Screenwriting Simpsons

Other “predictions” can be explained by the education of the screenwriters. In the 1998 episode “The Wizard of the Evergreen Alley,” Homer almost accurately predicted the mass of the new Higgs boson particle that was discovered 14 years later. Gene noted that the episode was produced by screenwriter David Cohen, who holds a BS in physics from Harvard: “David made an educated guess – he didn’t take an equation out of nowhere.”

It also happens that “predictions” are called situations that the public has already forgotten. In the 1993 episode “Lisa on Ice,” viewers saw a warning about how poorly auto-correction would work in the future.

But in the context of that time, the creators of the series joked about one of the first Apple Newton pocket PCs, which was criticized for incorrect recognition of handwritten text.

“We are the Illuminati”

“Predictions” in “The Simpsons” continue to search until now – now in social networks they decided that the episode of 1993 “Shackles of Marge” foreshadowed both the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and the invasion of the “killer hornets” in the United States.

“The Simpsons Don’t Predict the Future … There Are Just Too Many Episodes …” / May 6, 1993: In The Simpsons, the people of Springfield contracted the flu that originated in Asia. While the city demands a vaccine, the killer hornets appear

But the creators of “The Simpsons”, apparently, are already tired of answering questions about their “visionary abilities.” Project director David Silverman has joked that “The Simpsons predict the future frame by frame,” because the writers “are the Illuminati.”

And now the show’s former screenwriter Bill Oakley finally agreed that they made at least one correct “prediction” – about the coronavirus pandemic.

Fakes based on “predictions” appear in 2021 as well. Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 7 during the approval of the presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden.

A photo of Homer on the roof of a house in the destroyed Springfield was also spread on social networks. This is a real shot from the fourth (“Halloween”) episode of season 32, which aired in October 2020. There really is a situation after the voting day, which Homer overslept, but it is difficult to attribute this to predictions. In the real world, there are no robots that have captured the United States, lava does not erupt from the earth’s crust, and people do not need to sit on rooftops with weapons. At least for now.

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