The night time is the right time on a very special horror halloween episode of Rick and Morty in, “Night Family”!

• Multiversus update – Rick is on his way to the game and will be a mage. There’s a video. It’s cool.
  
• Reddit Post of the Week
  
  • Past0r_gains – I haven’t seen any love for the best joke of last episode
    
  • 4.5k upvotes – 472k views, 97% upvote rate, silver award
    
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/xjrgk6/i_havent_seen_any_love_for_the_best_joke_of_last/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
    
  
  
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
  
  • Box cutters
    
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci23CKQJRYY/
      
    
    
  
  

Episode Details

• Air Date: 9/25/2022
  
• Written by: Rob Schrab
  
• Directed by: Jacob Hair – This is his 8th episode
  
• Guest Stars: Rob Schrab, Tom Kenny, and Nick Rutherford
  

Broh-nopsis: Broh, I’m scared.

Our Synopsis: Who *hasn’t* wanted a version of themselves to do all the mundane stuff?

Discussion

• Title Reference: The title may not be a specific pop-culture reference, but it *does* shirk the traditional gag of including “Rick” or “Morty” 
  
• Theme
  
  • Leaning into those horror themes
    
    • Emphasizing the horror look visually (darkness, shadows, etc.) and with the music
      
    • But it wasn’t really scary. (except for when Rick is doing sit ups, lol)  Does that matter? 
      
      • Horror isn’t just about being scary… are you baiting m
        
      
      
    • Title Card reminiscent of classic horror
      
      • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
        
      
      
    • John Carpenter Movies
      
      • The Thing
        
      • Halloween
        
      • Escape from New York
        
      • Prince of Darkness
        
      • In the Mouth of Madness
        
      
      
    
    
  • Summer’s latent resentment 
    
  • RINSE YOUR DISHES
    
  • Different episode feel
    
  • References pop culture
    
  
  
• Favorite Bits
  
  • The title card: it is an homage and I love it… telling us this episode is going to be different
    
    • “When you’re alone in the middle of the night, / And you wake up sweaty and scared of hell. / When you’re alone in the middle of the bed / And you wake up like someone hits you on the head. / You had a cream of a nightmare dream, / And you have hoo-ha…”
      
    • Jerry saying later, “I got the hoo-ha’s”
      
    
    
  • The alternate end credits and post-credit stinger
    
  • Sheep Counter
    
  • Background and callbacks
    
    • U-Tō truck in the chase scene
      
    • Character pictures in Rick’s room
      
      • Meeseeks, Dr. Xenon Bloom, Prince Nebulon
        
      
      
    
    
  • Beth burning all the movies with the word “day” in the title 
    
  • Podcast ad reads
    
  • Rick’s rooster alarm clock (the sound is heard early in the episode before we see it)
    
  • The subtle silent treatment manipulation to get Rick to give them Night People
    
  • Baby Jesus
    
  • Summer’s bad spanish 
    
  • Morty Unzipping his …. Bowling bag
    
  • “Night Summer covered in all this Terry Gilliam”
    
  • Everyone, get behind my abs!
    
  • Gasp, She’s Night Summer!
    
  • Dry Leaf Storage
    
  
  
• Best/Worst Parts
  
  • The Simpsons-esque gags
    
  • Night Summer force feeding scraps to Rick was intense 
    
  • “Your opinion means very little to me” S1 callback
    
  • Jerry is pen-pals with himself
    
  • “The racoon man, from that one movie…”  “Chewbacca”
    
  
  

• Twitch Chat
  
  • Pinnspants is now following
    
  
  

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