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Multiple times that "The Simpsons" predicted the future I've always been a fan of The Simpsons family, but if I ever knew that this kind of scenario back when it was aired was going to happen, I would definitely love them more! It's difficult to imagine a world without "The Simpsons" and it's equally difficult to imagine one in which the show only predicted things that came true. But what if this was actually the case? With 20 years of hindsight on our side, we now know that there are several occasions in which Matt Groening and his team accurately predicted events with uncanny accuracy. In these blog posts, we'll dissect four different instances where "The Simpsons" had already foreseen major historic moments before they occurred. Siegfried and Roy's Tiger Attack **Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)** **Predicted:** 1993 **Came true:** 2003
Autocorrect Fails **Season 6, Episode 8: Lisa on Ice** **Predicted:** 1994 **Came true:** 2007
FaceTime **Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa’s Wedding** **Predicted:** 1995 **Came true:** 2010
Faulty Voter Machines **Season 20, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XIX** **Predicted:** 2008 **Came true:** 2012
The God Particle **Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace** **Predicted:** 1998 **Came true:** 2012
NSA Spying Scandal ***The Simpsons Movie*** **Predicted:** 2007 **Came true:** 2013
Smartwatches **Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa’s Wedding** **Predicted:**1995 **Came true:** 2014
America's Ebola Outbreak **Season 9, Episode 3: Lisa’s Sax** **Predicted:** 1997 **Came true:** 2014
FIFA's Corruption Scandal **Season 25, Episode 16: You Don’t Have to Live Like a Referee** **Predicted:** 2014 **Came true:** 2015
Greece’s Debt Default **Season 23, Episode 10: Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson** **Predicted:** 2012 **Came true:** 2015
The Nobel Prize **Season 22, Episode 1: Elementary School Musical** **Predicted:** 2010 **Came true:** 2016
President Donald Trump **Season 11, Episode 17: Bart to the Future** **Predicted:** 2000 **Came true:** 2015
Lady Gaga's Halftime Show **Season 23, Episode 22: Lisa Goes Gaga** **Predicted:** 2012 **Came true:** 2017
Disney's Fox Takeover **Season 10, Episode 5: When You Dish Upon A Star** **Predicted:** 1998 **Came true:** 2017
Team USA's Olympic Curling Win **Season 21, Episode 12: Boy Meets Curl** **Predicted:** 2010 **Came true:** 2018
Drogon's Fiery Rampage on *Game of Thrones* **Season 29, Episode 1: The Serfsons** **Predicted:** 2017 **Came true:** 2019
The 2020 Experience **Season 4, Episode 21: Marge in Chains** **Predicted:** 1993 **Came true:** 2020
In March, episode co-writer Bill Oakley told The Hollywood Reporter that any parallels to coronavirus that the script seems to invite are totally accidental. “The Simpsons have just a few times predicted something,” he added. “It's mostly chance since the episodes are so old that history repeats itself,” says the author. The majority of these episodes are based on events that occurred in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s that we were aware of.”
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