The American sitcom which has
been running since 1989 is on its 29th season airing on a TV. This
phenomenal cartoonish series has its episodes over 600 and is recognized as one
of the best humorous and ironic series with political sarcasm, pop culture, and
family life. The animated program is known to be America’s longest-running TV
sitcom.
The things that matters here is
the creator of the series, Matt Groening, along with his squad, besides being
the country’s cultural pulse, have also been able to predict the future and
made The Simpsons acted like a Clairvoyant. I don’t know how but the team
actually was the one who predicted about some of the major historical events
along with less important ones.
Why not check the 14
fortune-teller moments in the history of The Simpsons?
Season 5, Episode 10:
$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
Predicted: 1993
Came true: 2003
In this episode, Springfield makes
gambling as a legal act. When this decision has been made, Mr. Burns starts his
casino where German magician Gunter and Ernst show their performances, kind of
a parody of Las Vegas’s Siegfried and Roy show. The two animated partners
during their act attack by their wild tiger. This very moment happens in real
life in 2003 when Roy Horn was clawed by a White Bengal Tiger which caused him
a lifetime partial paralysis, making him said goodbye to his career.
Season 6, Episode 8:
Lisa on Ice
Predicted: 1994
Came true: 2007
Dolph makes her memo in a Springfield
Elementary School assembly when Kearney asks her to do so, to “Beat up Martin”
on his “Newton” (It was Apple’s first instinct towards a personal digital
assistant). Despite the actual statement, the machine interprets “Eat up Martha”
which is just like errors in iPhone’s autocorrect technology while messaging.
This made Nitin Ganatra, Apple’s
former director of engineering for iOS applications to took steps towards the
iPhone’s keyboard. He said, “If you heard people talking and they used the
words ‘Eat up Martha,’ it was basically a reference to the fact that we needed
to nail the keyboard. We needed to make sure the text input works on this
thing, otherwise, ‘Here comes the Eat up Marthas.'”
Season 6, Episode 19:
Lisa’s Wedding
Predicted: 1995
Came true: 2010
In this technological episode,
Lisa tells Marge about her phone’s advancement and capabilities during a video
chat. This prediction came into existence in 2010 by the name of FaceTime in
iPhones after 15 years.
Season 20, Episode 4:
Treehouse of Horror XIX
Predicted: 2008
Came true: 2012
In the 4th episode of
season 20, Homer, during 2008 presidential election, wants to vote Barack Obama
in the face of John McCain when he tries to record his vote in this voting
machine as John McCain. This event came true in 2012 presidential election when
a video footage showed Pennsylvania’s voting machine exchanging votes for Obama
into his opponent Mitt Romney. The machine was then halted forever.
Season 10, Episode 2:
The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
Predicted: 1998
Came true: 2012
Physicists weren’t aware of the
Higgs boson or God Particle until 2012. This episode shows this subatomic
particle as the basis of everything’s mass in this universe. The author of The
Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Dr. Simon Singh predicted such thing
when Homer decides to pursue his career as an inventor on “The Wizard of
Evergreen Terrace” while writing some equations on the blackboard for the
discovery of that thing.
Dr. Simon Singh said, “If you
work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that’s only a bit larger than
the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. It’s kind of amazing as Homer makes
this prediction 14 years before it was discovered.”
The Simpsons Movie
Predicted: 2007
Came true: 2013
Edward Snowden did the government
mass investigation of Americans’ phone and Internet records in 2013 but The
Simpsons showed this in 2007 when the Simpsons family has to hide somewhere to
protect themselves from the EPA biodome camouflaging Springfield and NSA,
somehow, knows where the Marge and the Kids are by listening to their
conversation.
Season 6, Episode 19:
Lisa’s Wedding
Predicted:1995
Came true: 2014
In renaissance fair knows from a
fortune-teller that in 2010 (15 years from 1995) there would be a wristwatch
communication technology. This brought the development of modern voice
recognition-enabled smartwatches in 2014.
Season 9, Episode 3: Lisa’s
Sax
Predicted: 1997
Came true: 2014
In the 9th episode of
the third installment of the series, Bart is so depressed and to overcome his
depression, Marge suggests him a book named Curious
George and the Ebola Virus. In 2014, Ebola Virus erupted in America and a
video of a YouTube user Thecontroversy7 showed some evidence and theories in
correlation with what The Simpson predicted.
Season 25, Episode
16: You Don’t Have to Live Like a Referee
Predicted: 2014
Came true: 2015
Homer isn’t an official member of the FIFA federation but he
is asked to do something to change the face of the organization in a positive
manner and then he gets arrested. It wasn’t 100% similar to the actual event
but kind of same when some of the FIFA officials were caught in charges of
doing corruption in 2015. The prediction in the episode about the winning of
Germany over Brazil came true in 2014 World Cup.
Predicted: 2012
Came true: 2015
In this episode, Homer is invited to play a part as a guest
commentator on some cable news show called Head Butt and during that, a flash
line appears on the screen’s bottom on which written, is, “Europe puts Greece
on eBay.”
After three years, Greece came into a heavy economic crisis,
when the country dirt up its face as the developed country because of
nonpayment of some International Monetary Fund.
Season 22, Episode 1:
Elementary School Musical
Predicted: 2010
Came true: 2016
Bengt Holmström won a Nobel Prize in 2016 in Economics, but
The Simpsons predicted it in 2010. In this episode, Martin shows a scorecard on
which there are different opponents for the Nobel Prize-winning, including
Lisa, Milhouse, and Database. In one column written the name of the MIT
professor.
Season 11, Episode
17: Bart to the Future
Predicted: 2000
Came true: 2016
In 2000, Bart shows the future of Lisa as a president of the
country. She is the predecessor of Donald Trump with “quite a budget crunch.”
In a scene, she asks her advisors, “The country is broke? How can that be?”
After a successful 16 years, Donald Trump became the
president of America. In 2016, writer Dan Greaney said that the joke was to
warn the citizens. He said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “That
just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. It was pitched
because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.”
Season 23, Episode
22: Lisa Goes Gaga
Predicted: 2012
Came true: 2017
Lady Gaga, in 2017, descended down from the roof of
Houston’s NRG Stadium for her performance in the halftime show of Super Bowl LI
in a silver costume. But the same happens in the 22nd episode of season
23 when a performer entertains the people of Springfield in the same way by
flying in the air with a rope wearing the similar color dress as of the Monster
Gaga’s.
Season 10, Episode 5:
When You Dish Upon A Star
Predicted: 1998
Came true: 2017
Director Ron Howard grounded a scene in the 5th
episode of season 10 when Homer gets back from a trip to Springfield and writes
to a producer of 20th Century Fox, Brian Glazer. The scene shows a sign near
the Fox Studio which clearly indicates “A Division of Walt Disney Co.”
After 20 years, it was officially cleared that Disney had
made a deal to gain a worth of $66.1 billion of Fox on 14th Dec
2017.
At the end, besides my love for the cartoon, I don’t like
The Simpsons. Oops!
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