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- The Simpsons ' so-called predictions are actually satirical commentary on society's stupidity Many of the show's "predictions" are simply coincidences or a result of repeating human behaviors The show's clever comedy writers mock daily life in a way that seems predictive, even if actual predictions are limited to a few cases.
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Jul 25, 2024 · From coronavirus to Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance to the Apple Vision Pro, The Simpsons seem to have predicted everything in our future!
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Jul 10, 2024 · From Trump's election to politicians eating fish from near a nuclear plant, here are some of the long-running cartoon's most uncanny predictions. Louis Chilton, Isobel Lewis. Wednesday 10 July ...
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- More from TIME. In fact, throughout its nearly 700 episodes, creator Matt Groening and 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.
- Siegfried and Roy’s Tiger Attack. Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) Predicted: 1993. Came true: 2003.
- Autocorrect Fails. 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.
- FaceTime. 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.
Jul 10, 2024 · From Apple Vision Pro to the OceanGate disaster, here are 21 times the Fox cartoon made scarily accurate predictions.
- The Titanic submersible tragedy. In perhaps the most devastating ‘prediction’, a Simpsons clip resurfaced earlier in 2023, around the time when the missing Titan sub, which had five people on board, was announced to have imploded in a ‘catastrophic’ way, killing the passengers who had been travelling to the wreckage of the sunken Titanic ship.
- Barbie mania. In 2023, Barbie mania took over the world, but it was back in 1994 when The Simpsons released an episode, titled Lisa vs Malibu Stacy, that held a very similar message.
- Donald Trump’s arrest. There’s plenty The Simpsons have managed to get right about the former US President (including him running for a 2024 election campaign), but in the same Lisa vs Malibu Stacy episode, his arrest was also predicted – kind of.
- Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand. In one of 2023’s strangest transformations, Twitter had a total rebrand and became ‘X’. Elon Musk sent an email to Twitter’s business partners in April that it had been renamed X Corp, after buying the platform in October last year for $44billion.
Jul 27, 2024 · The Simpson family isn't predicting the future; our modern society is simply racing The Simpsons to see who can present the dumbest possible outcome for humanity.
Feb 27, 2024 · According to a video that appeared online in August of 2015, "The Simpsons" predicted Donald Trump’s presidency way back in 2002. The video featured side-by-side images of the real...
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