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 is running successfully for four seasons now.
Here are 15 other TV shows like Rick and Morty that you are going to immensely enjoy. 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 the 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 him. 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 in 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 who is a fun-loving young boy and Jake who is 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 go 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: 93%
- 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 a 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, 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 in 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. Both the boys are friends too and go on adventures having 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
Johnny Bravo is a TV show 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.
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.
