Rick and Morty (TV series)
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| Created by | Justin Roiland Dan Harmon |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Production company | Williams Street Harmonious Claptrap Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions! (seasons 1-8) Starburns Industries (seasons 1-2) Rick and Morty, LLC. (seasons 2-3) Green Portal Productions (seasons 2-3) |
| Original release | December 2, 2013-present |
| Run time | 22 minutes |
| Starring | Justin Roiland (S1-6) Chris Parnell Spencer Grammer Sarah Chalke Ian Cardoni (S7-present) Harry Belden (S7-present) |
| Executive producer(s) | Dan Harmon Justin Roiland James A. Fino (S1–2) Joe Russo II (S1–2) Mike McMahan (S4) Scott Marder (S5–present) Steve Levy (S7–present) Albro Lundy (S7–present) James Siciliano (S7–present) Monica Mitchell (S8–present) |
| Producer(s) | J. Michael Mendel Kenny Micka (pilot) |
| Music composition | Ryan Elder |
Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. It was produced by Williams Street for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. It began running in 2013, airing 73 episodes that span over eight seasons.
The series focuses on the adventures of Rick Sanchez, an alcoholic, cynical mad scientist, and his fretful grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic family drama and interdimensional quests to exotic planets. These adventures often cause trouble with Morty's family—Jerry, Beth, and Summer Smith—who are also dragged along as well, along with the severe moral implications the two have in their hijinks.
Production
Development
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Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon first met at Channel 1010, a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles co-founded by Harmon. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004.[1] Despite the shock value that was made prevalent in Roiland's creations, Harmon took a liking to his humor and the two began collaborating. In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he cited as creatively stifling, and created a webisode for Channel 101. The result was The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring parodies of Doc Brown and Marty McFly from the Back to the Future films.[2]
Episodes
| Title | Original air date |
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1x01
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December 2, 2013 |
| 1x02 | December 9, 2013 |
| 1x03 | December 16, 2013 |
| 1x04 | January 13, 2014 |
| 1x05 | January 20, 2014 |
| 1x06 | January 20, 2014 |
| 1x07 | March 10, 2014 |
| 1x08 | March 17, 2014 |
| 1x09 | March 24, 2014 |
| 1x10 | April 7, 2014 |
| 1x11 | April 14, 2014 |
| 2x01 | July 26, 2015 |
| 2x02 | August 2, 2015 |
| 2x03 | August 9, 2015 |
| 2x04 | August 16, 2015 |
| 2x05 | August 23, 2015 |
| 2x06 | August 30, 2015 |
| 2x07 | September 13, 2015 |
| 2x08 | September 20, 2015 |
| 2x09 | September 27, 2015 |
| 2x10 | October 4, 2015 |
| 3x01 | April 1, 2017 |
| 3x02 | July 30, 2017 |
| 3x03 | August 6, 2017 |
| 3x04 | August 13, 2017 |
| 3x05 | August 20, 2017 |
| 3x06 | August 27, 2017 |
| 3x07 | September 10, 2017 |
| 3x08 | September 17, 2017 |
| 3x09 | September 24, 2017 |
| 3x10 | October 1, 2017 |
| 4x01 | November 10, 2019 |
| 4x02 | November 17, 2019 |
| 4x03 | November 24, 2019 |
| 4x04 | December 8, 2019 |
| 4x05 | December 15, 2019 |
| 4x06 | May 3, 2020 |
| 4x07 | May 10, 2020 |
| 4x08 | May 17, 2020 |
| 4x09 | May 24, 2020 |
| 4x10 | May 31, 2020 |
| 5x01 | June 20, 2021 |
| 5x02 | June 27, 2021 |
| 5x03 | July 4, 2021 |
| 5x04 | July 11, 2021 |
| 5x05 | July 18, 2021 |
| 5x06 | July 25, 2021 |
| 5x07 | August 1, 2021 |
| 5x08 | August 8, 2021 |
| 5x09 | September 5, 2021 |
| 5x10 | September 5, 2021 |
| 6x01 | September 4, 2022 |
| 6x02 | September 11, 2022 |
| 6x03 | September 18, 2022 |
| 6x04 | September 25, 2022 |
| 6x05 | October 2, 2022 |
| 6x06 | October 9, 2022 |
| 6x07 | November 20, 2022 |
| 6x08 | November 27, 2022 |
| 6x09 | December 4, 2022 |
| 6x10 | December 11, 2022 |
| 7x01 | October 15, 2023 |
| 7x02 | October 22, 2023 |
| 7x03 | October 29, 2023 |
| 7x04 | November 5, 2023 |
| 7x05 | November 12, 2023 |
| 7x06 | November 19, 2023 |
| 7x07 | November 26, 2023 |
| 7x08 | December 3, 2023 |
| 7x09 | December 10, 2023 |
| 7x10 | December 17, 2023 |
| 8x01 | May 25, 2025 |
| 8x02 | June 1, 2025 |
| 8x03 | June 8, 2025 |
| 8x04 | June 15, 2025 |
| 8x05 | June 22, 2025 |
| 8x06 | June 29, 2025 |
| 8x07 | July 6, 2025| |
| 8x08 | July 13, 2025 |
| 8x09 | July 20, 2025 |
8x10
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July 27, 2025 |
Shorts
| Title | Original air date |
|---|---|
| 1 | April 1, 2018 |
| 2 | April 30, 2021 |
| 3 | October 31, 2022 |
| 4 | August 4, 2016 |
The Non-Canonical Adventures
- Main article: Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures
| Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | October 26, 2016 |
2
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October 26, 2016 |
| 3 | October 26, 2016 |
| 4 | October 27, 2016 |
| 5 | November 3, 2016 |
| 6 | July 8, 2017 |
| 7 | July 11, 2017 |
| 8 | July 11, 2017 |
| 9 | July 11, 2017 |
10
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July 11, 2017 |
| 11 | July 11, 2017 |
12
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July 11, 2017 |
| 13 | July 27, 2017 |
| 14 | July 27, 2017 |
| 15 | July 27, 2017 |
| 16 | July 30, 2017 |
| 17 | November 1, 2017 |
| 18 | November 1, 2017 |
| 19 | November 1, 2017 |
| 20 | November 1, 2017 |
| 21 | November 1, 2017 |
22
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November 1, 2017 |
23
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November 1, 2017 |
| 24 | November 1, 2017 |
| 25 | November 1, 2017 |
| 26 | November 1, 2017 |
| 27 | January 1, 2017 |
| 28 | January 1, 2017 |
29
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January 1, 2017 |
| 30 | January 1, 2017 |
| 31 | January 1, 2017 |
| 32 | January 1, 2017 |
| 33 | January 1, 2017 |
| 34 | January 1, 2017 |
35
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January 1, 2017 |
| 36 | January 1, 2017 |
Cast
- Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez and Mort Smith (seasons 1-6)
- Spencer Grammer as Jerry Smith
- Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith
- Sarah Chalke as Beth Smith and Space Beth
- Ian Cardoni as Rick Sanchez (seasons 7-present)
- Harry Belden as Morty Smith (seasons 7-present)
Legacy
Rick and Morty had cameos in the couch gag of The Simpsons episode "Mathlete's Feat," which aired on May 17, 2015. This featured Rick crashlanding the Space Cruiser into the Simpsons' family said couch and accidentally killing them, leading Morty to go on a mission to bring them back to life.
Between 2016 to 2021, Adult Swim uploaded 36 claymation-themed shorts on their YouTube channel, spoofing mostly science fiction and horror movies, in a webseries called Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures, written and directed by creator, Lee Hardcastle.
Between 2020 to 2021, Adult Swim ordered an anime-style spin-off of five short films. The first was written and directed by Kaichi Sato, and animated by Studio Deen, while the next four were written and directed by Takashi Sano, and produced and animated by Sola Entertainment and Telecom Animation Film, respectively. In 2022, Adult Swim greenlit a ten episode series called Rick and Morty: The Anime. The series was created by writer/director Sano, with Sola Entertainment and Telecom Animation Film returning to produce and animate, respectively. These aired in 2024.
Rick and Morty had cameos in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy, in which they returned Taz after experimenting on him, creating results too disgusting even for them.
Sarah Carbiener and Eric Rosbe created a short-form webisode series called Vindicators 2, a prequel to the third season episode "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender," premiered on Adult Swim's YouTube channel in 2022. It was animated by Atomic Cartoons.
Merchandise
Home media
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released all eight seasons on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Reading material
Between 2015 to 2020, Oni Press published 100 issues of an ongoing comic book also called Rick and Morty. In 2023, it was revived for a second twelve-issue with the same title.
In August 2018, Oni Press published a four-issue limited series, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons, followed the next month by a second four-issue limited series, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons, Chapter II: Painscape.
