"Night Family" is the fourth episode of the sixth season of the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty.
Written by Rob Schrab and directed by Jacob Hair, the episode likely pays homage to Rod Serling's television series Night Gallery.
At breakfast, Rick introduces his family to a "Somnambulator", a device which can make their unconscious bodies perform tasks while they sleep.
The family uses the Somnambulator to make their unconscious selves do all the chores they don't want to do in their waking hours, with the exception of Jerry, who treats his Night Person as a pen pal.
(Rob Schrab) It really emerges that Summer's resentments, her deep-seated problems with her grandfather are taking shape in the form of this rebellion of the night family.
[22] Collider's Marco Vito Oddo wrote that it was the most lacking episode of the season thus far, but still explored the "absurd limits of a simple plot".
[24] Maik Zehrfeld gave a 4/5 star review, writing that the opening was too akin to Family Guy, but it picked up as it continued, showing a domino effect narrative structure and a "catchy story".