We’ve all wanted to see Rick and Morty Season 3 so badly that we didn’t want to believe the one person who knew the truth about the premiere date: Mr. Poopy Butthole.
Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon told a Magic City Comic Con audience that Season 3 would be complete in time for a 2016 release date and we clung to that hope throughout that miserable poop of a year. But it did not come to pass, Rick and Morty Season 3 did not premiere.
With the prophecy broken, Rick and Morty fans searched in vain for augurs and omens, anything that might provide a clear answer. And lo, did fake premiere dates spread themselves over the face of this Earth, flourishing in the soil of our hopes. March, Feb. 26, Jan. 9 — we clung to every rumor.
But Rick and Morty producer and writer Ryan Ridley (he also voices a bunch of minor characters) urges us to return to the original bedrock and abandon the release date speculation that’s spread like a plague among us. We must trust, once again, in Mr. Poopy Butthole.
What did Mr. Poopy Butthole predict at the end of season two? The release of season three has never really been a mystery.
— Ryan Ridley (@ryanridley) February 2, 2017
So let us return to Mr. Poopy Butthole’s original prediction, made in the after credits sequence of the Season 2 finale, “The Wedding Squanchers.” “Tune in to Rick and Morty Season 3 in, like, a year and a half… or longer,” he told us.
“The Wedding Squanchers” first aired Oct. 4, 2015. A year and a half later is April 4. This is the closest we’re likely to get to a premiere window announcement from the Rick and Morty team.
Since April 4 is a Tuesday and Rick and Morty Season 2 aired on Sundays, April 2 or April 9 are currently our two best guesses for the Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere. So ignore all the dead-end guesses, because until Adult Swim offers an official premiere date, April 4 is our surest marker. But never forget Mr. Poopy Butthole’s warning: “or longer.”
