The Simpsons has made us laugh for decades. But entertainment surely isn’t the only one we can benefit from the Simpsons. This family of five has also eerily predicted stuff that more or less came true. Out of the more than 150,000 jokes, 31 seasons, and 677 episodes, these 12 Simpsons predictions will undeniably blow your mind.
1. Obama vs. Romney votes
Homer Simpson cast a vote for Obama in a 2008 episode of The Simpsons. However, his vote glided over to McCain instead. Well, what do you know? There was also a faulty voting machine during the 2012 elections. A vote for Obama went to Mitt Romney instead!
2. Gaga’s descent at the Super Bowl
The Lisa Goes Gaga episode, where she had a cable suspension in a concert overlooking the crowd, is a premonition of Lady Gaga’s halftime show performance at the Super Bowl LI. She was also suspended by cables and descended from the roof.
3. Horse meat parts
In the Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Badass Song episode in 1994, the cafeteria lady placed some horse meat parts in the school’s lunch pot. In 2013, there was a horse scandal in the UK, where horse DNA was discovered in beef products.
4. Beatles letter responses
The Brush With Greatness episode showed Beatles star, Ringo Starr, responding to fan letters. He said that he doesn’t care if it took him 20 years to reply, but he’s responding to every one of them. Coincidentally, English women were ecstatic about receiving replies from Paul McCartney after 50 years!
5. Farmville fad
An episode in 1998 showed kids who were too excited to use a yard work simulator. And well, we know Farmville was all the rage in 2009. The similarity? Players tend to their farms to harvest some goods.
6. Donald Trump
In the 2000 episode titled Bart to the Future, Lisa was elected of the United States of America. In a cabinet meeting, she mentioned getting quite a “budget crunch” from President Trump. And true enough, Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016.
7. Disney acquisition
In a 1998 episode, The Simpsons showed how the 20th Century Fox was an entity of Walt Disney Co. And guess what, Disney indeed acquired 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion.
8. U.S. takes home the gold medal
Homer and Marge once represented Team USA in a mixed match curling competition, took home an Olympic gold medal, and beat Sweden. In 2018, the U.S. men’s team in curling made history as they took the Olympic gold and defeated Sweden.
9. Guitar Hero shirt
In a 2002 episode, Homer donned a shirt with a “guitar hero” print on the back. And as you know, the game Guitar hero was released in 2005.
10. Nobel Prize winner
A 2010 episode showed Milhouse’s predictions about Bengt R. Holmstrom’s Nobel Prize award in Economics. Six years later, Holmstrom and Oliver Hart indeed won Noble Prize awards.
11. Smartwatch creation
These Simpsons predictions are undoubtedly hair-raising due to how accurate they are. For instance, a 1995 episode showed Lisa’s husband conversing with someone from a mobile phone on his wrist. A few years later, the first smartwatch was created in 2013.
12. Murder hornets and coronavirus coincidence
An episode in 1993 showed how a Japanese factory worker spread the “Osaka Flu” to Springfield. The people went into a state of panic and accidentally knocked over a vehicle, releasing killer bees. Bill Oakley, The Simpsons’ former writer, pointed out a shocking coincidence about the “murder hornets” in the U.S. that happened at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s one of the many Simpsons predictions we didn’t see coming.
