50 Fun Facts About Hard Rick and Morty

What was the title of the Channel 101 short that Rick and Morty grew out of?

Roiland made it in 2006 after being fired from a show he found creatively stifling; Doc Brown and Marty McFly were the targets.

Which Adult Swim executive suggested that Rick should be Morty's grandfather?

Harmon wanted a family around the two voices, and Roiland had wanted just an eleven-minute segment.

How long did the first draft of the pilot take, and where was it written?

That office was on the Paramount Pictures lot, and it had no furniture yet.

Ryan Elder's theme song was originally written for which rejected Cartoon Network pilot by Roiland?

The episode Lawnmower Dog nods to it.

On what date did the pilot air on Adult Swim?

Season one ran eleven episodes and ended with Ricksy Business in April 2014.

Which was the first episode to carry a TV-MA rating, after season one's tamer TV-14?

The staff had been reluctant about the TV-14 tag from the start.

Who took over the voices of Rick and Morty from season seven?

Adult Swim cut ties with Justin Roiland in 2023 amid domestic abuse allegations; the season premiered on October 15, 2023.

In which year did the show win its first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program?

Pickle Rick won it; The Vat of Acid Episode took the second in 2020.

Who plays Jaguar, the prisoner sent to fight Pickle Rick?

Susan Sarandon voices the family therapist Dr. Wong in the same episode.

Who wrote Pickle Rick?

Anthony Chun directed it and it aired on August 6, 2017.

Albro Lundy co-wrote The Vat of Acid Episode with which writer, later of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

Morty goads Rick into building a save-point button, and the episode won the 2020 Emmy.

On what date did The Rickshank Rickdemption air unannounced as a holiday prank?

It replayed every half hour until midnight, and its Szechuan sauce gag sent McDonald's scrambling.

In The Rickshank Rickdemption, which alien enters Rick's mind to steal the portal gun's secret?

Nathan Fillion voiced him, and Rick fed him a fake origin story.

What is the Central Finite Curve, per Rickmurai Jack?

Rick built it along with the Council and the Citadel; Evil Morty burns the Citadel's population as fuel to escape it.

Evil Morty first appears in which episode, wearing an eyepatch to control his own grandfather?

He becomes Candidate Morty and then President Morty of the Citadel in The Ricklantis Mixup.

Who created Evil Morty?

His Rick is designated 79⊢⊇V, and he built the mind-control eyepatch to escape the Curve.

The Ricklantis Mixup is also known by what alternate title?

It is season three's seventh episode and follows the Citadel while the main pair go to Atlantis offscreen.

In Unmortricken, Rick Prime reveals he killed every universe's Diane using what?

He also sends Evil Morty's ally into it; C-137 had originally moved in with the Prime family purely to hunt him.

Who voices Rick's late wife Diane?

Wahlgren also voices Jessica; Diane died from a bomb sent through a portal as the family prepared to go for ice cream.

What is Morty's full name?

He is 14, and commentary for Solaricks designates him Morty Prime.

Why does Rick call his Morty the Mortiest Morty?

Most Mortys are just cloaking devices whose Morty waves cancel a Rick's genius waves.

Morty's half-alien son from Raising Gazorpazorp is named what?

Naruto is a different Morty offspring, born in Rickdependence Spray.

Solaricks reveals that the show's Jerry was swapped at which facility?

It is the daycare a Rick built because every Jerry is incapable of surviving off Earth; the swap happened in Mortynight Run.

Beth became pregnant with Summer at what age?

It derailed her plan to become a real surgeon, so she operates on horses instead.

Hot Rick reveals that Space Beth has what inside her?

Rick erased his own memory of which Beth is the clone, so neither Beth cares any more.

In Meeseeks and Destroy, what does Jerry ask his Meeseeks to do?

Beth's and Summer's Meeseeks succeed at once; Jerry's multiply and take a restaurant hostage.

Who voices Birdperson?

He is killed by his bride Tammy, rebuilt as Phoenixperson, and revived by Rick in Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort.

Tammy Gueterman turns out to be an undercover agent of what?

She kills Birdperson at their wedding in The Wedding Squanchers and later turns him into Phoenixperson.

Who voices Squanchy?

The SpongeBob actor squanches his way through the wedding episode; LaMarche is Abradolf Lincler and Daly is Krombopulos Michael.

Total Rickall's clip-show structure was inspired by the introduction of which TV character?

Buffy's sister appeared out of nowhere and nobody questioned it, just like the parasites' false memories.

Which character, revealed to be real after Beth shoots him in Total Rickall, has a wife named Amy?

Krombopulos Michael also has a wife called Amy, whose locket he kisses before his fatal mission.

Unity, the hive mind Rick once dated, has its main body voiced by whom?

Rick and Unity are among the few beings able to grasp the whole scope of the universe.

What does the family dog demand to be called after Rick's intelligence helmet awakens him?

Because his fur is pretty and white; Rob Paulsen voices him and his robot-suited dog army.

Revolio Clockberg Jr. is better known by what nickname, which Rick uses as a slur?

He betrays Rick and Morty to the police when they hide at his house after freeing Fart.

Who voices President Andre Curtis, star of the President Curtis spin-off?

He is the show's recurring US President and even fought Rick to a stalemate.

Which studio animated the first eight seasons?

Mercury Filmworks took over from season nine, with Lighthouse in Ireland sharing work since season seven.

How many new episodes did the May 2018 Cartoon Network deal order?

By November 2024 the show had been renewed through a twelfth season.

Who directed Rick and Morty: The Anime?

It grew out of anime shorts and was announced as a full spin-off on May 18, 2022.

Which spin-off followed the superhero team of Supernova, Vance Maximus and Noob Noob?

The ten-episode shorts series arrived in July 2022.

Justin Roiland co-created which Hulu sitcom with showrunner Mike McMahan?

He voiced Korvo until Hulu also cut ties with him in 2023.

Justin Roiland was born and raised in which California town?

He also founded Squanch Games, which he resigned from in 2023.

The show's co-creator and Community creator co-founded Channel 101 with whom?

Harmon also created Community and Krapopolis and hosted the Harmontown podcast.

Where was the show's Community-creating co-creator born?

January 3, 1973; his story circle writing method is baked into the show.

The Smith family's home is in a suburb outside which city?

Only Rick claims C-137 as his dimension; the rest of the household came from elsewhere after Rick Potion #9.

In which season one Rick and Morty episode does the family abandon a dimension where everyone became monsters?

The Prime Smiths left behind became the Cronenberg-world family Morty revisits in season three.

Which two networks, home to Roiland's two co-created shows, both dropped him in the same year?

He had voiced Rick, Morty and Korvo until then.

The couch gag of 'Mathlete's Feat' featured Rick and Morty. It closed which Simpsons season?

In the gag Rick crash-lands into the living room and kills the family, sending Morty on a mission to revive them.

In Space Jam: A New Legacy, Rick and Morty hand which Looney Tunes character back to LeBron James?

They claim to have experimented on him but were disgusted by the results, dropping him on the rocket's windshield.

What was the title of the first monthly issue of the Rick and Morty comic, launched in 2015?

Zac Gorman wrote and CJ Cannon drew the early issues, which followed a different timeline's Rick and Morty to avoid conflicting with the show.

Which UK broadcaster outbid Netflix to begin airing Rick and Morty from season four?

It was the public-service broadcaster's first pickup of the show, which had previously streamed on Netflix in the UK.