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- More from TIME. In fact, throughout its nearly 700 episodes, creator Matt Groening and his team have been so on top of the country’s cultural pulse, they’ve even managed to predict several major historical events — along with a few less momentous happenings.
- Siegfried and Roy’s Tiger Attack. Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) Predicted: 1993. Came true: 2003.
- Autocorrect Fails. Season 6, Episode 8: Lisa on Ice. Predicted: 1994. Came true: 2007. During a Springfield Elementary School assembly, Kearney asks fellow bully Dolph to take a memo to “Beat up Martin” on his “Newton” — Apple’s early attempt at a personal digital assistant.
- FaceTime. Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa’s Wedding. Predicted: 1995. Came true: 2010. In this futuristic installment, Lisa talks with Marge using her phone’s video chat capabilities, predating the popular FaceTime feature of today’s iPhones by 15 years.
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- 39 America Wins The Gold Medal in Curling
- 38 Ebola Outbreak
- 37 Robots as Librarians
- 36 An All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant's False Advertising
- 35 Whacking Day
- 34 A Late Letter from The Beatles
- 33 Daenerys Targaryen's Villainous Turn
- 32 Autocorrect
- 31 A Submersible Disaster
"Lisa's Wedding" - Season 6, Episode 19
Many characters from fan-favorite shows will travel to London for its iconic sights, and The Simpsonsis no different. One of these trips comes with a strange prediction, as Lisa's future is predicted and a flash-forward portrays her meeting with a fellow university student named Hugh Parkfield during a trip to London. A blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot shows a familiar-looking pointy building behind Tower Bridge, which is recognizable to many London locals and tourists who know it today as The S...
"Boy Meets Curl" Season 21, Episode 12
Everyone loves an underdog story, and The Simpsons were able to predict the most unlikely of tales in the Season 21 episode, “Boy Meets Curl.” Released in 2010, it centers on Homer and Marge as their search for a fun date takes them to the winter sport of curling. Teaming up with Agnes and Seymour Skinner, they are brought into the U.S. Olympics team for the sport and embark on an incredible run to win gold. While the episode was released in conjunction with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada...
"Lisa's Sax" - Season 9, Episode 3
"Lisa's Sax" is an episode that tells the origin story of Lisa's love for the musical instrument. In one scene, Bart is shown sick and feeling down, so Marge attempts to cheer him up by reading a strangely titled book. The book, titled "Curious George and the Ebola Virus," is a strange narrative choice considering Ebola wouldn't be widely known until the outbreak in 2000, and then again in 2014. The Ebola outbreak back in 2000 made headlines for claiming the lives of 254 people in the Republi...
"Lisa's Wedding" - Season 6, Episode 19
It would make sense that "Lisa's Wedding," an episode that's essentially a flashforward into the future, would have many Simpsons predictions. It's centered on Lisa's experience with a fortune-teller, who predicts that she will fall in love and marry an upper-crust English man named Hugh Parkfield, whom she'll meet at her future university. In that future, librarians have been replaced with robots. In 2016,some brilliant Aberystwyth University students did exactly that by building a prototype...
"New Kid on the Block" - Season 4, Episode 8
For Homer, the all-you-can-eat buffet by "The Frying Dutchman" was a dream come true. He takes full advantage of the promotion by eating for hours, finishing most of their items including the shrimp and two plastic lobsters. This causes management to call him "a remorseless eatin' machine" and eventually kick him out of the restaurant, which could go bankrupt because of his patronage. Homer is annoyed and takes them to court for false advertising. A real-world court case would soon take place...
"Whacking Day" - Season 4, Episode 20
The episode "Whacking Day" is named after an annual tradition in Springfield where the residents gather to joyfully beat snakes to death to allegedly keep the snake population under control. Though it's said to have originated from founder Jebediah Springfield, this is later proven to be false. Only the first half of the plot has made it to real life, with the "Python Challenge" having a similar idea. The Florida Python Challenge calls on individuals to help control the population of invasive...
"Brush with Greatness" - Season 2, Episode 18
In the Season 2 episode "Brush with Greatness," Marge picks up a paintbrush again for the first time in a long time after learning about the fate of her Ringo Starrportraits. One of the scenes in the episode shows Ringo Starr himself carefully replying to countless fan mail piled all around him, with many having been written several years ago. This isn't too far from a real-life event involving Paul McCartney, who replied to two fans from Essex, London in September 2013. This was a response t...
"The Serfsons" - Season 29, Episode 1
Game of Thrones will forever be remembered as a great fantasy show that went downhill and gave its fans one of the worst TV finales ever. One of its most questionable plot points was on The Simpsons before it ever made it on the HBO series. In "The Serfsons," an episode that parodies Westeros and GoTin general, a dragon burns down the Serfsons' village after Homer revived it. This likely reminds most of how Daenerys Targaryen's Drogon burned King's Landing in GoT, even after the people had al...
"Lisa on Ice" - Season 6, Episode 8
"Lisa on Ice" sees the brightest Simpson in danger of failing thanks to new "Academic Alerts" that have identified gym class as her weak point. She immediately tries to change this, appealing to her gym teacher and reaching an agreement about joining a sports program outside of class. In the meantime, Martin is, as usual, in danger of bullying. One scene sees school bullies read a memo to "beat up Martin," only for the message to be scrambled to read "eat up Martha."Anyone who's ever experien...
"Homer's Paternity Coot" - Season 17, Episode 10
A more recent prediction from The Simpsons became clear earlier this year, when fans made the connection between the Titanic submersible disaster and the episode "Homer's Paternity Coot."In the episode, Homer finds a man he thinks is his long-lost father and agrees to venture into the depths of the ocean with him in an attempt to find an old ship. Disaster strikes and Homer gets stuck, but thankfully opens his eyes in a hospital a few days later. Last June, a real-life submersible carrying fi...
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Aug 13, 2023 · So Far | Den of Geek. Features. Everything The Simpsons Predicted Correctly…. So Far. Presidents, spaceships, and submarines, The Simpsons has seen many things coming over the years. By...
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- Trump’s Presidency. The Simpsons season 11, episode 17, “Bart to the Future,” saw Bart glimpse a vision of the future wherein Lisa was president. Lisa announced that her administration inherited a lot of debt from President Trump in what was no doubt intended to be a goofy one-line joke.
- Disney/Fox’s Merger. In season 10, episode 5, “When You Dish Upon A Star,” a comedic cutaway reveals that the Disney Corporation has bought 20th Century Fox.
- Tom Hanks Lends The US His Credibility. In The Simpsons Movie, Tom Hanks appears in a commercial for an upcoming landmark and announces that the U.S. government is borrowing some of his credibility since the institution has lost its own.
- COVID-19. In season 4, episode 21, “Marge in Chains,” Springfield residents are resigned to bed rest after a flu from Osaka causes illness to spread quickly throughout the town's residents.
May 10, 2024 · Predictions from 'The Simpsons' Can Actually Be Explained. By Matt Shore and Therese Lacson. Updated May 10, 2024. There's nothing particularly prognostic about the wacky events in...
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Mar 2, 2018 · 01 of 17. 16 times The Simpsons predicted the future. FOX. Over the course of dozens of seasons and 700-plus episodes, The Simpsons has offered up approximately 153,149 jokes, give or take a...
Dec 21, 2023 · All of the eerie The Simpsons predictions that came true in 2023 | Metro News. Home › Entertainment › TV. All of these Simpsons predictions came true in 2023. Meghna Amin Published Dec 21,...
