Beth & Jerry Smith || Day 7: Aphrodisiacs

Name: Gerald "Jerry" Smith.

Nicknames: Jerry, Jerbear (By Beth)

Age: 35.

Gender: Cis Male.

Pronouns: He/Him.

Height: 5'10".

Physical Appearance: He is of European-American descent. Jerry has a medium complexion and has scruffy, dirty brown hair, with slight curls. He has dimples. Wide, clueless, golden retriever like, Brown eyes. Has a dad bod, average with a little bit of tummy. Pointy nose.

Outfit: Wears a dark green shirt, with a brown and beige stripe in the middle. He also wears light blue long pants and black shoes.

Personality: Jerry is a loving husband & father, and one of the only empathic and sensible human characters in the show. Though because of those around him, and by comparison to other, less than ordinary characters, is commonly relegated to less than a punchline, being often viewed by other characters as an obnoxious loser, a pathetic father, and a pitiful husband. He is cinematically directed in a way that makes us, by comparison to other characters, believe he is after his own interests and other people's acceptance, which comically leads him to make mistakes that put him in danger. Even though his relationship with his wife - Beth - is strained, he still loves her no matter what, and doesn't abandon her. This in turn, is seemingly also why Beth always choose Jerry in the end, despite the fact that they are polar opposites. His level of intelligence is both his greatest weakness (on paper), however, it also provides him with a far more happy life than the all-knowing Rick. Jerry puts great value in things that Rick topically sees as inferior, such as love, relationships, and attachments to the physical world. Jerry tends to be meek, misguided, and sometimes cowardly in the face of most situations. He also has a habit of quitting when things get too difficult. Jerry's nature to give up in the face of adversity became problematic when he tasked a Mr. Meeseeks with helping him to improve his golf game - and upon realizing that he was bad at golf, he quit trying to pursue his goals. This could also possibly be the reason why Jerry can't get a job or can't keep a job for a long time; he always gives up halfway. In the episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes," Jerry's insecurities lead to helping his son Morty on a science project, to which he stubbornly refuses to concede that Pluto is no longer a planet. This results in him and Morty being abducted to Pluto. Once on Pluto they are greeted by King Flippy Nips and other Plutonians who hail Jerry as a 'confirmation-bias' scientist. At the end of the day, he tells them that Pluto is not a planet, after realizing his relationship to his son is more important than being "right." Despite Jerry's character flaws, he always values his family above everything else. Despite being generally passive and weak most of the time, Jerry has the ability to channel the inner-strength to face his fears, such as directly confronting the army of Mr. Meeseeks, destroying his and Beth's Mythologs, and eradicating a bunch of Cronenbergs in Rick Potion #9 when he and his wife were being ambushed by them. Near the end of "The Rickshank Rickdemption", Jerry took a stand against Rick's toxic and controlling behavior towards the family, namely his apparent manipulation of Beth's father issues in order to live rent-free and his frequently putting his children in danger. Even still - Beth wound up defending Rick due to her abandonment issues, in hopes that he wouldn't leave her again, and filed a divorce with Jerry. They later got back together. After briefly returning to his home universe, Jerry suffered verbal abuse from his whole family only to be rescued by his surrogate one. Before departing, he decided to confront his original family by insulting them and giving them the finger as he left to embrace his life as a interdimensional traveler. Jerry also appears to be fond for pop culture, as shown in episodes like "Ricksy Business" where he goes on a Titanic-themed honeymoon with Beth (much to her chagrin), and in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" where he collects a secret stash of R2D2 themed coins.

NSFW: Submissive top and bottom, rarely ever dominant. Kinks include: Being choked, embarrassment. Has 0 gag reflex.

Relationships:

- Beth. Jerry met his future wife Beth in high school and had unprotected sex on prom night, resulting in the pregnancy that produced their first and only daughter, Summer. Afterwards, the two got married and three years later, the couple had their second and only son, Morty. Their relationship is very rocky and strained, due to the fact that both of them missed out on fulfilling their dreams due to poor decision making when they were teenagers. Their relationship is further strained by Beth's relationship with her father, Rick, and her willingness to let the family put up with his antics. Jerry seems to still love Beth quite a lot, (as shown in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy") and tries hard to keep their marriage together, but finds Rick's frequent insults about their relationship hard to ignore. In "Rixty Minutes", Jerry and Beth both get to see an alternate version of themselves in a different reality, and find themselves unsatisfied with their current lives, eventually deciding that splitting up would be inevitable. However, the alternate Jerry and Beth eventually realize that they are miserable without one another, and get together after years apart. Seeing this renews Jerry and Beth's relationship and they opt not to split up. Despite this revelation, the two of them continuously bicker with one another, to the point it got on Rick's nerves and he sent them to an outworld marriage consoling facility in "Big Trouble In Little Sanchez". It was stated by two different characters at the facility that they have "the single worst marriage" they have ever seen as the two hate each other and, yet, they still cooperate. However, once again, they managed to resolve their differences for the time being and pulled together to survive, including their marriage (which Beth afterward stated would last at least until Morty graduates high school). Still, after Jerry's bad decisions in "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate", he is mostly belittled by Beth throughout the season finale episode. Jerry does not consider Beth's profession as a horse surgeon to be all that big a deal, but tries not to mention it, saying "Okay, let's not rehash that fight." In "The Rickshank Rickdemption", Beth decides to divorce Jerry, wanting to have Rick close to her, instead of being married to someone who hates him. His reaction to this was never seen. In "The Rickchurian Mortydate", Jerry is visited by his wife when she suffers from an identity crisis and he reflects on a high school date they had and she ends up kissing him as thanks, with them reconciling. They decide to get back together and hide from Rick who still tracks them down but begrudgingly accepts their choice. At the end, they are living together again with both being happier and finally being able to live as a happy married couple Beth defended Jerry from Rick's insults while he is shown smiling at her new independence to her father. In "Childrick of Mort", Jerry and his wife came to blows after she sided with Rick. Jerry ultimately saved his wife from a deadly fall, though she rejected his offer of having sex. Despite this, Jerry was pleased to hear Beth voice gratitude at him saving her life, while criticizing Rick. In "Solaricks", Jerry is returned back to his original home, Dimension 5126 (as is the "Season 2 Jerry" to the current dimension). His original Beth from Dimension 5126 never divorced, and holds an extreme amount of animosity towards Jerry (as does the rest of the family). When the family he has been with since Season 2 arrives, he is happy to see them and realizes the divorce may have been a good thing as it helped him appreciate their relationship more. Before leaving, he immediately insults his original wife to live with his new family. After returning home at Dimension C-131, the family meets "Season 2 Jerry" belongs to Dimension C-131, who is just as cold and rude to Beth and the whole family as Season 2 Beth was to Jerry, indicating his character wasn't improved when he was in Dimension 5126, and showing a sharp contrast with the current Jerry. In "Bethic Twinstinct", Jerry is the last to find out Beth cheated on him with Space Beth. He initially curls up into a ball like a bug (a function Rick installed into Jerry as a drunken request), but ultimately releases himself from it and has an argument. Beth admits guilt to Jerry for lying while Space Beth states she doesn't owe Jerry any sort of explanation. Eventually the argument turns into a threesome between himself, Beth, and Space Beth to which Summer, Rick, and Morty hear from the dining room in horror. During “Nomortland”, Jerry bragged to Mooch Jerry on a successful encounter with two versions of his wife. After his return, he was surprised and touched to learn that Beth and the family were looking for him when he went on his solo adventure.

- Space Beth

In sharing her history with Beth, she was previously married to Jerry before making the decision to leave him.

Jerry doesn't learn of her until she returned to Earth in "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri", he was surprised by the revelation while Space Beth was initially disappointed to find out that her other self had remarried Jerry, but Rick pointed out that since they are the same person, she would have done the same thing. Later on, she admits that Jerry "has his moments".

She continues to belittle him throughout "Bethic Twinstinct" and encourages Beth to leave him permanently, exhibiting ill regard for his feelings on their relationship and indifferent to the possibility Jerry might commit suicide as a result of his wife leaving him. When he discovers their relationship, he felt betrayed and prepared to leave. While he was expressing his frustration, Space Beth accuses him of being upset that it isn't about him, and calls him a "little pervert" when she realizes he enjoys watching them make out. However, she finds that she is aroused by him permitting it before having him join in and can be heard saying she knows what he likes, something he agrees with. The episode ends with her leaving Earth and being happy about her experience with Home Beth and Jerry.

In "Nomortland", Jerry voiced how Space Beth originally hated him but they were able to reconcile. He is also shown to still be proud of his encounter with both versions of his wives, seen by him bragging to Mooch Jerry.

- Rick

Jerry constantly finds himself lacking compared to his father-in-law Rick's intelligence and resents him to a degree. He is torn between wanting to disdain of Rick's adventures and join in and gain his father-in-law's approval. Jerry's life is frequently affected by Rick's shenanigans like the Meeseeks Box, the parallel reality goggles, and Rick's machine that can stop time.

Rick makes Jerry feel insecure about his intelligence and his marriage, causing Jerry to overcompensate in his efforts to prove he is better than Rick. Usually, in trying, his efforts don't prove to be successful.

One of Jerry's insecurities is that his children look at Rick more favorably than him. One such instance of this is in "Something Ricked This Way Comes", when he sees Morty asking Rick for help with his science project rather than him, and insists that science fairs are traditionally "a father-son thing". He becomes angrily defensive when he thinks Morty is going to ask Rick if Pluto is a planet.

Jerry puts up with Rick to a degree because he knows how much it means to Beth that Rick is in her life after being absent for so long, and Rick, despite being constantly condescending toward him, does the same for Beth's sake, telling Ricks from the Citadel to "unfreeze his daughter's idiot" in "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind".

The most significant development between Rick and Jerry takes place during a "pity adventure" in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy". Morty believes Jerry is suicidal after his divorce and forces Rick to take Jerry out, lest he kill himself. For the first time, Jerry actually seems to get along with Rick and the two begin to bond, laughing and drinking together at the bar. However, the conversation turns sour when Rick inadvertently suggests his presence in the house is what caused Jerry and Beth to begin experiencing problems in their marriage. Following this, Jerry decides to follow through with a plot to kill Rick arranged by Risotto Groupon, but before it can be carried out, Jerry has a change of heart after Rick apologizes to him. Jerry saves Rick's life, but Rick quickly deducts Jerry had a hand in his attempted murder.

The two argue and Jerry blames Rick for taking his family. Rick tells him that he was the first one to take his family when he impregnated his daughter. He tells Jerry that Beth "lost options" because she felt sorry for Jerry. According to Rick, Jerry acts as prey but is a predator who uses other people for pity for him. Jerry seems to agree with Rick and take this into account, as he later attempts to be brave and save Rick's life, which works albeit not as intended. Later on, back home, Jerry tells Rick that making people sorry for him is no longer his "signature move" and Rick gives him a nod, implying the two have genuinely bonded, and learned how to respect each other a little more. However their relationship remains somewhat strained. This is further demonstrated when Rick pettily refuses to let Jerry into the Smith Residence and get his bus pass and activates a security system to stop him from entering.

In "The ABC's of Beth", despite causing Jerry to leave the house, Rick still protects him from the alien hunter who was planning to kill him. This was either because of his grandchildren, Beth, or out of his own choice.

During the events of "The Rickchurian Mortydate", Jerry reconciles with Beth and moves back in with her and hides from Rick though he still finds them. Face to face with Jerry, Rick admits that he planned on killing Jerry. However, he states no matter what, Jerry still has ties with the family. Jerry noted Rick had a lot of strength to admit that while Rick begrudgingly accepts Jerry back into the family and decides to stay with them but now must watch what he says to Jerry due to Beth changing her outlook on things.

During "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty", Rick goes to pick up Jerry and his talking cat after they are lost in Florida. When Rick analyzed the cat and looked through its history, he was horrified by what he saw. Jerry insisted he look too, despite the warnings of Rick and was left traumatized after seeing. Rick told Jerry he could help him forget, but the latter declared someone has to remember what the cat did. Rick agrees and makes the sacrifice by choosing to remember what they saw whilst erasing the memory from Jerry's mind. This seems to demonstrate great care for Jerry, as the memories were enough to make Rick suicidal yet he chose to retain them, despite them almost making Rick kill himself.

In "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri", Rick saves Jerry and Beth from Tammy Guetermann. During this moment, it's confirmed Rick sees Jerry as family, as he quite literally refers to both Beth and Jerry as such when saving them.

In "Solaricks", Rick ends up accidentally reminds Beth they need to pick up Jerry from his home dimension. He does, but sighs exasperated. At the same time, Jerry's original Rick had sarcastically offered Jerry help when he was insulted by his family. Before leaving, he immediately insults his original Rick to live with his new family. After seeing Jerry hugs Beth when they arrive at Dimension 5126, Rick makes a sarcastic comment but is visibly happy. After everyone returns to Dimension C-131, they meet the Season 2 Jerry, who chastises Rick for having Mr. Frundles, Post-Season 2 Jerry was more concerned with what it was rather than being upset with Rick for it. Jerry also ignored Rick's attempt to be non-committal to the family.

In "Bethic Twinstinct", Rick arrives to Thanksgiving dinner naked. When Jerry exasperatedly asks Rick to put clothes on, Rick mockingly refers to Jerry as "patriarch." Later, when Jerry curls into a ball with a chitinous body, the rest of the family is horrified, however Rick eventually recalls that he did this as a drunken request for Jerry.

In "The Jerrick Trap", the two engage in a petty argument after Jerry asks Rick for help in finding out if his rake is in their neighbor Gene's house. Jerry tells him off in the process, stating that his brain wouldn't have been wasted if only he had it. Insulted, Rick initiates a brain swap just to prove that people aren't "born smart." However, this ends up on a brutal route with their blood and brain parts scattered all over the place, as their own brains were not able to handle each other's minds. The Garage AI fixes the situation; however, it ends up in their personalities getting blended together. Surprisingly, the two bond really well. The one with Jerry's body also admits that, while Jerry himself may argue with and insult Rick, he still considers him a friend.

During "Nomortland", Jerry goes off on a solo adventure through the multiverse while being able to cover his tracks by mentioning a certain show to Rick, one that both surprisingly enjoy. This even caught Rick off-guard at a common interest but he warned Jerry not to blindside him like that again. When the rest of his family find him after searching, Rick appears to be the only one aware of the truth even saying Jerry deserves some fun. The two were later seen watching their favorite show, though left Beth disgusted by being nude and defended it was the vibe of the show.

- Summer Jerry keeps an eye out for Summer and proves to be rather approachable to her, like a father. In "Look Who's Purging Now", Jerry tries bonding with his daughter Summer as he attempts to create conversation, only to be dismissed by a moody Summer. Later, he succeeds and talks to her about how much he enjoyed raising her and is proud to be her father; later revealed to be a trick to get Summer to loan him money to get by, as he was still unemployed.

He does show some parental protectiveness being hurt when his daughter reveals she has had a boyfriend, Ethan, for some time and has not informed him of the relationship and then being upset as the two blatantly make out in front of him.

In "Childrick of Mort", Summer goes ballistic and scolds him for trying to bond with her in order to feel important, leaving him hurt. Later on, she and Morty realized Jerry was right about them not knowing everything. Jerry returned the sentiment by telling them they were right, something that left Summer shocked and guilty about her treatment.

In "Solaricks", Jerry is returned back to his original home. His Summer demands that he get a job after being unemployed. Jerry is soon rescued by his new family. Before leaving, he immediately insults his original daughter to live with his new family.

During Nomortland, Jerry was surprised and touched to learn that Summer and the family were looking for him when he went on his solo adventure.

- Morty Jerry loves his son Morty and only wishes for his success, academically and romantically. Jerry is often shown jealous of the time Morty spends with Rick at one point even apologizing that he is not as smart as Rick.

While Morty seems aware of his father's faults, he loves Jerry in return. In "Something Ricked This Way Comes", Morty fully admits that while Jerry isn't as smart as Rick, he states that Jerry is genius at being his dad which causes Jerry to smile. During "The Rickshank Rickdemption", Morty was upset to hear that his parents were going to divorce.

As seen in "Raising Gazorpazorp", Jerry seems to be amused when Morty's parenting plans don't go his son's way, as when he watched Morty fail at parenting Morty Jr.. During "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat", Jerry is concerned about Morty's adventures with Rick even demanding Rick get permission. He also made it clear that he didn't want him spiraling.In "The Old Man and the Seat", Morty reveals that he thinks Jerry is a loser but this was because he was upset that Jerry got him in a bad situation.

Despite obvious tension, Jerry still expresses concern especially when he heard Morty killed several people to be with Planetina and seemed upset by Morty voicing nobody has his interests at heart in "A Rickconvenient Mort". In Childrick of Mort, Morty was annoyed by Jerry hosting a camping trip but was stunned by Summer's ballistic shouting at Jerry and defended his father. Later on, Morty realized Jerry was right about them not knowing everything. Jerry returned the sentiment by telling them they were right, something that left Morty shocked and guilty about his treatment towards his father.

In "Solaricks", Jerry is returned back to his original home, where he is dismayed by his son changing for the worse after he says he was expelled. Jerry is then rescued and cuts ties with his original condescending family in favor of his new one.

During “Nomortland”, Jerry was surprised and touched to learn that Morty and the family were looking for him when he went on his solo adventure.

Name: Beth Smith

Nicknames: Mom, Domestic Mom

Age: 34.

Pronouns: She/her.

Height: 5'8"

Physical Appearance: Beth is a slender, pale fair-skinned woman of above average height with an oval-shaped face and slightly wavy shoulder-length blonde hair in a long bob cut, she also has a big bust. Green eyes. She wears berry pink-colored lipstick for makeup, has a pointed nose, and long eyelashes. Since her unwanted pregnancy, her waistline has widened.

Outfit: She wears a short-sleeve V-neck collared desire-red polo shirt, straight-leg blue pants and slip-on white shoes.

Personality: Beth is an intelligent, ambitious, and independent woman who suffers from a variety of deep-seated insecurities. A dedicated veterinary horse surgeon, she is the family's main breadwinner and often tries to do the best for her family based on this sense of responsibility. She is highly insecure about her profession as a horse surgeon, and is quick to snap at the implication she is not a 'real' surgeon or a 'real' veterinarian. She may share this belief, wishing she had been able to continue her medical education to become a 'real' doctor in Rixty Minutes. Nonetheless, she is very dedicated to her job, even beyond as a source of income, and was willing to give up her own pride to help successfully save a deer's life in A Rickle in Time.

Although Beth can sometimes be derisive of what she sees as weakness, dependence or emotional vulnerability, she can still be compassionate and caring at times, more so than her father. When she and Jerry accidentally hit a deer, her first concerns were to help and assist it and Beth would stop at nothing to bring it back to health. She often expresses grave concern for Morty's education and health, when they are not related to Rick, and is considerate of the consequences on her children of her leaving Jerry. She has generally considered her family her first priority and has "defined her life" around her marriage to Jerry, which has at times driven her marital regrets. Her dedication to her family can fade quickly if she feels patronized, devalued, or that she or another family member, such as Morty or Rick, is threatened.

Beth has a superiority complex, believing herself at times to be above others as a way of hiding her insecurities. She has extended this behaviour to those such as her son Morty - particularly when he is shown taking care of his own son - and her husband, who unwittingly feeds her insecurities by implying she was not a 'real' surgeon. Her genius father's clear preference for her over her 'idiot' husband has in turn fed her feelings of superiority, especially towards Jerry. She also exhibited resentment towards being patronized during her surgical work, such as by her co-worker, Davin when he lets her know they're losing a patient, or when another veterinarian implies she cannot save a deer. These feelings of superiority however seem to disappear quickly when Rick is removed from her life, or even when she merely feels more confident in herself.

As a result of her father's disappearance, Beth has come to fixate on exceptionalism and intelligence, and has a fear of abandonment, resulting in a deep-seated desire to keep her father in her life. As a result, she is generally willing to put up with Rick - and his needs without sarcasm or argument - rationalizing his experiments and behavior. She can become defensive and even insecure about this when challenged by it, as in The Wedding Squanchers she calls Jerry a "dumb asshole" for proposing the idea that Rick doesn't care for the family, and so in turn they have no reason to treat him with care. When meeting Dr. Wong in Pickle Rick however, she largely bragged about her father as a scientist, and believed that the reason he turned himself into a pickle had nothing to do with the fact that he wanted to avoid family therapy (which ended up being debunked, as he did turn himself into a pickle to evade it). However, she has some limits even for his behavior, and has given him ultimatums in Pilot and Auto Erotic Assimilation, which he has ultimately followed - so she is not entirely defensive of her father's behaviors. Nevertheless, the long-lasting emotional scars embedded into Beth by Rick’s sudden abandonment left her to seek comfort in more reliable persons, such as Jerry and to withhold confidence in herself.

Her relationship with Jerry is extremely rocky. Beth and Jerry have remained together partially due to the fact that Jerry is the only man who has not abandoned her. She and Jerry share a number of common goals - generally around doing what is best for their family - but these goals are strained by their disagreement on how to achieve these ends. She is often critical of his ideas, and suggests that she feels held back or unappreciated by him. Their disagreement over Rick's living situation with them is an extremely frequent source of tension, as it has been implied by Dan Harmon and the episodes Rick Potion #9 and The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy that Jerry and Beth's relationship was more stable before Rick came back into her life. In many cases Jerry is often the more sentimental and nurturing one who calls out Rick for being a negative impact on Morty, and Beth is often the one justifying his actions.

Beth has notably inherited her father's tendency to rely on alcohol to control stress, drinking wine briefly in Meeseeks and Destroy and amid more stressful situations, very heavily in both Rixty Minutes, at the end of Total Rickall and in The Rickshank Rickdemption. She also expresses excitement at the offer to go out for a drink with Rick in Pickle Rick, seeming to overlook both of her children. A separate flashback in Total Rickall also shows her suffering from a severe hangover, causing her to whiplash a bottle at Summer during her Picture Day, giving her a black eye as a result. In a flashback shown in Rickfending Your Mort, it’s shown that Beth will secretly drink wine whenever no one is looking.

In addition, Beth can be highly sarcastic at times, such as when she predicted Snuffles' increased intelligence would backfire in the episode, Lawnmower Dog.

In the Season 3 episode, The ABC's of Beth, an even further layer of Beth's personality was revealed. Rick discloses that she had a tumultuous and destructive childhood, only exacerbated by her murderous and sociopathic tendencies (which Rick accredits to his own mental state, and whose behavior as a role model and eventual disappearance no doubt contributed to). Despite having acclimated towards a relatively normal life in adulthood, this layer again reveals itself when she goes to confront her childhood friend, Tommy, and end the chaos ruling over her former "imaginary" paradise, Froopyland. These violent tendencies and sociopathy was later confirmed in The Curicksous Case of Bethjamin Button, where Beth and Space Beth were turned back into 10 year olds, both displayed a love of violence, dangerous weapons, making deadly booby-traps, mutilating small animals, setting things on fire and attacking others with little provocations. With the both of them admitting a deep love of stabbing people and having a strong compulsion to do so. Their sociopathy was further evident when they had slashed Jean’s ankles and slashed his arteries, where both Beths displayed little to no remorse for their actions and were instead annoyed by the inconvenience they had cause to themselves due them now needing to take care of the injured Jean.

During the chaos, she then realizes that while her childhood self idolized Rick and wanted to be like him, Rick remains a deeply flawed individual and (by some cruel twist of fate), she turned out exactly like him- needlessly destructive. It is implied that the both of them deeply misunderstand the world as it appears to the majority, who can easily adapt to it and live in accordance to a lifestyle set out for them through their own choice- who know what they want and their life direction, even if only for the fact that that they allow themselves to experience satisfaction, happiness and completion, instead of only sort of contempt towards an ordinary life in some misguided attempt to overcome it. Realizing that in divorcing Jerry and coming to terms with the way she is that there is no one and nothing holding her back from a living a life of self-determination in accordance to her true, broken identity, Rick proposes that Beth resolve her identity issues through exploring the multiverse while an identical clone takes her place for however long she is gone (or even a lifetime). It is not disclosed whether or not Beth decides to remain. It is likely that she chose the latter based on the scenes that followed, though The Rickchurian Mortydate puts this into further debate.

The episode also revealed that Beth was very lonely as a little girl, and may very well still be, having asked Rick to make her a whip that would make people like her, and a sentient switchblade. She was also envious of her friend Tommy, and his father who was present in his life, which lead her to abandon him in Froopyland, mirroring her father's image, and roused her to become a better person by her own standards.

Overall, Beth is a complexly conflicted woman with several layers of contradictory nature. Firstly, she envisions herself much like her morally bankrupt father Rick, admiring him for his unlimited intellect and independence, which at first seems to stem from confidence of being virtually the smartest being in the universe. However, throughout the vast years of interstellar madness and chaos the universe has to offer, she realises Rick’s carelessness core origin lies in the awareness of how insignificant it all is. His knowledge of the multiverse and endless alternate dimensions with different versions of everyone makes him believe nothing matters and treats relationships and the human need for bonds as pointless. Yet, while Beth is also intelligent enough to solve a complex issue and agree many times with her father, she chooses to rather go with the ignorance and simpler curve. In spite of her blood, Beth sees life worth living, even if it ends up as nothing more than a tiny speck on the hourglass. Contradictory to her ideal version of herself (a top surgeon and independent woman), Beth ends up with the largest contrast to her own character and values, Jerry. Though facing serious marriage struggles like unintentional pregnancy from unprotected intercourse from the meager age of 17, a husband that for all his noble intentions isn’t especially smart and with misguided intentions and sometimes serious issues urging divorce, she ultimately finds more comfort from Jerry than she does from Rick’s recognition. For while Rick’s attention and praise might boost her confidence and uncertainty greatly, it is only temporary. The love from a simple man such as her husband is so easy and pure in itself that she benefits more from it than seeking approval from her lonely, drunk and careless father.

Secondly, Beth’s largest flaw is her insecure feelings of abandonment left by Rick. In her quest to reconnect with her long-deserted father, Beth manages to destroy most of the good things she had obtained without his presence. A surprisingly adequate job given the circumstances from the high school pregnancy, two children that she loves and a unique marriage that despite all its difficulties provides comfort. In season 3, she embraces a life without Jerry and in the end she ends up only stressed and uncertain when trying to re-create the lost years between herself and Rick. By the end, she embraces the fact that Jerry is child-like, easily misguided, insecure, slightly below-average intelligence and somewhat pathetic, and instead relishes in being loved by him unconditionally. Like other faulty animated marriages like Homer & Marge from the Simpsons, Beth thinks Jerry is just a child that does not know better, admiring his efforts to make up even if badly executed. The origin of her reason to live with a man very much unlike herself could stem from her deep vulnerability when it comes to being alone. Either way, Beth retains better traits and confidence from the man that never will leave her side, than the mysterious father that really holds no interest in anyone besides himself for whatever the reason.

Finally, for all the bad things Beth inherit from her father; alcoholism, negligence, unemotional attachments, rude/cold behaviour etc. she manages to rise above the negative aspects which makes Rick Rick, while with keeping his strengths: intelligence, bravery, self-reliance etc. She starts with a happy childhood until losing her mother and eventually her father, which leaves her mingle alone. For twenty years, she is forced to grow up by herself and raise a family she was unprepared for, however, it is her family that proves she succeeded, even if it is a distorted vision of her future self. Her love is ultimately her greatest difference form her father and lack of knowledge or interest in treating things as insignificant, grants her more happiness than Rick ends up with.

NSFW: Dominant top and bottom, rarely ever submissive, especially with Jerry.

Relationships:

- Jerry Smith

Beth met Jerry in high school and had unprotected sex on prom night, resulting in the pregnancy that produced their first and only daughter, Summer. They become married since that incident, eventually producing their second child and only son, Morty three years later. Their relationship is very rocky and strained, due to the fact that both of them missed out on fulfilling their dreams due to poor decisions when they were teenagers - as when Jerry puts on a headset that allows him to view many realities in Rixty Minutes, he realizes that without Beth he would have became a successful director. Beth often contemplates leaving Jerry to pursue her own dreams and happiness, mentioning taking "a trip" or "a break", while Jerry still loves her and often tries to keep their marriage together. Beth believes her father to be a better influence on their children than Jerry, which is another reason she thinks he should live with them.

Jerry doesn't always seem to respect her occupation as horse surgeon and occasionally has Freudian slips about it, which greatly offends her, and she is often frustrated by Jerry's insecurities and immature actions. Ironically, despite her continuous frustrations with Jerry's "simple nature", she herself also bears clear insecurities, especially with her father. Due to her lonely childhood, whether Rick was present or not, Beth does have a vulnerability with abandonment. This is one of the reasons that Beth married and stayed with Jerry for more than 15 years, because - unlike Rick - he stays with her no matter what. In spite of denial of Rick's clearly horrid character, numerous evidence proves that Jerry is right concerning Beth's fears of abandonment and definitely with her father being far from the ideal person or parent. In Rixty Minutes, Jerry and Beth both get to see an alternate version of themselves in a different reality and find themselves unsatisfied with their current lives, leading them to eventually decide that splitting up would be inevitable. However, the alternate Jerry and Beth eventually realize that they are miserable without one another and get together after years apart. Seeing this renewed Jerry and Beth's relationship and they opted not to split up.

In The Rickshank Rickdemption, Jerry took a stand against Rick's behavior towards the family, apparent manipulation of Beth's father issues in order to live rent-free, and his frequently putting their children in danger. He told Beth that it was him or Rick which led to the two deciding to divorce.

In The Rickchurian Mortydate, Beth visits her husband when she suffers from identity crisis and he reflects on a high school date they had and she ends up kissing him as thanks. They decide to get back together and hide from Rick who still tracks them down but begrudgingly accepts their choice. At the end, they are living together again with both finally able to be happily married parents and Beth defended Jerry from Rick's insults.

During Childrick of Mort, Beth and Jerry have problems but Jerry saves his wife from falling, though Beth refuses sex as gratitude. When Rick was criticizing Jerry, Beth for once doesn't defend her father - and instead takes her husband's defense by voicing how she was impressed with Jerry because saved her life, while criticizing Rick. This brings a smile to Jerry's face.

In the Season 5 premiere, Mort Dinner Rick Andre, Beth and Jerry appear more loving while openly claiming to watch pornography together, thanks to Dr. Wong's therapy, and due to their new sexual nature, they have a three way with Mr. Nimbus.

- Rick Sanchez

Not much is known about the relationship of Beth and her father Rick prior to the events of the series. Jerry insinuates that Beth was raised "like a reptile" by Rick, suggesting that his method of parenting was very unorthodox. It is known that he left her mother for unknown reasons.

Beth is very happy that her father came back into her life sometime prior to the Pilot episode. She is usually defensive of him when Jerry badmouths him, and is largely convinced that Rick is good for the family. When she came to realize that Rick was indeed a bad influence on Morty and agreed with Jerry to send him to a nursing home, Morty seemed to exhibit superhuman intelligence (actually the results of dissolving mega-seeds)—further convincing her to keep him around.

Beth affectionately celebrates the one-year anniversary of Rick's return in Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind with UFO-shaped pancakes and despite her usual independence, seems to dote on him and his alternate selves in the same episode. Also, multiple Ricks seem to like Beth and compliment her for her kindness. However, this Beth is not the same Beth in Rick Potion #9, who comes to the conclusion that her father Rick is a "selfish, irresponsible ass," after he turned everyone on Earth into monsters and abandoned her, Jerry and Summer, from the Prime Dimension.

During the events of "Total Rickall," Rick was clearly upset by Beth doubting his existence because of the parasites. He also comforts Beth when she shoots Mr. Poopybutthole after thinking he was a parasite, explaining his similar mistake.

In the Season 2 finale, The Wedding Squanchers, Beth gets a closer look at her father's personal life, and tries her best to keep Jerry from ruining her chances of going on adventures with him more often. Later in the episode, Beth is heartbroken to find that Rick abandoned her a second time (little did she know that this time, he turned himself in to protect her and her family from the Federation). When the family is taken back to earth by the Galactic Federation, she bursts into tears. At the same time in the episode, Rick's self-sacrifice proved that he actually does care about her.

Beth also seems to enjoy Rick's inventions, and appreciates the help he gives her. She allows Rick to stay rent-free in her home due to the fact that she doesn't want him leaving her again. That is the same reason why she disagreed with Jerry so strongly, and wept, when he suggested that the family turn in Rick to the Galactic Federation so that they can go back home to Earth in The Wedding Squanchers.

In the Season 3 premiere, The Rickshank Rickdemption, when Jerry finally gives Beth the ultimatum of choosing him or Rick, Beth chooses Rick, leading to their divorce. Shortly after, Beth insists to Rick that the divorce would be good for Jerry, and the family, after he expresses remorse. Rick later admits to Morty that he had a hand in manipulating this because Jerry went against him.

In The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, Morty lashes out on Beth for her distance towards him and Summer. He blames this on her relationship with Rick, telling her that she doesn't need to prove herself to be worthy of Rick's love by acting essentially just like him, as it is making her appear just as narcissistic and irresponsible. And that while she's trying to gain Rick's approval, she's hurting him and Summer.

Beth believed she needed to prove herself to Rick because of how rarely he ever tells her he loves her. He admits this to Jaguar in, Pickle Rick. Rick also admitted in the same episode to Jerry that he believes Jerry impregnating Beth ruined her chances of being successful, and detests him for his detachment to his daughter. Beth's awareness of her mistreatment of her children may drive her farther away from Rick, as she will likely stop trying to get him to love her, and instead find solace in her relationship with her children.

Due to this suggestion, in The Rickchurian Mortydate Beth began to suffer from an identity crisis despite Rick constantly telling her she is real. Her spiral causes her to turn to Jerry and reconcile with and hide from Rick but he still finds them forcing Beth to confront him. Beth tells Rick if she is a clone, he should just kill her and get it over with or go to another dimension and be with another version of her. However, Rick simply informs her she is his daughter and she is relieved, though put off when he tells her he was actually planning to kill Jerry, but relented. In the end, Jerry moves back in and Rick begrudgingly accepts this while Beth forces him to watch his tone to her husband before she and the family laugh at Rick's expense, showing how much she moved from her father's shadow.

In Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri, after meeting Space Beth and both of them dealing with Rick's constant lies, she loses a great amount of respect for him. The same episode would also reveal that Beth left her decision of leaving Earth or staying with her family up to Rick, who would clone her due to being unable to choose between a life-changing decision for his daughter. Beth later regains her respect for him after she found out what Rick has gone through because of Rick Prime showing that even though he is an ass, he is an ass for a reason.

While their relationship is not the same, Beth is shown to still care for her father as she is still willing to save him from enemies as seen in Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion, though she has lower tolerance for his antics and she treats Rick colder than before.

The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button explores Beth's childhood trauma from her father leaving, as after Rick arrives from the de-aged Beth's causing mayhem, they trap him in the de-aging machine and make him 360 years old, leaving Rick a vulnerable, grovelling, rotting man. The Beths then proceed to beat him, believing that Rick didn't want his daughter and just wanted to fuck off, but Rick tries to reason with them, explaining that his original Beth was murdered. This gets to Beth(s), but still angry, says that someone left them, and now that there are two of them, Rick should have no problem loving the both of them. Rick, faced with this, cries, and expresses his pride in his daughters, making his acceptance to both of them clear, all of them touched, hug and cry.

In Hot Rick, upon discovering a sentient memory of Rick, she unknowingly transfers him into her own subconscious, where he starts manipulating her memories, brainwashing her into letting the memory version of Diane out of a machine in the sub-basement, and constantly gaslighting her with one message, "This is how we stay a family." She does so, but Space Beth walks in on her, and after trying to unsuccessfully give her the memories as well, brawls with her, despite Space Beth refusing. She eventually kills her, much to her horror, running out. Her other memories begin awakening driving her insane. Eventually after almost driving herself into a cliff, she reaches peak instability, and attempts to commit suicide. The memory Beth's capture Memory Rick and force him to see how they drove his own daughter insane. Rick deters her from killing herself, sedates her, and extracts the memories from her. Beth also expresses she wished she knew Diane better, leading Rick to assure her the real Diane loved Beth more than her memory incarnation.

- Morty Smith

Beth knows that her son Morty is not very intelligent and wants him to succeed in school. She has no problems allowing Rick to take Morty on most adventures, believing Rick is not only teaching him valuable life skills and improving his intelligence, but that he is the only friend Morty has. She believes that Morty was filled with Jerry's insecurities as a result of Jerry's overly-nurturing method of raising him, and consequently, she is largely absent from Morty's life,

Despite this, Beth does seem to consistently care about Morty's well-being, as she asks if Morty is getting sick in the Pilot episode, and is deeply concerned about the fact that he does not do well in school or have any friends. She was even willing to sacrifice her relationship with Rick, so that Morty could do better in school, in the same episode.

In Rick Potion #9, Beth Prime admits that without her son Morty and her father Rick around, she is much happier, and seems indifferent to her son's fate. It isn't unlikely that, in the case that the same events were to occur in the Dimension C-131, as they had in the Prime Dimension, this Beth would feel the same way. However, in The Rickshank Rickdemption, that same Beth, along with her husband and daughter, were going to kill the Summer of Dimension C-131, and keep Morty, meaning they missed him during their time apart.

In Something Ricked This Way Comes, Beth communicates with Morty through text, reminding him of Jerry's intellectual insecurities, so that he will accept Jerry's offer to help him with his science project. Implying that they have a close relationship, and have a mutual understanding for each other, and Jerry. Apart from this, their relationship has yet to be explored in any other significant detail in the series. That is, until "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy."

In "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy," Morty lashes out on Beth for her distance towards him and Summer. He blames this on her relationship with Rick, telling her that she doesn't need to prove herself to be worthy of Rick's love by acting essentially just like him, as it is making her appear just as narcissistic and irresponsible. And that while she's trying to gain Rick's approval, she's hurting him and Summer. Upon realizing this, Beth institutes change, and later uses the morphizer to make herself giant, puts her skin inside out, and comforts Summer who was crying, and really needed her at the moment. Beth's awareness of her mistreatment of her children has initiated a change in her, making her more motherly and understanding. This change will likely bring her closer to Morty, as well as Summer. But farther from Rick.

In "Morty's Mind Blowers," it was revealed that Beth prefers her daughter Summer over her son Morty. Beth was trapped in a situation, where an evil alien from another dimension was planning on killing one of her two children, and graced her with the choice of which one lives. Without any hesitation, Beth immediately demanded that her daughter Summer be the one who survives. Morty was shocked at his mother's choice, as was the alien, but luckily Rick rescued his daughter and grandchildren and erased her son's memories, though he recalled this but forgot again. The reason of Beth's choice is because she is jealous of his closer relationship with Rick.

However, it is apparent Beth still loves her son due to her behavior in "The Rickchurian Mortydate," where she was happy to be a family again.

It is also likely that without her father Rick's influence, Morty could be Beth's favorite. In Season 1 of the series, before Rick's impact on the family cemented, Beth consistently showed concern for her son Morty's health and well-being. In the episode, "The ABC's of Beth," after talking with her father about his offer to create a clone of her, Beth, still contemplating, carries her hand carefully over all the individual pictures of the family on the refrigerator. This ended at her son's picture, who she looked at the longest, and smiled at afterwards. This could mean that Beth does indeed love her son Morty.

During "A Rickconvenient Mort", Beth ultimately shows she does love Morty by voicing disapproval of his status with Planetina because of the age gap (despite her being unaging) and his recklessness in getting involved with her. Morty became angry with Beth after she demands Planetina leave. Morty subsequently lashed out at her by voicing his adventures and how Beth, as well as the rest of the family doubt him and never let him be happy, leaving Beth stunned and somewhat guilty. When Morty and Planetina break up, Beth, overhearing the argument, comforts a weeping Morty.

In "Morty Daddy", she tells Morty not to connect with his son, since he does nothing but criticized him.

- Summer Smith

Beth loves and cares about her daughter Summer, but the two do not seem very close much of the time. Beth had originally planned to abort the girl when she was still a fetus, but due to the fact that she and Jerry blew a tire on the way to the abortion clinic, they kept the fetus. In "Meeseeks and Destroy," mother and daughter happily go shopping together after their Meeseeks disappear. Urging her father he may lose her, Summer acknowledges that Beth is a "beautiful woman".

In a flashback from the episode, "Total Rickall" a drunken Beth accidentally hits her daughter Summer's eye with a bottle on her picture day. She tries to clean up her bruise with make-up. Summer tears up and insists the police take her to school instead of her mother.

In "Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure," Summer has an over-sized bra in her closet and jealously claims she'll grow into it because "Beth's got big boobs".

She is initially unskilled in dealing with her daughter Summer's teenage emotional issues such as when her daughter becomes very doubtful of her attractiveness after her boyfriend, Ethan, dumps her in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" for Tricia, a girl with larger breasts, but comes around eventually after Morty tells her how distant she's been towards him, and Summer. Beth later uses the morphizer to enlarge herself, puts her skin inside out, and comforts a crying Summer. Beth's change in parenting in the episode may not be permanent, as she hasn't been as motherly or supportive in any other episode, especially not to Summer, who along with Morty needs this the most from her.

In "Morty's Mind Blowers," it was revealed that Beth prefers her daughter Summer over her son Morty. Beth was trapped in a situation, where an evil alien from another dimension was planning to kill one of her two children, and graced her with the choice of which one lives. Without any hesitation, Beth immediately demanded that her daughter Summer be the one who survives. Her preference for her only daughter over her only son could be because she is jealous of his close relationship with Rick.

This may also be due to the fact that in "Rixty Minutes," Summer learned she was an unplanned pregnancy after finding very few alternate versions of herself, while it has been stated many times that there are multiple Mortys in other timelines, and Beth wanted to spare her only daughter.

- Space Beth

Space Beth is either Beth's clone or the original Beth that this Beth was cloned from. Initially, they were antagonistic, with each one resenting the other and not understanding the choices that they made. However, they eventually bond over a mutual resentment of Rick and his lies and even gain a respect for one another.

In "Solaricks", they are reunited when Space Beth rescues Rick and Morty and brings them down to Earth. Summer looks up to Space Beth, inviting her to stick around, but while they and Beth loot the Citadel and fight scavengers, Summer's clear favoritism to Space Beth causes her own Beth to feel insecure about her relationship with her daughter as well as with Space Beth, declaring that Space Beth ran from her problems and was talking down to her. They apologize to each other after being consumed by a monster, with Space Beth admitting she is glad the family has Beth and doesn't desire the family's approval. After they argue over this, Summer lectures them both, saying to Beth that her affection is always changing and not to worry about it so much. Beth apologizes again at the end that Summer is Space Beth's daughter as well, but Space Beth suggests boundaries are good while admitting she had put hers up too big. Afterwards, she compliments Beth's outfit as "cute".

The episode "Bethic Twinstinct" explores the two's bisexuality and relationship with each other, Space Beth comes down to Earth and spends time with her other counterpart. She encourages Beth to be the kind of person she wants to be and not hold back, pointing out they can tell each other anything, including admitting that she finds Beth's ass attractive in a space suit, and after Beth admits to her own attraction to her, they have sex aboard Space Beth's space station and begin an affair. Beth feels unsure about the relationship but Space Beth encourages her, and they both simulate a long happy life together on Rick's Holodeck. After Jerry finds out about the affair, Space Beth urges Beth to leave him and continues to insult Jerry, but they ultimately work things out when they discover Jerry is turned on being cuckolded by watching by Space Beth make out with Beth, with all three of them ending up in a threesome. All the while Morty, Summer and Rick are forced to listen in horror whilst eating Thanksgiving dinner at the Dining Table.

In "Hot Rick", upon seeing that Memory Rick has injected himself into Beth, and the latter trying to also affect Space Beth, they brawl, but Space Beth shows no interest in hurting Beth Smith, showing her care for her. But this does not get to Beth, and due to Memory Rick training her memories, she is now very good at fighting, and kills Space Beth, much to her own horror. After getting revived, the two set off to find Beth, who is about to drive off a cliff. Upon catching the car, Beth continues to resist, and eventually gets exhausted. Upon finally being defeated, she grabs Space Beth's gun and tries to kill herself, much to Space Beth's dismay, the latter attempting to talk her out of it. After Rick helps Beth, Space Beth checks in on her.