The Simpsons Weirdest & Best Ever Prediction Is 30 Years Old

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Over the years, The Simpsons has seemingly predicted the future many times, but the best (and most bizarrely specific) of the show’s predictions celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. It is almost inevitable that a sitcom filled with topical humor would appear to predict future events now and then. However, the long-running animated comedyThe Simpsons has an extraordinary track record for staging stories before their events occur in reality.

Over the decades,The Simpsons predicted Donald Trump’s presidency, the winner of Super Bowl XXVI, Siegfried and Roy’s animal attack, and FIFA becoming mired in a corruption controversy. However, mocking one celebrity guest star led The Simpsons to make an even more eerily accurate prediction years earlier. While some of the show's «predictions» can be chalked up to coincidence or written off as chance, this one is arguably the show’s most weirdly specific guess.

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In “Homer at the Bat” (season 3, episode 16), Homer and his teammates on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s softball team prove unexpectedly successful thanks to Homer’s lucky bat. However, this success leads the greedy Mr. Burns to hastily hire a string of MLB superstars and give them cushy power plant jobs to ensure the team’s victory against Shelbyville. What follows is an absurd misadventure wherein the players are struck off the team’s roster one-by-one thanks to increasingly silly circumstances until eventually, the original team is reinstated. Veteran Simpsons scribe John Swartzwelder’s script finds a myriad of goofy reasons for the players to be sidelined, from Wade Boggs being knocked out by Barney in a bar fight to Ed Griffey Jr drinking too