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If Rick can survive being turned into a pickle, he can make it to Season 4. Deadline has confirmed that Rick and Morty, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland‘s hugley popular Adult Swim show, will be returning for a fourth season. But that’s not all. The series has been picked up for 70 additional episodes.
On one hand, the massive pickup isn’t surprising given Rick and Morty‘s overwhelming success. On the other hand, oh my god. 70 episodes!? This must be what TV news heaven is like.
The news was first announced by show co-creator and star Justin Roiland on Twitter:
Dan Harmon also announced the news in his own vaguely creepy, soap-filled way. We’re getting serious “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” vibes with this one:
That massive episode pickup is more than double the amount of Rick and Morty episodes that have already been released. Currently there are 31 episodes of the series, and this pickup would bring the total up to 101. Huge renewals like this are rarely seen by networks anymore and speak to the show’s massive success.
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“I’m ecstatic,” Harmon said in an interview with GQ. “Rick and Morty is definitely the most freeing, most fun thing I’ve ever worked on. It’s had the biggest impact. I love everything I make — and hate it, I guess — but I have a very special relationship with Rick and Morty, and getting a 70-episode pickup means that I can actually really focus on it, and loving it won’t be taking away from anything else.”
Harmon also revealed that this episode order would give the creators the space they needed to tell the full story they want to tell. Though the eventual plan is for Harmon and Roiland to focus exclusively on Rick and Morty, they’re still going to keep working on some of their other projects for now.
But before you ask, no, Harmon and his team haven’t started writing Season 4. Hopefully this new pickup will change that soon. “From now on, the reason that I’m not writing the show will be because I’m done writing it for the day and I’m having fun,” he said.
Assuming that every new season of Rick and Morty is roughly 10 episodes long and knowing that each season of the show has taken about a year and a half to make, we’re potentially looking at 10 and a half more years of Rick and Morty. Or as Rick once wisely said, “Rick and Morty, forever and forever, a hundred years Rick and Morty.”
