The Simpsons Might Have Already Predicted the Events of 2020

For decades, "The Simpsons" has proven adept at not only standing the test of time, but even predicting the future.

In season 11, "The Simpsons" predicted a Donald Trump presidency in the 2000 episode "Bart to the Future." The year (on the show) was 2030, and the Simpson administration had inherited "quite a budget crunch" from President Trump.

It wasn't the first time the show predicted the future. It foresaw the plot twist for "Game of Thrones" character Daenerys Targaryen, Bengt R. Holmstrom's Nobel Prize in Economics and even the mass of the Higgs boson particle.

It might also have predicted coronavirus. In the season four episode "Marge in Chains," it predicted a global flu pandemic known in the show as the "Osaka Flu," and spread by a Japanese factory worker coughing into a package.

That same episode also featured the citizens of Springfield in a desperate search for a cure, demanding one from Springfield's medical community, only to ignore Dr. Hibbert's medical advice. While overturning a truck, they unleashed the killer bees inside — portending the arrival of the Asian Giant Hornet (also known as "Murder Hornets") into the United States.

"Marge in Chains" is also about an unfair arrest which (through a convoluted chain of events) leads to widespread civil unrest and rioting in Springfield.

Sounds like 2020 so far.

 In the Emmy-winning 1995 episode, "Lisa's Wedding," we fast-forward 15 years to when Lisa is engaged to an Englishman named Hugh St. John Alastair Parkfield. Hugh eventually comes home with Lisa to Springfield, where he ends up in Moe's Bar with Homer. Moe, realizing Homer's drinking buddy is from England, predictably rubs his face in World War II history.

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