Killer couch cushions are among the foes awaiting the Rick and Morty gang in season nine.
Adult Swim teased the new 10-episode season for the animated series with a trailer that can be seen below and is exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter. After airing its season eight finale in July, Rick and Morty is set to launch season nine on May 24.
“Why is the furniture attacking us?” Beth, who is voiced by Sarah Chalke, asks dad Rick (Ian Cardoni) in the footage as the family battles a beast comprised of couch cushions.
Another moment shows Rick pulling grandson Morty (Harry Belden) out of bed and exclaiming, “Rise and shine, motherfucker! It’s time to train.” Chris Parnell and Spencer Grammer round out the core voice cast.
The trailer ends with voiceover narration poking fun at the long-running nature of the sci-fi series that launched back in 2013: “Anything is possible when everything is possible: 100 years of Rick and Morty continues with a new season.”
This leads Rick to quip, “Season nine, baby. Only an indefinite number more.” Of course, this is a slight exaggeration: After its latest pickup, Rick and Morty has been renewed through season 12.
A scene from season nine of Rick and Morty.
Adult Swim
Among season eight’s buzzier moments were the cameos from filmmakers James Gunn and Zack Snyder, who voiced themselves. The Emmy-winning series has ranked as basic cable’s most-watched comedy over several seasons.
The trailer launch kicks off an exciting stretch for Rick and Morty fans. Last year, Adult Swim announced that spinoff series President Curtis, centering on voice actor Keith David’s titular character, would be on its way.
During an interview last year with THR timed to the end of season eight, Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon acknowledged that it can be tough to provide viewers with as much serialized storytelling as they might want. Some fans had noted on social media that season eight appeared to have more of an emphasis on episodic adventures rather than expanding on the bigger picture.
“My part of it is, I’ll just always insist on the modular, one-off thing,” Harmon said at the time. “That is harder to pull off and therefore requires more energy. And serialization is a glorious, wonderful thing that happens automatically to a show that people love. So it doesn’t really need help. But we do have younger, smarter people on the staff whose very job is to remember which Rick is from which dimension. They make great, strong advocates for fantastic and canonical mythical episodes.”
