Review: Royal Crackers “Theo’s Comeback Tour” ; “Factory 37”

Between Game of Thrones, Succession, and Billions, America has had a front-row seat of the many types of discombobulation that occurs as it pertains to rightful heirs to thrones. Royal Crackers is the comedic equivalent and, for my money, a better representation. Granted, we’re talking about a cracker factory and not say a billion dollar organization, but business is business and everyone’s got to make a buck. As a business owner, I can tell you that sometimes one must pull up their sleeves and do what they gotta do to keep a fledgling operation afloat.

If Royal Crackers the TV series were a startup, I’d say it achieved its first year’s goals already. Not only because the show was recently renewed for a second season, but because the franchise is put together like a well-oiled cracker factory swarming with chicken monsters. The voice cast featuring Jason Ruiz, Andrew Santino, Jessica St. Clair, David Gborie, Maile Flanagan and Fred Tatasciore continues to dazzle from the premiere (with extra salt and pepper for me going to Santino who is just a knock out delivery man for punch lines) but we can’t forget the already stellar guest voice contributions that have started to roll in like the legendary Gilbert Gottfried and Fred Armisen, both of whom play pivotal and side-splittingly hilarious characters that feel like they’ve been in the cast forever.

Brian Wysol is a name to make sure you keep track of when watching Royal Crackers. The former creator Hot Street has his fingerprints all over this show even if he isn’t the credited writer…he is for “Factory 37” which makes all of the sense of the world because it’s the most out-of-control of the first three episodes thus far, but the small jokes like Theo Sr. being thrown down the stairs on repeat or the constant movie references this franchise employs which has already included Jurassic Park and Terminator feels like Wysol’s brand of humor even if he hasn’t come up with those specific scenes. His brush stroke is that “chef’s kiss” on an otherwordly series that proves Adult Swim knows how to pick the half-hour franchises with more-than-solid teams around them.