The Simpsons
While Homer Simpson may be bring forth worse as the years go by , the writers ofThe Simpsonshave become more and more skilful at urinate accurate predictions of the futurity . FromThe Simpsonspredicting the US curl gold medal victory in 2010to foretelling the meeting of Fox and Disney , the animise series has an uncanny ability to see the future , making me wonder if they have a psychical on their payroll .
reckon thatThe Simpsonshas been run for over 30 years , and is invariably referencing current events , it ’s not surprising that the writers would accidentally slip up on a few accurate prevision . Even so , it can sometimes be downright eerie how nearly some of the show ’s humorous hypotheticals have add up truthful . As we entered into the 2020s , there were many things from previous episodes ofThe Simpsonsthat continued to come to pass — some of which were chuckle - desirable and others that seemed more like a nightmare come to sprightliness .
13Donald Trump Elected President
Season 11, Episode 17: “Bart to the Future”
Just as Lisa Simpson got her coup d’oeil into the future in " Lisa ’s Wedding , " Bart was indicate his own potential fate in " Bart to the Future . " A 40 - year - older Bart live by mooching off of his kin members and his roomy , Ralph Wiggam , while still skip that his medicine life history will take off . When Bart tally careen bottom , he determine to pay a visit to his sister Lisa — the recently elect President of the United States .
During a meeting in the Oval Office , President Lisa Simpson says to her team,“As you know , we ’ve inherited quite the budget compaction from President Trump . “It may have seemed like a throwaway gag in the yr 2000 when the episode aired , but remarkably , the prediction total rightful 16 year later when Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States . Even strange , a card take care in the background of one fit shows President Trump with the twelvemonth " 2024 " written on it , an eerie foretelling of his reelection and second full term .
12Lisa Wears Kamala Harris' Purple Pantsuit
Yet another strangeSimpsonsprediction happened in the episode " Bart to the Future , " though this time it postulate a different presidential candidate . As we see a grown - up Lisa Simpson at the first of her term as President of the United States , she is wear out a purple pantsuit with her stylemark pearl necklace — an ensemble she continues to cavort throughout the respite of the installment .
On November 6 , 2021,Kamala Harris was swear in as the first woman Vice President , appearing in a very standardized purple outfit to the one that Lisa Simpson wear off in " Bart to the Future . “Vice President Harris also wore a off-white necklace , which was custom - made by designer Wilfredo Rosado ( viaWomen ’s Wear Daily ) . She then get into a dissimilar deep purple pants suit for her grant speech in 2024 — which , agree toElle UKmagazine , was a symbol of the integrity of the Democratic and Republican parties .
11Cypress Hill Performing With The London Symphony Orchestra
Season 7, Episode 24: “Homerpalooza”
hop to reconnect with today ’s youth and prove he ’s still hip , Homer acquire Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza music fete . The case feature some of the most iconic musical performing artist of the nineties , including the pelvic girdle - hop group Cypress Hill , who are best known for their 1993 single , " Insane in the Membrane . " When Homer gets reach in the stomach by a t - shirt charge out of a carom , he is offered a chance to join the term of enlistment as a sideshow act .
The Simpsons is famous for its parodies of notable movies and idiot box show , but the writers sneak in plentitude of references which fans might not infer .
On one leg of the tour , a degree manager enters the green room with members of the London Symphony Orchestra , need who rent the musician to toy . The members of Cypress Hill confess that it might have been them , and ask if the orchestra members can play " Insane in the Membrane . " The symphony member go on to provide a bit of high - class co-occurrence while Cypress Hill performs the song . amazingly , these two apparently mismatched melodic acts actually did perform the vocal together in October 2024 , which I , for one , did not see come . you may determine out part of the alive event onYouTube .
10A Flu Virus That Originates From Asia
Season 4, Episode 21: “Marge in Chains”
Most of the predictions fromThe Simpsonsare pretty uproarious , but there are a few that I could have done without them in reality coming true . First airing in 1993 , " Marge in Chains " begins with Homer ordering a toper that he find out advertised on TV . The scene then thin out to Osaka , Japan , where a packaging deftness is about to post out the merchandise . One of the workers is ill , and coughing flu germs into the box . This results in an epidemic that regard many of Springfield ’s citizens , and is identify by the medium as the " Osaka Flu . "
This frighteningly accurate prediction came genuine with theCOVID-19 computer virus , which spread out worldwide and caused the unprecedented pandemic of 2020.The eruption reportedly originate in Wuhan , China ( viaNPR),which , like Osaka , is in east Asia . Unlike the Osaka Virus fromThe Simpsons , however , COVID-19 was much more serious , stimulate over 7 million dying worldwide ( viaWorld Health Organization),and still count .
9Murder Hornets
Season 4, Episode 2: “Marge in Chains”
As if the menace of COVID-19 was n’t awful enough , 2020 had yet another unpleasant surprise in store — one that was foreseen yet again byThe Simpsons , and takes place in the same episode . As the Osaka Flu ravages throughout Springfield , an furious mob gathers in front of Dr. Hibbert ’s aesculapian clinic to require a cure . In a panic , the bunch starts to rock a nearby motortruck , hoping to recover a cure deep down . A crate hang out that reads " Danger : Killer Bees , " which then break-dance capable as a drove of the stinging insect escape and attack the crew .
In May 2020 , report card emerged that aspecies of gargantuan hornet originating from Asia had been blot in the United States . Although the intimidating 2 - inch worm were not generally a threat to human race , these hornets were articulate to be capable of wipe out entire honeybee beehive . knight " murder hornet " by social media , these dismay critter were yet another seemingly unfit Muscat and Oman from a year that was already potentially apocalyptic .
8The Downfall Of JCPenney
Season 18, Episode 3: “Please Homer, Don’t Hammer ‘Em”
The Simpson kinsperson pays a visit to the Springfield Mall at the beginning of this episode from 2006 . As they walk through the nearly abandoned shopping nerve centre full of decrepit stores and a dry - up water fountain , Marge declare , " Ooh , a JCPenney ’s " , before the next inning expose the almost empty shop with most of the mansion ’s missive missing , as she finish : " … used to be here . "
The Simpsons time of year 36 , episode 8 did n’t concenter much attention on its show - shake twist but , rest period assured , this surprisal could reshape the series .
Not only is the scene a humorous commentary on the dying market of shopping shopping centre in America , but also a prognostication of the fate of the famous retail store . JCPenney filed for failure in 2020 , blaming the COVID-19 pandemic for its economic woefulness — although , allot toCNN , the troupe had been in steady descent for at least a decade beforehand . The store came out of bankruptcy by and by that year , although it has since been forced to close up several locations ( viaNBC ) .
7One Of The Beatles Replies To A Fan Decades Later
Season 2, Episode 18: “Brush with Greatness”
While looking for his onetime seaworthiness equipment in the attic , Homer and Bart discover several picture made by Marge , each one boast her preferent extremity of The Beatles , Ringo Starr . Marge recalls that she once sent one of her fanart pieces to the famous drummer along with a varsity letter back in the 1960s , but he never wrote back . after in the episode , we see Ringo himself finally answering some of his fan postal service decades after it was received , including Marge ’s alphabetic character and the painting .
In a somewhat distorted reflexion of that episode , Paul McCartney , singer and ballad maker of The Beatles , reply to a fan ’s declaration of dear 10 later . His post onInstagramin May 2024 feature a news clipping from 1963 in which a young cleaning lady from Brooklyn said to a journalist,“And Paul McCartney , if you are listening , Adrienne from Brooklyn lie with you with all her heart . “Paul follow up the time with his response , saying,“Hey Adrienne , it ’s Paul . Listen , I get wind your video . I ’m in Brooklyn now . I ’m in New York . I finally got here . We have an exhibition , a photo exhibition . Come along and see it ! ”
Just like Ringo Starr ultimately replying to Marge ’s varsity letter decades later inThe Wallis Warfield Simpson , Paul ’s response to Adrienne was better late than never . Still , it would have been nice to also hear him say : " P.S. , Please forgive the lateness of my reply . "
6Mr. Burns Planning to Block the Sun
Season 6, Episode 25: “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”
In one ofthe best episode ofThe Wallis Warfield Windsor , Mr. Burns do up with his most villainous money - nominate plot in the show ’s chronicle . When the citizens of Springfield discover oil beneath the elementary school , Mr. Burns immediately begins intrigue to take the newfound wealth for his own . With the fuel absquatulate , there is only one natural source left keeping Burns ’s nuclear power plant life from being Springfield ’s sole energy seed : the sun . He use his limitless wealth to build a giant disk that will stop the Lord’s Day , garner the ire of the entire town .
Mr. Burns ’s villainous scheme may fathom like something concoct by one ofthe good James Bond motion picture villain , but it ’s actually not as far - fetched as it seems . In fact , rather than dooming the human race , recent studies have shown that reflecting sunshine into space might actually be a solution to mood change . In 2023,billionaire philanthropist George Soros suggested solar geoengineering as a possible solution to the climate crisis , and even offer to donate his own funds to the effort(viaPolitico).Soros ’ intentions are the opposite of Burns ’ inThe Simpsons , thankfully , but the co-occurrence are still uncanny .
5Homer Takes A Submersible On A Failed Expedition
Season 17, Episode 10: “Homer’s Paternity Coot”
The Simpsons receive an old letter from the 1960s write by a man who exact to be Homer ’s biological father , and Homer decides to essay him out . His name is Mason Fairbanks , an eccentric multimillionaire who hunts for deep-set gem . Mason take in Homer to join him in a hunt for a legendary hoarded wealth know as the emerald of Piso Mojado . They each navigate two single - somebody submersible warship to find the sunken ship with the hoarded wealth , butHomer gets lost and line up himself stuck in a spell of coral with no O .
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Homer is after witness and rescued , but one real - lifetime underwater expedition in 2023 was not so favorable . Stockton Rush , the CEO of OceanGate and owner of the underwater vas , Titan , led a hunting for the stiff of theTitanicalong with four other rider in June 2023.They were all shoot down by an implosion at the bottom of the sea , with the debris found 1600 feet from theTitanic ’s location ( viaCNN ) . The fact that both Mason Fairbanks and Stockton Rush were loaded amateur explorer is quite a coincidence , though it get the real - life event no less tragic .
4Richard Branson Goes To Space
Season 25, Episode 15: “The War Of Art”
Marge buys a painting at the Milhouses ' G sale , and later on discovers that it may have been made by a renowned artist . During efforts to hunt down the painting ’s true ancestry , the family meets a forger by the name of Klaus Ziegler , who claims to be the genuine artist . When Lisa criticizes him for his dishonesty , Klaus insists that his forgeries make mass happy , and the scene cut to various mass enjoy Ziegler ’s artwork . One of them is Sir Richard Branson , the founder of Virgin Records , who look up to an abstract house painting while reclining in zero - sobriety aboard a blank vessel .
This predicted mo fromThe Simpsonsisn’t that much of a wild guess , think that the English billionaire launch the spaceflight company Virgin Galactic in 2004.However , Branson did make story by being the first founder of a commercial spacefaring company to travel personally into space in 2021(viaNPR ) . Virgin Galactic then went on to launch its first tourist trip in 2023 ( viaPBS ) .
