For weeks, Rick and Morty fans have been facing different kind of existential dread than they're used to.

Because we could handle the show's cosmic nihilism, or even the two-year delay between Season 2 and 3. But speculations were running wild about the show never coming back at all, after co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland replied to fans asking about working on Season 4 with cryptic messages about it not being renewed yet.

Harmon tweeted about, not "[writing] a show that hasn’t been ordered by a network" yet. Roiland tweeted, "For everyone telling me to get back to work on Rick and Morty (season four) turn your attention to Turner. I’m waiting around just like you."

Was this the end of the wildly popular cultural phenomenon? Would we never find out what happened to Mr. Poopy Butthole's beautiful child?! The anxiety was real.

But we should've known better. Because today, Harmon and Roiland delivered the huge announcement about Rick and Morty's renewal... in the shower -- together. Naturally.

"I can't live in your shower anymore, like I always do," Roiland told Harmon. "I've gotta go back to work. We both do, Dan."

As Harmon promised in the Instagram video caption, "Nothing this big has ever been seen in my shower." Because the show isn't just renewed for a new season. Adult Swim has signed a long-term deal for 70 new episodes.

As usual, there's no word yet on release dates for Season 4, or even details on how those 70 episodes will be split up across the upcoming seasons after that. Let's just hope Mr. Poopy Butthole was exaggerating in the Season 3 finale when he said he'd see us "for Season 4 in like... a really long time!"

At the very least, fellow Squanchers, we can put Reddit conspiracy theories about the end of days for Rick and Morty to rest. The multiverse has been saved. For now.



