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- The now-infamous “Bart to the Future” episode of The Simpsons, which aired almost exactly 16 years ago, on March 19, 2000, predicted a Donald Trump presidency. The outlook was not bright. “It was a warning to America,” writer Dan Greaney tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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Jul 19, 2019 · From celebrity cameos to predicting the future - we meet two of the writers of The Simpsons.
Nov 19, 2021 · Hannah Blackiston. From Donald Trump as president to the September 11 attacks, The Simpsons has eerily predicted a lot of events in its 700 episodes. But long-time writer and original crew...
May 20, 2024 · Speaking with Cartoon Base, The Simpsons ' current co-showrunner Matt Selman was asked about how the series ends up predicting the future and he based the answer down to "a basic...
Mar 25, 2024 · Matt Groening explained why he made The Simpsons characters yellow; Cypress Hill respond after almost 30-year-old bizarre Simpsons prediction about them came true
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Stupidity is a two-way street, of course, and whether that street is Evergreen Terrace or Pennsylvania Avenue, trying to find the culprit behind this worldwide "process of dumbening" (to quote Lisa Simpson, voiced by Yeardley Smith) might resemble another popular meme: multiple Spider-Men pointing at one another in an accusatory manner. There is a ...
Taking the "louder or dumber" scene as a microcosm of The Simpsons' predictions as a whole, we can extrapolate that many of the show's most heralded predictions are either throwaway gags that coincidentally came true or examples of patterns in human nature that recur frequently. Even among the better of The Simpsons prediction list-icles, there ten...
Several of the show's amazing predictions have shockingly claimed that the U.S. government might one day be run in an incompetent manner. When the reader has finished clutching their pearls, take for instance the joke where Mayor Quimby left town during a disaster for a beach vacation. The list-icles claim that this is a prediction that Texas Senat...
There are other mind-boggling predictions to consider, like that Siegfried and Roy's tigers might harbor some resentment toward them after years of being forced to prance around a Las Vegas showroom, or that pop superstar Lady Gaga would perform at the Super Bowl. If those predictions have failed to impress you, consider the staggering claim that D...
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Mar 9, 2017 · 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...
Feb 2, 2018 · The future can be forecast better than one might think, said Al Jean, one of the show’s original writers and its showrunner since 1998. Episodes of “The Simpsons” air a year after they’re ...
