As the daughter of the smartest man in the universe, it stands to reason that Beth had potential beyond becoming a simple horse surgeon. He's incapable of uttering Jerry's name without it positively dripping with contempt, he's prone to spontaneously excoriating the poor guy in language that Jerry can probably just barely understand, and in one of their rare adventures together, we got an idea as to why.įor all of Beth's flaws (and she is very, very flawed), she's still the apple of Rick's eye. As for Rick, it's obvious that Jerry is the living, breathing equivalent of a splinter stuck under his thumbnail.
