Adult Swim renews Rick and Morty through season 12, inching towards "a hundred years"

Per The A.V. Club, Adult Swim announced at New York Comic Con that it was renewing animated sci-fi comedy Rick and Morty for two more seasons, on top of the three seasons it has yet to deliver from the last time Adult Swim ordered more episodes. So there are five more seasons of Rick and Morty guaranteed to be coming our way in the future, bringing the grand minimum to 12.

That's a lot of seasons for any TV show, but Rick and Morty is a big draw for Adult Swim and clearly they think it worth the investment. For reference, the show is currently in between its seventh and eighth seasons. At the rate they put new seasons out, Adult Swim could ride this train through 2030!

And I'm for it. I fell off watching Rick and Morty around season 3, back when it was at the height of its cultural penetration; that was around the time when overzealous fans took a gag from the show way too far and freaked out at a freaked out at a McDonald's, embarrassing themselves, the show, and America. Rick and Morty became less ubiquitous after that, but it plugged on.

A while back I had an hour to kill and was looking for something to watch, realized they'd made a bunch of new seasons of Rick and Morty since I last thought to check, and wondered if the show was still any good. It is, more or less. The joke-per-minute ratio remains very high, the creators still love to put fun twists on classic sci-fi concepts, and Rick and Morty themselves — a caustic, aging super-genius and his hapless grandson — are still an entertaining pair.

And the quality hasn't fallen off significantly even deep into the show's run, although going for 12 seasons seems like it's tempting fate. Rick and Morty survived a recent scandal where Justin Roiland — the creator of the show as well as the voices of both Rick and Morty — was let go after domestic violence allegations against him came to light. Showrunning duties are now handled by Dan Harmon and Scott Marder while Rick and Morty are voiced by Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden respectively. I caught up with the show over a period of a couple months, and honestly I didn't notice any difference. If anything, the new blood may have done the show some good.

“Nobody wants a universe without Rick and Morty,” Harmon said at NYCC. “Fortunately, the list of places to go remains infinite.” Marder weighed in as well:

"I couldn’t be prouder to have taken this baton pass of a lifetime during Rick And Morty’s fourth season and get us to Season 10. Getting to go beyond that now is such a gift I can’t wait to give our fans. Rick And Morty– a hundred years – forever!"

Eh, good for them. The eighth season of Rick and Morty will likely air sometime in 2025.

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