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Though this can be chalked off as another bit where Rick just hates Jerry, a meta lens would read it as a joke about the recasting of original Rick and Morty voice actor Justin Roiland with Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden.

It’s ironic that Rick (voiced by Cardoni) is looking for someone to replace Jerry, since Rick’s voice actor was replaced; and Jerry is still pretty much voiced by his original voice actor Chris Parnell. In fact, the only original voice actors that are still attached to the show are Parnell, Spencer Grammer (Summer), and Sarah Chalke (Beth).

Though it was a huge surprise to fans that the show would go on without Roiland, a lot of reports have come out that the series has actually been functioning very well without him, and he’s been out of the writers’ room for a while, just providing the voices of Rick and Morty. After the whole scandal though, the series was finally able to cut the chord with him, and they found an excuse to find new voices to do the series leads.

It’s kind of funny how they decided to get two different people to voice Rick and Morty this time, so if one of them got cancelled (or died), they wouldn’t lose two characters.

No release date has been set for Rick and Morty Season 8, but hopefully it comes out early 2025.

Ultimately the series had found replacements for Roiland, but some are wondering why the showrunners decided to cast two different people to voice characters that were originally performed by one person.

Talking to THR, showrunner Scott Marder and co-creator Dan Harmon had explained that they cast two people because they saw the toll that the show was taking on Roiland as he was playing multiple characters. Marder explained:

“For sheer quality of life, it’d be easier for the amount of work required for both characters. We watched it over the years wear down on Roiland’s voice. It felt unfair to do that to someone.”

The series ended up with two relatively unknown actors to play the parts of Rick and Morty with Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden respectively. The premiere even had a third person voice the part of Mr. Poopybutthole, who was also originally voiced by Roiland as well.

Marder had apparently auditioned thousands of people for the roles, which they whittled down to a hundred until they finally got to Cardoni and Belden. While a lot of people still think Cardoni’s Rick has some differences from how Roiland performs the voice, Belden has been praised for his take on Morty which a lot of people can’t tell is not Roiland.

Catch new episodes of Rick and Morty when they come out on Adult Swim and Max every Sunday night.

As it turns out, the cold open answers that question with the return of Mr. Poopybutthole, who has apparently been living with the Smith family. Watch this:

The running gag with Mr. Poopybutthole is that though he seems like such a ridiculous cartoon character, he always finds himself in ridiculously serious predicaments. After being paralyzed and shot by Beth in the episode we first meet him, the show has had him teach kids at college, have a family of his own, and now be left by that family—resulting in him ending up with the Smiths.

We don’t exactly know if MPB will have a significant arc for the upcoming season, but his appearance does confirm the suspicions that fans have on how they will treat the other characters that were being voiced by Roiland.

If anything, the fans think that the replacement voices have been pretty great, and besides Rick, they got a pretty spot-on Morty impression. I guess to further avoid another scandal like Roiland, they also decided to just have two different people voice the two characters; which should be helpful if another one of them gets ‘cancelled.’

Hopefully we get the reveal of the replacements soon.

Watch out for Season 7 of Rick and Morty which premieres on Oct. 15.

After months of silence, Harmon has finally opened up about Roiland’s firing, and he’s revealed that he actually hasn’t talked to Roiland since 2019. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Harmon shares that a rift had started forming between the two around the second season of the show when Harmon brought in new writers from his other series Community—resulting in Roiland thinking that the show was being taken away from him.

Harmon shares:

“If anything, what I wanted was for Justin and I both to be able to be increasingly lazy and not show up for work. That was the dream… We’d be these rich idea men. He could roll around and go, like, ‘What if a genie had a butt instead of a dick?’ And I could be like, ‘Yeah, and plus, we’re going to make people cry about it, and that’s going to make them freak out. It’s a story about a genie butt dick, but then we’d win an Emmy, and it’d be more ironic than ever.’ And then I’d come to find out later that it was like, ‘Oh, Harmon brought in his Harmon writers,’ and, man, that is not how I saw it.” 

It got so bad that Roiland apparently stopped coming into the studio, and a mediator got brought in when the series was greenlit for 70 more episodes.

When asked to comment about the reasons Roiland was fired—specifically accusations of sexual harassment and assault—Harmon had this to say:

“The easiest thing for me to say about Justin has been nothing. Easy because he isolated so well and easy because I’m nobody’s first choice as a judge of anything or anyone. This is where I’d love to change the subject to myself, to what a piece of crap I’ve been my whole public life… I would feel so safe and comfortable making this about me, but that trick is worthless here and dangerous to others. It’s other people’s safety and comfort that got damaged while I obsessed over a cartoon’s quality. Trust has now been violated between countless people and a show designed to please them. I’m frustrated, ashamed and heartbroken that a lot of hard work, joy and passion can be leveraged to exploit and harm strangers.” 

For now, the series is said to have cast two different people to provide the voice for Rick and Morty, and their identities have been kept secret until the premiere of the first episode. We don’t know exactly where Roiland stands now, but it would be great if we could also get his side of this story so we can get a better picture of exactly what went down.

Rick and Morty 7 premieres on Adult Swim on Oct. 15.

Now Adult Swim has dropped the trailer, and we have our replacements for Roiland, and they sound pretty solid. Watch this:

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show has actually cast two new voice actors for the roles of Rick and Morty—as compared to having only one actor voice both. The studio is actually going to keep the identity of the voice actors under wraps until the premiere as well. An Adult Swim insider explained:

“We want the show to speak for itself… We believe in the strength of the season and our new voices and we want to preserve the viewing experience for fans.”

As far as fan reactions go, they say that they got pretty good sound-alikes for both Rick and Morty. Though Morty sounds almost identical (he’s a bit more high-pitched than Roiland’s original version), Rick’s voice really starts to sound different when he starts to scream.

It’s probably going to take an adjustment period for the fans, but so far everyone is onboard with he recasting and nobody has been clamoring to bring Roiland back.

Hopefully Season 7 manages to keep that signature Rick and Morty brand of adventures without Roiland onboard. Rick and Morty Season 7 premieres on Oct. 15 on Adult Swim and Max.

Just in, Adult Swim has dropped the new opening sequence for the show, and not only have they removed Roiland’s name from the credits—but also his co-creator Dan Harmon. Watch this:

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No doubt, Harmon is still working on the series, but it would be weird seeing his name along with the ‘created by’ credit when a lot of fans know that Justin Roiland helped create the series.

Everyone is still waiting to see what the show is going to do about Roiland’s replacement. Though some think they’ll just find a person who can do a good Rick and Morty impression, Roiland’s other show Solar Opposites had decided to recast the part of Korvo with Dan Stevens—who sounded nothing like Roiland, and even had a British accent.

If anything, Roiland does only have a handful of voices that he can do; but that’s why his voice has somewhat become iconic when it comes to modern animation. You can immediately tell it’s Roiland whenever your hear his signature shrieky voice and stuttering—whether he’s playing Lemongrab in Adventure Time or Blendin Blandin in Gravity Falls.

Hopefully we can get a voice reveal before the premiere, but I have a feeling the series is going lean in on the meta humor and have the whole episode about why Rick and Morty will have different voices.

Rick and Morty Season 7 premieres on Adult Swim and Max on Oct. 15.

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Of course, the big elephant in the room is how the show is going to be replacing co-creator Justin Roiland. Ever since Roiland got dropped by Adult Swim, fans have been wondering who would be taking over for the voice role for Rick and Morty since Roiland performed both. We know that Solar Opposites decided to cast a completely different voice for Roiland’s character, but it’s still unclear how Rick and Morty going to solve that problem.

Hopefully by the time the full trailer drops for season 7, we’ll finally have an answer. With the meta-nature of the show, the showrunners will have to address the real-world drama behind the series, and with Roiland playing the main characters, audiences have been itching to figure out just how Rick and Morty is going to handle the loss of its principal star. Will they go the direction of Solar Opposites and just hope that everyone won’t mind? Or will they cast someone who can do a perfect impression of Roiland—several of which are all over the internet.

Watch out for Season 7 of Rick and Morty when it returns on Adult Swim on Oct. 15.

Here’s the announcement with a Bad Boys-inspired poster featuring Rick, Morty, and Summer:

We ride together. We die together. We’re buried in the backyard together. Rick and Morty Season 7 is coming to @AdultSwim 10/15 #rickandmorty pic.twitter.com/44z9YiicXs

— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) August 24, 2023

Though Rick and Morty tends to have an episodic structure, there is one overarching story that now has the show’s main Rick going after another ‘Rick Prime’—a Rick that was said to have killed C-137’s family. What’s more, Rick Prime is also the original Rick of the show’s main Morty.

We’ve yet to know exactly what that Rick’s deal is, but it does provide us with a new source of drama for the show. We don’t even know what’s happened to ‘Evil Morty’ ever since he jumped into that yellow portal in the second-to-the-last season.

For now, fans are just waiting for a trailer. It’s not clear what direction the show will go for recasting Roiland, seeing that he was the voice of the original duo (as well as several other characters). Solar Opposites had replaced Roiland with someone who sounded completely different; but some think that Rick and Morty will just settle with finding a new voice actor for both the titular characters.

You think they’ll consider using an AI voice-changer?

Rick and Morty Season 7 premieres on Adult Swim on Oct. 15.

Talking to The Los Angeles Times, series executive producer Steve Levy said, “We had a rug pulled from underneath us… The only people we could lean on were each other. It would have been very easy to just say, ‘I’m done and I don’t want to do anything with this show anymore.’ But our crew said, ‘No, we’re not going to let one person drag down all of our hard work.'”

For context, Adult Swim had cut ties with Roiland back in January because of a sexual assault case, and though the case was dropped eventually, the ties had been severed, and it had already been announced that the show would be moving forward without Roiland.

Despite Roiland voicing the two principal characters of Rick and Morty, it has been said that the series will be using someone else to do the same impression of the characters. Solar Opposites, another show starring Roiland, had decided to just completely change the voice and even gave Roiland’s character a British accent.

“This show is created by this team – this family of incredibly hardworking people, and we are going to push through and show the world that we aren’t going to miss a beat,” Levy continued, “The work that we’re doing across the board has only gotten better. When the new season comes out, we’ll focus on how amazing it all turned out.”

No release date has been set for the next season of Rick and Morty yet, but the show is expected to come back later this year on Adult Swim.

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We don’t have a story for the anime yet, but if you watch Rick and Morty, there’s a good chance we’re going to get the same sci-fi shenanigans with just an anime twist. While it does look like Rick, Morty, and the rest of the Smith family will be appearing in the show, it does seem that the series is also going to be introducing some new characters who are specific to the anime.

This isn’t the first time the series has spun-off into anime either. A few years back, we also got the short Rick and Morty vs. Genocider which probably gives us a good idea of what to expect from the show.

Despite the anime branding, the show does have a very unique look compared to other mainstream anime, and it does incorporate some character designs from the original series. With the original show having made some parodies of anime, it’s going to be interesting to see just how the anime is going to tell its story. Is it going for the same level of meta? Or will it rely solely on sci-fi/visual adventures?

No release date has been set for Rick and Morty: The Anime, but we should expect the show to premiere on Adult Swim sometime later this year.

In a teaser for the next season, the show explains how Korvo suddenly has a British accent. Watch this:

The clip is pretty much meta when it comes to the recast, with them simply brushing the recasting of Roiland under the rug. While some shows have some elaborate canon story to explain the change in voice, it’s completely on brand for Solar Opposites to just have the drastic change come out of a very simple sci-fi mishap.

It’s also hilarious that they managed to address the concept of flashbacks having a different voice by throwing in some silly sci-fi jargon and not explaining further.

With Rick and Morty expected to find someone who sounds like Roiland’s characters, it’s neat that Solar Opposites managed to swing in a completely different direction to full comedic effect. Let’s hope fans will warm up to this new voice of Korvo moving forward.

Here’s the official description for Solar Opposites:

Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome. Korvo (Dan Stevens) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love TV, junk food and fun stuff. “Solar Opposites” is executive produced by Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel. The series is produced by 20th Television Animation.

Catch Solar Opposites when Season 4 premieres on Hulu on Aug. 14.

As confirmed by Roiland online, the domestic case against him has been dismissed. He posts:

justice pic.twitter.com/1q9M4GA6MV

— Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) March 22, 2023

Despite the charges being dropped on Roiland, the online community is still questioning him about the DMs that he allegedly sent to underage women. If anything, fans thought that those were the real reason why Adult Swim dropped him, alongside the domestic abuse case.

It’s also worth noting that Adult Swim hasn’t made any kind of statement about Roiland as well. You’d think that they would want him back on the show after everything was cleared up, but I guess not everyone has James Gunn’s luck. As it stands, it seems that the network is still looking for someone to replace Roiland as the titular Rick and Morty. If anything, I think Solar Opposites is still fine with Roiland providing his voice for one of the lead characters; there’s also all the different games that Roiland has been working on like the recent High on Life where he voices a bunch of alien guns.

We don’t have a premiere date for the next season of Rick and Morty yet, but hopefully the show comes back later in the year.

As per an official announcement, Adult Swim has officially cut ties with Roiland. Here’s the post:

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— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) January 24, 2023

With Roiland being the voice of both titular characters Rick and Morty, the post confirming that the show will continue means that the part has to be recast. Even if they did manage to find someone who could do Roiland’s voices, his unique sense of humor, which was integral to the tone of the show, will ultimately be lost with his departure.

As of now, co-creator Dan Harmon is expected to stay on Rick and Morty as sole showrunner, but the show still has a crew which includes a lot of great artists and writers who all help bring Rick and Morty to life.

Who knows, James Gunn was able to come back to Marvel Studios after he was initially fired, so maybe there’s room for Roiland to return after this fiasco, but based on the tweets that have been coming out, it’s going to be a major uphill battle.

I wonder why Hulu hasn’t dropped him from Solar Opposites yet.

For now, Rick and Morty is expected to run until Season 10. We don’t have a release date yet, but with Roiland gone, we should expect some kind of delay with the series.

Watch the cold opening for Rick and Morty’s season 6 return here: 

The cold open starts out like your standard series recap, but Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland have decided to turn it into a plot point and have Rick and Morty trapped by some kind of narrative alien, and they go so far as to have them zip through the opening credits.

It’s a pretty fun way to get back into the show. If you’ve been following the series, you’ll know that Rick and Morty loves to play with narrative devices and incorporates them into the main story all the time. We always have the random snippet episodes like Interdimensional Cable and Morty’s Mind Blowers, and we also had several flashbacks with the parasites in Total Rickall.

We haven’t had that episode for the season yet, but with this thing that can alter narratives, I think the second part of Season Six will be starting with the snippet episode this time.

Hopefully the second part of the season will tackle the new villain that’s been introduced—the Rick that murdered Rick C-137’s family. So far his motivation is still a mystery, but we do know that he’s smarter than out main Rick. What could he be up to?

Rick and Morty 6 returns to HBO Max on Nov. 20.

Just in, we have a new announcement trailer for the return of Rick and Morty Season 6. Watch this:

With the first half of the season dealing with Rick losing his portal gun, the last episode has him fixing it, meaning that he and Morty can once again travel dimensions—and maybe this time, find the Rick that killed Rick Prime’s family—the very same Rick that’s supposed to be the grandfather of Morty Prime.

Though the series has been known for its episodic nature, I was kind of interested to see where the story would go with the concept that Rick has lost his portal gun. If anything, the writers were still able to keep things interesting, and we were able to get some very high-concept sci-fi episodes like Rick: A Mort Well Lived and Night Family.

Admittedly there are some fans online who have said that the show is apparently ‘dead’, and while not every episode has been perfect, the series has still been able to deliver some very interesting episodes that are very much in the vein of what makes Rick and Morty a unique show. Hopefully Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland have some more interesting explorations down the line.

Rick and Morty returns to HBO Max on Nov. 20.

Just in, Adult Swim has given us an inside look at the making of the Season 6 premiere episode, and how it kind of forces Rick, Morty, and somehow Jerry to relive their pasts and revisit their original realities. Check out the video here: 

Writer Albro Lundy, co-creator Dan Harmon, director Jacob Hair and showrunner Scott Marder dig into the season 6 premiere and discuss Morty’s return to the Cronenberged dimension, Rick’s grand mission, and the episode’s shocking reveal.

While the show has pretty much been keeping the dynamic the same between the Smith Family, it seems that the last season really did change the status quo, what with Rick losing his ability to portal anywhere and being faced once again with the elusive version of himself that killed his family.

What are Rick Prime’s motivations, and why did he choose Rick C-137 specifically for his scheme?

Even if the show is going into more serialized territory this time around, I think there’s still a lot of room for the writers to play around with the more conceptual episodes. We’ve done a lot of character work with the Smith family over the years, but I love how the show has been expanding roles for side characters like Rick’s car and Morty’s crush Jessica.

Catch the sixth season of Rick and Morty now streaming on HBO Max with new episodes every Sunday.

Check out the Rick and Morty season 6 trailer down here: 

We don’t have an official synopsis for the sixth season, but Rick and Morty has usually just been moderately serialized. A lot of the episodes don’t really have any connection to one another—save for a few callbacks here and there. If there was an overarching story, I guess the closest thing would be Evil Morty and his takedown of the Citadel of Ricks.

If anything, the season does look to have some callbacks to some older episodes. Space Beth does make a return (possibly in a more involved episode), and we also have Rick and Morty plugged into a console that looks pretty much the same as the Roy game from Blips and Chitz.

Besides that, we have some more crazy, never-before-seen moments in the trailer that all lines up with the show’s signature brand of humor. I am curious about the Jerry wearing a sweater and glasses. My guess is he’s an alternate, successful version of Jerry that exists in a reality where Rick isn’t a ‘god’. With Evil Morty destroying all those realities in the last season’s finale, the show really is opening up to more opportunities to test Rick’s ego.

Rick and Morty Season 6 premieres on Adult Swim and HBO Max on Sept. 04.

Just in, we have a new extended promo for the series that you can watch here:

We don’t have any new clips from the sixth season, but we do get some kind of tease that we’ll be following the thread of Evil Morty walking through his yellow portal.

Since we’ve only seen Rick as the ‘ultimate being’ of the show so far, the finale of the last season had Evil Morty destroying the Citadel of Ricks as well as the pocket of multiverses where Rick is the most powerful being in existence. This opens up the series to give us characters that can actually outsmart Rick and have us come back to an earlier version of the character which actually feared for his life and isn’t so smug about being better than everyone else.

While some consider the latter episodes of Rick and Morty to be a mixed bag, I think the show is still progressing in a tone that’s consistent to co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. The humor is still pretty spot-on, and the episodes are always creative.

I’m just hoping Harmon finally finds time to do that Community movie because how long does he plan to make everyone wait?

Rick and Morty 6 comes back to Adult Swim on Sept. 4.

As per the official announcement, Rick and Morty 6 premieres this coming September 4. Here’s the post complete with a jacked Rick and Morty:

Ripped and ready – Season 6 coming September 4th pic.twitter.com/RfvA1x5ELj

— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) July 27, 2022

The final season had a pretty huge shift in the status quo with ‘Evil Morty’ forcing the show’s original Rick and Morty to jump into a cosmos where Rick isn’t the ‘ultimate being.’ We don’t know exactly what that implies for the series, but it certainly opens the door for Rick to run into things that are more powerful than he is.

While Rick has turned into some kind of immortal god in the series, earlier seasons actually make him more vulnerable and fearing for his life. It’s kind of hard to remember how we got into this point where he’s written as an unkillable genius, but the premise had started feeling stale around the time when Rick had to go toe-to-toe with the US President.

With the September release, we should be expecting a trailer soon. My guess is sometime around August, but maybe Adult Swim was just waiting for the SDCC 2022 hype to die down. Maybe we could get something as soon as the end of this week.

Catch Rick and Morty 6 when it premieres Sept. 4.

Check the new trailer for Solar Opposites season 3 out:

Here’s the official description:

A family of aliens crash lands on Earth after their utopic home planet, Schlorp, is destroyed by an asteroid. While they were hoping to find an uninhabited world to repopulate, they must now learn to live among humans on our overpopulated planet and are divided on whether they love or hate their new life.

The series admittedly doesn’t have the same kind of meta storytelling that Rick and Morty is known for, but it does have that signature Justin Roiland humor and the art could pretty much exist in the same realm as Roiland’s more popular series.

With no premiere date for Rick and Morty 6 yet, this series should give audiences their raunchy sci-fi cartoon kick. Who knows, maybe when the series is done, we’ll finally get that announcement for the next season of Rick and Morty; after all, Roiland would think it best not to have both of his series fighting for attention in the spotlight.

That being said, Solar Opposites is still a pretty fun ride, and the characters all bounce off each other pretty well. Too bad it’s also outed Roiland for only being able to do two kinds of voices: His squeal-y voice (Morty, Lemongrab, Blendin Blandin) and his gruff voice (Rick, Korvo).

Solar Opposites return to Hulu this coming July 13.