Adult Swim has just greenlit four new short spinoffs for Rick and Morty, Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, Robot Chicken, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Each show will be 8-10 episodes and “will be available across digital platforms, globally.”
As for the Rick and Morty spinoff, it will star the superhero group from season three, episode four, “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender.” You might remember this particular episode as the one where Rick gets a call from an intergalactic superhero group who needs help defeating a universe-ending villain.
You might also remember how Rick got blackout drunk and forgot that he’d created a Saw-style scenario that killed off The Vindicators one by one. Only Supernova and Noob-Noob the janitor survived.
From what Adult Swim reports, the spinoff will take place before The Vindicators were all murdered by a drunk super genius. You’ll be able to see Supernova, Vance Maximus, Million Ants, Crocubot, and Alan Rails “fight crime, avert genocides, and yuk it up without Rick and Morty.”
The show will be executive produced by Erica Rosbe Sarah Carbiener, who both co-wrote the original Vindicators episode for Rick and Morty. Don Harmon is also listed as executive producer along with the voice of Noob-Noob, Justin Roiland.
“We are thrilled to work in the Rick and Morty universe again, and these shorts are an incredible opportunity to explore what happens in the aftermath of the Vindicators saving (or destroying) worlds,” said Carbiener and Rosbe in a joint statement. “We’re so excited to show how this team of superheroes is plenty dysfunctional whether Rick’s around to have half of them murdered or not.”
No word on whether Adult Swim was able to convince Christian Slater to return as the voice of Vance Maximus, but here’s hoping.
Rick and Morty season five is set to air on Adult Swim starting June 20, so remember to mark your calendars.
