The team behind the popular animated series have already started to deliver on this promise as Rick and Morty’s sixth season is set to debut on September 4, just one year on from Season 5’s two-part finale. This has not always been the case, though. The show’s third and fourth seasons had a particularly large gap between them, with more than two years elapsing before any new episodes aired.

Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland previously reflected on the animated comedy’s past seasons and admitted that the show is “finally back into the rhythm” heading into the sixth season.

“I will say that it’s a bit more canonical,” Roiland told IGN at SDCC, though he said there will also be a good “point of entry” episode. “It really rewards fans of the show that have been watching up to this point… So it’s like, I think we’re kind of finally back into the rhythm of Rick and Morty, and I think Season 6 is… I didn’t particularly think Season 5 was bad, but Season 6 is f*cking amazing. It really is a f*cking quality season.”

The fifth season presented fans with Evil Morty and the Evil Morty Plan, The Rick and Morty Citadel, and a good look at what the larger multiverse is doing. I called it a “lore-stuffed bookend to one of the strongest seasons thus far,” though it chucked canon material at viewers at “a breakneck and sometimes confusing pace,” which made the final episodes feel “difficult to follow and decidedly rushed.”

The long-awaited sixth season will premiere at 11 pm ET/PT on September 4, picking right up from where we left the anarchic duo at the end of the fifth season. According to the official logline for the new season, Rick and Morty will be “worse for wear and down on their luck,” but “will they manage to bounce back for more adventures? Or will they get swept up in an ocean of piss!”