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 other scenes that were made only for the intro. The intro changes with different scenes each season except for the first and last scenes.
Sequence[]
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 #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 Concerto's giant and 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 Story Lord 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 Season 5 Intro
- 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 Season 6 Opening Sequence - adult swim
Note: In "Full Meta Jackrick", Rick, Morty, and Previous Leon fly through every scene and each scene has sound effects playing with the theme.
- 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 the 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[]
Season 7 Opening Credits - Rick and Morty - 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 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.
Season 8[]
Rick and Morty - Season 8 Show Open - 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.
- In a wrestling ring, Rick and Morty are giant hands with Space Beth and Beth's heads as their respective thumbs. They enter a thumb war with Rick and Morty linking themselves and Beth and Space Beth pushing each other while a crowd of feet with faces watch in the background.
- In the Entryway Room, Jerry and Mooch Jerry observe giant goat versions of him, Rick, Morty, and Summer eating and chewing on a plastic bin within a crack of the Smith Residence's wall from "Nomortland".
- In a white and gold hallway aboard the Plociff spaceship, a pointy-eared, filthy Makey Morty, wearing a grey uniform, beats up a pointy-eared Takey Rick, wearing a blue and white sailor uniform, and puts him down on the floor while Tibs and Spoogler watch them from a nearby hallway from "Cryo Mort a Rickver".
- In an aquatic-themed room with a messy bed and Rick's clothes on the floor, a shirtless Rick, wearing a blue speedo, and Mr. Nimbus look out the window to view an colorful underwater city with domes. Mr. Nimbus kisses Rick on the cheek and Rick smiles as they put their hands on each other's butts.
- In a parody of Tetris, the Smith Family are Tetrominos placed on the field and each other and a scared and sweating Jerry (as a green block) is about to be placed. Rick (as a blue block) is angrily screaming, Morty (as a yellow block) is horrified, Beth (as a red block) is surprised and Summer and Space Beth (as magenta and orange blocks) are bored.
- 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.
Other[]
This category is for versions of the theme song that appeared in various other Rick and Morty specials, shorts and media.
Rick and Morty 8-Bit Intro[]
Rick and Morty 8-Bit Intro - Adult Swim
Note: This short uses a chiptune version of the theme song.
- In outer space, various items float around as Rick and Morty are seen running from evil frog-like aliens and various villains from their past adventures. Rick opens a portal and escapes but Morty trips and is left behind and attacked.
- Jerry and Beth shoot Cronenbergs.
- Morty, Jerry, Beth, and Summer are then seen eating dinner at the table and then Rick breaking through the floor in a drill machine, releasing giant mole people onto the surface.
- Jerry is seen 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 along with Rick, Beth, and the Memory Parasites watching.
- Hepatitis A and the workers of Anatomy Park come out and confront Morty and Dr. Xenon Bloom within Anatomy Park.
- Rick, Morty, Summer, Birdperson, Squanchy, Snuffles, and Morty Jr. are shown being chased by a Cthulhu in Rick's space cruiser, while Summer is seen holding who is presumably the Cthulhu's baby.
- The title screen is shown with various characters appearing.
Bushworld Adventures[]
Bushworld Adventures Intro
Note: This short has an entirely different theme song that resembles the main one, with the music being intersected with chaotic humming.
- Reek and Mordi cook barbeque while Mordi watches with a confused expression.
- Mordi drives on a bicycle onto a ramp.
- A shirtless Reek fights a kangaroo in the middle of the desert.
- Reek and Mordi relax on a beach.
- Mordi takes a picture of Reek wearing glasses and holding ice cream in front of a "The Big Banana Coffs Harbour" sign.
- An enraged Beth throws plates at Jerry
- A pink, naked, hairless man sits on a bed in a broken-down room, depressed.
- Reek and Mordi drive away from an enlarged magpie.
- Title screen.
Rick and Morty Babies[]
Rick and Morty Babies - adult swim junior
Note: This short uses a version of the theme song performed with different instruments such as an xylophone.
- In space, two toy blocks, a laser-shooting rubber duck, a Atticus, and a foam robot arm are shown floating in space as baby versions of Rick and Morty run in a daycare. Rick vomits a green portal and jumps into it as Morty who is using a stroller gets attacked by two plush bear toys.
- Morty is then seen chewing on the Portal Gun making Rick cry on a tricycle.
- Rick is seen giving birth as baby versions of Summer, Mr. Poopybutthole, and a plush rabbit pirate doll watch as Jerry brings out an elderly version of Morty from Rick as a robot nurse watches.
- Morty is then seen disguised with a trench coat and pays for a rated R movie but an alien snake comes out from the trench coat and kills the robotic movie ticket salesman.
- A robot nurse confronts Morty with a pacifier and various items.
- Rick is then using Morty’s head as a ball and throwing him into a garbage bin.
- In a colorful world, Rick, Morty, and Summer are seen in a flying cardboard car as the latter is holding a baby alien. A Giant flying toy caterpillar is shown attacking them from behind and eating the screen.
- The logo is seen using balloons as the R balloon in Rick floats away.
Portal People[]
April Fools Show Open - Rick and Morty - adult swim
Note: This short uses a jazz version of the theme song.
- The stage's background resembles a starry space as various people in black suits carry a hourglass, eyeball, a sign that says "3+3=6", and a disembodied hand. More people in black suits show up dancing with blue ribbons and yellow hoops as one person wears a suit resembling a planet while spinning another one in their hand. The camera zooms into the planet as stage's background changes to a dark orange sky. Rick and Morty are then seen running from two frog aliens while people in black suits walk them holding rocks. A portal moves around on wheels as Rick jumps near it and escapes while Morty is left behind and attacked by the creatures next to a pile of bones and a skull.
- The Alien Gangsters point a gun at Rick and Morty while Rick points his Laser gun back to them from "The Vat of Acid Episode".
- Shleemypants, two dancers, and a creature hold each other's hands while performing ballet on stage from "A Rickle in Time".
- Rick performs The Rick Dance with multiple dancers and a robot on stage while pointing at the audience multiple times from "Ricksy Business".
- Mr. Nimbus looks up at the sky, dances on stage and shakes his hips to music from "Mort Dinner Rick Andre".
- The stage's background changes back to a starry space and visible smoke is screen along with the ground having visible decorations that resemble spikes. Rick, Morty, and Summer hold a Space Cruiser prop and walk away from Cthulhu who attempts to go near them. They successfully exit the stage on their left while hitting a spike prop as Cthulhu looks at the audience and the curtains close.
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", "Unmortricken" and "Summer of All Fears" only show the title screen although the latter two feature cold opens.
- 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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