‘Rick and Morty’ Celebrates April Fool’s Day With Season 8 Release Date and First Look

For Rick and Morty followers, this April Idiot’s Day is leaving them feeling something however silly. Grownup Swim commemorated the day of pranks with a particular midnight reside stream recreating a few of the grownup animated sequence’s best moments, like Pickle Rick and the enduring intro, via a 22-minute comedic anthology stage manufacturing. Nonetheless, that was solely the start of the shock, because the occasion ended with an official launch date and first take a look at Season 8, teasing a few of the zany new adventures the titular duo will go on subsequent. New episodes will start airing on Might 25 at 11 p.m. ET/PT earlier than the complete run arrives on streaming within the U.S. on September 1.

Thus far, little has been shared about what precisely Rick and Morty Season 8 will entail after Season 7’s emotional finale, and the official description does not have a lot to go on both. The logline reads, “Rick and Morty is again for Season Eight! Life has that means once more! Something is feasible! Look out for adventures with Summer time, Jerry, Beth, and the opposite Beth. Perhaps Butter Bot will get a brand new process? No matter occurs, you may’t maintain Rick and Morty down for lengthy. Folks have tried!” Nonetheless, the first-look footage, together with a couple of photographs, offers a greater impression of the place the characters are heading subsequent, as they uncover a wierd, multicolored eggshell and discover a spot adorned with bunny masks all over the place. Whereas the sequence nonetheless has loads of mysteries to resolve, there may even be time for sillier adventures like a cryoship heist gone fallacious.

“We hope you loved our theater interpretations of Rick and Morty, particularly in case you are well-off/impulsive and now wish to again a Broadway model of the present,” Grownup Swim president Michael Ouweleen stated in an official assertion in regards to the announcement. “For the remainder of you, we’re glad you now know when Season Eight is beginning so you’ve got time to stretch and get free as a result of the group has but once more made a very nice season of tv.” Ian Cardoi and Harry Belden will probably be again within the saddle for his or her second season because the dynamic sci-fi comedy duo, with Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell, and Spencer Grammer as soon as once more rounding out the forged. Sequence co-creator Dan Harmon additionally stays hooked up as an government producer alongside showrunner Scott Marder.

‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Is Far From the Finish for the Sequence

Rick & Morty enters Season 8 nonetheless using excessive with two Emmy wins for Excellent Animated Sequence to its title, 4 seasons because the #1 rated comedy throughout all of cable tv, and a spin-off anime that, whereas not nicely obtained, stands as a testomony to the present’s world presence. With Season 7 nonetheless standing as Grownup Swim’s #1 program upon its launch, the community handed Harmon’s hit one other renewal at New York Comedian-Con final 12 months that may maintain the present round for an additional two seasons on prime of its authentic 70-episode megadeal in 2018. Following the Season 7 finale, government producer Steve Levy shared a glimpse of the present’s long-term future in an interview with Collider’s Carly Lane, teasing how the group has plans for Morty to start out getting extra introspective following his plunge into the Worry Gap. This may not simply be the case for Season 8 however for the remainder of the present’s run:

“This can be a good query. As a lot as Rick is kind of having to do the laborious work of studying extra about himself, or at the least come face-to-face with who he’s and what he desires, we’ve not actually skilled that an excessive amount of, the deep dive with Morty, and that is actually the primary time Morty is self-reflective on a deeper degree on his relationship with Rick and what he desires and what’s actual. That is simply the primary domino to fall in that exploration.”

Rick and Morty Season 8 premieres on Might 25 on Grownup Swim. Episodes will probably be accessible to buy digitally the day after they air, and all episodes will probably be accessible to stream on September 1. Try the first-look teaser within the participant under, photographs within the gallery above, and rewatch the live-stream on the Grownup Swim YouTube channel when you missed out.