Rick and Morty is an Americanadult animatedscience fictionsitcom created byJustin Roiland andDan Harmon forCartoon Network's nighttime programming blockAdult Swim. The series follows the misadventures ofRick Sanchez, a cynicalmad scientist, and his good-hearted but fretful grandsonMorty Smith, who split their time between domestic life andinterdimensional adventures that take place across an infinite number of realities, often traveling to other planets and dimensions through portals and on Rick'sflying saucer. The general concept ofRick and Morty relies on two conflicting scenarios: domestic family drama and amisanthropic grandfather dragging his grandson intohijinks.
Roiland voiced both Rick and Morty, withIan Cardoni andHarry Belden taking over from him since the seventh season.Chris Parnell as Jerry,Spencer Grammer as Summer andSarah Chalke as Beth also star. The series originated from an animatedshortparody film ofBack to the Future created by Roiland forChannel 101, a short film festival Harmon co-founded. Aseventh season was confirmed as part of a long-term deal with Cartoon Network that ordered 70 new episodes, which renewed the series through to a tenth season. It was also announced that the series had been renewed through to a twelfth season in 2024. Adult Swim cut ties with Roiland in 2023 amid allegations of domestic abuse and recast his roles with soundalike actors in the seventh season which premiered on October 15, 2023. The eighth season premiered on May 25, 2025.
Since its debut, the series has received critical acclaim for its writing, originality, creativity, and humor. It has been nominated for threePrimetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program and won the award in 2018 and 2020. The series has also received twoAnnie Awards. At times, the series has been the most viewed television comedy for adults between 18 and 24. The popularity ofRick and Morty has made it a hundred-million dollarmerchandising and media franchise.
The show revolves around the adventures of the members of the Smith household, which consists of parentsJerry andBeth, their childrenSummer andMorty, and Beth's father,Rick Sanchez, who lives with them as a guest. The family lives in a suburb outside of Seattle, Washington,[6] with the characters traveling to other planets and dimensions through portals and Rick's flying saucer.[7]
Rick is an eccentric and alcoholicmad scientist, who eschews many ordinary conventions such as school, marriage, love, and family.[8] He frequently goes on adventures with his 14-year-old grandson, Morty, a kind-hearted but easily distressed boy, whose naïve but grounded moral compass plays counterpoint to Rick'sMachiavellian ego.[9][10] Morty's 17-year-old sister, Summer, is a more conventional teenager who worries about improving her status among her peers and sometimes follows Rick and Morty on their adventures.[11] The kids' mother, Beth, is a generally level-headed person and assertive force in the household, though self-conscious about her professional role as a horse surgeon. She is dissatisfied with her marriage to Jerry, a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.[12]
Different versions of the characters inhabit other dimensions throughout the show'smultiverse and their personal characteristics can vary from one reality to another.[13] The show's original Rick identifies himself as "Rick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137", in reference to his original universe, but this does not apply to any other member of the Smith household.[14] For instance, in the first-season episode "Rick Potion #9", after turning the entire world population into monsters, Rick and Morty move to a different dimension, leaving the original Summer, Beth and Jerry behind.[15]
Episodes
A medley of various series music tracks fromMultiVersus.
Creators Dan Harmon (left) and Justin Roiland (right)
Rick and Morty was created byJustin Roiland andDan Harmon. The duo first met atChannel 101, a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles co-founded by Harmon.[17] At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004. His pilots typically consisted ofshock value—"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience.[17] Nevertheless, Harmon took a liking to his humor and the two began collaborating. In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101. The result wasThe Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring parodies ofDoc Brown andMarty McFly, characters from theBack to the Future film trilogy.[18] In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization", Doc Smith urges Mharti to performoral sex on him in order to go back in time.[19] The audience reacted to it wildly, and Roiland began creating more shorts involving the characters, which soon evolved beyond his original intentions and their obvious origin within the film from which it was culled.[19][20] Harmon would later create and produceCommunity, anNBC sitcom,[21] while Roiland would work primarily in voice acting forDisney'sFish Hooks andCartoon Network'sAdventure Time.[22]
In 2012, Harmon was briefly fired fromCommunity. Adult Swim, searching for a more prime-time, "hit" show,[23] shortly afterward approached Harmon, who initially viewed the channel as unfit for his style. He was also unfamiliar with animation and his process for creating television focused more heavily on dialogue, characters, and story.[20] Instead, he phoned Roiland to inquire if he had any ideas for an animated series. Roiland immediately brought up the idea of using the Doc and Mharti characters, renamed Rick and Morty.[19] At first, Roiland wanted the show's run time to consist of one eleven-minute segment, but Adult Swim pushed for a half-hour program.[23] Harmon felt the best way to extend the voices into a program would be to build a family around the characters, while Adult Swim development executiveNick Weidenfeld suggested that Rick be Morty's grandfather. Having pitched multiple television programs that did not get off the ground, Roiland was initially very unreceptive to others attempting to give notes on his pitch.[19] Prior to developingRick and Morty, he had created three failed animated pilots forFox, and he had begun to feel "burned out" with developing television.[20]
The first draft was completed in six hours on theParamount Pictures lot in Dan Harmon's unfurnishedCommunity office.[24] The duo had worked out the basics of the story that day, sold the pilot, and then sat down to write.[20][25] Roiland, while acknowledging a tendency for procrastination, encouraged Harmon to stay and write the entire first draft.[24] "We were sitting on the floor, cross-legged with laptops and I was about to get up and go home and he said, 'Wait, if you go home, it might take us three months to write this thing. Stay here right now and we can write it in six hours.' He just had a premonition about that," recalled Harmon.[20] In the beginning, Adult Swim was unsure of Roiland doing both voices, partially due to the undeveloped nature of the character of Morty. Harmon wrote four short premises in which Morty took a more assertive role and sent it toMike Lazzo.[24] For the first season, Adult Swim placed a tamer-than-usualTV-14 rating on the program, which was initially met with reluctance from the show's staff. The network's reason behind the rating was that it would soon begin broadcasting in prime-time, competing with major programs.[20] Many later episodes have receivedTV-MA ratings, with the first being the episode "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate" inseason 2.
The theme song forRick and Morty by Ryan Elder was originally used in a rejected Cartoon Network pilot Roiland made called "Dog World", which was referenced in the episode "Lawnmower Dog".[26]
Harmon has noted that the writers' room at the show's studio bears a striking resemblance to the one used forCommunity.[20] In comparing the two, he noted that the writing staff ofRick and Morty was significantly smaller, and more "rough and tumble verbally".[20] The first season writing staff consisted of Roiland, Harmon, Tom Kauffman, Ryan Ridley, Wade Randolph, and Eric Acosta, while writer's assistantMike McMahan was also given writing credit. Described as a "very, very tiny little writers' room with a lot of heavy lifting from everybody," the show's writing staff, like many Adult Swim productions, is not unionized with theWriters Guild of America,[27] though in 2022 production staff atRick & Morty filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board in a bid to joinThe Animation Guild.[28] The writing staff first meets and discusses ideas, which evolve into a story.[17] Discussions often include anecdotes from personal life as well as thoughts on the science fiction genre.[20] After breaking the story—which consists of developing its consistency and logical beginning, middle, and conclusion—a writer is assigned to create an outline. Roiland and Harmon do a "pass" on the outline, and from there the episode undergoes several more drafts. The final draft of the script is last approved by either of the co-creators.[17] Harmon has admitted that his perfectionism can sometimes be disruptive and cause writing schedule delays. For the most part, this was the reason why the third season of the show consisted of only 10 episodes instead of 14, as was initially intended.[29][30]
Many episodes are structured with use of a story circle, a Harmon creation based largely onJoseph Campbell'smonomyth, or The Hero's Journey. Its two-act structure places theact break at an odd location in the stages of the monomyth: after The Meeting with the Goddess, instead of Atonement with the Father.[24] Roiland has stated his and Harmon's intentions for the series to lack traditionalcontinuity, opting for discontinuous storylines "not bound by rules".[31] He has also confirmed that the writers avoid revisiting oldtropes from the show's past, "in fear of that coming off as disingenuous fan service."[32] In producing the series' first season, episodes were occasionally written out of order. For example, "Rick Potion #9" was the second episode written for the series, but was instructed to be animated as the fifth, as it would make more sense within the series' continuity.[17]
Animation and voice recording
Animation for the show is done usingToon Boom Harmony, a vector-based 2Dpuppet software, which is a more economical option than traditional hand-drawn animation.[33] The post-production work is done inAdobe After Effects, and background art is done inAdobe Photoshop.[34] Production of animation was handled byBardel Entertainment in Vancouver, Canada for the first six seasons and return since the eighth season, and by Lighthouse Studios in Kilkenny, Ireland since the seventh season.[35][36]
Roiland's cartooning style is heavily indebted toThe Simpsons, a factor he acknowledged in a 2013 interview, while also comparing his style to that ofPendleton Ward (Adventure Time) andJ. G. Quintel (Regular Show): "You'll notice mouths are kind of similar and teeth are similar, but I think that's also a stylistic thing that ... all of us are kind of the same age, and we're all inspired byThe Simpsons and all these other shows we're kind of subconsciously tapping into."[27]
John Kricfalusi'sThe Ren & Stimpy Show was another strong influence forRick and Morty, which is why, according to Roiland, the small "w-shaped mouths" that the characters occasionally make is a reference to a similar expression that Ren frequently makes.[37] Talking about the style guide the animators of the show have to follow, season three art director Jeffrey Thompson explained that the characters are often drawn with odd or asymmetrical features, in order to avoid looking "too normal to live in theRick and Morty universe."[38] When recording dialogue, Roiland does a considerable amount of improvisation, in order to make the characters feel more natural.[39]
Roiland's firing
In January 2023, it was reported that Roiland was charged with felonydomestic battery andfalse imprisonment inOrange County, California, in connection with an alleged incident in January 2020 toward an unnamed woman he was reportedly dating at the time. A hearing was scheduled for April 27, 2023.[40][41] Following the public revelation of the indictment, allegations were made against Roiland's personal conduct regarding his behavior to minors on social media.[42] The same month, Adult Swim announced that they had cut ties with Roiland and fired him from the show stating that the seventh season's production would continue and that his roles would be recast.[43][44] In March 2023, the Orange County District Attorney's office dropped all criminal charges against Roiland due to insufficient evidence.[45] DuringSan Diego Comic-Con 2023, producer Steve Levy stated that Roiland's voice work will be replaced by "soundalikes" but there will otherwise be no changes in the characters.[46] Adult Swim revealed the new voices of Rick and Morty with its seventh season trailer in September 2023, but the new actors were not announced until the season’s premiere in October.[47] When the seventh season premiered on October 15, 2023, it was revealed that the new actors wereIan Cardoni as Rick andHarry Belden as Morty.[48]
Themes and analysis
Comedic style
The general formula ofRick and Morty consists of the juxtaposition of an extremely selfish, alcoholic grandfather dragging his grandson along for interdimensional adventures, intercut with domestic family drama.[19][23] Co-creatorDan Harmon has described the series as a cross betweenMatt Groening's two showsThe Simpsons andFuturama, balancing family life with heavy science fiction.[27] Comparisons have been drawn toHouse of Cosbys, a show created by Justin Roiland, for having similar bits such as characters announcing themselves (Mr. Meeseeks/Curiosity Cosby).[49] The series is inspired by British-style storytelling, as opposed to traditional American family TV stories.[17] Harmon has stated that his inspiration behind much of the concept and humor for the series comes from various British television series, such asThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy andDoctor Who. He figures that the audience will only understand developments from Morty's point of view, but stated "we don't want to be thecompanions. We want to hang out withthe Doctor, we idolize the Doctor, but we don't think like him, and that's really interesting."[50]
Occasionally, characters will acknowledge an episode's narrative or hint at the presence of afourth wall, suggesting that they are aware of the fact that they are characters of a TV show. Thereunder, Troy Patterson ofThe New Yorker notes thatRick and Morty "supplies an artful answer to the question of what followspostmodernism: a decadent regurgitation of all its tropes, all at once, leavened by some humanistic wistfulness."[51] Sean Sebastian ofJunkee says that the show can be both hilarious and deeply disturbing at the same time as it excels at the "intersection between big ideas, flippancy and wit."[52]
Philosophy
The series addresses the insignificance of human existence as compared to the size of the universe, with no recognizable divine presence, as described byLovecraft's philosophy ofcosmicism.[53] Genovesi (Bonn University) describes the series as exhibiting anihilistic world-view.[54] The characters of the show deal with cosmic horror and existential dread, either by asserting the utility of science over magic or by choosing a life in ignorant bliss.[55] However, as Joachim Heijndermans ofGeeks notes, none of them appear able to handle theabsurd and chaotic nature of the universe, as Jerry gets by throughdenial, and Rick is a "depressed, substance-addicted, suicidal mess".[56]
Harmon describes Rick as aself-interested anarchist, who does not like being told what to do.[57] He believes that the character's life on a larger scale has caused himmental illness,[50] and opines that "the knowledge that nothing matters—while accurate—gets you nowhere".[58] Mental illness is a theme that is drawn on several times throughout the show, one scene in particular has Rick's therapist deliver a fiery explanation of his fundamental immaturity.[59][60] Matthew Bulger ofThe Humanist notes that the creators of the series are trying to communicate the message that we need to focus on human relationships and not preoccupy our minds with unanswerable questions, in order to find a sense of purpose and live a better life.[61] Eric Armstrong ofThe New Republic notes that Morty represents the audience, as he is "mostly there to react to Rick's deranged schemes". The character is transformed by the truths he discovers during his interdimensional adventures with his grandfather. Rather than sinking into depression, Morty accepts these truths that empower him to value his own life.[62]
In May 2012, Adult Swim unveiled its development slate that included aRick and Mortypilot from Harmon and Roiland,[63] which was eventually picked up to series in October 2012, as one of the network's first primetime original shows.[64] The first season premiered in December 2013 and concluded in April 2014. It comprised eleven episodes (including the pilot), and aired Mondays at 10:30 pmET/PT.[65]
Two months earlier, in February 2014, the show had been renewed for a second season, with the press release noting thatRick and Morty consistently outperformed direct competition in its time slot.[66] Season two aired Sundays at 11:30 pm ET/PT, from July to October 2015, and comprised ten episodes.[67] In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Roiland said thatRick and Morty will remain "a big priority above anything else" for him in the future, and expressed his intention to keep the show growing.[68]
Adult Swim renewedRick and Morty for a third season in August 2015, shortly after a successful second-season premiere.[69] The two co-creators and executive producers expressed their delight at the series' popularity.[70] The season premiered unannounced on April 1, 2017, as part of anApril Fools' Day prank. The remaining episodes began airing weekly almost four months later, continuing in the same time slot from season two, and the initial airing concluded in October 2017.[71] Although it was originally intended for the season to consist of fourteen episodes, as a result of production delays it eventually comprised only ten.[72]
Following the conclusion of the show's third season, co-creators Harmon and Roiland wanted to have assurance that there would be many more seasons ofRick and Morty in the future, so that they would be able to focus on the show and minimize their involvement in other projects.[73] Additionally, Harmon had expressed his wish for the upcoming fourth season to consist of more than ten episodes.[74] In May 2018, after prolonged contract negotiations, Adult Swim announced a long-term deal with the creators, ordering 70 new episodes over an unspecified number of seasons.[75][76] Roiland was confident that this big renewal deal would allow the creators to minimize the gaps between seasons to no more than a year,[77] as they would be able to schedule their time around the show and "keep the machine going."[78] In January 2023, it was confirmed that the long-term deal had renewed the series through to a tenth season.[79] In January 2024, it was revealed that due to the recentWriters Guild strike, production was delayed and thus made it so the eighth season of the regular series would not be released until 2025, though ananime series would in 2024.[80][81] At aNew York Comic Con panel in 2024, it was announced that the series had been renewed for an additional two seasons, through a 12th season.[82]
In May 2019, the fourth season ofRick and Morty was announced to debut in November 2019.[83] The fourth season consisted of ten episodes split across two airings.[84] The first five episodes began airing on November 10, 2019,[85] while the remaining five episodes began airing on May 3, 2020.[86] The sixth season premiered on September 4, 2022.[87] The seventh season premiered on October 15, 2023.[88] The eighth season premiered on May 25, 2025.[89]
Streaming service and home media
The show is available to watch in its entirety onNetflix in a number of countries, while the first four seasons are available to stream in the United States on bothHulu andHBO Max.[90] Following the conclusion of the show's third season, Adult Swim made alivestreammarathon ofRick and Morty available to watch on its official website in select regions,[91] hoping to dissuade viewers from watching other illegal livestreams.[92]
In the United Kingdom, public-service broadcasterChannel 4 outbid Netflix and began airing the series with season 4, which represents its first pickup by an international television channel.[93] Season 4 was originally scheduled to premiere on Channel 4 in January 2020; viewer complaints resulted in the broadcaster moving the first episode forward to November 20 onE4.[94]
The 10-episode third season, was released on DVD (2-disc set) andBlu-ray (single BD-50 disc) on May 15, 2018. Special features include exclusive commentary and animatics for every episode, "inside the episode", the origins ofRick and Morty, and an exclusive "inside the recording booth" session.[97]
Uncensored versions of the show are also available to purchase on various digital platforms, includingiTunes andAmazon, with the digital releases of each season containing bonus material.[90]
Rick and Morty has been met with critical acclaim. It holds an average approval rating of 90% on review aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes for the entire series.[111] David Weigand ofSan Francisco Chronicle described it as "offbeat and occasionally coarse... the take-away here is that it works". He praised the animation direction by James McDermott for being "fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script", and states that the series possesses "shades ofFuturama,South Park and evenBeetlejuice", ultimately opining that its humor felt "entirely original".[112]Neil Genzlinger ofThe New York Times praised the series and stated that it was "Grandparenting at its unhinged finest."[113] In a review shortly after the second-season premiere, Sean Sebastian ofJunkee said that although the crude animation and over-the-top voice acting might have discouraged some viewers from continuing to watch,Rick and Morty is "exceptionally well-made" and that "the more you dissect it, the more you find it has to say."[52]
Todd Spangler ofVariety gave the series a lukewarm review; saying that though it "often seems … frenetic at the expense of being witty", it represents "a welcome attempt to dream just a little bigger".[114] David Sims ofThe A.V. Club gave the series an "A−". In reviewing the first two episodes, he praised its "clean, simple style" of animation, and said the series has "a dark, sick sensibility". He praised its "effort to give each character a little bit of depth", and applauded Roiland's voice talent.[115]
Ratings
Rick and Morty has been a ratings hit since season one,[116] with viewership doubling and tripling over their first six episodes.[117] The third season ended with the best ratings in Adult Swim history,[118] an 81 percent increase in overall viewers over the second season.[119] According to aNielsen poll, the third season was the most watched television comedy of adults between the ages of 18 and 24.[120][121] The president of Adult Swim said thatRick and Morty "goes beyond just appealing tomillennials," with statistics suggesting that people of every age tune in to the show.[119]
The fourth season started relatively strong, with its premiere reaching 2.33 million viewers (the show's average is 2.51 million).[122] However, interest soon appeared to taper off after the network decided to split the season in half causing a steep drop in the season's second half—about a 40% drop in viewership from the third season.[123] The fourth episode of the fourth season saw 1.62 million viewers, which was noted to not be impressive in its own right, but in that it showed consistent viewership especially when competing against shows likeThe Walking Dead in the same time slot.[124] The season five premiere episode was posted on YouTube and received 1.7 million views within the first 12 hours.[125] The television premiere saw 1.9 million views.[126]
The premiere of season six was shown on September 4, 2022, and saw the highest ratings in telecast for women aged 18 to 24 and 18 to 34 and non-sports telecast for male viewers age 18 to 24 and 18 to 34. The episode was also the number two most-viewed non-sports program overall for viewers age 18 to 49.[127]
Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Mike McMahan, Scott Marder, Keith Crofford, Rick Mischel, Richard Grieve, Mike Lazzo, Rob Schrab, James Siciliano, Wes Archer, Michael Waldron, Nick Rutherford, Lee Harting, Ollie Green, Sydney Ryan, J. Michael Mendel, Jacob Hair, Nathan Litz,Jeff Loveness, and Albro Lundy(for "The Vat of Acid Episode")
Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Scott Marder, Keith Crofford, Ollie Green, Walter Newman, Richard Grieve, Rob Schrab, James Siciliano, Jeff Loveness, Sydney Ryan, J. Michael Mendel, Anne Lane, Albro Lundy, Nick Rutherford, Steve Levy, Lee Harting, David Marshall, Jacob Hair, Nathan Litz, and Wes Archer(for "Mort Dinner Rick Andre")
Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Scott Marder, Ollie Green, Walter Newman,Heather Anne Campbell, Steve Levy, Albro Lundy,Alex Rubens, Nick Rutherford, James Siciliano, Rob Schrab, Sydney Ryan, Anne Lane, Deirdre Brenner, Lee Harting, Jonathan Roig, Monica Mitchell, Jacob Hair, Nathan Litz, and Wes Archer(for "Night Family")
Rick and Morty is part of a wider merchandising franchise.[162]
Possible feature film
Show creator Justin Roiland said in 2019 that he would love to make anR-ratedRick and Mortyfeature film.[163] In June 2021, producer Scott Marder confirmed that the creators and crew hope to eventually produce a feature film, with Roiland stating that it is more a question of "when", rather than "if".[164] In 2022, American filmmakerZack Snyder expressed interest in directing aRick and Morty science fiction movie.[165]
On May 18, 2022, Adult Swim announced there would be a full spin-off series based on the anime shorts,Rick and Morty: The Anime, directed by Takashi Sano.[168]
Rick and Morty, both voiced by Roiland, have acameo in 2021'sSpace Jam: A New Legacy, as they claim to have experimented on theTasmanian Devil but say they were disgusted by the results; thus, they voluntarily give him back toLeBron James and theLooney Tunes by dropping him on their rocket's windshield.[170]
Television
Rick and Morty were featured in thecouch gag at the beginning of "Mathlete's Feat", the final episode of thetwenty-sixth season ofThe Simpsons. Said opening involved Rick accidentally killing the family when he crash-lands into their living room causing Morty to go on a mission to bring them back to life.[171]
On April 1, 2015, aRick and Morty comic book adaptation debuted with its first monthly issue, entitled "BAM!"[172] The series was initially written by Zac Gorman and illustrated by CJ Cannon.[173] ArtistTom Fowler wrote a multi-issue story arc that began in March 2016.[174] Using the television series' established premise of alternate timelines, the first two volumes of the comic book expressly features the Rick and Morty (and supporting cast) of a different timeline, allowing the comics to tell stories without conflicting with thecanon of the show.[175] From the third volume onwards, with the departure of Gorman as writer and his replacement withKyle Starks, the series switched focus to display the off-screen adventures of the specific Rick and Morty of the television series, keeping in the canon of the show, with the Ricks and Mortys of different timelines forming the basis for backup stories.[176]
On August 29, 2018, a four-issue crossover comic with the fantasy tabletop role-playing gameDungeons & Dragons was released. The series titledRick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons is co-written byJim Zub andPatrick Rothfuss, and art byTroy Little.[177] A sequel mini-series, titledRick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape, was published in September 2018.[178] It was written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern with art by Troy Little.[179] TheRick and Morty vs Dungeons and Dragons Deluxe Edition, by Rothfuss, Zub, and Little, was nominated for the 2022 "Best Graphic Album—Reprint"Eisner Award.[180]
McDonald's Szechuan Sauce returned to their menu nearly twenty years later after being referenced numerous times in "The Rickshank Rickdemption", theSeason 3 premiere.[181] The sauce was announced to return to all McDonald's stores on February 26, 2018 due to popular demand fromRick and Morty fans.[182] On March 31, 2022, it once again returned to stores, featured as an app-only exclusive until April 4.[183][184]
Adult Swim andWendy's have collaborated to create commercials featuring the titular duo.[185][186] They have also created Morty themed food trucks and restaurants.[187][188] In 2022, Wendy's offeredRick and Morty-inspired combo meals exclusively onUber Eats and brought back their "Portal Time Lemon Lime" soft drink to promote the series' sixth season.[189] The promotion also featured a giveaway ofRick and Morty merchandise.[190]
Adult Swim released a promotional video advertisingDeath Stranding. The ad involves Rick and Morty traversing the world of Death Stranding to deliver packages to stations in order to rebuild human civilization while trying to avoid being harmed by hostiles.[191]
Notes
^The third season ofRick and Morty premiered unannounced on April 1, 2017. The remaining episodes began airing weekly on July 30, 2017.[16]
^Pulliam-Moore, Charles (September 3, 2021)."Rick and Morty…This Is Heavy".Gizmodo.Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. RetrievedNovember 21, 2022.
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