Oh jeez , it ’s been fierce since Rick and Morty end . The emptiness grows even worse when you regard season four wo n’t be arriving for “ like a really long meter , ” consort to Adult Swim . Where can you turn to fill the void , beyond interminable repeat of season one through three ? We have some suggestions , and thankfully none of them involveSzechuan Sauce .
1) Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures
These 16 claymation short ( which can be viewedon Adult Swim ’s website , and/or through less - than - official YouTube reposts ) run about 20 sec each and cleverly insert Rick and Morty into famous scene from classic science fabrication movies , with a few horror titles throw in there too ( The Thing , The Fly , Ex Machina , Poltergeist , etc . ) Much like the real show , they ’re over too soon , but it ’s still awe-inspiring to hear the character frame their own spin on famously repeatable line . “ reach the pod bay doors , Rick ! ” “ I ’m sorry , Morty … I ca n’t do that . ”
2) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
The combination of offbeat genius and inter - dimensional travel ( plus musical natural endowment ! ) is n’t unique to Rick and Morty . If you ’re suffering without a steady provision of raw episodes , this 1984 cult favourite — about a snappily - dressed scientist / rock star / daredevil who travels between dimensions and struggle malefic yet inept aliens with the assist of his ever - loyal Hong Kong Cavaliers — is well worth revisiting .
3) A Nightmare on Elm Street
The second sequence of Rick and Morty ’s first season , “ Lawnmower Dog , ” introduced maybe the not bad Freddy Krueger homage ( or “ legally - good knock - off of an ‘ 80s revulsion character with miniature swords for finger instead of knife ” ) the world has ever consider : Scary Terry . Once he ’s out of the kettle room and at home with his menage , Scary Terry demonstrate that he ’s not such a unfit guy after all , despite his fondness for calling everybody “ bitch . ” You ’ll have no such reveal with the veridical Freddy , of course , but it ’s the perfect season to rewatch 1984 ’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and remind yourself who Scary Terry stole his enactment from .
4) Futurama
That other animated science fiction show will shortly be uncommitted for streaming in its entirety on Hulu — that ’s 140 episodes and four movies , more than enough material to fire an incredibly epic binge . The Matt Groening showhits the stream distribution channel on October 16 , but if you do n’t have a Hulu subscription , you could catch Fry , Leela , Bender , and ship’s company in programming blocks on Mondays , Tuesdays , and Saturdayson Syfy starting November 11 .
5) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
In time of year three , installment two ( “ Rickmancing the Stone ” ) , Rick , Morty , and Summer have a Mad Max - style adventure , where Summer recover Latinian language ( briefly ) and Morty becomes the undisputed title-holder of something that suspiciously resemble the title fight back stadium in 1985 ’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome . ( There are Fury Road references , too , if you want to make it a double - feature film . ) Though it ’s mayhap the least - prise entry in the Mad Max series , Thunderdome has post - apocalyptic fashion for days and campily repeatable agate line — plus the obvious fillip of having Tina Turner play an magnificently evil , excellently costumed wasteland ruler .
6) Black Science
This Image Comics scifi serial publication set in motion in May 2014 . It ’s written by Rick Remender with artist Matteo Scalera and colorist Dean White , and follows former Anarchistic Order of Scientists member Grant McKay and his “ Dimensionauts ” as they hop-skip from dimension to dimension , discovering worlds across the deepest reach of space . There ’s obviously less snarky funniness afoot in these report than in Rick and Morty — McKay has yet to visit anything like , say , Buttworld — but the various exotic civilizations are vividly rendered in both school text and artwork .
7) Needful Things
It isn’tthe greatest Stephen King adaptation ever attempt , but this 1993 plastic film does have the great Max von Sydow as the oily curiosity - shop owner who fake the townsfolk of Castle Rock into topsy-turvydom and fury . The unholy Rick and Morty variant is sound by Alfred Molina in “ Something Ricked This Way Comes , ” whose dodging is thwarted not by Sheriff Ed Harris , but by Rick , who despitefully opens the competing shop class Curse Purge Plus ! and puts the Devil out of clientele by show all his sinister merchandise totally harmless .
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8) Airwolf
In case theJan - Michael Vincent referencein season two , sequence eight ( “ Interdimensional Cable 2 : Tempting Fate ” ) buy the farm over your straits — like it did Rick and Morty ’s head — here ’s your chance to catch up on the doer ’s well - sleep with credit . The tangible asterisk of this mid-1980s natural process show was the high - technical school helicopter that it ’s named for , but Vincent ( who dally a fender nominate Stringfellow “ String ” Hawke ) is its master human character : a daredevil , a classical violoncellist , a physicist , and a man disdainful of undergarments . It ’s sentence to Michael down your Vincents , y’ all .
9) Drink Like Rick
Despairing Rick and Morty fans ca n’t fulfill up for a game of Roy 2 : Dave at Blips and Chitz ( if only ) , and we ca n’t try out a Simple Rick ’s Wafer Cookie ( probably for the safe ) . But we can engage in one activity that Rick Sanchez does comfortably than most : consume John Barleycorn ! “ We ” being masses who are are 21 and old , of course ( depending on the country you ’re in . ) Show creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon have n’t been totally forthcoming about the contents of Rick ’s flaskful , but they did disgorge a niggling during the Rick and Morty panel at the 2016 San Diego Comic - Con . Harmon joke that it was “ the coolant droplets from the movie Event Horizon , ” which would be a bit hard for the rest of us to sample , but Roiland indicate it ’s top - shelf clobber : “ From daylight to day it could be a nice Ketel One , possibly some Grey Goose , little mo of Hennessy X.O. ” The latter will be you an dreadful lot of flurbos , but it ’s deserving it .
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