{"id":18909,"date":"2026-07-27T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:08:56","slug":"all-8-seasons-of-rick-morty-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18909","title":{"rendered":"All 8 Seasons Of Rick &#038; Morty, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/rick-and-morty\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rick and Morty<\/strong><\/a><\/em> just wrapped up its ninth season, but where does it rank among the others? Since the beginning, <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> has been a perfect intersection between a relatable family sitcom like <em>The Simpsons<\/em> and a mind-bending science fiction series like <em>Star Trek<\/em> or <em>Doctor Who<\/em>. It uses hard sci-fi concepts like interdimensional travel to reflect grounded human emotions like nihilism and regret.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/most-rewatchable-episodes-of-rick-and-morty-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">great individual episodes of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em><\/a>, but they don\u2019t always add up to a great season. Some of the show\u2019s seasons are dragged down by weak installments, like season 4, while others have been practically flawless, like season 2.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-4\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">9 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 4<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rick and Morty's Rick and a dragon getting high on fumes.\" data-image-id=\"1802836\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rick-and-morty-alien-drugs-comic-3-3.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1400\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty much universally agreed that season 4 was <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s worst year. It got off to an exciting start with Morty\u2019s <em>Akira<\/em> storyline in \u201cEdge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat,\u201d and \u201cThe Vat of Acid Episode\u201d has been hailed as one of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s most devastating and thought-provoking installments.<\/p>\n<p>The season has some decent episodes, like \u201cRattlestar Ricklactica\u201d and \u201cOne Crew Over the Crewcoo\u2019s Morty,\u201d but it has a lot of bad ones. \u201cNever Ricking Morty\u201d is way too meta and inside-baseball, \u201cStar Mort Rickturn of the Jerri\u201d is a pretty uninspired <em>Star Wars<\/em> spoof, and the less said about the dragon episode, the better.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-7\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">8 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 7<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rick looks smug as Morty looks devastated sitting in the spaceship outside a spaghetti factory emblazoned with Morty's face in Rick and Morty season 7\" data-image-id=\"1750469\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rick-looks-smug-as-morty-looks-devastated-sitting-in-the-spaceship-outside-a-spaghetti-factory-emblazoned-with-morty-s-face-in-rick-and-morty-season-7.jpg\" width=\"1400\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>A lot of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s later seasons have been hit-and-miss, but season 7 is on another level. It was a roller-coaster of highs and lows, flitting between some of the show\u2019s all-time greatest episodes and some of its absolute worst. It kicked off with the series\u2019 weakest three-episode run, recycling stale sitcom tropes like interventions and rehashing previous storylines.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it started to pick up with the delightfully dark spaghetti episode, which featured a twisted metaphor for the ethics of meat consumption. From there, it switched between instant classics like the revenge episode \u201cUnmortricken\u201d and disappointing duds like \u201cRise of the Numbericons: The Movie,\u201d which dragged out a one-joke season 2 post-credits scene to a full episode.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-5\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">7 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 5<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rick and his crows on an adventure in Rick and Morty\" data-image-id=\"2220001\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/rick-and-his-crows-on-an-adventure-in-rick-and-morty.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1620\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>After the disappointment of season 4, <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> stopped being as consistently great as its near-flawless initial three-season run and settled into being very hit-and-miss. Season 5 has a couple of dull, uninspired episodes; \u201cAmortycan Grickfitti,\u201d for example, just rehashes the same Rick\/Jerry begrudging friendship storyline we\u2019ve seen a few times.<\/p>\n<p>It also has what is widely considered to be <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-and-morty-rickdependence-spray-backlash-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s worst (and certainly its grossest) episode, \u201cRickdependence Spray,\u201d<\/a> which has giant Morty sperm and the conception of a kaiju-sized \u201c<em>incest baby.<\/em>\u201d But it builds to a momentous two-part finale in which Rick and Morty go their separate ways and reluctantly come back together.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-8\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">6 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 8<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape mobile-optimized\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:50%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/><img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beth hitting Space Beth in the head with an object in Rick and Morty season 8, episode 10\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beth-hitting-space-beth-in-the-head-with-an-object-in-rick-and-morty-season-8-episode-10.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/>\n        <\/picture><figcaption style=\"display: none;\">Beth hitting Space Beth in the head with an object in Rick and Morty season 8, episode 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The problem with <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-morty-season-8-ai-filmmaking-black-mirror-hotel-reverie-comparison\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rick and Morty<\/em> season 8<\/a> is that it doesn\u2019t have any bad episodes, but it doesn\u2019t have any really great ones, either. Every episode in the season is really good, but none of them will be remembered among the all-time best installments of the show. All the other seasons, even the weakest ones, have at least one classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Last Temptation of Jerry\u201d is a great parody of werewolf movies. \u201cThe Rick, The Mort &amp; The Ugly\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-morty-season-8-episode-3-unforgiven-clint-eastwood-parody\/\" target=\"_blank\">a great parody of <em>Unforgiven<\/em><\/a> that explains what happened to the survivors of the Citadel. The season put a clever sci-fi twist on a wide range of satirical topics, from capitalist greed to A.I. filmmaking to the class divide.<\/p>\n<p>The closest the season came to greatness was in \u201cNomortland,\u201d the episode that sees <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-morty-season-8-rogue-jerrys-pathway-future-possiblities\/\" target=\"_blank\">rogue Jerrys wandering \u201cThe Road.\u201d<\/a> It gave Jerry a bit more depth and agency and elevated the character above his usual laughingstock status. If any season 8 episode becomes a classic, it\u2019ll be that one, but it doesn\u2019t quite reach the heights of a \u201cPickle Rick\u201d or a \u201cThat\u2019s Amorte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-6\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">5 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 6<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Night Family from Rick and Morty season 6 episode 4, &quot;Night Family&quot; \" data-image-id=\"1407268\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/night-family.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1920\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>The first half of season 6 is one of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s all-time greatest runs. The premiere episode, \u201cSolaricks,\u201d hits the reset button and sends Rick back to the universe where he lost Diane and became the soulless drunk he is today, and sends Morty back to the universe where he turned everyone into Cronenberg monsters and jumped ship.<\/p>\n<p>From there, it has a pitch-perfect <em>Die Hard<\/em> parody where Summer battles terrorists at Blips and Chitz; a \u201cSan Junipero\u201d love story between Beth and her clone; and a <em>Twilight Zone<\/em>-style horror satire about the class divide, in which Rick and the family delegate menial chores to their nighttime selves and unwittingly inspire an uprising.<\/p>\n<p>It gets a little shaky in its second half as Rick and Morty venture beyond the fourth wall and get into a virtue-signaling contest with a bunch of self-righteous dinosaurs. But the season finale does have a great twist that reveals the Rick who\u2019s been a lot kinder to Morty recently, is actually a robot created by the real Rick while he searches for his arch-nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-9\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">4 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 9<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape mobile-optimized\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/><img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rick and Morty _Jer Bud_ Beth, Jerry and Rick\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-_jer-bud_-beth-jerry-and-rick.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/>\n        <\/picture><figcaption style=\"display: none;\">Rick and Morty _Jer Bud_ Beth, Jerry and Rick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Season 9 brings back some of the magic of earlier seasons with a range of fun episodic adventures like &#8220;Ricks Days, Seven Nights,&#8221; and &#8220;Rickuiem Mort a Dream&#8221; delivering punchy, innovative, and clever narratives that make the season as a whole stand out. <\/p>\n<p>However, it was episodes like &#8220;Mortgully: The Last Rickforest,&#8221; and the season premiere, &#8220;There&#8217;s Something About Morty&#8221; that make this season truly great. It feels as though the new voice actors have fully settled into their roles, and that the flow is back in a way that suggests the show will continue to go from strength to strength in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-1\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">3 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 1<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Morty visiting Anatomy Park in the Rick and Morty episode &quot;Anatomy Park.&quot;\" data-image-id=\"1449106\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Morty-at-Anatomy-Park-in-Rick-and-Morty.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1920\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>The first season of <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> got the series off to a terrific start and set the bar really high. The pilot is a bit shaky \u2014 the creators hadn\u2019t fully figured out the characters\u2019 personalities or the idiosyncratic voice of the show yet \u2014 but the season quickly finds its footing with early classics like \u201cAnatomy Park\u201d and \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClose Rick-counters of the Rick Kind\u201d introduced the Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks. \u201cRixty Minutes\u201d introduced the fan-favorite concept of interdimensional cable (and the surprisingly improvisational tone of the voice acting). And <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-and-morty-cronenberg-world-potion-original-universe-funny\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRick Potion No. 9\u201d forced Rick and Morty to relocate<\/a> to a new reality in just the sixth episode of the series, promising that it would subvert expectations at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-3\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">2 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 3<span style=\"font-size:15px\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pickle Rick with two knife arms in Rick and Morty \" data-image-id=\"1370333\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pickle-Rick.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1400\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>The season 2 finale had left season 3 with a heck of a cliffhanger to resolve, and season 3 managed to tie up all the loose ends within one awesome, action-packed episode. That premiere episode got the season off to a promising start, and most of the episodes that followed represent <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> at its absolute best.<\/p>\n<p>It has <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rick-and-morty-pickle-episode-controversial-op-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">the iconic \u201cPickle Rick,\u201d<\/a> which became a fan-favorite from a brief trailer clip alone. It has \u201cThe Ricklantis Mixup,\u201d a <em>The Wire<\/em>-like examination of the broken institutions of the Citadel. It has \u201cMorty\u2019s Mind Blowers,\u201d a fun spin on the interdimensional cable-style anthology episodes. It has \u201cRest and Ricklaxation,\u201d an incisive study of Rick and Morty\u2019s toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing holding it back from being the best season of the show is its underwhelming finale episode, \u201cThe Rickchurian Mortydate,\u201d a soft parody of the Trump administration. The show usually puts a bleak sci-fi spin on its satirical subjects, but this episode just lazily reflects dysfunctional U.S. politics without any of that <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> magic.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"season-2\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">1 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Season 2<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rick, Morty, Summer, and Beth holding guns in Rick and Morty\" data-image-id=\"3302532\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/total-rickall-rick-and-morty.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 15px;\" width=\"1400\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s not uncommon for a show that starts out as strong as <em>Rick and Morty<\/em> to peak early on. Every season since season 2 has had both great episodes and not-so-great episodes, but season 2 is all bangers, all the time. Every episode deftly mixes intriguing sci-fi concepts like hive minds with relatable human concepts like codependent relationships.<\/p>\n<p>It kicks off with \u201cA Rickle in Time,\u201d a devilishly complex blend of quantum uncertainty and the human condition, and it builds to a game-changing ending when the Federation catches up to Rick in \u201cThe Wedding Squanchers.\u201d This season is truly <em><strong>Rick and Morty<\/strong><\/em> at its finest. The show will probably never be able to top its flawless sophomore outing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"display-card type-screen large\" data-show-streamrentbuy-links=\"true\" data-include-community-rating=\"true\" id=\"53cf-4e8b-917ea840fe33\">\n<div class=\"display-card-main-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"display-card-main-content\">\n<div class=\"display-card-content image-column\">\n<p>                        <!--    Rating block community and brand ratings --><br \/>\n                        <!--  Image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-img \" data-stnl-group-once=\"irUOjeSleE\">\n<div class=\"body-img portrait \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  img-article-square\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-poster.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;&quot;\">\n                                                                                                                                                            <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-poster.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=contain&amp;w=300&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-poster.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=contain&amp;w=300&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-poster.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=contain&amp;w=400&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.srcdn.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharedimages\/2026\/06\/rick-and-morty-poster.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=contain&amp;w=400&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" 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