The Simpsons Predict The Future Episodes
The series somehow managed to predict the events of 2020 way back in 1993.
The simpsons predict the future episodes. Zaremsky added up about 1 224 explicit predictions about the future on the simpsons. Happy 30th birthday to the simpsons which first aired on dec 17 1989. It isn t just real life events that the simpsons has managed to correctly predict as the show has predicted things in other television shows as well including one of the big twists that came in the final season of the hit hbo series game of thrones. Disney is compiling a collection of the simpsons episodes that seem to have predicted the future.
Over the 30 years it s been on the air the simpsons has been accused of predicting a range of. And from the regular episodes i estimate about one per. The simpsons has proved itself to be the nostradamus of network television over the years accurately predicting numerous political and cultural happenings. In fact throughout its nearly 700 episodes creator matt groening and his team have been so on top of the country s cultural pulse they ve even managed to predict several major historical events.
The obvious reason why these episodes are non canon is because none of the futures are possible to happen because the characters never age and the future episodes have minor conflicts with each other. A 2017 episode of the cartoon also seemed to preempt daenerys targaryen s big plot twist on the penultimate episode of game of. Although based on the tv show s knack for prediction creators have likely always known it would make it to the. Now in august 2020 social media is convinced that the simpsons has done it again by supposedly predicting the horrifying explosion that took place in beirut in lebanon on august 4th.
From the future based episodes i estimate 500 total.