For Rick and Morty followers, this April Idiot’s Day is leaving them feeling something however silly. Grownup Swim commemorated the day of pranks with a particular midnight reside stream recreating a few of the grownup animated collection’s biggest moments, like Pickle Rick and the enduring intro, by a 22-minute comedic anthology stage manufacturing. Nevertheless, that was solely the start of the shock, because the occasion ended with an official launch date and first have a look at Season 8, teasing a few of the zany new adventures the titular duo will go on subsequent. New episodes will start airing on Could 25 at 11 p.m. ET/PT earlier than the whole run arrives on streaming within the U.S. on September 1.

Up to now, little has been shared about what precisely Rick and Morty Season 8 will entail after Season 7’s emotional finale, and the official description does not have a lot to go on both. The logline reads, “Rick and Morty is again for Season Eight! Life has that means once more! Something is feasible! Look out for adventures with Summer time, Jerry, Beth, and the opposite Beth. Perhaps Butter Bot will get a brand new activity? No matter occurs, you’ll be able to’t hold Rick and Morty down for lengthy. Folks have tried!” Nevertheless, the first-look footage, together with a couple of photos, offers a greater impression of the place the characters are heading subsequent, as they uncover a wierd, multicolored eggshell and discover a spot adorned with bunny masks all over the place. Whereas the collection nonetheless has loads of mysteries to resolve, there can even be time for sillier adventures like a cryoship heist gone mistaken.

“We hope you loved our theater interpretations of Rick and Morty, particularly in case you are well-off/impulsive and now wish to again a Broadway model of the present,” Grownup Swim president Michael Ouweleen stated in an official assertion concerning the announcement. “For the remainder of you, we’re glad you now know when Season Eight is beginning so you have got time to stretch and get free as a result of the workforce has but once more made a very nice season of tv.” Ian Cardoi and Harry Belden might be again within the saddle for his or her second season because the dynamic sci-fi comedy duo, with Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell, and Spencer Grammer as soon as once more rounding out the forged. Collection co-creator Dan Harmon additionally stays hooked up as an government producer alongside showrunner Scott Marder.

‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Is Far From the Finish for the Collection

Rick & Morty enters Season 8 nonetheless using excessive with two Emmy wins for Excellent Animated Collection to its title, 4 seasons because the #1 rated comedy throughout all of cable tv, and a spin-off anime that, whereas not effectively obtained, stands as a testomony to the present’s international presence. With Season 7 nonetheless standing as Grownup Swim’s #1 program upon its launch, the community handed Harmon’s hit one other renewal at New York Comedian-Con final 12 months that can hold the present round for one more two seasons on high of its unique 70-episode megadeal in 2018. Following the Season 7 finale, government producer Steve Levy shared a glimpse of the present’s long-term future in an interview with Collider’s Carly Lane, teasing how the workforce has plans for Morty to begin getting extra introspective following his plunge into the Concern Gap. This would possibly not simply be the case for Season 8 however for the remainder of the present’s run:

“This can be a good query. As a lot as Rick is kind of having to do the onerous work of studying extra about himself, or no less than come face-to-face with who he’s and what he needs, we’ve not actually skilled that an excessive amount of, the deep dive with Morty, and that is actually the primary time Morty is self-reflective on a deeper stage on his relationship with Rick and what he needs and what’s actual. That is simply the primary domino to fall in that exploration.”

Rick and Morty Season 8 premieres on Could 25 on Grownup Swim. Episodes might be obtainable to buy digitally the day after they air, and all episodes might be obtainable to stream on September 1. Try the first-look teaser within the participant beneath, photos within the gallery above, and rewatch the live-stream on the Grownup Swim YouTube channel for those who missed out.