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Today’s list is a fun one, especially if you’re a fan of the show The Simpsons.
The show has been on the air since 1989 and over the years we’ve learned that it’s
made some pretty bold predictions that ended up coming true.
The predictions are weirdly coincidental and most of the time they are spot on.
Let’s check some of them out with today's list of Top 10 Shocking Times The Simpsons
Predicted The Future.
10) Starting off the list at number 10 is the Ebola Outbreak.
That’s right, the Simpsons predicted the virus that they our world has yet to find
a cure for.
Some argue that the virus outbreak was fake and that the government was behind the whole
thing.
But regardless, I’ll let you guys be the judge of that.
One thing we can’t deny is the fact that The Simpsons predicted the 2014 outbreak 17
years before it even happened.
In a scene from Season 9, episode 3, titled Lisa’s Sax, Marge reads a book to Bart who
is sick and the title of the book is “Curious George and the Ebola Virus.On the front of
the book cover you can see curious george sick in bed, hinting that he is suffering
from the virus.
Ebola was first discovered in 1976, so it’s strange that the cartoon show would predict
that it would affect people in 1977.
The first ever outbreak to be reported was in 1995 when 254 were allegedly killed in
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Out of everything they could’ve titled that curious george book they picked the Ebola
Virus?
Really?
The odds are too strange for it to not be some kind of prediction.
9) Up next at number 9 is the FIFA scandal and Germany’s win.
This one is a double whammy.
During the episode titled: You don’t have to live like a referee, Homer is asked to
be a referee by the world football federation.
During the 2014 episode, Homer ends up getting arrested and Germany wins the tournament.
Only 1 year later in 2015, two FIFA presidents were accused of corruption and banned from
all football-related activities for 8 years.
There were also 14 FIFA officials who were busted for corruption.
Coincidence that Homer was the referee at the same game and got arrested?
Probably not.
On top of that, the episode also predicted that Germany was going to win the World Cup,
which they did.
8) Swiping the number 8 spot is Disney buys 20th Century Fox.
In season 10, episode 5 which was called: When you dish upon a star, it was predicted
that Disney would one day own 20th century fox.
In the 1998 episode, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer produced a script that Homer pitches.
The script is being produced at 20th Century Fox and there is a sign out front of the studio’s
headquarters that reveals it is, I quote: a division of Walt Disney Co.
This was many years before it actually happened on December 14th 2017 when it was announced
that Disney had actually purchased Fox for an estimated 52.4 billion dollars.
Disney got Fox’s films studio and a big chunk of its television production assets.
They also gained access to some popular entertainment properties like X-Men, Avatar, and coincidentally
enough, The Simpsons.
7) Coming into number 7 is The Invention of The Shard.
The Shard, which is referred to as the shard of glass, is a skyscraper in London designed
by the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
Kind of a random thing to be predicted but somehow The Simpsons knew that this famous
building was going to be built.
In season 6, episode 19, titled Lisa’s Wedding, you can see the prediction during one of the
scenes.
The episode came out in 1995 and during Lisa’s trip to London, we can see a skyscraper behind
Tower Bridge that looks oddly similar to the Shard.Now I understand you might think it’s
just a building, but not only is the look the same, it’s also in the same location
that the building was built.
Construction on the tower started in 2009, 14 years after the episode aired.
6) At number 6 is Finding a 3-eyed fish.
Kind of a weird and random prediction I know, but it’s still pretty impressive.
In season 2, Episode 4, Bart catches a 3 eyed fish in the river by the power plant.
He ends up naming the fish Blinky, which is clever because the whole 3-eyed thing, and
his catch makes local headlines.
We wouldn’t think anything of it at the time because 3 eyed fish aren’t actually
real.
However, it’s like The Simpsons knew that we would find one here on earth.
The episode aired in 1990 and almost a decade later in 2011, a fisherman reeled in a 3-eyed
fish in Argentina.
The weirdest part about it was that the reservoir where it was found in was fed by water from
a nuclear power plant.
Coincidence?
I think not.
5) Half way through the list at number 5 is The U.S beats Sweden in curling at the Olympics.
Some people would say that one of the most upsetting parts of the 2018 Winter Olympics
was when the U.S curling team won gold over the favourite Sweden team.
No one would have predicted the win, except for The Simpsons of course.The historical
win was predicted in a 2010 episode, season 21, episode 12, called: Boy Meets Curl.
In the episode, Marge and Homer compete in curling at the Vancouver Olympics and end
up beating out the Sweden team.
The win wasn’t the only thing that was the same though.
In real life, the U.S Men’s Olympic Curling Team won a gold medal after defeating Sweden
even though they were behind, which is exactly how it played out in the Simpsons episode.
That’s pretty wild.
4) Alright guys, at number 4 we have Bengt.
R Holstrom wins nobel peace prize.
In season 22, Episode 1, bets were being placed on who was going to win the Nobel Prize.
Martin, Lisa, Database, and Millhouse put together a betting pool of who was going to
win and for which category.
Bengt Holmstrom, in real life, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2016, but the Simpsons
predicted this win 6 years prior.
In the episode, Martin holds up the scorecard showing their different bets and you can clearly
see that Millhouse voted for him under the economics category.
So clearly someone had faith that he would take home the prize, it’s either a good
these cartoon characters can actually predict the future.
3) Here we are at number 3 with The Higgs boson equation.
That’s right, The Simpsons made a scientific breakthrough years ago and no one noticed.
It happened in season 8, Episode 1, during the episode called: The Wizard of Evergreen
Terrace, when Homer becomes an inventor and is showing his mathematical work on a blackboard.
A scientist and author named Simon Singh noticed the discovery and even wrote a book about
it called: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets.
He says that the equation we see Homer has written on the board actually predicts the
mass of the Higgs boson particle.
The mass that the episode predicted was confirmed with proof in 2013 after a 13 billion dollar
experiment.
Simon Singh talks about this wild prediction saying: 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.
Who knew Homer was such a smart cookie?
2) In spot number 2 is the Siegfried and Roy tiger attack.
Okay this one is NUTS you guys.
During a 1993 episode, episode 10 in season 5 to be exact, gambling is legalized in Springfield.
Because of that, the town basically becomes Las Vegas and there are two entertainers that
have an act involving white tigers.
In the episode, one of them gets attacked by the tiger during the act.
Sadly, this episode mirrors what actually happened to Roy, a real life entertainer who
goes by the name Siegfriend and Roy.
His act involves a white tiger and during his performance in 2003, the tiger lunged
at his neck and attacked him, and then dragged him off stage.
He was in critical condition after the attack but he did survive; but he never regained
full use of the left side of his body.
This prediction was one that people would have never believed would actually happen,
especially Roy.
1)Taking the number 1 spot is Trump as President.
I don’t think any of us saw this coming even if the Simpsons did predict it.
Maybe we were just in denial that he would actually get elected as president, I don’t
know.
Donald Trump defied the odds when he was elected as the 45th president of the United States,
but the Simpsons predicted it would happen, 16 years prior.
In season 11, Episode 17 called Bart to the future, Bart flashes forward into adulthood
where he sees Lisa is president and inherits a budget crunch from her predecessor, Donald
Trump.
During the episode we see that the country is broke and is failing and the writer of
the show that was the whole point of it.
He told the Hollywood Reporter: that just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting
rock bottom.
It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.
Well, the joke stuck and that’s exactly what happened, America went insane.
Okay guys, there is our top 10 list.
Hit the thumbs up button if you liked it and tell me down in the comments what you think.
Do you think these are all just weird coincidences or are the writers behind The Simpsons able
to predict the future?
While you think about it, I’m going to do some comment shoutouts.
Silverz playz says: hey joce the boss, you’re such a good host honestly, just incredibly
entertaining - - wow thanks so much!
Fun fact, kids in elementary school called me jossy bossy, so in high school I started
calling myself joce the boss.
Radical Rainbow says: wow!
20 is underage to drink alcohol in the USA?
It sure is a puritanical country.
In Ireland we fall onto the delivery room floor drunk, umbilical cord still attached
- - this is the greatest comment I’ve ever read.
The legal drinking age in the US is 21, so you would never survive out there by the sounds
of it.
Mick Mills says: you sure are rocking that power suit now its time to make a move and
become a star.
But don’t choose Disney, not nice people that run that place - - this was a great pep
talk I must say.
Natsuki says: I hate Jake Paul - - but why?
I need more than that.
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