Rick and Morty season 4 release date addressed in the season 3 finale

In fairness, they've got a hell of a lot of writing and drawing to do

Incapable as viewers are in 2017 to enjoy the episodes they've just been served, Rick and Morty fans swiftly started discussing season 4 after season 3 finished on Adult Swim Sunday night.

The long wait for season 3 became a thing online earlier this year, creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland having had to push the new batch of episodes back, so they decided to get out in front of the season 4 hunger and pre-empt it in a post-credits scene.

The peerless Mr Poopybutthole sat down to dinner with his family in the closing seconds of season 3 finale episode "The Rickchurian Mortydate", declaring that season 4 would not arrive for a "really long time" and that he may have a long beard and grandkids by the time new instalments are finished.

Adult Swim doubled down on this on Twitter:

Harmon couldn't provide more elucidation as he's currently on a break from Twitter, explaining in August: "It's feeling like a genuine addiction level deal with me that is having actual negative effects on my real life demeanor/relationships, which is fucking fascinating and exactly the kind of thing I'd love to babble about on here and won't."

One thing is for sure, there definitely will be a Rick and Morty season 4 given what a huge and unlikely mainstream success the show has been.

Adult Swim, perhaps knowing that the show's fans are likely torrent capable anyway, live streamed the season 3 finale on its homepage, the episode seeing Rick in a showdown with the President.