It has been reported that Season 3 of the adult animated TV series “Rick and Morty” on Adult Swim will come out sometime in March of 2017.
During the Season 2 finale of “Rick and Morty” in September last year, Mr. Poopy Butthole said that Season 3 of the TV series would return to TV after about a year and a half. It has been six months already since the Season 2 finale and fans expect that the wait would just be down to 11 months.
Up until last month, it has been projected that the earliest that “Rick and Morty” Season 3 could air on Adult Swim is on March next year. But it seems that the TV series could actually air earlier than its schedule.
Reports going around seem to indicate that the production of “Rick and Morty” Season 3, which began in February, is ahead of its schedule and there is a possibility that it could actually air in December this year.
If that happens, a December premiere of Season 3 of “Rick and Morty” could be the best Christmas gift that fans can receive from showrunners Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, notes Slash Film.
Another good news for fans of “Rick and Morty” is that Season 3 shall have 14 episodes, which is to be the highest number for the show in three seasons.
The first season of “Rick and Morty” has 11 episodes while Season 2 had 10 episodes.
Happy with a seasonal episode
“Rick and Morty” has a seasonal episode tradition that bucks Rick and Morty’s typical structural rigorousness for improvisational bits pulled from TV networks across the multiverse, reports iDigital Times.
Co-creators Roiland and Harmon are not about to break the tradition and they have in fact already teased their preparatory work on the episode to be titled “Interdimensional Cable 3.”
The two showrunners actually allowed themselves to be cajoled into a bit of improvisation recently for Yahoo TV. It showed the two improvising commercials for Old Mayonnaise Emporium and Big Bad Bill’s House of Barking Dogs and Chainsaws. With his creative deft, Roiland immediately busts out new characters with his typical rambling bonhomie. Harmon mostly laughs on the video.
Fans describe the video as basically “Interdimensional Cable 2.1” and it also revealed something about the working relationship between Roiland and Harmon.
Roiland is the kind who dives into jokes. He is a gushing front of creativity who does not really care whether or not anything makes much sense. Harmon’s job is boxing out the best Roiland moments and giving them shape and structure.
This symbiotic relationship between the two showrunners has made “Rick and Morty” feel so freewheeling while adhering to the kind of dense plotting Harmon played on Community is the show’s greatest strength.
Pacing production with voice recordings
Season 3 of “Rick and Morty” is still months way from returning to the small screen but fans and viewers of the hit show were elated to know that production has already started
On February 18, “Rick and Morty” voice actors stepped into the booth to start recording the Season 3 premiere episode.
It was actually Mike McMahan, writer for “Rick and Morty” and the creator of the popular Twitter account TNG Season 8, who confirmed that recording for episode 301 of the TV series has already begun when he posted on Twitter on February 11 that the voice actors are already burning the midnight oil for the scheduled recording the following day.
McMahan is credited for writing the script of the first episode of “Rick and Morty” which only has a working title of episode 301.
Back in December last year, McMahan announced that he had already begun writing the first episode of the third season of “Rick and Morty.”