Rick and Morty is an American animated television series for adults created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon in 2013 for Adult Swim, also aired on Cartoon Network. The series follows the misadventures of a scientist, Rick Sanchez, and his easily influenced grandson, Morty, who transition between domestic life and space, time, and intergalactic travel.

The series originated from a scrappy short animated by Roiland for the Channel 101 film festival called Doc and Mharti, a parody of the main leads from Back to the Future. When Harmon was fired by NBC in 2013 over arguments between him and the executives of the series he had created, Community, he and Roiland developed a series based on characters already created by Roiland.