The Theme Song[1] is the song that plays over the title sequence that occurs at the beginning of almost every episode of Rick and Morty. The intro shows scenes from episodes of the show as well as some other scenes that were made only for the intro. In Season 2, all bonus scenes besides the first and last were changed, and the scenes from Season 1 episodes were replaced with clips from Season 2 episodes.
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Seasons 1-3 Opening Credits Rick and Morty adult swim
Season 1[]
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Jerry shooting the Cronenbergs from the episode "Rick Potion No. 9".
- Jerry helping Morty with his homework and then his face falling off, revealing him to be a robot. Morty is seen coming into the room in the background, and Rick stops him and takes him the other way.
- Rick and Morty being chased by the evil clones of Beth, Jerry, and Summer from "Meeseeks and Destroy".
- Jerry trying to give birth to an alien baby who possessed his body, while Summer and Morty are holding some laser guns, waiting for it to come out.
- Hepatitis A confronting Morty and Annie from "Anatomy Park"
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title Screen.
Season 2[]
Note: In Total Rickall, Mr Poopybutthole appears in every scene.
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Morty, Jerry, Beth, and Summer eating dinner at the table and then Rick breaking through the floor in a drill machine, releasing giant mole people onto the surface.
- Rick shooting a raging Morty with an electric gun from "Look Who's Purging Now".
- Jerry trapped in some kind of water capsule and Rick releasing an alien monster in there with him.
- Summer, Rick, and Mr. Beauregard jumping on the bed and having a pillow fight from "Total Rickall".
- Rick and some alternate Ricks or clones of himself working in a spaceship. One of the Ricks gets electrocuted and killed. The other Ricks just blatantly acknowledge it and then continue to work without him.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title Screen.
Season 3[]
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- An Ass-Faced Morty watching porn on "RubHub", on the computer in his room. The video involves an Ass-Faced woman pulling her panties down, revealing two faces on her rear end. An Ass-Faced Beth then enters his room and Ass-Faced Morty quickly shuts his laptop and pretends to be asleep.
- Summer and a Cyborg Summer in a space station, hiding behind a wall, equipped with armor and weaponry, preparing to attack Rick and a Gromflomite, who are having a conversation in the hallway.
- Slick Morty, Fat Morty, Glasses Morty, and Lizard Morty all sneaking out of the school from "The Ricklantis Mixup".
- Rick and Morty tied down to the strings of a giant, grand piano, along with a few others. The other people's faces get smashed to a pulp, by the piano hammers and Rick fears his impending doom. This is the end credit scene of "Pickle Rick".
- Rick in a store, browsing through a section of Mortys, packaged like toy action figures. He decides between two Mortys, and when choosing one, he carelessly leaves the other behind, making him fall, face flat on the ground.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title Screen.
Season 4[]
Rick and Morty Season 4 Opening Sequence adult swim
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Rick falls in the atmosphere of a planet as a space battle against a giant mutated Morty.
- A strange small Terminator-esque creature falls through a blue portal from the ceiling and starts beating up a bunch of red-eyed snakes in the garage from "Rattlestar Ricklactica".
- Morty, hooked up to an IV, feels faint, and is pulled out of the reality he was in by a beat-up-looking Rick. Rick is then grabbed by a muscular man who starts punching him in the face from "Never Ricking Morty".
- A giant naked Morty appears out of the sea of an alien planet (among the same race as Shnoopy Bloopers) and is offered a chained up maiden as a sacrifice.
- Rick, Beth, Summer, and Morty run into the kitchen to escape a two-headed goose. Rick presses a switch on the refrigerator revealing a series of cool guns.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title screen.
Season 5[]
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Rick lights up a candle on a cake with the family at the dinner table. Their heads suddenly explode off their bodies and grow spider-like legs as they roam around the room.
- Summer, in the Space Cruiser, whacks several Mailboxians in the Mailboxian world with a baseball bat from "Amortycan Grickfitti".
- The family are wearing Voltron-esque suits at the dinner table as Rick presses a button on his watch, revealing several secret tunnels in the room as each member of the family enters one from "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion".
- Rick performs CPR on a dying Noob-Noob in a bloody room.
- Morty plays golf at a golf course as people closely watch. As Morty hits the ball into the hole with his club, people cheer as Morty smiles and waves at them.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title screen.
Season 6[]
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Rick and Summer fly away from a giant flying squirrel while wearing the suits with the same functionality as the squirrel's patagium. Both fly through a circular mountain while the squirrel gets its head stuck in it.
- Rick and Morty, both respectively dressed as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are standing on the street of what seems to be 1800's London, looking at Jack the Ripper holding a bloodied knife who tips off his hat to them from "Full Meta Jackrick".
- Summer, Beth and Space Beth walk among the crowd of people in what seems to be New York City holding a giant Rick balloon (referencing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade), while Morty dangles in the air in fear.
- Jerry reflects laser attacks while wearing a mech suit before flying off through a hole in the building he was in from "Analyze Piss".
- Morty is a stick of butter, being dropped on a frying pan with two eggs, slowly melting as he screams in horror.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title screen.
Season 7[]
- Rick and Morty running from some evil frog-like aliens. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Rick is picked up by a muscular Summer, and is lifted like a weight as Rick yells at her in the garage from "Wet Kuat Amortican Summer".
- Morty talks to Rick while carrying shovels near a grave until Ben Franklin's hand pierces out as Rick is delighted while Morty is shocked from "Rickfending Your Mort".
- Beth and Space Beth, wearing clown outfits, dance in sync with each other near a cupcake while an alien emperor along with its guards, Morty and Summer watch in a throne room.
- Rick and Morty, who have giant heads and tiny bodies, respectively ski and snowboard on a snowy mountain using their large tongues and avoiding explosions erupting from the ground.
- Jerry, who has a buff physique, is meditating and balancing himself on two chairs in a candle-lit room.
- Rick, Morty, and Summer being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding what is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- Title screen.
Trivia[]
- The eyeball and the "3+3=6" going across the screen is a reference to the opening of The Twilight Zone and the telephone booth in the opening of Doctor Who.
- In the episode "Total Rickall", the opening sequence was edited with Mr. Poopybutthole in all of the scenes.
- In the episode "Full Meta Jackrick", the opening sequence was edited with Rick and Morty hanging onto Previous Leon and flying through all of the scenes, which also now have sound effects playing alongside the theme.
- The opening sequence does not play in the episodes "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate", "The Ricklantis Mixup", "Rickmurai Jack" and "Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie". It initially did not play in the sneak peek airing of "The Rickshank Rickdemption", but was seen when the third season officially premiered.
- The episodes "Never Ricking Morty", "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation" and "Unmortricken" only show the title screen although the latter does feature a cold open.
- The episode "The Vat of Acid Episode" displays the episode title during the title screen.
- The website 'RubHub' is a reference to the popular pornography website, PornHub. The name, however, is a reference to the popular food site and app, Grubhub.
- Starting with Season 7, the "created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon" byline on the title screen has been removed, likely to distance the series from Roiland and downplay his involvement due to his termination. The byline has been moved to the very end of the closing credits, before the post-credit scene of the episode starts.
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