Nobody said interdimensional travel would be easy. Nobody said it would be this complicated either, but here we are.
Rick and Morty arrived on Adult Swim in 2013 as a loose parody of Back to the Future and rapidly became something considerably more difficult to categorise: one of the most formally inventive, philosophically provocative and genuinely funny animated series in television history. Rick Sanchez is the smartest being in the universe and one of its least responsible, a scientist of infinite capability and considerable moral flexibility who drags his fourteen-year-old grandson Morty across dimensions, timelines and the fundamental fabric of reality for reasons that are usually partly scientific and partly because he needs a companion and won't admit it. Morty is anxious, earnest and persistently underestimated. Together they are, improbably, a perfect double act.
What Rick and Morty does better than almost any other animated series is hold two things simultaneously: genuine absurdist comedy about Council of Ricks and Cronenberg worlds and the Szechuan sauce and Mr Meeseeks, alongside a persistent, quietly serious examination of loneliness, purpose, family and what it costs to be as intelligent as Rick in a universe that is both infinite and indifferent. The jokes are excellent. The existential dread underneath them is real. The fans appreciate both in equal measure.
Our Rick and Morty collection brings together officially licensed figures, apparel, accessories, homeware and gifts — from Funko Pops and enamel pins to mugs, prints and collectibles for fans of the multiverse's most dysfunctional scientific partnership. For the viewer who watched the whole series and came out the other side with strong opinions about both the comedy and the philosophy.
Wubba lubba dub dub. And we mean that in the saddest possible way.
