Dr. Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester is a man who had a vision - a vision of dominating the world through bad movies. Forrester originally worked with fellow mad Dr. Laurence Erhardt at the Gizmonic Institute, until they moved their operations to the bowels of Deep 13. He engineered the kidnapping of janitor Joel Robinson, shooting him into space onboard the Satellite of Love. After Dr. Ehrhardt's departure, Dr. Forrester hired a new assistant - TV's Frank, whom he would kill repeatedly as a form of punishment for failure.Dr. Forrester (full name: Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester, perhaps because his mother wanted a daughter; he has referred to himself as Clayton Stonewall Forrester and Clayton Firebrand Forrester) had been a mad scientist ever since his youth, when he was a member of Evilos (a mad scientist version of Webelos), where he grafted the rear end of a dog onto the rear end of a cat; he has traced his scientific ambitions back to Oslo...I was found drunk and woozy...scratching the name Paula Cranston into my thigh with a nail . Other pivotal moments in his early life include a 1956 visit to Sun Valley...[where] I was found behind the soft-serve machine, drooling over a picture of Dick Button and a visit to the Ice Capades, [where] I was hot-riveting my kneecaps to Peggy Fleming's zamboni. Forrester's high school career was typified by a series of humiliations, presumably contributing to his rather deranged personality. Frequently teased by classmates, he received a shameful expulsion from the Chess Club, suffered a shameful shower incident during his sophomore year, got rejected by the Swing Choir, was frequently victimized by book-dumpings after typing class, was forced to do power sit-ups in gym, and received the revulsion, scorn, and rejection of all the pretty girls. At some point, he was struck by lightning, resulting in the white streak in his hair and mustache.While earning his doctorate, Forrester took some undergraduate courses in Super-Villainry, and at some point he joined the Fraternal Order of Mad Science. He was a frequent attendee of the Mad Scientist Convention, although he lost the convention's invention contest each year (on one occasion his entry, the More Painful Mouse Trap, was met only with laughter). In response to his rejections, he has blown up the convention center twice and once used incendiaries to not actually make the building blow up, it just made it burn...really quickly. While working at Gizmonic Institute, Forrester and his assistant sent Joel cheesy movies which he was forced to watch, in order to find a movie that would drive people mad and allow him to take over the world. In response, Joel built several robot friends to keep him company, and keep himself from being driven mad. Joel, Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo mocked each of the movies they were forced to watch. During Joel's time on the Satellite of Love, Forrester participated in Invention Exchanges with Joel and the 'bots.Ultimately, Frank was assumed into Second Banana Heaven by the angel Torgo, an event that, surprisingly, deeply saddened Forrester, reacting as though he had lost his best friend, even lamenting Frank's loss with the song Who Will I Kill? . Afterwards Pearl Forrester joined her son Clayton to help him out. Clayton's end came with the screening of Laserblast for the SOL crew, when he announced that his funding had been cut, causing him to pack up Deep 13 and cut loose the Satellite of Love. The SOL reached the outer limits of time and space, causing a time paradox, in which an old Clayton tries to reach a Monolith-like giant videocassette labeled The Worst Film Ever Made . Subsequently, he was reborn as a star child. When Pearl mused about another chance to raise her son, he uttered his final words: Oh, poopie. Pearl, perhaps predictably, chose to smother her son this time around. Show less «