Why The Simpsons Seems To Be So Good At Predicting The Future
In recent years, The Simpsons has become notorious for its ability to predict the future, but how has the show managed to predict so many future events? The Simpsons has been accused of being a result of everything from psychic abilities to time travel thanks to more than a handful of episodes that somehow managed to portray oddly specific events before they happened. The popularity of viewer speculation has led to an entire Disney+ collection dedicated to episodes that supposedly showed the future before it happened. Audiences have also spent hours backtracking through The Simpsons’ 33 seasons to find more examples of eerie connections, but many of them cannot offer a proper explanation for how The show has managed to do this over and over again.
The rabbit hole viewers have been traveling down initially gained traction after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and more recently, it’s been speculated that The Simpsons predicted Tom Hanks’ and Biden’s team-up. People were quick to point out season 11 episode “Bart to the Future” where Lisa says, “We inherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump” in an episode meant to poke fun at the idea of the celebrity becoming president. Simpsons creators even capitalized on this theory by having Bart write “Being right sucks” on the chalkboard the following week.
Related: The Simpsons' Best Fox Jokes
The moments where The Simpsons has supposedly shown psychic abilities are surprisingly numerous. The accuracy and specificity of the scenes have ranged from images showing 20th Century Fox being purchased by Disney in season 10 to Springfield residents forcing censorship of the Michelangelo’s David, which (in quite a stretch) has been compared to events in
Read more on screenrant.com
