With 31 seasons and depending broadcasting in real time, The Simpsons is verifiably a TV wonder. Both the longest-running American sitcom and vivified program, the widely praised animation is broadly perceived as one of, if not the, best shows ever for its hilarious parody of everything from governmental issues and mainstream society to regular family life.
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Indeed, all through its almost 700 scenes, maker Matt Groening and his group have been so on head of the nation's social heartbeat, they've even figured out how to foresee a few significant chronicled occasions — alongside a couple of less groundbreaking happenings.
Here are the rundown The Simpsons made shockingly exact expectations about what's to come.
Siegfried and Roy's Tiger Attack
Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
Anticipated: 1993
Worked out as expected: 2003
After Springfield chooses to sanction betting, Mr. Consumes opens a gambling club where German entertainers Gunter and Ernst play out a daily schedule, appearing to parody the long-running Las Vegas Siegfried and Roy show. Shockingly, a piece where the enlivened couple is assaulted by their tiger happened as expected 10 years after the fact when Roy Horn was destroyed in front of an audience by a white Bengal tiger, leaving him halfway incapacitated and finishing the long-running creation.
Autocorrect Fails
Season 6, Episode 8: Lisa on Ice
Anticipated: 1994
Worked out: 2007
During a Springfield Elementary School gathering, Kearney asks individual domineering jerk Dolph to take an update to "Beat up Martin" on his "Newton" — Apple's initial endeavor at an individual advanced associate. Nonetheless, the machine makes an interpretation of the message into "Eat up Martha" rather, portending the basic informing mistakes individuals fault on iPhone's autocorrect innovation.
Truth be told, Nitin Ganatra, Apple's previous head of designing for iOS applications, uncovered in 2013 that the Simpsons' gag filled in as an energizing cry while building up the product for the iPhone's console. "In the event that you heard individuals talking and they utilized the words 'Eat up Martha,' it was fundamentally a reference to the way that we expected to nail the console. We expected to ensure the content info chips away at this thing, in any case, 'Here comes the Eat up Marthas,'" he revealed to Fast Company.
FaceTime
Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa's Wedding
Anticipated: 1995
Worked out as expected: 2010
In this cutting edge portion, Lisa converses with Marge utilizing her telephone's video visit abilities, originating before the famous FaceTime highlight of the present iPhones by 15 years.
Broken Voter Machines
Season 20, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XIX
Anticipated: 2008
Materialized: 2012
In a bit propelled by the 2008 official political decision, Homer attempts to decide in favor of Barack Obama just to have a democratic machine record his determination as John McCain a few times. Unintentionally, when it came time for Obama to run for a second term in 2012, video film developed of a Pennsylvania machine changing a vote from Obama to one for his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. The machine was apparently removed from commission
The God Particle
Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
Anticipated: 1998
Materialized: 2012
The presence of the Higgs boson or "God molecule" — an advancement that clarifies how everything known to man has mass — wasn't affirmed by physicists until 2012. In any case, as indicated by Dr. Simon Singh, the writer of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, after Homer chose to turn into a creator in "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace," he was imagined remaining before a chalkboard with a condition that anticipated the mass of the yet-to-be-found molecule.
"On the off chance that you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that is just somewhat bigger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson really is," he told the Independent. "It's sort of astonishing as Homer makes this forecast 14 years before it was found."