The Simpsons is one of my favorite shows of all time. It practically raised me as a child. Not literally or anything — my parents loved me. The show is where I got my humor from, so in that regard it raised me. I’ll never be able to look at a bottle of Catsup, or Ketchup again without laughing. The same goes for so many other inside jokes. Now true The Simpsons hasn’tꦚ remained golden. Seasons 3-8 are pretty great and since then it’s kind of been hit or miss with the latter being unfortunately the case. That doesn’t lessen the best seasons of the cartoon though, but it is sad to see it still on the air and be kꦯind of a joke instead of telling the jokes. Can you feel me?
Anyway, one thing I never paid attention to was their weird jokes poking fun at pop culture. Specifically, I mean in reference to stuff that wasn’t real, or looked toward the future. At the time they were just funny riffs, but people are uncovering a lot of things The Simpsons got right retroactively. Now you can explain away these spooky instances as coincidences, or lucky guesses. You could also say some of these came true because people were inspired by The Simpsons episodes like making a🐽 piece of clothing, or invention. Stuff like that. Admittedly we here at TheGamer didn’t initiate this trend of looking at things The Simpsons predicted to be true, ༺but other blogs and websites didn’t have me.
25 Go To Plan B
This is one of the more obvious additions on this list. It’s not like The Simpsons invented the idea of Smartwatches. Similar types of communication wrist devices had existed for years in some form, or another like in Star Wars, or Star Trek. So in season six, there’s an episode called Lisa’s Wedding, which is a flash forward to The Simpsons’ lives in 2010.
Fireworks are the best part of weddings.
Lisa meets someone in college and decides to get married. Her fiancé, Hugh Parkfield, has a Smart𓂃watch he can talk to. When did the Apple Watch premiere? Sadly it wasn’t until 2015, but that’s a close guess only off by five ye𒊎ars. His Smartwatch also has a flip top like old flip phones. I miss those things.
24 Buying the Whole World With Their Hands
This season ten episode When You Dish Upon a Star, is another celebrity-filled episode that goes nowhere. It’s my problem with a lot of later season episodes almost as if they are designed just so the writers can meet celebrities. Anyway, Homer befriends Alec Baldwin, Ron Howard, and Kim Basinger and sort of becomes their servant. At the end of the episode🔜 Ron Howard goes to pitch some movies to Fox and out front you can see the sign as it appears above.
My partner is a pie in disguise.
This episode aired in 1998 so it was off by twenty years, but now it’s finally comi♏ng true. Now the deal hasn’t officially gone through yet. Comcast is trying to prevent them from acquiring Fox, but I bet Disney will eventually win.
23 Tastes Like Grandma
Okay so there are some episodes worth looking into past season eight. Take this one, for example, E-I-E-I-(annoyed grunt) from season eleven. Homer travels back to the farmhouse he grew up on and gets a crazy scheme to make some money off of the crops. Nothing grows until Homer adds🌸 some “special fertilizer” to the mix aka nuclear waste. It helps the tomato and tobacco plants grow, but also it also fuses them together into a new plant: the tomaco. While no such fusion exists in real life there was a case in , which was fourteen years after this episode aired. Some tomato plants near a nuclear power plant mutated the tomatoes. Crazy prediction, or just an obvious coincidence? You be the judge.
22 A Touch Of Fraud
One of the only decent things left to look forward to on The Simpsons is in regards to their Treehouse of Terror episodes that air every Halloween. In season twenty circa 2008, the nineteenth episode of Treehouse of Terror aired. In th𝓰e beginning, Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama, but every time he hits the button it automatically chooಞses John McCain instead.
It’s a tapping good conspiracy.
This could be a reference to the voting tampering found in the George W. Bush years regarding Florida and their ballots. Well in the 2012 election voting ♈machines counted votes made for Obama to his opponent, Mitဣt Romney, in certain areas. . It’s not like it was a Republican conspiracy. Touch technology isn’t perfect, but it didn’t stop angry people from raising their false flags.
21 Shake Harder Boy
One of my favorite episodes of all time is season six’s Lemon of Troy. Kids from Shelbyville are bullying Bart and the other kids about their lemon tree. The next day it’s gone with tracks leading into the neighboring town. So the boys hatch a scheme to infiltrate enemy territory. The jokes are just so good even if that premise doesn’t sound like a good one to you. Anyway in 2013, eighteen years after this episode debuted, a similar case was reported in real life. In 2011 a lemon tree was stolen off of a resident's porch. Stranger still this isn’t the only stolen lemon tree I found online. Are there copycat thieves who got inspired by The Simpsons, or is there some weird lem𓃲o♋n Ent uprising we should be worrying about?
20 I Do It All For The Money
It’s a known fact that some people in the world worship money like a god. That’s just sort of a known joke when you think of stock marketers, or high-level businessmen in general. Hey, I may not worship it like a god, but I do love money. It’s not the meaning of life but it is the essence when you come right down to it. Anyway, in the season seven episode Team Homer, Bart, and Milhouse read an excerpt from Mad Magazine imꦿplying the power of money as a god. Kind of has nothing to do with the episode’s plot, but I digress. Seventeen years later people for worshiping money like a god. Was this the first time Money wa🍃s called out? Probably not and it won’t be the last.
19 More Means More Iron
In the season five episode Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song, Skinner gets blamed for a school inciden🍸t involving Bart’s dog, which causes a bunch of damage. That’s not really impo♛rtant to this article. What is concerns lunch lady Doris who we see grinding horse meat to feed to the children. School cafeteria food was always joked about when I was growing up. Just what is this loaf of meat made of?
Taco Bell is the best meat sludge on Earth.
Anyway, that joke was in 1994. Skipping ahea♉d to 2013 we find a involving traces of horse found ܫin products from Bird’s Eye, Brake’s catering, and Taco Bell. Sure it may sound gross, but I can safely say that in the case of Taco Bell, I don’t care.
18 The Pickle Matrix
Here’s an instance of obvious parody. The Simpsons knew companies would target millennials and their fascination with kitschy gimmicks. In the season ten episode The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Homer is trying to invent stuff to rival that of Thomas Edison. Professor Frink secretly shows off a pair of earmuffs shaped like hamburgers when Homer leaves his lab. Not only do these exist in real life, but also you can get them virtually anywhere online. . We as a nation, no, we as a global entity love hamburgers. We want them in our mouths, we want them around us as pillows and lamps, and we want them on us via earmuffs and scarꦆves. It’s kind of an insane business. Who buys this kinꦜd of stuff?
17 The Precogs Of Apple
One of the most maddening services in modern Smartphones is predictive text. It infuriates me when it changes a certain word to “duck” every time. So in season six, there’s an episode called Lisa on Ice. She starts failing school because she’s not adept at the gym so she joins a hockey league for extra credit. Turns out sh💙e is one heck of a goalie.
If you tell me it’s duck one last time…
There’s a moment where Dolph is entering a note into his PalmPilot, a very early smart device for 🃏all you youngsters out there. He means to write “Beat up Martin” but it autocorrects to “Eat up Martha” which is a funny gag on its own and is even funnier considering we’re still dealing with these types of issues twenty-four years later!
16 I Hung It On Me Wall
In the season two episode Brush with Greatness, Ringo Starr, The Beetles’ drummer, is shown in an office filled with fan mail. Back then he promised in real life to answer anything he received in the mail and to sign autographs within reason. Given his status, no one believed him, which is why it was parodied on The Simpsons although he did answer Marge’s letter as well as hang her painting on his wall. Fast-forwarded almost two decades la🌜ter when Ringo announced in 2013 that he was going to stop replying. This started a , but come on people. The man was consistent for decades. Sure he may not have gotten to you, but how many celebrities did stuff like this. Here’s to you, Ringo. Peace and love!