Adult Swim reveals Royal Crackers, the ultimate Succession goof

Similar Succession Arrested DevelopmentBefore it Royal Crackers Its plot is based on the conflict between characters over one promise, which is total corporate control over the family business. But in this particular case the stakes were very low. The family business was a small cracker and isn’t even prominent.

With the family’s patriarch comatose and on the brink of death (just HoveringThere, forever. RightThe show and company are on the verge of collapse, but two brothers are doing what they can to save them. There’s Stebe (Andrew Santino), the family man who’s trying to run the company, and Theo Jr. (Jason Ruiz), who would accept a plum gig at the company, but is more interested in relieving his glory days of being a bass player. As the two blunder through running the company to the best of their ability, along with Stebe’s wife (Jessica St. Clair), they’re sorting out the best way to live their lives and get the cracker company into the limelight the Honsby family so desires. How do they get there? A viral video is a way to advertise their product. It goes horribly wrong. Maybe they try to load it with the wild fixer their dad used.

Like most Adult Swim cartoons, Royal CrackersThere are more chances for things going wrong in the worst ways, and even the most hilarious, than for the family’s to achieve normalcy, power or market share. They’re trying to pedal flavors like Black Licorice crackers, and losing to their biggest competitors (like Uncle Dipshit’s Fart Wafers).

The look and feel of the show won’t be drastically out of step with what you’ve come to know from an Adult Swim comedy. Ruiz who created the show also said that it was deliberate.

“I grew up in the ’90s with hand-drawn animation,” Ruiz tells Polygon. “I love the crudeness of the original Beavis and ButtheadThis gives the illusion that it was drawn manually by someone sitting there. Unfortunately, I’m a Flash animator, and it’s impossible to produce hand-drawn animation these days, so we wanted to mimic it as closely as possible.”

Ruiz said that the show made Ruiz’s dreams come true in one way.

“Like most kids, when I was a young child, I had the stereotypical dream of making an animated television program about a mediocre cracker company and the family of desperate weirdos who run it,” Ruiz said in a statement. “In this childhood dream, I wanted it to air on linear TV and then stream on an app the following day. Thank you to Adult Swim and HBO Max for making that little pipe dream come true.”

Royal CrackersThe three-episode series will air on Sunday, April 2, at 11:00 PM EST/PST, on Adult Swim. It can also be streamed on HBO Max on April 3.