Legit or not, it’s a righteous shout out to a franchise that is currently demolishing everything else at the box office, with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story already having earned $555 million around the world.
Or was actually acquired legally, since Adult Swim has that whole Robot Chicken/Star Wars relationship.
Since it was just animatics shown during the Adult Swim livestream, we don’t get the full visual sense from the iconic Star Wars scene, but this bit thankfully had music behind it, unlike some of the other sequences, and that music was most definitely a Star Wars soundalike.
I like to think someone in Rick’s family would be a pilot for the Rebels.