The Most Pathetic Things That Have Ever Happened To Jerry On Rick And Morty

While the rest of the family gets to go on an adventure at Morty's high school involving vampires and the importance of growing up or something, Beth and Jerry have to go to couples counseling... in space.

At the off-world counseling session, the first thing that the couple does it put on a helmet that displays their perception of each other. While Jerry sees Beth as a spider-like, screaming she-beast, Beth sees Jerry as a pathetic worm of a man who's afraid of everything. When Beth's right, she's right. 

In a passing conversation during "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate," the audience is clued in to how badly Jerry needs to feel like he's winning. Beth reveals that Jerry once left a comment on a YouTube video, and when someone called him a "dumbass" he replied that it "takes one to know one," and then he stayed up all night waiting for them to reply while hitting refresh on his browser. Then he fell asleep crying, because of course he did.  

In the episode "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate" Jerry is in the hospital for some reason. Probably because he's such a wimp (actually it's a weird alien virus, but who cares). When he's offered the chance to have his penis amputated to save "hundreds of billions" of life forms, he says no, then yes, then no again.

When he tries to get Beth to get him out of his predicament, it turns out that she's totally on board with Jerry getting a new wang. Bummer. Anyway, he flip flops so much that he becomes convinced that he needs to persuade everyone that he's a good person by making them remove his penis. Then he gets shot 57 times. It's not a good day for Jerry. 

In what may be the greatest indignity that Jerry has ever suffered, during the episode "Mortynight Run" he's forced to sit out a super fun adventure in an unregistered, cross-temporal daycare designed specifically for Jerries. Jerrys? Jerri? 

Anyway, it's a place for multiple versions of the character Jerry across a variety of dimensions. While Rick and Morty sell a gun and go play videogames, Jerry hangs out with his kind (who are all total tools) and is placated by a giant doll of his wife, Beth. It's pretty insanely patronizing, but he still loves it. That just makes it even more pathetic. 

When Rick and Morty are kidnapped by the Council of Ricks in "Close Encounters of the Rick Kind," Jerry is frozen before he can try to save Morty. It's revealed that after he's unfrozen that the one thing he had to offer up for the life of his only son was a collection of state quarters where George Washington is replaced by R2-D2. Not only is it sad that he was only willing to pay $25 for his son, but that coin collection is just so depressing. 

With one sentence at the beginning of the Season 1 episode "Meseeks and Destroy," Jerry lets you know what kind of person he is. As soon as Rick and Morty return from an adventure, Jerry asks Rick, "Do you have some kind of hand shaped device that can open this jar?" Just bang the jar against the kitchen island like everyone else, Jerry!