‘The Simpsons’ is an American comedy series created by Matt Groening and broadcast by Fox that premiered in 1990 and is still on the air today. The production has become an icon for several generations and In recent years they have been in the news for coming up with surprising “predictions” that appeared in their episodes long before it happened in reality. An example of all this has been the invention of iPads, the election of Donald Trump as president, the resounding defeat of Brazil against Germany in the 2014 World Cup or the end of the Game of Thrones series.
In recent days, these predictions have once again monopolized all the spotlights due to the recent coronavirus pandemic.. In an episode of the famous series you can see how the inhabitants of Springfield fall ill due to a virus with characteristics similar to the flu. For all thisthe Simpsons team explained in an interview for Burial Tonight’ how they can “guess” events in the future with so much prediction.
When asked this question, voice actors Nancy Cartwright and Yardley Smith, who voice Bart and Lisa Simpson respectively, explained that it is all because the series has been on the air for 30 years: “When you’ve been on the air for so long, it’s easy to get it right from time to time,” They explained during the broadcast of the program and what they added in a humorous tone: “What people tell us now is start predicting good things! because it is true that all the predictions have been very negative.”
Predictions that are not to everyone’s liking
Although many take the predictions of the cartoon series as a joke, some members of the team are not so amused. Bill Oakley, former writer of the series, recently stated that he does not feel comfortable when people use the predictions of fiction in a negative way, as is currently the case with the coronavirus pandemic: “The idea that someone would hijack that scene to try to blame Asia… I think it’s disgusting.”. “It was supposed to seem absurd that someone coughed into a box and the virus survived for six to eight weeks.”
Furthermore, the screenwriter has been blunt about the supposed predictions: “There are very few cases in which ‘The Simpsons’ has actually managed to predict anything,” judgment.
