Don’t be afraid: The Simpsons They have stories for years.
The cartoon created by Matt Groening has covered many issues in the course of its almost 700 episodes.
While the series has devout followers worldwide, it has also remained strangely relevant in recent years, thanks to a rare pattern of headlines that only suggest one thing: The Simpsons They can predict the future.
From a cunning mention of the presidency of Donald Trump in an episode of 20 years ago, to a revolutionary scientific theorem 14 years before its discovery, the series has often been months, years or even decades ahead of global news events.
While its creators have sometimes questioned the veracity of the state of the program as a modern nostradamus, the ability to The Simpsons To presage apparently unpredictable events, it is often amazing.
Here is a selection of 13 times that The Simpsons “The future predicted” …
Donald Trump
The Simpsons They predicted the presidency of Donald Trump in the episode of the eleventh season “Bart to the Future”, which was issued in 2000. Setting in the future, the episode refers to a presidency of Trump, which seemed implausible at that time (although a failed career as a candidate probably served as inspiration for the joke).
Lady Gaga
The episode of the 23rd “Lisa Gaga” season, disappeared by a large part of the Simpson fans base when it was broadcast in 2012, saw Lady Gaga (expressed by herself) flying towards a stadium while she was suspended from cables, a trick that the pop star would later perform in real life during her mid -time show of the Super Bowl in 2017, wearing an amazingly similar attire.
Nobel prize winner
A flicker and you will miss it, because in an episode of 2010 Milhouse was seen betting on the Finnish economist Bengt R. Holmstrom would win the Nobel Prize in Economics, which he really did, six years later (in a joint victory with Oliver Hart).
The Biden-Harris presidency
The animator and director of the series David Silverman recently joked on Twitter that the series had “predicted the future again” in a 2019 clip that seemed to predict the joint places of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the Democratic list. Towards the end of the segment, an anti-trump song that parodies to “America” of West Side StoryBiden and Harris appear next to each other, although their joint candidacy and their eventual election would not happen until the following year.
The Higgs Boson
In the 1998 episode “Evergreen Terrace’s wizard,” Homer is inspired by Thomas Edison to follow an inventor career. At one point, write an equation on a board that practically predicted the mass of the Higgs boson particle. “That equation predicts the mass of the Boson of Higgs,” said specialist Simon Singh to The Independent . “If you solve it, you get the mass of a boson of Higgs that is just a little larger than the Nano-Masa of this. It is something amazing that Homer makes this prediction 14 years before he was discovered.”
Killer hornets
Even series writer Bill Oakley admitted that The Simpsons They had “predicted on 2020” when an episode clip of the fourth season “Marge in Chains” went viral last year. The clip in question sees Springfield residents fighting each other for access to a placebo, that fans thought that the scientifically falsely false statements of Donald Trump’s covid-19 treatment had predicted. In addition, the clip sees the rebel turba dump a container of murderous bees, which the spectators interpreted as an ominous prediction of the invasion of murderous wasps last year.
Horse meat scandal
The 1994 classic episode “The Sweet Seymour Skinner Baadssss Song” presented a scene in which the lunch lady, Doris (the deceased Doris Grau) is seen pouring “varied parts of horse” at the Springfield Elementary school meals. In 2013, the scene would charge a new heartbreaking meaning when the United Kingdom was shaken by a scandal related to horse DNA found in meat products.
The Beatles letter
In one of the first episodes of the cartoon, Marge receives an answer to a fan mail that had sent Ringo Starr decades earlier. The premise came true for two women from Essex in 2013, whom their partner Beatle Sir Paul McCartney sent them a letter 50 years after they tried to contact him.
Smart Watches
Although the first commercial smart watch would not be launched until 2014, the idea of fact was described in the 1995 episode of The Simpsons entitled “The wedding of Lisa”. In the episode, Lisa’s possible boyfriend, Hugh (Mandy Patinkin), uses the multifunctional bracelet watch.
Fusion Disney–Fox
Fox’s acquisition for 71,300 million dollars from Disney took most of the world in 2019, but not some attentive fans of the Simpson . In fact, the series had “predicted” the merger of Fox-Disney in a joke in 1998, which showed the studies of 20th Century Fox labeled as “a division of Walt Disney CO”.
US Olympic gold.
An episode of season 21 entitled “Boy Meets Curl” saw Homer and Marge join a mixed double double curling team, eventually travel to the Winter Olympic Games and, in a true turn of events, they managed to beat Sweden to take home the Olympic gold for the United States. The surprising victory actually happened eight years later in Pyongyang, when the United States male team took home the first Olympic gold of the nation in this sport.
Tom Hanks inauguration speech
When Tom Hanks went to La Nación during Joe Biden’s possession as president, fans of LosSimpson collectively pointed to a scene in The movieof the Simpsons 14 years before it seemed to anticipate the moment. “The United States Government has lost its credibility, so it is borrowing part of mine,” says Hanks in his cameo, that Twitter users suggested that he feels strangely similar to the actor who presented a special television unit after the inauguration for the Biden administration.
Capitol disturbances
The mortal disturbances in favor of Trump in Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 were a moment that shocked the world and shook the very foundations of US democracy. But some fans of The Simpsons They suggested that the program had “predicted” the riots in the 1996 episode “the day the violence died,” pointing a scene in which the capitol’s steps are assaulted by an angry crowd of cartoon characters.
