


Harmon’s description suggests the episode preview (up top) is a bit deceptive. Though the president was an ally in “Get Schwifty,” there were also indications of a sinister, amoral side to the Rick and Morty POTUS, particularly his apparent glee at Rick’s murderous snake watch trick.

David’s president proves an unlikely ally, even siding with Rick and Morty over his nuke-happy general, voiced by Kurtwood Smith, another genre movie legend ( Robocop, Fortress). president in Season 2 episode “Get Schwifty,” in which Rick and Morty avert the destruction of Earth by winning a galaxy-scale American Idol knockoff. Keith David ( The Thing, They Live, Adventure Time) previously voiced the U.S. Rick takes on President Keith David in the Rick and Morty Season 3 finale. And that’s the main story of that episode: Rick vs. “It’s Rick in a conflict with the president of the United States. More relevant is what Harmon reveals about the upcoming Season 3 finale, “The Rickchurian Mortydate.” Based on the aggregate coverage, the main takeaway from Entertainment Weekly’s new interview of Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon seems to be the possibility of a 14-episode Season 4.
