Dan Harmon talks production delays, plus cast interviews, teasers, and way more from Rick and Morty Season 3!
Editor's note: This article is our news hub for Rick and Morty season 3. The latest news will be placed at the top and we'll update and post new information as it becomes available.
In a move surprising pretty much nobody, Adult Swim announced that Rick and Morty season 3 is happening... only three episodes into the second season. This means they can keep kicking the rest of cable television right up its boring, stupid ass! Who even cares about True Detective, huh? Who even cares?!
It's been a long wait since October 2015 when we last saw Mr. Poopybutthole and the gang. No official premiere date has been set, but we've collected everything we know so far about Rick and Morty season 3:
Rick and Morty Season 3 News: The Latest
Adult Swim released an interactive website to distract fans with a wormhole of viral Rick and Morty universe web content. Go find your favorite #KlaargWorthy content, ya Shimshams!
Meanwhile, Dan Harmon is taking the blame for the long hiatus between seasons. While at Sundance Film Festival, Harmon told IndieWire:
“I don’t have a release date for Season 3. It’s not that I know it and I’m not allowed to say it; it’s [Adult Swim’s] domain. What I will tell you is it’s late because of us, it’s late because of me. If Justin were here he’d agree. He and I would go, ‘Yeah, we fucked up,’ and it’s hard to put your finger on how we fucked up. ‘Rick and Morty’ keeps taking longer and longer to write, and I don’t know why.”
Harmon went on to clarify these remarks in a long Twitter rant that assured us there is no beef in the studio and the premiere date is at the mercy of Adult Swim.
Rick and Morty Season 3 Release Date
At the end of season two, Mr. Poopybutthole said Rick and Morty season 3 wouldn't happen for another year and a half... so March 2017. After targeting the end of 2016, production delays pushed Rick and Morty season 3 closer to that butthole's prediction.
A few other Rick and Morty writers confirmed that episodes were completed as of Sept. 28th, pending review from their animation studio. At this point, it seems as though Rick and Morty season 3 will release in early 2017. Damn you, Mr. Poopybutthole!
While Adult Swim is still mum on the return date for Rick and Morty season 3, they did offer us Rick and Morty claymation spots to hold us over. It's not enough. We're itching for new episodes, brah!
Rick and Morty Season 3 Teasers
SDCC 2016 got a little schwifty with the Rick and Morty panel. Besides revealing that their dream guest star is Vin Diesel (he plays D&D!), cretaors Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland brought an exclusive new clip from Season 3.
Related: Calculating Rick and Morty's Jokes Per Minute Season 1
Still in the early stages of developing Season 3, the new bare-bones clip finds a shrunken, Twinkie shaped Rick doing brutal battle with a gang of rats with the help of a Frankensteined rat brain/limb mech-suit. See the carnage for yourself below, and stay tuned for more Rick and Mortynews!
Rick and Morty Season 3 Writers Room Notes and Interviews
Think making great television is easy? At San Diego Comic-Con, Harmon spoke with Den of Geek about the perfectionism that goes into the production of Rick and Morty.
Justin Roiland filled us in on the potential return of a fan-favorite theme episode, and possibly more Mr. Meeseeks.
The Rick and Morty writers room is getting more diverse, dawg! Hear it from Dan Harmon himself:
“We hired a bunch of new writers,” Dan Harmon told Den of Geekin an exclusive interview. “There was a craving for a gender balance in the writers’ room that we had never had, but I’m also very proud of the fact that we didn’t compromise ourselves following that craving. We just looked harder and I don’t know if it was coincidence or because the show was popping up on the radar of a lot of great female writers noticing, ‘Well, they don’t have any women writers in there. I’m gonna submit something.’ It was probably a combination of all those factors.”
Speaking on season two's cliffhanger, Harmon said Rick could, probably, maybe, be okay:
“I don’t think anybody wants to do a third season that simply spends a whole bunch of episodes dealing with a situation that we created at the end of the second season. So I think that’s a non-spoiler way of saying things should be okay pretty quickly.”
Rick and Morty Season 3 Episodes
At a Magic City Comic Con panel, Harmon revealed that Rick and Morty season 3 will comprise 14 episodes. Season 1 ran for 11 episodes, while season 2 was cut down to 10.
Rick and Morty Season 3: Where To Watch Online
For those ready to cut cable, there are options to stay up to date on Rick and Morty. Sling, DirecTV Now and Playstation Vue all stream Cartoon network/Adult Swim live. You can find out more information on those services here.
Past episodes of Rick and Morty are available through AdultSwim.com and Hulu.
I'm a newbie. Is Rick and Morty really THAT funny?
Glad you asked! Yes it is. We can prove it! In our never-ending quest to out geek the rest of society, we did analytical joke breakdowns (Jokes Per Minute) to scientifically prove it's one of the funniest shows on television. Here are the results:
Rick and Morty Jokes Per Minute Season 1
Rick and Morty Jokes Per Minute Season 2
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