Rick and Morty Season 9 Release Date Set for May With First-Look Images

Rick and Morty is warping successful for Season 9 with a premiere day of May 24, 2026.

Adult Swim announced its long-running sci-fi drama amusement volition officially instrumentality with a caller batch of episodes starting this summer. The update comes with a reminder that the bid continues to rake successful viewers, promising to premiere successful much than 170 countries successful 42 languages astatine 11 p.m. ET/PT. New episodes volition beryllium disposable to acquisition digitally the time pursuing their premiere, with a United States streaming day acceptable for August 31.

“I cognize it’s my occupation to accidental that this amusement conscionable keeps topping itself, but it besides has the payment of being true,” Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen said of Rick and Morty Season 9. “It’s benignant of scary what this amusement portion is doing play implicit season—just pouring an absurd magnitude of endowment and brilliance into these episodes. From the archetypal frame, you’re going to spot large high‑concept insanity with immoderate of the champion quality penning ever done. Again, it’s my occupation to accidental that, but it’s besides true.”

Rick and Morty primitively premiered successful 2013 and took infamously agelong breaks betwixt seasons passim the 2010s. That mostly changed with the motorboat of Season 5 successful 2021, with Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth, and Jerry returning for much multiversal shenanigans with caller batches of episodes arriving astatine a quicker gait since.

That brings america to Season 9 this year. Although its occurrence number hasn’t been confirmed rather yet, past seasons typically tally for 10 episodes earlier coming to an end. You tin spot a postulation of first-look images from caller episodes of Rick and Morty below.

“Rick and Morty is back, baby!” an authoritative statement says. “Season Nine is each certified bangers. No AI slop! Just Grade A integrated slop, made by existent humans with existent quality traits similar backmost hairsbreadth and cysts. Please watch, oregon we'll person neglected our families for nothing.”

While we hold for much updates from Adult Swim, you tin work astir wherefore we gave Rick and Morty Season 8 a 7/10. You tin besides larn astir the precocious announced President Curtis spinoff amusement starring Keith David.

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