From Covid-19 to Donald Trump: How 'The Simpsons' Became Nostradamus of Current Times!

Fox's The Simpsons, while serving as the foundation of modern comedy, has had many moments that have manifested themselves in real life. It appears the prophetic writers of “The Simpsons” have done it again, predicting yet another major world event — or have they?

From predicting Trump becoming the President 19 years ago to Disney buying fox, their bold predictions eventually came true.

Here are six times the iconic show predicted a major event and it came true:

Coronavirus

A series of stills from old episodes of the long-running animated comedy have been circulating online in recent weeks. They seem to suggest “The Simpsons” somehow knew about the spread of the respiratory illness more than a decade in advance. The stills in question hail from an episode in which packagers working in Japan accidentally ship the “Osaka Flu” to Springfield while the 2020 coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China. 

The stills are believed to be taken from a 1993 episode, where there is an illness creating chaos. Homer and Principal Skinner are seen infected with spreading germs over Springfield. One of the pics also shows the news anchor with the words "coronavirus" written in the backdrop.

The Donald Trump presidency

This was the most widely circulated prediction. The second time The Simpsons took a peek into the future, Lisa became president of the United States. In a cabinet meeting, she offhandedly mentions, "We inherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump." It initially was a reference to Trump attempting a run as a Reform Party candidate. But the words gained much more validity when Trump was elected president in 2016. The week after the election, the recurring chalkboard gag even read, "Being right sucks."

Disney buys 20th Century Fox 

An establishing shot at the end of the celebrity-heavy "When You Dish Upon a Star" shows the 20th Century Fox logo with "A Division of Walt Disney Co." below it. Though they have been quick to poke fun at their parent company, the show certainly did not expect Fox to sell to The Walt Disney Co. in July 2018, now bringing Homer Simpson and Mickey Mouse into the same house.

Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance 

Regarded as one of the worst episodes of the show thus far, "Lisa Goes Gaga" featured the eponymous pop star visiting Springfield and aiding Lisa's self-esteem issues. When Gaga performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2017, many noticed her wire-based, spark-laden stunt bore an uncanny resemblance to one of her many outfits during the episode.

Greta Thunberg

Lisa, in the episode “Last Exit to Springfield” can be seen giving angry lectures on how there would be no Springfield in the next 50 years due to climate change. The resemblance between Lisa and Greta Thunberg is uncanny.

Game of Thrones ending

The episode “Serfsons”, shows the Simpson family standing on a hill watching dragon burning their town to the ground. Bart yells ” Look, the dragon is burning our village,”, “I love our town”, Homer responds.

As we know, the ending of the iconic TV show Game of Thrones is the same.

Those were the most famous Simpsons predictions yet. A theory behind Simpsons being so accurate could be the fact that the show writers mostly write about what’s in the trend or usually what people are talking about. But it just can’t be coincidences every time that they made so many accurate predictions of the future.

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