This ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Teaser Satirizes the Justin Roiland Recast

It’s easy to insult beekeeping age.”

There’s something very telling about the fact that, almost immediately after Dan Harmon and his team are finally ready to start joking about the most controversial but ultimately fruitful recast in adult animation history.

In a Rick and Morty Season Eight teaser released this week, fans learned that Roiland isn’t the only useless asshole who can find himself suddenly and hilariously replaceable: 

As of yet, there’s still not a premiere date set for Rick and Morty Season Eight, though we do know that the show will return sometime in 2025. Back in October, Harmon revealed that he and the Rick and Morty writers’ room had just finished their “first ” of Season 10, as he prefers to plan out the show’s famously complex and carefully laid out plot lines many years in advance — though it does feel like this scene wasn’t yet in the chamber by the time the network booted Roiland back in January 2023.

It’s hard to read this teaser as anything besides a playful, tasteful side-eye about the show’s deadbeat ex-creator, who reportedly spent his last few seasons on Rick and Morty recording voice lines from his home studio and contributing nothing to the writing process. If anyone from the real-life Rick and Morty lore is a Jerry, it has to be Roiland — though they’re both responsible for the very existence of many of the show’s main characters, Jerry and Justin have since proven themselves to be pathetic, self-centered and, ultimately, disposable.

I shudder to think what horrors would be present in a Justin Roiland daycare — the Roilandboree would probably make “Rickdependence Spray” look like a PBS program.