Rick and Morty (season 3)
| Rick and Morty (season 3) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Original release | April 1, 2017 (First episode) TBD 2017 (episode 2-14) |
| Season chronology | |
The third season of the animated television series Rick and Morty originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered with "The Rickshank Rickdemption", which aired unannounced on April 1, 2017 and was replayed every half hour from 8pm to 12am ET, as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' prank. The episode was also simulcast as a looping live stream on Adult Swim's site.
The official season premiere was set for later in 2017. This season will air a total of fourteen episodes.
On August 12, 2015, Adult Swim announced that the series had been renewed for a third season. Writing began on November 2, 2015. Mike McMahan revealed on Twitter that sound recording had begun for season three on February 18, 2016. On February 6, 2017, Dan Harmon announced on his podcast, "Harmontown", that the show was in the animation process.
During Rick's incarceration, the Federation has colonized Earth. Summer, determined to rescue Rick, digs up the alternate Rick's corpse in their backyard and retrieves his portal gun. Morty attempts to demonize Rick by transporting himself and Summer to a universe where Earth became a Cronenberg World in the events of the first season's episode, "Rick Potion #9". The two are saved from Morty's original family by the Seal Team Ricks, who send them to the Council of Ricks. Seal Team Ricks, upon learning of Rick's incarceration, attack the Federation prison in an attempt to assassinate Rick and prevent him from revealing their secrets. At the same time, tricking the Federation into believing they had gotten his interdimensional travel formula, Rick manages to hack into their technology to switch bodies with his captors before Seal Team Rick arrives. This forces Rick to improvise by transferring himself into one of the Seal Ricks and kill the others before going to the Citadel of Ricks. Once transferred into a Rick with higher rank, Rick manages to teleport the Citadel into the same space as the Federation prison, prompting a massive battle. Rick uses the confusion to access the Federation mainframe — revealed to be his reason for turning himself in. He uses this access to make the galactic currency worthless, thereby destroying the Federation's economy. The Galactic Federation falls into chaos and collapses as a result, with the aliens leaving Earth. Rick returns to the Smith household, but Jerry issues Beth an ultimatum: choose him or Rick. Beth announces she is leaving Jerry. After the new status quo is established, Rick reveals to Morty that his ulterior motive was to make both the Federation and Jerry "go away", making him Morty's de facto male influence. This devolves into Rick going on a nonsensical angry rant, in homage to his rant in the pilot episode, about how their adventures are about to get darker than before, and revealing that he is only motivated by the Szechuan sauce which McDonald's once had available as a promotion for the film Mulan. Rick also states that it will take him "9 more seasons" or "97 years" until he gets the Szechuan sauce.
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