'The Simpsons' predicted two of the wildest Winter Olympics moments years ago
If you want to see the future perhaps consider studying episodes of The Simpsons very carefully. Somehow, in some way, the animated series always manages to predict real life, just as it did during the now-concluded 2018 Winter Olympics.
It happened twice. The first was when Team USA won the gold medal in curling, an unlikely victory that's sure to be a movie one day. The second happened when a rogue squirrel ran onto the snowboarding slope and only narrowly escaped death.
References from two very separate moments in the show popping up during the same live event? How tho?! Let us review.
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After Team USA took the gold for curling on Saturday following a historic win against Sweden, several Twitter users were struck with déjà vu.
Why? Welp, an episode of The Simpsons had predicted this exact win back in 2010, when Homer and the U.S. team beat — you guessed it — Sweden. 🤔
No one could have predicted that the US would win curling gold, right? Actually, the Simpsons did in a February 14, 2010 episode. They beat Sweden, who the US happened to beat to win gold today (H/T @dansnierson) pic.twitter.com/0gkhycQ3xF
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 25, 2018
Just a coincidence? Perhaps, but The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman played it cool, as though the creators knew this win would be coming all along. (And for all we know, maybe they did.)
Occasionally we predict something good, just to mix it up https://t.co/MkYGYmAijW
— Matt Selman (@mattselman) February 25, 2018
In case that prediction didn't give you chills/make you question all of time and space, here's the insanely bizarre squirrel prediction.
IRL Olympics squirrel who wandered onto snowboard slope:
WATCH OUT SQUIRREL. pic.twitter.com/rtQ94MQeDj
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 24, 2018
Simpsons squirrel, also in snow:
Simpsons predicted it pic.twitter.com/pSMb4FVP3p
— Josh Weinstein (@Joshstrangehill) February 24, 2018
The Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein was quick to draw the comparison between the Winter Games squirrel and the squirrel struck by Homer and Mr. Burns' "rocket house" in the classic "Mountain of Madness" episode. While the Simpsons squirrel wasn't Olympics-specific — and it got hit, unlike the Olympics squirrel — people were still freaked the hell out.
Simpson’s predictions, is there anything they can’t do?????
— Kirt (@BarbieQuinn5) February 25, 2018
I'll have to start watching The Simpsons now they're predicting everything
— Maya (@AvocadosAreLit) February 25, 2018
In the past The Simpsons have predicted everything from Disney taking over Fox and Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show entrance to Donald Trump becoming president and a whole bunch of other pop culture moments and technological advancements.
It's getting creepy, people. We best look to the animated archives to prepare ourselves for what's to come.
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