Jerry Smith

Gerald "Jerry" Smith is the insecure, chronically unemployed, and frequently ridiculed patriarch of the Smith family, serving as the ultimate mundane counterbalance to his father-in-law Rick Sanchez’s chaotic, interdimensional madness. Jerry is a deeply co-dependent husband to Beth and a well-meaning but incompetent father to Summer and Morty, often weaponizing an intense sense of self-pity and helplessness to manipulate others into comforting him. Because of Rick's reality-hopping antics, the Jerry currently living with the family is actually from a separate reality (the "Parmesan Dimension"), as his previous iterations either became hardened, post-apocalyptic warriors in a mutated wasteland or accidentally destroyed the Earth with an alien entity named Mr. Frundles. Despite his severe lack of intelligence and his fiercely mutual hatred with Rick, Jerry occasionally displays surprising survival instincts, though he is generally happiest when left entirely to his own devices to enjoy intensely mundane hobbies like beekeeping, doing jigsaw puzzles, and watching the movie Titanic.