Dan Harmon Confirms "Rick and Morty" Has Not Been Renewed for Season 4 - Sensationalist Headlines

> Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon confirmed on Twitter that Cartoon Network has not renewed the show for a fourth season. > Replying to a fan that demanded Harmon finish writing the next season > of the show, he wrote that it’s hard to write a show that had not been > ordered. ‘Rick and Morty’ Has Not Been Renewed for Season 4

Any particular reason why? I though it was super popular, I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t want more

maybe contract disputes, but good god if they don't bring it back

I wasn't a fan of the last season, but I'm really surprised that it's not getting another season. Was the reception really that bad?

It's really not known, and with how adult swim is, it's hard to guess.

it was probably an oversight, it's a no brainer to be renewed that adult swim probably forgot the formality of actually telling anyone.

Season 3 was kind of a wreck in terms of production. They wanted to make more episodes but shit happened and they were not allowed to. Dan Harmon's own influence on the show became pretty awful when the episodes began to focus almost entirely on family drama partly due to Harmon's own disastrous marriage and following divorce. It was apparently kind of a mess to work on and I'm not surprised CN would want to wipe their hands clean of this mess and its associated fanbase when other popular cartoons under their wing aren't nearly as tough to make (and have loud but inoffensive fanbases).

Are they gonna do to Rick & Morty what they did to Metalocalypse and just end it when people still want more?

I'm pretty sure the co-creator and executive producer of a show would be one of the first people to know whether a show actually has a new season coming or not...

How the fuck would Dan Harmon of all people not get the memo that his show is being renewed?

Great, Permanent hiatus of most popular show until maybe few years.

I wouldn't do this yet, he didn't elaborate why. They could be negotiating for more money

Also Adult Swim won't give a damn about petitions, they've cancelled shows with large active fanbases and with creators willing to keep going just because they didn't want to renew them anymore.

That, or they could be trying to oust Harmon, because after all: I'm pretty sure this same thing happened with him on Community and other projects. IIRC, when Harmon got fired from Community I'm pretty sure the response to the season immediately following was rather positive, more so than the previous.

I think you're overestimating the impact of Rick and Morty's fanbase outside of internet communities, season 3 had better ratings and was better received than the previous two by the general public. If it isn't being renewed its likely because of the internal issues, not the shitty fanbase.

Rick and Morty's fanbase caused more scenes in public than most of the fanbases for other CN shows so they're immediately kind of a tough PR thing to handle. It's kind of hard to convince a restaurant chain that partnership with you is good when you also associate yourself with screeching idiots demanding sauce for a meme, disrupting your business.

I wouldn't bother with this if I were you. Metalocalypse fans tried the same thing, and we also had the support of big names in metal like Anthrax & James Hetfield. Got us nowhere and now we're on to the next rollercoaster that is Galaktikon.

i mean you'd have a fair point if mcdonald's didn't turn the shitfits into a profit in themselves, by making a podcast (?????) about how the sauce was impossible to get and spinning the story into something remotely resembling positivity. remember, negative press is still press.

Negative press is still press, but negative association does not lose its negativity in most circumstances. McDonalds may have used the craze around the sauce for PR but this doesn't mean they actively want to associate their brand with screeching manbabies.

You'd think, but Aqua Teen was cancelled and the creators only found out halfway through the final season from the animators.

The show and it's fanbase started falling apart as it went on anyways. It started out great, but Season 3 just jumped the shark with some of it's episodes (Pickle Rick was some forced meme shit, and the finale didn't feel like a season finale up until the last two minutes). As much as one more season would be nice because cliffhangers are terrible, but I won't be that torn up about possibly no S4 after the bad taste S3 left in my mouth.

To be honest I figured that pickle rick was just some throw away gag that too many people thought was meme material. Like hes in a pickle. That's the joke really, hes physically in a pickle and has to get himself out.

ya [AS] is notoriously bad at informing people of things. The last season of Venture Bros was cut short because they didn't find out their extra special counted towards their episode budget and ran out of episodes before they could finish the season

It stopped being a throwaway gag when they made t-shirts for it not even 24 hours after the episode came out

Maybe McDonalds can bankroll Season 4 and push out some more meme sauce to get a return on their investment

Adult Swim or the actual people behind Rick and Morty? Because Adult Swim might've been pushing for that sweet sweet merch money.

I actually thought that Pickle Rick was one of the best episodes of the season since it was retarded like episodes from the 1st season. I thought season 2 was the worst season because of all the forced drama it had and it got too up its own ass. Season 3 went back to what made season 1 good

please no

I also wonder if this has anything to do with him admitting to and apologizing for harassing a writer on community i'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet since it was pretty low key but considering how much the heat has been turned up for people who are found to be harassers, I wouldn't be surprised if that put Adult Swim on edge for a while

I wonder if the whole "controversy" of idiot Rick And Morty fans complaining how Adult Swim wasn't airing the season for free on the live stream(which is meant for original programming) is a factor. The several hundred thousand people that showed up over the course of the season made it clear that they want the show but don't want to pay for it.