Simpsons Predictions: How Can a Cartoon Predict the Future So Accurately?

Over the last few years some of the wacky plotlines of The Simpsons seem to have come true in reality? Can a cartoon really predict the future?

Simpsons Predictions that Have Come True

Let’s get right into the meaty stuff! Here is a list of the most impressive Simpsons predictions that have come true:

Trump Simpsons Prediction

Reality versus the Simpsons. Image Source.

Donald Trump was shown as a former President of the United States in an episode from Season 11 which aired in the year 2000. Donald Trump became President in 2017.

Siegfried and Roy Tiger Attack Prediction

The Siegfried and Roy episode. Image Source.

Las Vegas performers Siegfried and Roy were attacked and killed by their tigers in Season 5, Episode 10 which aired in 1993. In 2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was mauled on stage by one of his tigers. Roy survived but sustained serious injuries.

The Shard Simpsons Prediction

An image showing the Shard predicted in The Simpsons versus the real thing.

An image of the London skyline is shown which seems to include the Shard in Season 6, Episode 19. This episode aired in 1995. Strangely construction of the Shard didn’t begin until 2005.

Disney Buys Fox Prediction

A sign in The Simpsons showing Fox owned by Disney many years before this happened in reality.

A sign is shown in front of 20th Century Fox Studios in Season 10, Episode 5, saying that it is "a division of Walt Disney Co." This episode aired in 1998. In 2017 Disney acquired 20th Century Fox for $52.4 billion.

Faulty Voting Machine Prediction

The Simpsons predicted a faulty voting machine favoring the Republican candidate.

A faulty voting machine is shown that changes Homer’s vote from Barack Obama to John McCain in Season 20, Episode 4. This episode aired in 2008. Four years later a voting machine in Pennsylvania had to be removed as it kept changing votes for Obama to votes for his rival Mitt Romney.

USA Curling Gold Medal Prediction

The Simpsons predicted the USA winning a gold medal for curling against Sweden.

Homer and friends end up winning a gold medal in curling for the USA. They manage to defeat Sweden at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This happens in Season 21, Episode 12 which aired in 2010. In real life the US curling team beat Sweden for the gold medal at the 2018 Olympics.

Game of Thrones Simpsons Prediction

The Simpsons predicted the horrific ending of Game of Thrones.

A dragon is shown destroying an innocent village in Season 29 Episode 1 which aired in 2017. The episode was a parody of Game of Thrones. This episode was written before the infamously devastating penultimate episode of Game of Thrones. In this episode Daenerys Targaryen used her dragon to destroy a settlement that had already surrendered, killing thousands of people.

How are Simpsons predictions so accurate?

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The most boring explanation is probably the most likely in this case. They have simply made so many episodes of the Simpsons that they are bound to occasionally write about something that will later become a reality.

When the writers are coming up with storylines they will be base these in reality but try to come up with the most entertaining outcome for their show. Sometimes in real life the strangest possible things do happen and coincidentally line up with the Simpsons predictions.

But what about the things that are completely out of left field? There’s no way the writers of the Simpsons could have known about the Shard being built or that the USA would beat Sweden at curling.

Perhaps the writers of the show are channeling knowledge of the future without even realizing. There is a theory that knowledge of everything that has ever happened and will ever happen is stored in another dimension. The information stored there is sometimes accessible to us but most of us are unable to control when we can access it.

This is referred to as the Akashic Record. According to this theory psychics are just normal people that have tuned in on their natural ability to access this information.

So in short maybe the writers of the Simpsons are unknowingly drawing inspiration from the Akashic Record?

What do you think about all of the Simpsons predictions? Let us know in the comments.

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