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Animated TV series The Simpsons often make news for predicting future. There’s a reason why it’s one of the longest-running series and has a great fan following. But what if we told you that they had predicted the coronavirus pandemic years ago?
The Simpsons predicted coronavirus pandemic in their 1993’s season 4, episode 21 titled ‘Marge in Chains’. While the name of the flu is different, everything else is similar to what we are dealing with currently.
In The Simpsons episode of Marge in Chains, an unknown virus from Asia makes its way into the town of Springfield. In the episode, a sick employee from Japan who works in the factory sneezes into juicers packages. These packages are ordered by everyone – Homer Simpson to Principal Skinner. Whoever had opened these packages, come in contact with the virus and fall sick.
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In this episode of The Simpsons, the disease that affects the Springfield residents is called ‘The Osaka Flu’. The flu spreads rapidly in the town and people living in Springfield rush to the hospital in large numbers for the cure.
In this episode, people get angry as they demand a cure for this unknown flu that started making them sick.
Shit the simpsons really did predict 2020 pic.twitter.com/dadM5jvLrB
— Eddie D’ohgrou (@didgeridougrou) May 6, 2020
This is exactly the situation in the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s quite eerie and scary that something that’s happening in 2020 was predicted by The Simpsons in 1993.
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