“There. One Beth. Properly muxed. No more cloning. No more burp fragmented Oedipus complexes.”
Jerry watches a low-res JPEG of himself slowly load on a CRT TV.
“Constant Rate Factor. Lower number = higher quality. 18 is burp visually lossless. I’m not gonna make my daughter a pixelated mess. That’s what Jerry is for.” Later – Beth #27 glitches, repeats “I love you dad” in a 3-second loop
“Why do you keep software in your—never mind. Here.”
“So… she’s not broken?”
ffprobe -v error -show_frames clone_beth_27.mkv | grep pict_type “Look at that. All I-frames, no P or B frames. No prediction, no compression. That’s not a clone, Morty. That’s a burp narcissistic self-portrait. Beth encoded herself as an all-intra video stream. Classic narcissist move.”
“You were field-dominant. Don’t worry about it.” Post-credits scene – Jerry’s man cave
“Dad? Why do I feel like I just got deinterlaced?”