'Rick And Morty' Season 8 Episode Titles Revealed

What an unexpected development! Especially so soon after the clip release

It’s only been nine days since Adult Swim revealed the May 25 premiere date for the eighth season of its hit animated series Rick and Morty. Twelve minutes after getting my coverage of its second preview clip published, the network released a video unveiling the season’s ten episode titles. However, while last time titles were presented on episode-relevant backgrounds with brief but still present synopses, this set does not get synopses. The titles are revealed to animatics from their respective episodes, without dialogue.

The season kicks off with “Summer of All Fears”, an episode which will apparently have Morty and Summer hooked up to one of Rick’s machines. Morty’s miserable, Rick cocks one of his weapons, Summer panics, tried to escape, and trips. In “Valkyrick”, Beth, might be Space Beth, uses invisibility and intangibility against Gromflomites dressed in King’s Guard uniforms to not only get by them, but do so killing them. “The Rick, the Mort, and the Ugly” sees Rick and Morty crash in a corn field. They get something out of the trunk and might be refueling? “The Last Temptation of Jerry” is that Easter episode we’ve seen fully-produced the most of any of the season’s episodes, which might not seem like much but it’s still the easy leader. The animatic is a portion of the early preview clip with Jerry’s singing, so fans got to see the full scene and its barest bones in a matter of days apart from one another. A Jerry-centric episode in position for June 15 actually makes quite a bit of sense, seeing as it’s Father’s Day. Easter on Father’s Day, who could ask for more?

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“Cryo Mort a Rickver” is the episode the New York Comic-Con clip comes from, even covering the same ground, though this video is the excerpter. “The Curicksous Case Of Bethjamin Button” seems to follow both Beths’ lives in parallel. Earth Beth heads into work while Space Beth is busting alien criminals. “Ricker Than Fiction” sees a cactus shot to death surrounded by witnesses. It pulls out to Rick and Morty watching it on TV, which either tells us less about the episode…or sneaks in some Interdimensional Cable? “Nomortland” seems to send the family on a tropical vacation where even Rick is out of his lab coat…or it’s their house sitting out in the middle of the ocean. “Morty Daddy” looks like an alien influencer/social media-friendly luncheon, with Rick eating tentacle and Summer being served green on toast (the exact nature and context of the green is not discernible). The season finale “Hot Rick” has Jerry being hooked up to a different machine with a headpiece. Being the season finale not a lot is going to be revealed especially this far out.

Season eight of Rick and Morty is the second for Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden as Rick and Morty respectively after series co-creator and former star Justin Roiland was fired. The series also stars Sarah Chalke as Beth, Chris Parnell as Jerry and Spencer Grammer as Summer. It’s executive produced by other co-creator Dan Harmon and Scott Marder, who also serves as showrunner. With a typical 10-episode season, the season would therefore finish on July 27. The season is set to arrive on Max and Hulu on September 1, the Monday 5 weeks after.

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