please don't tell the supervisor I have the flu I've been working with the
shattered pelvis for three weeks back in 1993 in an episode of The Simpsons
titled margin chains we'll it featured the residents of Springfield dealing
with a viral outbreak known as the Osaka flu now this caused the number of the
characters to get seriously sick I bought you a new juicer good lord
flu germs entering every orifice in my head no no that's just one example of a
handful of this Simpsons episodes that seem to predict this pandemic that we're
currently dealing with I mean check out this clip from another episode titled
the full monty this is from season 22 episode sixth we do have standards
this can't be a made-up disease we do have something we've been holding on to
but it hasn't been tested get over here NBC oh well we certainly
believe in testing but in 2007 and they had a Tom Hanks cameo and in there he
made a loose statement about self isolation this is Tom Hanks saying if
you see me in person please leave me be once again the fine folks at the
Simpsons they're being praised as being fortune tellers predicting the future
now some of these they're a far stretch while others they're bang on the money
I'm gonna walk you through all the Simpson references related to the recent
pandemic here for you on famous news my name of course is Michael cretin and we
actually haven't done one of these in a couple of months now if you like this
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I'm in the hospital
now that was another clip from the 1993 episode titled margin chains now many of
Springfield's residents they purchased these juice loose iners and they got him
through the mail which were manufactured in Osaka Japan
now one worker he copped in homers box before it was sent for delivery and all
of Springfield they got infected by a fast spreading flu oh my goose loosener
is never gonna come hey dad just came for you in the mail mother get an extra
special hug ready I bought you a new juicer good lord
flu germs entering every orifice in my head
now Homer he was hit first follow my principles Skinner Principal Skinner
cracks me up then Patty and Selma Otto chief Wiggum
literally no one was safe no there's also in this photo of Kent Brockman
reporting about the virus but this was proven to be a hoax someone made this
image now this is from The Full Monty which we're going to talk about in just
a minute but the words virus they were added to the top of this image
originally it read apocalypse meow now the spread of the Osaka flu is pretty
bang on with the spread of CV but the location of it it's a little off no The
Simpsons they chose Osaka Japan which is more than 2,000 kilometres away from
move on China which is the origin spot of kur
you know this right if you know you should check out my before they're
famous on the coronavirus sorry we keep getting orders to let the virus win must
be a school day lay down your arms all right let's mix and puffs know people
are chalking this up is another big prediction from The Simpsons but there
have been plenty of historic examples of contagious flu spreading throughout
history I'm talking the Spanish flu the Hong Kong flu and the Asian flu now
perhaps the episodes writers bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein while they were
taking from the past rather than predicting the future in fact bill
Oakley he spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and the
this to say I don't like it being used for nefarious purposes
the idea that anyone misappropriates it to make CV seem like an Asian plot is
terrible in terms of trying to place blame on Asia I think that it is gross
he continued it was meant to be absurd that someone could cough into a box and
the virus would survive for six to eight weeks in the box
it is cartoonish we intentionally made a cartoonish because we want it to be
silly and not scary and not carry any of these bad associations along with it
which is why the virus itself was acting like a cartoon character and behaving an
extremely unrealistic ways here I'm sure he's referring the part where the cloud
like the virus and waits at a red light and then another cloud it goes by it a
green light it's pretty cartoonish all right so that's one episode out of the
way but we got plenty more to get through let's take a look at Epic Six
from season 22 titled The Full Monty Wow Wow oh yeah so we've got our deadly
disease no you just have to blame it on something that's in every household
something that people are a little bit afraid of already house cat flu is
coming people the Center for Disease disinformation predicts with some degree
of probability that the house cat flu might spread in the following
hypothetical outbreak pattern so there you have that photo of Kent Brockman and
apocalypse meow now in this episode written by Michael price well TV
representatives they created a mass panic in an effort to boost viewers and
ratings so they created the cat flu and this was with the help of the Center for
Disease misinformation that would also features mr. Burnes in this episode
attempting to put the entire town under a dome which is actually pretty similar
to mass quarantine ticking an idea I got from a Stephen King book I'm going to
cover this town with a dome now this one is pretty bang on now it's hard to deny
that they weren't right on the money with this one but to me it's just like
the product of great writing in the actual world it's a little more surreal
than a cartoon okay we're not even done yet there was another episode and this
one it dealt with another pandemic this is General William Sullivan with an
emergency message I'm speaking to you from a CDC clean zone outbreak of the
deadly Pandora virus is spreading rapidly unprecedented threat requires a
worldwide quarantine this is from season 23 episode 19 titled
a totally fun thing that Bart will never do again no Bart he decided to trick the
crew and the passengers on a ship that the world is coming to an end back on
land because of a pandemic and that the ship therefore has to say out at sea we
managed to do this with the help of a large television screen on which she
displays a scene from the film the Pandora strain that features a general
named William Sullivan warning humanity about a deadly virus all ships must
remain at sea until today humanity must and you're buying it they're buying it
this clearly has a lot in common with the diamond princess and the Sapphire
princess two British cruise ships that underwent quarantine in February of this
year and this was due to a Seavey outbreak now at least 696 out of the
3700 eleven passengers and crew while they tested positive for the virus and
the death count it reached the total of seven now again this one it's pretty
bang on the money now the episode it initially aired in
2012 and although cruise ship outbreaks have happened in the past well the
episode is based on a movie about this happening I'm still gonna count it as
The Simpsons predicting an event that wants to happen how do they do this time
after time I finally we got to take a look at Tom Hanks and its 2007
appearance hello I'm Tom Hanks the US government has lost its credibility so
it's borrowing some of mine so my ear and mr. heggs
sure things I know the 2007 the Simpson movie did you ever see it did you like
it let me know in the comments down below it's you featured a giant dome I
lock warranty what do I do I don't know what to do I say I'm trapped if I leave
Oh God then there we have Hanks making a cameo appearance advertising a new Grand
Canyon because the main one well it's been getting boring no fans they believe
that the writers they foretold that the actor Tom Hanks well he would have to
self isolate himself one day and as news broke that the Hollywood star and his
wife Rita Wilson caught Cove in nineteen well everyone was like The Simpsons had
already predicted this I don't know what do you think oh come true crazy old man
in church was right well this theory is somewhat of a
stretch to me hardcore The Simpsons fans they're happily adding this to the
ever-growing list of Simpsons predictions which ones do you think
we're bang on or which one do you think are a bit of a stretch I'd love to hear
what you guys have to say in the comments down below all right so there
you have it what are your thoughts on all this I'll be reading your comments I
got a new guy on my team he's helping me sort through what you guys have to say
so we'll be getting back to you and that did the Simpsons writers have a crystal
ball or is this outbreak something that was easy to predict I'm really
interested to hear what you have to say I actually find this all super
fascinating and I'd love to make more videos about the Simpsons predicting
stuff that's happened in fact they actually predicted the death of Donald
Trump but thankfully we didn't have to include that in today's video you know
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