“Rick and Morty,” which revolves around the adventures of wild-haired scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson, Morty, is pretty much the hot animated series du jour. And the sci-fi antics of the show — which airs on Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim programming block — have now affected reality for us all.
In the third-season premiere, “The Rickshank Rickdemption,” Rick conjures up a childhood memory while at a McDonald’s drive-thru, raving about a brief period in 1998 when the fast-food chain produced a special Szechuan Chicken McNugget sauce as a promotional tie-in with the release of Disney’s “Mulan.