Throughout history the role of the sage, the prophet - and the soothsayer has been important
yet mysterious figures.
From Nostradamus - to Mother Shipton, to the ancient deciphered texts of the Mayans - people
have claimed to know what lies ahead - giving certainty to the uncertainty of the future.
Well - who would believe it then, that the contemporary version of this comes in the
form of an animated TV comedy first aired way back when in 1989, created by Matt Groening
and developed by James L. Brooks - The Simpsons.
And when you really take a close look, it’s pretty creepy how accurate their predictions
have been.
What’s going on horror fans - and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube - Top
5 Scary Videos.
As always, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch, as we take a look at the Top 5 Scary
Simpsons Predictions.
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Now - I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of The Simpsons, and if we’re
being honest - there are some episodes of Treehouse of Horror that spooked me a little
too much than I’d like to admit way back when I was a wee bairn.
But - who would have thought that the scariest content The Simpsons have produced isn’t
their interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven - it’s the fact that time and
time again, they’ve predicted the future with staggering accuracy.
Well, I guess we better take a look, eh?
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Kicking off at Number 5 - Rigged Voting Machines
The Simpsons are no strangers to politically fueled gags - but the literal definition of
stranger than fiction occured back in 2008, during the nineteenth Treehouse of Horror
episode, that aired during the 2008 presidential candidacy race between Barack Obama and John
McCain.
It’s a small segment, but the clip features Homer heading into a voting booth and is surprised
to find a brand-new touch-screen machine.
But - after he casts his vote for Democratic candidate Barack Obama, the machine sinisterly
replies - One vote for McCain.
Thank you.
Well - when Homer replies he wants to vote for Obama, he repeatedly presses the touch
screen in frustration, when the machine responds.
Two votes for McCain.
Three votes for McCain.
Then finally - Six votes for President McCain.
I mean, that’s terrifying enough in a totalitarian political climate - but errr - what’s terrifying
is that it actually happened.
During the 2012 election, where Obama ran for his second term in office - a man filmed
himself using the same kind of touch screen trying to vote for Barack Obama, but repeatedly
found the vote being cast for Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
And The Simpsons predicted the same calamity - four years before it even happened.
Coming in at Number 4 - Siegfried and Roy.
During the episode, Springfield - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized
Gambling - which first aired in 1993, we were first introduced to the flamboyant duo Gunter
and Ernst, magical stage performers that have a headline slot at the brand new Monty Burns
Casino, which features their onstage companion - a white tiger named Anastasia.
At the beginning of the episode, Anastasia has a flashback whilst performing - remembering
that she was taken from the wild by the pair after being shot with a tranquilizing dart,
and then savagely begins mauling them.
Well - the duo were a parody of the famous Siegfried and Roy, Las Vegas stage legends
that pretty much did the exact same act.
And things again got a little spooky - when in 2003, ten years after the episode in question
aired - Roy Horn, one half of the Siegfried and Roy duo, was savagely attacked by their
trained white tiger Montecore, where he was grabbed by his neck and dragged offstage while
they were performing at The Mirage, leaving Horn with extensive and life-threatening injuries.
I mean, I get it - if you’re in the business of frolicking on stage with one of the most
ferocious feline predators on the planet, you’re probably going to get hurt at some
point - but, there’s no denying that The Simpsons called it.
Next up at Number 3 - The Walt Disney Takeover
Now this is probably the smallest prediction in terms of screen time - but it’s staggering
that it would have the biggest implications, because in short - The Simpsons predicted
its own takeover by Disney - nearly 20 years before it actually happened.
Twenty years - that’s insane, right?
In an episode that first aired in 1998 - comically titled, When You Dish Upon A Star - The Simpsons
made a brief segway gag joking that 20th Century Fox - the studio that produced them, had been
bought out and fallen under the umbrella of Disney.
Well - in December 2017, Disney announced the knockout news that it was to acquire the
vast majority of 21st Century Fox in a blockbuster deal worth over 52 billion US dollars, getting
Fox’s TV and film studios, its cable TV networks and its stake in the Hulu streaming
service - along with all the character rights and ownership of its creative property - including
The Simpsons.
The show literally foretold its own inevitable ownership.
Swinging in at Number 2 - The Higgs boson Particle
Did you catch that?
Although, only incredibly brief - Season 10 of The Simpsons hinted at one of their most
uncanny predictions ever.
Seriously, there have been books written about this - and the fact that they were pretty
much spot on is staggering.
Matt Groening is a genius time traveller - or an alien or something - because coincidence
can’t be THIS coincidental, can it?
Well, what if I told you that in 1998 - Homer Simpson pretty much predicted the mass of
the Higgs boson particle - 14 years before CERN did with the Large Hadron Collider.
Yeah - during the episode of the Wizard of Evergreen Terrace - Homer has a midlife crisis
- stating that he’s achieved nothing in his life when comparing it to Thomas Edison,
and so he decides to become an inventor.
During the episode, he scrawls on a chalkboard his prediction of the particles mass, 14 years
before it was even discovered - and British science writer and author Simon Singh noticed
eerily just how close it was and decided to write a book about it - called The Simpsons
and their Mathematical Secrets.
Well - it turns out that the writers of The Simpsons were pretty much all mathematicians
- and head writer at the time, David X Cohen, took a stab at the theoretical particle.
Yeah - he was pretty spot on - but I’m also pretty sure that he’s a time traveller.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - President Trump.
Yeah - nothing to see here really guys.
Other than the fact that The Simpsons predicted Trump's Presidency 16 years before it actually
happened.
I don’t really know what to say about this one, other than that it's insanely accurate
- and has gone on to spawn even more accurate predictions involving The Simpsons version
of Trump - and our version of Trump - and I’m not even sure which one is which any
more.
The gag first appeared in an eleventh season episode titled Bart To The Future, which is
pretty self explanatory - but it details Bart and Lisa all grown up, and of course - Lisa
is the First Female President of the United States.
Her task is to rebuild the economy after Donald Trump ruined it during his term as president.
Let me reiterate the fact that this episode aired in the year 2000 - sixteen years before
the 2016 presidential election - it’s got me wondering, what the hell was in the water
over at The Simpsons headquarters?
I get it, it’s just coincidence right?
There’s nothing more to it, they just got lucky … all of those times … back to back.
Well - there we have it horror fans, the startling fulfilled prophecies of The Simpsons.
What do you think?
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-- Kerry Ann says - Ahh, this was a bit of an eye opener to say the least.
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Or YouTube video - or something like that.
I don’t know, I guess I just better stay then and wait for some smart people.
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