Rick and Morty
2013–Adult SwimAnimation
A montage of adventures that mostly never happened, re-cut every season out of clips from episodes that do not exist.
Rick and Morty opens with a main title sequence of 33 seconds.
At 33 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Adult Swim in 2013, when Samurai Jack, Squidbillies and 12 oz. Mouse were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
33sThe first season's version. The middle section is replaced each season, so the sequence is a format rather than a fixed film.
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