5 Times ‘The Simpsons’ Accurately Predicted the Future


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If you’re a fan of The Simpsons (and, really now, who isn’t?), Simpsons Did It is one of the best sub-reddits on Reddit. Matt Groening and company has predicted the future countless times over the years — Like smartwatches that you can Facetime with your friends? Simpsons was going that back in 1995. Or stolen lemon trees? Psshhhhh. Did it. Heck, even the show’s iconic Tommaco episode became for real IRL. Heck, South Park even lampooned the entire idea of the Simpsons oracle in an episode called — literally — “Simpsons did it.”

Here are five times The Simpson did it first.

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