Switch to The Simpsons if you want to know where the world is going.
Popular adult cartoon shows such asDonald Trump running for president, the COVID-19 pandemic,his 2022 Super Bowl win for the Bengals, andwild It predicts detailed world events. }, Russia's invasion of Ukraine,9/11 terrorist attacks, etc.
For decades, viewers have wondered how show creatorsconsistently predicted the future.
Showrunner Matt Selman told Deadline that the show's latest season continues to shock fans by accurately predicting thefuture..
" 'The Simpsons' has another crazy concept episode that explains how they know the future. Crazy It's a conceptual episode with a lot of silly elements, but it explains how 'The Simpsons' can predict the future," said Selman.
"The Simpsons" Continues to Set Record for Longest Prime Time It has 728 episodes to date, 98 Emmy nominations, and 35 wins.
The series was also nominated for the Best Animation Program this year.
"I'm excited for Season 34. It's probably the best 34th season of the show I've ever seen," joked Selman.
He joined the writing staff for his series Hit in 1997, and in 2020 Al He became Gene's co-showrunner.Jean previously shared that the show continually predicts the future thanks to both its luck and the number of episodes produced.
"One of our writers, who wrote the episode that predicted Donald Trump becoming president, best said: Enough darts. You can get the bullseye by throwing," Jean told NME.
Yet he said he finds the show's unintended 9/11 prophecy particularly creepy.
"The events of 9/11 are so strange," Jean said of the famous episode. "In the World Trade His Center episode ["New York City vs. Homer Simpson"], there was a pamphlet that said, like Towers, he's $11 and he's $9 a day. It was him in 96 and it was crazy like this insane coincidence.
But other predictions are more thoughtful. was. “[Mostly] just an educated guess,” Jean continued. “Stanley Kubrick made the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, and there were Zooms and iPads in it, but it was about him building what the world would look like 30 years from now.
Jean told fans on Twitter that one of his "educated speculations" was Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"This was not difficult to predict," Jean tweeted on February 24, the day of the invasion. Do you "predict" a Russian-Ukrainian crisis dating back to 1998?”
"I hate to say it, but I was born in 1961, so for 30 years of my life I've lived with the specter of the Soviet Union," Jean said . } elaborated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "So, unfortunately, this is more the norm than a prediction. We just thought things were going to get worse."
The Michigan-born animator continued. The year 1998, when this clip aired, was perhaps the pinnacle of US-Russian relations."
"But since [Russian President Vladimir] Putin took office, almost nobody makes it clear that he's the bad guy and bad things happen," he added.
Fox has announced that the new season of"The Simpsons"premiere will air on his Sunday, September 25th.
