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So what you're saying is that Disney will own The Simpsons? https://i.redd.it/cx2j4c9aufwz.jpg https://i.redd.it/cx2j4c9aufwz.jpg (predicted in 1998)

ekianjo 9y ago
That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.
- amelius 9y ago
  Can we have a list of mispredictions?
  - greesil 9y ago
    "Smell you later" replacing "goodbye"
    - emodendroket 9y ago
      You aren't using that one?
      - jamiethompson 9y ago
        I know I am
        emodendroket 9y ago
        I genuinely do, occasionally. Which reminds me, I went through this goofy dictionary.com slideshow of "great slang from the '90s we should bring back!" and quite a few of them I did not recognize as the least bit dated. Kind of an alienating experience.
    - LeoNatan25 9y ago
      With global warming, it's not far off.
  - lostcolony 9y ago
    No. Because unless we know the world ends tomorrow, or they're explicitly dated, there's always time for them to become accurate.
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - andruby 9y ago
    * Trump as president, predicted in the 2000 episode "Bart To The Future" [0] * Top 10 Simpsons Predictions That Came True [1] (not a great video though) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE
    - ThePadawan 9y ago
      Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign for 2000 in October of 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...
    - klenwell 9y ago
      May go deeper than we think. Saw this yesterday: https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979 https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979 Anybody else get the feeling Kirsten Gillibrand has seen the Simpsons prophecies and is taking them very seriously?
    - jandrese 9y ago
      But they assumed that a President Trump would put the country in a huge debt hole, and the Republicans have assured us that their enormous giveway to billionaires would cause the economy to grow by 3% annually for the next 10 years, just like every other time that policy has completely failed to do that.
- phkahler 9y ago
  Tomacco plants!
- eloisant 9y ago
  The thing is the Simpsons did so many episodes, and so many predictions that they are bound to get some of them true. The Simpsons is basically an illustration of the infinite monkey theorem.

ekianjo 9y ago

That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.

amelius 9y ago
Can we have a list of mispredictions?
- greesil 9y ago
  "Smell you later" replacing "goodbye"
  - emodendroket 9y ago
    You aren't using that one?
    - jamiethompson 9y ago
      I know I am
      - emodendroket 9y ago
        I genuinely do, occasionally. Which reminds me, I went through this goofy dictionary.com slideshow of "great slang from the '90s we should bring back!" and quite a few of them I did not recognize as the least bit dated. Kind of an alienating experience.
  - LeoNatan25 9y ago
    With global warming, it's not far off.
- lostcolony 9y ago
  No. Because unless we know the world ends tomorrow, or they're explicitly dated, there's always time for them to become accurate.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- andruby 9y ago
  * Trump as president, predicted in the 2000 episode "Bart To The Future" [0] * Top 10 Simpsons Predictions That Came True [1] (not a great video though) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE
  - ThePadawan 9y ago
    Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign for 2000 in October of 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...
  - klenwell 9y ago
    May go deeper than we think. Saw this yesterday: https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979 https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979 Anybody else get the feeling Kirsten Gillibrand has seen the Simpsons prophecies and is taking them very seriously?
  - jandrese 9y ago
    But they assumed that a President Trump would put the country in a huge debt hole, and the Republicans have assured us that their enormous giveway to billionaires would cause the economy to grow by 3% annually for the next 10 years, just like every other time that policy has completely failed to do that.
phkahler 9y ago
Tomacco plants!
eloisant 9y ago
The thing is the Simpsons did so many episodes, and so many predictions that they are bound to get some of them true. The Simpsons is basically an illustration of the infinite monkey theorem.