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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 3 Release Date, Where to Watch
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Rick and Morty Season 8 is now officially underway. In this article you'll see when and where to watch episode 3. Titled The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly, it takes place in the rootin' tootin' Wild West. Here, Rick and Morty encounter numerous Western-themed Morty variants, including good, bad, and ugly versions. Here, in this twisted spaghetti western, our heroes will have to overcome their new gun-toting rivals. Read on below for the Rick and Morty Season 8 episode 3 release date, and the full season 8 episode schedule. Ian Cardoni and Sarah Chalk star in Rick and Morty Season 8 Ian Cardoni and Sarah Chalk star in Rick and Morty Season 8 Adult Swim Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 2 Release Date The third episode of Rick and Morty Season 8 is called The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly and it airs Sunday, Jun 8, 2025, 11pm EST on Adult Swim. It follows episode 2, Valkyrick, which sees Space Beth call her dad for a ride and kicking off all manner of extra-dimensional problems. Space Beth was introduced in the season 4 finale, Star Mort Rickturn of the Jed, after Rick clones his daughter Beth Smith (Sarah Chalke). You can see where her and Rick's often rocky relationship goes in episode 2, details of which you'll find below. Rick and Morty Season 8 Release Date Rick and Morty Season 8 premiered on 25th May 2025, airing at 11pm EST on Adult Swim. It came roughly a year and a half after the conclusion of season 7. Where to Watch Rick and Morty Season 8 Rick and Morty Season 8 is exclusive to Adult Swim, so you can catch all the new episodes there. That's not all. The show has also been greenlit for seasons 9 and 10, so Adult Swim is now the show's home. "It'll feel like a return to form and kind of like a 'we're back, baby' kind of feeling, and hopefully, season 9 will be that but, you know, even more so," co-creator Dan Harmon tells The Verge. "But it'll be because it's been a gradual process of just trying to get our wind in our sails again." Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode Schedule Check below for the full release dates of all ten episodes in Rick and Morty Season 8. • S8.E1: Summer of All Fears -Sun, May 25, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E2: Valkyrick - Sun, Jun 1, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E3: The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly - Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E4: The Last Temptation of Jerry - Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E5: Cryo Mort a Rickver - Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E6: The Curicksous Case of Bethjamin Button - Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E7: Ricker Than Fiction - Sun, Jul 6, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E8: Nomortland - Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E9: Morty Daddy - Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 11pm EST • S8.E10: Hot Rick - Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 11pm EST Rick and Morty Season 8 Cast Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden are back as the voices of Rick and Morty respectively. After Justin Roiland was axed from the show for alleged misconduct following season 6, season 8 marks the second time they're playing the characters. They're joining series mainstays Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer and Sarah Chalke. • Ian Cardoni - Rick • Harry Belden - Morty • Chris Parnell - Jerry Smith • Spencer Grammer - Summer Smith • Sarah Chalke - Beth Smith • Ice-T: Magma-Q • Keith David: The President • Peter Serafinowicz: Oxygen-S/Eight/Infinity Rick and Morty Season 8 Trailer Check out the latest trailer for Rick and Morty Season 8, featuring massive head mishaps, dramatic shootouts, wild riots, and more inter-dimensional travel.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Rick and Morty season 8 episode 1 explained: Rick's punishment backfires in a twisted matrix lesson
Rick and Morty is back, and it wasted no time getting weird. The season 8 opener, titled 'Summer of All Fears,' starts with Rick punishing Morty and Summer for not returning his phone charger. But his plan goes sideways when he accidentally leaves them stuck inside a matrix simulation for 17 long years. Inside the simulation, Morty ends up at war while Summer becomes a tech genius, both living full lives that break them mentally. Morty fights wars, Summer builds tech Season 8 Episode 1 of Rick and Morty spoilers without context. #rickAndMorty After they're pulled out of the simulation, Morty and Summer struggle to adjust to regular life. Seventeen years inside a fake world left them both with heavy emotional damage. Rick tries to brush it off, but Morty flips the table and traps Rick in a matrix of his own to show him how it feels. This twist gives Rick a taste of his own medicine and reminds viewers that his clever plans always come with consequences. Vampires, pottery and "Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub" Just when the episode seems over, the post-credits scene throws another curveball. Summer had joined a pottery class in Zante Fe, which turns out to be run by vampires feeding off young people. Beth shows up and ends up fighting them off, even tossing one into sunlight. This random but hilarious scene fits the show's love for surprise twists. Rick and Morty Season 8 is here The cherry on top? Rick finally brings back his famous catchphrase, 'Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub,' after escaping the matrix. It's a nostalgic nod for long-time fans and a reminder that the show, despite all its changes, still remembers its roots. 'Summer of All Fears' delivers a wild, emotional, and funny start to season 8—exactly what Rick and Morty fans love.
USA Today
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Rick and Morty season 8 is familiar high concept, stupid execution hijinks
Rick and Morty season 8 is familiar high concept, stupid execution hijinks Season eight of Rick and Morty is brand new. But you've seen it before. More than a decade into the Adult Swim staple's run, the cartoon is content to play the hits. The newest season doesn't cover new ground — at least not in the four episodes screened for reviewers this spring. Most are minor tweaks on familiar themes, winking acknowledgement to pop culture references and, as always, lots of high concept sci-fi themes applied to tremendously stupid situations. And, you know what? It works. Rick and Morty's eighth season won't inspire the awe and reverence of the early episodes. There's nothing especially original here — no Meeseeks boxes or four-dimensional timecops floating about. Each drills down into characters in ways we've already seen. Beth and Summer struggle to find common ground. Jerry is a punching bag who stumbles into power and squanders it. Morty and Rick clash over morals with disastrous results. We've seen all this before, right down to the brief drop-in to see what's happening at the Citadel of Ricks that sidelines our main characters to examine the center of the multiverse. As always, it's fun to see new variants on familiar folks (and bang-up fodder for the Pocket Mortys mobile game), but the notes are the same even if the name of the song has changed. Some Ricks are sheep. Others care more about their Mortys. The former is stronger than the latter — a continuation on a riff that could have been retired last season after the unceremonious death of Rick Prime. So instead of watching a rising young band dominate the charts, you're stuck with the state fair equivalent of a venerated group playing the classics with a few minor new wrinkles throughout the show. It's the cartoon version of your childhood bedroom, a soothing and familiar spot that isn't going to challenge you or make you think too hard about the world, but remains nice to revisit. Rick and Morty is leaning into its own nostalgia, either on purpose or because it's running low on ideas 70-plus episodes in. That's fine! You just have to come into Rick and Morty's new season understanding it's comfort food rather than a steak dinner. It's late-stage Scrubs or The Office after Idris Elba disappeared but before Steve Carell did. Want to see Morty's conscience screw up a mission? Season eight's got that. Want riffs on pop culture so obvious the show explicitly points them out? Yep. A healthy dose of body horror and pixelated old man nudity? That, too! This is all part of the natural circle of television. Rick and Morty isn't quite cannibalizing itself, but its circle has stopped expanding. It's turned inward in search of new stories. That's fine for standard laughs, but brutal for innovation and growth. And, sure, it's a cartoon. But Rick and Morty's greatest value was its ability to wrap smart ideas in crude paper and relate them to basic tenets of humanity. The four episodes I watched try to return to that well, but with nothing new to say there's nothing that lands even close to the simple truth of "nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, were all going to die. Come watch TV..." even if that quote is nearly a decade old and, yes, pretty much cribbed from Nietzsche to begin with. We're left with a hangout show. A funny one with a few interesting ideas but plenty that have been done before, either internally or elsewhere (including an Easter episode where we figure out how Jesus and eggs mix). It's fine. It's totally enjoyable television. It's got more of a shut-your-brain-off and watch feel than any of the seven seasons that enjoyed it, and there's value to that. It's just, well, extremely familiar.
Newsweek
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Cat Owners Get Lonely Pet a Kitten, but Now He Looks 'Sadder Than Ever'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. When a pet owner decided to bring home a new kitten to keep her lonely cat company, she never expected the emotional roller coaster that followed. In a viral TikTok video shared on Sunday under the username @wallkittys, the adult cat, Morty, sits at a distance watching the new kitten play, with a miserable expression on his face. He doesn't engage in play at all, but just looks at him with sadness. "I got my cat a cat but he looks sadder than ever," reads layover text in the clip. "I got him FOR YOU!" the poster continues in the caption. But then, right when she thought she made the wrong decision, the unexpected happened. In a video update shared on Thursday, the two felines can be seen cuddling, playing together, and doing everything the poster was hoping for when she brought the still-nameless kitten home to her cat. When your cat feels lonely and needs a companion to spend their days with, they will show signs, according to Pet MD. These signs include excessive clinginess, changes in their eating and sleeping habits, unusually destructive behavior, litter-box issues, and a shift in overall energy. If you decide to introduce a new cat into your home, it is important that you do it in a way that doesn't create animosity between them. Give your felines space at the start, keeping the new kitten in a separate room. The cats' introduction should start with scent swapping, rubbing the kitten with a small cloth to collect scent, then letting your older cat smell it. Rewarding them for any positive or neutral response is crucial at this stage. Once they are comfortable with the smell, you can introduce them face to face, strictly under your supervision. Do not let them interact alone until you are completely sure that they are happy with each other. You can read more about how to introduce a kitten to your new cat here. Stock image: A tabby cat looks bothered by a kitten behind him. Stock image: A tabby cat looks bothered by a kitten behind him. getty images The video quickly went viral on social media and has so far received over 4.2 million views and more than 734,000 likes on the platform. One user, Autumn, commented: "Give him some extra attention. he might think you're replacing him. we gave our cats extra attention when we got a kitten to cheer them up." Syd wrote: "I was sad, now I'm depressed." Alice added: "He probably thinks you are replacing him cause he was acting sad." Newsweek reached out to @wallkittys for comment via TikTok comments. We could not verify the details of the case. Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend, and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
South Wales Argus
22-04-2025
- South Wales Argus
Welsh corgi reunites with owners from Philippines in Newport
Morty, a Pembroke Welsh corgi, made the arduous journey with his owners, Aira Bautista and her husband Stefan, earlier this year. Aira says she and Stefan insisted they wouldn't move without their beloved Morty (Image: Aira Bautista) The couple decided to bring Morty with them when Aira was accepted onto a master's course at the University of Gloucestershire. Aira said: "Bringing Morty, our Pembroke Welsh corgi, from the Philippines to Wales was a long and challenging process, but it was all worth it to have him with us. "As his breed originated in Wales, it felt special to bring him back to his homeland." Morty, who became part of the couple's family during the pandemic in March 2021, was a non-negotiable part of their move to the UK, despite the objections of Aira's parents. Aira said: "My parents were actually against it at first because they said bringing him would cost a lot and so they just volunteered to take care of him in the Philippines. "But we insisted we wouldn't move without Morty." Morty was even part of the couple's wedding in July 2023, and is considered their "baby." Morty has been part of their family since 2021 (Image: Aira Bautista) The journey from Manila to London was no easy feat for Morty, who had to endure 24 hours of travel, including an eight-hour layover between flights. Aira said: "We prepared carefully, making sure he had all the necessary paperwork and requirements and was comfortable in his crate. "Watching him board the plane was tough, but we trusted the professionals handling his transport." Despite the long and tiring journey, Morty settled quickly into his new surroundings in the UK. The family are now enjoying and settling into life in the UK (Image: Aira Bautista) Aira added: "It was a relief to have him with us, and seeing him explore the Welsh countryside made the effort worthwhile. "The journey was long, but it was the first step in starting a new chapter together." Pet Trans Pro Philippines, the transport company that helped reunite the family in the UK, commented on Morty's journey on social media. They said: "After months of preparation, Morty the corgi has finally made it to London to reunite with his fur mum and fur dad. "Now, he's home where he truly belongs. "From warm hugs at the airport to cosy naps in his new home, Morty is settling in perfectly and enjoying every moment of his new life in the UK." Chantalle Coombes, Aira's cousin and a local of nearby Risca, added: "Morty has won hearts with his remarkable journey across continents. "We believe his story highlights the incredible bond between pets and their owners, and how even a small corgi can bring a big sense of homecoming." Aira says she and Stefan, who married in July 2023, consider Morty their 'baby' (Image: Aira Bautista) Morty's story is a reminder of the lengths that pet owners will go to keep their furry friends by their side. His journey from the Philippines to Wales is a testament to the love and commitment of his owners, Aira and Stefan. The couple are now enjoying their life in the UK with Morty, who is settling in perfectly and enjoying every moment of his new life.
