Nat Bussichio, I heart you!

They better have Nat in the new spin off of Beverly Hills, 90210 or I am going to boycott! He was the one thing you could always count on in the 10 years that show was on the air, besides Donna looking ridiculous and David's sucky music. Of course, the person who first introduced us to Nat was the king of cool, Dylan McKay. He loved going to the Peach Pit, the retro restaurant that Nat inherited from his Dad, to get a Megaburger and Peach Pie. I believe we first met Nat in the second episode of the first season, which is also when we first met Dylan. At first the Peach Pit seemed like a really out of the way place that only Dylan went to. But then, Brandon got a job there, and the whole gang started to hang out there and it became a local hot spot. Brandon was the one with the longest stint working there, but others who did their time working at the Peach Pit include Brenda (she took on the Laverne persona while working there), Steve (for two days after making a bet with Brandon that he could do his job if he really wanted to) and Carly (Hilary Swank in her pre-Oscar days as Steve's love interest who was a hard working single mom). Nat always had something witty to say and he never got mad at any of the kids for taking up seats in his restaurant for hours on end. Later on in the series (I think Season 6?) he rekindles an old flame named Joanie and they have a baby named Frankie. That always makes me super happy because I loved getting to see a different side of Nat.
Nat was always there for the kids when their own parents weren't. When Jim and Cindy move to Hong Kong, he is there for Brandon. He plays a big role in the last episode of the series. Donna's dad had died of a heart attack a few episodes back and so Donna didn't have him to walk her down the aisle when she married David. She asks Nat to stand in for her dad, and he says he would be honored, and it is one of the few times in the later seasons that I actually tear up. In the E True Hollywood Story of Beverly Hills, 90210, the actor who plays Nat, Joe E. Tata, said that he suggested to someone that they make the Peach Pit into an actual restaurant chain, but that they shot down his idea. They should have listened to Nat, I would be eating at that place every chance I got! So here's to Nat Bussichio, all around great guy!