'Rick and Morty' season 3 release date, plot spoilers: Summer goes to Harvard; Rick amputates Morty's legs

(Facebook/RickandMorty)"Rick and Morty" season 3 is said to air at the latter part of 2016.

Summer will be attending college while "Rick and Morty" will explore the hilarious (and disgusting) means of amputating the latter's legs in the upcoming season of the animated science fiction sitcom.

Recently, Adult Swim released a four-minute video of a mini-episode of the third installment. In the clip, showrunners Ryan Ridley, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon and Spencer Grammer are shown sitting side by side, doing an improvisation of an episode titled "Summer's Future." Apparently, the teen is getting confused on whether to choose Harvard or Yale for college. Summer also does not know what she wants to major in and she wants her grandfather to help her out in her final choice.

Rick, however, is busy with his experiment regarding Morty's legs. While at the garage, he is about to inject Morty with 120 cc of feces in the knees to cut off his limbs. As Summer gets interviewed by Harvard's Dean of Admissions, he asks her what her grandfather's thoughts are about knees and poop. In perfect timing, Rick arrives at the dean's office via a portal, announcing that he succeeded in amputating Morty's legs. The dean awards Summer a full scholarship and Morty zooms around with a jetpack strapped in his stumps.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed recently that "Rick and Morty" season 3 will air at the end of 2016 and not this August. Harmon explained during the San Diego Comic-Con the reason behind the delay. According to him (as per Cinema Blend), it was mainly because he and his team were very meticulous in creating each episode. He promised though that the viewers would not be disappointed with what they have in store for the new installment.

"I watched the thumbnail animatic of Episode 304 and I was ready to move forward with it and Ryan [Ridley] said 'we're not satisfied with it' and we were already behind schedule. They have to bear the brunt of the schedule, they have to work weekends. They are the ones that wanted to do it. There's a weird higher calling there and it's not an endless perfectionism because you know when something finally clicks and you go 'this is a good episode of TV,'" Harmon elaborated.

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