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Fans of iconic adult animated sitcom Rick and Morty, rejoice! A unique immersive experience based on the show will officially debut at the Morgan Arts Complex at 3622 S. Morgan Street in Chicago on December 6.

Tickets to Rick and Morty: Multiverse Mania Experience, set to run through January 5, 2025, are already on sale right here.

The 25,000-square-foot space will basically be turned into a life-sized version of Rick's lab. Once inside, guests will have about an hour to play games, win prizes, grab treats and basically pretend to be inside the world of the fictional scientists. Also on site will be a mini-golf course featuring Mr. Meeseeks, a Seal Team Rick Laser Tag section and, of course, Rick's iconic toilet.

"In the Multiverse Mania Experience, Morty’s accident with a portal gun has resulted in a chaotic crisscross of portals, spanning beloved locations across the universe that are now waiting for you to explore," reads an official press release. "You may train in a laser blaster arena, brush up your short game with Mr. Meeseeks, or even tempt fate with a photo on Rick’s forbidden off-planet toilet. Jump into your favorite show moment, play games, win prizes, grab a treat and maybe fill out Morty’s Adventure Card while you’re at it."

We’re back for 10 episodes of the new Rick and Morty: The Anime series! But before we get going, here’s an interview with the creative team!
Semi Pertinent News

• Rick and Morty Season 8 in 2025
• Rick and Morty Boxed Set Seasons 1-7 on September 10th
• Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-7 includes all 71 episodes from seven seasons of the award-winning series, copious special features, audio commentary, deleted scenes, “Inside the Episode” segments, numerous featurettes, animatic sketches, and more.
• SDCC 2024 Coverage
• https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/06/exclusive-sneak-peek-oni-press-wbdgcp-launch-rick-and-morty-10th-anniversary-special-comics-spectacular/
• Oni Press & WBDGCP Launch ‘Rick and Morty: 10th Anniversary Special’ Comics Spectacular!
• Return of the Rick Mobile
• It’s driving across America right now, as we speak (as of 12 August 2024 anyway)

The English-language version is set to premiere Aug. 15 at 12 a.m. on Adult Swim, with the subtitled version in Japanese to follow on Aug. 17 at 12 a.m. on Adult Swim’s action/anime programming block, Toonami.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16364128

Hospitals adding charge to bills from doctors’ offices, outpatient surgical clinics and diagnostic centers they own

Hospitals are gobbling up doctor’s offices – and they’re bringing higher prices to patients when they do, even if a patient never sets foot on a hospital campus.

Enter the “hospital facility fee”: a charge hospitals can add to bills from doctors’ offices, outpatient surgical clinics and diagnostics centers that they own, rebranding them as “outpatient hospital departments”, even if the facility is miles from a hospital campus.

“It’s one of the most egregious examples of hospital financing at the expense of consumers,” said Liz Hagan, director of policy solutions at the United States of Care, a non-profit advocacy group that released a new report on the practice.

The report, “Behind the Bill” argues that “hospitals are at the center of a massive market failure”, where consolidation is driving price hikes for patients.

cross-posted from: https://adultswim.fan/post/778554

“Now we can ruffle a few feathers, rattle a few cages, you know, shoot some fireworks,” DeVito said of Season 17, which, judging by past It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode plot lines, could be a show-by-show description rather than a slew of idioms.

When asked what his favorite part of being on It's Always Sunny for two decades has been, DeVito answered, “We love each other, and we have a fun time being together,” then understating, “The season goes by too fast, we do eight shows or something like that in a season, it’s over before you now it, and we have fun every day. It’s really cool.”

cross-posted from: https://adultswim.fan/post/620322

Directed by Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4), the first animated theatrical Transformers film since that 1986 masterpiece is coming September 13 and, at CinemaCon, Paramount revealed footage for the first time ever.

The film is entirely set on Cybertron and tells the story of how the two most famous Transformers, Optimus Prime and Megatron, went from best friends to mortal enemies. Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry provide the voices of Prime and Megatron, only they’re not called that at the start. They’re called Orion Pax and D-16, respectively. Filling out the cast are Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1, Keegan-Michael Key as B-127 (who’ll become Bumblebee), as well as Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm.