fifteen Simpsons predictions that came true number fifteen Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show season 23 episode 22 in the second episode of The Simpsons 23rd season the special guest star was Lady Gaga who performed for the town while hovering in midair whether this inspired Gaga or not this came uncannily true just five years later when she performed at the Super Bowl she began by standing on the roof of the Houston NRG Stadium as she sang her opening song and then as the show continued she flew down to the stage below with the assistance of wires virtually in precisely the same way as she had done in Springfield it remains one of the most acrobatic shows to ever take place at the Super Bowl and was probably all thanks to The Simpsons number 14 the u. s. curling victory season 21 episode 12 while the Olympics are open to representatives from every country in the world to take part in there are some sports that some nations are so good at that it's a surprise if they don't take home the gold one of these that happens at the Winter Olympics is curling when the Swedes are almost always the favourites for the event in the 12th episode of season 21 from 2010 Homer and Marge traveled to the Vancouver Olympics where they compete against Sweden in curling despite falling behind they managed to cause an upset and win in the end in 2018 life imitated art and the u.
s. men's team won in exactly the same way only the second time ever that they had meddled in the event [Music] number thirteen Disney's purchase of Fox season 10 episode 5 Disney has become one of the most powerful entertainment companies in the world and often buy out their competitors when in an episode from 1998 Homer goes to pitch a film idea to executives at Fox it said beneath the company logo that it was a division of Disney most people thought it to be just a joke and that something like this would never happen they were of course wrong and in another example of The Simpsons predicting the future Disney purchased the conglomerate in 2017 for a price of fifty two billion dollars bringing franchises like x-men avatar and The Simpsons under the control of the house of mouse [Music] number 12 President Trump season 11 episode 17 in the episode titled Bart to the Future which was first aired in 2000 we see what the future of the Simpsons was like with Lisa as the president in the White House and Bart as a failed musician the idea behind the episode was that the vision was warning to Bart that he needed to change his ways to prevent wasting his life but were the Simpsons writers instead warning us the viewers of something else in a meeting Lisa mentions that the country had been left in quite a financial mess thanks to President Trump again something that most people wrote off as being a joke but one that became all too real in November of 2016 when Donald Trump won the presidential election number eleven censoring art season 2 episode 9 one of the earliest Simpsons predictions to come true was broadcast in 1990 the ninth episode of the second season showed how residents of Springfield protested the displaying of Michelangelo's David because of the nudity and insisted that it was covered up fast-forward more than 25 years and that's exactly what happened in st. Petersburg in Russia a 16-foot tall plastic replica of the world-famous statue was put up on show in the center of the city but following complaints by parents and residents and a poll was conducted to decide which close if any should be put on the statue to make it more appropriate number ten horsemeat scandal season 5 episode 19 the quality of school dinners is always questionable and in a 1994 episode of The Simpsons from season 5 lunch lady Doris is dealing with a reduced budget and resorts to adding assorted horse parts to the meals in place of the meat sheep normally use it turned out that this isn't as unusual as you may want to think in 2013 a scandal took hold across Europe as it was discovered that horse meat was being used in products that had claimed they contained beef at least four point five million pre-prepared dishes such as lasagna chile and burgers were sold throughout 13 countries and contained in some cases only horse meat they were sold in supermarkets given to patients and hospitals and to children in schools and was one of the biggest food hygiene scandals of recent times now much more stringent checks are in place to prevent it from happening again but they probably should have just watched the Simpsons instead number 9 the Higgs boson particle season 8 episode 1 the proof that the existence of the Higgs boson particle required the construction of the largest machine mankind has ever built and was hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the last decade but was all this effort actually needless and all research is needed was to watch an episode of The Simpsons in the first episode of season 8 Homer becomes an inventor and is surprisingly good at math the show is known for hiding equations and ideas within the scripts but at one point on a blackboard is a seemingly random equation now looking back physicists say that this writing is actually a remarkably close description of the mass of a higgs boson and only works out to be a fraction larger than the true measurement that was made in the super collider at cern for the Simpsons to have got there 15 years earlier seems almost impossible to believe number 8 Nobel Prize winner season 22 episode 1 the writers of The Simpsons have always had a close affinity to science but this prediction shows just how on the pulse they actually are in season 22 premiered in 2010 Martin Lisa Milhouse and a database make a betting pool for who they think will win the Nobel prizes in each category that year all of these are real people who are active in their respective fields but incredibly in 2016 one of them did actually win Bente Holstrom from MIT was a joint winner of the economics prize thanks to his work on contract theory and ideas of how to determine what should be government owned and what should be controlled by private interests Lisa was probably very upset with the announcement of this because the others are yet to win and this presumably makes Milhouse a true future visionary number 7 three-eyed fish season 2 episode 4 one of the most famous episodes of The Simpsons from the second season was the one where Bart captures a fish in the pond near the nuclear power plant named blinky this fish had three eyes and led to the citizens of Springfield leading protests about the pollution being released into the environment luckily mutations like this are extremely rare but not unheard of in 2011 a fisherman in cordoba argentina caught his very own blinky from a reservoir near a nuclear power plant it was a species of wolf fish and at first he and his friends didn't notice because it was too dark the next day though the reality became all too clear and they couldn't decide whether they would eat it or not it turned out that not only was this reservoir near the plant but there was also a water outlet pipe that led straight into it proving yet again that the Simpsons had the foresight to see what could happen in places like this [Music] number six smartwatches season 6 episode 19 the 19th episode of season 6 so the Simpsons visiting a Renaissance Faire Lisa is soon found herself in the fortune tellers tent and this set up another episode that was set in the future it's difficult for most shows to show technology that will be around many years from now but on this occasion the Simpsons managed to get its spot on one of the characters is seen using a watch that flipped open and that he can talk into it responds back to him with the information he needs and what appears to be a premonition of the development of smart watches this episode aired in 1995 which is almost 20 years before the so called year of the SmartWatch in 2014 now they're commonly seen across the country and are probably proudly owned by whichever Simpsons writer came up with this idea back in the 90s number five Siegfried and Roy tiger Season 5 episode 10 Siegfried and Roy were once one of the world's leading magic acts famed for performing with Tigers and headlined at the Mirage Resort and Casino for over a decade and what was described as the most visited show in Nevada because of their notoriety they featured in the fifth season of The Simpsons in an episode that was broadcast in 1993 which began with the news that Springfield had legalized gambling Homer took on a job as a blackjack dealer and mr.
