Which was strange, as even though it is my favourite TV show of all time, like many people I haven't kept up with the newer series. This meant that there was a lot of slogging later period Simpsons. After that though, the floodgates opened, and they show has generally done one every other year or so. While the very first episode was a holiday story, it took them six years to do another one. It also became apparent that the show didn't actually do many holiday episodes during its so-called 'golden-era' - seasons two to about nine, give or take. We decided to eschew ones that just feature snow (sorry, 'Mr Plow' and 'Homer The Heteric'), but any episode that featured a significant segment set during Christmas was included. It turned out to be a more mammoth task than expected - while there are several fully-festive episodes, many just start or end during the holidays. That was a spoiler.Watching Christmas movies is good for your health- here's how READ MORE
A lot like Game of Thrones‘ ending two years before it was written and aired. This epic episode shows the famous family in the kingdom of Springfieldia, where they see a fire-breathing dragon burning down their entire town. Homer is a guest on a news show, and on the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen reads: “Europe puts Greece on eBay.” In 2015, Greece became the first more economically developed country not to be able to make a payment IMF loan, leading stock markets to tumble amidst fears of Greece exiting the Eurozone. In real-life 2018, the US beat Sweden in curling at the Olympic Games in South Korea. Marge and Homer start playing a game called curling and it spirals into them helping the US beat Sweden in the Olympics. What you probably don’t know is that the one who took over the presidency after him was Lisa! We have all seen the image: Donald Trump as elected president of the United States on The Simpsons episode that aired in 2000. At the farm, he grows a profitable and dangerous hybrid crop: the tomacco plant. Remember when Disney purchased 21st Century Fox? Nearly two decades before it was a reality, The Simpsons predicted it showing Fox’s iconic logo as a “Division of Walt Disney Co.”Īnother instance of the Simpsons predicting the future occurred in Episode 5 of Season 11 when Homer decides to move the family to Grandpa’s old farms to avoid a duel. In this episode, bullies Kearney and Dolph plan to beat up Martin, but the machine autocorrects it into “Eat up, Martha,” and the whole thing escalates from there. Back in 1994, Apple released “Newton,” their first attempt for a digital assistant. This episode of the Simpsons predicted the future in a fast manner but long enough for us to recognize it. Ten years later, Siegfried and Roy suffer a real-life attack while performing in Las Vegas. Gunter and Ernst are attacked on stage by their white tiger. What better way to experience the whole Vegas vibe than with a famous pair of magicians that happen to train tigers? In case you don’t know them, the couple depicted in the episode are Gunter and Ernst, a parody of the famous Siegfried and Roy. Burns decides to open a Casino in beautiful Springfield, and the Simpsons go at it. Sounds familiar to us… “$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalised Gambling)” Riots of people demand a cure and, back in their houses, some of the characters go through delirious feverish episodes. Burns shows Smithers his “germ-free chamber,” built by himself to avoid contagion.
Springfield’s major gives a press conference about the epidemic announcing that he will cancel his vacations. “Germs of Endearment” is aired on the Itchy & Scratchy’s show. More than ten years later, in Argentina, a man found a three-eyed fish in a stream close to a nuclear power plant, sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. The Simpsons accurately predicted the future in Episode 4 of Season 2 when Bart found a three-eyed fish while fishing in the river by a nuclear plant. “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” Accurate how? Well, the Simpsons predict the future! Check out these 10 episodes in which The Simpsons described many events that took place even years after the episodes aired. They are funny, smart, sincere, and highly accurate. “Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson”.“$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalised Gambling)”.“Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish”.
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