The Pickle Rick Back is served in tiny scientist beakers (Photo by Karlin Vollondo Photography)

Update, 8/18: Drink Company has cancelled the pop up after just one day in operation. According to a post made to the company’s Facebook page Friday, Turner Broadcasting, which owns Rick & Morty’s network Cartoon Network, threatened to levy fines for use of the show’s name and characters.

“Now we have to lay off our beloved employees and take a massive financial hit, all because Turner Broadcasting/Cartoon Network are unwilling to figure out a way to let a great fan tribute happen,” Drink Company’s post reads. “We are so sorry to all the fans but we also have learned a valuable lesson: when it comes to free speech and fair use, Turner Broadcasting/Cartoon Network believes that should only be a joke on the show.”

Drink Company president Derek Brown added that the team offered to donate profits from the PUB to charity but that Turner wouldn’t budge.

The original story is below:

You thought the Game of Thrones pop-up bar got a lot of folks to wait in a long line in costume? Just wait until August 9 August 16, when the company behind Shaw’s always-busy pop-up bars opens its next whimsical concept, this time dedicated to the series Rick and Morty.

The Wubba Lubba Dub PUB, named for a catchphrase in the show, will take inspiration from the Cartoon Network series, which follows scientist Rick and his timid grandson Morty as they travel through time and space, encountering wacky creatures and worlds along the way.

Although creator Dan Harmon has found himself in hot water this summer, deleting his Twitter account over an offensive video that recently resurfaced, enthusiasm for this latest PUB is likely to be high. This is the same fanbase, remember, that kicked up a frenzy when McDonald’s released a limited edition condiment as a promotional tie-in for the show, driving hours and launching bidding wars over packets of Szechuan sauce. To curb wait times for the PUB, it will have two lines: one for folks dressed as themselves and another for die-hards who show up dressed as Ricks. In the show, you see, every dimension has a version of every person on earth, so presumably there are millions of Ricks. Dress as one of them and you’ll get access to a (likely shorter) line.

The PUB will span the usual three adjoining bars on Seventh Street NW. One space is outfitted as Rick’s laboratory garage, with mad scientist ephemera lining the walls, fake doors on the walls and ceiling, and blue, robotic Mr. Meeseeks behind the bar. After journeying through a space portal (a very well-decorated hallway) patrons end up in the second bar, outfitted with cutouts of Rick and Morty characters created by graffiti artist Andrew Funk.

In the back you’ll find another robot: an animatronic Cromulon bidding patrons to sing karaoke. In the show, the Cromulon engages Rick and Morty in a singing competition to save Earth, but the stakes likely aren’t as high here—indeed, Drink Company CEO Angie Fetherston tells Washingtonian that karaoke isn’t in the plans for Wubba Lubba Dub PUB.

The third bar sounds like the most inventive—and the most disgusting?—of the PUB. It brings to life Anatomy Park, the amusement park Rick built inside a human man. Red blood cells and brain folds decorate the bar, and rides like “Pirates of the Pancreas” line the walls. The back of that space is outfitted to look like Rick and Morty’s spaceship. Like the vehicle on the show, it’s made mostly of garbage.

The team’s Paul Taylor has created his typical inventive cocktails to go with the space: There’s the Existence Is Pain, which includes gin, blanc vermouth, Blue Curaçao, coconut water, lemon, and absinthe; the Get Schwifty, a margarita-ish mix of tequila, St. Germain, watermelon, lime, and salt; and a handful of shots and non-alcoholic drinks.

As is expected of the PUB by now, some drinks will be served in specialty glassware, per Washingtonian, including shots that come in beakers, and an apple-whiskey cocktail called Mr. Poopybutthole (it’s named after a character) that comes in—what else?—a poop emoji glass.

The Wubba Lubba Dub PUB (1839 Seventh St. NW) runs from August 9 August 16-October 6

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