# Homestar Runner

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Homestar Runner and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free, long-running web cartoon series people remember fondly from the early internet, with goofy humor that friends bonded over.

## Why people recommend it

- Goofy early-internet fun many remember fondly (3 comments): "the same goofy stuff that was such a hit with my own group of friends in college" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030921)) "Homestar runner and albino black sheep ... in about 2004 was peak fun Internet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341976)) "games like Newgrounds and Homestar Runner, that had no ready replacement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978048))

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- [South Park](https://hackerapproved.com/p/south-park.md): 22 recommend
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- [Arcane](https://hackerapproved.com/p/arcane.md): 13 recommend
- [Neural Viz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neural-viz.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Homestar Runner", https://hackerapproved.com/p/homestar-runner/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).