Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Simpsons
Theories.
The Simpson’s is the worlds best loved cartoon and has been running since 1989 – so nearly
30 years!
That is a lot of time for people to develop wild theories and to speculate that Matt Groening
knows more than he should….and he is alerting the masses via subliminal messages in the
show.
Who Knows!
So before we get into this list I want to ask you guys who your favourite Simpsons Character
is and if you have a favourite episode?
I choo choo chose Ralph as my favourite character – and my favourite episode is the one where
they go to itchy and scratchy land.
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10 - The Simpsons are Yellow Because They Don’t Have Livers
There are a lot of crazy theories as to why the Simpsons character are yellow … these
vary from…because they’re drawn that way to it being a biresult of living near a nuclear
power plant.
It always comes back to mutants, doesn’t it!
One theory, however, is that the Simpsons Characters are yellow because they do not
have livers.
Yellow skin is a symptom of liver disease…so I guess that is where they got that one from.
One Redditor – Kyle5 wrote that they think everyone in the simpsons verse gave themselves
liver disease by drinking too much duff beer and then they evolved to not need pesky livers
anymore and are somehow surviving and thriving.
I’m honestly not so sure about this one.
9 - They Predicted Trump This might be the first prediction theory
on this list but it wont be the last!
A lot of people think that the creators of the Simpsons knew about the Trump campaign
well before it was announced.
Indeed it is in several episodes that aired long before the 45th Pres of the united states
began campaigning.
Here is a clip from a 2000 episode of the Simpsons.
Hmmm.
Some also say that this predicts that Hillary will proceed Trump as President – Lisa is
wearing a Pant Suit after all, right.
Again there is an episode in which Homer finds himself in President Trump’s Hair – where
there are signs for Trump 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028 etc …. While he didn’t get
nominated as a candidate in 2012 – they were only 4 years off their prediction.
Homer is then turfed out of the hair and is stood behind Trump as he is on the campaign
trail.
8 - They knew about nuclear spills There was an episode of the Simpsons in 1990
where Bart is fishing in the Springfield local river, butttt it seems that the stream was
polluted by the Nuclear Plant – Homers place of work.
Because of the nuclear waste in the stream, fish had been mutating.
Bart pulls out a three eyed fish from the river.
Have a look – editors clip - Right.
Weirdly 21 years later a three eyed catfish was pulled from a river in Argentina – the
Gowanus canal to be precise.
It seems that was actually result of a nuclear spill….
Did the Simpsons know about various nuclear plants dumping waste into the water?
Did they predict the future again?
Or is this a coincidence?
With the Simpsons, is anything a coincidence.
More Mutants at number 7 Marge is a mutant There is a theory out there going around that
Marge is a Mutant!
A lot of time has been spent speculating on what is going on under Marge Simpsons trademark
blue hair.
How does it stay….well….. up.
It seems that there is a strong theory circulating that Marge is actually a mutant!
Being born and raised in Springfield where we know there is a nuclear power plant, Marge
was deformed in the womb and was born with none other than a set of rabbit ears!
This provides the structure to her hair.
It seems this theory is confirmed in the Simpsons Arcade Game when her hair is sucked in a vaccum
and we see the ears for ourselves.
We also see them in an x-ray of marge….
Buuuttt weirdly in a few episodes Marge appears with straight hair and the ears are nowhere
to be seen.
Either she sprouted them at one point or she had them removed….oor there are many parallel
universe in which the simpsons exist.
6 - They Predicted The Horsemeat Scandal The Horsemeat Scandal erupted in Europe in
2013.
In the scandal, undeclared horsemeat was slipping its way into foods.
Huge retailer, Tesco were outed for having horsemeat in their beef burgers and Taco Bell
were found to have horse in their tacos.
One food brand – Findus – had 99 percent horse in their beef lasagne.
Long before the scandal broke, weirdly the Simpsons made a reference to it in a 1994
episode as the lunch cook digs in to a barrel of assorted horse parts to dish up to the
kids of Springfield Elementary.
5 - Marge has No Friends Aw that is sad….
But beyond that, It is pretty scary as there is suggestions that homer likes it that way
as it keeps her trapped and loyal.
Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob Waksberg actually began this theory in 2016 when he
tweeted – Does Marge Have Friends – he then wrote a little 15 tweet poem about it.
It was very touching.
But now you think about it…who are Marge’s Friends?
Homer has Lenny, Kirk and Luann…. she never seems close to anyone…perhaps her only friend
was Maud Flanders… but she died.
Then she has her negative chain smoking twin sisters but that seems to be it.
Is there anything scarier than loneliness?
The saddest and scariest of the thoughts presented by Raphael was : Who tells Marge to leave
the brute, knowing she won’t?
“You don’t have to stay.
You deserve so much more.”.
No one.
She is alone in this.
4 - The Simpsons is the Next Shakespeare Oh, this one is fun!
So most of you watching this video will be aware of William Shakespeare – you have
probably seen a few Shakespeare plays or been made to read them at school.
For a while now we have held the works of William Shakespeare in high esteem but in
his lifetime his work was considered to be kind of low brow– well there is a theory
out there that in 500 years from now Kids will be studying The Simpsons in School.
I actually saw a play that worked with this idea, it was called Mr Burns and it was the
best play I have ever seen!
The final act is a re-enactment of a Simpsons episode in opera!
All that characters are painted gold!
Why is this scary?
Well a lot of people call The Simpson’s trash… and maybe they’re right – but
perhaps that trash is more accessible and resonant with people than highbrow artistic
offerings that will be lost in relevance over time?
I’m honestly really into Simpsons opera.
3 - The Show Encourages Crime - spike in grease theft.
Homer and the gang are known for their many harebrained schemes – they are always getting
into mischief and mishaps but there is a theory that the show encourages crimes!
What!
It seems that a lot of foolhardy criminals have drawn inspiration from the Simpsons.
In one Simpsons Episode, Lard of The Dance, that Aired in 1998 – Homer begins a criminal
scheme of stealing grease from fryers and then reselling it – but then of course they
come to blows with the grease mafia.
Sure.
Anway, it seems that life began imitating art as several criminals were inspired to
try and do exactly the same thing in their own get rich quick schemes.
Ten years later the New York Times Broke a Story about a spike in Grease theft from restaurants.
How weird.
Apparently yellow grease is a valuable commodity.
There was also some speculation that an episode of the Simpsons where Shelbyville kids steal
a lemon tree was behind a similar crime in Texas in 2013….
Buttt that might be clutching at straws.
2 - They Predicted 9/11 – And The Higher Power
When People trawled through back 90s episodes of the Simpsons to see Bart holding a 9 dollar
magazine of New York with the twin towers in the background looking very much like an
11 – they were freaked out.
The rest of the predictions can be forgiven but this was freaky!
This one started a wider theory that something more untoward was going on – that maybe
out there somewhere there was a higher power that was somehow taking influence from Simpsons
Episodes and letting it decide how best to enact their chaos.
I don’t know about that….
But like…
I feel like if I got high I might be able to get into it.
1 - Homer has been in a coma the whole time (nearly)
So some of you may have seen the 1993 Episode of The Simpsons called So It’s Come To This”
– Homer is crushed by a falling vending machine and goes into a coma.
By the end of the episode, Homer wakes up and we have 18 more years of The Simpsons
living their lives….
Or are they!
Redditor Hardtopickaname speculates that actually everything that happened after that episode
was part of Homers wild coma dreams.
They note a shift in style and tone as the series gets far more whacky.
Further evidence is an earlier 1993 episode where Homer and God have a talk and God seems
to suggest he will die in 6 months.
6 months is exactly how long it was before the vending machine episode aired.
Is he in a coma…or is he dead?
Is this the afterlife?
WELL that was the Top 10 Scary Simpsons Theories – what did
you think.
Comments from Scary Christmas Urban Legends –
We had a comment from a viewer in the Netherlands who responded to my question asking what people
from the country think of Black Peter.
Vernonymous wrote: We can see zwarte piet from both sites.
It's blackface so racist but it's an old tradition.
Not to mention children don't think it's racist and let's be honest Sinterklaas is for kids,
not for adults to get triggered and fight over.
There were almost no problems until recently suddenly everyone finds something to get offended
about.
It's not meant as racist.
Zwarte pieten kinda terrify me though.
they're too hyped so I usually avoid them outside during this time of the year.
Thanks for that – It gives a little extra insight into the
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I am sure you deserve it.
Merry Christmas.