Scott Guber (TV character)

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name = Scott Guber
series = Boston Public
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first = 1x01 "Chapter One"
last = 4x15 "Chapter Eighty-One"
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gender = Male
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occupation = Vice Principal
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episode = 81
portrayer = Anthony Heald
creator = David E. Kelley

Scott Guber is a fictional character from the FOX drama "Boston Public" played by American actor Anthony Heald during the entire run.

Character History

Guber is a vice principal who was forced to play the disciplinary bad cop to both the students and the faculty. As someone who grew up bullied because his peers mistakenly thought he was gay, Scott treated bigotry and bullying as serious a crime as cutting class or cheating on an exam. On the other hand, some episodes had him seriously bullying teachers with a condescending managerial tone that caused them to dislike him. In fact, the students and faculty saw him as so tough they labeled him The Nazi. However, his dedication to the school and the kids was eventually noted in Season 1 when the kids gave him a special end-of-year award.

Scott's ongoing goal was also to one day be a principal himself, a goal he pursued in season 1, a season also devoted to his growing dislike for being the "bad guy" to Steven's good guy. He was disappointed to receive an unfavorable recommendation from Steven who said he wasn't ready and was too autocratic to be a principal. Over the next seasons, Scott and Steven would sometimes wrangle over the boundaries between their two jobs, but their friendship was key to both of them and key to the show.

Guber's love of classical music, composing and conducting was a staple of the character's off duty time and occasionally allowed for storylines. And Scott's romantic life, unlike Steven's, was often fodder for storylines on the show. In Season 1, he pursued Lauren Davis to the point she called it harassment He later asked Marilyn out leaving Lauren and Marilyn to conclude he asked out any woman who was nice to him. This tendency came to a head in Season 2 when he began an ill-advised relationship with the duplicitous Hook Lady, Meredith Peters, who in Season 1 locked her son Jeremy in the basement. Jeremy returned the favor and she escaped only by chain saw, severing her hand in the process.

The Guber-Peters relationship was filled with ups and downs in Season 2. Guber's attempts to get on Jeremy's good side were occasionally chronicled, including his sensitivity to Jeremy's bisexuality. Both characters basically disappeared after Guber separated from the erratic and pathological Meredith late in Season 2. Guber then took up with Lauren. As she didn't come back for season 3, we never learned how that relationship ended, but by the end of Season 3, Guber had increased his level of friendship with Marilyn through dancing lessons, and by Season 4, he was pursuing her. She rejected his advances as she was seeing Steven. Weeks later yet again, Scott found love in Violet Montgomery (Sherilyn Fenn), a former adult film actress turned free-spirited who shared his taste in music and agreed to date him exclusively.