father’s gun. Unfortunately Scott had to learn the hard way that it’s never smart to say “check this out” while spinning a loaded gun around your finger on a “very special episode” of a teen drama.