Royal Crackers

Royal Crackersis an Americanadultanimated sitcomcreated by Jason Ruiz and developed by Ruiz and Seth Cohen forCartoon Network'sAdult Swimprogramming block. The series stars Ruiz,Andrew Santino,Jessica St. Clair,Maile Flanagan,and David Gborie. The series premiered on April 2, 2023.

Royal Crackers
Genre	Adult animation Animated sitcom Black comedy Cringe comedy Surreal comedy
Created by	Jason Ruiz
Developed by	Jason Ruiz Seth Cohen
Voices of	Jason Ruiz Jessica St. Clair Andrew Santino Maile Flanagan David Gborie
Composer	Frank Ciampi
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No.of seasons	2
No.of episodes	20(list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jason Ruiz Seth Cohen Chris Prynoski Shannon Prynoski Antonio Canobbio Ben Kalina Walter Newman Cameron Tang
Producers	Robbee Jones Paige Boudreau Jonathan Roig
Editor	Benjamin Martian
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	The Cheesesteak Factory AntiLaugh Titmouse, Inc. Williams Street
Original release
Network	Adult Swim
Release	April 2, 2023(2023-04-02)– present

On March 28, 2023, it was announced the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on February 29, 2024.

Plot

The dysfunctional Hornsby family run Royal Crackers Incorporated, a once-popular snack food company which manufacturessaltine crackersinBakersfield, California.When senile patriarch and CEO Theodore Hornsby Sr.'s mind starts to slip, his two sons Stebe and Theodore "Theo" Jr. are left to run the failing company while living in their father's mansion with Stebe's wife Deb and their son Matt as they deal with competition from Dennison Snacks and experience different misadventures along the way.

Characters

Main

• Stebe Hornsby (voiced by Jason Ruiz) is one of the heirs of Royal Crackers Incorporated. He is professional and nerdy, and plays thestraight manto Theo's antics. Stebe does however behave eccentrically himself at times. He is shown to be inattentive toward his son, instead focused on currying favor with his father and their company. He was intended to be named Steven only for his father to intentionally misspell it on his birth certificate out of contempt for his newborn son's seeminganorchia.
• Deborah "Deb" Hornsby (voiced byJessica St. Clair) is Stebe's wife. She is on the board of directors at Royal Crackers Incorporated and is in charge of the Hornsby family's social media accounts. Like her husband, she is inattentive toward her son and focused on her in-laws' business.
• Theodore "Theo" D. Hornsby Jr. (voiced byAndrew Santinoas an adult, Cordelia Mann as a child) is Stebe's younger brother. A formernu metalstar, the bass player/lead singer of TainT and one of the heirs of Royal Crackers Incorporated, he appears narcissistic with delusions of grandeur and seems to be in denial about his status as a has-been.
• Matthew "Matt" Hornsby (voiced byMaile Flanagan) is Stebe and Deb's only child. An introvert who loves video games, he is reserved with his family as a means of coping with their toxic culture.
• Theodore D. Hornsby Sr. (voiced by Jason Ruiz) is the elderly CEO of Royal Crackers Incorporated and the father of Stebe and Theo. Due to his old age, he almost always appears unconscious, seated motionless in his wheelchair unless something briefly rouses him. In flashbacks, he is shown to have been a ruthlessrobber baronwho committed various atrocities and ran his company with an iron fist.
• Darby Blarchardt (voiced by David Gborie) is the Hornsby family's lawyer and formercriminal defense lawyerwho works at Blarchardt & Associates. While he generally presents as competent and professional, he occasionally proves to be eccentric and irresponsible.

Recurring

• Alfred "Al" Winstanley (voiced byFred Tatasciore) is a Russian-American board member with a longShenandoah beardwho has been with Royal Crackers Incorporated since its early days. He is very old-fashioned, often offering up archaic advice. Flashbacks show him to have been a loyal and virtuous subordinate to Theodore Sr. since the early days of Royal Crackers Incorporated.
• Rachel (voiced byStephanie Sheh) is a Royal Crackers board member. She is an Asian-American woman and seems to be the most normal person on the board. In the season 2 episode named after her, it is revealed that Rachel is actually a member of a race of small anthropomorphic mushrooms who live in an underground kingdom called Subterra. Her human body is actually a vehicle (called a "land rover" ) that she pilots from a seat inside the head.
• Moey D (voiced byJamar Malachi Neighbors) is adwarfand the formerhype manof TainT who works as the manager of Kenny's Lobster Shack. He is a parody ofJoe C.
• Clair Bailey (voiced byDebra Wilson) is anews anchorfor CVM.
• Marjorie Bartleby-Hornsby (voiced byJessica St. Clair) is Theodore Sr.'s wife and Stebe and Theo's mother. Her side of the family were swamp-dwelling cannibals who Theodore Sr. encountered and narrowly escaped. When Stebe and Theo were children, Theodore Sr. persuaded Marjorie to take the blame for the Factory 6 incident and assist the factory workers in the clean-up. She spent the rest of her natural life away from her family in the Factory 6 Exclusion Zone. Before dying of old age, she told her Utzi Wutzi caregiver that she wished that she would've seen her sons one last time. A ritualist performed a magic ritual which transferred her soul into the body of apit bull.
• The Dennison family are the rivals of the Hornsby family. Their company Dennison Snacks is a more successful competitor to Royal Crackers:
  • Rob Dennison (voiced byAndy Daly) is the Co-CEO of Dennison Snacks and the son of its founder Luther Dennison. He relies on Stebe to help with his Wi-Fi issues and hosts a "Guys' Night" that Stebe wants to be invited to.
  • Mel Dennison (voiced byLennon Parham) is the wife of Rob and Co-CEO of Dennison Snacks. She is Deb's rival.
  • Sebastian Dennison (voiced byKyle Dunniganin season two) is Rob and Mel's oldest son. He is popular kid, an aspiring rapper, and a bully to Matt.
  • Sarah Dennison is Rob and Mel's oldest daughter.
  • Hailey Dennison is Rob and Mel's daughter.
  • "The Twins" are a pair offraternal twins,son and daughter to Rob and Mel. Their names have not been revealed and they are only ever referred to as "the Twins".
  • Gus Dennison is Rob and Mel's youngest son.
• Mr. P (voiced byFred Tatasciore) is a teacher at J. Davis High.
• The Utzi Wutzis (variously voiced byEric BauzaandFred Tatasciore) are the short cat-like natives of Catalina Island. Even though they were hostile, they soon became loyal to Theodore and helped to make up his work force as Theodore gave them the name of Utzi Wutzi because that's what they mostly say.

Episodes

Main article:List of Royal Crackers episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	10		April 2, 2023(2023-04-02)	May 21, 2023(2023-05-21)
2	10		February 29, 2024(2024-02-29)	May 2, 2024(2024-05-02)

Release

On April Fools Day 2023, Adult Swim aired a 1-minute clip of the premiere as part of their annual April Fools prank as well as to promote the first season, which would officially premiere the next night, though they released the full episode on their YouTube channel weeks prior.

As promotion for its second season, Adult Swim aired the show aired on their sister networks TBS and TNT.

References

Informational notes

Citations

External links

• Royal CrackersatIMDb