Rick and Morty: parents' guide

Graphic cartoon violence throughout: shootouts, dismemberment, smashed brains and bloody surgery, with deaths often played for laughs. In a season 1 episode an adult character tries to rape 14-year-old Morty in a bar bathroom; Morty fights him off, badly shaken.

Heavy profanity. One reviewed episode had about a dozen f-words and three s-words, bleeped on Adult Swim but clear from context and unbleeped in uncensored digital releases. Hell, damn, ass and bitch are routine.

Frequent crude sexual humor and innuendo. Morty is given a sex robot and fathers a child with it, Rick has sex and parties with a hive-mind ex, a dream shows a teen girl's upper breasts, and background art is often suggestive.

Rick drinks constantly, and his alcoholism drives much of his reckless and cruel behavior, mostly played as comedy. In a season 2 episode he drinks and uses drugs with an alien ex during a party binge. Other characters drink wine and liquor.

Body horror and grotesque creatures are common, and the tone can turn bleak and existential. Rick attempts suicide in a season 2 episode, Morty is nearly raped in season 1, and flashbacks show the bomb that killed Rick's wife and young daughter.