Review: Rick and Morty “Night Family”

Overview

The entire Smith family opts to turn into a night family, a family that basically becomes zombies at night but instead of an obsession with brains it’s an obsession with a small goal that any family member may want to achieve. Some of the ideas are rather innocent, Rick and Morty get six pack abs, Summer learns Spanish, Jerry gets a pen-pal, and Beth learns the trumpet.

We come to find out that night Jerry had one simple request for Rick, rinse off your plate after eating. Unfortunately, Rick doesn’t heed the advice and is attacked by the rest of the night family. Rick attempts to have Summer go undercover for an operation to thwart night family’s plan of turning the rest of the city into night people, but night Summer invades the day and forces the daytime Smith family to do all of the night chores. Fortunately, night Jerry’s kind of a nice guy and helps the day family get free, but then a chase ensues that eventually leads to a car crash and a sort of truce emerges.

Our Take

And the Emmy goes to…Rick and Morty. If we hear that shit go down during the 2023 Emmy’s, it will be because of this episode. It should be noted that Jacob Hair directed the Emmy-winning “Vat of Acid” and the Emmy-nominated “Mort Dinner Rick Andre”, but this might be his defining work because the spooky-ass visuals were just out of control. Moreover, give props to Rob Schrab for writing the best episode of the year thus far.

Jaw-dropping isn’t the word, Rick and Morty’s defacto Halloween episode scared the fuck out of me and featured an exhilarating chase scene that could make Archer blush. On top of that, the episode is HILARIOUS, atypical Rob Schrab one-liners that aren’t supposed to make any sense alongside twists and turns that remind you that this show doesn’t give a fuck where your allegiances ally. Rick and Morty puts in a fantastic effort in what’s slowly becoming the show’s best all-around season since season three.

If there was ever an episode of Rick and Morty you were going to check in on the show’s sixth season, this is the one to do so. The sci-fi horror elements already put this one in the lead for the season in terms of the craziest of the Halloween-themed episodes, and I’m not even sure that was even the intended purpose, but here we are getting scared out of our minds by a Rick and Morty episode.