After fans were astounded by the show’s accuracy, a writer for The Simpsons clarified how the programme has often predicted the future.
The Simpsons appear to have turned the adage “art imitating life” on its head since the programme has contained multiple references and stories that have paradoxically seemed to come true in the afterlife.
Fans have cited hundreds of episodes from the show’s 35 seasons that have since occurred in real life, including Greta Thunberg, Donald Trump, and the Titan submersible. Last month, the band Cypress Hill said they would be playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, which was one of the most recent instances of the performance “predicting the future.”
If you can travel back almost 30 years, you might recall that in a 1996 episode, The Simpsons foresaw this precise partnership. In the show, a roadie at a music festival was heard yelling at one of the artists to admit who gave the order for the orchestra to show up. “Hello bands, who is performing with the London Symphony Orchestra?” he yelled. Come on, folks. Someone must have requested a London Symphony Orchestra while high.
“Cypress Hill, I’m looking in your direction.”
Fans were once again taken aback by The Simpsons’ accurate forecast, although writer Al Jean has previously asserted that there’s a fairly straightforward explanation for the program’s accuracy.
He stated, “If you write 700 episodes and you don’t predict anything, then you’re pretty bad,” in an interview with NME. “One of our writers, the guy whose episode predicted Donald Trump as president, said it best.” Throw enough darts, and you’ll hit a few bullseyes.”
Thus, despite our want to think differently, it doesn’t appear like the authors have a crystal ball or a hidden time machine. Even still, Jean acknowledges that there are unsettling elements to several of the prophecies.
He remarked, “The 9/11 one is so bizarre.” “There was a leaflet in the World Trade Centre episode that said $9 a day and had an 11 that was designed to resemble the towers. That occurred in 1996, and at the time it seemed like a strange coincidence. However, most of them are merely informed estimates.”
“There are Zoom and iPads in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that’s because he had futurologists helping him construct what the world might look like in 30 years,” he continued.
We’ll simply have to wait and discover which of the plots from The Simpsons haven’t been realised!
