Top 20 Most Surprising Simpsons Predictions That Came TRUE

[@WatchMojo]

If the Simpsons family, including the extended members, got into a “Battle Royale”-esque fight, who would win? Lisa? Marge? Uncle Herb? Or someone else? Let us know in the comments! For more content like this, click here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXm9f5lohKqAiqc Don't forget to play our Live Trivia (www.watchmojo.com/play) games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!

[@adilmyrat3210]

How does the Simpsons predict the future?

[@TooNuttz]

I think to have an answer but this answer bringst me maybe to psychicclinic

[@michaellrakes5521]

Marge would come out on top if the family had ever went into a battle Royale. Why? She's very intelligent, surprisingly physically strong, very quick and has an X factor in that she is the primary peace maker in the family, which has been used in the past to trick and disarm others in some situations. She's very unassuming which gives her a great advantage

[@AngryRJL]

And she has blue thunder aka her hair ​@@michaellrakes5521

[@BigPoppieSeed]

​@@adilmyrat3210 Because we live in a construct... look at the things going on in the middle east. They are following biblical prophecy like a playbook. It is also scripted in Shakespeare, which was eddited by Frances Bacon, the actual writter of "Shakespeare".

[@rndmpinkiepie64]

Yeah, the tiger attack was less of a prediction and more of The Simpsons stating the obvious

[@sheemalmighty]

Many of their predictions are obvious... If u throw out predictions all the time your gonna b right some of the time

[@rndmpinkiepie64]

@sheemalmighty I think Bender said it best when he said "it's not ironic, it's coincidental"

[@brynellsidney3983]

"That tiger didn't go crazy, that tiger went tiger!" Chris Rock

[@kyuketsukisan19]

Small detail, but "Lisa's Wedding" also predicted that The Rolling Stones would still be touring/performing in 2010.

[@chrisrj9871]

They released a new one late last year, even!

[@crimsonmoonrise9785]

I think Lady Gaga was inspired to make the outfit in real life.

[@CordeliaCol317]

She copied Madonnas dress...but its same spirits. Its Material, carnal, demonic

[@rihyoncéastraschild]

I’m convinced the writers either have a secret Time Machine or way to time travel they won’t disclose or they can see into the future or are prophets

[@brianburgess3231]

hhehhe yes .. but I'm actually more convinced that others are getting ideas from the show and then making them come true .. yak

[@andrewmayham7388]

The Simpsons writers are an overly educated group of people with PHD's and degrees. They know a lot collectively. They stay up to date with the world, try to anticipate the most probable outcome years in advance, They evaluate and brainstorm how the geopolitical landscape will adjust to current world situations, or how tech might evolve or how daily life will become ,in the most likely way possible.

[@September2004]

They couldn’t have warned us about the 2016 election?

[@akganimationstudioproducti3779]

Or maybe all of the above

[@thyristo]

They just are used to brainstorm after a nice spike of THC.

[@Ishtarru]

Please. A tiger turning on the people exploiting it is not that surprising.

[@lizanna6390]

They have come forward about the attack. The routine was not planned so the tiger was not properly prepared and he stupidly changed it so tiger got spooked and lashed out. They lied for a while about the situation so the animal wouldn't be put down. Still wrong for it to be paraded around like that, deserves to be free.

[@GachaReact2024]

In case no one knows what a 'Heel Turn' means, it's someone who goes from good, to bad.

[@mr.skateandwatch]

As a wrestling fan, this vocabulary is numb to my knowledge

[@GachaReact2024]

@@mr.skateandwatch ???

[@Beanzoboy]

@@GachaReact2024 In wrestling, the face is a good wrestler. One people like and represents the company (the good guy). The heel is a bad wrestler, basically the "villain" and plays the antagonist to other wrestlers. A heel turn would be a face who becomes a heel. A good guy that becomes a bad guy.

[@GachaReact2024]

@@Beanzoboy I know that. I'm a big wrestling fan, myself.

[@Beanzoboy]

@@GachaReact2024 Okay, sorry. It looked like you didn't understand why he mentioned wrestling.

[@PurpleHazePTCG]

Simpsons by no means predicted smart watches and video calling that was Star Trek and The Jetsons.

[@jacklow9611]

Dick Tracy comics had them using video watches back in the '60s (and even before), long before Star Trek or the Jetsons were even thought of.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

The faulty voting machine opening was a clever prediction.

[@mattparkent440]

Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!

[@eamoralesl]

Some early 00s memories ...

[@melindadendunnen9713]

They've done everything!!

[@cliffcorson4000]

The smart watch and video phone have been in scifi for decades Duck Tracy comics ftom WWII even have him using a smart watch

[@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500]

"Being right sucks" 😆 🤣 😂

[@THANATOS-PRIME]

At this point, I’d be interested and somewhat scared to ask Matt Groening if he knew what my future would be. Simpsons is more accurate than any fortuneteller.

[@littledudefromacrossthestr5755]

Fr 💀

[@Prkwon]

I dont think mr burns knew what sideburns are...😂

[@chrisrj9871]

He probably mistook it for "Mustache".

[@ottarsnryngvason3716]

Most people don't know this but making an episode about something is not equivalent to predicting that it will happen in the future

[@irawilliams343]

Matt Groening clearly is hiding some sort of time machine that helps him in writing these episodes

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

🔮 Mind-blowing how accurate these predictions are! 📺

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Mind-blowing insights! The uncanny accuracy of these predictions only reinforces the notion that the Simpsons writers must have had an extraordinary foresight.

[@mundaneamazing]

Guys.. The Simpson has been on for decades, they have covered every pop culture topic, and sometimes people get ideas from the show.. There's nothing mystical about it.

[@jayalbertocampo7492]

I agree, clearly the white tiger got the idea from watching The Simpsons, there's nothing mystical about it.

[@axels3188]

I think USA winning Curling was the number 1 time The Simpsons prediction for the future.

[@Somerandomnobodyonyoutube]

I wouldn't say a tiger attacking a man is "surprising"

[@edi9892]

Well, when you think of how many hours they spent with the tiger and nothing happened, it is surprising that it took him so long...

[@caronstout354]

To quote Katy Williams:"The tiger was just being tiger!"

[@moose656]

"Lisa Goes Gaga" is also ranked as the absolute WORST episode of The Simpsons.

[@azrieallegrand2438]

I don't often condone it but it's a little fun fact. Horse meat is higher in protein and iron than beef. In fact in some parts of Europe and Asia a doctor will tell you to eat it if you have low iron.

[@chrisrj9871]

There are also vegan options for low iron if you can't stomach the idea of eating a horse.

[@michaelfritz5816]

Pretty sure old shows in the 70s, 60s, did the smart watches, video watches, before the Simpsons. Even power rangers, did the communication watch, in 1993. In other words, Simpsons didn't predict that.

[@peglor]

The equation didn't predict the mass of the Higgs boson if it gave a higher value than the experimentally measured mass. What the comments missed completely was the equation on the same blackboard that looked like it disproved Fermat's Last Theorem, which took over a century to prove, that no set of numbers a, b and c exist where a^n = b^n + c^n, when n > 2. The equation on the board isn't actually correct, but it's close enough that when tried with a computer that can't handle all the digits of the numbers, that it looks like it disproves the theorem, which got the people who spotted it and thought it was correct but didn't have the correct software to to the calculation exactly very excited. Turns out a lot of the Simpsons writers have physics and mathematics backgrounds, so they knew exactly what they were doing.

[@Wurzelknecht]

To be fair, anyone who paid attention to GoT wouldve been able to predict Daenerys' heelturn. Her beconing more and more vengeful and bloodthirsty, and convinced of her having the moral high ground over everyone hinted at her becoming just like her dad for a long time. The problem in season 8 wasnt her turning heel in general, but the lazy execution of it.

[@caronstout354]

The Season 8 problem was that The show runners had a chance for some sweet Star Wars franchise 💰 and cut short any efforts to finish the series respectfully.

[@lizanna6390]

It was rushed but it was coming for a while.

[@josh72456]

I’ve seen Homerpalooza, Homer At The Bat, Two Cars In Every Garage and Three Eyes On Every Fish, Brush With Greatness, Sweet Seymour’s Baadasssss Song, Springfield, Lisa’s Wedding, The Simpsons Movie and Boy Meets Curl.

[@amycameron8538]

I wouldn't call the Cypress Hill part a prediction. Pretty sure they did it because of the Simpsons joke.

[@drouid3]

i agree most likely got the idea from simpsons

[@jvillan94]

The submarine one was a stretch...

[@haydenw8691]

The Simpsons recently finished an episode with Guy Fieri being elected president too.

[@thealextrifier]

One friend warned me that the governor has eyes everywhere. Then when I panicked he said ‘dude I’m just kidding!’ Yet he wasn’t!!!

[@ajaysworld93]

Man I should have watched the Simpson instead of season 8 of game of thrones.

[@bfaith2102]

Word. Suuuuuch a let down.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

That’s some crazy predictions!

[@tmacm2237]

Trump added 8.4 trillion dollars to the deficit. So that part was true as well.

[@davontejones21]

Has anyone ever thought that maybe people are also watching the Simpsons as well and do what then can to make sure what happened in the show happens in real life?

[@shayd1984triton]

I think the number 12 entry had the line "Grease me up, woman"

[@Animeguy300]

They must have a time machine to write the episodes

[@CainNuke]

Germany winning the world cup in brazil and beating them is their greatest prediction yet.

[@VickiTakacs.]

Not predictions when all of this was planned long ago. They are part of the tribe destroying us. Trump is one.

[@omograbi]

In the twelfth season, in an episode featureing Bart and his school mates joining together in a band like Nsync, during the video clip of their song, while the band members were flying in air force planes, you can see the band was bombing a Middle Eastern region with jeeps with flags. The irony is that the flags are the same as the rebellion flags of the free Syrian army. In other words, the episode, which has been aired in 2001, has pridicted exactly the civil war in the Middle East 9 years before. You can chech it out!!

[@tylergoodman3560]

The Simpsons have been more accurate than the Farmers almanac. 🎉

[@Goldmaster]

1:32 Enterprise: am I joke to you?

[@mojo3318]

I had no idea about all these predictions. There are some episodes I've seen on this list and didn't know that these were predictions. Some of the predictions on this list were amazing, some impressive, some not good, and some creepy. Also, Homer shouldn't get in the back seat when he's driving. 9:44 But, what he did was funny. And Ohio is in America. 13:11

[@marydauby5229]

Try South Park next. I swear they have crazy in the future set ups.

[@thyristo]

13:37 - in 2012 the displays reacted were resistive and not capacitive. That was the reason for the high level of inaccuracy. That time...which lasted up to 2016...is now gone for good. Also: accounts with 2FA like gaming client accounts, bank and insurance accounts and blockchain already make it possible to vote from your smartphone in whatever situation you might be there...

[@emilyseger1421]

There was an article I read where it highlighted that The Simpsons writers are mathematicians and that’s how their predictions are made, not sure how true that was, lol

[@UnknownUser_45]

You don’t predict trends, you set them. And I think Simpsons did just that. Plus some coincidences now we’re here.

[@ohyeahnahui1121]

The trump one is craazy though! I don't have a reasonable explanation about that

[@chrisrj9871]

Gotta ask baby boomers and early Gen-X who knew about trump all along and basically couldn't tell us as kids. I think he was gunning to be president all along, and people in the know just plain knew it would be disastrous for the country.

[@benschultz1784]

That was back when Trump was considered a frontrunner for Ross Perot's REFORM Party, before it dissolved

[@Fluffyudders]

Secret true #1: Simpsons predicted 9/11

[@Chicken-x6q6d]

The Simpsons did that horse meat thing more than once before it really happened, I remember another one where Homer stitched up Mr Burns for serving horse meat with traces of jockey meat, it then cut to a shot of a crate of, "Churchill downs mystery meat"

[@eugeniapatroncosta920]

In my opinion, the best Simpsons prediction was in the episode when Homer and Ned went to Las Vegas and they have a hangover and get married with waitress. That episode predicted 'The Hangover trilogy'.

[@CMStrawbridge]

OR more like that inspired the Hangover trilogy 🙄🤦

[@davidchism6081]

Android 19: They(The Simpsons) can see the future!!

[@natejohnson5313]

Monorail episode: picture of twin towers burning, mounted on a wall in a scene at a bar/lounge..there’s also a picture of the Hiddenberg

[@Dangic23]

Many of these inspired , not predicted the real events

[@Sandlot1992]

as always, Simpsons Did It! Simpsons Did It!

[@ShadeamusPrime]

Unless sinpsons fed them that idea

[@brianburgess3231]

my thot too😅😂❤

[@nickmontoya3001]

Bart's comment in the movie on being a mascot of an evil organization with high pitch voice and bra on head as ears.......years later who owns the Simpsons?

[@TwesomE]

Of course some you can say were predictions,but in some specific ones like the one like lady gaga do something they showed on a episode someone can say it was made by the star after witnessed the episode! You see simpsons is huge in the entire world,even bigger in USA so they trying to commercialize it to keep it going forever or lets say fresh by disney ownership! Its not a surprise,i do know however close to other shows like family guy or american dad disney had the luxury to change it allot not being so funny as it used to be! Did the simpsons predicted how much this would happen after disney bought them?! At least they saw this one coming having disney buying them,they didn't saw the outcome from this i presume since the show is a sitcom and should be preserved that way!

[@SimplyRedeemed30]

The one with the tiger is not a prediction, it was a matter of time.

[@TimpossibleOne]

The NSA story wasn't a prediction. It's something most people didn't want to accept.

[@sheeeit7730]

Correct me if I am wrong but Peter Higgs theorized and predicted the God Particle in the 60s... Which is much earlier than the Simpsons.

[@denisesiddon7241]

I'm sure the writers are at least semi psychic 😮

[@lagge1535]

The NSA thing was known at the time of the movie. It was part of the Patriot Act and even though it wasn't constitutional, everyone knew about it

[@PhilBowes]

Can you do a video. Called Matt groening unrealized non simpsons projects

[@animeknight8958]

How many time do we have to listen to the whole "Trump Become President" gag?!

[@pastorneil9125]

A lot of these are not as crazy as people think. Some of the cases were possibly inspired by the Simpsons. The Trump election, he had already tried to run for president a couple of times. The previous summer he ran in the Reformed Party primaries. The tiger attacking, that isn't a prediction as much as a "tigers are tigers, this could happen." So many of these just come from being informed and knowledgeable to the world.

[@leemewes9142]

Prediction? More like folks followed suit because Simpsons is so iconic and is a good way to get fans

[@Isamu1416]

controversial is not quite the right word the significant majority of Game of Thrones fans wanted to roast those responsible for the end of the series in this form and feed them to the dragons

[@Jonas-lj8ul]

Silly Simpsons... if Homer fell on Alec Baldwin, wouldn't he have gotten shot?

[@DanielGomez-gw4kt]

Come on people, The Simpsons never met anything for prediction. In The Simpsons are not a crystal ball. Everything that happens on The Simpsons are basically jokes, they are not predictions. And the show is definitely not a crystal ball

[@liamshone6602]

Maggie would win hands down, she a Silent Assassin 🤫🗡️😂😂😂

[@stevenplayzzz172]

I do hope the prediction of Portugal vs Mexico World Cup final does come true

[@thablackguy84]

20:54 Same chalkboard....Same.

[@Tony36271]

Imagine the writers reading the source material.

[@RANDOM-KNIGHT145]

Haven’t there been like 3 of these already on watchmojo ?

[@Arctic-void-z7f]

Danny did nothing wrong . If Cersei never killed her bestie she might not of snapped so she was eight to burn them all

[@lizanna6390]

Dany went mad, the show rushed it but that's what happened. Cersei deserved burning and worse but in the beginning, Dany would never have ķilled the small folk along with her. Burned them all, as her Father planned. Too many innocents died horribly for it to be right.

[@deshawnwilson4046]

Grandpa Simpson would win that battle royal

[@shawnchris9620]

The Simpsons predicted the Titanic movie 😮

[@stuartibbertson2009]

the Simpsons episode predicted the new coronavirus of 2020

[@nickhawkes2188]

Im convinced the world is making all the Simpons episodes to come tru

[@nellurban7826]

didn't ringo starr make an announcement where he said he was going to stop taking fan mail and that it will all be thrown in the trash?

[@jamesmoss3424]

The Simpsons knows it will happen .😀👍

[@whitesoxfan1970]

You forgot the 911 episode..!

[@HarryWessex]

No.20 doesn't count, they did it because of the episode, the same episode that has the lines "Sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers" "What Computers?" Which throughs off the from the future thing

[@HarryWessex]

14 too...

[@SophistAKAtion1908]

Were these predictions or life imitating art

[@exploringnature7126]

Hi mojo😃

[@itzMoJo67]

Didn’t watch mojo already do this video though?

[@benlevan5645]

I notice they stopped using the 9/11 prediction.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Burns middle name is Schicklgruber 😅

[@leo11lim]

Drop dead gorgeous movie

[@TimpossibleOne]

Some of these probably happened simply because the Simpsons suggested it

[@VickiTakacs.]

They are the ones destroying us! Israel! The writers of this show are them.

[@VanessaSamuels-v5x]

What’s next for this psychic family from the quaint heartland town of Springfield

[@angelfox101]

Is it production or are half of these the people doing that on purpose ? Also I wouldn’t consider the Titan to them.

[@SPAnComCat]

I don't Think they are Predictions, it's more of a Strange turn of Events that was Coincidental by Chance. [Even if I can Understand why they would think that the Simpsons have the Ability to tell the Future] And yet it's so Esoteric that it's Unlikely that we will Determine the Approximates of Events by Calculations by Experts alone, it's a matter of Chance. Time is Unpredictable like the Weather. Or at Least in my Opinion.

[@lennymccartney1]

yep, got my ticket to see ch at the rah!

[@serenavaldez5740]

Is this a tv sitcom or a fortune teller?

[@subhuman3408]

We got one more now 😂

[@NavyTuck]

Did they not have the books to go off of for the GOT episode?

[@therunninggag9660]

My money is on Maggy

[@G1Grimlock94]

Real reference 😂😂😂😂😂

[@thyristo]

04:07 - where is the proof that these fish were from near to Fukushima?...