The New ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Teaser Features A Massive Easter Egg
Rick and Morty Season Eight has its official release date, and the fans finally have their first look at the new season, just in time for Easter.
Today is April 1st, which is a special day for Rick and Morty fans who remember when Dan Harmon and Adult Swim pulled the greatest non-prank in sitcom history by surprise-dropping the first episode of Rick and Morty’s third season, “The Rickshank Rickdemption,” on April Fool’s Day 2017. This year’s Rick and Morty-themed April Fool’s festivities were significantly more bizarre than the Season Three celebration, as, this morning, Adult Swim posted a nearly 27-minute, live-action, fever-dreamlike theatrical reinterpretation of classic moments from the show’s first seven seasons called “Portal People” that was probably much funnier as a concept than it was around minute 17 when a geriatric troupe of community theater actors performed an awkward, clomping rendition of “The Rick Dance.”
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However, in addition to the release of “Portal People,” Adult Swim also blessed the Rick and Morty fandom with a sneak peek at the upcoming season that’s fittingly seasonal. With only a couple weeks left in Lent, Rick and Morty just showed off an absolutely enormous Easter egg to the envy of space Christians everywhere:
Presumably, Adult Swim thought it would be cheeky for Morty to declare, “It's a big Easter Egg!” halfway through a teaser that the Rick and Morty subreddit will undoubtedly dissect in psychotic detail in search for clues that will reveal more of this intergalactic Easter Bunny plot line that we’ll see play out later this Spring.
The addition of Space Christians with cross guns to the canon is certainly a fun one, and it makes us wonder whether the Laser Pope from last season’s religion-focused episode “Mort: Ragnarick” will come back for yet another round with Rick and Morty, having since escaped from the Pokeball prison Rick captured him in at the end of his last appearance.
While this year’s April Fool’s Day may not be on the level of the 2017 surprise drop and the half-hour surrealist play was barely more watchable than “Rickdependence Spray,” the teaser does have us excited for Rick and Morty’s return and the end of an uneventful offseason. And, hey, at least the April Fool’s posts showed us that Justin Roiland stans have stopped comment-spamming every Adult Swim YouTube video.
