It Has Made Countless Real Life Predictions

The Simpsons' main source of recent renown has been its seeming supernatural aptitude for predicting current affairs. After all, they did crack a joke about President Donald Trump back in the year 2000. Since a few years ago, there has been a cottage industry of websites that provide us with lists of all the predictions made by The Simpsons, some of which are a little riskier than others.

A startling number of jokes have later been revealed to represent actual events, compared to anticipating Disney will acquire Fox 19 years in advance. Moreover, Roy Horn was attacked by a tiger in Siegfried and Roy. Going to space is Richard Branson. Olympic curling competition for the gold medal. The Higgs-Boson particle's mass was known ten years before it was even discovered by science (not exactly, mind you, but pretty close). Even a fish with three eyes in the vicinity of a nuclear power station.

Numerous more forecasts have been made, some of which are more uncanny than others and many of which are straightforward and hardly even qualify as coincidences. Whether it has any significance or whether life is just so ludicrous that cartoonists may occasionally foresee it reasonably accurately is debatable.