"The ABC's of Beth" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Rick and Morty.
Beth learns that her childhood friend Tommy Lipnip's father is about to be executed by lethal injection for murdering and cannibalizing him, and recalls that she coped by imagining he got lost in the magical fantasy world of Froopyland.
Rick and Beth reconcile and manage to save his father's life by creating a clone of Tommy from his severed finger.
Meanwhile, Morty and Summer visit Jerry for custody weekend to find he has entered a rebound relationship with an alien hunter named Kiara.
In addition, Thomas Middleditch voices the character Tommy Lipnip, an old friend of Beth's who became stuck in Froopyland as a child and resorted to terrible means to stay alive.
The article also delved into the concept of evil in the episode, saying, "'Evil is a construct that Rick doesn't really believe in,' series creator Dan Harmon says.
The season has an approval rating of 96% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 8.95 out of 10, with the site's consensus: Rick and Morty dives into new and even kookier cosmic dilemmas in a third season that interrogates familial bonds, love, and nihilism—treating all existential topics to the series' trademark serrated wit.
[9] Jenny Jaffe of Vulture said that "If the fact that "The ABCs of Beth”"comes right after “Morty’s Mind-Blowers” is at all significant, we might conclude that they’ve done all of this before and they’ll continue to do this again, in every conceivable universe, until the end of time.