Captive tigers are always likely to detest their owners but still, another eerie prediction. We needed to make sure the text input works on this thing, otherwise, ‘Here comes the Eat up Marthas,'” he told Fast Company. Subscribe for just 99¢. “It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane. The three-eyed fish was found in real life in 2011, terrifyingly, when fishermen in Argentina found a three-eyed wolf fish in a reservoir near a nuclear plant. Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist, whose primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". “If you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that’s only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is,” he told the Independent. It came on air when landlines and CD players were necessities in every household and legwarmers were a viable fashion choice. Learn more. According to Twitter, 'The Simpsons' Predicted the 2020 Super Bowl and the Coronavirus. A list of all the predictions ‘The Simpsons’ has made (so far) The Brag - Conor Lochrie. Fans have learned to love the antics of Homer, Marge ... the show has predicted some amazingly accurate events. In a scene from the season 22 premiere in which Martin holds up a scorecard depicting his Nobel Prize betting pool with Lisa, Milhouse and Database, the MIT professor is clearly marked in one of Milhouse’s squares. Season 22, Episode 1: Elementary School Musical. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. The Simpsons just passed its 30 th birthday this past December. https://time.com/4667462/simpsons-predictions-donald-trump-lady-gaga This is your last free article. Pure and utter horror. “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom,” he said. Mutant vegetables? 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. Please try again later. Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace. From US riots to Covid-19, Let's take a look at the predictions made by the American animated series that turned true! Robot librarians? Milhouse said that Bengt R. Holmstrom would win for economics, which the Finnish economist duly did in 2016. In a classic episode, Homer attempts to invent things after being inspired by Thomas Edison. “How can that be?”. 'The Simpsons': 30 Times the Fox Comedy Successfully Predicted the Future Courtesy of 20th Century Fox Television As the sitcom ushers in its 30th season, THR looks back at … The Simpsons Did It: Coronavirus, Murder Hornets and 12 Other Times the Show Predicted the Future The Simpsons predicted the horror show that is 2020 way … The Simpsons didn't only become one of the best TV shows of all time, but also a source for countless conspiracy theories. If we missed anything out, let us know. Today, he was right! It's all happening. The machine was reportedly taken out of commission. Save on the cover price and get Free Issues, Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more, © 2021 TIME USA, LLC. 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.”. The same episode that predicted Harris’ outfit, the show also predicted the horror that was Trump being in power. We’ll no doubt have to update it within, like, a month or two anyway. Since it’s debut all the way back in 1989, the show’s ability to predict the future has become legendary. “If you heard people talking and they used the words ‘Eat up Martha,’ it was basically a reference to the fact that we needed to nail the keyboard. It’s spooky, it’s worrying, it’s weird, so we thought we’d compile a list of everything that The Simpsons has predicted so far! It's almost scary when you read all of their predictions and we've compiled a list of their most uncanny moments that came to light. https://t.co/CC0LRk1avy pic.twitter.com/syhMiJBK2A, — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (@MIT) October 10, 2016. If you had the misfortune to live in the U.K. in 2013, you might have had the extra misfortune of eating horse meat when traces of the animal’s DNA were found in beef products. In one small cutaway gag, Homer is shown scribbling frantically on a chalkboard, which features a complex math equation. Of course, this was three years before Greece became the first developed country to default to the International Monetary Fund, plunging the country deeper into economic crisis. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975. Fish With 3 Eyes – Season 2, Episode 4. The Simpsons predictions: 13 times the series seemed to predict the future. BuzzFeed Staff 1. Fun fact: @TheSimpsons' Milhouse once predicted MIT Prof. Holmström would win a #NobelPrize. The Simpsons have made some strangely precise predictions over the years that shocked everyone around the globe - and now it seems they may have even predicted the US Capitol riots. Autor de la entrada: Publicación de la entrada: 19 enero, 2021 Categoría de la entrada: Sin categoría Comentarios de la entrada: Sin comentarios Sin comentarios “There are very few cases where The Simpsons predicted something,” he said. In fact, Nitin Ganatra, Apple’s former director of engineering for iOS applications, revealed in 2013 that the Simpsons‘ gag served as a rallying cry while developing the software for the iPhone’s keyboard. Write to Megan McCluskey at megan.mccluskey@time.com. Disney+ is offering a playlist of prophetic The Simpsons episodes plucked from the show's entire 31-year run.. Jeremy Conrad revealed the playlist on Twitter, titled "The Simpsons Predict," which currently has its own section on the streaming service.