Anyone here ever watched Moral Orel? It's arguably one of adult swim's most underrated shows. The show depicts a religious fundamentalist town full of moralfag hypocrites with a lot of personal problems. But one character in the show stands out the most, Clayton Puppington.
Now Clayton Puppington is the epitome of the phrase 'Professional Victim' because he is a massive piece of shit; he abuses his son Orel (physically and emotionally), he's a train wreck of an alcoholic and refuses to seek help, he hurts those around him, he always plays the victim when shit is his fault, and he always uses religion to justify his terrible behavior when most of the things he does is not close to being Christ-like (his son Orel is more like Christ than Clayton could ever hope to be).
Jersh has a lot in common with Clayton Puppington in a lot of ways (this includes that Clayton in Moral Orel was a big mamma's boy just like Jersh and Clayton would eventually develop selfish and self-destructive behaviors later in life just like Jersh in real life).
I know it sounds autistic to compare someone in real life to fiction but art often imitates real life and in this case, Jersh is a real life version of Clayton Puppington where Jersh exhibits a lot of traits that Clayton has in Moral Orel.