According to the show's mythos, 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...I was found behind the soft-serve machine, drooling over a picture of Dick Button" (since Trace Beaulieu was born in 1958, Forrester must thus be at least a decade or so older than the actor who portrayed him) and a visit to "the Ice Capades, [where I was hot-riveting my kneecaps to Peggy Fleming's zamboni."