More wubbin and dubbin is on the way… a new season of the best – and only – animated series about a genius scientist who drags his timid grandson on adventures across the universe returns next month to Adult Swim.
It may be April Fools’ Day, but this is no joke… Adult Swim’s #1 series that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe, Rick and Morty, returns for Season 8 on Sunday, May 25 at 11:00pm ET/PT.
Season 8 is described thusly:
Rick and Morty is back for Season 8! Life has meaning again! Anything is possible! Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can’t keep Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!
At midnight last night (technically this morning), Adult Swim announced the premiere date and released a first look at the new season during its traditional April Fools’ Day broadcast special. The network surprised fans with a 22-minute anthology special featuring fan favorite show moments re-told through an Adult Swim lens of “absurd, live-action, theater-based genres.” Fans who missed the surprise broadcast can bask in its mania now:
“We hope you enjoyed our theater interpretations of Rick and Morty, especially if you are well-off/impulsive and now want to back a Broadway version of the show,” said Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen. “For the rest of you, we’re glad you now know when Season 8 is starting so you have time to stretch and get loose because the team has yet again made a totally great season of television.”
Rick and Morty stars Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden, Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell, and Spencer Grammer and is executive produced by Dan Harmon and Scott Marder, who also serves as showrunner.
The show was the #1 comedy across all of cable during Seasons 3-6, garnering two Emmys for “Outstanding Animated Program.” In the U.S., new episodes will be available for purchase from digital retailers the day after they premiere on Adult Swim, and will stream beginning September 1.
Source: Adult Swim
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
