The New Trailer for ‘Rick and Morty’ Season Eight Revealed Another Hint About the Upcoming, Belated Easter Episode
Just two days after Space Christ rose from the dead, Rick and Morty is showing off some more Easter Eggs.
This May 25th, Rick and Morty will return with all-new episodes for the eighth season of its current 12-season order and 100-year plan. Eighteen months after we last saw one-half of the titular sci-fi duo face his own worst hang-ups in the Season Seven finale “Fear No Mort,” Rick and Morty Season Eight will premiere with an episode titled “Summer of All Fears,” but the plot line we’re really curious to see play will come on June 15th with the Easter-focused episode “The Last Temptation of Jerry.”
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Every new promo for Rick and Morty Season Eight has heavily featured scenes that we can reasonably assume came from “The Last Temptation of Jerry,” an uncharacteristically religious plot line that features Rick and Morty’s search for the actual Easter Bunny as Space Christians pursue them across the universe. Well, in the new Season Eight official trailer, Adult Swim dropped some hints to Rick and Morty fans about why Rick and Morty are combing the cosmos in a literal Easter Egg hunt — and of course it’s because Jerry’s a fuck-up.
At the 47-second mark, we see a scratched-up Jerry gnawing at a head of lettuce with animalistic fervor while his concerned family looks on in horror. While the scene is not especially Easter-festive, this clip makes us believe that, in the Rick and Morty universe, not only is the Easter Bunny real, but it’s also capable of spreading a were-rabbit disease in the style of Wallace & Gromit.
It will be interesting to see whether the Easter Bunny ambushed Jerry and spread the lettuce-craving lycanthropy with a bite, or, as the title “The Last Temptation of Jerry” may suggest, if Jerry contracted the affliction by eating a suspicious Easter Egg or chocolate rabbit. Either way, it will be up to Rick and Morty to reverse the affects of the disease, lest the Smith family schlemiel turn permanently leporine.
“The Last Temptation of Jerry” could prove a promising development in the almost-friendship between Jerry and his disdainful father-in-law Rick that began to develop during last season's episode “The Jerrick Trap.” After combining their minds and consciousnesses in numerous Freaky Friday or fully Cronenberg-esque combinations, Jerry and Rick have had a subtle sense of mutual appreciation to which the universe’s smartest man would never willingly admit, even if he’s going to scour the galaxy for a cure to Jerry’s seasonal syndrome.