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Rick and Morty Are Fanboys Living the Franchise: Season 8 Ep 7 Preview

"RoboTrees" fanboys Rick and Morty find themselves living the franchise in this clip from Season 8 Episode 7, "Ricker than Fiction."

With only hours to go until the next episode of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty Season 8, we're getting a clearer picture of what S08E07: "Ricker Than Fiction" is all about. Last time around, the cold open found our dimension-hopping duo not too happy with what director and EP James Gunn and Warner Bros. Discovery have done with their favorite film franchise, "RoboTrees" (Rick taking a piss on the television was a dead giveaway) and teasing a trip to Warner Bros to express their frustrations in exactly the kind of calm and civilized manner that we would expect from two fanboys angry that their franchise isn't doing what it wants them to do. Based on the clip released on Sunday morning, it appears Rick and Morty are getting a chance to apply a "hands-on" approach to writing their "RoboTrees" script.

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 7: "Ricker than Fiction" Preview

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 7: "Ricker than Fiction" – Rick and Morty write the next instalment of their favourite movie franchise.

Dan Harmon on Knowing When to Say, "When"

As series co-creator Dan Harmon and Showrunner Scott Marder have previously shared, the team is already hammering out the tenth season, but there's always a bigger question that hovers over a show once it breaks past a fifth season. How much longer can we expect the Emmy Award-winning animated series to be gracing our screens? Based on what Harmon had to share heading into the current season, it sounds like our dimension-hopping duo won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

"It's almost like out of our hands. My feeling is that if we started bothering, if we went like, 'Let's take a bow and finish on top!' I think the unspoken answer to that would be like, 'On top of what? You're already like wallpaper,' a fixture. I think our job is, to us, playing the game properly is to just see if we can set a record for distance and find joy every single episode. Because I don't know what ribbon we would get from what committee for having the restraint and bravery to after all we've done and been through to go like in season 13 [we're done]," Harmon shared with Cinemablend.

That said, Harmon added that they would know when the time would be to pull the plug on the show. "I can say look, if it's fatigue, if the show starts to suck and we go like, 'Look, the show sucks now, let's stop making it.' That would be a different kind of 'Fine. Great. Here's your award for honesty and self-awareness,' or whatever," he shared. "But, I think that in a world where like hit shows that have a plan for an ending and does a graceful, wonderful ending, I mean, those shows get to, you know, they, they're like eight episodes long, 6 to 2 seasons."

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