<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td_colspan="1"> </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> 10 </Td> <Td_colspan="1"> April 1, 2017 (2017 - 04 - 01) </Td> <Td> October 1, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 01) </Td> </Tr> <P> Following the conclusion of the third season, future seasons of the show had remained in question, with no announcement of the show's renewal or status of production . In March 2018, Harmon tweeted that he had not begun writing new episodes for season four, in part because Adult Swim had not ordered any new episodes yet nor had they picked up the show for a fourth season . As a reason for the delay, Harmon explained that the contract negotiations were more complicated, as compared to the previous seasons . Harmon and Roiland later clarified that the contract negotiations were prolonged because they wanted to have assurance that there would be many more seasons of the show, so that Harmon could dedicate himself full time to it; this would thus prevent him from having to split his attention between Rick and Morty and other projects to maintain his career . </P> <P> In May 2018, Adult Swim announced a long - term deal with the creators, ordering 70 new episodes of Rick and Morty . The episode count per season remains unknown, though Harmon had expressed his interest in creating more than ten episodes per season a few months earlier . Writer Ryan Ridley has said that he does not expect the fourth season to air any sooner than late 2019 . </P> <P> Rick and Morty was created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon . The duo first met at Channel 101, a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles co-founded by Harmon . At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series . Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004 . His pilots typically consisted of shock value--"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience . Nevertheless, Harmon took a liking to his humor and the two began collaborating . In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as intensely creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101 . The result was The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring parodies of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, characters from the Back to the Future film trilogy . In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization", Doc Smith urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex . The audience reacted to it wildly, and Roiland began creating more shorts involving the characters, which soon evolved beyond his original intentions and their obvious origin within the film from which it was culled . Harmon would later create and produce Community, an NBC sitcom, while Roiland would work primarily in voice acting for Disney's Fish Hooks and Cartoon Network's Adventure Time . </P>

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