Business Insider - “The Simpsons” has built a reputation for predicting the future.
- Most recently, viewers noticed that a 2017 episode of the cartoon seemed to preempt Daenerys Targaryen’s big plot twist on Sunday night’s penultimate episode of “Game of Thrones.”
- “The Simpsons” also predicted the election of Donald Trump, the discovery of the Higgs boson equation, and a Lady Gaga performance.
19 years ago, an episode of “The Simpsons” predicted that Donald Trump would one day become US president.
And this wasn’t the only time the writers have managed to predict the future.
The most recent prediction to come to light is from an episode two years ago, which preempted Daenerys Targaryen’s big plot twist on Sunday night’s penultimate episode of “Game of Thrones.”