During a recent conversation with a media outlet, Phil Ortiz, the creator of the famous cartoon series The Simpsons said that it was a “just coincidence” that some of the predictions made in the sitcom came true
In a viral video, Phil Ortiz, while talking about real life events matching The Simpsons episodes which aired earlier, said, “Don’t believe those. Just coincidence. You mean all those predictions, Donald Trump?”
The Simpsons debuted in 1989. Directed by Matt Groening, the satirical animated sitcom revolved around the life of a working-class father named Homer Simpson and his dysfunctional family as they struggled to keep up with the ups and downs in their life in Springfield
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The sitcom started gaining traction after some of the scenes had an uncanny resemblance to the real-life incidents that occurred years after the series was aired. Here are some of the famous predictions made by The Simpsons, which came true
On June 18, Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic. The submarine carried five passengers including British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani billionaire Shehzada Dawood and his son, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and Paul-Henry Nargeolet
A similar thing happened in the tenth episode of the 17th season, titled ‘Simpsons Tide’, which aired in 2006. Homer Simpson and his long-lost father, Mason Fairbanks embarked on an underwater expedition to explore hidden treasures. However, soon after Mason goes missing and Homer panics as the oxygen level drops.
In The Simpsons episode ‘Bart to the Future’, which aired in March 2000, Lisa Simpson was set to become the US president, and she's expected to restore order in the state after her predecessor took some disastrous steps for the nation. The character of that president had an uncanny resemblance to that of former US President Donald Trump
Back in 1997, in one of the episodes of The Simpsons, ‘The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson’, there was a brochure reading $9 a day with the number ‘11’ styled up like the Twin Towers in New York. Years later on September 11, 2001, four coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out that damaged the World Trade Center’ Twin Towers, which were among the world’s tallest buildings at that time and led to the death of around 3,000 people
In one of the episodes in 1993, The Simpsons showed a global health outbreak. In the episode titled ‘Marge in Chains’, the characters talked about ‘Osaka Flu’, a fictional disease that led to lockdowns across nations. Years later, clips of that episode were circulated online as people pointed out some resemblances with the COVID-19 pandemic
In March 2019, Walt Disney announced a $71 billion merger with 21st Century Fox. In 2021, Disney and Fox settled on the streaming rights in terms of the films that Disney would own. This was depicted in one of The Simpsons episodes ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ in 1998. Homer met Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger and decided to work for them. Homer suggested an idea for a movie during his phone call to 20th Century Fox executives. The next scene of the episode showed that Walt Disney now owned 20th Century Fox