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The Simpsons: 30+ Years of Accurate Predictions\n
People have been trying to foretell the future for as long as we\u2019ve been around as a species. But perhaps they\u2019ve been looking in the wrong places. If anyone or entity is going to predict the future correctly, it\u2019s likely going to be\u00a0The Simpsons.\n
During its 30 successful years, fans have learned to dismiss the Simpsons simply as a cartoon for kids, while serving as the basis of modern comedy.\n
Across more than 600 episodes, Fox\u2019s cartoon has had many moments that have manifested themselves in real life. Matt Groening\u2019s hit animated sitcom has delivered countless storylines over 27 seasons.\n
From the death of Kobe Bryant to Donald Trump\u2019s shocking presidency,\u00a0the show\u2019s writers have created scenes in the show that spookily go on to mirror real life events.\n
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The spookiest thing is that they might have even predicted the current global health situation 27 years ago, when a deadly virus came to Springfield from Asia. Although many of the writers claim it\u2019s mainly coincidence because the episodes are so old that history repeats itself.\n
That hasn\u2019t stopped viewers from fearing that some other worrying predictions that they\u2019ve made are still yet to come true. With that said, let\u2019s take a look at the\u00a0top 10 Simpsons predictions\u00a0for 2025.\n
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Large-Scale Environmental Disaster\n\n\n
This prediction occurred in\u00a0The Simpsons Movie\u00a0from 2007, which talked about numerous pretty strange things, many of which could be predictions of future events.\n
One thing in particular stands out:\n
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The movie\u2019s central theme is about a massive environmental disaster that most definitely could happen, but it fixes it in a genuinely implausible way.\n
Homer dumps pig feces in the already dangerously polluted Springfield Lake.\n
This caused an environmental crisis that forced the country to quarantine Springfield by placing a giant bubble over the town.\n\n
Although the bubble is a bit outrageous and would probably never happen, the part about the environmental disaster might just be a significant warning to us in the future.\n
By now, those of us who aren\u2019t brainwashed are aware of global warming and the gravity of the issue caused by humans.\n
Companies are becoming more and more careless in the way they do business, which has a major effect on our lives and our environment.\n
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Flying Cars\n\n\n
Back in 2005, Professor Frank invented the machine that allowed Bart and Lisa to see into their future.\n
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As in 2013, Marge left Homer because he blew through their savings on an underwater house and spent what he had left over on a hover car.\n
Homer:\u00a0\u201cSometimes people just grow apart, like me and your mom.\u201d\n
Bart:\u00a0\u201cNo, mom dumped you because you blew all our money on this underwater house.\u201d\n
Although the car is the prototype and the ride is a bit bumpy, it does get them through a quantum tunnel. In the 1992 episode called\u00a0Itchy\u00a0and Scratchy Land, the movie finishes with a scene 40 years into the future.\n
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The scene shows a much-aged Homer and Bart being passed by a Star Trek-style hover car as they walk to a cinema while walking down the street.\n
Hovercars seem to be complete normalcy. The fact that we all know hovercars have been in the making for a while suggests that the concept won\u2019t be implausible by this point in time.\n
But hold on because a company called Samson Sky is ready to set off their first hover cars. Finally, we can beat the stubborn traffic in town, maybe in 2025.\n
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Moving To Mars\n\n\n
One of the main talking points in recent years is the colonization of Mars.\n
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Numerous people have already applied to go and live on Mars to help turn the planet into a human colony.\n
Although this hasn\u2019t happened yet, one episode of The Simpsons shows a world where Lisa and Marge are sent to Mars on a mission to build a habitat there.\n
Marge is not excited when Lisa signs up as a volunteer for a future one-way trip to Mars. In fact, hoping to prevent Lisa, the whole family signs up.\n
The concept behind exploration and its expedition is to colonize the red planet before 2026. Although the take-off fails, Lisa and Marge make it to Mars in 2051, only for Lisa to announce she wants to move to Venus.\n
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Lisa: \u201cMy life! If I want to leave Mars and move to Venus, you can\u2019t stop me.\u201d\n
If we ask Elon Musk about this, it would definitely happen in the near future.\n
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Music-Induced Mind Control\n\n\n
Some people claim the episode featuring mind control through music was one of the scariest they have ever seen. And it indeed gives you shivers.\n
The episode in question is\u00a0New Kids on the Block\u00a0from 2001, featuring a plot that shows Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Ralph becoming members of a boy band named \u201cParty Posse.\u201d\n
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But here is the real case:\n
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The band is actually a psyop scheme by the US Navy to bombard children with subliminal messages.\n
Their hit song,\u00a0Drop the Bomb, features the chorus \u201cYvan eht Nioj,\u201d which is, of course, \u201cJoin the Navy,\u201d spelled backwards.\n
The entry may be making its way into the Simpsons prediction that has come true sooner rather than later.\n
As some people believe that hip-hop lyrics brainwash listeners, most people even like to think that secular music has long been used by the elites to control the masses.\n\n
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Virtual Reality Overload\n\n\n
Another eerie episode from the animated series tackled the issue of virtual reality.\n
Although the Simpsons might not have predicted the actual rise of virtual reality, they did predict the dangers that overusing virtual reality technology could cause.\n
The episode\u00a0Friends and Family takes place in 2030, showing Homer and Marge using virtual fudge via VR glasses and feeding tubes.\n
Homer: \u201cVirtual fudge tastes like crap.\u201d\n
You\u2019d think the whole virtual no-calories thing would have cut down the junk food junkie patriarch, it didn\u2019t.\n
In reality, a company called \u201cAerobanquets RMX\u201d has finally made this technology come to fruition.\n
In the meantime, Royal Caribbean is looking into giving their cruise line guests a VR dining experience in the real world. With every bite of food, you are transported to a new setting.\n
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However, bad things start to happen due to this, including cars hitting people because they\u2019re walking around with their headsets on the street.\n
Soon, people become so fascinated by the fake reality that they lose touch with the real world, becoming wholly disconnected from what\u2019s around them.\n
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The Rise of Holograms\n\n\n
On another look into the future, a loafer Bart receives a hologram message hiring his band for a club gig.\n
In\u00a0Bart to the Future, the skater kid himself gets a glimpse into his life down the line. While not the prettiest, it features a mailman stopping by his house to give him a virtual letter in the form of a hologram.\n
The booking is signed off with \u201cSmell you later,\u201d which replaces the customary \u2018goodbye.\u2019\n
Bart:\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t believe \u2018smell you later\u2019 replaced goodbye.\u201d\n
HD3 holograms are already available for use in stores and installed in more than 500 Best Buy locations. But we should wait and see if these could become normal in reality.\n
Technology is constantly advancing, especially when it comes to the way we communicate.\n
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Alternative Energy\n\n\n
The 582^{nd\u00a0episode,\u00a0Paths to Glory\u00a0features Lisa inventing the car powered by solar energy to enter the race in the alternative energy derby.\n}
However, Duff decided to block out the sun, making her vehicle stop a couple of inches from the finish line. The people gathered around the frustrated girl, pointing and laughing at her absolute failure.\n
But it appears as though there is a darker, more complex theme at play here;\n
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What we are seeing is the success of an alternate green and renewable form of energy being sabotaged by a blimp belonging to a huge corporate entity, Duff beer.\n
This could symbolize the advanced suppression of green energy by corporate interests in the past and continuing into the future in our world.\n\n
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AI Robots Takeover\n\n\n
The following prediction is something that we all presume would happen in the near future, but it is pretty certain to happen when the Simpsons predicted as well.\n
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In 2012, The Simpsons predicted mass automation and this is what ensued:\n
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The robots took over the jobs of many humans.\n
Although a robot revolution was discussed long before that, in a 1994 episode of\u00a0Itchy and Scratchy Land,\u00a0the whole family decided to visit a theme park staffed by robots.\n
These robots went off the rails and kill everyone.\n\n
They managed to both predict the very existence of Westworld and the upheaval of robots simultaneously. Westworld already exists and carries the idea of a theme park full of almost sentient robots who decide to go against their human equivalents.\n
The father of artificial intelligence, J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber, believes that AI super-intelligence will trigger runaway technological growth and severe changes to civilization in just 30 years.\n
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President Ivanka Trump\n\n\n
Since The Simpsons already managed to predict Donald Trump as the President of the United States, it\u2019s hard not to suspect that their next prediction will come true as well.\n
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In the 2016 episode, they made a relatively straightforward point of implying that Trump\u2019s daughter, Ivanka, would run for the highest office in the land when Homer wore an \u201cIvanka 2028\u201d campaign button.\n
Then in 2017, they again threw shade at Ivanka by marking her father\u2019s 100th day in office with an episode that showed her substituting for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.\n
She was seen fashioned in a robe and earrings from her collection that you could buy for 1,000 rubles.\n\n
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A Female President: Kamala Harris\n\n\n
This prediction is probably going to happen in 2025. Though it didn\u2019t happen with Hillary Clinton, America will eventually get a female president in 2025.\n
Forget about Donald Trump becoming president again because The Simpsons seem to disagree.\n
In one episode, the fans saw a future where Lisa Simpson became the first female president of the United States.\n
Aired in 2000, the episode called\u00a0Bart to the Future\u00a0featured Bart traveling through time to see what his future self looks like.\n
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Interestingly, Lisa Simpson makes passive remarks about inheriting a budget crunch from President Trump, the previous commander-in-chief.\n
The Simpsons are ready to strike again with their uncanny predictions.\n
Final Thoughts\n
While we can\u2019t be sure if The Simpsons writers are psychic, one thing is clear: they\u2019ve got their eyes on the future and a knack for weaving it into their storylines! It\u2019s a little eerie\u2026\n
But seriously, with their track record, we might want to start taking their \u201cpredictions\u201d a bit more seriously\u2026 or not. After all, who would have thought a cartoon could be so \u201con point\u201c? Let\u2019s just hope they don\u2019t predict an alien invasion anytime soon\u2014we\u2019re not ready for that kind of truthiness.\n
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