Rick and Morty

2013 • TMDB 8.7 • 9 seasons • Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

Overview

Rick Sanchez is a genius scientist, an alcoholic and — by his own account — the smartest being in the multiverse. Morty Smith is his anxious, good-hearted teenage grandson. Armed with a portal gun and a spaceship cobbled together from junk, Rick drags Morty across dimensions, alien planets and alternate timelines, where a simple errand can escalate into an intergalactic war before breakfast. Back home in the suburbs, the rest of the Smith family — daughter Beth, son-in-law Jerry and granddaughter Summer — try to keep their lives together while the universe keeps barging through the garage.

Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland for Adult Swim, Rick and Morty is a rare animated comedy that is simultaneously a razor-sharp sci-fi satire, a bleak family drama and a joke machine firing at a hundred jokes per minute. Its best episodes swing from absurd premises — a theme park built inside a human body, a heist parody that eats itself — to genuinely moving stories about Rick’s loneliness and Morty’s growing moral courage. Over nine seasons it has built a dense mythology of citadels, evil counterparts and cosmic bureaucracy without ever losing the anarchic spirit that made it a phenomenon.

Creator and Main Cast

Rick and Morty was created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. The voice cast includes Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith, Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith and Sarah Chalke as Beth Smith. Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith were originally voiced by co-creator Justin Roiland, with Ian Cardoni later taking over as the voice of Rick.

Seasons Snapshot

• Season 1 (2013) — 11 episodes.
• Season 2 (2015) — 10 episodes.
• Season 3 (2017) — 10 episodes.
• Season 4 (2019) — 10 episodes.
• Season 5 (2021) — 10 episodes.
• Season 6 (2022) — 10 episodes.
• Season 7 (2023) — 10 episodes.
• Season 8 (2025) — 10 episodes.
• Season 9 (2026) — 10 episodes, concluding with “Field of Dreams” on July 26, 2026.

Why Watch Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty rewards every kind of viewer. Come for the one-liners and the gleefully disgusting alien designs, stay for the serialization: long-running jokes pay off seasons later, background gags become major plot points, and the show’s bleakest questions — about free will, meaning and whether Rick can ever change — are argued with more honesty than most prestige dramas manage. It is also endlessly rewatchable; a throwaway line in season one becomes a punchline in season nine. Few shows are this funny, this inventive and this willing to break your heart in the same twenty-two minutes.

Trailer

Watch the official trailer on YouTube: “Rick and Morty” Season 1 Promos | Starburns Industries.

Where to Watch

In the US, Rick and Morty streams on Hulu, HBO Max and the HBO Max Amazon Channel (nine seasons, HD), YouTube TV (eight seasons, HD) and Adult Swim. It is also available to buy from Fandango at Home, Amazon Video and the Apple TV Store (nine seasons, HD). See the JustWatch US page for Rick and Morty for the latest options.