The fifth season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim. Season five officially began on December 12, 2010 on Adult Swim, with Robot Chicken's DP Christmas Special,[3] and will contain a total of twenty episodes. The first of the 20 episodes are set to air the first of the official Season 5 episodes on January 9 and the second group of episodes are set to air sometime around October 2011.
Adult Swim宣布《瑞克和莫蒂》推出一部衍生剧:日本动画风的《Rick and Morty: The Anime》,佐野隆史(《神之塔》)执导,已获预订整季10集,被描述为一个关于“这个很棒的家庭”的新故事,独立于主线之外,但会包括《瑞克和莫蒂》的主题和事件。
佐野隆史此前打造过两部《瑞克和莫蒂》的衍生短片:《瑞克和莫蒂对抗种族灭绝者》和《瑞克和莫蒂外传姐姐遇见上帝》。