New Rick and Morty episodes get trailer, release date

It seems like ages ago since we got a new episode of?Rick and Morty, Adult Swim’s gleefully irreverent cartoon about a super-genius scientist and his hapless grandson traveling the universe and destroying small portions of it. To be exact, it was in December, which?is?a pretty long time, made all the longer because back then barely anyone was thinking about the virus which is now dominating a lot of our lives.

But there’s hope! The second half of?Rick and Morty’s?fifth season is around the corner, and we’ve got the trailer to prove it:

Okay, I’m not an expert, but the robot suits are a?Gundam?reference, right? We’ve also got some?Alien-like face-hugging-type things, lightsabers, and a lot of good-old fashioned sci-fi violence. And hey, the super-smart dogs from the first season are back!

This trailer comes a couple of days after Adult Swim put up a very violent, very entertaining?Rick and Morty?short that goes hard on samurai movies:

Is this part of the next five episodes? Is it just an excuse for some stylized blood-letting? We’ll find out when the show returns at 11:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, May 3!

By the way,?Rick and Morty?creator Justin Roiland is releasing his new, very?Rick and Morty-like show,?Polar Opposites, on May 8, just a few days after season 5 kicks off:

So there’s gonna be a bunch of this kind of content in just over a month. Thank goodness.

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• Published on 04/01/2020 at 10:29 AM CDT
• Last updated on 04/01/2020 at 10:32 AM CDT