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Faulty Voter Machines
Season 20, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XIX
Predicted: 2008
Came true: 2012
In a bit inspired by the 2008 presidential election, Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama only to have a voting machine record his selection as John McCain several times. Coincidentally, when it came time for Obama to run for a second term in 2012, video footage emerged of a Pennsylvania machine switching a vote from Obama to one for his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. The machine was reportedly taken out of commission.
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NSA Spying Scandal
The Simpsons Movie
Predicted: 2007
Came true: 2013
When the Simpson family is forced to go into hiding following their escape from the EPA biodome enclosing Springfield, the NSA locates Marge and the kids by listening in on one of their conversations. However, it wasn't until six years after The Simpsons Movie hit theaters that Edward Snowden first blew the whistle on the government mass surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet records.
The NSA as portrayed in The Simpsons Movie (2007) pic.twitter.com/7g8piC7x7H
- Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) February 8, 2015
America's Ebola Outbreak
Season 9, Episode 3: Lisa’s Sax
Predicted: 1997
Came true: 2014
This installment saw Marge offer to read a depressed Bart a book titled Curious George and the Ebola Virus. This moment was widely circulated during the 2014 American Ebola outbreak when YouTube user Thecontroversy7 created a video laying out a theory revolving around The Simpsons' predictive tendencies.
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President Donald Trump
Season 11, Episode 17: Bart to the Future
Predicted: 2000
Came true: 2016
When Bart flashes forward into adulthood, viewers learn that Lisa not only becomes president, but inherits "quite a budget crunch" from her predecessor, Donald Trump. "The country is broke?" she asks her aides in one scene. "How can that be?"
At the time, the real Trump presidency was still 16 years away. However, in a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, writer Dan Greaney explained the joke was meant as a warning to the country. "That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom," he said. "It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.
This is a direct Simpsons quote from March 2000 in a future where Lisa was president
Once again, The Simpsons is always right pic.twitter.com/992UUp8bI6
- Mike M (@MikeMarFF) December 8, 2016
Lady Gaga's Halftime Show
Season 23, Episode 22: Lisa Goes Gaga
Predicted: 2012
Came true: 2017
Nearly five years before Lady Gaga descended from the roof of Houston's NRG Stadium for the halftime show of Super Bowl LI, her Simpsons doppelgänger performed a song for the residents of Springfield while suspended in the air. The two Mother Monsters even wore similar silver ensembles for their shows.
The Simpsons predicted Lady Gaga's #PepsiHalftime show. Im so shook! #Superbowl pic.twitter.com/Wfp4NuGqLz
- xJbar (@YaManJonathan) February 6, 2017
Disney's Fox Takeover
Season 10, Episode 5: When You Dish Upon A Star
Predicted: 1998
Came true: 2017
After a trip to Springfield, director Ron Howard pitches a screenplay that Homer wrote to producer Brian Glazer of 20th Century Fox. At the beginning of the scene, a sign can be seen at the Fox studio lot that reveals the company is now "A Division of Walt Disney Co."
Cut to nearly 20 years later and this sale is officially underway, with the news breaking that Disney has reached a deal to acquire $66.1 billion-worth of Fox on Dec. 14, 2017.
Disney announces it has reached a deal to acquire 21st Century Fox, as predicted by a Simpsons episode that first aired on November 8, 1998. pic.twitter.com/kzloJQHeM8
- Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 14, 2017
The 2020 Experience
Season 4, Episode 21: Marge in Chains
Predicted: 1993
Came true: 2020
If 2020 was a bingo card, The Simpsons could already have at least two squares ticked off. In the nearly 30-year-old episode "Marge in Chains," not only does an unprecedented flu sweep through Springfield, but when the townspeople begin rioting to demand a cure for the virus, a swarm of killer bees that could be likened to the “murder hornets” that recently hit the U.S. unexpectedly come into the picture.
On the other hand, episode co-writer Bill Oakley told The Hollywood Reporter in March that any comparisons the storyline seems to invite to coronavirus are purely coincidental.
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