History WesternAnimation / RickAndMorty

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Galactic Federation in the first two seasons. Rick shows a lot of disdain towards the organization and his friends see themselves as Freedom Fighters going against them. The Federation are made out as oppressive and have been seen to be apathetic to civilian casualties. At the same time, this information comes from [[UnreliableNarrator Rick]] and they do keep their word when Rick turns himself in so his family can return to Earth. That being said, their appearances in Season 3 and onward remove any remaining ambiguity; while many of the people ''working'' for the G-Fed are JustFollowingOrders, the government itself is shown committing genocide on various planets, [[WouldHurtAChild holding an innocent child in a brutal prison]] [[SinsOfOurFathers simply because her father is a wanted criminal]], and decide to destroy the Earth when [[spoiler:Space Beth]] goes there for no real reason other than the fact that they ''can''.

*** A major joke of the episode "Mortyplicity", the entire episode focuses on clones of the family who are evading squids coming to kill them [[spoiler:who are, in turn, also clones dressed up as squids trying to kill other clones because they realize they're clones.]] Repeatedly throughout the episode the viewer watches one particular iteration of the family for sometimes 2-3 minutes of time, only for them to be suddenly killed and focus is shifted to another family. By the end of the episodes, the clones trying to figure out who is the real one are running around killing each other in a mass frenzy, and ''even then'' the narrative keeps focusing on a specific family only for them to die and be revealed as yet ''more'' clones.

*** [[spoiler:This also extends to Space Beth. Even though Space Beth is the version of the two Beths (one of whom is a clone of the other) who remained divorced from Jerry, and questions why Earth Beth continues to stay with him, she did keep his surname and it's hinted that despite their divorce, she does still feel something for him. In "Bethic Twinstinct", it's even implied that she joins Earth Beth in a threesome with him when the two Beths fall in love.]]

** Beth [[spoiler:(that is to say, both versions of her)]] tears into Rick in "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri" for [[spoiler:having cloned the original Beth, lying to both of them about who the clone is, and mind-blowing himself so he wouldn't even ''know'' who it is. They're [[BrokenPedestal so disillusioned with him]] that Space Beth literally comes back to Earth just to kill Rick, both Beths team up so they can kick his ass later, and they finally overcome their need for his approval.]] Rick ''himself'' admits he's a terrible father after all of this.

** :Or at the very least, Chekhov's ''dead'' gunman. In the season 3 premiere, Summer digs up the dead body of her own Rick that died in ''Rick Potion No. 9" to get the portal gun that ultimately sets her and Morty's plan to rescue their Rick in motion.

** "The Rickshank Redemption" has Rick being interrogated by agents of the Galactic Federation so they can view his memory of how he invented his portal gun/interdimensional travel and take the technology for themselves. Said memory involves an alternate Rick (known as "Weird Rick") offering him the technology, Main Rick refusing in favor of being a family man to his wife Diane and child daughter Beth, and Weird Rick blowing up Diane and Beth with a bomb. Rick then claims to his interrogator that this backstory was completely fabricated so he could overpower him and break out of the memory device. [[spoiler:"Rickmurai Jack" later shows that, while the part of this memory where he invented the portal gun was indeed fake, the rest of it--including Weird Rick (or rather, "Rick Prime) was RealAfterAll, and Rick spent most of his life after Diane's and Beth's deaths [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge trying to hunt him down for revenge]], to no avail, eventually becoming the man he is today. What's more, in a double-instance of this, "Solaricks" further reveals that Rick Prime is, in fact, Main Morty's ''original'' Rick from the same universe, and Main Rick originally came to that dimension and met Morty with the hope that Rick Prime would come back there someday.]]

** Morty has had to disarm Rick's neutron bombs before. (In the first episode, Rick was going to destroy humanity. Comes in handy in the third season Recap/RickAndMortyS3E4Vindicators3TheReturnOfWorldEnder). It is revealed that Morty carries a set of wire clippers for just this purpose.
--> '''Rick''': "Morty.... how many of these (Neutron Bombs) have you had to...."
--> '''Morty''' (Interrupts): "Too many, Rick! Too many!"

* ClockRoaches / TimePolice: When Rick attempts to repair the fractured timelines in "A Rickle in Time,", one of these--a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who doesn't like his methods--appears and antagonizes him. The alien's odd appearance is [[ShoutOut inspired by]] [[Literature/TheLangoliers another, particularly iconic group]] of ClockRoaches. Rick later purposesly attracts their attention in "Rattlestar Ricklactica" to make sure they resolve the family's time-traveling snakes issue.

** In "The ABC's of Beth", Rick offers to make a clone of Beth so she can go out and do what she wants in her life. The Season 4 finale reveals the other Beth was out in space, fighting the New-and-Improved Galactic Federation, but both are eventually made aware of each other and they try to figure out who is the clone. [[spoiler:In doing so, they also realize their mutual dislike of Rick and decide to just keep living their own lives]]. Rick made a memory tube of who is who, but nobody cares anymore. The tube reveals that Beth asked him to make the decision. [[spoiler:He made a clone, properly labelled the cloning vats, but then removed the label and started switching them around until [[TheUnreveal the camera cuts away to make it impossible to see who is who]]]]. Rick verbally acknowledges what a shitty father he is.

* In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", Morty, after seeing all the Rick-and-Morty pairs together in the Citadel of Ricks, expresses happiness at how he and Rick have such a close bond that it spans across infinite universes. He's disappointed to learn from Rick that a big part of this is due to Ricks needing the brainwaves of Mortys to conceal them from enemies, rather than Ricks actually caring about their Mortys. This is ''already'' fairly dark, but it gets much, much worse after "Rickmurai Jack", which reveals that [[spoiler:the Ricks of the Citadel purposely engineer Morty's birth across infinite dimensions, and clone them to create a mass-market of Mortys who can just be sent off to any Rick in the multiverse that needs them, meaning that most Mortys are essentially part of a SlaveRace to Ricks. As much crap and abuse as "our" Morty has to put up with from "our" Rick, he's actually one of the ''lucky'' ones in that he has a Rick who actually cares about him and doesn't just see him as disposable, which is more than most Mortys get.]]

* CassandraDidIt: The memory parasites try to use this to make it seem like Rick is the Parasite due to his own zany wacky personality and incredibly vague backstory. The family, especially Beth and Morty, start to believe them even though Rick is literally related to them.

** With power running low, some of the computer simulations are reduced to one sentence Catchphrases like 'Yes!' And 'My Man!'.

** [[spoiler:Or at the very least, Chekhov's ''dead'' gunman. In the season 3 premiere, Summer digs up the dead body of her own Rick that died in ''Rick Potion No. 9" to get the portal gun that ultimately sets her and Morty's plan to rescue their Rick in motion]].
** The [[TheQuietOne quiet]], eyepatch-wearing Evil Morty in "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" turns out to have been remotely controlling Evil Rick all along, meaning that he was the true mastermind behind the serial killings of Ricks. [[spoiler:He proves to be this once again in "The Ricklantis Mix-up", where we find out that the newly elected leader of the Citadel of Ricks, President Morty, is actually him.]]

** The episode "The Vat of Acid Episode" revisits this with Rick inventing a device to give Morty his "save point" idea. Morty uses it to pull pranks, to avoid injury, to fall in love and have a years long committed relationship... Rick points out that it's not a time thing, but an alternate universe thing, and that all of those things really happened and involved an alternate reality Morty dying in agony so Morty could hop over.

* ClockRoaches / TimePolice: When Rick attempts to repair the fractured timelines in "A Rickle in Time,", one of these--a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who doesn't like his methods--appears and antagonizes him. The alien's odd appearance is [[ShoutOut inspired by]] [[Literature/TheLangoliers another, particularly iconic group]] of ClockRoaches.

** Rick's insane "Rick and Morty 100 Years" speech at the end of the first episode gets a call back at the end of the first episode of the third season. It even has the same music playing during the speech, and both end with the garage door closing while a confused Morty, on the floor, watches Rick absolutely lose his marbles. "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat" also has a similar rant, except that this time, Rick and Morty are both eagerly participating in it together, and then yell at Summer for ruining it when she mocks them.

** In "Rick Potion #9", Rick makes a meta-joke that they can mess up their own dimension and shift to a new one only a few times. "Morty's Mind Blowers" reveal that they had to jump dimensions ''again'' (though, based on episode continuity, this was probably not meant to be taken as canon and was just being PlayedForLaughs), with Rick reminding Morty of that very issue. [[spoiler:"Solaricks" sees the entire family (including Space Beth) do it this time, complete with ''everybody'' burying their corpses in the backyard.]]

* CassandraDidIt: The Parasites try to use this to make it seem like Rick is the Parasite due to his own zany wacky personality and incredibly vague backstory. Beth starts to believe them even though Rick is her father.

** [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with Rick's "''Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!''".Birdperson later tells Morty that this saying translates to "I am in great pain. Please help me."
** As of the season 1 finale, his new catchphrase is "I don't give a f***".

** "And away we go!" should probably also qualify.
** (In-Universe) "You don't know me!" Mrs. Pancakes in her self-titled series.

** Later parodied in "Total Rickall" when we see a string of Rick's "really weird made-up sounding catchphrases", which are a series of strange {{Non Sequitur}}s such as "AIDS!" , "Shum shum shlippidy-dop!", "Graaaaaassss... tastes bad!" and "BURGER TIME!" The context of the scene would lead the viewer to assume that they're the result of the memory-tampering parasites, except that none of the flashbacks feature the parasites and none of them seem to be pleasant memories, meaning Rick really ''does'' have these catchphrases even if they've never appeared on screen before, or since (although he re-uses "Riki-tiki-tavi" and "And that's the way the news goes" in the last part of the episode, after all the parasites have been exterminated).

-->'''Rick:''' "I could have made you something that would have found him in about 20 minutes."

** At the end of the third season finale "The Rickchurian Mortydate", after [[spoiler:Beth and Jerry decide to get back together, Beth makes an explicit comparison to Season 1.]]
** "Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat": Rick is confused as to how the Phoenix Protocol activated when his body died, since he "axed" it (literally) "two seasons ago" (in the episode "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez").

** "Solaricks": When the family has to [[spoiler:hop dimensions]] at the end, Rick notes how hard that is to do [[spoiler:without portals]] and that they're going to have to do "the whole fucking episode all over again!"
* BreakTheCutie: The entire series is a long process of this for Morty. Particular examples include "Meeseeks and Destroy", in which he is almost raped, and "Mortynight Run", when he has to kill Fart to save the universe, and in the process, render all of the death and destruction that he caused throughout the episode pointless.

** Meanwhile, he's on the opposite side of it in regards to [[spoiler:Rick Prime, the man who murdered Main Rick's original Diane and Beth from his dimension. Rick spent decades of his life trying to find him, to no avail, and his failure to do so caused him to spiral into cynicism, nihilism, and alcoholism. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like Rick Prime is even aware of ''why'' Rick is trying to hard to hunt him down, just that he is, but he apparently has enough enemies that, when he built a hideout rigged with traps for them to find, he acknowledges in the pre-recorded videos that he doesn't even know who he's talking to.]]
* CallBack:
** Rick's insane "Rick and Morty 100 Years" speech at the end of the first episode gets a call back at the end of the first episode of the third season. It even has the same music playing during the speech, and both end with the garage door closing while a confused Morty, on the floor, watches Rick absolutely lose his marbles.
** Morty pulls his "every 10th adventure" card in "Vindicators 3", calling back to the agreement he and Rick made in "Meeseeks & Destroy" that Morty would get to pick one out of every ten adventures they went on. It's even a literal card, complete with nine Morty ink stamps.
** In "Rick Potion #9", Rick makes a meta-joke that they can mess up their own dimension and shift to a new one only a few times. "Morty's Mind Blowers" reveal that they had to jump dimensions ''again'', with Rick reminding Morty of that very issue.
** The Promo for "Bethic Twinstinct" shows its Thanksgiving, cut to Rick as a turkey coming home saying he took care of their yearly presidential pardon like in "Rick And Mortys Thanksploitation Spectacular".

* BlackComedy: Most definitely. Most of the humor revolves around Rick's sociopathy and alcoholism and the resulting damage it does to Morty's psyche. [[spoiler:After "Rick Potion #9", the show takes a realistic look at the traumatic damage that the pair's adventures can have on Morty.]]
* BlackComedyRape: An interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. There are a few passive jokes about rape in the dialogue, but the act itself is always ''depicted'' completely seriously. For example, Rick makes a passive comment about PrisonRape during his and Morty's trial in "Meeseeks and Destroy," which is meant as a joke, but [[spoiler: Morty [[AttemptedRape almost getting raped]] in a bathroom later in the same episode]] is not. Rick's reaction to it cements this.

* BloodierAndGorier: While the show has never been one to shy away from on-screen violence, it was rarely extravagant, with most episodes in the first two seasons being rated TV-14. Season 3 takes the violence much further, with almost every episode getting a TV-MA rating and involving a sequence where one or more of the main characters engage in the brutal, graphic, and creative slaughter of a crowd of enemies. Usually, the crowd is a collective AssholeVictim, but it is still the heroes gleefully engaging in BloodyHilarious violence. The late Season 2 episode "Look Who's Purging Now" is a hint at the beginning of this, with Rick and Arthricia literally dancing in a river of the blood to Toni Toni Tone after killing all the aristocratic "fat cats".

* BuffySpeak: Used occasionally. One example is this exchange that took place when Rick had a massive hangover.
-->'''Rick:''' Bring me the thing.\\

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Rick has a lot of enemies that he doesn't remember until it comes back to bite him in the ass.

*** This stands out particularly in the episodes starring the Citadel of Ricks. The ''main'' Rick and Morty are safe, but any other versions of them are fair game. "The Rickshank Redemption", "The Ricklantis Mixup", and "Rickmurai Jack" in particular all see ''extremely'' high body counts of various alternate Ricks and Mortys, and in the latter episode, [[spoiler:the ''entire Citadel'' is destroyed, killing almost every Rick and Morty there except for the main duo and a small number of other Mortys (most of whom die in the following episode anyway).]]

** Rick is reluctant to see Jerry killed, being genuinely horrified along with the rest of the family when Jerry was almost shot to death in "Interdimensional Cable II: Tempting Fate", keeping him alive despite Jerry betraying him in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", killing his ex-girlfriend's jealous boyfriend in "The [=ABCs=] of Beth", and not going through with killing him in "The Rickchurian Mortydate", and rescuing him when he's in trouble in "Rattlestar Ricklactica" and "Amortycan Grickffiti".

** In "The Rickshank Redemption", Rick is shown a memory in which a woman named Diane is his wife as well as Beth's mother, and she is killed in it along with Child-Beth; while Rick claims the memory was fabricated to fool his interrogator, Season 5 eventually confirms that is was real, and Diane and Beth were killed by another Rick.

** A major joke of the episode "Mortyplicity", the entire episode focuses on clones of the family who are evading squids coming to kill them [[spoiler:who are, in turn, also clones dressed up as squids trying to kill other clones because they realize they're clones.]] Repeatedly throughout the episode the viewer watches one particular iteration of the family for sometimes 2-3 minutes of time, only for them to be suddenly killed and focus is shifted to another family. By the end of the episodes, the clones trying to figure out who is the real one are running around killing each other in a mass frenzy, and ''even then'' the narrative keeps focusing on a specific family only for them to die and be revealed as yet ''more'' clones.

-->'''The President':'' You're a terrorist, you're an enemy of the state and you [[GroinAttack kicked me in the balls]] ten minutes ago!

** Jerry and Beth do ''not'' have a good marriage, and are sometimes unsure if they're even in love, but one always has the other's back when push comes to shove. [[spoiler:This also extends to the "Clone" Beth. Even though "Clone" Beth divorced Jerry and questions the other Beth why she continues to stay with him, she did keep his surname and it's hinted that despite their divorce she does still feel something for him]].

** Rick is reluctant to see Jerry killed, being genuinely horrified along with the rest of the family when Jerry was almost shot to death in "Interdimensional Cable II: Tempting Fate", keeping him alive despite Jerry betraying him in "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy", killing his ex-girlfriend's jealous boyfriend in "The [=ABCs=] of Beth", [[spoiler:and not going through with killing him in "The Rickchurian Mortydate".]]

** Beth and Jerry aren't necessarily abusive, more neglectful. They didn't pay their children much attention when they were babies, one reason could be because they became parents so young. Jerry tries a little harder at being a good parent than Beth.

* AnAlienNamedBob: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]; Many [[InsectoidAliens Gromflomites]] have alien-sounding ''first'' names, paired with ''last'' names that sound like mundane human ''first'' names. Examples include Krombopulos Michael the assassin, and Cornvelious Daniel the interrogation agent.

** Summer had a crush on Morty's bully, Frank Palicky.
** Played with concerning Jessica and her boyfriend. She hates how he always picks fights, and yet they're still together no matter what.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: The whereabouts of Beth's mother have not been given a proper explanation. Rick has implied that his marriage to her was not stable and that they did separate before his disappearance. Beth sheds a tear in "Pilot" when Rick tells her that he wishes her mother was present to eat the family's breakfast, but it is never confirmed if Beth's mother is actually dead. In "The Rickshank Redemption", Rick is shown a memory in which a woman named Diane is his wife as well as Beth's mother, and she is killed in it; however, this specific memory was fabricated by Rick to fool his interrogator, so Diane may not even have existed. The cover artist for the comic book adaptation has created a character named "Bonnie Sinclair", who fills the role of Beth's mother in several illustrations, but it is not known if she will ever appear on the show. Season 5 eventually confirms that Diane was in fact a real person in Rick's life and that she was killed by another Rick, meaning that the aforementioned memory wasn't fabricated after all.
* AmbiguouslyBi:
** Jerry is in this territory after the incident with Sleepy Gary in the episode "Total Rickall". Although his feelings for Gary appeared to be real, the entire incident was a falsely implanted memory of a relationship that never happened with a man that never existed. As Jerry hasn't yet shown any romantic interest in a male character who definitely exists, it's difficult to say whether him potentially having any interest in men at all is really the case or was just another part of the implanted memory. "Mort Dinner Rick Andre", however, makes this less ambiguous as he participates in a threesome between him, Beth, and Mr. Nimbus.
** Summer, despite clearly being into boys, has given off hints of being interested in girls. In "The Old Man and the Seat", one of her selected soulmates is a woman, and the episodes "Rattlestar Ricklactica" and "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" reveal she likes going to Boob World.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Galactic Federation. Rick shows a lot of disdain towards the organization and his friends see themselves as Freedom Fighters going against them. The Federation are made out as oppressive and have been seen to be apathetic to civilian casualties. At the same time, this information comes from [[UnreliableNarrator Rick]] and they do keep their word when [[spoiler: Rick turns himself in so his family can return to Earth.]]

** The Promo for "Bethnic Instinct" shows its Thanksgiving, cut to Rick as a turkey coming home saying he took care of their yearly presidential pardon like in "Rick And Mortys Thanksploitation Spectacular".

'''Robot:''' ''(looks at his hands)'' [[AC:Oh-my-god!]]\\

** In "Auto Erotic Assimilation", Blim Blam the Korblok, an alien that Rick has chained up in his basement, finally gets so fed up with having to listen to Jerry and Beth have yet another (particularly vicious) spousal argument that he tears his chains out of the wall and steals a translation device so they can understand him, '''just to brutally lays into both of them''' about how awful they are to themselves and each other, ending it by saying that he's sorry that Rick has to deal with either one of them.

** "Rickamurai Jack" reveals the actual truth behind Rick's past ''and'' brings [[spoiler:Evil Morty]] back into the storyline. [[spoiler:Morty sees a full-on flashback of his Rick’s past and learns Rick C-137’s “fabricated backstory” from “The Rickshank Redemption” was almost entirely true: his Beth was murdered in childhood, along with Rick’s wife Diane, by a rogue Rick. Rick then became the [[TheDreaded boogeyman of Ricks]] by slaughtering dozens of them (maybe more) on his quest to find his wife’s killer, until the other Ricks call a truce. He helps create the citadel and ends up abandoning it before going to another timeline and adopting the Beth seen in the first half of S1 and her family. Also, the citadel has been “farming” Mortys for years — first by ensuring Beth gets together with Jerry in every timeline (implying they might not even be together otherwise), and then through cloning. The Ricks also built the Central Finite Curve, which is a wall separating the infinite universes where Rick is the smartest thing alive from the rest of the multiverse. Evil Morty kills the majority of Ricks and Mortys, destroys the Citadel ''and'' the CRC and escapes to a new multiverse outside of it using his own portal gun]].

** "Rickternal Friendshine of the Rickless Mort" has a rare dive into Rick's past, and confirms some fan theories: [[spoiler: Rick C-137's (aka our Rick) Beth died young, before she gave birth to Summer and Morty. Rick travelled to an alternate universe and adopted the Beth shown in Series 1 Episode 1. The episode also heavily implies that Beth and Rick's wife Diane were killed by alternate Ricks, validating at least part of the flashback in "The Rickshank Redemption"]]. Rick also has [[spoiler: romantic feelings for Bird Person, and the latter's rejection of them made one of the worst days of Rick's life]].
** "Rickamurai Jack" reveals the actual truth behind Rick's past ''and'' brings [[spoiler:Evil Morty]] back into the storyline. [[spoiler:Morty learns that Evil Morty was telling the truth that Rick C-137 was the actual creator of the Citadel of Ricks, and reveals that he is only "Evil" Morty because he actively despises the dynamic that Rick and Morty has. He tells Morty that if he ever disapproved of Rick's actions on their adventures, then he was "Evil" Morty too. The Central Finite Curve that has been mentioned across the series is revealed to be literal wall of all the infinite universes where Rick is the smartest man in the universe, preventing anyone from accessing a universe where he wasn't. Evil Morty shatters the Central Finite Curve (destroying the Citadel in the process) and escapes to a new multiverse where a Rick won't be the smartest, and therefore the one most likely to be a main presence of his life]].

* ReplacementGoldfish: Rick and Morty, (along with the other Smiths at times) hop into new dimensions every few seasons thanks to destroying whatever version of Earth they’re on at the time… meaning every single reoccurring character that appears after each dimension-hop is actually a different person. Not that it matters in the long run though since they essentially share the same history as their other versions.

The sixth season aired on September 4th, 2022, and was simulcast in multiple countries.

In May 2018, after months of contract negotiations following the end of the show's third season (and fears of cancellation), the series was announced as being renewed for [[https://deadline.com/2018/05/rick-and-morty-renewed-70-episode-order-creators-dan-harmon-justin-roiland-deal-adult-swim-1202386828/ an unprecedented 70 additional episodes]]. The first five episodes of Season 4 aired from November 10, 2019, to December 15, 2019; after a five-month hiatus, the last five episodes of Season 4 aired from May 3, 2020, to May 31, 2020. Season Five started airing a year later on June 20, 2021. It is confirmed that Season 6 is set to air on September 4th, 2022. In May 2022, a ten-episode anime adaptation directed by Takashi Sano, who directed the adaptation of ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' as well as two ''Rick and Morty'' shorts, was announced.

* JustAFleshWound: Rick gets shot in the liver with his laser pistol and yet seems pretty good to go (even though it's "[[BottleFairy the hardest working liver in the galaxy]]"). A few scenes later he puts some science gunk on the wound, which apparently heals it.

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Played with Rick's relationship with Unity in "Auto Erotic Assimilation". Unity is a hive mind that possesses the bodies of everyone on the planet it's conquered; therefore, when Rick has sex with it, he's technically having sex with a bunch of alien strangers who were unable to give their consent for their bodies to be used this way. On the other hand, there's no indication given that the original people in these bodies are conscious in any way or aware of what's happening, and they basically ''are'' Unity when the latter is possessing them since it seemingly "overwrites" them. None of the characters--not even Summer, who initially disapproves of Unity and its actions--seem to even remotely consider the possibility that this might be a form of rape.

In May 2018, after months of contract negotiations following the end of the show's third season (and fears of cancellation), the series was announced as being renewed for [[https://deadline.com/2018/05/rick-and-morty-renewed-70-episode-order-creators-dan-harmon-justin-roiland-deal-adult-swim-1202386828/ an unprecedented 70 additional episodes]]. The first five episodes of Season 4 aired from November 10, 2019, to December 15, 2019; after a five-month hiatus, the last five episodes of Season 4 aired from May 3, 2020, to May 31, 2020. Season Five started airing a year later on June 20, 2021. It is confirmed that Season 6 is also in the works. In May 2022, a ten-episode anime adaptation directed by Takashi Sano, who directed the adaptation of ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' as well as two ''Rick and Morty'' shorts, was announced.

* TakeThatAudience: The Fascist Morty is a explicit reference to "toxic" fans of the show who accuse creators of making it political and demand a return to early standalone episodes. Besides wearing a Nazi uniform, he kills his own uncle for "going political" and forces our universe's Rick to accompany him on a "classic Rick and Morty adventure". Rick soon points that he's always negative, talking about things he doesn't like but never suggesting anything he'd like to do. Fascist Morty replies that he likes Mr. Meeseeks, a one-note Season 1 character and fan favorite, and Rick uses it to get rid of him. The sketch also features Gearhead for no real reason other than he's a Season 1 character.