Rick and Morty are undoubtedly among the most hilarious animated TV shows ever made. The premise follows a young boy and his genius grandfather, who is an alcoholic. The show has been running successfully for four seasons now.
Here are 20 other TV shows like Rick and Morty that you are going to enjoy immensely. Just like Rick and Morty have taken you on a jolly ride, these TV series are going to do the same.
1. Bojack Horseman
- Director: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Writer: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Voice-over Cast: Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris, Paul F. Tompkins
- IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Bojack Horseman deals with multiple forms of comedy, such as surreal, black, satire, and drama. It tells the story of a horse by the name of Bojack Horseman who has human attributes such as emotions and feelings. The horse was a star in a sitcom made during the 90s and wants to get his fame back. He takes the help of Diane Nguyen, who is a ghostwriter, to write an autobiography on himself. The horse is dealing with addiction and depression. Lisa Hanawalt is the designer of each of the characters on this show.
2. Gravity Falls
- Director: John Aoshima, Aaron Springer, Matt Braly, Sunil Hall, Jefferey Thompson, Joe Pitt, Rob Renzetti, Stephen Sandoval, Ian Worrel
- Writer: Alex Hirsch
- Voice-over Cast: Jason Ritter, Alex Hirsch, Kristen Schaal, Linda Cardellini
- IMDb Rating: 8.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Gravity Falls follows Dipper Pines and Mabel, who is his twin sister. They go on multiple adventures and go to their great-uncle’s place for summers. Oregon, where the uncle lives, is a mysterious and strange town. There are some paranormal activities and the presence of supernatural creatures in the area of Gravity Falls. The kids investigate all the local mysteries and help their uncle run a tourist trap which is called The mystery shack.
3. Adventure Time
- Director: Larry Leichliter
- Writer: Pendleton Ward
- Voice-over Cast: Jeremy Shada, Hynden Walch, Tom Kenny, Pendleton Ward, Jessica DiCicco, John DiMaggio, Niki Yang, Olivia Olson, Polly Lou Livingston
- IMDb Rating: 8.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Adventure Time is a fantasy kingdom TV show for Cartoon Network. The story follows Finn, a fun-loving young boy, and Jake, a dog but also his best friend. They live in the Land of Ooo, and Jake has magical powers. Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, Ice King, and BMO also live in the Land of Ooo.
4. Bob’s Burgers
- Director: Jim Dauterive, Loren Bouchard
- Writer: Loren Bouchard
- Voice-over Cast: H. Jon Benjamin, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Larry Murphy, Kristen Schaal
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Bob’s Burgers is an entertaining animated TV show following the Belcher Family. The family consists of Linda and Bob, who have three children- Gene, Tina, and Louise. They run a restaurant selling hamburgers on Ocean Avenue. The children attend Wagstaff school, and each of them is in different faces of their life.
5. Big Mouth
- Director: Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Flackett
- Writer: Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Flackett
- Voice-over Cast: Nick Kroll, Jessi Klein, Jenny Slate, Maya Rudolph, Ayo Edebiri, John Mulaney, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Jordan Peele
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 99%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Big Mouth is a coming-of-age drama series following a group of children who are in the 7th grade. Andrew Glauber and Nick Birch are the central characters and best friends of Big Mouth. The kids are growing and going through their puberty. They deal with their sexuality, masturbation, and other teenage issues in New York City. The kids also have hormone monsters who instigate them to do things.
6. Invader Zim
- Director: Steve Ressel, Jordan Reichek
- Writer: Jhonen Vasquez
- Voice-over Cast: Richar Steven Horvitz, Rosearik Rikki Simons, Jhonen Vasquez, Lucille Bliss, Kevin McDonald, Andy Berman, Melissa Fahn, Rodger Bumpass, Wally Wingert
- IMDb Rating: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Invader Zim is a sci-fi series for Nickelodeon. Zim is an extraterrestrial creature living on the planet Irk. He wants to win over the human race and enslave them. Invader Zim wants to conquer Earth with GIR, who is a malfunctioning robot.
7. Futurama
- Director: Matt Groening
- Writer: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
- Voice-over Cast: Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Frank Weller, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Phil LaMarr, David Herman
- IMDb Rating: 8.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Futurama is a series that follows Philip J. Fry and his revival. He was scientifically preserved and revived in the 31st century. Fry meets a robot by the name of Bender Bending Rodriguez and Turanga Leela, who has only one eye in Futurama.
8. The Simpsons
- Director: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Sam Simon
- Writer: Matt Groening
- Voice-over Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer
- IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
One of the most loved animated TV shows is The Simpsons. The setting of the show is in Springfield and follows this cartoon family, which consists of Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie. The TV show is a parody of American culture, society, and humans.
9. Family Guy
- Director: David Zuckerman, Seth MacFarlane
- Writer: Seth MacFarlane
- Voice-over Cast: Seth McFarlane, Seth Green, Mike Henry, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Patrick Warburton
- IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
The show follows Griffins, which is a family of set of parents and their children. Lois and Peter live with their children, Chris, Meg, and Stewie. They also have a dog, Larry, who is anthropomorphic. The show is set in Rhode Island at Quahog, which is a fictional city. The show has dark humor and surreal comedy.
10. Final Space
- Director: Mike Roberts, Dan O’Connor, Yoriaki Mochizuki, Ben Bjelajac, Chris Paluszek, Anne Walker Farrell
- Writer: Olan Rogers, Ben Mekler, Jane Becker, Kelly D’Angelo, Cameron Squires, Alyssa Lane, Dan O’Keefe, David Sacks, Christopher Amick, Nick Watson, Adam Stein, Deirdre Devlin, Alex Sherman
- Voice-over Cast: Olan Rogers, Tom Kenny, Tika Sumpter, Coty Galloway, Ron Perlman, Gina Torres, Keith David, Conan O’Brien, Claudia Black, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, David Tennant, Steven Yeun, Caleb McLaughlin, John DiMaggio, Shannon Purser, Andy Richter, Ashly Burch, Ron Funches
- IMDb Rating: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Final Space is an opera comedy-drama following Gary Godspeed, who is a prisoner. He has an alien friend by the name of Mooncake. Both of them go on intergalactic adventures together.
11. Paradise PD
- Director: Roger Black, Waco O’Guin
- Writer: Roger Black, Waco O’Guin
- Voice-over Cast: Sarah Chalke, Tom Kenny, David Herman, Cedric Yarbrough, Kyle Kinane, Dana Snyder
- IMDb Rating: 6.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 40%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Paradise PD follows an incompetent police department in a small town where the crime rates are high. The incompetent police force consists of Randall Crawford, who is the Chief and his son, Kevin; Dusty Marlow, who is overweight; Gina Jabowski, who is violent; Gerald Fitzgerald, who is a coward with; Stanley Hopson, who is a pervert senior citizen and a dog, bullet.
12. Close Enough
- Director: J.G. Quintel, Matt Price, Sean Szeles, Calvin Wong
- Writer: J.G. Quintel
- Voice-over Cast: J.G. Quintel, Jason Mantzoukas, Jessica DiCicco, Danielle Brooks, Gabrielle Walsh, Kimiko Glenn, James Adomian
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Close enough is an American sitcom created for HBO Max. The setting of the show is a duplex in Los Angeles following a couple and their daughter. The couple is in their early thirties, and the daughter is five years old. The couple is surrounded by friends who are divorced, with the story proceeding.
13. Phineas and Ferb
- Director: Jeff Marsh, Dan Povenmire
- Writer: Jeff Marsh, Dan Povenmire
- Voice-over Cast: Vincent Martella, Ashley Tisdale, Dan Povenmire, Caroline Rhea, Alyson Stoner, Maulik Pancholy, Olivia Olson, Ariel Winter, Thomas Sangster, Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Marsh, Richard O’Brien, Mitchel Musso, Bobby Gaylor, Kelly Hu
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Phineas and Ferb is a sci-fi musical comedy created for the Disney Channel. The TV show follows Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, who are stepbrothers. The boys are friends, too, and go on adventures and have a lot of fun. But Candace, who is their elder sister, is not very happy with all the fooling around. She tries to show her parents what exactly are Phineas and Ferb up to but fails each time.
14. Johnny Bravo
- Director: Van Partible, Butch Hartman, Russell Calabrese, Nathan Chew, James Tim Walker, Kevin Petrilak, Rumen Petkov, John McIntyre, Kirk Tingblad, Robert Alvarez, David Brain
- Writer: Butch Hartman, Michael Ryan, Van Partible, Russell Calabrese, Jed Spingam, John Crane, Wendell Morris, Tammy K. List, Craig Lewis, Amy Keating Rogers, Steve Marmel, Seth MacFarlane, Robert Ramirez, Kirk Tingblad, Gene Grillo, Dave Schwartz, Lynell H. Forestall, Paul F. Kozlowski, Craig Bartlett, Adam Pava
- Voice-over Cast: Jeff Bennett, Mae Whitman, Larry Drake, Brenda Vaccaro, Tom Kenny
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
The TV show Johnny Bravo is for Cartoon Network whose central character has the same name. Johnny is an Italian with a pompadour hairstyle and muscular wearing sunglasses all the time. He proclaims himself as a womanizer and has a lot of attitudes. Mostly all the episodes revolve around Johnny trying to go on a date with women who always turn him down.
15. Dexter’s Laboratory
- Director: Gendy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish, Rob Renzetti, John McIntyre, Robert Alvarez, Craig McCracken, Rumen Petkov, Chris Savino
- Writer: Gendy Tartakovsky
- Voice-over Cast: Christine Cavanaugh, Allison Moore, Kath Soucie, Eddie Deezen, Tom Kenny, Candi Milo, Kat Cressida, Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulsen, Frank Weller
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar
Dexter’s Laboratory, one of the most favorite cartoons, is an animated TV show which was created for the Cartoon network. The story follows Dexter, who is a genius and has a laboratory that is hidden in his room. This laboratory is a secret from everyone except his elder sister, Dee Dee. The sister always corrupts Dexter’s experiments and finds ways to enter the secret laboratory.
16. Invincible
- Director: Jeff Allen, William Ruzicka, Jay Baker, Jae Harm, Paul Furminger, Cory Evans, Vinton Heuck, Robert Valley
- Writer: Ryan Ottley, Simon Racioppa, Curtis Gwinn, Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, Chris Black, Christine Lavaf, Ryan Ridley
- Voice-over Cast: Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Sandra Oh, Zachary Quinto, J.K. Simmons, Zazie Beetz, Grey Griffin, Andrew Rannells, Walton Goggins, Melise, Chris Diamantopoulus, Mark Hamill
- IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
- Streaming Platform: Prime Video
Invincible is an adult animated show based on the Skybound/Image comic that follows the story of a teenage boy Mark Grayson, son of Earth’s most potent superhero Nolan Grayson also known as Omni-Man. It follows the journey of Mark as he is about to become someone greater than himself, someone universal, someone bold, and his journey of becoming Invincible.
17. The Boys Presents: Diabolical
- Created by: Eric Kripke, Simon Racioppa, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
- Writers: Ennis, Racioppa, Rogen, Goldberg, Justin Roiland, Ilana Glazer, Awkwafina, Andy Samberg.
- Voice-over cast: Antony Starr, Xolo Maridueña, Dominique McElligott, Caleb McLaughlin,Awkwafina, Chace Crawford
- IMDb Rating:6.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime
The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an adult animated series based on the show named The Boys. It is an American Superhero Anthology show. The difference between the real show and the animated show is that the animated show has scenes which were never show in the original show. The animated series revolves around the story of an organization creating superheroes who are not really that noble. This show gives the raw emotions lights and represents the truth of the hero society is harsh and vulgar way. The fans of the boys must definitely give this animated series a watch.
18. F is for Family
- Created by: Bill Burr, Michael Price
- Writer:
- Voice-over cast: Bill Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long, Debi Derryberry, Haley Reinhart, Mo Collins, Trevor Devall, Kevin Michael Richardson, Sam Rockwell
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
A great animated series that represent the day-to-day struggles and challenges member of a family has to face. This show describes many sensitive and exclusive topics such as socioeconomic, abuse, racism, corruption, and provide an idea against the ideal American Dream.
The main plot covers a father who tries to provide for his family by doing a work he hates, a fed-up mother, stubborn teen, ignored middle child and an ungirly girl. The series covers the frustrating topics both in a fun and vulgar way.
19. South Park
- Created by: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
- Writers: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Kyle McCulloch, Bill Hader, Nancy Pimental, Glasgow Phillips
- Voice-over cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Eliza Schneider, Mona Marshall, April Stewart, Adrien Beard
- IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
- Streaming Platform: Max Amazon Channel, Max, DIRECTV, fuboTV, Comedy Central
South Park is a crazy and hilarious animated show. The dialogue in this show knows no boundaries. From vulgar jokes to jokes on sensitive topics things show leaves no one. The show revolves around the extraordinary life of 4 boys: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick, and set in the fictional town of South Park.
Uncommon and out the world things are kind of common for this town. The vulgur language and ideas surely makes this show 18+. Anything can happen in this show from violence to sexual content. This keeps shocking the audience with each and every episode.
20. Solar Opposites
- Created by: Justin Roiland, Mike McMahan
- Writer: Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland, Mike McMahan, Mary Mack, Langston Kerman, Jason Mantzoukas
- Voice-over cast: Justin Roiland, Thomas Middleditch, Sean Giambrone, Mary Mack, Dan Stevens
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
- Streaming Platform: Hulu Plus
Solar opposite is an excellent American sci-fi RomCom. The vulgar language and sensitive topics are the reason this show is r rated. This shows story surrounds a family of Extraterrestrial species(aliens) from a planet named Shlorp who crashed on earth.
After that they are made to stay and live on earth. Their goal was to colonize earth, but things took many turns and thus the story of this series was born. The extraordinary idea of parallel worlds and timelines, the Outworldy creatures and relatable moments makes this a worthy adult animated series.
Top 10 Episodes of Rick and Morty
1. Get Schwifty
- Season: Season 2, Episode 6
- IMDb Rating: 8.3/10
2. Lawnmower Dog
- Season: Season 1, Episode 2
- IMDb Rating: 8.8/10
3. A Rickle in time
- Season: Season 2, Episode 1
- IMDb Rating: 8.9/10
4. Total Rickall
- Season: Season 2, Episode 4
- IMDb Rating: 9.6/10
5. Pickle Rick
- Season: Season 3, Episode 3
- IMDb Rating: 9.3/10
6. Rest and Ricklaxation
- Season: Season 3, Episode 6
- IMDb Rating: 8.9/10
7. Meeseeks and Destroy
- Season: Season 1, Episode 5
- IMDb Rating: 9/10
8. The Ricklantis Mixup
- Season: Season 3, Episode 7
- IMDb Rating: 9.8/10
9. Rick Potion #9
- Season: Season 1, Episode 6
- IMDb Rating: 9.1/10
10. Rixty Minutes
- Season: Season 1, Episode 8
- IMDb Rating: 8.8/10
If you are looking for something under animation which is extremely funny, then these shows like Rick and Morty are going to do the magic for you. With interesting storylines and funny characters, all the shows in the list above are a must-watch.
