Rick and Morty (season 6)

Rick and Morty
Season 6
Starring	Justin Roiland Chris Parnell Spencer Grammer Sarah Chalke
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	6
Release
Original network	Adult Swim
Original release	September 4, 2022 (2022-09-04) – present
Season chronology

The sixth season of the American adult animated television series Rick and Morty premiered on September 4, 2022. The season was ordered before the fourth season of the show finished airing, in May 2020. As of October 17, the season is in hiatus after the release of its sixth episode and will resume on November 20, 2022.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Rick and Morty characters

Main

• Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, the main characters of the series
• Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith, Morty's and Summer's father and Rick's son-in-law
• Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith, Morty's older sister and Rick's granddaughter
• Sarah Chalke as Beth Smith, Morty's and Summer's mother and Rick's daughter

Guest

• Kari Wahlgren as D.I.A.N.E., an AI made by Rick to impersonate his long deceased wife, Diane
• Peter Dinklage as Chans, the leader of a group of alien terrorists
• Keith David as United States President Curtis / The President, the President of the United States
• Lisa Kudrow as a technologically-advanced Tyrannosaurus
• Jason Mraz as a technologically-advanced Brachiosaurus

Episodes

See also: List of Rick and Morty episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
52	1	"Solaricks"	Jacob Hair	Albro Lundy	September 4, 2022 (2022-09-04)	0.66
Saved from the Citadel ruins by Space Beth, Rick attempts to reset the settings on his portal gun, but accidentally sends everyone who has traveled interdimensionally to their original dimensions. Morty returns to Cronenberg World from "Rick Potion #9", Jerry swaps places with "Season Two Jerry" because of the events of "Mortynight Run", and Rick is transported to his original universe where his wife Diane and his Beth were killed by Rick Prime, who is Morty's true grandfather. As Summer and both Beths travel back to the Citadel to establish an interdimensional beacon, Rick learns that Rick Prime was also transported by the reset. The original Jerry tells Morty that his Beth and Summer did not survive being frozen in "The Rickshank Rickdemption". Jerry abandons Morty in order to move on. Rick rescues Morty and takes him to confront Rick Prime but finds an elaborate trap. Morty convinces him to save the rest of the family instead. However, once the family picks up Jerry and returns home, they are confronted by Season Two Jerry, who releases an alien named Mr. Frundles that rapidly replicates and forces the family to relocate to a replacement dimension where their counterparts all died. Post-credits scene: Rick Prime lands back on Cronenberg World, where he kills Jerry Prime after rejecting an offer to team up to hunt down Rick and Morty.
53	2	"Rick: A Mort Well Lived"	Kyounghee Lim	Alex Rubens	September 11, 2022 (2022-09-11)	0.60
Morty becomes trapped in the virtual reality game Roy when Die Hard-inspired alien terrorists attack the Blips and Chitz arcade and cause a temporary power outage. His identity is split among the game's five billion NPCs. Rick enters the game, playing as the titular Roy, to try to convince the NPCs that they are part of Morty. Rick builds millions of spaceships, planning on taking all the fragments to the edge of the map, which will reset the game and allow Rick and Morty to exit. However, Rick faces resistance from many Morty fragments, some of whom go to war with each other. One individualistic fragment, Marta, negotiates with Rick—she will convince the other Morty fragments to leave on one unspoken condition. Meanwhile, Summer picks off the terrorists, led by Chans, one by one. Chans explains that all sapient species develop the Die Hard mythology and that he is an expert who has written several books about it. Summer reads one of Chans' books, then defeats him with a gun taped to her back just as Rick and Morty escape Roy. Rick pays a Blips and Chitz staffer to take the still-running Roy machine into storage, with Marta left behind inside. Post-credits scene: An alien stands outside a snow base wearing a sandwich board that says "I HATE EVERYBODY". Two other aliens watch from afar and debate whether the sign's message is too broad to provoke anyone.
54	3	"Bethic Twinstinct"	Douglas Einar Olsen	Anne Lane	September 18, 2022 (2022-09-18)	0.55
Space Beth comes back to celebrate Thanksgiving. She and Beth bond over a bottle of Venusian Wine which Space Beth had brought back from Venus. Eventually, their casual flirting develops into a full-on love affair. Summer and Morty notice, but try to ignore it by playing "realistic" alien video games. Rick deduces the affair and tells Beth that while he once did something similar, she must be careful about what this could do to the family. Summer and Morty become concerned about Jerry, who previously claimed he would kill himself if Beth cheated on him. When Space Beth admits to the affair to Jerry, he rolls up into a pillbug (an emotional defense system Rick built for him while they were drunk together). Both Beths ask Rick to erase their memories of the affair. Jerry overhears this and exits his pill bug form to stop the erasure, but says he is leaving Beth. Space Beth realizes that Jerry is only upset that the affair happened without his knowledge. With Jerry's full consent, he and the Beths have a threesome, to Summer's and Morty's disgust. After Space Beth leaves, Rick locks the Venusian Wine in an invisible cabinet and destroys its key-remote. Post-credits scene: Out of curiosity, Jerry visits the Jerryboree alone to seek an affair with another Jerry, but is stopped by the receptionist, who says that they have had issues with that very thing. Outside, Jerry runs into another Jerry. They share a quick kiss and part ways.
55	4	"Night Family"	Jacob Hair	Rob Schrab	September 25, 2022 (2022-09-25)	0.60
Rick obtains an alien device called a "somnambulator" that allows him to voluntarily sleepwalk, creating a "Night Person" who does tasks that he does not want to do in the daytime. The rest of the family create their own "night people" who exercise, learn new skills, and do household chores. Eventually, Night Summer leaves a note requesting that Rick rinse the dishes before she washes them, but Rick deliberately ignores the request. The escalating conflict between the Smiths and their "night family" over the dishes ends with Night Summer and her minions locking Rick out of his own technology, building a giant version of the somnambulator to maintain permanent control of their bodies, and enslaving their diurnal selves while the Night Family sleeps. The Smiths attempt to escape with the help of Night Jerry, whom Jerry had befriended by leaving handwritten notes for him, and a chaotic battle ensues as both sides fight for control by tranquilizing and waking each other. Night Summer offers a truce in exchange for Rick washing his dishes. Rick refuses, and as a result Summer allows his Night Person to retake control of his body. Post-credits scene: After months of living exorbitantly, the Night Family is left destitute. Rather than face the consequences, Night Rick simply destroys the somnambulator, returning Rick and the family to normal.
56	5	"Final DeSmithation"	Douglas Einar Olsen	Heather Anne Campbell	October 2, 2022 (2022-10-02)	0.58
Jerry receives a fortune cookie that says he is destined to have sex with his mother. Upon noticing how circumstances seem to be moving inexorably toward said fortune, he and Rick infiltrate the fortune cookie factory to investigate. There, they find that fortune cookies come from the excrement of a captive fate-altering alien called a Lockerean, and Jerry's fortune came from its imprisoned caretaker in an attempt to draw scrutiny. CEO Jennith Padrow-Chunt brings in a squad of armed fortune-boosted guards, alongside Jerry's mother to ensure he follows through with his fate, until Rick feeds Jerry another fortune cookie that cancels it out. Because people are immortal until their fortunes are fulfilled, Rick finds a way to make Padrow-Chunt the world's most successful businesswoman (her fate), thus rendering her vulnerable, and she and the caretaker are subsequently eaten by the alien. After they return home, it is revealed that Rick survived by eating a fortune that said "You'll make a new friend", which Jerry accidentally fulfills by thanking him and calling him a friend, much to Rick's chagrin. Post-credits scene: Morty, Summer and the Beths visit the zoo. At the gift shop, Morty sees an advertisement aimed at zebras, showing zoo patrons eating food intended for zebras, vomiting, and causing a murderous riot. He questions why they continue to display that video, before deducing they must be in a human zoo.
57	6	"Juricksic Mort"	Kyounghee Lim	Nick Rutherford	October 9, 2022 (2022-10-09)	0.54
An enlightened species of dinosaurs who are technologically-advanced arrive on Earth, stating that it is their former home and they travel between worlds to spread peace and technology. The world's governments grant them control and they soon make work obsolete and create a utopia. Many people, however, are dissatisfied with the lack of responsibility, including the President, who promises Rick that he may host the Academy Awards if he can get rid of the dinosaurs. Rick and Morty visit other planets that the dinosaurs have tended, finding that they all suffered asteroid impacts similar to the one that caused the Chicxulub crater. Rick announces to the world that dinosaurs have a rival species of homicidal sentient asteroids, one of which is headed for Earth. Reluctant to use violence even in self-defense and gaining negative reactions from the humans, the dinosaurs leave to draw the sentient asteroid away. Rick hosts the Oscars, but leaves when Summer tells him the dinosaurs are on Mars awaiting their demise. He travels to Mars and tells the dinosaurs that selflessness and selfishness are the same, prompting them to destroy the sentient asteroid after Rick refuses to leave. In thanks for Rick "saving" them, the dinosaurs fix the temporal rift much to the dismay of Rick. Sometime later, Rick returns home and repairs his portal gun, excitedly telling Morty their interdimensional adventures can resume. Post-credits scene: The dinosaurs move to a new, uninhabited planet and spend their time doing skateboarding tricks in the craters.
58	7	"Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation"	Unknown	Unknown	November 20, 2022 (2022-11-20)	N/A
59	8	"Full Meta Jackrick"	Unknown	Unknown	November 27, 2022 (2022-11-27)	N/A
60	9	"A Rick in King Mortur's Mort"	Unknown	Unknown	December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04)	N/A
61	10	"Analyze Piss"	Unknown	Unknown	December 11, 2022 (2022-12-11)	N/A

Production

Development

The season is a part of a long-term deal between show creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon and Adult Swim, confirming 70 new episodes would be released over an unspecified amount of seasons. Ten of those episodes were aired as season four, and ten more were aired as season five, leaving fifty episodes remaining. In February 2020, Roiland announced that the sixth season of Rick and Morty was underway.

Casting

Along with the season's announcement, regulars Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke were confirmed to return as the Smith family. The second episode of the season, "Rick: A Mort Well Lived", featured Peter Dinklage as a guest star.

Writing

Writing for the series continued over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Dan Harmon said that production was "pretty far along" by November 2020. In March 2021, Harmon confirmed that they were "very late" in the writing process.

Release

The season premiered on September 4, 2022 on Adult Swim.