Editing The Beverly Hillbillies (section)

===Jethro Bodine===
[[File:Max Baer, Jr. 1962.JPG|right|thumb|[[Max Baer Jr.]] as Jethro (1962)]]

Jethro (portrayed by [[Max Baer Jr.]] in 272 episodes) is the dim-witted son of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine (in a customary practice, he addresses Jed{{snd}}his once-removed elder cousin{{snd}}as "Uncle Jed", just as his second cousin, Elly May, addresses Jethro's mother as "Aunt Pearl"). Pearl's mother and Jed's father were siblings.<ref>Script, season 4 Episode 13</ref> Jethro drives the Clampett family to their new home in California and stays on with them to further his education. In the first season, he is in the fifth grade, having spent three years in the fourth grade and two years in the first grade. The others boast of Jethro's "sixth-grade education". Jethro often speaks enthusiastically of his abilities in "cipherin'" (1 and 1 is 2, 2 and 2 is 4), and "gazintas" (4 gazinta 8 2 times, 3 gazinta 12 4 times), and he is ignorant about nearly every aspect of modern California life. In one episode, he attends a local secretarial school and is so disruptive that he is given a diploma at the end of the day to keep him from returning. In real life, Max Baer Jr. has a [[Bachelor of Business Administration|bachelor's degree in business administration]], minoring in philosophy, from [[Santa Clara University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18339620/oakland_tribune/|title=On second thought: Max Baer's son gets movie pact|last=Ward|first=Alan|date=August 21, 1960|work=Oakland Tribune|access-date=March 16, 2018|page=34|quote=Max graduated from Santa Clara with a bachelor's degree in business administration.|url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18339656/the_morning_call/|title=Ex-boxer's son: Video actor aims to write, direct|date=July 26, 1964|work=The Morning Call|access-date=March 16, 2018|location=Allentown, Pennsylvania|page=9|quote=Baer received a Bachelor of Science degree in commerce from Santa Clara University, a Jesuit school in Santa Clara, Calif. He minored in philosophy, which he admits is his favorite subject, and began work on a master's degree in that field before going into the acting profession.|url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Many story lines involve Jethro's endless career search. He considers becoming a brain surgeon, a fry cook, a millwright, a street car conductor, a spy, a telephone lineman, a [[soda jerk]], a chauffeur, a [[USAF]] general, a sculptor, a restaurant owner, a psychiatrist, a bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's bank, a talent agent for "cousin" Bessie and "Cousin Roy" (see below), and a Hollywood producer. More often than not, his goal is merely to meet pretty girls. Miss Hathaway has a crush on him, but he is oblivious to this. Of all the Clampett clan, he is the most eager to embrace city life. Jethro has a huge appetite—in one episode, he eats a jetliner's entire supply of steaks, in another he tries to set himself up as a Hollywood agent for cousin "Bessie" the chimpanzee—with a fee of 10,000 bananas for Bessie and 1,000 for him. When "Cousin Roy" ([[Roy Clark]]) comes from "the hills" to Beverly Hills to become a country music star, Jethro refuses to be his agent when Roy becomes a success. Jethro does not appear in the third- or second-to-last episodes, but Baer remains billed in the title credits.

As of 2025, Baer is the only surviving main cast member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rumorfix.com/2015/01/max-baer-jr-donna-douglas-elly-may-day-died/|title=Max Baer Jr. On Donna Douglas: 'She Was Elly May Until The Day She Died' |work=RumorFix|date=January 2, 2015|access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref>