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10 times The Simpsons Predicted The Future:

THE SIMPSONS is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of HomerMargeBartLisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.

Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 684 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. It is the longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series, both in terms of seasons and number of episodes. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over $527 million. Then on October 30, 2007, a video game was released. The Simpsons was renewed on February 6, 2019, for a thirty-first and thirty-second season. The former began airing September 29, 2019 and concluded on May 17, 2020, and the latter of which will contain the 700th episode. The Simpsons is a joint production by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television.


Top 10 Predictions:

1. Facetime & Video Calls:
                                     In Season 6, Episode 19 The Simpsons Predicated  Facetime or Video calls in the year 1995 which has come true in the year 2010. where you can see the Lisa visits a fortune teller fair and were transported 15 years into the future she's is talking to Marge using her phones video chat feature called a picture photo which was ahead of its time but finally becomes a reality in 2010 and now we all use it even our grandparents too.

In the very same episode Using of Smart Watches were predicated in the year 1995,
Lisa's fiance makes a phone call using his extremely fashionable watch kind of reminds me of Dick Tracy. Later that modern voice recognition enabled as smartwatches, would become widely available to the masses thanks to Google, Samsung, and Apple.


2. Faulty voting machines:
                                        
                        In Season20, Episode 4 Voting Machines inspired by the 2008 presidential elections this episode finds Homer trying to place a vote for Barack Obama and it doesn't go so well one of those votes for McCain now. and in 2012 this actually happened and there's a video on youtube to prove it. please click on the link to watch. https://youtu.be/4gK1EWpUgc0.

Pennsylvania machine wasn't calibrated correctly and changes a vote for Barack Obama to Mitt Romeny talking of presidential elections. 

3. Trump as President of America:
                 
              In the year 2000, The Simpsons predicted Trump as in president of America and it came true in the year 2016.


 In season 11 Episode 17, An Adult Lisa is the president of the United States of America, unfortunately, she is tasked with the gargantuan task of cleaning up after the disastrous job left by Donald Trump we've inherited quite a budget crunch from president trump.


4. Nobel Prize Winner In 2016:  
    
                  In Season 22, Episode 1, this show also correctly predicated the 2016 Nobel prize winner six years before what happened that's right never underestimate Milhouse he is genius seriously in 2010 he correctly predicated Bent Holmstrom would win it and he did in 2016 The Nobel Prize in Economics.

Milhouse was a part of a Nobel prize betting pool nerd alert with Lisa Martin and database it doesn't take a Nobel prize to predict.


5. Disney Buys Fox:

               In the episode 'When you wish upon a star' there's a sign gag that features the 20th century Fox logo with the words a division of Walt Disney Co Slapped right on it cut to 20 Years later and the Disney juggernaut has agreed to buy Fox which just so happens to be the company that produces The Simpsons here's hoping that isn't pop culture prediction from this episode that comes true.


6. 9/11 Attack on NYC :
   
                       In Season 9, Episode 1 they predicated 9/11 in 1997, YouTube user truth will find you brew points out that the bus advertisement that promises New York tickets for Nine dollars perfectly lines up next to the twin Towers to read New York 911.

7. Justice for George Floyd and riot protest:

                 In Season 28 Episode 1, The Simpsons predicted the looting and rioting going on in the last few weeks due to the horrible things that have been happening in The unites states the reasons behind the looting and rioting were different but The Simpsons and many Americans both have reasons of why they are doing this to their cities the premise of the episode was the Springfield was going to be rebranded they're fourth the Springfield government thought that the best solution was to burn the entire city down that probably wondering how this has anything to do what is happening in 2020??

 well, Homer and other citizens of Springfield from The Simpsons were taking out all of their anger on local business and flipping cars and setting buildings on fire kind of crazier right...it gets even crazier though in season 11 episode 6, The Simpsons released an episode in which the Springfield police station was on fire just like the Minneapolis police station they literally show a clear shot of the police station on fire and if you been on social media you've seen a very similar picture of the Minneapolis police station being burnt from the ground.


8.Corona Virus:

                   The Simpsons also might have predicted Corona citrus yes it's true how does Simpsons now about this ?? In 1993 The Simpsons Episode Margin chains season 4, episode 21 shows a mysterious virus from Asia invading the town of Springfield a sick factory employee in Japan sneezes into the numerous packages containing Juicers that everyone from Springfield ordered. 

when the Springfield residents opened their boxes from Japan they get their products and a whole lot of germs the disease called the Osaka flu spreads like wildfire and the small town listens dear a scary pandemic that feels a bit too much like what the world is going through right now?? Honestly, this could have happened with any other sickness but it's crazy that they even predicted this and now something is so horrible is happening in real life it seems that The Simpsons just knew exactly what was going to happen to the world in the future the weirdest part about it is that so many of their predictions are all coming true in 2020.


9. US Ebola Outbreak:

                            In Season 9, Episode 3 The Simpsons predicated Ebola outbreak Wayback in 1997 the episode feature Marge trying to get a sick and depressed Bart out of bed and offering to read him this book curious Geroge and the Ebola virus. would you like to draw something ??? drawing is a sign of life after an outbreak of a deadly virus. This episode was widely shared by YouTube user the controversy 7, who theorized that the show predicated the 2014 American Ebola outbreak.


10.Lady Gaga Performance:

                    In Season 23, Episode 22 The show predicated Lady gaga and her super Bowl halftime show kudos for guessing Gaga would headline in a big-time performance but it's not at all that impressive hell she is one of the world's biggest stars what's really impressive however is how spot-on the performance was her Springfield performance had her suspended in air and the same came true five years later when she descended from the roof at half halftime during Super Bowl 51 only thing did it better.












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