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Charlie Sweatpants
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Charlie Sweatpants writes Dead Homer Society, a personal blog at deadhomersociety.wordpress.com about culture and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dead Homer Society's "Zombie Simpsons" piece, which argues The Simpsons became a more absurd, earnest sitcom after deaths, writing-room turnover and the influence of other shows.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An ongoing ramble by Charlie Sweatpants . .
Most-linked posts?
- /zombiesimpsons/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Cutting the strip at the 10 years is a good idea to avoid the Zombie Simpson problem. https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/zombiesimpsons/ (It's easier when it's just one man job, and you must not fire all the team.)
Comment linking /zombiesimpsons/
on “Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)”The Simpsons is among the absolute worst of offenders. See Dead Homer Society [1] for a passionate fan's detailed explanation. [1] https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/zombiesimpsons/
Comment linking /zombiesimpsons/
on “New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published”The Zombie Simpsons explanation paints it (fairly convincingly) as a combo of deaths, turnover in the writing room, and the influence of The Simpsons and other “subversive” shows affecting the mainstream so much that it was no longer distinctive, with the result that the show became a heightened, silly, absurd, but basically straight, and (more, at least) earnest, version of the family sitcom it had started off lamp…
Comment linking /zombiesimpsons/
on “After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back – and ahead”