11. Nobel Prize Winner
In one of their episodes, The Simpsons showed Milhouse betting on MIT professor Bengt Holmström to win the Nobel Prize. Surprisingly, he did win after 6 years.
12. The Censorship Of Michelangelo’s David
Residents of St. Petersburg were very unhappy when a replica of Michelangelo’s David was placed in St. Anne’s Lutheran Church in central St. Petersburg. One woman has even written a letter asking for the sculpture to be censored. “How could you put this bloke without any trousers in the center of St Petersburg next to a school and church?” the woman wrote in a letter. In order to turn something negative into a positive, local authorities then started an initiative called “Dress David” where people voted on how the replica could be censored. There was an option “leave it as it is” and since this story happened back in 2016 and nobody talked about it ever since, there is a big chance that the sculpture remained uncensored although during the voting period, David was just covered in black tape. How rude!
13. Lady Gaga’s Performance At The Super Bowl
The iconic Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl performance was actually first performed 5 years earlier in Springfield where Lady Gaga, just like in the Super Bowl, was flying through the air while singing.
14. The Fall Of The World Trade Center
In a 2001 episode, “Chain Gang Johnny”, the creators of Johnny Bravo managed to predict the tragic events of 9/11 and the fall of the Twin Towers. Given the fact that the episode aired just a few months before the actual disaster, many conspiracy theorists wonder: could it have been a subliminal message or a not-so-subtle warning? Well, it did say, “Coming soon”, but we’ll never know.
The Simpsons predicted the disaster way back in 1997 when the family plans a trip to New York. It’s all fun until we notice the cover of the magazine that Lisa holds up as it eerily shows the Twin Towers next to a big number 9. Again, subliminal message? Honest prediction of 9/11? We’ll leave it to the conspiracy theorists.
15. Horse Meat Scandal
In the 1994 episode of the “Simpsons”, the lunch lady known as Doris was using “assorted horse parts” while preparing meals for high school students of Springfield Elementary. Then nine years after the episode aired, a huge scandal happened when Ireland’s Food Safety Authority found horse DNA in over one-third of the beefburger samples from supermarkets and ready meals, and pork in 85% of them.
16. First Generation Ipod
Five years before Apple announced the first iPod, The Simpsons already had an idea of what the invention would be like. Seen in an episode from 1996, the device closely resembles the first generation iPod not only in design but also in the purpose of communicating messages and music.
17. Got Season 8 Plot Twist
Many were surprised that the unimaginable Game of Thrones Season 8 plot twist was actually already predicted by The Simpsons. I guess we should thank The Simpsons for the spoiler or you can thank us if you still didn’t watch the last season and came to read this list.
18. The Shard Building In London
Another episode of the Simpsons, “Lisa’s Wedding”, predicted the iconic Shard Building in London 14 years before it was built. Looking back at the episode now, it’s fascinating to see that not just the shape and look of the Shard is incredibly similar but also the location is the same.
19. The Ebola Virus
17 years before the actual outbreak of the Ebola virus, Marge was already illustrated by The Simpsons’ creators giving a book to Bart. The title of the book reads “Curious George and the Ebola Virus”.
20. Financial Crisis In Greece
In a 2012 episode, “Politically Inept With Homer Simpson”, Homer appears as a guest on a news show. A headline flashes at the bottom of the screen: ‘Europe puts Greece on eBay’. Even though Europe didn’t actually sell a whole country online, three years later in 2015, Greece became the first developed country to enter a large scale debt crisis.
