The multiverse is getting crazy again with Rick and Morty season 6. The latest season of the hit Adult Swim animated show will find the titular duo grappling with the consequences of the season 5 finale cliffhanger and getting back to their old-fashioned hijinks.

Justin Roiland, who co-created the show with Dan Harmon, leads the cast of Rick and Morty in the titular roles alongside Sarah Chalke, Spencer Grammer and Chris Parnell.

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In anticipation of the show's return, Screen Rant participated in a roundtable interview with stars Sarah Chalke and Chris Parnell to discuss Rick and Morty season 6, their first reactions to seeing the new scripts, why they still have fun making the series, and more.

Smith Family in Rick and Morty Season 6

Screen Rant: I’m excited to talk with you both, I don't know if you can tell from my background, but I love Rick and Morty. What was it like for you when you got the scripts for this season?

Sarah Chalke: Ever since really day one of working on Rick and Morty, it’s always exciting when you get the new episode in your inbox and get to read the script, because it has continuously surprised me as I read them. There’s no way, without being in the writer’s room, that you can imagine where the show’s gonna go and we don’t really have—we don’t get a heads up of like an arc of the season or what’s gonna happen with your character, where it’s gonna go.

Literally every time, it’s exciting and fun to read and then you can’t help but, as you’re reading it, picture this new multi-verse or this alien battle or all these characters and these sentient alien cloud Fart beings and then you create this world in your head of what it’s gonna look like. You kind of get to experience it twice, once when you read the script and then once when you get to see the episode, and we haven’t seen—I think you guys have seen more than us.

We haven’t seen anything from season 6 yet, except for tiny little clips if we’re doing a tweak on an episode and they’re coming and having us re-record like one or two lines; then they show us a little bit for context. Other than that, we haven’t seen it, so it was really fun. Some of the scripts from this season are my favorites that we’ve gotten to record, I think they’re really just so creative and so unique.

Chris Parnell: I agree. Every season, you get the scripts one at a time, of course, and so it’s exciting to get it and see where they’ve taken it and it’s never disappointing. The only disappointing thing is when I don’t have much to do in half the stuff, but other than that, it’s a treat.

CBR: Because of the multi-visual nature of the show, you’ve gone in to play so many different versions of the same character, like Sarah, especially this new season with Space Beth. What is it like finding different versions of the same character in the same voice? Is that a bit challenging as a performer? Is that exciting as a performer?

Sarah Chalke: I would say both. It’s exciting, it’s challenging, it’s such a different thing that you don’t often get to do in any other part. It’s the first time that I’ve gotten to do that, and so I think in any show that goes the distance and that you get to play for multiple seasons, that already feels like a gift because that’s already rare, and it allows you to just go further with the character and dig deeper into them and you find out more about them and you find out more about their backstory. So, to get to do that period is kind of rare, but then to—in this particular show, where you’re playing so many different versions of yourself, even if it was just Beth, but then the fact that now it’s Home Beth and Space Beth, that’s been a whole other experience, really fun and [we] record them completely separately.

So, in a record, we’ll do all of Home Beth, stop, go back, do all of Space Beth, because there is just a different flavor and a different texture to both of them and they’re coming from such a different place and there’s way more confidence with Space Beth. So even in a scene where it’s Space Beth and Home Beth going back and forth, we just separate the conversation and do them one at a time, so that piece of it’s been so fun, and I was so happy that Space Beth wasn’t just like one episode and that we got to continue with her.

Chris Parnell: Yeah, with Jerry, I don’t have to go back and forth like that, but any time Jerry is having to go to a different place emotionally, or like with the really dark apocalyptic scenes with Jerry, he’s in a very different place vocally, just because he’s been through so much and that’s fun and very satisfying to get to do.

Smith Family disgusted in Rick and Morty Season 6

Screen Rant: So, one of the things that has been really unique about following Rick and Morty’s journey is that this is a rare show where you have so many episodes ordered ahead of time. What has that been like for both of you coming in and knowing that you still have more to grow and more to explore with Beth and Jerry in future episodes?

Sarah Chalke: It’s so cool, I think especially for the writers, to have the rare advantage of knowing that information and the freedom that that gives them. Then for us, it was certainly very exciting to find out, because obviously this is a job that I would love to do forever and ever and ever, ‘till the end of time. Usually, you don’t have that, usually it’s season by season, you don’t find out that you’re gonna be doing 70 more episodes of something, so it was exciting.

I think that the writers are just continually surprising us of both the worlds that we get to go to and then also what gets to happen with each of our characters, specifically. I think that is kind of maybe even one of the reasons they were able to say, “Yeah, go and do 70 more,” because there’s just no confines to where the show can go. The options are completely limitless.

Chris Parnell: Yeah, and kind of on the back of what Sarah’s saying, creatively when you know that you’re going to be doing more episodes—this is mostly for the writers but for everybody—it gives you more confidence in it and it gives you a sense of being able to commit fully to breaking new stories and things like that. You’re not sitting around wondering, “Oh, are we gonna do more, I wanna keep going, but are they gonna keep paying us?”

When you get a vote of confidence like that, that says, “Yeah, here you go, you’re gonna be doing this for several more years at least,” it just helps—it’s just better for everybody, obviously, and especially creatively I think it makes a difference.

CBR: This one’s for Sarah, and it’s kind of based on how the last season played out, especially with Beth in regards to both Rick, Morty, Summer, and even Jerry. Beth has really got a very complex relationship with her family, especially lately as she gets more involved in the sci-fi antics. What has it been like to see that relationship that Beth has with everybody evolve?

Sarah Chalke: For sure, I think at the beginning when you read the pilot and you’re starting, you’re thinking, “Okay, so there’s gonna be Rick and Morty and they’re gonna be going off on the intergalactic wild adventures and you’re gonna be Home Beth and you’re gonna be at home and you are doing this certain thing,” then obviously, it’s far exceeded my expectations.

I think watching, as we find out and learn more about Beth, especially in “The ABCs of Beth,” where you realize why she is like she is and how much she’s actually like Rick, and you understand so much more about her relationship with her dad and that dynamic and therefore her relationship with Jerry. I think that was a really fun journey to play and to go on with Beth and to see how that dynamic has shifted even more as soon as Space Beth comes into the picture and her relationship with Rick then became so tied up in who’s the clone and then the power dynamics shift and how both Beths kind of took their power back by realizing, “Oh, we actually don’t care which one of us is the clone.”

I think one of the funnest parts of the show is no relationship is ever static, they’re constantly shifting, they’re constantly changing, and what got really fun was as the seasons went by, there was time to have like, “Oh, what’s happening now with Summer and Beth,” and we haven’t dived as deep into that one as then, we got to try. That continues in season 6, all of the dynamics between everyone is fun, when all the characters get to interact as a group and go on an adventure all together, it’s one of my favorite things that we get to do. Yeah, I think that is one of the coolest parts about being a part of a show that goes this long, is you really do get to dig deeper, and it’s certainly, in this show more than any other, their relationships are never static, it’s always changing.

Jerry and Rick in Rick and Morty Season 6

Screen Rant: Right now, we are still very much remote and a lot of people are recording voiceover work differently. What was that like for you both? Did you find that it affected your performance at all, having to produce this in a much different manner than prior seasons?

Chris Parnell: Well, it didn’t change too much for me, I think I might have recorded one episode from home here, but I mostly can go into a studio here in L.A. and you just put a mask on, you go in, you take it off when you record. The main thing that’s changed is instead of directors and people being in the booth over there, it’s just the engineer and then you’re seeing the director on an iPad usually, which is really actually nicer, in a way, because it’s more intimate. You can see each other better and you’re not trying to look over way back there to see somebody, so in that way, it’s been a bonus. I know it’s very different for Sarah.

Sarah Chalke: Yeah, when I first started recording, we had some pickups to do; it wasn’t a full episode. In like April 2020, so they were like, “Okay, just make something that will sound good in your head, the most acoustically-friendly environment.” So we took every duvet and pillow in my son’s lower bunkbed and then stacked all the Harry Potter books and then precariously balanced this little microphone on top and it was dark and I was like grabbing a candle and I was like, “That’s a terrible idea, I need a flashlight.”

Then, it was trickier, [because] I am terrified of technology, so I would just have a sweat right before every time, going like, “Oh, my god, I have all the things and the chargers, and the pieces are in place.” Then, it was like Groundhog’s Day for the sound engineer, every time he was like, “Okay, so we’re gonna drop down into Pro Tools and then click onto this” and he would send me the blah-blah-blah link and I was like, “Is there any way you could just take over everything that’s happening here?” So, Ricky comes in, takes over my screen, I don’t have to worry about it, because my biggest fear is that we were gonna record for like two hours and it was just gonna get lost into the ether.

We quickly went from that, which was not a long process, and did a deep dive into building your own sound studio and I was learning about all these different layers of insulation and walls that help, and then I was talked to someone who said, “You’re gonna get 90 percent of the way there, but unless you have somebody who really knows what they’re doing, you’re never gonna get the last 10 percent.” So, there’s a cool company in Portland who builds professional vocal booths, one of which is sitting right behind Chris, you can see right there, it comes in a crate and you put it together and it sounds great.

I think the piece that I miss, was seeing everybody right on the other side of the wall through the glass, you have that easier connection, but it actually works great. It just took a second to kind of get used to just being in the booth and there’s so much of voice work that you’re really working with the director, whether it was Dan and Justin in the beginning, and now Scott Marder, and they’re giving you feedback in real time over Zoom, so you can still have all of that while you record.

Rick and Morty Season 6 Synopsis

Rick with weapons in Rick and Morty Season 6

Rick and Morty is the Emmy® award-winning half-hour animated hit comedy series on Adult Swim that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Rick Sanchez is living with his daughter Beth’s family and constantly bringing her, his son-in-law Jerry, granddaughter Summer, and grandson Morty into intergalactic escapades.

It’s season six and Rick and Morty are back! Pick up where we left them, worse for wear and down on their luck. Will they manage to bounce back for more adventures? Or will they get swept up in an ocean of piss! Who knows?! Piss! Family! Intrigue! A bunch of dinosaurs! More piss! Another can't miss season of your favorite show.

Rick and Morty season 6 premieres on Adult Swim on September 4.