‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 Episode 7 Release Date and Time: ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ Has Fans Counting Down to the Release

It has been a chaotic, glorious summer with Rick Sanchez and the Smith family back on screens every Sunday night, and now the multiverse madness is heading into its final stretch. ‘Rick and Morty‘ Season 9 Episode 7, titled ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’, is set to air on July 5, 2026. The title alone has the internet buzzing, and for good reason.

This season has been leaning hard into movie parody titles while keeping the core ‘Rick and Morty’ madness intact, and ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ is a riff on the beloved animated film FernGully. With the back half of Season 9 now in view, episode seven arrives at exactly the right moment to keep momentum building toward what promises to be an unforgettable finale.

When ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ Drops on Adult Swim

New episodes of ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 premiere weekly on Sundays at 11:00 p.m. EST on Adult Swim. That means episode seven follows the same reliable Sunday night ritual the show has established throughout this entire run. For fans who have been marking their calendars, the wait is almost over.

‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 can be viewed weekly on the Cartoon Network’s late-night mature animation block, Adult Swim.

Viewers without a cable subscription can still catch the broadcast live through streaming services that carry the network, including Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV. Digital purchase options are also available the day after each episode airs.

For streaming subscribers waiting for HBO Max and Hulu availability, new episodes are released weekly on both platforms rather than arriving all at once. That means cord-cutters who missed the live Adult Swim premiere will not have to wait long before ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ lands on their platform of choice.

The Full Season 9 Episode Schedule

The complete Season 9 episode lineup runs as follows: Episode 1 ‘There’s Something About Morty’ aired May 24, Episode 2 ‘Ricks Days, Seven Nights’ aired May 31, Episode 3 ‘Rick Fu Hustle’ aired June 7, Episode 4 ‘A Ricker Runs Through It’ aired June 14, Episode 5 ‘Jer Bud’ aired June 21, Episode 6 ‘Erickerhead’ aired June 28, Episode 7 ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ airs July 5, Episode 8 ‘Rickuiem Mort a Dream’ airs July 12, Episode 9 ‘Salute Your Morts’ airs July 19, and Episode 10 ‘Field of Dreams’ closes things out on July 26.

The season will officially wrap up on July 26, 2026, with the finale episode ‘Field of Dreams’ premiering on Adult Swim, and a Blu-ray and DVD release has already been set for November 3, 2026. With three episodes still to come after ‘Mortgully’, the second half of this season is stacking up to be just as wild as the first.

The season is available to stream weekly on HBO Max throughout Europe starting May 25, 2026, meaning international fans are no longer being left behind, which marks a meaningful shift in how Adult Swim is handling global distribution for one of its flagship titles. That kind of geographic accessibility is a big deal for a fanbase that stretches well beyond North America.

What the Episode Title Tells Us

From the titles alone, Season 9 is getting riffs on everything from Kung Fu Hustle in ‘Rick Fu Hustle’ to FernGully in ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’, Eraserhead vibes in ‘Erickerhead’, and even Field of Dreams, with one episode forcing the duo to literally evolve or die in some alien ecosystem. The writing team is clearly having a field day with pop culture nostalgia this season, and ‘Mortgully’ might be the most creatively named entry of the bunch.

The show follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe. Filtered through the lens of a classic animated film about a rainforest fairy fighting to save her home, episode seven has enormous comedic potential baked right into its premise.

Fan speculation across social media has been swirling around what a Rick-and-Morty-style take on the FernGully universe might actually look like, with theories ranging from Rick destroying an alien forest ecosystem purely out of convenience to Morty unexpectedly siding with the woodland creatures against his grandfather. Online reactions to Season 9 so far have been notably positive, with many viewers calling it a return to form after feeling let down by earlier installments.

The Cast Bringing Season 9 to Life

The main voice cast is back, with Ian Cardoni stepping in as Rick and Harry Belden as Morty, while Sarah Chalke, Chris Parnell and Spencer Grammer round out the Smith family as Beth, Jerry, and Summer, respectively. Both Cardoni and Belden have now had two full seasons to fully inhabit the roles, and audience comfort with the new voices has grown considerably since their debut.

The new season continues the post-Justin Roiland era of the series, with both actors becoming more fully integrated into the roles and bringing back the intricate connection viewers had with the characters.

That sense of familiarity is something the creative team has been working hard to cement, and by all accounts Season 9 has helped solidify the transition for even the most skeptical fans.

Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are the twisted original creators of ‘Rick and Morty’, with Scott Marder currently acting as the series showrunner and executive producer. Marder’s fingerprints are all over the irreverent, self-aware energy of this season, and episode seven will be another chance to see how his creative vision is shaping the show’s second decade.

A Season Built for the Long Haul

In October 2024, the show was renewed for two more seasons up until Season 12, with 20 more episodes added to the overall order. That kind of long-term investment from the network signals a level of confidence in the franchise that gives every new episode added weight as part of something much larger.

Adult Swim renewed ‘Rick and Morty’ through Season 10 back in 2023, then through Season 12 in 2024, a run that would take the show through at least 2029. There is also a ‘President Curtis’ spinoff show slated to debut right after the Season 9 finale, which speaks to just how aggressively the universe is being expanded right now.

Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen weighed in on the creative strength of the series, saying that the show unit is pouring an absurd amount of talent and brilliance into every episode, and that from the first frame viewers will see great high-concept insanity with some of the best character writing ever done. With ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ arriving this Sunday, the show has another opportunity to prove exactly that.

Whether you are a FernGully devotee dying to see Rick tear apart everything that film held sacred, or simply a devoted fan riding out the countdown to July 5, we want to hear your wildest predictions for what ‘Mortgully: The Last Rickforest’ is actually going to put Rick and Morty through.