The Simpsons predictions that came true - from coronavirus to Trump's presidency

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‘You Don’t Have to Lie Like a Referee’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.

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.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.

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.’Remember the 2013 horse meat scandal, when DNA was found in beef products across the UK?

In a 1998 episode of the show, ‘The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace’, Homer seemingly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson, more than a decade before physicists at CERN worked it out.

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