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Jan 19, 2024 · Trump announced his intention to run again in 2022, and if successful he would become only the second US president to serve two non-consecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland who won the 1885 and...
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Jul 14, 2024 · Matt Selman, an executive producer and showrunner for “The Simpsons,” said to Reuters in an email, “The image of Donald Trump in a coffin never appeared on The Simpsons. It is doctored.” There...
Jul 15, 2024 · The plot follows Lisa as she discovers that the founder of her hometown, Springfield, was a murderous pirate who tried to kill George Washington at one time, and viewed the citizens of Springfield...
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In fact, throughout its nearly 700 episodes, creator Matt Groeningand his team have been so on top of the country’s cultural pulse, they’ve even managed to predict several major historical events — along with a few less momentous happenings. Here are 17 times The Simpsons made eerily accurate predictions about the future.
Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) Predicted: 1993 Came true: 2003 After Springfield decides to legalize gambling, Mr. Burns opens a casino where German magicians Gunter and Ernst perform a routine, seeming to spoof the long-running Las Vegas Siegfried and Roy show. Tragically, a bit i...
Season 6, Episode 8: Lisa on Ice Predicted: 1994 Came true: 2007 During a Springfield Elementary School assembly, Kearney asks fellow bully Dolph to take a memo to “Beat up Martin” on his “Newton” — Apple’s early attempt at a personal digital assistant. However, the machine translates the message into “Eat up Martha” instead, foreshadowing the comm...
Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa’s Wedding Predicted: 1995 Came true: 2010 In this futuristic installment, Lisa talks with Marge using her phone’s video chat capabilities, predating the popular FaceTime feature of today’s iPhones by 15 years.
Season 20, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XIX Predicted: 2008 Came true: 2012 In a bit inspired by the 2008 presidential election, Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama only to have a voting machine record his selection as John McCain several times. Coincidentally, when it came time for Obama to run for a second term in 2012, video footage emerged o...
Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace Predicted: 1998 Came true: 2012 The existence of the Higgs boson or “God particle” — a breakthrough that helps explain how everything in the universe has mass — wasn’t confirmed by physicists until 2012. But according to Dr. Simon Singh, the author of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets,...
The Simpsons Movie Predicted: 2007 Came true: 2013 When the Simpson family is forced to go into hiding following their escape from the EPA biodome enclosing Springfield, the NSA locates Marge and the kids by listening in on one of their conversations. However, it wasn’t until six years after The Simpsons Movie hit theaters that Edward Snowdenfirst ...
Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa’s Wedding Predicted:1995 Came true:2014 When Lisa visits a fortune-teller at a renaissance fair, viewers are transported 15 years into the future to 2010 — a time when wristwatch communication technology exists. However, even the Simpsons’ future society was a little ahead of its time, as modern voice recognition-enabled ...
Season 9, Episode 3: Lisa’s Sax Predicted: 1997 Came true: 2014 This installment saw Marge offer to read a depressed Bart a book titled Curious George and the Ebola Virus. This moment was widely circulated during the 2014 American Ebola outbreak when YouTube user Thecontroversy7 created a video laying out a theory revolving around The Simpsons‘ pre...
Season 25, Episode 16: You Don’t Have to Live Like a Referee Predicted: 2014 Came true: 2015 Although the world football federation representative who asks Homer for help repairing the organization’s image isn’t explicitly named as a member of FIFA, his arrest turned out to be uncannily similar to those of the real-life FIFA officials who were arre...
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Jul 14, 2024 · Although Donald Trump has appeared and been mentioned in The Simpsons multiple times before and after his term, the show never predicted an assassination attempt on the former president.
Jan 23, 2020 · Fox's hit animated show The Simpsons has parodied Donald Trump becoming president on multiple occasions, but they predicted his election many years before. There's no question The Simpsons is best known for its characters, their yellow designs, and the comedy it routinely delivers.
Jul 17, 2024 · Showrunner of The Simpsons Matt Selman has slammed false claims that the cartoon predicted Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Fake images purporting to be from the long-running ...
