- Oh my gosh. How do they even predict
stuff like that?
- Stop, I can't.
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- (FBE) So, we're gonna show you ten times the Simpsons
correctly predicted the future. - Oh.
Some conspiracy stuff today. All right.
- I think I saw a little bit of an article about this
and people were like, "It wasn't supposed to come true!"
- I've seen some, but it's so weird how they do this.
- I saw a Trump one, I think, with the slogan was the same
as his actual slogan.
- I wonder if they're that in tune with everything
or one of them's a time traveler,
but they're trying to be low key about it.
- "Lady Gaga's Superbowl halftime show."
- (FBE) In the episode Lisa Goes Gaga,
Lady Gaga is shown suspended by cables flying
over the audience at her Superbowl show.
Well, in real life, Lady Gaga descended from the roof
suspended by cables. She's even wearing
a pretty similar outfit, just no fire cone bra.
- That's crazy. I wonder if Lady Gaga
saw that episode and got inspired or what,
'cause that's literally so similar.
- Something like this, she planned that out,
so maybe someone was like, "Hey, you should do this."
And then it was because of the Simpsons episode.
- Damn, that's crazy. They predicted it
before it happened. Holy [bleep].
- It is pretty similar. I would have enjoyed
the boob sparkles. That would have been
a fun touch.
- Superstars fly through the air all the time.
That's not too crazy of a prediction.
They also got her outfit not totally right.
- They're trying to be a low key time traveler, right?
They don't wanna get it exactly right
or they'll blow their cover.
- "2016 Nobel Prize Winner." - (FBE) So, in a 2010 episode,
they predicted Bengt R. Holmstrom as the winner
of the Nobel Prize. Well, in 2016,
he did win along with Oliver Hart. - Oh my gosh.
How do they even predict stuff like that?
- That's crazy. See, something like
the Lady Gaga thing, that could be staged.
That definitely could not be staged.
- How do they even know who Holmstrom is?
I guess these writers are really smart,
'cause I have no idea who any of these people are.
- Just think about the research they did, professors and stuff
and finding them and then your name shows up
and then you win it in real life, damn.
- I'll give it to them predicting somebody right.
I mean, not everybody has the likelihood
of guessing that right.
- The fact that they predicted the exact person
who would win, that's kinda crazy.
- See, that's really creepy. Faulty voting machine.
- (FBE) So, in an episode from 2008, Homer Simpson
went to vote for Obama, but it kept giving him
votes for McCain. Voters were experiencing
similar problems voting for Obama versus
Mitt Romney. - That's all so spooky.
That's another thing that couldn't be staged
so that's wild.
- What? They even predicted
a glitch that would happen?
- Again, it could be a coincidence.
It's just weird that they would predict that this
would be a problem and it actually became
a problem.
- Most people don't vote on machines like this,
since it's a new system. They could just predict
it's gonna have problems, so I think that makes sense.
- This is the type of stuff that makes me think
there's a New World Order or something like that.
The Simpsons, the creators are kinda part of it.
They're like, "You know what? We're just gonna throw
it in there as a gag."
- Oh, these are the guys who had the show
at the Mirage, right? In Las Vegas?
Yeah. - (FBE) So, in a 1993 episode,
A Siegfried and Roy type show got attacked by their tiger.
In 2003, Roy was actually attacked by his tiger.
He was injured, but lived. - Oh my gosh.
Any time I see somebody with a tiger,
I'm like, "Oh, I hope that you don't get hurt."
- If you're repeatedly having a show with a tiger,
what are the statistics of having that tiger attack you?
It's probably up there.
- Circus and show people like that are at great risk
the entire time working with animals.
That one doesn't weird me out that much.
I mean, coincidence. Again, weird.
- That's not as mind blowing as the last two ones,
'cause I feel like having a tiger in captivity,
it would probably injure someone at some point in time.
- The Lady Gaga one, she could have been
inspired by the episode, but this is literally a tiger
attacking. I don't know how
they could have predicted that.
- Good thing that he's alive, but gotta rethink
your choices next time.
- Farm-- okay, that's actually hilarious.
This is VR plus Farmville and everything combined into one.
- (FBE) So, a 1998 episode shows a scene where kids
are excited to play with a yard work simulator.
- I love Farmville. I feel attacked.
That's such a good game.
- That's so funny, 'cause who would have known
that Farmville would have been such a big deal
and that people would have gotten excited to play that?
- It's like virtual reality and they're just standing there
with tools.
- Something like this where it's VR, even AR,
that sounds a lot more immersive and a lot more fun
than the actual Farmville that you get bored of
after probably twenty minutes.
- The Simpsons probably made that as a joke,
'cause why would people get excited about that?
And I'm like, it actually ended up being a thing.
- That's the future, folks. Just doing things
you do in real life, but in a computer world.
- "Disney owning Fox." - (FBE) So, there was a scene
where 20th Century Fox is shown as a division
of the Walt Disney Company. - No way.
- That's also something you can't stage.
- Judging based on the artwork, it seems like it's an older--
one of the '90s episodes, so that's a very--
so far, that's my favorite one. That's a really good one.
- I feel like that was at the point where Disney
was climbing and getting super successful.
- I think the Simpsons creators saw how big
Disney was probably getting and how much they were
just gonna consume the entire entertainment market,
which they have. That's crazy.
- I don't think this one's one of those that's too far off.
A company like Walt Disney being the conglomerate that it is,
it wouldn't be so outlandish to think they might be
owning every production company out there.
- A lot of people talk about the law of attraction.
Maybe if you put out an episode,
ten million people watch it, kinda manifests it
into real life, but that could be
a bunch of hocus pocus. I don't know.
- "The Beatles." - (FBE) So, there was a scene
where Ringo Starr says "They took the time write me
and I don't care if it takes me another 20 years.
I'm gonna answer every one of them."
Some ladies in England received responses
to their fan mail to Paul McCartney
50 years later. - That's so sweet.
- I think he was inspired by this versus them
predicting it, but who knows?
That's pretty cool.
- Maybe Paul McCartney was watching that episode
and got inspiration. He's like, "You know what?
No, they were wrong. It was Paul, not Ringo Starr."
- Image writing someone fan mail 50 years ago
and then you're just like, "Oh, I don't even remember
doing that."
- At least he did it. Better late than never.
- How lucky do you have to be to receive a personal response
like that? That's not really
one of those things that happens all too often.
- This is strange stuff, 'cause if we're talking
50 year gaps now, that's creepy.
- "Three eyed fish." - (FBE) So, the Simpsons
had a recurring gag with a three eyed fish
named Blinky, who was found in
a very polluted river. In real life,
fishermen in Argentina caught a three eyed fish
in 2011, as a reservoir that happens to receive
water from a nuclear power plant, just like the show.
- That's not that surprising. That's just what nuclear fallout
does to animals.
- If you have pollution, you're gonna have
weird looking fish babies.
- Obviously, the people who do the Simpsons
are really smart. They do their research,
so they're like, "That probably could happen."
And then it ended up happening.
- It almost looks the same. The eyes are right next
to each other. What if they planted
that fish in there?
- I'm not surprised about that. I'm sure there's even
some more fishy stuff in the ocean, get it?
- (rimshot)
- That's one thing that I really liked about
shows like the Simpsons, when they would try to
bring light to real issues, something like pollution
and it's really having an effect on the environment.
- "U.S. wins Olympic gold medal in curling."
- (FBE) So, in 2010, the Simpsons predicted
USA winning gold over Sweden in the curling Winter Olympics.
- Does it actually happen when-- stop, I can't.
I'm gonna start betting. I need to watch these episodes.
- Crap like that's weird. When they pick exactly
who we're up against in what Olympics.
- I didn't know that we-- how well we did in curling,
but I haven't heard about it, so maybe we're definitely not
a nation of curlers. Maybe that was just optimism.
- Out of any other sport that they could have chosen,
the fact that it's curling makes it even better,
'cause that's also such a random sport
and I feel like the US doesn't do curling as often
and they'll do tennis.
- This is just really random. I would think something
like basketball, winning gold in that.
- I wanna say it's all coincidences,
but it keeps happening all the time with everything.
I don't know how they do it.
- The writers were really smart.
I'm very impressed on how much they know
of the world, I guess. It gives me a whole new respect
for the writers or whoever's predicting these.
- Oh, the Trump presidency. This is the one I feel like
everyone knows about.
- "Trump presidency." Oh my God.
- (FBE) In Bart to the Future, an episode from 2000,
they include a joke about a President Trump
who apparently tanked the nation's economy.
Who know he'd be our president today?
- That was a really sad joke if they meant it to be a joke.
- To see he's actually president, that's pretty crazy.
- They probably were thinking, "What could be--
Who could be president that would make this
such a funny joke?"
- They were just throwing it around as a joke,
because obviously that was a person with high
amount of money and he was kinda being
a ridiculous celebrity at that time.
- That's wild, 'cause Trump wasn't even a politician
or anything. He was a reality TV show
celebrity slash business entrepreneur.
- That's even before he started talking about
running for president. Oh my gosh.
That's nuts.
- (FBE) So, what'd you think about all these predictions?
- It's crazy. I feel like one of the workers
there is psychic.
- Is this a supernatural thing or were they just
kinda bull [bleep] and it happens?
'Cause that's also a possibility.
- It kinda makes sense for something that's
on the air for so long. Sometimes that's gonna
line up with real life, I guess.
- Good job, Simpson time traveler writers.
Good job.
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