20 "Simpsons" predictions that have been realized
The long -standing animated series has accidentally declared in the future over the years over the years.
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The simpsons has been arguing for so long When the show has stopped being good (Or I started to be good again ) for more than two decades. But something on which everyone can get along is the fact that, through 35 seasons , the show was sometimes precise to predict the future, if only because of a mathematical phenomenon called The law of really large numbers , which stipulates that "with a sufficiently large sample, everything scandalous is able to happen." However, comparisons are fun to follow.
So, with this warning in mind, read the rest for 20 times The simpsons I understood, from policy, to sport, to technological progress.
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1 Fish with three eyes (season 2, episode 4: "Two cars in each garage and three eyes on each fish")
When A Reddit position in R / Europe Showed a three -eyed fish taken off the coast of Greenland last month, the spirit of the fans immediately turned into a wink, the mutant specimen caught outside the Springfield nuclear power plant in This vintage episode. "Yet another example of ' The simpsons did it earlier, ”joked a Reddit user.
2 David David by Michelangelo (season 2, episode 9: "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge")
The campaign of margin against violence in cartoons triggers a movement which soon leads the citizens concerned to protest against an exhibition of Michelangelo Statue of David because of his nudity in this episode of 1990. In 2016, It really happened When a woman complained of a copy of the emblematic statue in an exhibition in Saint Petersburg, Russia saying it "distorts children of children". The exhibition organizers took advantage of advertising for Launch a "Dress David" campaign This allowed residents to vote on the icon holding or leaving it at the Natural.
3 The winners of the Super Bowl (season 3, episode 14: "Lisa le Greek")
In the now legendary episode of 1992 "Lisa the Greek", Homer discovers a strange heel of Lisa to predict the football results, which earned him big dollars in bets (and injure her feelings when she realizes herself that the time of the dad girl is used). The episode was broadcast a few days before the Super Bowl XXVI, where the Washington Redskins defeated the Buffalo Bills, corresponding to Lisa's prediction . When the episode was reassessed the following year, Fox nicknamed the episode for Lisa to bet on the Dallas Cowboys, which also won - a sequence that continued throughout the following year when the Cowboys beat the Bills, according to Lisa's discount prediction.
4 The attack by Siegfried and Roy Tiger (season 5, episode 10: "$ Pringfield (or, how I learned to stop worrying and like the legalized game)"
In this 1993 episode, Mr. Burns opened the Monty Burns Casino, where the characters Siegfried and Roy inspired by Gunter and Ernst perform with their white tiger Anastasia. After returning to his capture of nature, Anastasia attacks the duo. Ten years later, the tragedy struck real artists when A tiger of white Bengal trained Roy horn Out of the scene at Mirage Casino Resort, causing serious injuries.
5 Autonomous vehicles (season 5, episode 16: "Homer Loves Flandre")
"Homer leads one of them of robot cars," supposed Lenny when Homer pushes the head of Ned Flanders under the driver's side window to avoid being seen with his neighboring neighbor. "One of them from American robot cars," adds Carl after an accident has heard out of screen.
Decades later, autonomous "robot cars" of American companies such as Tesla, Google and Uber have hit the road ... and A few other things . (Let's just hope there is nothing for them to reach level 5 autonomy in 2018 " Baby you can't drive my car . ")
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6 Smart watches and video chat (season 6, episode 19: "Lisa's wedding")
In a flash-avant in 2010, Lisa's fiancé, Hugh Parkfield, uses a futuristic wrist watch that allows him to make video calls. Although it was not a completely radical concept in 1995 - James Bond had Seiko surveillance in video in 1983 - The timing of prediction was almost perfect with The first smartwatch capable of independent video chat Launch to 2013.
7 The riots of the Capitol (season 7, episode 18: "The day when violence is dead")
When a crowd stormed the American Capitol building on January 6, 2021, leading to At least four deaths And 140 police injuries , Internet was quick to quote a flashback scene in this episode of season 7 which show that characters storm the capitol with rifles and bombs after the passage of an amendment prohibiting the flag. Although this similarity is legitimate, a widely disseminated image which claims to show a guardian tattooed field Willie dressed in a horned hat like that of a riot and theorist of a conspiracy now comforting Jake Chansley was tampered with .
8 Cypress Hill occurs with the London Symphony Orchestra (season 7, episode 24: "Homerpalooza")
In the 1996 episode of most of the popularity of Lollapalooza, the Hip-Hop Cypress Hill group occurs with the London Symphony Orchestra in a parody of the Alt-Rock music festival called Homerpalooza. Imaginary collaboration became a reality in 2024 When Real Cypress Hill occurred with Real London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
9 September 11 attacks (season 9, episode 1: "New York City against Homer Simpson")
In one of the most obsessive Simples "Predictions", a brochure shown in this episode on the theme of Manhattan announces a large "$ 9" on the side of the twin towers undeniably 11. After the attacks of September 11 against the buildings four years later, executive producer Bill Oakley said to New York Observer (via THE New York Times ) It was amazed by coincidence , "Since it is on the only episode of any series that has ever had an entire jokes of the World Trade Center."
10 Ebola epidemic (season 9, episode 3: "Lisa's sax")
In the 1997 episode "Lisa's Sax", Marge suggests that Bart has read the book Curious George and the Ebola virus . Although probably a reference to The 1989 epidemic Among the macaques of a laboratory of Virginia (which fortunately involved a tension which was not lethal for humans), the subsequent drawing of Bart - a sad sun crying on a pile of corpses - seems to prefigure the mortal EBOLA 2014 EBOLA in West Africa .
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11 People who fly fat in restaurants (season 10, episode 1: "Lard of the dance")
Cooking fat did not seem to be a hot goods when this episode was broadcast in 1998. In the show, Homer Enfole Bart in a plan to steal the fat of Krusty Burger and Springfield Elementary to sell in cash. A decade later, an increase in oil prices led to an eruption of fat in restaurants, according to The New York Times - including a man who stolen hundreds of gallons Tips of a king burger.
12 Disney acquires Fox (season 10, episode 5: "When you go flat on a star")
A gag at the end of this 1998 episode shows a panel outside the Fox Studio Lot lot, "a division of Walt Disney Co." Nineteen years later, it became a reality when Disney announced plans Acquire 21st Century Fox in a historical merger.
13 The presidency of Donald Trump (season 11, episode 17: "Bart to the future")
This episode of 2000 has a future Lisa Simpson taking over as a potus and inheriting "a budget crisis by President Trump". Donald Trump would not really become president for 16 years - something that seemed incredibly improbable at the time despite His race with the reform party This year.
14 Purple presidential of Kamala Harris (season 11, episode 17: "Bart to the future")
A few moments Joe Biden announcing in July 2024 that he was walking away from his re-election campaign, thus leaving the path open to the vice-president Kamala Harris be the Democratic candidate, Internet began to speculate If this episode had a double blow of political predictions. Namely, there are similarities between the purple costume and the pearl necklace that Lisa has as "first consecutive president" of the United States and the outfit that Harris wore during swords as a first woman vice vice -Pres -president of the country.
15 A ship search leads to the disaster (season 17, episode 10: "Homer's paternity cot")
This 2006 episode raises Homer on board an underwater expedition to explore a sinking sinking with a professional treasure hunter who could be his father. During the dive, Homer experienced a deadly incident, losing consciousness underwater.
This episode foreshadowed a real tragedy in 2023 in which Oceangate Titan Submersible Implosed, killing five people, while exploring the titanic wrecks. Even stranger is the fact that Mike Reiss , a longtime writer to The simpsons ,, had mounted oceangate Three times in the previous year, noting that there were communication and navigation problems with each dive.
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16 Voting machine errors against Barack Obama (season 20, episode 4: "Treehouse of Horror XIX")
A quick gag in this episode on the theme of Halloween, broadcast before the 2008 presidential election, sees Homer trying to vote for Barack Obama Use of an electronic voting machine, only to record six votes for his opponent, John McCain . Four years later, the media reported that Voting machines have actually changed Some Obama vote in his next republican challenger, Mitt Romney .
17 The American Curling team wins gold (season 21, episode 12: "Boy Meets Curl")
In this episode on the theme of the Olympic Games, Homer and Marge form a mixed curling team and win the gold medal at the Olympic Games against all expectations, Sweden winning money. Eight years later, at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the American male curling team achieved an improbable return and claimed the gold medal , with Sweden winning money. Curling was not back at the Olympic Games since 1998, when the episode was broadcast, which makes this prediction particularly striking.
18 The winner of the Nobel Prize (season 22, episode 1: "Musical of the elementary school")
As indicated in An article on social networks From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first of the 22nd season of the Simpsons includes a quick gag on the screen to a map with the Paris leaf on the Nobel Prize in Milhouse, which ended up predicting a real Nobel winner.
The card shows that Bart and the classmate of Milhouse Martin have bet this MIT teacher Bengt Holmström would take the price - what he was going to do. In 2016, Holmström received the Nobel Prize for economics . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
19 Legal pot in Canada (season 22, episode 3: "Vibration license")
During a trip north of the border in the 2010 "license to Thrill", Ned Flanders is disjointed to offer a puff of "Reeferino" of a Canadian lookalike which assures him "it is legal here". While recreational use was not technically authorized in Canada at the time, the dream became a reality in 2018 when the country Nationally legal cannabis .
20 The FIFA corruption scandal (season 25, episode 16: "You don't have to live as a referee")
In this 2014 episode on the theme of football, Homer is selected to become a World Cup referee after Lisa delivered a speech calling her hero. While Homer is starting to refuse bribes and try to arbitrate honestly and maintain his respect, he yields to temptation afterwards. He was not Lisa's first choice and almost launched the World Cup. A year later, the Real FIFA corruption scandal Broke, revealing 24 years of corruption and corruption among FIFA officials.
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