It's insane to assume all the times 'The Simpsons' predicted the future.
If you've got been an established viewer of The Simpsons, then that the writers they pick for the show are mainly clairvoyant.
Now maybe you'll be able to just chalk it as much as humanity being predictably ridiculous, or the indisputable fact that the display's been round eternally, so the writers are bound to cover the whole thing that's going to happen in the scope of previous, present, and future historical past, but there are some significantly impressive social phenomenons that the show's got right on the nostril.
Here are a few of the craziest ones.
(*24*)1. The USA Men's Curling staff winning Gold.S21E12: "Boy Meets Curl" depicted Homer and co. taking home the Gold medal in curling right through the Winter Olympics. Eight years later, the US Olympic men's curling team would do just that in Pyeongchang. But what's really loopy is that they accurately predicted the Silver medalists from the 2018 video games as well.
(*24*)2. Trump getting elected President.S11E17: "Bart to the Future" made a funny story of a dystopian future the place Donald Trump one way or the other was once elected President. 16 years later and that ridiculousness in fact came to go.
(*24*)3. Disney buys out Fox.S10E5: "When You Dish Upon A Star", just about twenty years sooner than Disney bought out Fox, predicted the animation studio large would own 20th Century Fox in 1998. In 2017, Disney bought Fox for $66.1 billion.
(*24*)4. Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime display.S23E22: "Lisa Goes Gaga" in 2012 predicted the pop sensation can be rocking the Super Bowl festivities mid-game. In 2017, she did just that.
(*24*)5. Siegfried and Roy being attacked by their tigers.S05E10: "$pringfield" aired in 1993, in 2003 the garish leisure duo encountered known as it quits after Roy was mauled by the tiger and left part-paralyzed.
(*24*)6. Mutant tomatoes.S11E5: "E-I-E-I-D'oh!" debuted in 1999, and 14 years later, mutant tomatoes began popping up in Japan in wake of the Fukushima disaster.
(*24*)7. Autocorrect frustrations.S6E19: "Lisa's Wedding" came out way back in 1995. In the episode, Lisa and Marge talk with a telephone that has video features and lo and behold, an irritating autocorrect function. Sound acquainted?
(*24*)8. Broken voter machine.S20E4: "Treehouse of Horror XIX" got here out in 2008. Then in 2012, the exact same thing happened.
(*24*)9. The discovery of "The God Particle".S10E2: "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" got here out in 1998 and it options Homer at a blackboard with an equation written on it. That equation predicted the mass of an undiscovered particle: the Higgs Boson, or "God Particle" that ended up being a huge scientific breakthrough.
(*24*)10. The inexplicable robbery of a lemon tree.S6E24: "Lemon of Troy" aired in 1995. The episode featured residents of rival the town, Shelbyville, stealing a lemon tree from Springfield. Life imitated artwork when a lemon tree was uprooted, for no reason why, in the same exact fashion, in 2013.
(*24*)11. The NSA Spying Scandal.The Simpsons Movie in 2007 depicted the NSA as this massive organization spying on all American voters. Now it could've gave the impression of hyperbole again then, but it surely turns out they got it pretty much right.
(*24*)12. Lisa's fiance from the future speaking into his watch.S6E19: "Lisa's Wedding" debuted in 1995, and now we've got a wave of smartwatches that do all sorts of crazy stuff.
(*24*)13. TV Evangelists worshipping money.S7E12: "Team Homer" displays TV preachers being obsessed with worshipping cash. Then Pope Francis said this in 2013.
(*24*)14. America's Ebola "outbreak".S9E3: "Lisa's Sax" displays Marge reading Curious George and the Ebola Virus in 1997. In 2014, America was very, very afraid of Ebola.
(*24*)15. Horse meat as a "secret" factor.S5E19: "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" aired in 1994, featuring the lunch woman hanging horse meat in kids's lunches. In 2013, a bunch of popular food merchandise have been discovered to have horse meat in them.
(*24*)16. FIFA's corruption.S25E16: "You Don't Have To Live Like A Referee" aired in 2014 featuring a character who bore an eerie resemblance to the identical officials arrested on corruption charges.
(*24*)17. Hamburger earmuffs.S10E2: "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" featured this weird style pattern in 1998 smartly before this product hit the market in 2010.
(*24*)18. Greece's financial cave in.S23E10: "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" aired in 2012 and cracked a shaggy dog story about Greece being post on eBay. In 2015, Greece went into default.
(*24*)19. Ringo taking two decades to write down again to his fans.S2E18: "Brush with Greatness" had Ringo say he's going to write back to each one in all his fans, even though takes him "20 years". In 2013, Paul McCartney of the Beatles spoke back to a fan's mail 50 years later.
(*24*)20. Predicting any individual would win the nobel prize six years sooner than they did.S22E1: "Elementary School Music" aired in 2010, pronouncing that an MIT Professor would win a Nobel prize, which he did, in 2016.
(*24*)21. Future Lisa's faculty librarian used to be a robot.S6E19: "Lisa's Wedding" debuted in 1995. Her faculty's librarian used to be a robot, and, smartly, we now have robotic libraries. So there.
(*24*)22. Baby translator.S3E24: "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" got here out in 1992. The episode featured a toddler translator that could assist you to know what your toddler is announcing. Now, there may be an app that acknowledges the type of cry your baby is giving you.
(*24*)23. Homer sells cooking grease for money.S10E1: "Lard of the Dance" got here out in 1998 where Homer has a get-rich-quick scheme stealing and selling grease. In 2013, thieves have been discovered smuggling grease for pretty much the exact same reason.
What I want to know is why the writers of The Simpsons don't seem to be the use of their future prediction powers for excellent. Or maybe there's a secret group that's forcing them to deliver their message in cartoon-joke form, so no person takes it significantly? Illuminati.
(*24*)24. The Titanic submersible accidentS17E10: “Homer's Paternity Coot" was once launched in 2006. In the episode, Homer Simpson meets Mason Fairbanks, who claims to be his organic father. The two embark on a project to seek out sunken treasure in submersible crafts. However, Homer will get caught in coral and runs out of oxygen. Three days later, Homer wakes up in the health center from a coma.
Unsurprisingly, people briefly in comparison this episode to the Titanic submersible incident in 2023. It was once first of all believed that the pilot and passengers have been slowly working out of air after something went improper on their dive to the break of the Titanic. However, it's now believed that the submersible imploded, killing all the ones onboard instantly.
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