Here comes trouble (Picture: @RickandMorty/Twitter)

Rick and Morty fans are convinced they’ve uncovered a new detail in a throwback pic shared by the show’s bosses ahead of the hotly-anticipated fourth season.

It’s been two years since we said goodbye to our (anti)heroes and while we’ve seen a clip and couple of pics from the new Adult Swim series, we’re always desperate for more.

The old still from the cartoon sees a ‘thief’, ‘goth’ and ‘movie talker’ undergoing one of hairbrained Rick’s schemes involving tape, rope and a bunch of balloons.

‘We hereby send these unwantables skyward that they might be inhaled by the many heads, later to be sneezed back to us as better babies,’ the caption read.




Although fans have seen this image before way back in season two, many noticed that the thief looks suspiciously similar to Rick And Morty co-creator and executive producer Justin Roiland.

‘Wait???????? is this NEW art?? or have I watched Rick and Morty S1-3 100000000000000x never noticing Justin Roiland as the thief?’ asked one confused viewer.

Echoing a similar sentiment, another added: ‘@JustinRoiland what’s the meaning of adding yourself? Do you feel like you’ve stolen Rick and Morty from someone else?’

We hereby send these unwantables skyward that they might be inhaled by the many heads, later to be sneezed back to us as better babies. pic.twitter.com/WtjXmkAOYO — Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) August 12, 2019

Bosses have been givinig us little dribs and drabs of season four over the past few week and last treated us to two pictures in July.

The spoiler snaps showed Rick fighting some robo-crocs and channelling his inner Theresa May as he runs through a field of alien wheat.

However, after Mr Poopybutthole warned us in the finale of season three that it would be a long wait until the next load of episodes dropped, it looks like we might not have such a big gap in the future, after Adult Swim commissioned 70 new episodes.

‘We’re super excited that, for the first time ever, we’re locked in, we know what the future is, we have job security,’ co-creator Justin Roiland said.

Our first look at series four (Picture: Adult Swim)

But where’s Morty (Picture: Adult Swim)

‘[Co-creator Dan] Harmon is in great spirits, we have a great writers’ room.

‘We want the episodes to stay good, but we do also want to try to turn them around a little quicker now that we have this big order, I think it gives us the ability to be faster.

‘We’re not going to do these long breaks, these chasms between seasons anymore.’

We’re pleased to *burp* hear it!

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