Nostradamus would be biting his elbows now if he were alive.
1. The Trump Presidency Episode 17 Season 11: “Bart to the Future”; “Trumptastic Voyage Predicted: March 19, 2000; July 7, 2015 Fulfilled: 2016 Status: real prediction
The 2000 episode shows Bart traveling to the future where Lisa Simpson becomes President of the United States after Donald Trump. Lisa says that President Trump bankrupted the country during his 14-year rule and now she must somehow restore everything. Trump himself does not appear in this episode.
There are those who argue that The Simpsons were simply mocking the possibility of a then-famous showman with a controversial reputation to become president. Moreover, in October 1999, Trump announced himself as a potential candidate from the Reform Party for the US presidential nomination, but on February 14, 2000, he withdrew his candidacy from the election, having changed his mind. But there is one interesting fact. From 2000, Bart sees himself in 30 years, Trump by this time had just left office and had ruled for 14 years. Those. he was supposed to take over as president in 2016. In real life, Trump was elected president on November 8, 2016.
2. Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia 125 Days: Donald Trump Makes One Last Try To Patch Things Up With Comey; Predicted: May 26, 2017 Fulfilled: ? Status: fake
The series allegedly predicted in advance (according to some sources 15 years in advance!) Trump’s attempt to enter into an alliance with the president of Egypt and the king of Saudi Arabia. The picture of “The Simpsons” completely repeats the famous photograph in the media.
How can this be? Nostradamus would bite his elbows, Vanga would tear out the hair on her head! Not really. This episode did not air in 2002, but on May 26, 2017, and was published on the series' YouTube channel, but was not included in the 28th season. (The picture with Trump can be seen at the beginning of the episode on the stairs.) The video from which the three heroes of the meeting were redrawn appeared on the network earlier - on May 22, 2017, and the ritual of laying hands on the ball was actively discussed on social networks.
3. US NSA spying. Episode 9 Season 8: “The Mysterious Journey of Homer”; “The Simpsons Movie” Predicted: January 5, 1997; July 21, 2007 Fulfilled: 2013 Status: formally fulfilled; reference to the future
In the full-length film “The Simpsons Movie,” When the Simpson family was forced to hide from the government after escaping from the dome that covered Springfield, the theme of mass spying on citizens by American intelligence agencies was allegedly touched upon for the first time - the NSA finds Marge and the children during their conversation. Moreover, the signal is transmitted through a man sitting next to the Simpsons (a reference to the future chipping of people). In 2013, former American intelligence officer Edward Snowden told The Guardian and The Washington Post about the government's massive surveillance of Americans' phones and Internet. Lisa warns Marge about this in 2007.
4. The appearance of "Guitar Hero". Episode 2 of season 14: “How I spent my summer” Prediction: November 10, 2002 Came true: 2005 Status: extremely doubtful
In a 2002 episode, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards gave Homer a jacket with the words "Guitar Hero" written on it. And on November 8, 2005, a game with the same name went on sale in the United States, quickly gaining worldwide popularity.
5. Immortality of The Rolling Stones Episode 19, Season 6: “Lisa’s Wedding” Predicted: March 19, 1995 Fulfilled: 2010 Status: formally fulfilled
In the 1995 episode, Lisa and her husband lie in bed in front of a poster advertising the new Rolling Stones tour in 2010. Thus, it was predicted that the Stones would continue to exist for several more decades.
In 2010, they were actually preparing a farewell tour, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the band’s existence, which was supposed to start in 2011 and end in 2012. But the tour began later in November 2012 and it turned out not to be “Steel Wheelchair” at all, but very fiery. After it, they skated 5 more rounds of varying lengths. No matter how old people swagger, the stage is a drug and what else can they do in their old age, not sit on the stove, living out their days. They announce the last round, and then after a while they go to the next last round.
6. Attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Episode 1 of Season 9: “New York vs. Homer Simpson” Predicted: September 21, 1997 Fulfilled: September 11, 2001 Status: real prediction
During the Simpsons' first trip to New York
series in 1997 featured a magazine advertising tickets for $9. In the background is New York with its two symbols, the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Together this picture forms the number 9/11. In addition, when Lisa holds this magazine, a triangle of her hair peeks out from above, which some researchers associate with the Masonic pyramid of the “All-Seeing Eye.”
4 years after the release of this series, the most famous terrorist attack in US history occurred. Look, what is another interesting moment in this picture, besides 9/11 - Bart is holding in his hands a stack of rolled up bills, the image on which does not look like dollars
In the same episode at 10:54 sec. a homeless man on the subway tells Lisa: “write to Jesus directly at the Pentagon” - let me remind you that the Pentagon building was hit by a cruise missile (they tried to pass it off as an airplane in the news, but the outline of the damage revealed its source).
Please also note the release date of the series: 09/21/1997. The terrorist attack took place on September 11, 2001. A close day of the year, although not exactly the same date. But the first number in the release date is 2 towers. The number of the season where this episode was is 9, and the episode number is 1. We add the two numbers and subtract from 21, we get 11, the day of the terrorist attack. Why subtraction - because America loses the twin towers on this day, i.e. goes minus. The series production code is 4F22. We decipher: 4 years (since 1997), and - forward (forward, further), 2 planes will hit 2 towers. Considering that there are mathematicians on the Simpsons writing team, perhaps there are more complex encryption methods involved, for example, the episode number in the series is 179. You can experiment with the numbers yourself.
7. Farm Game Episode 12, Season 9: “Bart the Carnival Man” Predicted: January 11, 1998 Fulfilled: late 00s Status: pre-prediction
In the late '90s episode "Bart the Carnival Man," a fair comes to town and the Simpsons go to it, where they see children wearing virtual reality glasses playing a farm simulator. Online articles about “The Simpsons” predictions claim to have predicted the future popularity of farming simulators on social media. But do not forget that before social networks there were games on computers and consoles with similar themes. For example, there was the game “Beasts and Bumpkins” released in 1997. Fields were sown in it, chickens laid eggs, bread was baked, and a forge worked. What made this game unusual was its humor. Funny graphics and voice acting - chickens cluck during the day, peasants burp after eating, and at night you can hear snoring and the sounds of love. Well, from time to time it was necessary to repel the attacks of giant bees and bears. There were other similar games.
The virtual reality glasses featured in this episode of The Simpsons also pre-existed. Experiments on designing helmets for virtual reality began back in the late 60s in the USA. By 1990, head and hand movement tracking systems were already built into these helmets. It was at this time that Japanese scientists came up with the idea of using special glasses for a more complete immersion in the gameplay. Similar virtual reality glasses can be seen, for example, in the 1992 film “The Lawnmower Man.”
8. Intercom-Ipod Episode 5 of Season 8: “Bart in Shady Business”; Predicted: November 24, 1996 Fulfilled: October 23, 2001 Status: extremely doubtful
In 1996, The Simpsons featured an iPod-like intercom that would go on sale five years later. The 1st generation player for listening to music from Apple had the same design, and the button for listening to music is identical to the button for calling residents.
9. Prediction of the fall of the ruble exchange rate in 2014, episode 20 of season 10: “The Old Man and the C-Student” Predicted: April 25, 1999 Fulfilled: 2014 Status: was before the prediction
According to the plot of the 1999 episode, “The Old Man and the C-Student,” Springfield is chosen as the capital of the next Olympics. At the very beginning of the episode, a meeting of the International Olympic Committee takes place, at which a representative from Russia, proposing Moscow, makes an argument - a good exchange rate between the dollar and the ruble. But everything changes in 4 seconds of screen time, when he receives a call and finds out that the dollar/ruble exchange rate has begun to grow rapidly.
Some fans of “The Simpsons” link this to the fall of the ruble in the 10th after the introduction of Western sanctions. But those who are older immediately guess the August 1998 default. In the 90s, the Chernomyrdin government created a pyramid (like Mavrodi) with GKOs (state short-term bonds). The income on them was 30-50 percent, and sometimes reached 250 percent.
10. Ebola epidemic Episode 3 of Season 9: “Lisa’s Saxophone” Predicted: October 19, 1997 Fulfilled: 2014 Status: was before the prediction
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The Simpsons started talking about the Ebola virus in 1997. Articles and videos about their predictions claim that at that time no one knew about this virus and its terrible power. Only 17 years later, in 2014, West Africa was engulfed in an outbreak of the disease and the whole world began to talk about the virus.
In fact, the Ebola virus was discovered back in 1976! It just became widely known in the world only in 2014, when, according to one version, it got out due to an unsuccessful experiment in an American laboratory located in Africa, according to another, it was released specifically so that American and Canadian pharmaceutical companies could profit from it later. The man-made nature of the virus is also indicated by the fact that the Ebola strain that spread during the last epidemic was previously granted a patent in the United States and the Americans had a vaccine for it in advance. It was used immediately when two white American doctors fell ill. If anyone is interested, you can read the materials online, they are full of interesting facts about the latest Ebola epidemic.
11. Faulty voting machines in the elections, episode 4, season 20: “House of Horror XIX” Predicted: November 2, 2008 Fulfilled: 2012 Status: was before the prediction
In the episode, which aired in 2008, Homer goes to the polling station and tries to vote for Barack Obama, but instead the machine counts several votes for John McCain. When the time came for the incumbent president to seek re-election four years later, a video of a malfunctioning machine in Pennsylvania appeared on the Internet, which, when electing Obama, voted for his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. Authorities later said the car was removed from the property.
However, according to online reports, a similar voting machine error was noticed back in the days when Al Gore was competing with Bush Jr.
12. Economic crisis in Greece Episode 10 of Season 23: “Political ineptitude with Homer Simpson” Predicted: January 8, 2012 Fulfilled: 2015 Status: formally fulfilled
In 2012, the episode “Political Bumblings with Homer Simpson” was released, where Homer appears as a guest on a news show. A ticker at the bottom of the screen says: "Europe has put Greece on eBay." This happened three years before Greece defaulted when the next tranche was not transferred to the International Monetary Fund. This provoked a deep economic crisis in the state.
The series, by the way, is one of the most political in the entire history of the show. Homer becomes the voice of the US middle class. He wears a coffee pot on his head, shouts slogans like “Hands off the toilets,” nominates rock star Ted Nugement as a presidential candidate, and fights in every possible way for the rights of ordinary Americans.
But in order to understand the fate of the colonial country, you don’t need to be Vanga. The same scenario is repeated many times. A puppet government desired by the colonialist is installed in the country, it collects loans at an interest rate (especially from the IMF), the money disappears without a trace (the colonialist silently supports corruption in his colonies). After the inability to pay off the debt, the only way out is announced - the privatization of state property by foreign companies. Lenders are demanding that social benefits be cut, and not show off - the population is sliding into poverty. And voila! After a while, this is a banana republic: the fattest pieces in various sectors of the economy belong to foreigners, money flows from the country abroad, in fact it becomes a market for cheap labor and a market for the sale of goods, while they crawl on their knees for the next IMF loan, tightening the noose ever tighter your neck.
This could be observed long before Greece in the example of many other countries. The scheme of bankruptcy of countries by world bankers is 1 in 1 everywhere. There may simply be some variations, somewhere they operate through private banks and companies (as in Iceland), somewhere through a purchased government (i.e. at the state level, as in Greece , Argentina), somewhere through revolutions and coups (color revolutions, for example, in Ukraine and Georgia). At the same time, all failures always fall on the population, convincing them that people themselves are to blame for everything: they do not want to work (standard story), they are not enterprising, they do not understand the risks, they want to live too well, they do not pay taxes, etc. A typical psychological trick. All these “rogues” are obvious to any sane person, so those in power are trying with all their might to lower the intellectual level of people, lowering them to the level of morons who are not able to think, analyze and understand anything.
So this prediction is very conditional. If you know, say, a bus route, then it is not difficult to predict where the person who gets on this bus will arrive. The same thing happened in Russia in the 90s – they barely got rid of the IMF. It's just a big country with natural resources
themselves, so it was difficult to completely ruin it in a short time, and then there was a default in 1998. Small countries like Iceland and the Baltic states are able to bring the international mafia to their knees much faster. So Greece is just another victim of a gang of international bankers.
13. Discovery of the Higgs boson or “God Particle” 2 episode of season 10: “The Wizard of Evergreen Alley” Predicted: September 20, 1998 Fulfilled: 2012 Status: was before the prediction
The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle whose existence was first predicted by Peter Higgs in 1964. In 2012, scientists from the European Council for Nuclear Research confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson (also known as the “God particle”) through research at the Large Hadron Collider. The discovery of the Higgs boson was a real breakthrough in science. It explains why everything in the Universe has mass. But, according to Dr. Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Homer made this discovery 14 years before official research, deciding to become an inventor in the Wizard of Evergreen Alley series. In one shot, Homer stands at a blackboard and writes down a complex equation. “If you solve it, you will get a value that is slightly larger than the actual nanomass of the Higgs boson,” writes Simon Singh in his book.
But there have been many calculations since the 70s, and the authors of “The Simpsons” simply used one of the most likely ones. Among the writers of this animated series there are mathematicians who could well be interested in the theory of Peter Higgs.
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, the formula of Fermat's theorem hovers above the two-dimensional Homer in the third dimension.
In another episode from 2006, the numbers 8,128 appear on a baseball scoreboard; 8.208 and 8.191, also not chosen by chance. 8128 is a perfect number equal to the sum of all its divisors. 8208 is a "narcissistic number" or Armstrong number: it has four digits, and if you multiply each by itself four times, the results add up to 8208. 8191 is a Mersenne number - named after the French mathematician Marin Mersenne, who studied their properties in the 17th century . This is a prime number that can only be divided by itself and one.
14. Clint Eastwood and the chair Episode 13 Episode 13: “The Old Man and the Key” Predicted: March 10, 2002 Fulfilled: 2012 Status: fake
There is information on the Internet that allegedly in 2000 “The Simpsons” predicted the fiasco that Clint Eastwood suffered in 2012. Then the series featured a newspaper headline with Abe Simpson: “Old Man Yelled at Chair.” 10 years later, Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood begins a monologue on stage with the same interlocutor, imagining that he is communicating with Barack Obama. Having harshly criticized his policies, he himself became the object of ridicule from politicians and colleagues.
In fact, the series with this drawing was in 2002, not 2000. Abe Simpson came to get the rights and asked to use his newspaper photo for them, which was captioned: “An old man yelled at a cloud,” and not at a chair. Thus, this “prediction” is ordinary Photoshop. As for Eastwood's criticism, there is no need to be surprised. Democrats traditionally have a powerful information fist in the form of their media and well-fed actors. Therefore, during their reign and after, Bush Sr. and Jr., and now Trump, were furiously ridiculed. If you carefully watch “The Simpsons,” you will notice that in fact this series is also one of the mouthpieces of the Democratic Party.
15. Translator from the language of newborns Episode 24 of season 3: “Brother, lend a coin” Predicted: August 27, 1992 Fulfilled: 1998 and 2012 Status: real prediction (?)
In 1992, Homer's half-brother, Herbert Powell, is looking for an original idea to make a fortune. When Herbert sees how a young mother cannot understand why her little child is crying, he comes up with the idea of creating a device that could recognize the “speech” of babies and translate it into understandable English. While conducting research on Maggie, Herb assembles a working model of a "children's translator".
16. Nobel laureates 1 episode 22 season: “Elementary School Musical” Predicted: September 26, 2010 Fulfilled: 2016 Status: real prediction (?)
In "Elementary School Musical," Lisa Simpson, Milhouse Van Houten, Martin Prince and another student watch the Nobel Prize ceremony on TV and place bets on who will win it. After the announcement of the award to Jagdish Bhagwati for achievements in the field of economics, Milhouse takes out a sheet of bets. The list includes Bernard Feringa, 2016 Chemistry Laureate, as nominees.
and Bengt Holmström, who won the prize in economics that same year.
I put a question mark in the status because... “The Simpsons” guessed the nominees, but not the winners. The propagandist of globalism that is devouring this world, Jagdish Bhagwati, has not yet received the Nobel Prize. Apparently, he tried poorly in front of his masters - the Rockefellers, who dream of globalizing the world as much as possible and inserting a chip into everyone, making a single electronic concentration camp with total surveillance.
17. White Tiger Attack on Roy Horne Episode 10 Season 5: “Springfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legal Gambling)” Predicted: December 16, 1993 Fulfilled: October 3, 2003 Status: formally fulfilled
After gambling is legalized in Springfield, Mr. Burns opens a casino. It features German artists Gunther and Ernst parodying the Siegfried (Fischbacher) and Roy (Horn) show in Las Vegas, which lasted about ten years. During the performance, a huge white tiger suddenly attacks one of the trainers.
The tragic incident actually happened 10 years later. On October 3, 2003, during a performance at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Roy Horn was attacked by a seven-year-old white Bengal tiger named Montecore. Horn told the tiger to lie down. When he refused, Roy tapped his nose with the microphone to get his attention. The animal grabbed Horn's hand, causing the artist to stumble. The tiger then rushed towards Roy, who was trying to fend him off with a microphone, and pulled Horn off the stage by the neck, narrowly missing his carotid artery.
Roy raised this tiger from childhood for six years. When he was taken to the hospital, he was worried that no harm would come to the tiger: “Montecore is a big cat,” he said.
A tragic outcome was avoided, but Roy remained partially paralyzed after undergoing many years of rehabilitation, and the show was closed.
Montecore died in 2014 at the age of 17. The average lifespan for such a tiger in captivity is 15 to 26 years, according to the San Diego Zoo's website.
Tigers often attack trainers, so there is nothing surprising in this prediction. The date is interesting - almost exactly 10 years.
18. Video calls Episode 19 Season 6: “Lisa’s Wedding” Predicted: March 19, 1995 Fulfilled: 2010 Status: before the prediction
This episode showed the Simpson family in the future. Lisa communicates with Marge via video call on her landline phone. The authors of articles about the predictions of “The Simpsons” admire that only 15 years later this technology was embodied in smartphones. And not just in smartphones, but FaceTime in iPhone. Apple sectarians, as usual, believe that this company created all modern technologies, or rather Steve Jobs personally. Those who are in the know are laughing “under the table” at this moment.
However, the very concept of a videotelephone with a wide screen that transmitted light and sound appeared in one of the periodicals already in 1878! The device was called a “telephonoscope”. In the United States, AT&T Bell Labs introduced the video telephone to the public in 1960 at an exhibition called “Picturephone.” The first public use of video phones began in 1964, when AT&T installed the first "Picturephone Mod I" video phones in New York, Washington, and Chicago. According to some reports, in its entire history, AT&T recruited no more than 500 subscribers to this service and stopped providing it in the late seventies.
In France, France Telecom had been researching videophone applications since 1972, but the first commercial products appeared in 1984. The delay was caused by the fact that it was not possible to allocate 2 Mbps for video and voice transmission. The problem was solved by creating an encoding and compression algorithm known as a video codec.
In Japan, Atari and Mitsubishi introduced the Lumaphone device to the market in 1985, which could broadcast frames every 3-5 seconds over analog telephone lines.
In 1992, AT&T tried again to enter the market with the VideoPhone 2500, but commercial success was extremely limited.
In addition, there was such a thing as a “teleconference” and video communication was shown in science fiction films and books.
"The Simpsons" invented the video phone in 1995? What are you speaking about?!
Even if you take video conferencing via a computer, at least in 2008 they were already available when video calling was introduced in Skype 2.0, and not in 2010.
19. Smart watch (Apple Watch). Episode 19 Season 6: Lisa's wedding Predicted: March 19, 1995 Fulfilled: 2014 Status: was before the prediction
Another technology prediction
in the episode about Lisa's wedding in the future, it concerned a wristwatch, which in the cartoon was used as a mobile phone.
The first Seiko smartwatches appeared back in the 80s. If we take watches with a built-in phone function, then one of the pioneers in this area was Samsung, and not Apple, which made several attempts to create a watch-phone market. The company made its first attempt to create a smartwatch in 1999, releasing the Samsung SPH-WP10.
In 2001, at the CES exhibition in Las Vegas, Samsung brought a new gadget with watch and phone functions, the Samsung SPH-S100, which looked much more modern than the previous version. In 2009, the Samsung S9110 watch-mobile phone with a touch screen went on sale. In addition to Samsung, smartwatches in the 00s and early 10s were presented from Sony, Motorola, Qualcomm and a number of other companies.
Apple was, as usual, catching up. The Apple Watch was released only on September 9, 2014! This can often be seen with this company. Its typical policy is to take other people’s technologies, add marketing and shout: “We have made a revolution!”
20. Football predictions, episode 16, season 25: “You don’t have to live like a referee” Predicted: March 30, 2014 Fulfilled: July 2014 and May 27, 2015 Status: real prediction (?)
This episode, in which Homer Simpson becomes a referee at the 2014 championship in Brazil, is full of football-themed predictions.
First of all, she predicted the defeat of the Brazilians from the German team (July 2, 2014) and the fact that it was Germany that would win the gold medals (July 13, 2014). You can, of course, say that football experts predicted this in advance, but they predict a lot and their predictions do not always come true. Therefore, this can still be considered a real prediction.
Also, although the representative of the world football federation who asks Homer to help restore the organization's image is not identified as a member of FIFA, his arrest during a conversation with Simpson is similar to the events that occurred on May 27, 2015. On the eve of the next FIFA congress in Zurich, Swiss police, at the request of the FBI, arrested seven high-ranking functionaries of the association.
But federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, Department of Justice and Tax Service) had been investigating the FIFA case for three years before. Conversations about corruption began when, in 2010, Qatar was chosen as the site of the 2022 championship, contrary to the opinion of the FIFA technical committee, with its unbearable heat. The leak of internal information and further investigation by the Sunday Times provided comprehensive data pointing to the illegal actions of the Qatari Mohammed bin Hammam, head of the Asian Football Confederation in 2002-2011. The latter allegedly bribed representatives of African countries, spending at least $5 million on it. Therefore, this prediction, although it came true, had prerequisites.
The third prediction concerns Neymar's injury at the 2014 World Cup. This episode of The Simpsons features the "greatest master of simulation" El Divo, a fictional Brazilian football player who is supposedly unable to play after suffering an injury. Neymar suffered the same injury in a game against Colombia on July 4, 2014 and even ended up wearing a similar T-shirt. But he likes to lie on the grass, pretending to be injured, so this prediction should be taken more as mockery of him.
In the end, all the predictions came true, but with a number of reservations, so I put a question mark.
21. The Simpsons Predicted Which Teams Will Make It to the Super Bowl Finals Season 17 Episode 1: “Bonfire of the Manatees” Predicted: September 11, 2005 Fulfilled: 2014 Status: Doubtful
The Simpsons also made it to American football. In one of the episodes of the 17th season, which was released in 2005, a match between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos was on TV.
The teams met in the 2014 Super Bowl, although in the cartoon Denver won, but in reality the Seahawks took the trophy.
22. Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime performance. Episode 22 of season 23: “Lisa and Gaga” Predicted: May 20, 2012 Fulfilled: 2017 Status: doubtful
The American animated series in 2012 predicted the performance of singer Lady Gaga at the halftime concert of the final game of the National Football League (NFL), also known as the Super Bowl. In the "Lisa and Gaga" episode, the singer flies on ziplines and plays the piano - the same thing she did at her 2017 performance. The outfit of Lady Gaga and her prototype in the cartoon also partially coincided, oh
However, in real life the fire did not burst out of her chest.
In fact, this episode of The Simpsons did not feature Gaga, but rather Madonna, who, according to Internet reports, did a similar thing in the early 90s, and Gaga repeated it after her. Before her performance, in 2010, the singer Pink also flew on wires in exactly the same costume, only gray.
23. “Star Wars” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks” will be released on the same day Episode 1 Season 21: “Homer is a Whopper” Predicted: September 27, 2009 Fulfilled: December 18, 2015 Status: real prediction
The creators of “The Simpsons” predicted the appearance of the seventh episode of “Star Wars” simultaneously with the next film about Alvin and the Chipmunks. The corresponding posters hang at the entrance to the Ginormous Pictures film studio in the episode “Homer is a Hulk,” which aired in 2009.
The Springfield version of the next episode of the great space saga was called “Star Wars: Apologia.” As some viewers note, such a title would be suitable for a new film by JJ Abrams. It became clear that the seventh episode would actually appear only in 2012, when Walt Disney Studios acquired Lucasfilm.
As for “Alvin and the Chipmunks”, singing like a cassette recorder with the pause button not fully pressed, here the creators of The Simpsons missed the mark a little - at the same time as “Star Wars”, the fourth (and not the third, as on the poster) film “The Great Chipmunk” was released. .
24. The Shard skyscraper in London, episode 19, season 6: “Lisa’s Wedding” Predicted: March 19, 1995 Fulfilled: 2007 Status: real prediction
During Lisa's trip to London, viewers are shown a skyscraper behind the Tower Bridge, which is very reminiscent of the silhouette of the famous "Shard" and even coincides with it in location. The skyscraper project was developed in 2000 by the architect Renzo Piano, the author of the Paris Pompidou Center. Construction of the tower took place from 2007 to 2012.
I came across an opinion on the Internet that the creators of the cartoon draw, what is called “from the bullshit”, different buildings and something matches. But in this case, such an opinion is absolutely unfounded, given that it would hardly have occurred to animators to draw such skyscrapers in historical London, especially if they accurately guessed the location. One can only assume that even then, even before the draft was drawn up, there was such an idea for development.
By the way, this construction caused many protests from local residents. In fact, there is nothing left of old London, as well as of Moscow and a number of other cities. The question may arise as to what is the point of cramming huge buildings of glass and concrete into cities. This destroys the atmosphere of historical areas, kills tourism, looks frankly ridiculous and often even turns out to be economically ineffective. It would seem that take and build modern cities in a style that will look like a single complex. There are two possible answers here: 1) complete stupidity, lack of a sense of taste along with the desire to grab money; 2) deliberate sabotage.
If we consider the second option, we can observe the systematic destruction of architectural heritage and the creation of the architecture of a faceless globalized world for human biorobots living in glass houses (under a hood). Even if we take Russia in the 20th century: the flashy pomp of Stalinist architecture, the wretched economy of Khrushchev, cosmic motifs in the architecture of the Brezhnev period - all this is not just a style of architecture, but primarily a reflection of ideology. The merciless, barbaric destruction of the historical environment, the replacement of old buildings with dummies, monsters made of glass and concrete - this is also a certain systematic policy.
25. Tomak 5 episode 11 season: “Tomak” Predicted: November 7, 1999 Fulfilled: 2003 Status: was before the prediction; inspiration from “The Simpsons”
In the 1999 episode, Homer invented a new product called "tomac": tomatoes crossed with tobacco. The new fruit tastes disgusting, but is terribly addictive. Oregon farmer Rob Baur, inspired by this idea, decided to try to make a tomato-tobacco hybrid himself, like in the cartoon. In 2003, he received a real tomak. The samples did show the presence of nicotine in the leaves.
But the process of obtaining such a plant was proposed back in 1959 in the journal Scientific American. There it was assumed that it was possible to obtain a plant like a tomato containing nicotine. Later, in 1968, this article was also reprinted in a compilation book of the magazine. Rob Baur grew tomak, armed with an article from this book. Therefore, this is not so much a prediction as it is an inspiration.
26. Clip Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Season 6 Episode 5: “Sideshow Bob Roberts”; again in “The Simpsons at the Movies”
Said: October 9, 1994; again 2007 Fulfilled: 2013 Status: inspiration from “The Simpsons” (?)
In the 1994 episode of Sideshow Bob Roberts, Homer rode an iron demolition ball to protect his home. In 2007, a similar scene, only more expanded and much funnier, was shown in the half-length cartoon “The Simpsons at the Movies.”
This technique was repeated by Miley Cyrus in her “Wreacking ball” video in 2013. It is quite possible that Miley was really inspired by “The Simpsons”; according to publications, she often copies other people’s ideas that were implemented before her.
27. Billboard Bleeding Episode 6 Season 4: “Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie” Predicted: November 3, 1992 Fulfilled: 2008 Status: inspired by “The Simpsons” (?)
The “Itchy and Scratchy” billboard in the fourth season of The Simpsons depicted Itchy (a mouse) decapitating Scratchy (a cat) with a camera. Blood streamed from the wound on the billboard straight into the street and passing cars.
In 2008, a billboard advertising the film “Kill Bill” appeared on the street of Auckland, New Zealand, and it also bled.
28. Three-eyed fish caught near a nuclear power plant Episode 3 Season 1: “Homer’s Odyssey” Predicted: January 21, 1990 Fulfilled: 2011 Status: real prediction
In the first season of “The Simpsons,” during a schoolchildren’s excursion to a nuclear power plant, a three-eyed mutant fish is shown in a local pond. In the second season (Episode 4: “Two cars in every garage and three eyes on every fish”) Bart catches her with a fishing rod. Blinky the fish has become a symbol of radiation contamination of a reservoir by a nuclear power plant.
21 years later, three young Argentine fishermen caught the same fish with three eyes near the city of Cordoba on Lake Chorro de Aqua Caliente, not far from the local nuclear power plant, which, like the Simpsons, discharged waste into the reservoir. The Argentines did not try the mutant meat; they gave it to scientists for experiments. The three-eyed fish caused a lot of noise not only in the local but also in the central press. According to local fishermen, they have never seen anything like this here before. Later, in 2014, three-eyed fish were caught in Ontario, and in 2015 - in New York.
It’s worth adding here that experiments with genetics began a long time ago, back in the 90s, long before the Argentinean catch, when farmed mutant fish with extra eyes were shown on TV.
29. Theft of used cooking fat Episode 1 Season 10: “Fat and Dancing” Predicted: August 23, 1998 Fulfilled: 2011 Status: real prediction (?)
In 1998, Bart and Homer steal used cooking grease collected from the school kitchen to resell it to refineries. Ten years later, an article appeared in the New York Times about a surge in the rate of such thefts from American restaurant owners. For example, in November 2011, thieves who stole $2,000 worth of fat from a private restaurant were detained in St. Louis. They resold it on the black market.
Used vegetable oil is processed into biodiesel fuel used in cars. But biodiesel was used in the United States even before this episode of The Simpsons, so perhaps similar cases have occurred before.
30. Airplane Restaurant Episode 25 Season 9: “Natural Born Kissers” Predicted: May 17, 1998 Fulfilled: May 2002 Status: formally fulfilled; was before “The Simpsons” (?)
In 1998, Homer and Marge come to celebrate their eleventh wedding anniversary in a restaurant built inside an old airplane.
In May 2002, a similar restaurant (The Airplane Restaurant) opened in Colorado Springs. The Boeing KC-97, built in 1953, was converted for it. Fortunately for parents who visit this restaurant, the option to “induce” turbulence using a stick that pushes the wings of an airplane remains in the cartoon.
I couldn’t find information on whether there were airplane restaurants in the USA before this episode of The Simpsons, but in the USSR, according to forums, since the 80s there has been an airplane restaurant in the city of Nalchik, and in Kirov since the 90s there has been an airplane bar. Now there are such restaurants all over the world from China to Switzerland.
31. Theft of the Lemon Tree Episode 24 Season 6: “Lemon of Troy” Predicted: May 14, 1995 Fulfilled: 2013 Status: coincidence
The people of Shelbyville steal Springfield's sacred tree, the lemon tree. Bart and the guys are trying to get the tree back. Even adults come to help.
In June 2013 in Houston, in the courtyard of the house of one of the ordinary
Thieves dug up and took away the lemon tree from many families. The case is, of course, interesting, but not the only one. Also in 2013, three lemon trees were stolen from the Botanical Garden of Tiparu in New Zealand, and earlier, in 2011, a lemon tree was stolen directly from the porch of a resident of the city of Madison in the USA. Surely this has happened before; it is difficult to attribute such an everyday trifle to real predictions.
32. War in Syria Episode 14 Season 12: “Young Talents” Predicted: February 25, 2001 Fulfilled: 2013 Status: real prediction
Egyptian TV channels noticed interesting similarities in “The Simpsons” with events in Syria. In the episode "Young Talent", Bart Simpson creates a new boy band, "The Hooligan Crowd", with money from the US Navy. A video is being filmed for one of the group’s songs, “Drop the Bomb,” in which young musicians fly on military planes and strike armed people dressed in traditional Arab clothing. One of the bombs hits an SUV with a heavy machine gun mounted on it. On the car door you can clearly see a flag similar to the one that supporters of the Syrian opposition stood under ten years later - a green-white-black tricolor with three five-pointed red stars in the center of the white stripe. This is one of the past versions of the flag of Syria, which appeared after Syria gained independence from France and was used in 1932-1958 and 1961-1963.
In 1990, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office stated that Mossad in English should be translated as ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service). ISIS (an organization banned in Russia), which has spread throughout the Arab region, including reaching Syria, also has the abbreviation ISIS. According to journalists' publications, the leadership of this organization is now occupied by active Mossad officers. By the way, some Israeli rabbis quite officially state that ISIS militants are a gift from God to the Jews, which he sent down to protect them and fight the enemies of Israel. Here it is worth remembering that the Mossad traditionally works closely with its big brother, the United States. There are also photographs on the Internet in which American Senator John McCain, shortly before the activation of the Islamic State (they then began to rise from Iraq), is conducting some kind of negotiations with its leaders, having arrived at a meeting. I have not investigated this topic deeply, because... It’s not very interesting to me, but in general this information agrees with the prediction of “The Simpsons.” And such large-scale operations are prepared long before they begin.
33. Revival of the USSR Episode 19 Season 9: “Simpson in the Navy” Predicted: March 1998 Fulfilled: in the future (?)
In March 1998, an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Simpson in the Navy" was released. Homer, enlisting in the US Navy, finds himself aboard an American submarine, which is mistakenly brought into Russian waters. At the UN, the Russian representative declares: “The Soviet Union will release your ship.” "Soviet Union? “I thought you had fallen apart,” the American diplomat answers in surprise. “We were joking!” - exclaims the representative of Russia, after which the sign “Russia” changes to “Soviet Union”, the toy parade in Moscow turns into a parade of tanks, the Berlin Wall takes its place again, and in the Mausoleum Lenin breaks the glass and comes out with the words “Down with capitalism!”
This prediction has not yet come true, but it can be attributed to the future. There are many predictions about the short-lived revival of Russia before the coming of the world king Antichrist. Considering that they began to drain Europe, bringing Arabs there, Trump is preparing the United States for bankruptcy (according to predictions, he should become the last President of the United States, as already indicated above), everything is heading towards the fact that the world oligarchic mafia will lead Russia before the final reformatting of the world into a global one a concentration camp with chips, a single currency, religion and government.
34. Cake printed on a 3D printer Episode 15 Season 16: “Futu Drama” Predicted: April 17, 2005 Fulfilled: 2012 Status: real prediction (?)
In the 2005 episode, “Foot Drama,” many high-tech and futuristic devices were shown. Not the least of them was a camera that, as if by magic, turned two-dimensional photographs into three-dimensional cakes.
Since 2012, 3D printing has reached a level where printing food has become entirely possible. NASA is currently conducting experiments to understand which food is best suited for printing lunches for astronauts going into orbit. Some even argue that this technology can completely change the confectionery industry. It will be enough just to add the necessary ingredients, press a button and a work of culinary art will be created over and over again without any work.
However, work on the creation of three-dimensional printers began in the USA back in the 80s of the last century, when the first samples appeared.
35. Robots
-librarians Episode 19 Season 6: “Lisa’s Wedding” Predicted: March 19, 1995 Fulfilled: 2004 Status: real prediction
In the episode with Lisa's wedding, the creators show robot librarians who replaced people.
In 2004, a group of Spanish researchers from the laboratory of the University of Castello created a prototype of a mobile librarian robot. The team's leader, Professor Angel Pobil, thinks libraries are the best place to start introducing robots into public spaces, or at least to start showing that their presence is possible and useful. UJI Online Robot is a manipulator on three wheels equipped with cameras and sensors. It has a seven-jointed hand with two fingers that form a grip. The voice identification system receives a request for a book from a visitor and forwards it to the database, from where it receives data about the approximate location of the desired object. Then the UJI Online Robot goes to the bookshelves and, using an infrared and laser guidance system, looks through all the books within a four-meter radius, after which it finds the required one.
According to the creators, one of the most difficult tasks was developing a hand that could grasp the book carefully without damaging it. To do this, the machine was equipped with sensors that calculate the grip force. It is unknown whether this robot can hiss at noisy students, like the school librarian does.
At the same time, experiments with robot librarians were carried out not only in Spain, but also in Japan, Singapore and the USA. Now robots have appeared in libraries in Russia. But at the moment, robot librarians are still quite primitive.
36. The Donut-Shaped Universe Episode 22 Season 10: “They Saved Lisa’s Brain” Predicted: May 9, 1999 Fulfilled: 2005 Status: real prediction (?)
In the 1999 episode, famous physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking drinks beer with Homer at Moe's Tavern. Stephen said Homer's theory of the donut-shaped universe was intriguing and he should borrow it.
Four years later, in 2003, scientists, thanks to the WMAP apparatus, obtained data on the cosmic microwave background (or cosmic microwave background radiation) remaining in the Universe after the Big Bang. Many researchers agree that if the Universe had unlimited dimensions, waves of all possible lengths could be found in it. However, the microwave background spectrum is very limited. If you imagine the Universe as the surface of a pond, then the waves in it are approximately the same length; very small and very large waves are not. Scientists explain this by the fact that the Universe is closed, and the parameters of fluctuations in the distribution of the microwave background are determined by its shape and size. Conventionally, it can be represented in the shape of a circle with a void in the center, in other words, in the form of a donut.
Interesting conclusions follow from this presentation. For example, that by flying on some “high-speed” rocket in a straight line, you can eventually return to the starting point from which you started - similar to those who circumnavigated the Earth. Or, if you take a “very large” telescope, you can see the same objects in different directions of space, only due to the finite speed of light - at different stages of life. They tried to carry out such observations, but nothing similar to “mirror reflections” was found. Either because the model is incorrect, or because of the lack of “range” of modern observational astronomy.
Perhaps the hole in this “donut” is “black holes”, those same “wormholes” that allow you to move over vast distances. Scientists also tried to guess the likely size of the Universe - according to information obtained with the help of the Probe, it could reach 56 billion light years.
In this case, one can hardly talk seriously about the predictions of “The Simpsons”; basically, they simply voice existing theories before they are proven in practice. Cosmologists have long assumed that the Universe is infinite, but not limitless. Those. that it has limited dimensions, but getting to “the end of the world” is impossible, you will simply return to the starting point.
Conclusion.
As a result, as we see, most predictions are extremely conditional. This is either some kind of coincidence (the theft of a lemon tree, the hijacking of a truck with sugar), or it is a mention of theories that at the time of publication of the series were not verified in practice (the Higgs boson), or a prediction of inventions for which there were already prototypes (video phone), or a mention events that were little known to the general public (Ebola fever). There are also predictions that formally came true, but do not cause surprise and rather look like an obvious forecast (the longevity of the Rolling Stones, the crisis in Greece, a tiger attack on a trainer).
Therefore, the significance of the predictions of “The Simpsons” is greatly exaggerated. They remind
there is the “Kashpirovsky effect”. In the early 90s, when the whole of Russia set alarm clocks to the screens during his programs, some of the millions actually had an alarm clock. They then talked about it and other ordinary people began to ooh and ahh about this “phenomenon.” It’s the same with “The Simpsons,” for more than 600 episodes, so much is shown that if you sit and specifically look for the hidden meaning, you can find even more predictions. You can also find hidden meaning and predictions in the fairy tale about “Kolobok”. What is more surprising is that forecasts and mathematical calculations began to be inserted into such a cartoon for a wide audience with a rather primitive plot and characters. But it is still worth noting that the most ambitious predictions of “The Simpsons” (Trump’s presidency, the war in Syria and 9/11) really look like predictions, and not random coincidences.
In the end, here is a prediction from me, which is very likely to come true - we are waiting for this article in videos on YouTube. Several years ago there was a fashion for “The Simpsons” predictions, and now, if this material catches the eye of those who make money from viewings, a new fashion will begin - exposing “The Simpsons” predictions. ???? They simply take articles from the Internet and voice them on their channels for those who have forgotten how to read.
Thank you to everyone who read the post to the end!
