‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 Finale Set to Close Out the Season on Adult Swim This July
The end of ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 is now in sight, and fans tracking the countdown finally have a firm date to circle. 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.
After a summer of weekly episodes built around movie parody titles and standalone stories, the show is closing in on its tenth and final chapter of the season. ‘Field of Dreams’ is the tenth and final episode of the ninth season of ‘Rick and Morty,’ and it is the 91st episode of the series overall.
Field of Dreams Release Date and Time
The finale has a confirmed slot that fans can plan around well ahead of time. The episode is set to air Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 11 p.m., with a runtime of 30 minutes.
Details about what actually happens in the episode have started to surface, giving viewers a sense of where the season’s final stretch is headed. The finale follows Rick Sanchez arriving at his daughter’s doorstep after twenty years away, setting up a lab in the garage and taking his grandson on new adventures across the universe. The episode’s title also carries some meaning beyond the plot itself.
This is the first episode of the series to share the exact same title with a work from pop culture, referencing the 1989 film of the same name, and the episode’s logline mentions the titular character from the novel ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.’ That kind of layered reference has become something of a signature for this particular season.
Rick and Morty Season 9 Episode Schedule
Season 9 has stuck to a steady rhythm since its debut, which has made the countdown to the finale easier to track. ‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 premiered on May 24, 2026, on Adult Swim and will conclude its 10-episode season on July 26, 2026, with new episodes premiering on Adult Swim every Sunday.
The full episode lineup has taken the Smith family and Rick through a wide range of scenarios, each one built around a different genre or film reference. 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’ aired July 5, Episode 8 ‘Rickuiem Mort a Dream’ aired July 12, and Episode 9 ‘Salute Your Morts’ aired July 19.
That ninth episode gave viewers a look at the Smith family split into two storylines at once. The official synopsis for the episode reads that Morty and Summer go to camp while Beth and Jerry stay home alone, a simple premise on paper that splits the family into two separate storylines rather than sending the whole household on one shared adventure. With that episode behind the season, the finale is now the only entry left before Season 9 closes for good.
Where to Watch Rick and Morty Season 9
Live viewers have kept the same routine all season, and that pattern is expected to hold through the finale. Season 9 premiered on Adult Swim on May 24, 2026, with new episodes releasing weekly on Sundays at 11 p.m. Eastern time.
Streaming has looked a little different this year compared to previous seasons of the show. The season has been rolling out weekly on HBO Max and Hulu in the United States, a release pattern that began on June 15, 2026 for the season’s earlier episodes, which has been faster than what fans experienced in earlier seasons. International viewers have had it easier still, since HBO Max has carried new episodes just a single day after each Adult Swim premiere in Europe.
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That quicker turnaround has been a point of discussion among fans all season, and showrunner Scott Marder has weighed in on why the gap existed in the first place. Marder told TheWrap that he and the team have been pushing to shrink the window, saying he doesn’t know how it fell into that distribution model to begin with. The finale itself will follow the same next day streaming pattern once it airs on Adult Swim.
What Comes After the Rick and Morty Season 9 Finale
The end of this season is not close to the end of the show, and Adult Swim has already made that clear through its long term plans. Adult Swim renewed the series through a tenth season back in 2023 and then extended that order through a twelfth season in 2024, a commitment that keeps the show running through at least 2029. That security has changed the tone of this particular finale compared to seasons where the show’s future felt less certain.
There is also new programming arriving immediately after ‘Field of Dreams’ airs, extending the night’s lineup rather than closing it out entirely. On July 26, 2026, the season will officially end with the final episode premiering on Adult Swim, with the first episode of the ‘Rick and Morty’ spin off ‘President Curtis’ premiering right afterward at 11 30 p.m. Eastern. Fans looking to revisit the season once it wraps will also have a physical copy to look forward to, since a Blu-ray and DVD release has already been set for November 3, 2026.
Critical response to the season has leaned favorable overall as it heads into its final week. Reaction has been mixed but largely positive, with one review praising how no episode this season feels like a repeat of something from a previous run, while another noted that the standalone stories remain interesting and funny.
With Rick back at Beth’s door after two decades away, and a new spinoff waiting in the wings the same night, what do you want to see ‘Field of Dreams’ resolve before the credits roll on Season 9.
