TOP 10 Times The Simpsons Accurately Predicted the Future

Faulty Voting Machines

When Homer tried to cast his vote for Obama in the 2008 ‘Treehouse of Horror XIX’ episode, he finds the voting machine rigged, and is left with no choice but to vote for John McCain. After trying to unsuccessfully register his vote six times, he then decides to vote for the opposition candidate as a test, and lo and behold, his vote goes through. Four years later, in 2012, some voters in Pennsylvania reported having the same issues, when a ‘momentary glitch’ in voting machines switched votes from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney.

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A Pennsylvania voting machine has been removed after it was found turning votes for President Obama into a vote for Romney. Internet user, centralpavote, recorded the malfunction on his smartphone and uploaded the video to popular content aggregator,  Reddit.com. The posting shot to instant fame (with 4800 ‘up votes’ on Reddit as of the time of this writing), and MSNBC confirms that the machine has since been taken out of service.

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It’s not clear from the video if this was a hacking attempt, or a simple software error. On the electronic ballot, Obama’s name is right next to Mitt Romney’s, and and screen might just be misreading where the finger is touching by about an inch. Either way, the malfunction is troubling:

FIFA officials being arrested on corruption charges

In 2014 episode, ‘You Don’t Have to Lie Like a Referee’ Homer is asked to be a World Cup referee, only to be later arrested for corruption charges. He originally refereed honestly, but soon gave into bribery offers from gangsters who wanted to fix the World Cup game between Brazil and Germany so that Brazil were crowned winners. In another scene, an official is in the middle of explaining the corruption to Homer when he is swiftly handcuffed and taken away by the police. The episode mirrors reality in two instances: first, Brazil lost the World Cup to Germany in 2014, and secondly, FIFA officials were embroiled in their own corruption scandal in 2015.

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The second criminal case was launched by Swiss prosecutors into the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, to be held in Russia and Qatar respectively.

But Fifa says it plans to go ahead with an election for president as planned.

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Incumbent president Sepp Blatter, who is seeking a fifth term, was not one of the seven officials arrested.

Fifa also said there would be no rerun of the World Cup bidding processes for 2018 and 2022.

9/11
 
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.

The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors.

As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767—United Airlines Flight 175—appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor.

In 1997 episode, ‘The City of New York vs Homer’ there is a fleeting reference to the twin towers and date of 9/11, leading many conspiracy theorists to say the show had anticipated the 9/11 attacks. In the scene in question, the show cuts to a brochure stating ‘New York at $9 a day,’ with the twin towers clearly visible behind the nine, making it look as though it reads 9/11. Bill Oakley, an executive producer on the show at the time, told The New York Observer in 2010: ‘$9 was picked as a comically cheap fare. I will grant that it’s eerie, given that it’s on the only episode of any series ever that had an entire act of World Trade Centre jokes.’
 
Daenerys Targaryen’s plot twist in Game of Thrones
 
Emilia Clarke has admitted she kept her character Daenerys Targaryen's plot twist a secret for two years. In the penultimate episode of the show, Daenerys was transformed from the show's heroine into a "Mad Queen" who burned thousands of innocent citizens alive. It’s been a month since the finale of Game of Thrones but fans are still reeling over the rather disappointing ending.

The HBO series’ favourite heroine Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) made a seemingly overnight transition from good girl to mad queen as her quest for the Iron Throne neared its end.
Then, in the last ever episode, she was sensationally killed by her lover, Jon Snow, just as she tasted the victory she’d always craved.
 
Game of Thrones season eight episode five is possibly one of the most criticised 90 minutes of the entire series (forgetting the show finale, of course). The episode showed Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) descent into fury and madness, culminating in her deciding to torch down King’s Landing. And while the scene shocked fans at home, The Simpsons seem to have once again, called it. In a 2017 episode, The Serfsons, the family overlook a village being destroyed by a dragon in a scene eerily similar to the Game of Thrones scene which followed two years later.