Best for fans of: “The Vat of Acid Episode” (S4E8), “Total Rickall” (S2E4), and anyone who’s ever argued about doing the dishes.

So if you’re looking for Dthrip, watch Episode 3. If you want an all-time great horror-comedy Rick and Morty episode, watch Episode 4. “Night Family” is essential viewing. It’s tightly paced, thematically rich, and genuinely unsettling — one of Season 6’s best. If you’ve ever felt like your tired, nighttime self makes decisions your daytime self regrets, this episode will hit close to home.

Here’s a helpful, spoiler-light blog post about (often misremembered as “Dthrip” — that’s actually the alien from S6E3, “Bethic Twinstinct”).

The Night Family moves in unison, speaks in a hollow monotone, and has no problem dismembering their own day selves. There’s a sequence where Rick’s night body surgically attaches extra arms to himself — pure body horror done with dark humor.