5 ‘Rick and Morty’ Predictions Based on Today’s Season Eight Trailer
Rick and Morty Season Eight will premiere on May 25th, which gives us ample time to wildly speculate on the future of high-concept sci-fi rigamarole.
It’s been 16 months since the most recent episode of Rick and Morty aired, and although the wait has been a long one, at least this off-season was decidedly less eventful than the last one when the show’s most toxic fans melted down over the removal of a certain disgraced co-creator. Since we last saw Rick and Morty in the main series, we suffered through Rick and Morty: The Anime, Dan Harmon released absolutely zero promising updates on The Community Movie and both Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden enjoyed their quiet break between recording sessions with minimal hate mail.
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Then, this morning, Adult Swim released the newest official trailer for Rick and Morty Season Eight, a teaser that’s filled with hints and reveals for upcoming episode plot lines. Here are my predictions for what the new season will unveil ranging from explicit info dumps to wild speculation based on the below trailer, starting with…
We’re Getting A ‘Death Race 2000’ Pastiche/Parody
Is there a single more promising sentence in the English language than “Get your hands off my death race car”? If there is, I haven’t heard it. Clearly, someone in the Rick and Morty writers’ room is a fan of the 1975 David Carradine-starred dystopian sci-fi action movie Death Race 2000 — or, less likely, they ironically adore the 2008 Jason Statham-starred shitty remake Death Race.
We’re Finally Going to See Where Cowboy Rick and Morty Come From
When Morty Prime first visited The Citadel in the Season One episode “Close Rickcounters of the Rick Kind,” somehow, the most shocking sight he saw in the floating metropolis full of alternate versions of himself was a Rick and Morty team wearing cowboy hats. It’s possible that in the upcoming episode “The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly,” we finally get their origin story — git your mouth ‘round it.
Jerry Is Turning Into A Were-Rabbit
Typically, cartoon shows that do holiday episodes like to release that episode around that holiday, but Rick and Morty is so proud of this upcoming Easter-themed plot line that, not only are they heavily featuring it in every single teaser, but they’re dropping it long after the eggs have been found and the chocolate rabbit have been eaten, which might be how Jerry caught whatever lycanthropic virus is turning him lagomorphic.
Summer’s Biggest Fear Is A Shitty Haircut
This one requires a slightly bigger leap, but we know from the episode title announcement video that the machine featured in the clip of Summer sprinting away from her mother while rocking some Clinton-esque pixie cut that makes her look 45 years young is in the episode “The Summer of All Fears.” Wouldn’t it be just like the show’s most sarcastic, superficial and self-centered teen to fear showing up to school with a trash cut more than the real-life horrors Rick puts his family through on a weekly basis?
Space Beth Has A Clone’s Disease, And Also Is the Clone
There’s nothing more embarrassing than coughing during a stand-off, especially when the Federation agent pointing his guns at you is a bit of a germophobe. However, I predict that guns-akimbo bureaucratic robot has nothing to fear, as Space Beth, who has yet to be revealed as either the original or artificial version of Beth, has some sort of a lifespan-shortening replicant syndrome à la the oft-referenced Blade Runner.
