New Episodes Of Rick And Morty Could Be Here Much Sooner Than You Think
In the multiverse of Rick and Morty, there are so many questions and cryptic hints that we want to be answered. For example, why did Rick leave his family all those years ago? What's the deal with 'Evil Morty'? Where can we get that Szechuan teriyaki dipping sauce?
See, we've got so many questions that we're not even able to squanch.
This being said, there's one question that's on the lips of every single inhabitant of Dimension C-137.
When will be getting more episodes from Season 3 of the smartest show on TV?
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You don’t need to travel to another dimension to get brand new episodes of Rick and Morty you might only have to wait until the end of the week.
According to the official Rick and Morty Twitter account, there’s going to be a special live stream on June 29 at 9 p.m. EST which fans won’t want to miss.
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The last time something like this happened was on April 1 when fans were treated to an early preview of the first episode of Season 3 The Rickshank Redemption.
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Rick and Morty surprised and delighted fans on April Fools’ Day by releasing the first episode of season 3, ‘The Rickshank Rickdemption’, out of nowhere.
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Sadly it wasn’t a case of the whole season starting early, however, just a taster ahead of the arrival of the rest of it in a few months.
The show’s official Twitter account promised more episodes on Adult Swim “this summer” after the first went out, with the previous season having started in July in 2015.
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The delay on Rick and Morty season 3 has been down to how difficult its creators find it to write, “struggling not to overthink or underthink [it]” Dan Harmon explained, trying to express “how hard and confusing it can be in a RAM writers room.”
Episode 1 was released by Adult Swim after a fan simply asked for it on Twitter.
“Happy now mother FUCKA,” Harmon joked in response.
The second episode of the new season will be titled ‘Rickmancing the Stone’, with the season thought to consist of 14 episodes.
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Of course it’s very possible that series co-creator Dan Harmon is just trolling us.
Let’s be honest it’s totally the type of thing he’d do to troll fans but we’re as desperate for new episodes as Rick is for the Szechuan sauce so we’re willing to believe new episodes are on the way.
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Only last week Harmon explained that season three was taking so long because he and Justin Roiland were trying their best to maintain the high bar they’ve set for themselves and let’s be honest no one want to see bad episodes.
I’m looking at you Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate.
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While we wait for season 3 to officially drop, let's go over what we already know about the upcoming season.
When is Rick and Morty season 3 out?
On April Fools’ Day, Rick and Morty season 3’s first episode – The Rickshank Rickdemption – debuted on Adult Swim’s website, available only to certain countries, including the US. It acted as an origin story for Rick and his portal gun, but it also saw Rick breaking out of the Galactic Federation prison that he handed himself into at the end of season 2. Shortly after airing episode 1 it was revealed that more episodes would be coming this summer.
For awhile everyone thought episode 2 would be out on May 13
An IMDb update had everyone fooled into thinking we’d be seeing episode 2 soon. It’s called ‘Rickmancing The Stone’ and it was written by Jane Becker, who’s previously worked on The Simpsons and is new to the show this season.
The 18-month delay has been in the animation, said creator Dan Harmon in February 2017. On his Harmontown podcast, he explained that the series is pretty much there – they just need to finish animating it all: “Here’s how cartoons work. First you write them, then you draw them. For a really long time. Everything needs to be on paper, so you can see it. If all I do is write it, and then put it on TV, it’ll look like a script, instead of Rick and Morty, which you seem to like. So when you ask where it is, the answer is: they’re drawing it.”
Why are Rick and Morty fans suddenly obsessed with McDonald’s Szechuan sauce?
Episode 1 of season 3 heavily referenced a the 1998 McDonald’s promotional Szechuan sauce, created to coincide with the release of Disney’s Mulan.
At the end of the episode, Rick says his 9-season objective is to get the McDonald’s Szechuan sauce brought back, and later the show’s Twitter account even got a response from McDonald’s on the matter.
Suddenly, instead of the release date for season 3 of Rick and Morty, fans were obsessed with finding out the recipe of this sauce – and the YouTuber below has done his best to replicate it.
Is there a trailer for season 3?
Kind of.
At the start of 2017, the show trolled fans with a Rick-roll made up of existing clips from the show, stitched together Cassetteboy-style, revealing nothing but the show’s continuing silly sense of humor.
How many episodes will there be?
The answer is 14. In January 2016 Dan Harmon appeared at Magic City Comic Con and revealed that unlike season 1, which had 11 episodes, and season 2, which had 10, there’d be 14 episodes in season 3.
What will happen in season 3?
Writer Ryan Ridley has teased a few details about season 3. Speaking on the Y Combinator podcast, he said that things from previous seasons – like ‘evil’ eyepatch Morty – might come back: “we stay true to the idea that the world is real,” he said. “There are consequences.” He added that we’ll be seeing Beth and Jerry’s divorce, which was revealed in the first episode of season 3 on April 1, 2017.
Ridley also revealed that Mr. Meeseeks will not be making a return this season. “We’ve talked about how we’d bring back Meeseeks,” he said, “We’d want to really explore a different aspect of it. But that’s one way to do it, right there, is to show what the inside of a Meeseeks box looks like. That would have been really cool.”
What are the episodes called?
Other than The Rickshank Rickdemption, we only know one of the titles so far, thanks to Spencer Grammer (Summer) who shared the front page of episode 2’s script on Instagram. It’s called Rickmancing The Stone and, as we said earlier, it was written by R&M newcomer and Simpsons alum Jane Becker.
How much has the writing team changed?
It’s got more of a gender balance. Dan Harmon told Den of Geek: “There was a craving for a gender balance in the writers’ room that we had never had. I think it’s like a 50/50 balance now, like in the early days of Community, which is really great. Because I think the important thing about gender in the writers’ room is not representation, it’s balance.”
New to the team is Robot Chicken’s Jessica Gao, who wrote episode 3 – and Sarah Carbiener and Erica Rosbe are also new, sharing writing duties for episode 4.
We also know that Ryan Ridley & Dan Guterman are writing episode 7. They co-wrote the episode where Jerry is asked to give up his genitals to save the life of the galaxy’s most influential civil rights leader (meanwhile, Rick and Morty watch intergalactic TV like ‘Man vs Car’ and ‘Octopus Man’).
Where will season 3 start off?
Viewers may remember that season 2 ended with Rick handing himself into the Galactic Federation, awaiting a lifetime in prison. This is where The Rickshank Rickdemption picked up the story – with Rick being interrogated by the Galactic Federation about his portal gun, and Morty and the rest of the family living under their government. This doesn’t last long because, as Dan Harmon explained: “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.” The Rickshank Redemption was recorded a year ago, which is probably why it’s out so much sooner than the rest of the episodes.
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So are you as hyped for new Rick and Morty as we are? Let us know in the comments.
