It’s been teased in previous months, but the teasing is over. The ninth season of Rick And Morty will begin its run on Adult Swim May 24, the network announced today, and proved it with a trailer full of finished clips.
As with previous seasons, they won’t give us any specifics as to what’s happening in this trailer. All they said was “Rick and Morty is back, baby! Season 9 is all certified bangers. No AI slop! Just Grade A organic slop, made by real humans with real human traits like back hair and cysts. Please watch, or we’ll have neglected our families for nothing.”
So what have we got here, and is it enough to fill at least 300 words? We have Jerry getting zombified from using Rick’s cell phone. We have Beth and Summer fighting their now-alive couch that is lumbering toward them on its hind legs, and then the living room floor literally becoming lava a few clips later, suggesting an episode about childhood games becoming real.
There is Rick and Morty getting dragged by vines toward a tree with a face. There is a zen master poking Rick a million times in the chest. There is Morty getting captured by ape men, there are breakfast drugs, and there’s a scene where R & M practice ballet, which feels like one of those fake scenes from the main title. There is no trace of the scene where Rick gets drunk and smashes a small village full of gnomes, which got two screenshots to itself in an earlier press release.
Rick And Morty Season 9 stars the same cast that has been with the show since Season 7: Ian Cardoni as Rick, Harry Belden as Morty, Sarah Chalke as Beth, Chris Parnell as Jerry and Spencer Grammer as Summer. Maybe you’ll get Keith David as the President, and maybe you won’t. Guest stars usually aren’t revealed this way.
Be advised that the trailer is unbleeped, so a few F-bombs prevent it from being safe for work. Rick And Morty Season 9 starts May 24 on Adult Swim, and like previous seasons, will be a cable exclusive, not reaching HBO Max until after it finishes its run.
